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ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Cheesy1 said:
Yeah, I just saw your comment on the latest Jim Sterling video about people complaining about Jim's attire.
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I'M EVERYWHERE. :ninja:

I should run a contest or something to find a YouTube comment that I've made. Without cheating and looking via my account, that is.

(Also, Nude Jim Sterling is gonna happen. Just you wait.)
 
Frank

Frank

Nah, he's fat guy bashful. He's talked about it on old podcasts I remember listening to. I can relate with those feelings.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

drawn_inward said:
All comic-book movie origin stories should be shown in an opening credit montage.
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Eh. in 20 years there'll be a whole generation who doesn't know Spiderman got zapped with cosmic radiation on a space mission, Batman got bitten by a radioactive bat, Superman's parents died, and the Fantastic Four are the last survivors of an alien race - then they can do another origin story movie. Perhaps as a prequel to some other good movie; those seem to work fine, usually.
 
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Bubble181 said:
Eh. in 20 years there'll be a whole generation who doesn't know Spiderman got zapped with cosmic radiation on a space mission, Batman got bitten by a radioactive bat, Superman's parents died, and the Fantastic Four are the last survivors of an alien race - then they can do another origin story movie. Perhaps as a prequel to some other good movie; those seem to work fine, usually.
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@ThatNickGuy 's head just exploded.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

AshburnerX said:
You need to remember that Ghostbusters was written from a blue collar, anti-establishment, ultimate free market perspective. To Joe The Plumber, college professors live cushy lives with easy jobs because they don't have to work long, hard hours everyday doing stuff that a lot of people look down on. They can just hand their classes to TAs and then spend the rest of their time pretending to do research in the magically world of College, far away from the real concerns of the everyman.

Really, Ghostbusters reads like an Tea Party comedy.

- The villains are the government that are trying to hold a small business to any standard... despite the fact that it was Egon who built the containment grid without any safety features or any plans for what would happen if it got shut down accidentally or purposefully. To quote Epic Rap Battles "Walter Peck was right, that's some shady shit."

- This doesn't extend to the police, fire fighters, ambulance workers, etc... they immediately side with the Ghostbusters over the government, despite the fact that is was their fault the world almost ended.

- The Ghostbusters seem to operate under the assumption that any damage they do is irrelevant to their ability to do their job. Unlicensed nuclear powered particle accelerators are perfectly fine things to tote around, even with the possibility of total protonic reversal leveling a building or worse.
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As pointed out by Dan O'Brien in this past Halloween's Cracked After Hours:
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

In the cartoon, it shows there's some other ethereal dimension that the containment unit taps in to, but I can't remember if that show started between movies or after them.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

David Cross directed a movie, and it's officially released on BitTorrent today. It is BitTorrents first ever film release*. Pay what you want (minimum $1 USD or $1.25 CAD, includes bonus features.

No idea what its about, but its David Cross and I like this release structure, so I purchased it and I'm plugging it.

*except for basically every other movie ever made, but, you know.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

GasBandit said:
Socialism never even works in the movies though :p
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Of course not, there's no conflict to be had in an utopia...

Well, you know, unless it's about meeting alien societies that are still socially backwards, and sleeping with their green women...
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Ok, Socialism doesn't work, except when there's lazily written future magitek that eliminates all scarcity for everyone forever. And yet even then, not all cultures adopt it, and do just as well - or better.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Charlie Don't Surf said:
except for every Star Trek movie
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Socialism works in Star Trek explicitly because they have the ability to ensure every single person in the Federation and on Earth has access to whatever necessities they need via replicator technology. It's one of the reasons they are barely holding together in Enterprise: they've only just got teleportation technology and that's the basis of replication technology. It's also why few people have truly shit jobs anymore: they can literally just beam the minerals they need out of the Earth and other planets to processing facilities and material waste can be broken down by transporter technology to make recycling 100% efficient. Because of this, class barriers are virtually none existent and people can do basically whatever they want.

Compare this to the Ferengi. They have all the same technology and intelligence that the Federation does, but their entire culture revolves around business and they interact with other species that don't have the same kind of technology so they still operate on a money/barter economy. They could be socialists too (and the end of DS9 makes it clear that the Ferengi are going to undergo reforms to eliminate the worst of their societal issues) but that would mean destroying their entire culture. The only reason Earth and Vulcan did it is because the vast majority of people didn't want to have to scrabble for resources anymore. They just wanted to live in peace.[DOUBLEPOST=1424025211,1424024950][/DOUBLEPOST]
GasBandit said:
Ok, Socialism doesn't work, except when there's lazily written future magitek that eliminates all scarcity for everyone forever. And yet even then, not all cultures adopt it, and do just as well - or better.
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I wouldn't call it lazy. They actually explored the societal ramifications of the technology that makes it possible on more than one occasion. It's one of the reasons that replication technology is a complete no-go when it comes to trading; any civilization that gets it completely upends within a few years when entire sectors of the economy become obsolete.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

AshburnerX said:
Socialism works in Star Trek explicitly because they have the ability to ensure every single person in the Federation and on Earth has access to whatever necessities they need via replicator technology.
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Pffft... original series had no replicators... they just eliminated money, social discrimination and whales...

And yeah, no shit socialism only works when you can feed everyone... not letting people starve to death because they couldn't be useful enough is like one of the main tenets (which is why most non-horrible societies nowadays incorporate plenty of aspects of socialism - hell, even libertarianism argues for voluntary socialism from religious groups and shit...).

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And arguably the teleporter tech was more important, coz we could easily feed everyone on earth right now with what we produce, it just costs too much to get it to them.[DOUBLEPOST=1424040014,1424039847][/DOUBLEPOST]
GasBandit said:
And yet even then, not all cultures adopt it, and do just as well - or better.
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But the Borg are communists... everyone get the exact same thing.
 
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