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  • edited 2012-05-22 11:21:27
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    He even said in thor that he would pay a visit to Thor's pals on earth.

  • Definitely not gay.

    So basically mindcontrolling him would be completely redundant if you wanted him to take over the world.

  • You can change. You can.

    Yep. I think a lot of it is simply the argument that all Loki wants is appreciation by his father and that Thor and Odin are a buncha dickbags for not giving him some loving. 


    Regardless I think that the other argument (That Loki's a weak villain) bothers me more than that. The other one is just histrionic bullshit. This one is just based on this need for supervillains to always be the final adversary in a movie and shit.

  • Definitely not gay.

    "Weak"?


    In what sense?

  • He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    I think a lot of it is simply the argument that all Loki wants is appreciation by his father and that Thor and Odin are a buncha dickbags for not giving him some loving. 



    Isn't Loki's tragedy that he percieves Odin's and Thor's love as pity?

  • You can change. You can.

    "Weak"?


    In what sense?



    In the "He's not really controlling everything, why isn't he the top threat by the end" kinda way. Which is...well, kinda stupid because everyone knows that Loki's whole deal is sitting behind and let others do the dirty work



    Isn't Loki's tragedy that he percieves Odin's and Thor's love as pity?



    Pretty much, but people keep insisting that Loki's problems would be solved were it not for the fact that Thor and Odin (supposedly) kept him at arm's lenghts, which doesn't make sense since they treat him as if he were family because, for all intents and purposes, regardless of his origin, he is family.

  • Definitely not gay.

     


     the turian military has formidable discipline, strategy and training making their fleet the single largest portion of the Citadel Fleet. Their fleet is also allotted the single largest number of dreadnoughts by the Treaty of Farixen, having 37 as of 2183 and 39 as of 2185, as a point to their fleet's service as galactic peacekeepers and position as the primary military arm of the Council.


    The asari possess the largest single economy in the galaxy. They have extensive trade and social contacts. Craft guilds, such as those within the cities Serrice and Armali, hold a virtual monopoly on advanced biotic technology. Given their political influence, an embargo by the asari would prove disastrous to the Alliance.


    The salarian economy is the smallest of the three Council races, but still far larger than the Alliance. It is based on "bleeding-edge" technologies; salarian industries are leaders in most fields. They make up for a lack of military quantity by holding a decisive superiority in quality.



     


    Man, aliens in ME are so superior to humanity that it isn't funny. No wonder they don't get a Council representative: humanity just fucking sucks.


    I have yet to see a form of media that has humanity being anything but really inferior to other alien races.

  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    The aliens aren't really inherently superior; they just have a headstart of several thousand years.


    Actually, given that humanity gets a seat on the council within 200 years of finding the Mass Relays, I'd say it's them who are portrayed as unrealistically awesome.

  • Definitely not gay.

    Yeah, but what do they do? Each race except humanity is exceptionally good at something.

  • edited 2012-05-22 12:08:01
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Because they've spent thousands of years getting exceptionally good at something, while Humanity hasn't even had electric lighting for three centuries.

  • Definitely not gay.

    Point.

  • He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    The Tau'ri of Stargate top the Mass Effect humans in that respect even.

  • Definitely not gay.

    Also, it's kind of hard to not imagine Dead Space being an AU of Mass Effect.


    The Marker could be a much, much simpler version of the Reapers (in that it is capable of being reproduced by humanity) because really, aren't Necromorphs similar to Husks?

  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    It's been awhile since I've played, but wasn't the marker's function to contain the necromorphs?
  • Definitely not gay.

    Well 


    fuck, there goes one part of my theory.


    The madness induced by the Markers could be a more primitive form of indoctrination, though.

  • You can change. You can.

    Man, why is this cartoon actually borrowing from Civil War of all things

  • Definitely not gay.

    ^ Don't you mean Secret Invasion?

  • You can change. You can.

    I thought the Negative Zone prison was a Civil War thing.

  • Has friends besides tanks now

    Went and got Brutal Truth's End Time. Given that it's grindcore, there aren't many individual tracks that are noticeable, but it's incredible to listen through. Also, SOAD's Mezmerize. More good stuff, and it's a damn shame they broke up, when they were making music like that.

  • edited 2012-05-22 15:27:46
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    They're actually sort of back together, now. And there's been talk of a possible new album.
  • edited 2012-05-22 15:39:41
    Has friends besides tanks now

    Oh. Neat.

  • Champion of the Whales

    I have yet to see a form of media that has humanity being anything but really inferior to other alien races.


     



    The Earth Alliance on Babylon Five have to rotate their space ships to create gravity and they got pasted against an alien race in the backstory.

  • Well, on summer break now.  Which means I actually have consistent access to a computer now, so... yay?

  • You can change. You can.

    Stupidest things I’ve done to myself: Reread that Spider-Man issue where he meets with the Fantastic Four and they remember Johnny


  • I'm a damn twisted person

    Hey it ended on a high note with all of them remembering what Johnny meant to them and deciding to honor his memory. 

  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Question to those with better knowledge of modern non-classical music genre names:


    How accurate is it to say that the difference between metal and rock is that metal more frequently features the electric guitar as a melodic instrument?

  • You can change. You can.

    Well, yeah, but still, man that speech at the end.


    Just...that speech.

  • edited 2012-05-22 17:10:17
    You can change. You can.

    goddamnit double post

  • edited 2012-05-22 19:00:40

    Pretty much, but people keep insisting that Loki's problems would be solved were it not for the fact that Thor and Odin (supposedly) kept him at arm's lenghts, which doesn't make sense since they treat him as if he were family because, for all intents and purposes, regardless of his origin, he is family.



    There's also basically the fact that Loki's the sort of person who always blames someone else; blame Odin for killing his father and taking him in, blame Laufrey for his bad genetics, blame Thor for hogging all the glory, blame Asgard for having an unrealistic warrior ideal, blame the Avengers for beating him that one time and dooming his life into failure...


    In certain ways, he is right that all these had a hand in molding him, but he chooses to focus on what others have done to him instead of what he can do to and for others. 

  • Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    Okay I'm watching the old 1994 Spider-man cartoon and it's supposed to be terrible, but so far I don't see what's so bad about besides lol ninties animation.

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