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Re: Ctrl+V "Beyond the shadow you settle for, there is a miracle illuminated." -Thomas Zane

Re: Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits? Ok HK-47...

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Re: Half Life 2 for Hero Assuming a normal human gets caught on a Barnacle's tongue, how do they escape (STR 30)?

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Re: Ctrl+V Not to mention informed and vigilant citizens.

Re: Ctrl+V Shadowpup invented his dice motivation method about halfway through a game of Shadowrun. All afternoon his dice were rolling very poorly--poorly enough that they were really playing havoc with the entire game, since they had pretty much taken Shadowpup's character out of it (and saddled the PCs with one more wounded colleague). Shadowpup finally lost it after yet another roll of nothing but 1's and 2's. He grabbed his dice, took them out to the car, got out a blowtorch, and melted one into slag while the other dice watched. Then he brought them all back inside, including the one that now looked like a horta, and told them, "See? This is what happens when you don't roll well." He didn't get another roll less than 7* the rest of the afternoon. *In Shadowrun's wacky die rolling system, you take the highest number rolled out of all the dice; the ones that come up 6 get rerolled and added on.

Re: Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits? The other obvious issue would be any social stigmas that result from others knowing you are modified.

Re: Star Wars: Technological Stagnation?

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... -- Dark Champions "When life gives you lemons..." "Make lemonade?" "...no, stuff em' full of RDX, hand em' back, and get as far away as you f**king can"

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Re: Star Wars: Technological Stagnation? Good points.

Re: Ctrl+V ty hate the answer but appriciate the responce and i dont have to spell correctly this is the internet have seen some of the chat room spellers

Re: Ctrl+V I want to see an Athenian Democracy United States.

Re: Ctrl+V It's just an example of competing desires, because it is just as believable to have aliens that will lose as aliens that will win. Most of the time, though, it's merely a matter of how much mayhem they can wreak before being defeated (The Independence Day aliens, the Martians, the Combine, etc).

Re: Ctrl+V Why is it in all alien movies the aliens suck? I'll admit it maybe advanced aliens won't be as though as Superman, but I'm serious when I say their infantry, if they have any, would be as tough as Terminator or Iron Man. And I'm not just talking about the armor, the'll also have superior weapon that is not only much more lethal, portable, long range, stealth, but also dead accurate, not blind fire BS you see all the time in movies. So there won't be shaky cam combat, taking cover or running around under intense gunfire. It should be is soldiers peak out the window, boom headshot, dead. Second one looks outside, boom headshot, dead. etc..... until everyone dies. I mean even guns today are usually used at very long ranges where you don't even see anything and you just fire into some distant tiny dot. Or maybe, they just shoot through walls because they have advanced imaging technologies that see through wooden walls. I mean this is just so obvious, how many U.S soldiers got killed in Iraq? How many Iraq soldiers got killed? And that's just a difference in technology of about what? 40 years? An alien infantry squad should be so efficient they can kill like hundreds, thousands of modern human soldiers. Also, they won't be full of disgusting goo, they'd most likely be all solid state artificial robot soldiers running on artificial intelligence. modular design so there is no single fail point, superior awareness from all sorts of sensors, superior connectivity with others, superior discipline, moral and tactics. And obviously, you'll never outsmart them because they'll have computers so fast one of them outsmarts everyone on our planet. Nor will there be control centers for you to blow up. Having human soldiers killing dozens of alien infantry, is like saying a tribe of cave men somehow defeated a U.S aircraft carrier. Not gonna happen in a million years. In fact, maybe an advanced alien army won't have any infantries at all, why do they need any? They can just pop some nuclear weapons and blow up all our major cities. I mean why do we always have movies where we are the only ones with nuclear weapons? You know it's kind of a basic technology to have, for space travel especially. So there won't be an exciting battle, it'll just be flash and 90% of the people in first and second world countries will be dead, including all the military bases and command structure. Their won't be any warnings because they won't be stupid enough to put Christmas lights on the outside of their ships so you can't really see them coming. Actually why do aliens invade us anyway? to get our water? yeeeeaaaa, how much does it cost to move water back to their planet? a trillion dollars per milligram? Why would they need water? I mean you know, that matter don't get destroyed right? you know water is still water even when you flush it down the toilet, you just need to purify it which would cost a lot less than moving it to a planet 100 light years away. ==================that's just the aliens I'm also sick and tired about the human part. sure the Marines leave nobody behind and all that, but come on are you stupid? the fate of humanity is at stake here, when you need to leave some random guy behind to save the human race, are you gonna just sit there and shout crap to each other? Not only am I not moved by your "nobody gets left behind" cleche, it's annoying, seriously, just leave him behind and go, and stop acting as if it was a difficult decision, because only a fool would try to not leave him behind. and Suuuuure the Marines saves civilians and all that but think about it, which is more important ? the survival of the human race? or the survival of random civilians? Nobody gives a crap about a few children getting trapped in the bomb zone, the priority here is to make sure millions of other children in the safe zone don't get killed. For that reason the entire operation of this squad was pointless and a waste of resources. I couldn't care less if they get shot and killed by incompetent alien invaders. It just feel so stupid to see the marines care about each other when everywhere they go it's already covered with dead bodies. Well said, that when one man dies it's a tragedy, when one million men die, it's a statistic. I liked that remake of that really old movie, where one alien guy came to earth with that silly looking giant robot made of nano swarm bots that eat up all man made objects? I like it just because the alien gets to win for once. Realistically speaking, I wouldn't say that is very practical, with a spaceship like that and everything. But I would say that an advanced alien combat vehicle would not be vulnerable to our missiles or artillery, or kamakazie jets, or even nuclear weapons. The only way we might destroy something like that would be to overwhelm it, not one on one dog fights, not self sacrificing soldiers. It will take massive casualties to take out one alien combat unit, not the other way around, because we're the one with the ancient technologies, we're the stupid ones, not them. Just imagine trying to take out a modern tank with bronze swords, how many men would it take? Movies like these is as ridiculous as watching Robin hood taking out tanks by shooting arrows into their barrel.

Re: Star Wars: Technological Stagnation? On the other hand, this may be even more appropriate.

Re: Star Wars: Technological Stagnation? I agree, but, at the same time, if you broaden a term's scope too much it starts to lose it's very definition. I suppose a more accurate term would be "storybook fantasy".

Re: Star Wars: Technological Stagnation? Oh, and I forgot Force = Magic.

Re: Star Wars: Technological Stagnation? It does, though. Travel times are all over the place, you've got knight/princess/evil lord tropes up the wazoo, there's sound in space, and oh so many "logical" things that could have been advanced or created given the immense technological infrastructure, and yet asides from the set pieces (a laser sword instead of a broadsword, and an X-Wing instead of a horse) it's fantasy in every sense of the word.

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Re: Star Wars: Technological Stagnation? Star Wars humans don't have to be 21st century Earth humans, though.

Re: Ctrl+V What's the parallel?

Re: Harpoon and Tow Cable from The Empire Strikes Back Ah. Only in HERO is it complicated to build a tow cable.