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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Thanks, and yes most of them exist in a universe I have come up with. I try to add a little something with each picture to fill the universe out.

Here's Imgur or Tumblr pages if you want a clearer review of all the images back to back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Not sure yet. The next piece of art will tell me.

 
 
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

"I'm going to need your badge and profiling notebook.

...and the ankle one."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

My favorite scene in Criminal Minds is when one of the heroes notices that a person fits the profile for the episode's kidnapping villain.

That's it, guy fits the profile. No screams from inside the house. No suspicious behavior. The justification for exigent circumstances is essentially "it appeared to me in a dream."

The hero picks up a potted plant to smash his way into the house and somebody else says "We have to wait for a warrant!" to which he replies "THERE'S NO TIME!" and jumps through the glass window into the house.

Insanity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Backface soft armor also catches spall, which can be very dangerous itself. Even ceramic plates can have a danger of ceramic shards. I believe modern ESAPIs, XSAPIs, and such modern plates are designed stand alone, but original SAPIs carried a warning that their rating was only in conjunction with soft armor.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

One time I got an "in between" job at a local business. The first day I showed up and the place made me sign a 17 page front and back NDA.

I've signed actual, legitimate NDAs. They are like 3 pages, max. Some people are just preposterous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He's not holding it in a proper position to fire right at the exact moment, he looks like he's either raising or lowering gun at the moment of the photo. Face would be much further back than you'd expect when firing, fully behind his firing hand.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (20 children)

I have observed that "very clever" people on the internet have a tendency to disregard solutions that are only partial, even if there is little to no downside to them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I'd think so too, but Columbine shooting was 1999. Movies still used it unironically for another few years. In media I think it mostly went away because it got parodied to death.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

This movie is exactly of its era. Blasting 80s nostalgia that's been filtered through a neon color grade with a snappy pace is exactly something that would come out in 2016.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There was also that short sliver of the late 90s through early 2000s where the slick black trenchcoat and sunglasses look was considered unironically cool.

The Matrix, Blade, Underworld, and Equilibrium all being in this era. Any movie where characters dress like this to be cool and it isn't treated with at least a wink to the audience probably either came from this time or is a sequel to something from this time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

John Wayne's 'The Green Berets' is an oddity. While it's not out of its time, since the 1960s was packed with war movies, the fact that it's a Vietnam movie rather than a WW2 movie gives it a surreal quality. It is filmed with the same tone, style, and music as something like 'The Longest Day' but it's about Vietnam making it a million miles away from the style of most Vietnam movies.

Standout scenes include a green beret ranting at a strawman reporter, and the scene where John Wayne smashes an obviously toy rifle to pieces.

 
 
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Shock (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 
 
 

I'm talking about a fan theory, that if true doesn't drastically upend the fundamentals of the fiction it is set in.

Mine is that in the American Dad episode 'Can I Be Frank With You', that Snot's uncle is actually just another Roger persona. He appears suddenly and conveniently to pitch a bizarre scheme, he loves hanging around with teen boys and doing drugs, and the very instant that the plan has a setback he kills himself out of sight of everyone else. That's just Roger in a suit and glasses.

Edit: Ok, so, people are having trouble with the word "inconsequential".

 
 
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