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It depends a lot of the size and arrangement of the rings. If they're too small, a broad enough point breaks them. If they're too broad, they don't really stop a point at all. Mail can prevent a thrust from being lethal mind because it does sort of stop a blade from going as deep as it could, but that wouldn't work if the tip is a stinger with venom so... This is why most mail was part of multi-layered armorings. Leather or hardened cloth beneath or over the mail.
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Ok, getting away from star wars, in Jaws how did the shark bite the one guy's head off and leave it in his boat for the classic jump scare scene when it rolled into view thru the hole in the boat?
Also, do great white sharks have TARDIS type stomachs? After eating Quint, a large full grown man, would it still feel like eating brody?
"But the universe is a big place, and whatever happens, you will not be missed..."
Matt Swain wrote: Ok, getting away from star wars, in Jaws how did the shark bite the one guy's head off and leave it in his boat for the classic jump scare scene when it rolled into view thru the hole in the boat?
Could it have the shark have bitten off the body instead? If the victim went in the maw legs first, perhaps the shark chomped at the neckline and the severed head went into the boat?
Voldemort relies too heavily on magic gets a bit grim, so I’ll leave your own mind to boggle.
But.....when Harry spent all those years living with the Durselys....where the hell were social services? How did his primary school teachers not notice the outright abuse?
Once he enters the Wizarding World, one of the very, very first things we see is a stack of Treasure which very much belongs to him. Yet, we don’t see the selfish little oik even offer to help out the Weasleys - the folk that become his surrogate family. Instead we see him be tres gauche and buy the entire sweet trolley’s contents (what if one of your fellow pupils was diabetic, Harry. WHAT OF THAT!)
Sirius Black. Wrongly convicted. In a world where literal truth potion exists, he was wrongly convicted....
How has Hogwart’s not been shutdown due to health and safety violations?
When Dumbledore and newly resurrected Voldemort are duelling in the Ministry of Magic, Harry just cowers. Now, if it was guns or Muggle weapons, fair enough. But it was magic, which boils down to will and concentration. There’s Harry, in what, Year 10? With his wand. And he does nothing??? Given he’s a friend of Fred and George Weasley, and a secondary school aged Wizard, are you really telling me he didn’t know a magic version of a kick in the nads, wedgie or Chinese burn? Even a wet Willy would’ve been enough and poof the bad guy is gone.
Seriously. Just one judicious “flickus knackerus” and that’s Voldemort about as dead as can be hoped at the time in question.
Even just a cheeky poke in the eye or sudden itchy crack might’ve been enough.
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Star trek 2 (Hey, I can poke at things i like too when they need it.)
When khan sets genesis to go boom and it takes 4 minutes to build up to detonation, why not have enterprise's weapons blow genesis to plasma well before it built up enough power to detonate? Lock onto it and fire main phasers at full power and disintegrate it within 30 seconds of it's 4 minute overload cycle?
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Matt Swain wrote: Star trek 2 (Hey, I can poke at things i like too when they need it.)
When khan sets genesis to go boom and it takes 4 minutes to build up to detonation, why not have enterprise's weapons blow genesis to plasma well before it built up enough power to detonate? Lock onto it and fire main phasers at full power and disintegrate it within 30 seconds of it's 4 minute overload cycle?
Good catch. Best guess? They didn't know where on the Reliant Genesis was exactly, so any "minor" crippling of the ship may have just jettisoned it out, fully active. Or it may have prematurely went boom (even with a lower yield. It may be like standing 6 inches from an m-80, or 50 feet from a stick of TNT, either way it's going to hurt.
Voldemort relies too heavily on magic gets a bit grim, so I’ll leave your own mind to boggle.
But.....when Harry spent all those years living with the Durselys....where the hell were social services? How did his primary school teachers not notice the outright abuse?
They did. Dumbledore wiped their memories and sent Harry back. Repeatedly.
Once he enters the Wizarding World, one of the very, very first things we see is a stack of Treasure which very much belongs to him. Yet, we don’t see the selfish little oik even offer to help out the Weasleys - the folk that become his surrogate family. Instead we see him be tres gauche and buy the entire sweet trolley’s contents (what if one of your fellow pupils was diabetic, Harry. WHAT OF THAT!)
Meh. He's 11, and painfully warped view of the world and generally ignorant by design. I would not expect this to occur to him.
Sirius Black. Wrongly convicted. In a world where literal truth potion exists, he was wrongly convicted....
