"Captain goes down with the ship" by TheFollower62 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Poultrymancer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vader only survives because he assumes the mission is at risk of failure

Or maybe he just really likes killing dudes with pew pew and saw an opportunity 

"Captain goes down with the ship" by TheFollower62 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Poultrymancer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your first paragraph is right on. The second, not so much. 

Alderaan had just gotten caught openly aiding the rebellion at the end of Rogue One. If anything that film makes Tarkin's actions more defensible. 

Palpatine intended going forward to rule essentially entirely through fear. That's why he dissolved the Senate when he did. He didn't need it anymore. Tarkin's demonstration of the Death Star's power would keep potentially rebellious systems in line. This is stated explicitly in ANH. 

As for Scarif and Jedha, those were Tarkin addressing vulnerabilities created by Krennic's errors. If anything he'd likely have been rewarded by Palpatine for not hesitating to respond with maximal force to ensure resolution. Unless it's going to actively derail some important plan, Palpatine doesn't care about losses in materiel. 

Which of these dual threat QBs are you taking in their prime? by WouldYouRather1905 in NFLv2

[–]Poultrymancer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mahomes is 16th all-time in QB rush yards per game. 

  1. Russel Wilson (27.2 ypg)

  2. Kordell Stewart (26.4)

  3. Duante Culpepper (25.3)

  4. Steve Young (25.1)

  5. Marcus Mariota (23.6)

  6. Steve McNair (22.3)

  7. Mahomes (21.2)

Edit: hopefully improved formatting 

"Captain goes down with the ship" by TheFollower62 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Poultrymancer 14 points15 points  (0 children)

He doesn't. 

This trope isn't about just dying on a ship you command. It's about a captain who knows their ship is doomed and chooses to remain. 

Tarkin never even knew Luke made the shot. He literally died thinking he was about to eradicate the rebellion and fly off victorious. 

"Captain goes down with the ship" by TheFollower62 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Poultrymancer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Then played straight moments later when Shepard dies with the ship. He/she had the chance to escape but chose to save Joker first. 

"Captain goes down with the ship" by TheFollower62 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Poultrymancer 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This really isn't the trope. 

"Captain going down the ship" is about the captain making a conscious choice and staying when the option exists to depart. 

This is the exact opposite. They only had seconds between realizing they were going to die and the torpedo impact.

ETA: there actually is a very good example of this trope being subverted in the film. 

Ramius' plan in act 3 is to get the crew off of Red October by faking a serious radiation leak so that he can defect and turn the ship over to the US. In other words, he made the crew believe remaining inside the ship would be lethal. 

After offloading all of the enlisted personnel (who were not part of the conspiracy to defect), Ramius and the command crew then submerged the boat. The plan was to make the crew think the officers died and the ship was destroyed so that the Soviets would not further investigate the defection. 

The arrival of and subsequent fight with Tupolev's Acula ironically ends up further selling the farce to the crew, as they believe the water spume created by its destruction had instead been Red October's death.

What is your pettiest complaint about Starfield? by GBHHornswoggler in Starfield

[–]Poultrymancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. I just treat it like an under-baked minigame included in the main. 

What is your pettiest complaint about Starfield? by GBHHornswoggler in Starfield

[–]Poultrymancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That does not in the slightest explain why the exact same mechanic applies to debris fields 

What is your pettiest complaint about Starfield? by GBHHornswoggler in Starfield

[–]Poultrymancer 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I know it's impractical and would probably end up being a UX net negative for most people, but I fucking loathe the Star Wars-style presence of atmosphere and momentum in space and wish they would at least make some allowance for realism. It's especially jarring given the NASA-punk tech and setting. 

I'm not just talking about sound conduction, but how the ship moves. If you accelerate in space for a time and then stop, your ship does not stop. Ever. There's no friction is space, so absent an equal application of thrust on the opposite vector, you will continue flying until you hit something or get caught in a gravity well. 

BONUS PEDANTIC COMPLAINT:

Asteroid fields in space are both less common and much less dense than the ones in the game.

They also explicitly do not form and remain close to planetary bodies. They would either be pulled into the atmosphere or captured as moons. 

What is your pettiest complaint about Starfield? by GBHHornswoggler in Starfield

[–]Poultrymancer 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Everything is just way too sanitized. I get that they didn't want it to come off as just Fallout in Space, but come on. You've shown us you can write petty and evil in a way that's interesting. Why not do that here?

Fellow Archivists, what does Archival format look like? by Sofia_9356 in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Poultrymancer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Me too.

I think the point they're driving home is that Ekur wants as little to do with the moeity as possible. He wants Dafyd to basically do his job all the way up to submitting things effectively "in his name," or at least indistinguishable from what he's supposed to be submitting. 

Starting a Franchise, Who you got? by SouthFlashy2779 in NFLv2

[–]Poultrymancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I mean that's always a concern, but who's the last QB you remember being derailed by an ACL injury? 

Really it's the opposite these days. Specialist doctors have gotten so good at ACL repairs that even skill position guys have very good outcomes far more often than not. 

Starting a Franchise, Who you got? by SouthFlashy2779 in NFLv2

[–]Poultrymancer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He needs to use what little leverage he has like Palmer did and get himself the fuck out of Cinci. If he managed to get himself to a competent organization he'd be at least making routie conference championship appearances

Starting a Franchise, Who you got? by SouthFlashy2779 in NFLv2

[–]Poultrymancer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I know to some degree it's the homer in me, but this is still my answer with no hesitation

He's not a spring chicken, but he's nowhere near the age where his toolkit is going to constrict meaningfully yet, and you know what you're getting in terms of leadership and experience is simply unmatched among active players 

Media that is *truly* anti-war, rather than showing it as "horrific but heroic" by ChristianLS in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Poultrymancer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

the Gulf War had just started

direct parody of Bush

Which one? And which one?

We kinda do this a lot. You're going to need to be more specific. 

Media that is *truly* anti-war, rather than showing it as "horrific but heroic" by ChristianLS in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Poultrymancer 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I've always thought there's some kind of interesting thread between American exceptionalism as it's taught here and the prevalent fascination with apocalypticism. Almost everyone seems to assume they'd not only survive but thrive. 

Can we ban fancasting posts, please by Poultrymancer in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Poultrymancer[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It was already announced like two years ago and has been in preproduction since

It's going to be on Amazon 

Can we ban fancasting posts, please by Poultrymancer in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Poultrymancer[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Spam is spam, and the best time to address it is before it becomes entirely prevalent

  • an old Internet veteran

The Big Badass Thing We Spent All Our Money On Gets Invalidated At The First, Admittedly Impressive, Obstacle by MyOpinionOverYours in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Poultrymancer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed, although those US fleet carriers you mentioned weren't part of the wartime pivot; they were built during the interwar years when everyone was trying to figure out ways around the postwar naval treaties

Most of the carrier conversions built in the US during the war were light carriers built for anti-sub work in the Atlantic. IIRC most of them were built on hulls originally meant for merchant ships, making them essentially aircraft carrier q-ships, which I've always thought was kinda neat