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On the Right Trek
Chris T.
Now that Benedict Cumberbatch ’s character ’s name is reassert as John Harrsion in Star Trek Into Darkness , do you feel like an half-wit for the rant you carry last week ?
No I do not . I resist by it .
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If Cumberbatch is playing a type called John Harrison , as seems to be the case , why they hell did n’t J.J. Abrams just tell us ? It ’s not a name any Trek fans recognize . It ’s not even an interesting name . What did he bring in by make us wonder about it for so goddamned long ? The obvious result is buzz , but that ’s not exactly correct .
There ’s a difference of opinion between “ holy shit did you see all the new footage in the new trailer ! ? ” and “ I wonder what Benedict Cumberbatch ’s characters name is . ” One build fervour and the other physique irritation , and I ’d say this is firmly the latter . Moreso because Abrams purposefully turn this non - issue into this huge trial by ordeal .
Now , there ’s the thought since that Cumberbatch was initially announced to be playing a Trek canon character – and John Harrison is not a Trek canon character – that perhaps he takes a new name , or that John Harrison is a fake name . That change nothing . John Harrison turn into or reveal himself as another person is a plot of land point , and clearly supposed to be a surprise . I do n’t want to be spoiled on thing that happen in the movie . But if the antagonist has a name , that ’s he ’s going to be called for most of the movie , yeah , that ’s not a spoiler . That ’s just part of the introductory plot sum-up .
One more affair : This is totally a guess on my part , but it makes sense to me and if I ’m right it ’ll be a spoiler , so spoiler warning for the respite of the paragraph : I ’d repose even money that “ John Harrison ” takes the name Khan by the end of the film . part because of that Star Trek II shoot from the terminal of the Japanese Into Darkness trailer , part because of the early “ he ’s a canon character asseveration , ” partially because a change from a nobody character into a classical scoundrel satisfies all the contradictory info give about him , and partially because J.J. Abrams will depend like a full douchecanoe for creating this whole furor if the grapheme just detain John Harrison . And if I ’m correct , then he has to be Khan , because “ But you see Kirk , I was Gary Mitchell all along ! ” means nothing to 97 % of the movie audience , ( same with any other non - Khan case ) . Only Khan has the name recognition to pull off a reveal like this .
This would be awing , of course , and I hope I ’m wrong . This is what I ’m carry , though .
Reality bite
Alan Bacchiochi :
I have a petty dubiousness regarding the banquet of zombism . First lease us wear that one number will lead in becoming infect . But it also seems that zombies are hell bent on devouring everyone in their path . They are not just taking a nibble and saunter along . Would n’t that lead to a lot more eaten multitude than septic hoi polloi . Moreover , if their gluttony leave in less infections would n’t they be that much easier to wipe out ? Most presentations have the world go to zombie batshit hell seemingly overnight and that does n’t ring true to me . Anything in the postal bag about this ?
There ’s a couple different questions in here , but I got ‘ em . First , yes , zombies do go for the full human counter . But we living humans try out to make that as difficult as potential . Most automaton infections will hap like they do in the better zombie moving-picture show – random insect bite and starting line that occur while humans are hell bent on running / fighting . There ’ll be spate of minor wounds , and thus there ’ll be batch of people who will turn into zombies .
secondly , most of this will materialise during the initial topsy-turvyness , before people truly substantiate what ’s fall out . People will be walking along , take care their own business when a seemingly half-baked dude starts test to use up their foot . Any reasonable person runs away … to become infected and taint someone else the same way . Imagine this repeated fairly much constantly around the domain . This throw the zombie outbreak a footing , then world-wide panic , lack of survival acquisition and mere denial make most people loose zombie pickin ’s . Leaving the modest groups of masses who have the manpower , skills , and power to get along in horrific circumstances who ’ll have the power to actually survive . For a while .
underframe in the loo
Jon Provo :
Ho there , Postman !
I have an rpg - ish motion for you , one that arose from a secret plan of Palladium ’s Beyond the Supernatural I was running some years back . I ’ll have to set the stage a bit but please note that this was a urging of the moment game , I did n’t project it and never intended for it to get this insane .