The Wizarding gov't is also corrupt, stupid and was just fighting a shadow war, and also mind control also exists.
How has Hogwart’s not been shutdown due to health and safety violations?
Wizarding society is generally pictured as Victorian at its best. They likely don't have much in the way of health and safety codes. And especially not even the concept of 'duty of care.'
When Dumbledore and newly resurrected Voldemort are duelling in the Ministry of Magic, Harry just cowers. Now, if it was guns or Muggle weapons, fair enough. But it was magic, which boils down to will and concentration. There’s Harry, in what, Year 10? With his wand. And he does nothing??? Given he’s a friend of Fred and George Weasley, and a secondary school aged Wizard, are you really telling me he didn’t know a magic version of a kick in the nads, wedgie or Chinese burn? Even a wet Willy would’ve been enough and poof the bad guy is gone.
He's a kid and bizarrely unmotivated for his circumstances. But honestly this is the proper reaction for a teenager in the equivalent of fire-fight.
But the thing of it is, despite how the first couple books set it up, Harry isn't a Hero. He's a Sacrifice.
A possibly intentionally broken child, trained and molded to walk to his death to solve a word game (in lieu of the adults around him taking any responsibility for fixing their terrible society). I honestly suspect Rowling's intentions were that he stayed dead, and the publisher balked and forced in the macguffins and the epilogue in the knowledge that the general audience would riot.
Matt Swain wrote: Ok, getting away from star wars, in Jaws how did the shark bite the one guy's head off and leave it in his boat for the classic jump scare scene when it rolled into view thru the hole in the boat?
It's still attached to the rest of his corpse, presumably Hooper's investigation of the wreck dislodges something, so the body shifts and falls so that his face is visible through the hole in the boat.
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Back to Star Wars!
This time dueling in the prequels.
Firstly, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon vs Maul.
Maul only has one light saber, he can only parry one person at a time. For a large portion of the fight he's flanked on both sides by the two Jedi, they could easily attack simultaneously and there would be nothing Maul could do to parry the two attacks.
Instead what you see is one Jedi swinging (and getting parried) whilst the other Jedi literally *waits for their turn* to swing and get parried.
The same then applies to Grevious. Instead of launching simultaneous assaults from four directions he only ever uses one or two at a time, or when he does attack with all four they all attack from the same direction and get parried by a single move from his opponent.
The Clone Wars cartoon shows what he's capable of, once. He locks lightsabers using two arms, then pulls out his blaster and shoots his opponent (so dastardly!).
But in every other duel when he's up against non-disposable characters he's back to just swinging them all as one weapon. Or kicks them across the room instead of using a lightsaber.
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Voldemort relies too heavily on magic gets a bit grim, so I’ll leave your own mind to boggle.
But.....when Harry spent all those years living with the Durselys....where the hell were social services? How did his primary school teachers not notice the outright abuse?
They did. Dumbledore wiped their memories and sent Harry back. Repeatedly.
Once he enters the Wizarding World, one of the very, very first things we see is a stack of Treasure which very much belongs to him. Yet, we don’t see the selfish little oik even offer to help out the Weasleys - the folk that become his surrogate family. Instead we see him be tres gauche and buy the entire sweet trolley’s contents (what if one of your fellow pupils was diabetic, Harry. WHAT OF THAT!)
Meh. He's 11, and painfully warped view of the world and generally ignorant by design. I would not expect this to occur to him.
Sirius Black. Wrongly convicted. In a world where literal truth potion exists, he was wrongly convicted....
The Wizarding gov't is also corrupt, stupid and was just fighting a shadow war, and also mind control also exists.
How has Hogwart’s not been shutdown due to health and safety violations?
Wizarding society is generally pictured as Victorian at its best. They likely don't have much in the way of health and safety codes. And especially not even the concept of 'duty of care.'
When Dumbledore and newly resurrected Voldemort are duelling in the Ministry of Magic, Harry just cowers. Now, if it was guns or Muggle weapons, fair enough. But it was magic, which boils down to will and concentration. There’s Harry, in what, Year 10? With his wand. And he does nothing??? Given he’s a friend of Fred and George Weasley, and a secondary school aged Wizard, are you really telling me he didn’t know a magic version of a kick in the nads, wedgie or Chinese burn? Even a wet Willy would’ve been enough and poof the bad guy is gone.
