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[Xantalos]

What I never figured out is why, if Gipsy Danger had ejection pods that could let them ride out a nuclear blast and travel through the Rift, why didn't anyone else bail out like that?

Cherno was designed without them - they win or they die. Crimson Typhoon rolled a natural 1 while Otachi rolled a natural 20.

[Flying Dice]

What I never figured out is why, if Gipsy Danger had ejection pods that could let them ride out a nuclear blast and travel through the Rift, why didn't anyone else bail out like that?

Cherno was designed without them - they win or they die. Crimson Typhoon rolled a natural 1 while Otachi rolled a natural 20.

I was talking more about Striker Eureka when Pentecost and Chuck were fighting Slattern; they armed the nuke for a suicide attack, but they had a good ten or twenty seconds of time between doing so and it blowing up at the very least, and they apparently didn't even consider bailing, despite having no clear reason not to. And they probably could have survived, too, given that the explosion was actually fairly underwhelming--at the very least, not much more powerful than Gipsy Danger's reactor overload. :|

[miauw62]

Honk spoilers.

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Well, the Marshall wouldn't have survived it anyway, what with the "if you step in a Jaeger ever again you'll die" thing, so for him it was a suicide mission anyway.

It was indeed stupid that they didn't bail out, though. Not much of Gipsy's blast would've went through the Breach, considering that it made Breach collapse.

[Hanslanda]

What I never figured out is why, if Gipsy Danger had ejection pods that could let them ride out a nuclear blast and travel through the Rift, why didn't anyone else bail out like that?

Cherno was designed without them - they win or they die. Crimson Typhoon rolled a natural 1 while Otachi rolled a natural 20.

I was talking more about Striker Eureka when Pentecost and Chuck were fighting Slattern; they armed the nuke for a suicide attack, but they had a good ten or twenty seconds of time between doing so and it blowing up at the very least, and they apparently didn't even consider bailing, despite having no clear reason not to. And they probably could have survived, too, given that the explosion was actually fairly underwhelming--at the very least, not much more powerful than Gipsy Danger's reactor overload. :|

'Fairly underwhelming'. It created a gigantic vacuum that was probably a mile or more across, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. A giant bubble of nothing big enough to completely and vastly engulf the fifty story tall robot.

[MaximumZero]

How good are these computers? Because I "live" near a Best Buy and their selection kinda sucks <_<;

I would also be willing to help you nail down the specs you want and then point you in the right direction, even without Best Buy. Also, the Samsung Ativ 8 is probably the best lappy we keep in store, but we can order $6k monstrosities.

 @ Hans: I'm probably going to build one of those in the future. Cost estimate for what I want is about $3.5k, but it's going to be obnoxiously overpowered.

[Descan]

http://www.logicalincrements.com/ There's also this.

[Flying Dice]

What I never figured out is why, if Gipsy Danger had ejection pods that could let them ride out a nuclear blast and travel through the Rift, why didn't anyone else bail out like that?

Cherno was designed without them - they win or they die. Crimson Typhoon rolled a natural 1 while Otachi rolled a natural 20.

I was talking more about Striker Eureka when Pentecost and Chuck were fighting Slattern; they armed the nuke for a suicide attack, but they had a good ten or twenty seconds of time between doing so and it blowing up at the very least, and they apparently didn't even consider bailing, despite having no clear reason not to. And they probably could have survived, too, given that the explosion was actually fairly underwhelming--at the very least, not much more powerful than Gipsy Danger's reactor overload. :|

'Fairly underwhelming'. It created a gigantic vacuum that was probably a mile or more across, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. A giant bubble of nothing big enough to completely and vastly engulf the fifty story tall robot.

Compared to Gipsy's reactor overload, which was apparently enough to fuck over a substantial portion of that alien planet/city/whatever, without any BS excuses like "lol it lit the atmosphere on fire" from Battlefield Earth? Yes. That was my point. Those magic escape pods let Mako and Male Lead Dude ride out that explosion and the Rift transit without dying, but they couldn't save Chuck (though yes, Pentecost was probably dead either way)?

[miauw62]

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Well you could probably argue that the Rift absorbed a large portion of the explosion.

[Flying Dice]

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Well you could probably argue that the Rift absorbed a large portion of the explosion.

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Unless my memory fails me, the reactor detonated before they reached the Breach/Rift/whatever, and they rode through on the shockwave.

[miauw62]

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Well you could probably argue that the Rift absorbed a large portion of the explosion.

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Unless my memory fails me, the reactor detonated before they reached the Breach/Rift/whatever, and they rode through on the shockwave.

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I think he reached the beginning of the Breach right before the reactor exploded. I'm not entirely sure either.

[Flying Dice]

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Well you could probably argue that the Rift absorbed a large portion of the explosion.

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Unless my memory fails me, the reactor detonated before they reached the Breach/Rift/whatever, and they rode through on the shockwave.

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I think he reached the beginning of the Breach right before the reactor exploded. I'm not entirely sure either.

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Meh, it's a minor point anyways, in the face of robot-monster facepunching.

[Sirus]

Considering that the apparent purpose of the kaijuu is

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to kill humans, one could argue that if Chuck and Pentecost tried to eject, the kaijuu would have gone after the escape pods. They were smart enough to target the pilots on previous occasions, and I'm sure that some previous Jaegar pilot had tried to escape. Worst case scenario: both pilots of Striker Eureka die anyway, and by pursuing the escape pods both kaijuu are far enough away from the detonation to survive and go after Gipsy Danger, instead of just Slattern.

[majikero]

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Face-punching all the kaiju with giant robots. That's all you need to know

[Hanslanda]

I personally like the part where

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The giant robot punched the giant monster in the face.

And then the part where the

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Giant robot threw the giant monster against a building.

But the part where

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Pentecost dies, Chuck dies, both the Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon die, the humans save the world by blowing up the rift after using the dead Slattern as a Borrowed Biometric Pass, and Raleigh and Mako survive. Oh. Real spoilers in this one, by the by.

Was pretty good too.

[Sirus]

(missed this in the Pacific Rim shenanigans)

How good are these computers? Because I "live" near a Best Buy and their selection kinda sucks <_<;

I would also be willing to help you nail down the specs you want and then point you in the right direction, even without Best Buy. Also, the Samsung Ativ 8 is probably the best lappy we keep in store, but we can order $6k monstrosities.

Mostly I just want something that can at least take a stab at running modern games with decent graphic settings, unlike my current model which stutters while running Half-Life 2 on bare minimum settings. For example, I saw a fellow trucker playing Skyrim on his laptop, and it looked and ran pretty well. He said it was somewhere around $500, but it was a gift so he didn't know the exact price.

On the other hand, I also want something that can run simpler, single-threaded games (like the game this community is most famous for). So not some 16-core, 1-Ghz-each monstrosity, but something with fewer, more powerful processors. I have no idea if these two goals are compatible