Nerd Stench - Page 7

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I AM NERDSTENCH

Regarding "Yor the hunter of the future"...

How the hell does a caveman (from the future, though) grasp the concept of using a dead hellbat as a hanglider?

I mean...it just came naturally to him, like that...no research into aerodynamics or anything.

Okay, joke question aside, here's a real one:
Is Superman an illegal immigrant? I mean, in his superhero identity, he is a native from Krypton living on earth and identifies himself as american as apple pie, yet no one questions his legal citizenship status.

Probably not anymore.

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 "granted a path towards legalization to certain agricultural seasonal workers and immigrants who had been continuously and illegally present in the United States since January 1, 1982." I think that Clark Kent, as a worker on the Kent farm, might qualify.

Yeah, but I was talking just about his Superman identity; everyone knows he's from Krypton, yet he's not exactly a "citizen of the world" so to speak; he truly identifies himself with the USA, yet he's not an actual citizen of it, is he?

I don't think that America will complain about the illegal alien status of a dude with Superman's powers deciding he wants to be American.

Besides, they probably granted him citizen status when he started doing the superhero thing and it was discovered that he was an alien. Best to do it before another country offered it in order to entice him over to their side.

Okay, that makes sense, i guess..he's an honorary citizen kind of deal.
Ok, now, how does the Bat-Credit card work? I mean, Batman cant possibly have a credit card info/bank account that says "batman" or something like that. Wouldnt it be easy to track the money trail to Bruce Wayne there?

Why the fuck is rich douchebag Bruce Wayne using a credit card in the first place? He could just order Alfred to carry around a briefcase full of cash.

Another Terminator question. Why does the Terminator have two sets of eyeballs? He has a full organic set in front of his full mechanical set, why? Wouldn't it be more practical to have like a false cover instead of constructing such a complex organ? Also, how does his skull accommodate both sets without looking totally weird and bugged out and how does he see through them with the mechanical set?

Terminator Eyes:
The eye we see Arnie cut out in the first movie, that's like fleshy layers over the robot eye yeah? Is that what you mean? I guess the robot eye can see through the fake lens and pupil. The robot eye isn't flush against the metal eye-socket from what I remember. Seems to be room for everything.

Don't be vulgar.

Maybe the flesh eye is for beating retinal scans?

I would buy that if the resistance wasn't so podunk. They used telvision sets as fireplaces for Christ's sake, dogs were about as high-tech as they got when it came to sniffing out the cyborgs. Personally, I'm not a technocrat in any way, I prefer the rough edges of the first film than the glossy sheen of the sequel (which I've no interest in revisiting). If you can engage me, little technical inconsistencies mean little to nothing at all, so I'm just kind of having fun with something that always bugged me a bit.

I've also kind of wondered what the Terminator would do had he been successful in his mission. Did Skynet build in some kind of self-destruct mechanism or was he just supposed to retire to Venice Beach, play grab ass with beach bunnies, and surf until the apocalypse kicked off? Kind of weird of Skynet to let a cyborg assassin from the future meander around in the land of Culture Club w/out anything to do after the deed.

If you want to go by the TV show, they find some place to wait and go into standby mode until Judgment Day happens.

Nope, I don't want to go by the TV show, since I've never seen it. I'm not interested in the "Terminator Universe", just the first film. It's just one of those thngs that either didn't occur to Cameron, or that he didn't have time to go into if it did, or that he just couldn't find a dramatically compelling way to deliver that information.

Someone said about the first film, maybe it was Biehn, that one of the cool, subtle things about it is that most of the really pertinent expository dialogue is delivered during action scenes so that it doesn't stop the movie cold. That's way more impressive to me than any pedantic, expanded universe nonsense. Edit: Forgive my tone, neoolong, not discounting you in any way.

It's obviously not a complete eye in the sink. Looks like a covering grown around the mechanical eyeball.

But I think a lot of people (and the sequels) miss the point that flesh isn't just decoration on a Terminator. Remember, they're cybernetic organisms, not robots, and to operate optimally they need their biological components. One thing I like about the original film is that by the end of Act 2 the Terminator's skin is plainly dead and smells bad.

ETA: Jacknife, I recommend Sarah Connor Chronicles. It's very respectful of the continuity set up in the first two films.

The eyeball looks like more than just a covering to me, but okay. Also, I'm not concerned about the continuity, I'm just really disinterested in anything beyond the first film. I look at it as this contained thing that said what it had to say and that's it. I'm of the opinion that John Connor works best as this unseen, idealized, messianic figure, who the man is is not as important as what he inspires, and expanding the story to function as Biography: John Connor is meaningless and kind of boring to me.

For me, the most effective use of John Connor where he is seen instead of simply spoken of is in the brief flash forward in T2 where he's looking all intense and Terminator like, but completely silent.

I've been watching MOON a lot lately, and I've been reminded of something I found rather odd in the both commentaries and all of the special features: Screenwriter Nathatan Parker is persona non grata.

His name is not mentioned at all, and at times it seems like it's intentionally avoided. I know the story belongs to Jones, but it seems odd that whatever Parker's contribution was, it is never spoken of. Anyone know if there's a story there?

 

Kind of reminds me of Stallone's commentary for First Blood, where he never mentions Ted Kotcheff by name, referring to him only as "the director", if at all. I found that pretty suspect as well.

 

 

 

 

I think the more important question is; how did said dead bat go into rigor mortis immediately after dying?

Was watching The Matrix Reloaded earlier today. At one point Link says Neo is doing his "Superman thing". How does someone born and raised in Zion know who that is?

By watching the matrix on the ship's screens. It's what he does all day.

Link could also have picked up on Matrix-related (and by extension, 20th century-related) pop culture references by serving with and talking with people who've been freed from the Matrix.

