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Gil Hamilton wrote:Heh heh. Holy shit, son! Their water mines have an area of effect of 400 square feet DUDE, we are ALL GONNA DIE!.. well, unless we stand 12 feet away from the mine.

I'm 99% certain they meant that it had a burst radius of 400 feet. Which, if true, is pretty scary for a simple mine.

While playing htis game, I, in no particular order: -jumped onto a three story robot and hyper-punched its face off -jet-slid around the backside of a buzzsaw-equipped tank and fired a rocket into its ass while flipping up behind cover -distracted a giant robot that was 90% drill and 10% Bayformers ...

So, its the Scrin meets the Collectors with mindfucking light beams and giant vacuums.

....looks interesting.

Depending on the capabilities of the Federation Marines, the Federation has a reasonable chance of doing well in ground combat. lolwhut. The Federation can't even equip its ground troops with a squad support weapon and they're supposed to do well against ground armies armed with gunships, heavy arm...

I always viewed X-Com as a war of subversion instead of a conventional war. The aliens want humanity and Earth intact, so they're focusing their efforts on subverting mankind's governments into allowing them to take over. Even with X-Com causing trouble, they're in a superior position and have the m...

Well the original questions seems more about a set piece battle, which tend to almost always end with the fantasy army being crushed like the baldrick forces in the first half of the Salvation war, though thanks to the modern force being merely World war I as opposed to 2003, the gap was not quite ...

The Aleran Legions from Codex Alera would probably cut a swathe across any pre-WWI army, though they'd probably get pasted against a WWI and later army. Not even someone as adaptable as Tavi could win that. The Vord might actually be able to win WWI and possibly WWII if they start off in a "saf...

Why bother with Earth at all? It is completely irrelevant. Yeah, this. The OP already has them crossing over from another solar system and bringing hundreds of millions of people with them. If they can do that they should be able to just build giant space habitats and live in space, where there's n...

Plus: the 'falling wakes you up' how come no one snapped out of it when their van rolled fully over then? From what I observed in the movie, you have to be conscious for a falling sensation to wake you up and kick you to the next level. If you're out when you fall, you don't wake up. In order to wa...

In C&C3, they're apparently some weird freaky "smart" grenades that are rocket propelled and seek out targets, according to the in-game fluff. :? (no, I'm not even going to try to rationalize why they don't just use rocket launchers....) In the Tiberium Wars novelization I've been wri...

The only good Terminator entry after T2 was SCC, and that was because they were cutting as close to Cameron's original vision as possible.

This one has me a bit leery, but I'm hopefully optimistic.

I'd say that Tiberium Dawn/Tiberium Wars GDI is fairly realistic, though designwise, quite a bit of their tech in different incarnations is daft - even in C&C3. Still, they've got a realistic range of hardware and a military that looks, feels, and acts realistic, and employs their tech effectiv...

I'd say that Tiberium Dawn/Tiberium Wars GDI is fairly realistic, though designwise, quite a bit of their tech in different incarnations is daft - even in C&C3. Still, they've got a realistic range of hardware and a military that looks, feels, and acts realistic, and employs their tech effective...

Remember, the thing that was nuked was the nine cohorts that Enatenael (whom Elhmas later claimed was the big angel that was mistaken as him) WASN'T leading. It really isn't clear or hinted at that Elhmas had peaced out before the nuke hit. That probably should have been foreshadowed. uh...yes, it ...

CaptainChewbacca wrote: You're complaining that the story isn't the kind you like. That's like me bitching about the lack of ninjas in Robin Hood.

Sigged. This is the truth.

I actually read through the TVtropes page and I think most of that is just undersexed fans finding sex or lewd comments in places it was never intended. Some of the Avatar stuff, yeah, possibly, but most of that is complete tripe. You cannot deny The Drill , though. The Drill was probably the most ...

Yeah, the kid behind Axe Cop can probably come up with a more sensical plot than what we're likely to see here.

It would be handy to have the attaché case in the film, if only to enable dream recall. The ability to share subconscious and conscious constructs like that would be revolutionary for entertainment and training, to name two areas. They do mention that the entire reason the military developed the dr...

Just got back from seeing it, and I do plan to go see it again - multiple times. Its rare for me to say this, but the movie was almost flawless[/] to me. There was nothing I disliked about the movie at all. Usually there's some nagging thing that annoys me about a movie, but Inception delivered, and...

The tow-rope thing was also an emergency gambit that the Rebels improvised. It sure as hell is not going to be a normal tactic, and it resulted in a lot of the Rebel snowspeeders being shot down. IIRC, afterward the Empire wised up enough to have AA positioned around the AT-ATs to keep that from hap...

Can't the Jedi/Sith just pick up a blaster and shoot the xenomorph?

Needs more Toph.

Peptuck demands more Toph.

Erm. how many of Traviss' SW books have you read? 'cause anything after Triple Zero is mediocre at best, and god-awful at worst. Traviss' problem is that she tries to re-shape an already existent universe to suit her whims, she did it with SW with her mandowank bullshit, she did it with Gears of Wa...

A thousand times over.

-potentiallly unrepairable? (if they lose an arm to a mine or rpg, can another be grafted on?) Yes. As specificed in OP, repairing takes about half the time it would take to build the golem, proportional to the percentage of the mass that needs to be repaired. (i.e. ten percent damaged, five percen...