>> ^rottenseed:

You know how hard it would be to take notes in that guy's class without having a pause button. I'm always equipped with a straight edge and this guy just whips through lines like it's nothing.


Get away, you don't need it that precise for notes!

>> ^grinter:

That is amazing.. how does he do this?


I cant tell if you are being serious. He uses dotted chalk of course.

>> ^Sagemind:

Give in to your inner 14-year-old!
You're sounding like an old man trying to justify away your inhibitions.:P
Movies like this are a 14-year old fantacy. It's a delve into all that is comic book cool. Super power invincibility, Cyberpunk, Steam Punk, Mech-Warriors, Martial Arts, Sci-Fi, Ancient Wisdom, Fighting for your life, Frailty, Wisdom, Sensuality, Sacrifice, Cute girls, Fantasy, Thoughts within thoughts and so much more. Like the ogre said, "The onion has layers!"
"Let's have hot chicks! with guns! fighting samurai! with more guns! and dragons!" - YES, Lets!
If you go into this movie, leave behind your common-sense brain and take with you, your fourteen-year-old brain. If you expect reality, you're watching the wrong movie!
>> ^ChaosEngine:
while there's no doubting Snyders technical skill, he really has no original ideas at all. This movie played like it was written by a 14 year old boy. Let's have hot chicks! with guns! fighting samurai! with more guns! and dragons!
Honestly, I went into it expecting mindless fun, so my standards weren't high. But not only was it boring, it was downright creepy, like watching an old man hit on a teenage girl.
edit: actually while I'm on this soapbox.... the costumes on the lead actress were borderline paedophilia. And she was rubbish.



The merits of hot chicks (babydolls creepiness aside) fighting dragons, steampunk nazis, etc are lost on me. Which was why it was so surprising that the whole thing was boring at best and lurid at worst.

Even watching the action sequences, you're aware that what you're actually watching is a fantasy within a fantasy. At one layer removed you are watching women forced into sex slavery and "reality" is not much better.

If you wanted to make a straight up action movie, with awesome set-pieces and a ridiculous plot, go for it. But what plot there was made the whole thing feel seedy.

I tried, believe me. I went with a bunch of mates. We had beer and ribs beforehand. And we still came out genuinely wondering if Snyder was that stupid.

Or maybe not...

and here is really the only excuse I can give this. Maybe it's meant to be creepy and weird. There's a infinitesimal chance that there is actually a meta-narrative, that the whole thing is a work of subversive genius; a commentary on how comfortable we are with fetishizing things that are in many ways genuinely wrong.

But somehow, I doubt it.

Give in to your inner 14-year-old!
You're sounding like an old man trying to justify away your inhibitions.:P

Movies like this are a 14-year old fantacy. It's a delve into all that is comic book cool. Super power invincibility, Cyberpunk, Steam Punk, Mech-Warriors, Martial Arts, Sci-Fi, Ancient Wisdom, Fighting for your life, Frailty, Wisdom, Sensuality, Sacrifice, Cute girls, Fantasy, Thoughts within thoughts and so much more. Like the ogre said, "The onion has layers!"

"Let's have hot chicks! with guns! fighting samurai! with more guns! and dragons!" - YES, Lets!

If you go into this movie, leave behind your common-sense brain and take with you, your fourteen-year-old brain. If you expect reality, you're watching the wrong movie!

>> ^ChaosEngine:

while there's no doubting Snyders technical skill, he really has no original ideas at all. This movie played like it was written by a 14 year old boy. Let's have hot chicks! with guns! fighting samurai! with more guns! and dragons!
Honestly, I went into it expecting mindless fun, so my standards weren't high. But not only was it boring, it was downright creepy, like watching an old man hit on a teenage girl.
edit: actually while I'm on this soapbox.... the costumes on the lead actress were borderline paedophilia. And she was rubbish.

This is the mech game I've been waiting for.

I absolutely love the environmental art. But it feels a bit wasted on mech combat... Downgrades it to decoration.

Like the *geek said, it's a mech, not a transformer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKFGr_mkQaA
From youtube: Mitsubishi EVOLUTION ("EVO") decides to disgracefully side-tackle a pillar after a low dyno run of 450hp. How unsportsmanlike. This might have happened at Mech-Tech College in Puerto Rico this week.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^acidSpine:
It's not 10 year old gameplay at all. Most of the units from starcraft I have been replaced for a start and the extensive online beta testing has privided literally tens of thousands of hours of game testing for blizzard that they can use to fine tune the gameplay. Starcraft II may be a sequel but the experience will be all together different from the original

Just the fact that the game has hard counters for every unit makes it a rock paper scissors type of situation. There is still a good deal of (from starcraft 1 reckoning) a good amount to be made for personal adaptation. But in the end, if a person has "a" unit, you are forced into "b" unit, and I never quite liked that. And I like my rts games to go on for at least a half hours. A SC game could be over in 15 mins. That said, perhaps that actually suites my lifestyle more than it did back then.



The whole "hard counter" system is quite exaggerated. You almost never use units in isolation, and there's always a way to outplay your opponent. For example, terran Thors "hard counter" mutalisks. Thors have ridiculous anti air range, deals splash damage, and gets + damage versus light, which is the armor type of mutalisks. Straight up, 3 or 4 thors cand destroy dozens of mutalisks.

However, if you watch some amazing high level tournament play from asia, zerg can still tech early to mutalisk against a mech heavy terran. The mobility of mutalisks are used against Thors, to harass and contain Terran. Engagements are won by using ground units like zerglings to distract the Thors while your mutas do the damage.

So no, there really are no "hard counters", aside from obvious situations like losing because you have no anti air, or cloak detection. Units are used in combination to overcome individual weaknesses, a unit can still be powerful even if your opponent has the "counter" to that unit.

>> ^Friesian:

>> ^rottenseed:
why does it say "rednecks"?

It's all about the moustache!


It might also be a hipster-stache, as in, "yeah, I drive this Spidermobile thing, but an uncool person like you probably wouldn't like it..."

>> ^rottenseed:

why does it say "rednecks"?

It's all about the moustache!

BBC also did a beautiful piece on Boltzmann. It is a story many young physicists hear when taking Stat Mech. Often it is given as a warning that not only should we not take ourselves and work to seriously, but you should treat even the most bizarre ideas with respect.

whats a mech?

My former boss': http://hallert.net/mech/mechcostume.htm

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