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RE: I hate cliches to death!
May 12, 2015 at 11:43 am
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2015 at 11:47 am by Alex K.)
I stopped watching the Walking Dead when the script let random characters start acting uncharacteristically stupid or exhibit pointless aggression just to create drama/conflict. This uneven-ness was so blatant in WD after a while.
For example, they never take more than one tiny piece of supply from that abandoned pharmacy, and it's just obvious that the writers do that to force the characters to come back often to create dangerous situations. WD is just not well-written.
(May 12, 2015 at 11:40 am)pocaracas Wrote: Time travel is always poorly done... but we just keep on wishing it was possible, don't we?
Here's a preliminary fix: let the time travel occur because of an accident of nature which is not easily replicable. This doesn't solve time travel paradoxes, but it saves the mechanics of your fictional universe. It is possible to resolve those things to a certain degree if you show an interest in doing so. I just think people in charge can't be arsed to think about these things because they don't care.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: I hate cliches to death!
May 12, 2015 at 11:57 am
(May 12, 2015 at 11:13 am)Alex K Wrote: (May 12, 2015 at 11:04 am)robvalue Wrote: Movies with paranormal stuff going on, where the hero is trying to convince all the stupid idiots that there "really is a big ghost monster lizard!" And we're meant to sympathize with someone spouting nonsense with no evidence and be frustrated with all the "cynical sceptics who just won't believe". The nonsense spouter just happen to be right this time because it's a film. Fuck that!
What I find even worse is that sometimes, in-universe in these films, it actually is blatantly obvious that there is a ghost monster lizard, but the "skeptic" will ignore the obvious evidence even as the monster lizard is eating people left and right, because that's what skeptics are like in the minds of hollywood writers.
 so true.
hollywood.... 
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RE: I hate cliches to death!
May 12, 2015 at 1:05 pm
One more week and I'm out.........
Girl takes instant dislike to a man who also hates her.
End up in love.
The one famous person who isn't a regular in the show did it.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: I hate cliches to death!
May 12, 2015 at 2:22 pm
(May 12, 2015 at 10:24 am)pocaracas Wrote: Speaking of computers...
The enhance button!
You kids with your computers and your egg boxes - Oskar Werner was baffling Columbo with that in 1974, using no more than his video recorder.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: I hate cliches to death!
May 12, 2015 at 6:09 pm
Security camera saw me do the bad thing! Smash camera = delete evidence.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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RE: I hate cliches to death!
May 12, 2015 at 7:01 pm
(May 12, 2015 at 6:09 pm)Exian Wrote: Security camera saw me do the bad thing! Smash camera = delete evidence.
It's up there with shooting the electronic lock in order to either open or lock doors depending on dramatic necessity
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RE: I hate cliches to death!
May 12, 2015 at 7:04 pm
(May 12, 2015 at 7:01 pm)Alex K Wrote: (May 12, 2015 at 6:09 pm)Exian Wrote: Security camera saw me do the bad thing! Smash camera = delete evidence.
It's up there with shooting the electronic lock in order to either open or lock doors depending on dramatic necessity
That's a good one. "Stand back!" *bullet hits all the right buttons in sequence*
That's when the players exchange a look. One is slightly shocked or fed up with the maverick antics, and the other shoots a knowing/cocky look.
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RE: I hate cliches to death!
May 12, 2015 at 8:01 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2015 at 8:01 pm by robvalue.)
The face wrestler goes for the pin, but oh noes! The ref is knocked out! Face should have won! Face tries to wake up referee, and heel hits him in the balls just before ref wakes up. Heel wins. Boo!
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RE: I hate cliches to death!
May 12, 2015 at 8:41 pm
Rob, are you trying to tell me wrestling isn't real?
Next, you'll be saying that the sacred bible isn't the true word of god!
(Accurately compiled by those who were there!)
Blasphemy!
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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RE: I hate cliches to death!
May 12, 2015 at 9:31 pm
I fucking LOVE
the cliches of 80s movies highlighted by the simpsons.
Sorry in advance for breaking the rules slightly because this video contains so many cliches......
The best bit is when his black sidekick gets killed by the guy on the motorcycle after telling him he's just about to retire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyANa71gvU
MENDOZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
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