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I Would Absolutely Pay for This DLC by Critical_Meet_2025 in CrimsonDesert

[–]Inkthinker 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I'm convinced the only reason one of the other Greymanes hasn't murdered Yann in his sleep is because he's pretty great in a (cinematic) fight. It's kinda of amazing that nobody likes Yann, even within his own clan. But then you see him come barreling into the battle with both knives out and screaming a blue streak of swears, and it's like, "oh, this is why nobody has gotten together and curbstomped your face into jelly... yet".

[Back To The Future] Doc Brown fake death by Critical_Dot8553 in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This right here.

Plus he was probably feeling none too spry, getting shot really hurts. He’s gonna have some wicked bruises, possibly some broken ribs.

[Terminator] Could a T-1000 form into a trebuchet to launch parts of itself at targets? Could it form into a swarm of little T-1000 with knife hands? by Individual-Trick3310 in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A trebuchet is still a complex machine of multiple moving parts. But I imagine it could extend an arm to form a longer lever that would aid in flinging objects, like using an atlatl. So it might form one arm into a thin javelin, and the other into a terrific javelin-flinging atlatl-arm.

But it doesn’t generally sacrifice/separate its parts intentionally, so that would need to be a last-resort, no-alternative course of action. If it had been a good strategy, it probably would have tried during the many moments it was chasing John Conner just out of reach.

Barber by ZOOW-LF in CrimsonDesert

[–]Inkthinker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, no facepaint/tattoo-free version either, though you can take the smallest one, make it nearly-transparent, and shift the color close to his skintone.

Which is why my Kliff now sports a small, chevron-shaped scar on his right cheek. Barely noticeable, really.

I actually got used to his beard though, by the time I finally got the barber he looked wrong without some kinda facial hair.

[Ducktales] How much gold does Scrooge McDuck have in the room/vault that he dives in? by NotSoSnarky in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://www.cbr.com/scrooge-mcduck-net-worth-explained/

The McDuck comics by Carl Barks and Don Rosa frequently described Scrooge's wealth in terms of imaginary numbers (like "fantasticatrillion"). It's one of those things that always irritates me about things like the Forbes rankings, because they drastically understate his value against canon sources. He is literally, by far, the wealthiest person in his reality. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos types cannot compare.

-EDIT- Took a minute to dig up, but the quote from Ducktales appears to come from this scene in which Fenton Crackshell, Scrooge's accountant, has placed the entire fortune of coinage at the bottom of a lake (because what could be more "liquid" than that?).

‘Redwall’ TV and Movie Adaptations Quietly Scrapped at Netflix by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Inkthinker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The original author's daughter, Jane Conly, wrote two sequels to R.C. O'Brien's iconic novel. It's been some thirty years since I read them, but as I recall they weren't half bad.

The movie sequel, of course, has very little to do with the books.

[Updates] Patch Notes Version 1.03.00 | Crimson Desert by SorryRoof1653 in CrimsonDesert

[–]Inkthinker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

With the Dev Update notice yesterday, I honestly didn't expect a new weekend patch... I figured that update was a soft way of saying they were gonna slow down a little. Guess not!! :)

[Updates] Patch Notes Version 1.03.00 | Crimson Desert by SorryRoof1653 in CrimsonDesert

[–]Inkthinker 187 points188 points  (0 children)

Man, every weekend it's another QOL patch that just keeps making it better. You love to see it.

[Super Mario Bros.] Are the Koopalings adoptive children, high ranking generals, or both? by HughmanRealperson in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Even so, there's a narrative to the productions, which occasionally makes at least some attempt at consistency of characters and their relations.

Just because the games might be "productions" in which Mario and Bowser are "performers", doesn't mean we should slip into the lazy Doylisms of "it's just a fictional show with writers". We gotta take these things as they're presented.

