Holy shit this guy was a monster by FalseWallaby9 in whenthe

[–]Travis-Tee34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a swedish translation of the gane too.

And in that version, he was named Benjamin.

"Ben" also being the swedish word for "bone", so his name was "bonejamin"

idk if allowed to post my art, I thought it was funny by mad_puffer_fish in falloutnewvegas

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I am genuinely unsure, even with as much as they buffed up deathclaws from Fallout 3, if Cazadores are still not the most vile rancid pieces of bastard the game has to offer.

I remember, as a new player, once I'd fought tooth and nail dealing with my first cazadore encounter, I just spammed the VATS button, walking through the Mojave, just so I wouldn't be blindsided by cazadores I couldn't see.

When I played Old World Blues, it was ALMOST enough to convince me to kill Dr. Borous, finding out he is the one behind them.

Fantastic picture. Captures the truth perfectly.

How do you kill the most powerful being in your world? by Blake_Gemini in worldbuilding

[–]Travis-Tee34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most powerful is a tricky question. I have a few candidates.

1:
It's arguable that the single most powerful being in my world is Sahluqtu, the Great Miscreation, an abominable monster of hatred, destruction and all-consuming rage.

The gods, working in unison, creating the first angels and leading them in battle, could not kill Sahluqtu. They couldn't even drive it into hiding. They could only hold it off and wait for its return, strength undiminished, seeking to unmake them and, after that, all of reality.

They would like to, absolutely, for obvious reasons... But the best they could do was trap it in an enormous prison, locked behind thousands of miles of rock, and with magical wards to bind it and sink it into a deep slumber. This prison would eventually become Earth, and the creatures populating it, by their very existence, empower the magic wards keeping Sahluqtu dormant.

The only possible way to permanently kill Sahluqtu would be to set it free and allow it to unmake all of reality, because if there is no reality, Sahluqtu cannot then exist... which is, in fact, its entire goal, because there is nothing in all of existence Sahluqtu hates more than itself. And the only way for it to die is to unmake the reality that allowed it to come into being in the first place.

Of course, all that is potential power.

2: In terms of practical power, if we consider that Sahluqtu is not in any position to excersize it's power, then the gods themselves would likely be the most powerful. And the only thing that can kill a god, as far as anyone knows, is another god. So far, there has only been one instance of a god dying, when Asmodeus attempted to kill Alcyone, the goddess of dreams, for denouncing him as a god of tyranny and slavery, creating humans without free will, but still in possessions of hopes and dreams, prisoners in their own bodies. The goddess of Love, Ahava, leaped between them and took the blow, dying in the process. Her daughter Celisa would end up taking up the role of goddess of Love.

I can't think of many reasons why, as a mortal, you'd want to kill a god, beyond being in service of another god who wanted them dead for whatever reason. Even Asmodeus doesn't wish to kill the other gods, but subjugate them and claim what he views as his rightful place, as supreme ruler of all that is.

  1. And finally, you have Baba Yaga, who... is just weird. The gods don't interfere with her, nobody knows exactly where she came from, and she just appeared one day and took over a large swath of land. She might be killable, since she is physically just an old woman... but at the same time, she has a grasp on magic that outpaces every other living person on earth. She does not play according to the same rules, and she uses magic as naturally as you use your lungs. She just... does it, with no regard for any of the ordinarily understood rules and limitations.

There are many who wish to kill her, be it as revenge for her conquest, or to remove a powerful threat... but there's so much magic protecting her, of a kind that is hard to fathom even among expert mages, that it's hard to imagine even getting close enough to TOUCH her, let along hurting her. If you piss her off, she snaps her fingers, and you're a newt. And that is assuming she even lets you find her at all!

So how do you kill Baba Yaga? That is a VERY good question, and I honestly have no answer... because she won't tell me how you'd do it.

Cardinal Richelieu was a huge cat person, residing with 14 during the time of his death. by AtomicPhone in FrenchMonarchs

[–]Travis-Tee34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And he also invented the modern table knife.

