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This happens with arrows too, and pretty much any penetrative projectile weapon, but is especially bad with throwing knives. A character will throw a knife and it lands with perfect accuracy, tip-first, into the enemy, causing them to instantly drop dead. As long as the knife hits anywhere in the torso (except the shoulders of course) or the head, it hits an off switch. Doesn't matter how deep the knife actually penetrated, it will stick straight out of the guy and stay imbedded. If the guy was charging at the thrower, they'll whip back and their legs will fly forward like they just got clotheslined.

And they do this with blade weapons that aren't made for throwing, meaning the balance is off, and it still hits tip-first. Even if the character is an expert knife thrower, that still doesn't mean the enemy will instantly die from a hit. Thrown objects lose a lot of energy flying through the air, especially if they're not balanced for flight. Then they have to get through clothing. Most likely it's just a flesh wound. Let's say it goes deep enough to penetrate a vital organ, the bad guy would be rolling on the ground in agony bleeding out for a while.

The only way this trope can be make logical sense is if the knife had struck the base of the brain (medulla) or the bad guy was in so much psychological shock upon being hit that they just freeze and play dead.

All you have to do is kill one watcher. This is an FRC dungeon, so you will get one-shot if you mess up. From the first lamp, enter the main chamber and take a right into a pitch black room, then immediately start walking along the wall so you don't aggro the kaio-ken boosted watcher standing in the center. Sneak up behind him and charged R2, visceral, Augur of Ebrietas, visceral again, bold hunter's mark, rinse and repeat. With 2 heir runes and 1 moon rune, you can get over 230k echoes per kill (as long as you pull off 2 viscerals, killing him with the second one), and he has a good chance of dropping a cursed radial tempering gem.

I'm surprised more guys don't talk about this movie. I came across it one day, and I'm really glad I did because you can clearly tell the actors all got firearms training. The gun handling is incredible, the guns and loadouts used are amazing. Sonny Puzikas plays one of the villain henchmen so I guess it makes sense he would have had an advisory role in the movie.

You criticize a kid's movie for having a botched plot and cardboard characters, and someone will say "well it's for kids, it's not that serious." Have you really thought about the implications of this sentiment? You're telling me that since they don't know any better, you can feed them low-effort slop? That they don't deserve compelling stories just because you don't think they can tell the difference?

This is especially irritating because *the entertainment you consume during your critical years contribute to how you turn out as an adult.*

Imagine if we applied this same logic to other things meant for kids.

"This slide is falling apart, it looks like some bolts are loose."

"Ahh it's for kids, it doesn't need to be fancy."

"This food is loaded with saturated fats, red 40, sodium, and 100g sugar per serving."

"Relax, this is just for kids, we're not trying to feed athletes or anything. They won't taste the difference."

Does anyone have recommendations for custom kydex or leather craftsmen in CT who can make sheaths and holsters?

This current heatwave got me thinking about just how hot all these asphalt savannahs are. They really heat up the surrounding area. They're also ugly af and are a waste of space. But above ground parking garages are also ugly brutalist boxes, ao why don't we just use underground garages?

Boston has the right idea. Boston Common garage is a huge underground garage with Boston Common sitting atop at ground level, a nice green park with grass and trees. It's the best setup, with many landmarks within walking distance.

Your attention please. I know you guys all have your big choppers and bowie knives and you wave them around saying "that's not a knoife! THIS is a knoife!" Everyone says it like that, but just like the Darth Vader quote, that's not what he actually says. He doesn't say it like that.

He says "that's not a knife" pulls out the bowie "that's a knife." And there's no emphasis on any particular word, he says it pretty casually, which actually makes the scene a lot better. However, everyone who quotes Crocodile Dundee says in a grandiose fashion "THIS is a knife!" which is innaccurate.

Thank you for your attention on this matter, of which I am sure is a critical issue.

Don't get me wrong, most of the time, the theater needs to be silent. We want the audience to be respectful and not disruptive. However, for a fun thrill ride movie, like a superhero movie, you kinda need that audience reaction noise to gauge how people enjoyed it. You expect to hear people making comments to their friends/family, laughing at the jokes, just reacting in general to what's going on, and clapping at the end. In a way, it sorta elevates the experience. This is what I've generally seen with fun popcorn flicks.

But not with Supergirl. Oddly enough, the theater was packed and yet, I barely heard any kind of audience reaction noise. Maybe I can vaguely remember a couple guys going "ha" at a joke one time, but that's it. Overall the vibe was just meh. Everyone seemed bored. No one said anything at the end, either. Once the credits rolled, people just started milling out of the theater. I didn't even hear anyone talking about it while walking out. Usually you'd hear people, especially kids, excitedly talking about their favorite scenes. It just seemed like a "whatever" experience.