He's a kid and bizarrely unmotivated for his circumstances. But honestly this is the proper reaction for a teenager in the equivalent of fire-fight.
But the thing of it is, despite how the first couple books set it up, Harry isn't a Hero. He's a Sacrifice.
A possibly intentionally broken child, trained and molded to walk to his death to solve a word game (in lieu of the adults around him taking any responsibility for fixing their terrible society). I honestly suspect Rowling's intentions were that he stayed dead, and the publisher balked and forced in the macguffins and the epilogue in the knowledge that the general audience would riot.
Well....you can prove anything with facts!
Excellent counter though, and you can tell I’ve never read the books.
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Well, the memory wipe is a fan theory (ish) but its heavily implied. Dumbles flat out tells Harry later on that he knew he had doomed Harry to 'dark and difficult years,' which by modern social standards is actually an admission of criminal neglect.
Despite the overall light tone of the first book or two (and Rowling's creepy take on 'comical' child abuse) the HP books are dark as feth. Lots of Fridge Horror and Nightmare Fuel.
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The Clone Wars cartoon shows what he's capable of, once. He locks lightsabers using two arms, then pulls out his blaster and shoots his opponent (so dastardly!).
But in every other duel when he's up against non-disposable characters he's back to just swinging them all as one weapon. Or kicks them across the room instead of using a lightsaber.
Greivous was amazing the first time we see him in the microseries that preceded Revenge of the Sith and Clone Wars.
They did him real dirty in basically everything afterward.
The Clone Wars cartoon shows what he's capable of, once. He locks lightsabers using two arms, then pulls out his blaster and shoots his opponent (so dastardly!).
But in every other duel when he's up against non-disposable characters he's back to just swinging them all as one weapon. Or kicks them across the room instead of using a lightsaber.
Grievous was amazing the first time we see him in the microseries that preceded Revenge of the Sith and Clone Wars.
They did him real dirty in basically everything afterward.
Definitely, that's part of why I'm so disappointed in his later appearances.
He could be so badarse, but they had to throw it away. Which is silly, IMO microseries villain is a much scarier and more interesting big bad evil guy than he was portrayed as later.
They traded in a competent and deadly badass for an arrogant mustache twirling cartoon villain.
About the only time in later works we really get to see Grievous as dangerous and competent is in the one Clone Wars episode, Lair of Grievous. In basically everything else he's usually getting hoisted by his own petard.
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So one just popped into my brain last night; The Rock. Now I know it’s one of the best, dumbest action movies, so realism isn’t hugely high on the agenda, but there’s one bit that has wormed its way into my brain to bug me.
When they first arrive on the island and they’re in a locked room, for which the only way out is for Sean Connery/Mason to roll through the fire blasts and whirring gears of a steam engine (side note a. That’s not how steam engines work and b. Why is that even there?! That’s Galaxy Quest smashers level of pointlessness! But, anyway). Mason then works his way round to unlock the door and let the SEAL team in. The reason only he can do this is because he memorised the timing on the “steam” engine when he escaped 40 years earlier, because they are going in the same way he came out. So when he was escaping he was travelling in the other direction. I.e. the direction he just came from to open the door. So there was absolutely no need for him to memorise the timing on the engine and risk his life, when he could just open the door from the inside and swim away! Gaaahhhh!
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Jadenim wrote: So one just popped into my brain last night; The Rock. Now I know it’s one of the best, dumbest action movies, so realism isn’t hugely high on the agenda, but there’s one bit that has wormed its way into my brain to bug me.
When they first arrive on the island and they’re in a locked room, for which the only way out is for Sean Connery/Mason to roll through the fire blasts and whirring gears of a steam engine (side note a. That’s not how steam engines work and b. Why is that even there?! That’s Galaxy Quest smashers level of pointlessness! But, anyway). Mason then works his way round to unlock the door and let the SEAL team in. The reason only he can do this is because he memorised the timing on the “steam” engine when he escaped 40 years earlier, because they are going in the same way he came out. So when he was escaping he was travelling in the other direction. I.e. the direction he just came from to open the door. So there was absolutely no need for him to memorise the timing on the engine and risk his life, when he could just open the door from the inside and swim away! Gaaahhhh!
I assumed it was locked/wired when he left, opening it would have triggered an alarm.
I'm wondering why the steam engines of a prison that hasn't worked in 50 years was still running. There was an in universe explanation but I forget what it was.