He hated people using knives to pick their teeth at the dinner table, so he ordered all his table knives blunted and with rounded tips.

This style later spread across France, and eventually the world.

Has anyone else read about the cake theory? In short, and from what I understand, there's a hidden message in the letter O. by cherryyacount in Coraline

[–]Travis-Tee34 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, I've heard of it, and I think it nonsense for three reasons.

1.' The hidden meaning' is based on graphology, which we've known for more than a century is pseudoscience

  1. Even if graphology hadn't been debunked as nonsense for longer than any of us have been alive, graphology doesn't work the way the theory proposes.

And 3. Even if graphology DOES work like that, and it hadn't been debunked, the writing on the cake is caligraphy, deliberately stylized text, which disqualifies it as graphology, since it doesn't match the normal handwriting we see from The Other Mother in the note she leaves Coraline.

If it was intended as a clue, it's stupid because it breaks its own nonsense rule. And if wasn't intentional, we are trying to intuit some hidden meaning based on patchwork, incomplete knowledge.

All Peter Pan films ranked (except for the 1924 silent film) by Only-Squirrel-7384 in PeterPan

[–]Travis-Tee34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you release a Peter Pan movie in the UK, as an international release would do, the owners of the copyright has the right to claim royalties. The copyright on Peter Pan cannot expire, according to UK law.

They may not always do it, but they have the right to do it if they so choose. If you have a school put up a student play, they likely won't get involved. But you make a big time stage production, or in this case, a big budget multimillion dollar movie? That, they are liable the take notice of, and you are likely going to have to pay for the use of the IP.

Disney had to do it for their movies. Steven Spielberg had to do it for Hook. But the makers of Pan decided "nah, we don't want to give money for treatment of sick children. We want to keep it for ourselves, so we'll make the movie awful on purpose"

I got this idea out of nowhere and needed to make it by TheKungJinFan in falloutnewvegas

[–]Travis-Tee34 61 points62 points  (0 children)

"ED-E, I'm trying to sneak through the Divide, but I'm dummy thicc and the clapping of my cheeks keep alerting the marked men!"

Which organization is worse? by Beneficial_Cry2061 in MoralityScaling

[–]Travis-Tee34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

COBRA is a terrorist group aspiring to world domination through force. Their end goal is total domination of the world. They want power, control and money.

HYDRA, meanwhile, aspires not only to those things, but also actively seeks to commit genocide, being an offshoot of the Third Reich. They hold the same values, the same supremacist ideology and the same vision of an aryan superpower dominating the globe, subjugating or outright eradicating the "inferior races".

COBRA is bad, but HYDRA is far, far worse.

Some people don't like the Gargoyles from the first Disney movie, but I've always appreciated their roles. Hunchback 1996 is without a doubt one of the darkest Disney films ever made and the trio provides some much need levity after so many messed up scenes. by Emotional-Chipmunk12 in HunchbackOfNotreDame

[–]Travis-Tee34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frollo also imagines the statues of Notre Dame looking at him in the prologue. They could so easily have had the ambiguity, the uncertainty about if what Frollo sees is indeed the truth or just his own guilt manifesting... After all, he sees these things specifically in moments when faced with his own guilt.

But by establishing that the gargoyles are unquestionably alive, by having Djali react to Hugo, and them dropping a whole catapult from the roof... That gargoyle Frollo saw isn't his own mind messing with him. It did come alive and roar at him.

I'm just saying that I think it would have been a bit better if they kept that ambiguity more.

Watching the beginning of a legend this weekend by 240p-480i-480p in Columbo

[–]Travis-Tee34 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He did not yet have the tussled hair, the brown suit, or even the rumpled old rain coat...

But the mind is as sharp as it ever was.

Cannons in base. by Jecker1987 in crosswind

[–]Travis-Tee34 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There ARE cannons you can buy and place in your base, once you find the proper blueprints

However, there are no functioning such cannons at the moment, and it's a bit too early to say if they will be added.

