Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[shadowplay]

"Papadopolous" sounds like a name made up on the fly.

 

[Arakhor]

I'd say that it sounds like a fatherly name, whereas Theotokopoulos sounds like the sort of name only God could bear.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Really depressing how quickly humans get used to nice things. A few months ago I was raving about my upgraded internet speed, now I'm already getting annoyed that a 60 GB download takes more than an hour.

 

[Takhisis]

It's not enough to type the words. You also have to show the position of the ears, how much or little the pupils are dilated, and if the tail is up, down, or twitching. All of these things can alter the meaning of what the cat is saying.

<------Meowwww! Meow. Meoow Meeeow?!

*purrs*

"Papadopolous" sounds like a name made up on the fly.

It is. ‘Papadopoulos’ to any civilised person simply sounds as if there has been a priest sometime earlier in the family line. Which is, unsurprisingly, very common in Orthodox Greece.

In any case, Papadopolous would be the plēthyntic aitiatic form of ‘Papadopolos’.

(the same goes for McPherson and McTaggart, really)

 

[shadowplay]

TJ Miller is an incredible comedian.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Georges St. Pierre returns to the UFC this weekend after a four-year hiatus and I'm... kinda indifferent. I was a huge fan of his, but 4 years is an eternity in pro sports, and it seems like the UFC has really fumbled the ball here.

 

[Ryika]

I love to intentionally annoy people way too much. It's fun and all, but in the end it all comes back to me when I realize how much time I have spent being annoying that I could have spent being productive.

 

[Takhisis]

You could become a comedienne, Valessa. That would be the perfect solution to your problem.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I love to intentionally annoy people way too much. It's fun and all, but in the end it all comes back to me when I realize how much time I have spent being annoying that I could have spent being productive.

So basically Senesthro was right and you're becoming a troll irl ?

 

[Gori the Grey]

In the Marvel movies, Iron Man's helmet is, viewed from outside the suit, pretty form fitting. But when they show shots of him reading the heads-up display inside the helmet, the "windshield," if you will, of the helmet looks as though it extends about four or five inches out from his face, about the size of an Apollo space helmet.

Just sayin'

 

[EgonSpengler]

In the Marvel movies, Iron Man's helmet is, viewed from outside the suit, pretty form fitting. But when they show shots of him reading the heads-up display inside the helmet, the "windshield," if you will, of the helmet looks as though it extends about four or five inches out from his face, about the size of an Apollo space helmet.

Just sayin'

Adam Savage shattered one of my misconceptions about the Iron Man suit. I always thought the biggest holdup to that thing was the power source (small, long-lasting, powerful), but it turns out the mechanisms that move the suit don't make engineering sense, either. Something to do with cables. Savage said that NASA looked into making powered space suits for astronauts, but couldn't come up with anything more reliable, and a suit that moves using cables is just too fraught to even try.

I think the ability of the suit to protect him from concussive force is also not possible, at least not yet. When Tony's initial suit loses its jets and he goes plummeting into the desert from hundreds of feet up, I think he'd be a red paste inside the suit. Forget the flying, forget the repulsor beams, forget the HUD - If someone invents a helmet that could protect the wearer getting punched by the Hulk, the NFL and the US military would have the helmets they need to prevent traumatic brain injuries.

 

[Synobun]

Superhero movies aren't scientifically accurate? That's outrageous.

 

[Arakhor]

Next we'll be criticising that humongous floating aircraft carrier!

 

[EgonSpengler]

I'm still waiting for "Dr. Eskine's Super-Soldier Formula" to arrive in the mail, so I can look like Chris Evans and date Hayley Atwell. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[civvver]

Adam Savage shattered one of my misconceptions about the Iron Man suit. I always thought the biggest holdup to that thing was the power source (small, long-lasting, powerful), but it turns out the mechanisms that move the suit don't make engineering sense, either. Something to do with cables. Savage said that NASA looked into making powered space suits for astronauts, but couldn't come up with anything more reliable, and a suit that moves using cables is just too fraught to even try.

I think the ability of the suit to protect him from concussive force is also not possible, at least not yet. When Tony's initial suit loses its jets and he goes plummeting into the desert from hundreds of feet up, I think he'd be a red paste inside the suit. Forget the flying, forget the repulsor beams, forget the HUD - If someone invents a helmet that could protect the wearer getting punched by the Hulk, the NFL and the US military would have the helmets they need to prevent traumatic brain injuries.

They could probably make something like the clunky one he built in the first movie to escape the terrorists. But comon, the new suits fly through the air homing in on his body and attach themselves perfectly in a whole bunch of expanding parts.

Physics and super hero movies just don't mesh at all anyway, there's just a whole issue of mass. An object as big as the hulk running at you is going to apply a huge force, like thor punching the hulk in ragnarok is just going to push him backwards, hulk isn't going to move.

But hey it's just tv.

I just never got why they show inside iron man's helmet in the first place. I'm sure it's so we get shots of robert downy jr and feel acquainted with him and see his expressions, otherwise it's pure cgi and voice over acting, but who cares? We all know that's all these movies are anyway. I don't feel any need to see his face during action sequences.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Superhero movies aren't scientifically accurate? That's outrageous.

No, of course they're not. My point is they're not visually consistent.

 

[Synobun]

No, of course they're not. My point is they're not visually consistent.

You're not visually consistent.

But on the matter of helmet dimensions I don't think it's as damning as you've portrayed. A different kind of lens can provide the illusion of space and the HUD hologram can distort perspective. You also have to take into consideration that a fully form-fitting helmet would be impossible to show us the inside of, so there being some room is a prerequisite for the movie showing us RDJ. The suit also dwarfs RDJ.

 

[Gori the Grey]

You also have to take into consideration that a fully form-fitting helmet would be impossible to show us the inside of

I know that's what drives the visual inconsistency. I'm just sayin' there is one. Remember, this isn't the rants thread. I'm just making an observation --that I've been noticing as they've been running these movies on endless loop in preparation for Ragnarok.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I wonder who dreams of Angels.

Of a hand to make their pale skin burn.
Of a pair of eyes, sparkling within their shadow.
Of a bite to taste their mundane turn.

I wonder who can not dream, not believe.
I wonder who sees that as truth, who is his own thief.

(kitschy and I guess lame, but from the heart and you write a poem in a second language Call it a guilty pleasure) - Just added this since as a self-designated-artist, publishing any art not deemed fit for publicity is painful, even on here

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Once, while I walked a lone road in a quite rural place, drunk, I spotted a rabbit hurrying about.
Following an impulse, I decided to hunt it. I ran down a field, driving the rabbit before me. I was less than a cat, never even aiming to even catch it. Just running and chasing and laughing manically. When my lungs burned through my chest, I eventually stopped. I was exhausted, gasped for air. And I felt very happy. In a way new to me. It felt powerful and free in a raw way. It felt like thrust and blood, like pain and pleasure. But in contrast to sex, it was wide open. I shared it not with a woman in privacy, but, so it seemed, with the whole world, out here, on the open plain.

In the darkness, my eyes moved about, wishing the rabbit well.