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by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-26 03:36pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
Replies: 30
Views: 16375

Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy

What is bayoneting a block of wood going to do? They won't look pretty with the puncture in them, but they don't have any blood or organs to worry about. Even things like shrapnel, hydrostatic shock, etc, won't mean a thing to them. I'm sure cannons would be devastating if they struck one directly, ...
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-26 03:30pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
Replies: 16
Views: 9374

Re: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer

Well, anything is possible, but Tesla/Musk certainly are guilty of lying to their auditors in the past: Tesla has failed to report some worker injuries at its California factory on legally mandated reports, which helped make “the company’s injury numbers look better than they actually are,” accordin...
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-21 09:30pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
Replies: 16
Views: 9374

Re: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer

Back in 2011 when the veneer hadn't peeled off Musk's Potemkin village facade yet? Yeah... I reserve the right to be skeptical. Without knowing more about how or what exactly it is that NASA verified, it's hardly beyond the realm of possibility that they accepted wildly fraudulent figures from Musk ...
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-21 09:10pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
Replies: 16
Views: 9374

Re: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer

I guess based on Tesla's financial performance, it raises the highly pertinent question as to whether or not SpaceX actually did anything that a government agency couldn't have already done themselves if they took a notion to doing so, and whether or not SpaceX's rates on payloads aren't an illusion...
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-21 07:33pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
Replies: 16
Views: 9374

Re: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer

No, Musk is absolutely /the/ bullshit artist of our age Tesla currently has 2.67 billion in cash. About 1.1 billion of this is in loans that need to be returned early next year Around 40% of their cash in hand is from refundable deposits, from people who thought they would get a $35k car Tesla cann...
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-21 07:27pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
Replies: 30
Views: 16375

Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy

There's no stock of magic wood in this scenario, I'm removing that restriction to give Geppetto a fighting change. He needs only to put them together, and the parts can be in any state of relative completion prior to Geppetto starting work on and eventually assembling them. Obviously this doesn't me...
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-21 06:01pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
Replies: 30
Views: 16375

Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy

Unless Geppetto is ridiculously stupid, he should be able to figure out that he can get other puppets to prefabricate 90%-complete component parts for new puppets and put the finishing touches on them himself to bring them to life. That should cut down on production time substantially. As far as nam...
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-21 04:35pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
Replies: 30
Views: 16375

Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy

Beats me. Why does Pinocchio need to eat food? :P
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-21 01:03pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
Replies: 30
Views: 16375

Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy

It becomes more feasible when you realize that he isn't strictly averse to recruiting humans either. He's bound to seize treasure along the way that would allow him to augment his ranks with mercenaries, and there are probably plenty of disgruntled veterans of the wars of Italian unification who wou...
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-21 12:53pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
Replies: 30
Views: 16375

Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy

I don't see why not. Geppetto's wooden army block crossbows while he issues commands, resist all normal small arms, and generally fuck shit up. They also sail and cannot drown. All hail king Geppetto. This is 1881, the Italian army should be somewhat better armed than with just crossbows. Not enoug...
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-21 01:26am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Venom Trailer
Replies: 6
Views: 7168

Re: Venom Trailer

The musical theme in this trailer sounds an awful lot like Rack City. I hope this wasn't intentional, because that would be hilarious. :D
by TithonusSyndrome
2018-05-21 12:40am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
Replies: 30
Views: 16375

Geppetto I, King of Italy

In 1881, an elderly woodcutter in rural Tuscany takes a notion to carve a marionette of a young boy out of wood. Astonishingly, it comes to life as a belligerent young boy whom he gives the name "Pinocchio" to, and who takes to rampaging through the small town causing serious calamity unti...
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-12-09 09:58pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: “Alt-right” women are upset that “alt-right” men are treating them terribly
Replies: 16
Views: 7598

Re: “Alt-right” women are upset that “alt-right” men are treating them terribly

Ever read Ann Coulter's very early stuff? Tepid, bland, undistinguished. Nothing that would give you the impression that this was a firebrand in the making with the power to stir the pot at the national level. Same with Tomi Lahren, who was probably better described as a liberal of some kind when he...
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-12-09 02:48pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek
Replies: 40
Views: 24323