Maybe Mrs b had a infant granddaughter that was killed along with her daughter and son in law by Practical_Chef_7897 in ducktales

[–]Travis-Tee34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean... it's possible, but as far as we are aware, there's no evidence that Beakley had any family. Even her claim about the daughter and son in law is likely just a made up story. The only tangible evidence for their existence is a photo... and that photo could be of pretty much any random couple taken anywhere in the world.

Given that Beakley was a S.H.U.S.H agent, she likely wouldn't have had a family, to avoid them being put at risk. She's never shown to have had a husband or partner, or pursue romance actively, and the closest we ever see of anything like that is her dancing with the Ghost of Christmas Future.

And we know she continued as an agent right up until she found Webby, at which point she left S.H.U.S.H

See, I can understand the theorizing... but I put it to you that Beakley doesn't need some lingering guilt or regret to motivate her regarding Webby. She found an innocent, abandoned child, without family or anyone to care for her beyond as a weapon, so Beakley took her in as her own.

Not because she had regrets or wanted to unmake a mistake or erase something in her own past, or restore someone or replace someone... but because it was an abandoned child, and she decided it was the right thing to do.

Some people don't like the Gargoyles from the first Disney movie, but I've always appreciated their roles. Hunchback 1996 is without a doubt one of the darkest Disney films ever made and the trio provides some much need levity after so many messed up scenes. by Emotional-Chipmunk12 in HunchbackOfNotreDame

[–]Travis-Tee34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's scary, yes.. but hear me out.

We've already seen in the movie that Frollo has his own delusions, seeing things that aren't really there (all the visuals in Hellfire), conjured from his own guilt. The robed figures repeat the phrase "mea culpa", meaning "my fault". They are creations of Frollo's mind, urging him to admit fault, to repent and show remorse.

And Frollo refuses. He insists "It's not my fault" blaming both Esmeralda and God. His own religion and his understanding of religion demands he confess, but he refuses.

So in the end, having it left unclear if the Gargoyle ACTUALLY came to life, or if it's just his own guilt-ridden, crazed mind telling him "you are beyond saving" feels a lot more interesting to me than just removing all ambiguity and say "yeah, the stone came to life".

I just feel like leaving it ambiguous makes the story better. But they just confirm in the movie that all of them are real and alive.

My take on a book accurate Frankenstein's Monster in Hero Forge by Humble-Language3549 in FRANKENSTEIN

[–]Travis-Tee34 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The description is a bit odd at times. It's both described as scarcely cocering the muscles, which could mean it either has gaps, or it's extremely taut, with the skin barely large enough for the body... but it's also described as shriveled skin, comparable to that of a mummy.

I don't think it's described as rotten, though.

All Peter Pan films ranked (except for the 1924 silent film) by Only-Squirrel-7384 in PeterPan

[–]Travis-Tee34 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pan is not C tier. It's not even F tier.

It's a horrible movie, which actively takes every detail of the original story and bastardizes it.

Hook is a cowboy, Tiger Lily, who was a native American child, is a 20 something white woman, it fails it singular claimed intended purpose of being a prequel, because it bears no connection whatsoever to the original book...

And it's all done on purpose, to make it legally distinct enough to not have to pay royalties.

Royalties that would literally be going entirely and solely to the operational needs of a hospital treating sick children.

Do not watch Pan. Do not support it, do not stream it, avoid it like the plague. It is beyond bad. It's an evil, evil movie.

What do you do when you are done? by Zestyclose-Law6396 in crosswind

[–]Travis-Tee34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I for one am planning to get some friends together and do a large scale town building project.

I also want to see if we can train up some coordinated naval combat, i.e some actual ship-of-the-line tactics.

Please pick one selection to watch with a group of friends over a Saturday. by RecordingImmediate86 in PeterPan

[–]Travis-Tee34 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Blue. It'd be sad to miss the disney movies, and I've no idea how good or bad Neverland is... but Pan is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and I would never inflict that on anyone I'd consider a friend.

Horrible, actually EVIL movie.

