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8 years ago @ Equestria Daily - Luna PMV - My Everything · 3 replies · +1 points

Started to dislike the video when it implied that Luna was helpless without running to Celestia.

Turned video off when it mentioned god. Thumb down. Tab closed. Fuck that bullshit.

8 years ago @ - Announcement: PITCH ME... · 0 replies · +2 points

1) Fantastic Four
2) Gremlins
3) Universal Monsters
Don't care about the other two - I'm more interested in reading about an F4 movie that doesn't suck. And possibly getting some insight into why Dr Doom is supposedly the 'greatest villain of all time' Bob keeps going on about.

8 years ago @ - Video Review: THE MARTIAN · 1 reply · +2 points

One big and rather painful flaw in this movie is the absence of commercial spaceflight. NASA does a lot of good work, but they have a steady record over the past few decades of being serial screwups when it comes to manned spaceflight, spaceship design and launch system operations. (Mostly because that's the most expensive stuff, and thus the stuff that congress likes to pork barrel the most.) Companies like SpaceX ad Ad Astra are the ones doing the foundation work for any mars trip. It's not pleasent to see them getting whitewashed out of history like this.

This does actually have a major warping effect on the plot. Where NASA is (yet again) 'the only ship in the sector' which makes no sense. The launch industry (<cough> SpaceX </cough>) needed to build such a ship would be able to get supplies to Mars faster than the main ship could get back there. Is that a big deal?

No, but it is an example of the 'rich arsehole character' taking credit for all work they never actually did, and shoving everyone else out of the spotlight. Which is usually a bad thing.

8 years ago @ - Prepare For Trouble. · 0 replies · +2 points

An AR game based on pokemon would probably be amazing. But we saw a couple of bits of game play at the end and it was NOT AR, and looked incredibly cheap and tacky by comparison.

Nintendo need to clarrify this issue, because if people get the wrong idea this game is going to go off the hype cliff and crash and burn really badly.

8 years ago @ - IN BOB WE TRUST: \"Doe... · 0 replies · +1 points

However...
One running theme, in the DCAU at least, is that big organizations CANNOT improve things. And not just for status quo. It's pretty much cannon law that it will go wrong in some way. (Cadmus) and that a successful externally imposed solution (other than punching people very hard) is dictatorship. (Justice Lords)

And also the issue of why should be spend X money on the few million people in Gotham when the same money could improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people in other nations. And a whole host of other questions of a similar note, to which the general answer is Reed Richards Is Useless.

8 years ago @ - Review: TERMINATOR GEN... · 0 replies · +1 points

This film was fun to see though ultimately disappointing. I kept expecting some new twist at the end. (It was midnight in China six hours ago./I don't want to wipe out humanity. That was never my plan./You mean you've been grooming them Sarah and Kyle to kill me? WTF man?!/Don't be stupid. Skynet can send machines back to any time and place it wants. And it did. The real base is up on the moon./Nuclear warfare? Are you crazy? You have any idea how low stockpiles have fallen since 1997?)

Though Bob is letting his '90s sucked' bias shine through clearly here. I do like the first film, but if I had to pick one film to preserve, it would be the second. And not because of any part of the story, but because of Sarah's Nightmare. There had been attempts to depict nuclear warfare before, but Cameron was the first to put a ground level realistic one up on the big screen and then trick hundreds of millions of people into watching it.

The two films are different genres, and can't be directly compared. But irrespective of their artistic merits, the second is hands down the more important film, for that one reason alone.

8 years ago @ - I Want To Believe · 1 reply · +3 points

This does however lead to a rather important question: If JJ Abrams is physically and mentally capable of staying true to the spirit and nature of the source material - why the #### couldn't he have done this for Star Trek?!

8 years ago @ Equestria Daily - Discussion: What Do Yo... · 0 replies · +2 points

It feels really odd to see time and again people say, "You can't have gay characters in a children's show" about an episode that borrows so heavily from Doctor Who, which is a children's program that does feature gay characters. So given that YES IT BUCKING IS possibly to have gay characters in a children's show - who do so many Americans feel otherwise?

The real answer is that it's not because of the children that are watching, but the adults. Vicious bigoted, hate-filled, small-minded, homophobic adults who will kick up a fuss if they even hear about such a thing. Which leads to another, even less unfortunate question.

Why is the (mostly American) brony community so dishonest with itself about the real reason?

8 years ago @ - Review: TOMORROWLAND · 0 replies · +1 points

Well, okay, but why? I do understand that 'AI slave = bad', but there are grades of AI. As one person put it, AI is an order of life, not a single species. It's equally silly to suggest that the same moral code applies to a human and a crab, as it is to suggest that the same moral code applies to (say) Siri and Skynet.

A smart interactive PA AI could conceivably handle the physical mechanics of a robot body, and 'kissing', without turning sapient. It might not be able to manage 'real human emotion' but lots of people happy with cat and dog affection, so maybe some would be happy with PA-AI affection too. If they are, why pour on scorn just because they like something most don't?

It's an obvious commercial application, and yet almost we never do see it, and when we do it's always portrayed as a bad/evil idea, to the point of absurdity sometimes. I just think that is odd.

8 years ago @ - \"Chocolate with SPRIN... · 0 replies · +2 points

Moviebob: "but his willingness to spill it in defiance of audiences' expectations of narrative rightness."

Really? This looks like an extremely standard 'sex outside of marriage is evil' film to me. Pass.

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