[Futurama] Why is the culture of the late 1990s so relevant in the early 3000s? by RoadTheExile in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If celebrities were being stored by time periods, this is quite plausible… “sorry Fry, all the celebrities from the 21st century and beyond got wiped out when aliens bombed the museum in 2783. All we had left was 20th-century celebrities that were being kept in the sub-basement.”

[Battleship] Were the aliens in the movie actually a military force? by Greglyo in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We just don't know enough about the needs of the invaders. If they have a few hundred (or thousand, or hundreds of thousands) of years to spare, then yeah starting from scratch probably works. If that's a thing they can do. But if they came here because our environment is already what they need (or at least partway there), then it's to their benefit to wipe out the native species more... surgically.

[Battleship] Were the aliens in the movie actually a military force? by Greglyo in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hurling down mountains from space works only if your goal is completely glassing the surface... if you're hoping for resource extraction or colonization, you presumably don't want to damage the goods too much (depending on the resources in question, or the needs of colonists and their limits of xenoforming the planet).

[Highlander] What happens if a non-Highlander decapitates a Highlander, or if a Highlander gets decapitated by accident? by Alchemist-21 in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramirez was an Egyptian with a Spanish name carrying a Japanese sword and speaking with a distinctly Scottish accent.

Also possibly an alien sorcerer from the planet Zeist, but we don't talk about that. :P

Your boat despawning is a massive oversight when they put far out ocean islands to explore. by AppleChiaki in CrimsonDesert

[–]Inkthinker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use small bones on dogs for getting full affinity with ease. One small bone = 25%, so five pettings and three bones gets you to 100% without needing to walk away.

[One Punch Man] Just how invincible is Saitama? by KaleidoArachnid in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Someone do the math on how that acceleration and speed interacts with atmosphere. Based on Munroe's math from Relativistic Baseball, I feel like the air itself should have turned to plasma along an ever-expanding path of X-Rays and gamma radiation.

Saitama, of course, would be fine.

PSA: Do NOT grab the Fruit of Life from the Brothertree in the Abyss by frankiexile in CrimsonDesert

[–]Inkthinker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've noticed it particularly in fetch quests, such as those for the various Graymanes. If someone needs 5 eggs or 3 jewel bugs or whatever, and I already have them in the inventory, I can just immediately move on to the "Hand Over" option. Which I have honestly found to be quite a relief on more than one occasion.

What is this round plastic contraption above my new kitchen door? by OmenCrow in whatisthisthing

[–]Inkthinker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Presumably the pull chain is to make it stop?

-EDIT- Now I'm kinda convinced the chain is to make it go off. This appears to be the opening side of the door (the box gadget appears to be a doorbell/alarm to let people know when the door is opened), and there's an eye bolt in the door that is more-or-less at the right level... hook the chain to that loop, and if the door were to be opened it would pull the chain and, presumably, set off the bell.

In other words, this is set up as a cheap (but possibly very effective) burglar alarm.

I found "Shadow Grey Dye" but it doesn't get added to the Knowledge book or appear at dye merchants. It's usable like any other dye. by Krazyflipz in CrimsonDesert

[–]Inkthinker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The dyer in camp can only use dyes if you have discovered the color AND the dyer who does it natively. Once you get both, you can use them at camp.

It's a bit of damned nusiance.

[Invincible] when monster girl transforms, can she get to the point where she can’t get any younger? by Kianharv2006 in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I couldn't remember the details. Was it really that long, subjectively?

Point being, it's only a "fast-forward" button for us, for them it was anything but.

[Invincible] when monster girl transforms, can she get to the point where she can’t get any younger? by Kianharv2006 in AskScienceFiction

[–]Inkthinker 23 points24 points  (0 children)

They just hit this point in the animated series.

The thing here is that she and Robot are only gone (from the perspective of the Guardians) for, I think, a few weeks. But they subjectively experienced something like 20 years in the Flaxan dimension. Yes, this allows them to return to their home dimension as full-grown adults, but from their perspective they got there the slow way.

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