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[DeinonSlayer]

David7204 wrote...

I don't recall ever once using TV Tropes as evidence.

I've used it plenty of times as in invitation for people to argue their accusations somewhere they'll actually face scrutiny. That's not evidence.

Do you have any examples of me using TV tropes as evidence?

We really don't need another thread about Liara's plot armor, do we?

[David7204]

Maybe I should repeat myself more slowly.

I. am. not. a. mod. Do you grasp that? If you bring up an issue on TV Tropes, it gets looked at by lots of people who are not me. Not me. The only power I have in that situation is speaking. The exact same power anyone else here has.

I having a lot of troubling understanding why the BSN has such a difficult time with this childishly simple and factually true premise. I have the same amount of power on TV tropes and other forums as anyone else does.

Modifié par David7204, 21 août 2013 - 01:25 .

[AresKeith]

David7204 wrote...

AresKeith wrote...

David7204 wrote...

I don't recall ever once using TV Tropes as evidence.

I've used it plenty of times as in invitation for people to argue their accusations somewhere they'll actually face scrutiny. That's not evidence.

Do you have any examples of me using TV tropes as evidence?

Which you can't do because you edit it yourself

And why not? I don't control TV Tropes. I'm not a mod. It's not up to me which posts stay and which go.

So you changing something to suit and defend your claims makes it all better

That's very sad David

[JonathonPR]

There is a wide range of scifi and near scifi flavors. Many stories will lean toward one of the big three categories with a little dabbling of the other two. The basics of scifi is a Socratic exercise with a scientific idea as the center of the story. What if x.


Hard scifi is limited to accepted contemporary science and technology. What if technology x had been used a different way earlier on, had been invented earlier, or how might society change in the future because of the technology that is just coming out now.


Soft scifi is much more lenient. It accepts possible but not confirmed scientific principles to be used. A rough explanation for how it might work can be made based on modern science. It does not require imaginary materials or bending the laws of physics to work. It might contain small doses of science fantasy but they are in the background.


Science fantasy can just make stuff up. There are only the thinnest of connection between modern proven science and what is presented in the story. It allows for FTL, biotics/Force/psionics, extraterrestrials that look, act, and talk like humans in some way, and what Asimov referred to as "eye scifi". It looks cool and futuristic but does not have any meaningful focus on exploring scientific concepts or how society would react to a technology.


How Bioware uses science outside of the codex in the first Mass Effect

[David7204]

AresKeith wrote...

So you changing something to suit and defend your claims makes it all better

That's very sad David

David7204 wrote...

Maybe I should repeat myself more slowly.

I. am. not. a. mod. Do you grasp that? If you bring up an issue on TV Tropes, it gets looked at by lots of people who are not me. Not me. The only power I have in that situation is speaking. The exact same power anyone else here has.

I'm having a lot of troubling understanding why the BSN has such a difficult time with this childishly simple and factually true premise. Ihave the same amount of power on TV tropes and other forums as anyone else does.

Modifié par David7204, 21 août 2013 - 01:26 .

[dreamgazer]

What's typically the reaction time on fixing and challenging edits at TVTropes?

[Kel Riever]

Oh god Liara hatred. Does make me laugh.

Plot armor? Lets assume it to be true. Plot armor for Liara doesn't even RATE on this scale from top to bottom of plot armor:

1. Glowjob/Starbrat (his plot armor effing kills you thanks to BioWare giant trolling)
2. Kai Leng's Gunship
3. Kai Leng himself.
4. Commander Shepard (though sometimes has plot armor failure...you know, depending...)

So Liara plot armor, plz...

Modifié par Kel Riever, 21 août 2013 - 01:28 .

[Br3admax]

The only thing Science Fantasy about biotics is eezo. Electricity does exist in the nervous system.

[David7204]

Depends on the day and what time it is. For midday or evening in North America on a weekday, generally within 15 minutes.

[Br3admax]

Kel Riever wrote...

Oh god Liara hatred. Does make me laugh.

