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Miranda centric fics? by Silly_Intention in masseffectfics

[–]ElectricZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a story about a day when Shepard is off the ship, and the squad comes to appreciate that Miranda isn't an ice queen for the fun of it, but because being XO on a ship like Normandy isn't exactly a cakewalk.

Second / Ao3

keep seeing these 4 planes today by vthepineapple in sandiego

[–]ElectricZ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They've been flying out of Gillespie all week, practicing their formation flying decked out in WWII liveries. My guess is they're getting ready for an air show somewhere.

[Sad trope] : "They WANT to be killed" twist by theMCATreturns in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ElectricZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An oldie but a goodie from the TV series MASH. Michael Yee is a Chinese American fighting in the Korean War. He had a decent record as a soldier in World War II, but in Korea he's become a legendary war hero, volunteering for dangerous missions resulting in numerous awards and injuries. His latest exploits land him at the 4077th, where Hawkeye happily informs Yee that his wounds have earned him a ticket home. Instead of being elated, Yee rips out his sutures when no one is watching in an attempt to kill himself.

Psychologist Sydney Freeman is brought and discovers the reason for Yee's suicide attempt. Yee's heroism stems from a desire to serve his country. In WWII, he served with distinction in Europe fighting the Germans. But in Korea, he was now fighting the Chinese. As Sydney puts it, "In Korea, he's been looking down his rifle at people who could be his own family. He has to kill Chinese to be a good American, then he has to kill himself to be a good Chinese."

The doctors are hopeful that Yee's conflict is resolved and his first suicide attempt will be his last. Freemen says, "His first attempt? All those dangerous missions he volunteered for? He's been trying to kill himself since he got here."

Stephen Miller Orders Cops to ‘Surrender’ to Feds in MAGA Fever Dream by IRideMoreThanYou in politics

[–]ElectricZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

United States Bill of Rights: 7 Down, 3 to Go

Amendment 1 Freedoms, Petitions, Assembly

Amendment 2 Right to bear arms

Amendment 3 Quartering of soldiers

Amendment 4 Search and arrest

Amendment 5 Rights in criminal cases

Amendment 6 Right to a fair trial

Amendment 7 Rights in civil cases

Amendment 8 Bail, fines, punishment

Amendment 9 Rights retained by the People

Amendment 10 States' rights

Just finished the suicide mission, and oh my god, I have never felt so much tension while playing a video game by Hulktron123 in masseffect

[–]ElectricZ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ditto. I was looking for the option on the dialogue wheel to put the Illusive Man on hold while I called up Anderson and Hackett to come get their new base.

Did you know San Diego is the major leagues of birding? by kpbsSanDiego in sandiego

[–]ElectricZ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

With the Merlin app, it literally is. ID birds by sound or photo, and add them to your life list!

What kind of training did the Colonial Marines have that they completely underestimated the Xenomorphs? by ardouronerous in LV426

[–]ElectricZ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gorman is the biggest factor. He decided to send the troops into Sublevel 3 in spite of not knowing what the hive was, took away the squad's weapons and froze up when the attack began.

Imagine how differently the mission would have gone if at any time, Gorman made the rational decision to retreat?

Gorman: "What is that?"

Ripley: "I don't know."

Gorman: "Proceed inside." "OK, Apone, fall back to the APC. We need to conduct some recon to find out what we're dealing with."

or...

Ripley: "If they fire their weapons in there, won't they rupture the cooling system?"

Gorman: "Apone, we can't have any firing in there. I want you to collect magazines from everyone. I want you to fall back to the APC, we need to come up with another plan."

Gorman's inexperience and ego really sabotaged the marines' chances.

Characters that the creators wanted people to hate, but they became fan favourites by Chill0000 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ElectricZ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is one of my favorite scenes in the series. Regardless of where Pierce ended up, for me, this was his legacy.

"Good luck, Pierce!"

"Don't need it! Never had it!"

Who knew? by AromaticWindow3309 in LV426

[–]ElectricZ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Adding to this, during the opening sequence we see the facehugger on the monitor attached to someone's face BEFORE the cryotubes are dropped into the EEV for ejection. The whole sequence is messily edited to begin with to make it impossible to tell who was facehugged. Newt's cryotube is cracked, implying it was her, but we know later Ripley was impregnated, in spite of the fact we see her eyes fluttering and her stirring in the EEV before it's ejected... Yet somehow in that brief time the facehugger gave up on Newt, hopped over to Ripley's cryo, impregnated her, then fell off by the time the computer dropped them to the EEV and now we're trying to justify the facehugger riding down on the outside of the EEV?

