Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

[Surgo]

Also, get more stuff to play with. Gellade is looking fun to use. I might have to write it up D&D style just to complete the Ralts series back on page 1 of the D&D Pokemon thread. Unless someone's beaten me to it and I haven't seen it.

Had a Gallade in Platinum, it's pretty awesome (by my definitely non-competition standards). Psycho Cut = <3. You'll probably want to use the Dawn Stone as soon as possible, Kirlia doesn't learn any physical attacks.

I don't know of any statting up anyone's done for D&D Gallade.

Gallade, for a little while, was competitively awesome too. I used it in my first team, which was really influential in early D/P.

Of course, it's fallen out of favor now.

[Crissa]

Both. 'Hulk' had a terrible plot, and 'The Incredible Hulk' had the worst FX ever. You have two massive fighting guys and the set doesn't even vibrate. That and the villain was stupid. I would rate F4 better.

-Crissa

[Prak]

Tony's complete shut down of the hearing by "poisoning the well" and propping up machinery with an incomplete prototype (or heavily damaged) Captain America shield were awesome.

Yeah.

Not just poisoning the well, but shitting into it before revealing it was filled with shit itself.

If there's one thing that gets me, it's how, apparently, being a genius inventor or physicist means you're also extremely proficient at hacking.

It's Tony fucking Stark. He's another one of those characters who has no official super power, but obviously has them up the ass, starting with "Super Intelligence" going on to "Learn anything you want as fast as you need to" and ending somewhere around "be in amazing physical condition, just beyond human peak, without really trying that hard and despite treating your body like shit" coupled with the mundane powers of "be fucking richer than small countries" and "have been born into a life of comfort and be so popular/sociopathic that you'll never have to worry about the first four steps of Maslow's hierarchy of needs". I mean, Batman's basically the same way, except he's a masochist rather than adrenaline junkie narcissist, and everyone loses about 30 IQ points when he's around (Another super power).

on another note, I just found a webcomic that starts the first few pages with Barack Obama being nervous before a speech because he had a dream where he forgot it, and then implies that civilization ends because he actually does forget his speech and takes his wife's advice to wing it. That was kind of fucking awesome.

EDIT: it then goes on to have Ann Coulter trying to make a deal with Muslim Terrorists because liberals have made a mockery of democracy by not voting for her candidate... I have a feeling I'm going to like this webcomic. I'll be interested to see if it shits on both sides equally, or just conservatives....

[Lago PARANOIA]

A Room of Jean's Own is one of the most awful, horrible, depressing things I've ever read. It's the online-newspaper equivalent of slitting your wrists to a Papa Roach soundtrack.

I mean, I know it's a column on The Onion and I know that Onion regularly deals in the kind of humor that would appall fans of dead-baby comedy, but GODDAMN.

Needless to say, it rocked me to my very soul.

[Maxus]

Tony's complete shut down of the hearing by "poisoning the well" and propping up machinery with an incomplete prototype (or heavily damaged) Captain America shield were awesome.

Yeah.

Not just poisoning the well, but shitting into it before revealing it was filled with shit itself.

If there's one thing that gets me, it's how, apparently, being a genius inventor or physicist means you're also extremely proficient at hacking.

It's Tony fucking Stark. He's another one of those characters who has no official super power, but obviously has them up the ass, starting with "Super Intelligence" going on to "Learn anything you want as fast as you need to"

It was more jarring with Vanko. He hacks the computer in under a minute while Sleazebag is talking about encrypted passwords, and then just says 'Your software sucks'.

Also, I like that list of superpowers. And I'd like a link to the webcomic, please.

[Prak]

Well, if he was being honest when he said it, it's actually more understandable...

fafnir webcomic

Oh, it also has a six years in the future Jon Stewart as the protagonist of that storyline. The author doesn't seem all that great at nailing down the actual personalities of Obama and Jon, and others are played for laughs (like Ann Coulter), but it is very funny. Next storyline seems to be all about the dragon (Fafnir) killing sparklepires.

[Psychic Robot]

Things that annoyed me about Iron Man 2.