My participant ’ investigators were hired by a man ( fundamentally Peter Lorre from the Maltese Falcon ) to discover why his poodle dog celebrate exploding . During the course of their investigation they found a book on demon muster up that parcel out with sacrifice less creatures to attain unholy power , the more animals sacrificed the more powerful the entity summons , in the client ’s home . They also found a linen paper W.C. just stuffed to the brim with immobilize dry out toy dog poodles . I was then inquire a very sensible ( for the post ) motion . How many poodle were in the W.C. ?
We then expend the next three hours of existent real time researching the job . lamentably this was before the days of Google and the internet was less forthcoming than we ’d expected . For the saki of the biz I at long last subside of 72 , but we always find like that was n’t quite proper . We tried pen Mensa but never received an result and now I move around to you Rob … how many poodle dog were in the closet ?
So I was all set to make up a number and demo it on its own , as fact , but much like you and your players did , I got sucked into trying to discover the existent solvent .
There ’s no standard linen W.C. size – some are smaller than standard closets , some are big to harbor thing in addition to linen paper . Most ceilings are 8 - pes marvellous , and most non - coat press are about 2 - foot deep . There ’s no stock breadth – closets just take up as much elbow room as the floorplan earmark – but 4 - foot is a decent norm . So 2 x 4 x 8 equalize 64 cubic feet .
Now for the poodle . You might be surprised to discover there are no resources on the cyberspace when you type “ How big is an average toy poodle body , ” although everyone agree that most toy poodle are 10 - inches long . More problematically , miniature poodles are not ideally suited for stack – they have tiny heads and extra bantam butts but they bulge out at the shoulder . It ’d be like trying to heap eggplants .
So I ’m going to make a guess that , with careful positioning ( you ’d have to fold in the arms and leg like the Voltron lions , that ’s for certain ) that you could get four average - sized , halt - dried toy dog poodles in a three-dimensional foot . Times 64 , that ’s 256 , give or take .
In related news , I have totally mouse myself out . Oh look , there ’s a P.S …
P.S. : It did n’t ultimately matter as they decided to cauterise the house down . They never learned why the man ’s heel kept botch up like over fill balloon or how he ’d planed of reviving them for the ritual forfeit . They just burnt that s.o.b . ’s house down .
… and that sums up pretty much every single RPG session I played in from 1990 - 92 .
Derezzed Delight
Russell Christianson :
Any word on whether Daft Punk will be scoring the new Tron 3 film that has been getting a lot of bombilation ?
No word , but Disney seems to be pretend a lot of skilful decision lately , so I imagine they ’ll vex with ‘ em . The one thing middling much everyone could agree about Tron : Legacy was that Daft Punk did a fantastic job with the soundtrack . Besides , can you intend of anyone else on the planet comfortably - suited to the task , even if Disney require to take someone else ? I ca n’t .
Weighty Affairs
Henry Lawton :
Dear Postman ,
What exactly is a “ horseshit - ton ? ”
Thank you in advance .
256 frost - dry out poodle .
Lights , Camera , Action
Joshua Ninke :
I never get hackneyed of watching a good older fashioned natural process movie . clobber blows up , the hero keeps his cool , and bad guy pass from skyscrapers in penance for their crimes .
So I postulate you , who is the ultimate action hero ? There are so many to choose from . Schwarzenegger , Stallone , Willis , Norris … I just make I accidentally started write out the mould of Expendables 2 ..
I would easy and happily secern you that the first Die Hard is the greatest activeness movie ever made , but action hero ? The three latter Die Hard film are n’t even close to great . But does the average rule out John McClane , or does his one movie of perfection preponderate everything else ?
But – as I believe you ’re implying by listing action motion-picture show actor , and not character – I have to go with Schwarzenegger . attend at the blood line : the Conan motion-picture show , Predator , Commando , the Terminator picture show , Total Recall , True Lies , The Expendables , The Running Man , Red Heat – no one come closely .
And remember , Schwarznegger was a strange muscle-builder with a near intelligible emphasis , and he ’s not that good an thespian , either ( gravely , Willis and Stallone occasionally work roles , but Schwarzenegger is just Schwarzenegger , every single clock time ) . There ’s no way he should have become a star . But instead he became one of the big loge position draw in the world , strictly on his massive personal magnetism – which was so considerable it helped him get elected governor twice . Between the sheer volume of his awing action piece of work and the degree of trouble in which he completed it , I ’d say Arnold is definitely the ultimate legal action star .
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