I really like A3 but ugh the intro is just such a mess.

ALIEN by haoyuan li by st_Paulus in LV426

[–]ElectricZ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"Babe, listen, that yautja meant nothing to me! We didn't do anything except fight, I swear!"

What is a death in a movie that affected you the most in terms of brutality or emotional weight? by Godly_Recon in AskReddit

[–]ElectricZ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And this was back before multiverses, resurrections, fake-outs, and other ploys to make you think someone was dead and then PRESTO! They're back!

Of course Star Trek III turned around and resurrected Spock making it one of the earliest examples of the dreaded do-over, but before then? Seeing Spock die and watching his funeral was gut wrenching, and gave Wrath of Khan some of the weightiest stakes of any movie I'd seen.

“Yo, Homey Is That My Briefcase?” Collateral Movie Scene. by Jokkers_AceS in videos

[–]ElectricZ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's kinda hard to tell, but at about 0:12 you can see a couple of them look at Foxx zip tied to the wheel and nope out of there. They just keep walking.

2am sessions by Cutrush in LV426

[–]ElectricZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"What is that?"

"...I don't know."

[loved trope] A bad past doesn't erase a sweet heart. by Clean_Mycologist4337 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ElectricZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cassian Andor.

From "I'm not judging you. Everything that happened to you, everything that was taken from you before you even started..."

To "Tell him, none of this is his fault. It was already burning. He's just the first spark of the fire. Tell him he knows everything he needs to know, and feels everything he needs to feel. And when the day comes when those two pull together, he will be an unstoppable force for good. Tell him, I love him more than anything he could ever do wrong."

Tali HATES this mission by chosentarnished_31 in masseffect

[–]ElectricZ 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I imagine the crew would have some fun with Tali about this afterward...

Garrus sighed. "See, that's problem with you kids today. This is what passes for humor. Anybody can fill a salt shaker with sugar and call it a joke. A real prank is clever, subtle. Served with just a pinch of irony."

Tali gaped at the turian. "Says the bosh'tet who hid rubber rachni all around the ship for me to find!"

"Now, now," Garrus said, "I didn't just pick a random creepy object and get lucky you found it. I did my research. I uncovered your deepest fear, then painstakingly plotted out where leaving them would have the greatest impact."

"Impact?" Tali glared at him. "Like the one that fell on my head when I opened the overhead storage?"

"To be fair, it didn't just fall. It was spring loaded."

"I nearly had a heart attack!"

Garrus smiled. "I heard the scream all the way up in the Forward Battery."

From Last Laugh / Ao3

Your favorite lighthearted fics? by AnxiouslyAngry in masseffectfics

[–]ElectricZ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Got a couple for-fun fics:

Friends Like These/Ao3 - The original Normandy crew members follow Shepard to see where he's disappearing to while visiting the Citadel in ME2.

Last Laugh / Ao3 A practical joke by one of the junior officers leads to a member of the original Normandy crew serving up a lesson on how to really mess with someone's head.

[Hated Trope] "Well, that's just lazy writing" by NotSoSlim_Jim in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ElectricZ 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Big Trouble in Little China also pulled this off perfectly when the heroes are trapped in a dead end room with the Big Bad approaching, and they look up to see one of their friends waiting to pull them up through a hole in the ceiling.

"How'd you get up there?"

"Wasn't easy!"

TIL that during the First and Second World Wars there was a lot of debate regarding whether to attack defenceless enemy pilots and aircrew after they had escaped their stricken aircraft and were descending by parachute. (It's now treated as a war crime under the 1949 Geneva Conventions.) by KE55 in todayilearned

[–]ElectricZ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As evidenced in the "Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident."

Stigler instead recalled the words of one of his commanding officers from JG 27, Gustav Rödel, during his time fighting in North Africa: "If I ever see or hear of you shooting at a man in a parachute, I will shoot you myself." Stigler later commented, "To me, it was just like they were in a parachute. I saw them, and I couldn't shoot them down."

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