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[tomas1297]

 Due to actual motivation and inspiration, I have started an RTD.

[Heron TSG]

Gonna go play Axis and Allies with some friends later. Those Nazis won't know what hit them, other than a shitload of dice.

[Cthulhu]

For best results, try not to look at the name of the video.  Just take in what you see as it happens.

[Itnetlolor]

Considering the new release of DF, and at least almost a year since I last finished the Bloodfist, plus it's popularity, I recently got myself a flash of inspiration, and much like how making the Bloodfist helped me learn 40d rapidly, building a successor to it in 31.xx will help me adapt to it rapidly. Of course, in order to make a proper successor to it, I'll learn from my mistakes, but I'll also have to adapt to the new elements of the newer version(s) at the same time.

Anyway, the dimensions of my old ship was 5 decks tall (5 Z-levels), and about a region tile and roughly third long, if I measured correctly, 63 tiles long (63 / 48 = 1.3125 region tiles long), and roughly 3/4 of a region tile wide (37 / 48 = .77083 R-wide). I'm maybe thinking of topping that, and updating the design a bit as well, while keeping to a similar style. Of course, updates may have to be less frequent, at least map-wise, though I would probably provide screenshots of the ships progress. I'll have to get around to planning it however.

If the Bloodfist was a mere frigate, then this thing's gonna be a juggernaut (well, battleship if I top the successor with it's successor). More engines and boilers may be mandatory; of course, as would be the crew quarters and weapons. Burrows should definitely make the successor project a hell of alot easier to manage once everything gets moving.

I'll consider moving this post once I've committed to going forward with it, and have an idea of what I'm gonna do.

[ToonyMan]

For best results, try not to look at the name of the video.  Just take in what you see as it happens.

I did as you said and,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Justin Bieber getting gunned down?  Oh no!

EDIT:
Wait, is this from an actual show?  Haha why would they do that.

[Aqizzar]

For best results, try not to look at the name of the video.  Just take in what you see as it happens.

I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.  After all, he's sixteen, the bar is pretty low to be a good actor.  But the last couple lines, and the slo-mo death fall, are school-play quality crap.

Wait, is this from an actual show?  Haha why would they do that.

It's CSI, every episode is "Currently-Famous People Who Can't Act Pretending to be Corpses for One Scene".  They also had the MythBusters on once, as crime-scene recreation scientists.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Wait, is this from an actual show?  Haha why would they do that.

It's CSI, every episode is "Currently-Famous People Who Can't Act Pretending to be Corpses for One Scene".  They also had the MythBusters on once, as crime-scene recreation scientists.

They did? O_o

[Tellemurius]

lol they are seriously running out of ideas now.

[Cthulhu]

Yeah, the death scene is pretty terrible, but he's a singer, not an actor.  I think the writers just knew blowing Justin Bieber away on National TV would get great ratings.

I mean hell, he didn't even bother to be consistent between the two shots.  The first one he drops his gun and does that arm-flailing thing people do in movies when they get shot a bunch of times, and in the second shot he kind of staggers back and suddenly he has the gun again.

[Leafsnail]

That's... actually from CSI?

[Vector]

I gotta say, just from that clip, I was more attracted by Numb3rs.

I hated Numb3rs.

[alway]

I gotta say, just from that clip, I was more attracted by Numb3rs.

I hated Numb3rs.

Hehe.
generic character: "The bad guys left the scene hours ago, how could we possibly track them?!"
main character: "It's simple! All we have to do is run a math-magical analysis and we can pinpoint their location to within a 4 meter search area!"

[Itnetlolor]

I gotta say, just from that clip, I was more attracted by Numb3rs.

I hated Numb3rs.

Hehe.
generic character: "The bad guys left the scene hours ago, how could we possibly track them?!"
main character: "It's simple! All we have to do is run a math-magical analysis and we can pinpoint their location to within a 4 meter search area!"

"You can't stop the signal."

[ToonyMan]

Numb3rs makes boring math dangerous and exciting!

[Vector]

Yeah, if you add in "Works on P=NP whenever emotionally upset and is Hollywood Awkward, i.e. does the mathematician/problem-solving freeze and none of the other crazy shit I deal with daily."

I would have laughed a lot more if they'd tried to make the dude less approachable by the general audience and instead more... hilarious.  I honestly had a lot of trouble suspending disbelief because of his social behavior.  That's a bit sad, I guess, but I have met friendly/socially-adeptish mathematicians and they still came off far more strangely than that.

I don't think he even interrupts anyone throughout the entire first season.


EDIT: I'm happy today because Life Advice is being completely mature, as a group, in giving relationship advice right now.

Really happy.