He did succeed. And then became Governor of California.

 

Course, Judgement Day came and went without so much as a single toaster dancing on a single pool table.
 

 

I always used to wonder about something I heard, that Eddie Murphy hated Billy Crystal. Now I know why. Pretty much the exact same shit Landis said about him on Coming to America and BHC 3. What an asshole.

 

 

So, if Terminators have detailed files on human anatomy, exactly how the fuck does it NOT KNOW that humans can cry?

 

Maybe the details are only specific with regards to pain points and best methods for killing?

 

I would think that crying--an easy indicator you've done some serious damage--would be a good thing to know for a machine designed to inflict death and pain, though.

 

It's possible they didn't get that empathetic till the T1000, though, who kinda HAD to figure out how humans work and in fact even figured out torture was effective.

How do superheroes use their powers? I can understand some like Superman and Thor (for example), as they have those gifts since birth. What about the X-Men? Or the Fantastic Four for instance? Mutants don't get their powers till puberty. I'm not gonna pretend and say I understand how human development works.....but you learn to walk, talk, grab things, etc. at such an early age.......now as an adult, you don't think about walking.....you just do it. You don't think about all the functions that take place just to open a door......you just do it. So how does Wolverine pop his claws out? How does Magneto lift a sub out of the water? How do they physically control those things. Is it like learning to write left handed or vice-a-versa? I know some CANT control them (Cyclops), and some are just extensions of natural reflexes or abilities (Spider-Man)......but how do the rest of them make their claws pop out, flame on, stretch their body, turn invisible.....?

I grew up on comics, but always wondered how they did it....

PS, this thread is all kinds of awesomeness.

They use their powers via a physiological process known as suspension of disbelief. Of course, there's this as well: A Unified theory of Superman's Powers 

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Nice. Too bad my college level alegbra prevents me from understanding any of that.
 

 

I used to wonder this a lot when I was a kid. After a while I just assumed that was like asking directions on how to wiggle your ears or roll your tongue. Superheroes have different muscles or glands and shit and use them to turn their powers off and on.

We know how the Klingons got bumpy heads. How did the Romulans turn all yellow/green and fuggly?

People who have attained (or are suffering from) invisibility...shouldn't they be not able to see?

I believe in the original Invisible Man, parts of his eyes didn't actually turn invisible.  They were just so small and I think translucent that they were hard to see.

Could also be just a cloak type of invisibility where everything inside is visible and light is somehow bent around them.

Then you wouldn't be able to see out, because of the light going around you instead of at you. Extreme transparency seems to be a more viable option.

Wolverine has one of the most beneficial mutations known to Man: an accelerated Healing ability. He can recover from almost any wound within days, sometimes minutes! Yet no one ever tries to synthesize a serum to cure Everything using his blood, no one tries to clone him, and though he can breed (he has one or two children in the comics), you'd think there would now be a nation of Wolverines, given his longevity and interest in women. And yet; no.

The cartoon had his blood used to cure the Legacy virus, and they used a transfusion of his blood to heal someone.  He mentioned that it doesn't always work though.  Also, X-23 is a clone of Wolverine so they have cloned him.

But yes, you'd think they'd be doing it a lot more.

In 'The Invisible Man' TV show they treated it as the visible spectrum of light would bend around him, but UV would still penetrate the invisibility substance, so he could still see, but he saw in black and white.

Why can't Superman just build an enlarging ray to put the bottle city of Kandor back to it's original size? After all the crazy shit he's done over the years, THAT'S above his means? Really? Just admit it Supes, you just think the city looks cool on your shelf in the fortress, right? What a piece of shit. 

Actually, Kandor was expanded during the New Krypton arc where it became a city on Earth and then eventually was moved to a planet named...New Krypton.  It didn't work out all that well.

 

Besides, think of what would happen if you had a bunch of Supermen running around, many probably not being as morally upstanding as the actual Superman.  Even if they weren't as bad as Zod, you'd still get some baddies.

 

 And Sabretooth, given he doesn't seem to care about Girls saying no.

 

Of course having lots of Batmen and Robins running around kinda ruined the Bat books, so I can see Marvel being weary of following suit.

 

His sperm are equally as vigorous. They beserker rage the egg, tearing it to shreds. 

 

Secretly that is why he left Japan. Those money shots were knocking girls out. 

Shrinking movies:

 

1) Wouldn’t eating or drinking normal sized molecules kill the shrunken people?  (Whisky in Innerspace, giant cookie in Honey I shrunk the kids).

 

2) The HISTK device is said to work by eliminating empty space in an object.  Wouldn’t the object then retain its mass, so the kids would all still weigh a hundred or so lbs, and possibly be crushed as the body structure is now compromised?

Food like that doen't seem to hurt ants in real life, and molecules are so small to begin with that even if you were the size of the head of a pin you still wouldn't be able to see atoms with an equally shrunk down microscope.


Come to think if it, why didn't they break through the floor or sink into the mud like a 100 lb ball bering? Let alone float in a bowl of milk.

Lack of vitamin c. 

 

So given the time of Superman's early endeavors, shouldn't he have been drafted?

 

Where does the mass come from when Banner turns in to the Hulk? And where does it go?

If mass equals energy, then energy equals mass. So when he is filled with that gamma wave radiation from anger and turns into the Hulk his mass increases else he'd go off like an atomic bomb.

(Actually I have no idea, i was just testing out my bullshitting skills)

Sometimes Cyclops has Ruby Quartz contact lenses. How the fuck does he get those in? When he opens his eyes for a split second wouldn't his eye beams take of his hand? Also when he's just wearing shades...shouldn't the energy escape underneath or through the sides? Obviously there are about a billion other things about his powers that make no sense but this is the one that's always bugged me.