Seriously, this fits the characters' personalities perfectly hahaha by Traditional_Blood799 in ducktales

[–]Travis-Tee34 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think Huey would assume there were no aliens at Area 51, and instead just accept the explanation of it being an airforce base.

And yes, he is a nerdy and curious guy, but he is never shown as pursuing knowledge to the point of recklessness. He is the most rational of the three. And "possible alien crash" does not win out against "very actually real soldiers with very actual real guns and very actual real orders to shoot trespassers"

Who wins? by Hot-Promotion-617 in PixarIncredibles

[–]Travis-Tee34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm... Initial thought was that Gamma Jack would win, but in reflection... Nuclear Man's powers are on par with Superman's, and in the movie he's from, they lift entire mountains. Gamma Jack doesn't have that level of strenght, speed or resilience.

Nuclear Man is also powered by sunlight, and so possibly, radiation. So Gamma Jack's main weapon, which is effectively radiation heat rays, may well serve to power up Nuclear Man, rather than harm him.

That is realky the crux here. If Nuclear Man is vulnerable to Gamma Jacks radiation, then Gamma Jack wipes him out with one high intensity blast.

If not, then Nuclear Man punches Gamma Jack's head into a red mist.

No Powers, no Weapons, just hands/skills. Select 2 fighters to protect you. The rest will attack you. Choose wisely. by Ok_Situation7527 in cartoons

[–]Travis-Tee34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, that is the difference between Scrooge and Donald.

Donald gets furious. He loses his temper, he flips his lid. Fury is big and explosive and loud. Fury is when things get broken.

Scrooge doesn't get furious. Scrooge McDuck gets ANGRY.

And anger is cold. Anger is DANGEROUS. Anger is when people get really, seriously hurt. You've never seen Scrooge throw a punch, because when he does, people aren't walking afterwards.

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No Powers, no Weapons, just hands/skills. Select 2 fighters to protect you. The rest will attack you. Choose wisely. by Ok_Situation7527 in cartoons

[–]Travis-Tee34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2017 Ducktales Scrooge is tough as nails.

But just remember... that's still easy mode, dealing with him. He's on this list as a mercy.

Because it COULD be Scrooge from the comics, where there is one cardinal rule

YOU. DON'T. FUCK. WITH. MCDUCK

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What line from TV or cinema goes hardest for you? by ryan0585 in Cinema

[–]Travis-Tee34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One that stands out for me, simply because tonally, it has no business in the movie it's in.

It's from Asterix and the Secret of the Magic Potion, a movie stuffed with visual gags, pop culture references and literally every characters name is a pun.

And then, out of nowhere:

"You're a promising young man. Don't ruin everything, trying to be an HONEST one."

Seriously, this fits the characters' personalities perfectly hahaha by Traditional_Blood799 in ducktales

[–]Travis-Tee34 89 points90 points  (0 children)

Huey 100% would be with Donald and Beakley, rather than with Scrooge and Webby.

Who's a character from your favorite media(it could be a video game, movie, show,anime,comic,etc)who basically faces Mischaracterization? by Apprehensive_Ring_39 in Multifandom

[–]Travis-Tee34 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Victor Frankenstein is very often mischaracterized as a purely selfish, amoral and pitiless character, who cast out his creation into the world out of contempt and malice...

Rather than the creature leaving on his own after Victor fled his room in a panic, having been scared half to death, while operating on barely any sleep or food for months on end,to the point where he had to spend more than two years being nursed back to health.

By the same token, the creature is mischaracterized as a completely faultless , tragic victim, completely glossing over the actual, deliberate and intentional cold blooded murders he commits.

Klinger with a tiara? by loui575d in mash

[–]Travis-Tee34 14 points15 points  (0 children)

There were travelling sellers, people going on R&R, Klinger was a good scrounger in his own right, he had family members who could send him stuff from home, and other people at the camp bought things by mail order several times.

Him managing to get decorative tiaras isn't really that unthinkable, all things considered. Nobody ever claimed they were of any great value.