1. The end fight scene was not long enough. It needed about another two minutes of smashing and killing to satisfy me.

2. The entire discovery of vibranium felt very rushed to me.

3. I felt that it was cheesy that Ivan McRuskie was a genius on par with Tony Stark. If he hadn't had direct ties to Stark, I wouldn't have complained. Seeing as he did, however, it left a bad taste in my mouth.

4. How did the Don Cheadle get out of the Warmachine suit when he flew it to the Army base?

5. The movie acted like Hammer was an idiot, when he clearly wasn't.

[Parthenon]

Yeah, the fight scene should have been longer. The first fight at Monaco was probably at least twice the length as when he had the suit and was much better.

And yeah, Vanko's expertise with computers felt too good. I liked the bit at the beginning where he seemed like he was doing stuff from bits and pieces like the first Iron Man film where Tony built the first suit in the cave from scraps.

But on the other hand, what useful and non-idiotic things did Hammer actually do?

• He tested some suits in Korea which failed dramatically, killing some test pilots.
• He hired Vanko mostly because of his ego. And then didn't bring along any translators to the meeting.
• He let Vanko do whatever the hell he wanted with a blank check for however long with no checks or guards.
• Brought along basic weapons which everyone has access to when talking about upgrading War Machine. I mean, bringing along a handgun when talking about upgrading a prosthesis?
• His "bunker buster" was absolutely shit.

About the only halfway competent thing was hiring Vanko's expertise, and he completely fucked up everything about it anyway. The guy was an incompetent idiot in every way.

[Psychic Robot]

I see most of those being as being the result of low Wis rather than low Int. However, I thought that when he "brought along basic weapons which everyone has access to when talking about upgrading War Machine" was him bringing the weaponry along to trade for Warmachine. I was under the impression that he was offering new weapons tech to the military in exchange for the suit, though I could be mistaken.

[Parthenon]

You're... using D&D stats as a guide to idiocy? Oooookay then. Doesn't change the fact that they were all idiotic mistakes and he didn't really do anything non-retarded.

And most of the weapons he brought along ended up being installed in War Machine. I mean, I thought the US military already had the FN F2000 and most of the other weapons.

Hmmm.... thinking more, Don Cheadle asked him what he was planning to do with the suit, whereupon Hammer started showing them the guns, almost as if he was saying that these guns were going to happen to the suit. As if Hammer was planning on upgrading the suit with those guns.


Reading that again it seems slightly bitchy, which I don't mean to be, but I also can't be bothered to reword it.

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Edit: looking more the F2000 isn't used by the US, but created in Belgium and used by about 6-8 countries. But that just begs the question of why an American weapons manufacturer is offering a Belgian assault rifle. And some of the other weapons are old. The pistol is over 20 years old, the minigun was used in Vietnam, and the South African grenade launcher is nearly 30 years old. Why is this supposed modern and flashy weapons manufacturer showing 50 year old tech?

[Crissa]

Just because the military has weapons, does not mean they directly employ technicians qualified to install them onto machinery.

In fact, they outsource this sort of thing because contractors can get paid more and be treated to looser labor laws because the command structure cannot decide what labor laws apply to them - Congress has to.

-Crissa

[erik]

Why is this supposed modern and flashy weapons manufacturer showing 50 year old tech?

Probably because they looked cool to the director who decided they would be perceived as futuristic to folks who don't know better (like the director).

I haven't seen the movie yet, but that would be my guess.

[Maxus]

Why is this supposed modern and flashy weapons manufacturer showing 50 year old tech?

Probably because they looked cool to the director who decided they would be perceived as futuristic to folks who don't know better (like the director).

I haven't seen the movie yet, but that would be my guess.

Nah, it's made pretty clear there's a ton of more high-tech stuff out there. This weapons dude was told to bring a bagful of stuff and he grabbed all her could get.

But the weapons are pretty effective when they're actually used, though.

[Parthenon]

I've just noticed that my library has a digital library service where you can borrow eBooks for free. This source of entertainment just rocked me.

Unfortunately the books they have are often weird- they may have books 1-5 and 7-8 but no 6, or only have 3-5, and theres only a limited range. But I still think that its awesome that the library is doing this for free. Now we just need to be able to stream movies or borrow games from the library for free and I'll never need to buy any entertainment ever (except for the internet cost).