It involves a group of friends being hunted down by a hungry creature in the desert. I can kinda compare it to *Animal*, with the creature even resembling the creature from *Animal*, except it takes place in a scrub desert setting instead of a forest.

The characters hole up in a wooden shack and fend off the creature, noting that it has an awful smell. That is, until one of them realizes it actually smells really good, and some of the others even admit they like the smell, and it causes some sort of intoxicating effect on them. They then realize the shack was built by some kind of drug addict who would seek out the creature and stay there so he could safely huff the fumes and get his fix.

Crazy turn of events, but that's all I remember from it.

It's a 2000s to early 2010s movie involving a group of friends being hunted down by a hungry creature in the desert. I can kinda compare it to Animal, with the creature even resembling the creature from Animal, except it takes place in a scrub desert setting instead of a forest.

The characters hole up in a wooden shack and fend off the creature, noting that it has an awful smell. That is, until one of them realizes it actually smells really good, and some of the others even admit they like the smell, and it causes some sort of intoxicating effect on them. They then realize the shack was built by some kind of drug addict who would seek out the creature and stay there so he could safely huff the fumes and get high.

Crazy turn of events, but that's all I remember from it.

When using keyboards, hunt and peck with one finger on each hand. Using phones, instead of the dual-thumb method, a lot tend to use one finger.

I don't exactly remember when this trend started but it must be well over 10 years old and it has to stop. It sort of made sense when used with Marvel movies back then, but now it's in everything. It's so cliche that it makes the movie seem like a joke, like the trend is poking fun of itself now, and takes me completely out of it.

What I'm left with is the feeling of "wow, how original" and I'm baffled as to why they chose the song they did, given how the lyrics and/or themes don't match the movie or the tone they're trying to convey. The lyrics of the song also distract from what the characters in the snippets are saying. They only draw further attention to the dichotomy between the song.

Don't even get me started on how goofy some of these songs sound when remixed in this way. A lot of them just don't translate well into an orchestral mix.

Most of the world's problems stem from flaws in the human condition, but also lack of communication or poor communication. The Drift is literally a communication and empathy machine. Nevermind the idea of Drift compatibility, it only applies to piloting Jaegers. But for this case, we're talking strictly person-to-person.

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Imagine if this technology could be developed to where it's readily available and can have many people hooked in at once. It would fundamentally change not only human culture, but probably the human condition as well. You would be able to not only understand others, but FEEL them. You wouldn't need to find a way to put your thoughts into words, or to interpret someone else's words, and possibly lose context and nuance. People would just share a single mind and understand every idea they need to convey.

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If it's someone you don't like, you'd instantly know everything that shaped them to be the person they are. If you have psychological flaws and biases due to how your life has shaped you, you can probably work through those and cure yourself by just living in other people's minds. Seeing the world through other people's eyes, that kinda corny stuff.

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The movie never touches on any of these implications, because it's just supposed to be a very fun thrill ride, but it's worth considering.

These are super-powered beings. Every supe, regardless of their powers, has a baseline increase in strength and durability above a normal human. Yet when they're depicted doing hand-to-hand combat (because the show has no budget for superpowers), they look like normal people fist-fighting. Their hits are slow af and have no weight behind them, the choreography is so bad.

There are ways to depict superstrength and durability with editting, camera tricks, and effects. At least use some camera wobble, add some shockwaves behind hits, add more bass to the impact sounds, have the characters fly back more often, do SOMETHING. Why does Butcher with no powers have more energy behind his punches than Starlight and the Deep?

Captain America: The Winter Soldier knew how to do this right. Every hit between Steve and Buckey looked like it had weight, they were moving with speed and explosiveness. The setpiece used the environment around them to indicate how powerful they were, such as Buckey stabbing through and unzipping the body of the car, or punching the pavement and cracking it. We also see Steve flipping Buckey and causing him to almost appear to float in the air. All these just help show the viewer that these are not normal people.

Grinds my gears when people reference the David vs Goliath story, for any reason in any context, and say "slingshot" instead of sling. They did not have slingshots back then! They did, however, make deadly effective use of the humble sling. People need to put some respect on this incredible weapon that domed adversaries left and right long before gunpowder was invented.

How is 300 gsm equal to 140 lb, but 150 gsm is 93 lb? What is exactly is the conversion rate?