Plot armor? Lets assume it to be true. Plot armor for Liara doesn't even RATE on this scale from top to bottom of plot armor:

1. Glowjob/Starbrat (his plot armor effing kills you thanks to BioWare giant trolling)
2. Kai Leng's Gunship
3. Kai Leng himself.

So Liara plot armor, plz...

Kai Leng had plot armor, but he lost it after Miranda scared him off. *cough* 

[AresKeith]

Kel Riever wrote...

Oh god Liara hatred. Does make me laugh.

Plot armor? Lets assume it to be true. Plot armor for Liara doesn't even RATE on this scale from top to bottom of plot armor:

1. Glowjob/Starbrat (his plot armor effing kills you thanks to BioWare giant trolling)
2. Kai Leng's Gunship
3. Kai Leng himself.
4. Commander Shepard (though sometimes has plot armor failure...you know, depending...)

So Liara plot armor, plz...

Plot Armor is not a negative term, it's stating a point like you just did with those 4 listed

[David7204]

It is a negative term. And it doesn't apply to any of those characters.

[AresKeith]

David7204 wrote...

AresKeith wrote...

So you changing something to suit and defend your claims makes it all better

That's very sad David

David7204 wrote...

Maybe I should repeat myself more slowly.

I. am. not. a. mod. Do you grasp that? If you bring up an issue on TV Tropes, it gets looked at by lots of people who are not me. Not me. The only power I have in that situation is speaking. The exact same power anyone else here has.

I'm having a lot of troubling understanding why the BSN has such a difficult time with this childishly simple and factually true premise. Ihave the same amount of power on TV tropes and other forums as anyone else does.

Because like we said early

The fact you are trying to use something that YOU edited yourself and tries to use it to defend YOUR claims makes it weak

[Br3admax]

Plot armor is not always negative. If Shepard did not have plot armor in ME 1, I would hate it.

[KaiserShep]

Shepard's morality making his face turn into a horribly scarred monster with glowing eyes, and no one noticing.

[AresKeith]

David7204 wrote...

It is a negative term. And it doesn't apply to any of those characters.

You only find it a negative term because you make it out to be one, just like Cliche 

[dreamgazer]

KaiserShep wrote...

Shepard's morality making his face turn into a horribly scarred monster with glowing eyes, and no one noticing.

Only paragons apply makeup and use colored contacts.

Not in the text? Pfft. It's a logical deduction.

[David7204]

If that's the explanation you find is most reasonable, then, yes. Yes it is.

[Nashtalia]

Vinchisters wrote...

How 3 video game endings ruined so many people's lives that they started sending colored cupcakes to Bioware.

i am really perplexed of this, coming from someone who is comitted to Liara and her words just calms me down in a positive way [ME1 Liara is very comforting ]

[KaiserShep]

dreamgazer wrote...

KaiserShep wrote...

Shepard's morality making his face turn into a horribly scarred monster with glowing eyes, and no one noticing.

Only paragons apply makeup and use colored contacts.

Not in the text? Pfft. It's a logical deduction.

Synthetic Protein Overlay, by L'Oreal.

[Ravensword]

billy the squid wrote...

David7204 wrote...

Thinner atmosphere and also lower gravity. Probably a terminal atmosphere of about the same.

Plenty of skydivers have hit the ground at terminal velocity. They don't get turned into paste. Some have even survived by hitting trees and stuff like that.

If you hit a tree you are not traveling at terminal velocity, you've already deployed a parachute or wing suit to reduce speed and change tragectory. You hit the ground at terminal velocity you're impacting at about 120mph.

This is what happens to a car when it hits a wall at 120mph, the same speed a sky diver is traveling at in free fall at terminal velocity. You going to walk away from that one?

Could you get a video of a human catapulted into a wall at 120 mph? Humans, unlike many cars today, lack crumple zones, which means that humans are sturdier than a car and can survive an extremely high plunge from the upper atomoshpere.

[dreamgazer]

I have a crumple zone.

Had to pay extra for that option, though.