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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Pfft, what is with that lightweight shit?

Total time logged in: 224 days, 15 hours and 22 minutes.

>.>
<.<

Total time logged in: 345 days, 14 hours and 0 minutes.

446 days and counting v-(O_o)-v

Yes, yes, all very impressive, only...

Total time logged in: 781 days, 18 hours and 1 minutes.

It's alright if you find it...intimidating.  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

[helmacon]

Who is this master jifodius?

Also, 18 days 10 minutes

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

[Frumple]

At least twice the creature MSH is, that's what.

... you can always check their profile, though. Jifo hasn't posted much over the years.

[TheBiggerFish]

Total time logged in: 153 days, 5 hours and 12 minutes.

Not bad?

[Eric Blank]

Why the fuck do we keep coming back to comparing meaningless numbers like this

[Sirus]

Because people keep bringing it up.

Pfft, what is with that lightweight shit?

Total time logged in: 224 days, 15 hours and 22 minutes.

>.>
<.<

Total time logged in: 345 days, 14 hours and 0 minutes.

446 days and counting v-(O_o)-v

Yes, yes, all very impressive, only...

Total time logged in: 781 days, 18 hours and 1 minutes.

It's alright if you find it...intimidating.  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

*insert vaguely lewd comment here, I'm sure someone has some ideas*

[Flying Dice]

This reminds me how oddly interesting the starship troopers movie was.
The whole movie was played like a propaganda thing, they took the JOINING THE MILITARY AND TAKING PART IN THE INCREDIBLE GRINDER THAT IS THIS WAR IN WHICH TENS OF THOUSANDS DIE IN EVERY DAY IS THE BEST THING EVER and ran with it, completely straight. In no part of the movie do we get hints of real attempts at social critique or getting some moral point across, its just alien murder + college student friends movie. In the end, the characters become military officer badasses and its all shown as the best thing ever.

All those people that died? Nobody cares, aliens are dead.
Children holding guns in military ads? Nobody cares, aliens are dead.
Main character became exactly what his jingoistic sargeant was? Nobody cares, aliens are dead.

Its the kind of movie that you can watch again as an adult and apreciate how nutty it all is.

A shame, too, because it's on the whole much less interesting than the novel. That's how pretty much all of Heinlein's work was, interesting to consider even if you didn't necessarily buy what he was selling (free love and pseudolibertarianism, mostly). Certainly the Arachnids as described in Starship Troopers were more intriguing than the Zerg/Nid knockoffs from the films (and heaven help you if you watch the second or third). Not to mention MI being in power armor described (IIRC) as like a "hydrocephaletic gorilla" with pocket nukes and bombs that taunted the enemy in their own language. Pretty much no slugthrowers at all, either, just lots of flamethrowers and explosives.

Not to mention that, AFAIK, Heinlein bears prime responsibility for inventing the idea of drop-pods right alongside power-armored space marines. The whole thing is basically the starting point for a good chunk of the standard mil-SF fare that we assume as standard these days. It's a crying shame that the film gave us dudes in plastic costume carapace armor with generic grey brick rifles and bugs shaped like giant staple removers.

That, and dumbing down the training incidents. Went from one guy getting flogged for hitting a DI, another being hanged for going AWOL and murdering a kid, and Rico getting flogged for fucking up the handling of a simulated nuke(!) to "whoops Rico let a guy onto the live fire course with a loose helmet strap" (never mind that they were doing a live fire course with shitty partial armor-an inch lower and the helmet being off wouldn't have mattered anyways-or that in the novel one of the things they went out of the way to avoid was trainee deaths instead of embracing grimderp).

Enough of that ranting though.

There's a reason for all of that. Originally, it was written and under production as a completely unrelated film called "Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine", but then they licensed the Starship Troopers name. Not kidding.

Followed by Verhoeven reading about a third of the book and deciding it was "fascist trash" and discarding it.

Honestly, if there was ever a director that only had one or two good movies in him, Verhoeven was him.

Well that would do it, wouldn't it?

[Arcvasti]

Why the fuck do we keep coming back to comparing meaningless numbers like this

Because comparing meaningful numbers makes everybody feel bad to one degree or another.


"Awoo" seems to have incorporated itself into my speech patterns. Not sure if distressed or excited at the pawsibilities this entails.

[Dunamisdeos]

What the hell is an Awoo.

You kids and your words.

[Frumple]

Who knows what awoo lurks in the heart of man? The google knows!

[Sergarr]

What the hell is an Awoo.

It's awoo! A wolf onomatopoeia, made popular by, I think, a Youtube Touhou memetic video.

[pisskop]

coooookie crisp!

[Descan]

I've had my share of breaks, some over a year long. It's always a little unnerving coming back and finding that 60+% of the posters are people you have never heard of before.

I have been here literally every day that I have had internet access (i.e. barring visiting family or my laptop crapping out, things of that nature) since I started lurking in 2008, and joined in 2011.

[Yoink]

Let's all have a moment of peace for Orange Wizard.

* Yoink cries citrus-flavoured tears.

I also miss Catmeat, and various others... oh and Robocorn, but he's not actually banned. I should check his Tumbly-thing again sometime.    

[Rolan7]

I miss Catmeat too ):  And Orange Wizard.  I know they're still with us, though, in our hearts.