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FakeGAF 6: Fear the Walking Thirst
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WhereAreMahDragonz
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Well you gotta go sign them on unless they have a military ID somehow so what's the point of getting an Uber
I'm more wondering if someone on base could operate as an Uber driver on the side?
WhereAreMahDragonz
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Sure you can, most people just don't because new airmen usually make friends with people w/ cars and eventually get their own. There's not a huge market for it.
Ceallach
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Yeah, tons in this area. I know of a sonar tech who does it after work. I have had to get ubers to base and to the shipyards
Funky Papa
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And for when you're there here's some funky ass jams Les Loups - Colourblind. Completely forgot about it then facebook was like "hey remember when you posted this last year?
I've never cared about the pop figures but this one is awesome.
I guess it would depend on the area.
I dunno why but I always thought they'd have rules against that kind of thing, the base I lived next too was surreal because all the housing was waaay different from the stucco brick housing of the village I lived in. Weird shit man.
Pet peeve in movies/tv.. More than a little bit of a peeve.
Fuckin' standoffs. Badguy and goodguy have a gun on eachother, or badguy has a gun on a hostage and goodguy has a gun on him.
If you look to the internal logic of the show/film in nearly every case person could just shoot the badguy in the head mid-sentence and he'd be gone before he ever had a chance to return fire or shoot the hostage. In many cases, real life logic would also allow this. (Remember the seal team 6 snipers choreography in the pirate hostage thing in 2009?)
That's why I love Michael Mann's Miami Vice so much that I want to fuck it. Badguy gets popped in the head mid-sentence. Bye, dumbass.
Fuckin' standoffs. Badguy and goodguy have a gun on eachother, or badguy has a gun on a hostage and goodguy has a gun on him.
If you look to the internal logic of the show/film in nearly every case person could just shoot the badguy in the head mid-sentence and he'd be gone before he ever had a chance to return fire or shoot the hostage. In many cases, real life logic would also allow this. (Remember the seal team 6 snipers choreography in the pirate hostage thing in 2009?)
That's why I love Michael Mann's Miami Vice so much that I want to fuck it. Badguy gets popped in the head mid-sentence. Bye, dumbass.
WhereAreMahDragonz
Banned
What base?
Canon AFB
I think the idea is that they don't want to take the chance of them getting a shot off.
My biggest gripe with any form of media is that scene where there's a misunderstanding that could be cleared up with the character saying a single sentence, but instead of explaining, they take a long dramatic pause and say something like "Look, I can explain everything to you." Don't tell them that you can explain, EXPLAIN.
liliththepale
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I think you might just be bad at recognizing people haha
My baby is cute. She's sitting sorta like mini-me.
Show this picture to your sister! Maybe then she'll grow a heart
I guess it depends on the fiction but you don't seem to be counting for tension making people less rational and the good guys wanting to apprehend the baddies more than kill them. Plus as Zeemumu indicated you have to be able to incapacitate them or else they can also fire their weapon.
WhereAreMahDragonz
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Halcyon
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Show this picture to your sister! Maybe then she'll grow a heart
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She's busying whining on Facebook about something. This is literally all she does.
Just keep what I'm saying in mind any time you see a standoff. In most cases the badguy's head is clearly exposed and ripe for a headshot. If you think this through logically, even though there's always the possibility you can miss, it's still going to be the "safest" course of action with the highest probability of a happy outcome. Characters in tv/movies make difficult shots all the time. These standoff headshots, in those worlds, should be a piece of cake.
And watch Miami Vice
liliththepale
Banned
And that doesn't upset you?
Character skills are dictated by the plot. Some scenes need them to make impossible shots and some scenes need the enemy to hold a supernatural terror over our heroes. A move is not successful when it's right, it's successful when it gets you to engage with the material.
The eastern New Mexico plains are a barren moonscape that barely resembles anything livable at the best of times, not helped by the fact that a total of like, 100k people live in an area the size of Ohio, there's just NOTHING for miles and miles broken occasionally by a squat battered village that is only staving off full collapse by the grace of some malicious desert demon who feeds off the general malaise everyone feels living there.
The sunsets are nice though.
I'm not engaged in the material if things happening on screen are so dumb that they break my immersion -- E.g., a villain with his head clearly exposed talking about how he wants a helicopter so he can take the hostage away while the hero holds a gun on him from 8 feet away and could just end it right there.
The Walking Dead has probably been guilty of this about 8,000 times
edit: here's the scene from Miami Vice
liliththepale
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That's fine but you can't just throw a blanket on standoffs and call them all bad. There are ways to write those scenes well and believably, and TWD has never been an exemplar of writing.
And this is a good example of why Firefly was great
This is how people should ALWAYS act in these shows -- That they entertain these stupid standoffs instead of end them is baffling and completely immersion breaking for me
What bothers me even more than the other two tropes is when characters or extras miss their shots consistently. It's so frustrating when gun battles or fight scenes are drawn out just because the characters are suddenly incapable of landing shots.
Daredevil S2 was particularly bad with this.
Daredevil S2 was particularly bad with this.
Especially the fight scene between Punisher and Daredevil on the rooftop with the police snipers shooting at them.
Halcyon
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Negotiation becomes more of a good idea if there are a bunch of people with guns instead of just two, because opening fire would almost certainly result in casualties for your own side and/or your own death.
Two people, though? Fuck it. Shoot him in the head while he's explaining his evil plan. Whoever shoots first, if they land a headshot, wins. Human reaction times aren't fast enough for him to notice you fired and return fire. His finger can't even physically move that fast. This could hardly be more simple and the fact that this fact is ignored is, again, immersion shattering.
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This is so fucking stupid that they decide to talk. Whoever pulled the trigger would have been totally safe (as long as they didn't miss, which at that range and with their skills, they wouldn't).
Unless they hear/see you begin to squeeze the trigger at which point they'll start to do the same. If we have guns trained on each other at that distance I'd be watching you for the slightest muscle twitch.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Sometimes I wish I had a theme song that played when I entered a room, like a WWE wrestler or a comic book villain
Tell that to Miami Vice
Halcyon
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If that girl had a camera on her like everyone wants, she'd be thrown in jail for firing on him and they probably would say "why did you taunt him beforehand".
I enjoy the ham of it
Halcyon
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The only Tarantino movies that are good are Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I think about this a lot, but the fact that my fellow adults and I, most of who have taken very different paths in life, shared that same magical N64/PSX childhood boggles my mind
It's like, if I met a 27 year old lawyer who's well established with his firm, he's done way more than me and leads a successful life, but he probably played Donkey Kong 64 at the same time I did
Growing up is weird
You, I like you.
nah
I'm a total shill for Tarantino which is only a little less obnoxious than my Chris Nolan cocksucking
I'll add Reservoir Dogs to Halcyon's list, but that it.
I didn't even really enjoy Inglorious Bastards tbh
Halcyon
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I like Reservoir Dogs but it's a very "guy" movie and it's hard to recommend it to people without being like "its kinda slow but the build up to when everyone is being tortured is awesome!"
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