Re: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek

Q99 wrote: 2017-12-09 02:03pm No, but.... he's homaged a lot of things and he has some geek interests, if he's doing Trek, he's doing the research.
Sorry, hang on; you don't think anything about Trek has highly stylized 1960's aesthetics? Not even... TOS?
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-12-09 01:39pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek
Replies: 40
Views: 24323

Re: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek

Don't blame the studio execs; apparently this was all Tarantino's idea which he lobbied for of his own volition. If it seems like a strange fit to you, just remember that this is a man with a deep and abiding appreciation for 60's film and television aesthetics. Does anything about the Trek franchis...
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-12-09 01:19pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek
Replies: 40
Views: 24323

Re: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek

Crazedwraith wrote: 2017-12-09 12:52pm I can't for the life of me think how Tarintion's styling and Star Trek are going to work together.
Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Vacancy) is writing. Not Tarantino.
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-12-07 02:30am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Avengers: Stupidity War
Replies: 0
Views: 4189

Avengers: Stupidity War

Suppose the events of the upcoming MCU Avengers film go ahead as intended based on what we do know from the trailer, but with one significant modification: Thanos has gained the support of the full cast of villains from the entire 11-season run of Aqua Teen Hunger Force to do his bidding and locate ...
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-03-25 01:08pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
Replies: 179
Views: 29481

Re: Flippy the Burger bot

*sigh* but I didn't, though, did I? I was quite clear about the context and the meaning of the phrase: In contemporary use, "dowager" is commonly used as a shorthand to refer to supercillious and histronic older women, in the model of turn of the 20th century east coast socialites (Florenc...
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-03-24 03:57pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
Replies: 179
Views: 29481

Re: Flippy the Burger bot

TithonusSyndrome, even if it is not a fallacy per se, substituting insults in place of an actual argument as you have just done is still bad argumentation. I have categorically not done this. The exchange in question featured two arguments, followed by an insult. Broomstick, being a coward, is in f...
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-03-23 10:41pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: PacRim vs. Skull Island Monster's RAR
Replies: 14
Views: 6354

Re: PacRim vs. Skull Island Monster's RAR

Kong in Skull Island is around 100 feet tall. The Jaegers are around 270 feet tall. Goji2014 is More like 340 feet tall.

None of them are matched evenly for this setup.
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-03-23 10:10pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
Replies: 179
Views: 29481

Re: Flippy the Burger bot

What you are blustering incoherently about is finding an alternative to capitalism. You say that like it's a bad thing... Not at all. I just have some sense of how immense an undertaking such a subject would be, and the sense in not attempting to address it here. This is outside the scope of the cu...
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-03-23 09:43pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
Replies: 179
Views: 29481

Re: Flippy the Burger bot

No, that's quite fine. Life got in the way for a bit, but I can attend to this now. ]TithonusSyndrome, you might think that it's funny to deliberately misquote someone without any reference to having made the alteration, but it really isn't. The alteration was so substantial and so self-evident it b...
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-03-19 10:06pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
Replies: 179
Views: 29481

Re: Flippy the Burger bot

I'm sure a sufficiently elaborate system can be devised to allow me to make an online purchase of oranges with the specific degree of ripeness I desire, just as soon as we have a uniform scale of ripeness that everyone understands clearly, and as soon as the grocery stores decide it's actually wort...
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-03-19 09:42pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
Replies: 179
Views: 29481

Re: Flippy the Burger bot

So the solution to a system designed to funnel surplus value to the 1% is less efficient practices and systems. Brilliant. Break out the steam locomotives, Broomstick has found a way to stick it to the wealthy. No, the solution is to come up with a system that doesn't stick it to everyone BUT the w...
by TithonusSyndrome
2017-03-19 01:44am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
Replies: 179
Views: 29481

Re: Flippy the Burger bot

the fact that you don't see this as an opportunity to free up resources and improve the other side of the equation should probably prompt some reflection on your part. I live in a society where, pretty consistently this past couple decades, "freed up resources" generally only go to the 1%...