Of course, setting it up is pretty non-intuitive with several different formats, the basic reader program is pretty shitty, and I'd like to be able to rotate the view so I can use the width of the screen as the height of the page, but I'm weird like that.

[Cynic]

I've just noticed that my library has a digital library service where you can borrow eBooks for free. This source of entertainment just rocked me.

Unfortunately the books they have are often weird- they may have books 1-5 and 7-8 but no 6, or only have 3-5, and theres only a limited range. But I still think that its awesome that the library is doing this for free. Now we just need to be able to stream movies or borrow games from the library for free and I'll never need to buy any entertainment ever (except for the internet cost).

Of course, setting it up is pretty non-intuitive with several different formats, the basic reader program is pretty shitty, and I'd like to be able to rotate the view so I can use the width of the screen as the height of the page, but I'm weird like that.

Parthenon, my library lets us stream movies or music for free. it has a small selection and it exists for only 24 hours

[Avoraciopoctules]

Now we just need to be able to stream movies or borrow games from the library for free and I'll never need to buy any entertainment ever (except for the internet cost).

I'm a volunteer at the Oakland Public Library. The TeenZone has a collection of video games it lends to anyone with a card. It even lets people search for specific ones in the catalogue.

http://catalog.oaklandlibrary.org/scree ... games.html

As an Information Science major, I agree that this is pretty ridiculously awesome.

[Crissa]

Yeah, but this is the metro area that has a Computer History Museum so rich in donations it generally turns things away not because it can't contain them, but because they already have a copy or three.

^-^

-Crissa

[Cynic]

Watching the Ultimate Avengers direct-to-dvd film and Hulk as a dirty fighter is awesome.

Hulk loses control and the avengers have to take him down.

Everytime he comes up against Giant-man, he does something incredibly dirty. He jumps on his kneecap and punches it hard enough to dislocate it. Next time, eh jumps on his neck and uses his strength to choke him.

It's beautiful.

[Maxus]

Well, this week's Naruto made me smile a little, and I'm figuring out why.

If you're going to have a 'defeat your inner darkness' thing show up, there's much worse ways to handle it. I've seen the Beat-the-Crap-Out-of-It (Final Fantasy 4), the ignore-it-completely (Prince of Persia). Somehow, thanking it, admitting it's kept you alive but it's time to move on, and giving it a hug works.

[Prak]

Also, get more stuff to play with. Gellade is looking fun to use. I might have to write it up D&D style just to complete the Ralts series back on page 1 of the D&D Pokemon thread. Unless someone's beaten me to it and I haven't seen it.

Had a Gallade in Platinum, it's pretty awesome (by my definitely non-competition standards). Psycho Cut = <3. You'll probably want to use the Dawn Stone as soon as possible, Kirlia doesn't learn any physical attacks.

I don't know of any statting up anyone's done for D&D Gallade.

Gallade, for a little while, was competitively awesome too. I used it in my first team, which was really influential in early D/P.

Of course, it's fallen out of favor now.

speaking of Gallade... I've found it's exactly the pokemon I need for catching pretty much anything, specifically the Legendary Beasts (damn cowards... *grumble grumble*)

Why? It's the only pokemon, other than Smeargle, that I've found that can have both Mean Look and False Swipe. And Smeargle's stats are shit. So I'm currently doing an extended EV training and breeding project to get a Gallade with the highest Speed and Attack Possible, and born with Mean Look (the only way the Ralts series can have it).
Despite the slight tedium, it's actually kind of cool to do this kind of training for the first time.

[Jilocasin]

Gallade does work wonders with that. Absol can have mean look and false swipe too.

The only reason I prefer Smeargle is because it can have all the moves I really want to have for those freaking dogs. Usually I use False Swipe, Mean Look, Recover (or some other recovery move), and Ingrain. Since without ingrain they can roar you away and I just find that really really annoying.

[Prak]

Oh, ingrain, that's a good thought. I was thinking disable for that, but realized in about two seconds it wouldn't work.

hm. wonder if there's any other way, since smeargle's stats really are shit.

[Jilocasin]

You could do a Smeargle with Mean Look (or Spider Web), Ingrain, and Baton Pass and pass it to your Gallade or something. I think that would work, not sure if Mean Look passes though.

[Prak]

hm, maybe.

[Jilocasin]

Or there's always this.