Things in works of fiction that just dont make sense
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What bugs me about fiction is when they add technological devices in older settings. "Van Helsing" is the example that immediately comes to mind. Also, any movie/book/game where the characters are exploring an ancient tomb or temple, and there are insanely high-tech traps and lifts and moving walls and such w/o alien/magical explanations.
Yes, it's all fiction, but it bugs me to no end.
Yes, it's all fiction, but it bugs me to no end.
What bothers me more are three things about space dog fights:Sephychu said:
1. Lasers are slow moving, dodge able projectiles
2. That there is noise
3. When a ship is "shot down" it actually falls instead of floating around
(Star Wars is the biggest perp here but there are others as well)
That is what they got the Goblins for, they do all their math, that is why they are the bankers.Plinglebob said:
I read a book it was either called like Ice Station or Ice Hunt I read both and dont remember which was which but several awesome things happened.
1. They shot two magnetic grappling hooks into each other from across a pool of killer sharks or something to get to safety.
2. The Day is saved by an arctic fur seal.
On the Harry Potter note. I think the author fails at integration at any level. It was like rather then address the issue she just acted like it didn't exist and went about her business. Because magic clean up crews that can brainwash muggles fixes everything thanks.
1. They shot two magnetic grappling hooks into each other from across a pool of killer sharks or something to get to safety.
2. The Day is saved by an arctic fur seal.
On the Harry Potter note. I think the author fails at integration at any level. It was like rather then address the issue she just acted like it didn't exist and went about her business. Because magic clean up crews that can brainwash muggles fixes everything thanks.
My biggest pet peeve with movies is probably the romance movies where the guy always looks like a jerk specifically because the girl won't listen and instead wants to have a pity party about how she had been interested in an asshole, again. [End real life - this is always a show stopper in reality]
[Enter fiction] The girl happens to be at the same place at the same time as someone loudly speaking about the guy in question and how he did it 'for all the right reasons' just loud enough so that she can accidentally hear it. Then it all makes sense and happy ending time. In romance movies today nobody ever actually solves their problems. Everything is perfect and it magically solves itself right when both the man and woman in the relationships reach the point of the movie where they break up and have a pity party for themselves.
This is a main reason I can't stand chick flicks.
[Enter fiction] The girl happens to be at the same place at the same time as someone loudly speaking about the guy in question and how he did it 'for all the right reasons' just loud enough so that she can accidentally hear it. Then it all makes sense and happy ending time. In romance movies today nobody ever actually solves their problems. Everything is perfect and it magically solves itself right when both the man and woman in the relationships reach the point of the movie where they break up and have a pity party for themselves.
This is a main reason I can't stand chick flicks.
I've also noticed people who aren't Christians celebrate Christmas insofar as they put up a tree in their living room, decorate their house and buy their friends and family cards and presents. By the same token, why wouldn't the wizards?johnman said:
The very final image you're left with in The Shining
I watched this film last night (It was AWESOME!) and even though I had to be subject to strange...un-seeable things (Don't deny it, that guy in the bear suit was TOTALLY sucking off the other guy in the room just out of shot, either that or he was just a furry doctor with a patient who mentioned rashes down there and he was inspecting the problem) I still don't get the final shot, where it zooms into the picture of all the people in 1925 and Jack's standing right there in the foreground even though he wasn't even around back then. Can anybody shed some light on this?
You never read the Half-Blood Prince have you? They can cast spells without speaking they just need to think it.Pandalisk said:
<spoiler=Let's try Metro 2033>Alright, at the ending of the game, the Homo Novus throws you into illusion world, where if you fail you die. The entire time, it's apparently up on the top of the tower with you. When illusion Hunter gives you the illusion revolver, which turns into a real revolver, you shoot the creature. On the top of the tower it's collapsed in a bleeding pile and reaches one last time for the laser. Then it dies. If you weren't a bastard during the game you get to make your moral choice now.
Now, why did it bother to drop you into illusion world anyway? It could have just tipped the laser over on its own. Better yet, it could have made you go all trippy and just push the thing off the tower while you were like that. The thing died the stupidest death possible in that situation. For something that's "the next step in human evolution" it dropped the ball on having foresight.
And before you say that it was just trying to contact you to be friends, keep in mind: if it reaches you, you die. Period. There is no happy ending where you two go frolicking down from the tower. It wants to kill you. So it just doesn't add up for why it's so...dumb.
Now, why did it bother to drop you into illusion world anyway? It could have just tipped the laser over on its own. Better yet, it could have made you go all trippy and just push the thing off the tower while you were like that. The thing died the stupidest death possible in that situation. For something that's "the next step in human evolution" it dropped the ball on having foresight.
And before you say that it was just trying to contact you to be friends, keep in mind: if it reaches you, you die. Period. There is no happy ending where you two go frolicking down from the tower. It wants to kill you. So it just doesn't add up for why it's so...dumb.
Team Fortress 2. Oh sure, a great game, but does anything in it make any sense at all? Let's go through the classes one by one.
Scout: He has headphones, so this must take place at least in somewhat current day.
Soldier: He fought in World War II. Or maybe it takes place in the past...
Pyro: His suit is made of asbestos. Is that even legal?
Demoman: Black and Scottish. It can happen. A sword that can harvest souls!? Are we sure this isn't WoW?
Engineer: Where to begin. He doesn't build as much as he hits stuff. All those PhD.s sure came in handy since he bought the designs from TF Industries.
Heavy: SANDVICH IS SO FILLING. You notice that he doesn't actually eat it? It's a placebo sandwich, probably from the medic.
Medic: Where to begin...again. His gun shoots medicine. He is able to made himself less wounded by shooting people through pure schadenfreude, but only with a specific weapon. He can apparently cure anything, including arrowthroughtheheadosis with a beam of light, which can make people invincible or super...potent(?) for a period of time. Also, his passive regeneration would give Wolverine a run for his money.
Sniper: He lives in a camper van and pees in jars.
Spy: Let's go back to X-Men. Mystique's got nothing on this guy. A cardboard mask? And where does he hold all the sappers? Also, his knife must have an explosive tip which lobotomizes his targets.
The entire game is nonsensical and beyond reason. Of course, it was made that way, so it passes. Personally, I wouldn't like the art style if it wasn't so...stylized. Still, the TF World is every academics' nightmare.