docbuzzard

I know it's easy to assume that whomever you are arguing with knows nothing about the topic, but don't do that here.

No, it was because they showed up in dramatic poses in dramatic locations all over the superstructure. Maybe you don't have an issue with 70+ year old people climbing all over the superstructure, but I do.

If they had just showed up walking on the deck, I would have been OK with it. I understand how the floating museums work. However they had to make it over the top, much like everything else in the movie.

The aliens can't just switch a hand weapon, they have to fiddle with it for 3 minutes making lots of transformer noises and it has to shift around. If anyone made a weapon system that inept, they would deserve to lose any and all wars.

Then when the excrement hits the ventilator the aliens send in the killer yo-yos instead of the appreciably more sensible and efficient lodging explosives. Had they just done that everyone on the destroyer would have been shark bait, and they wouldn't have lost.

Oh, and then there's the alien ships with they oh so efficient method of transport- flopping across the surface of the water. Yeah, that's brilliant. Why didn't we ever think of that? (well maybe since it's an asinine way of wasting energy).

Those are certainly valid as well. The fact that there was ammo belts present for the mounted machineguns was particularly over the top.

Then you had the people trekking the shell across the ship. That's wasn't all young guys, and they didn't really go with any 80-90s era veterans of the ship. 70+ year old people are not likely to be all too good at hefting that much weight (heck we can say 60+ if we assume Vietnam era as well, but still that's pretty old for that kind of labor).

How about whipping the ship around on an anchor? Don't think physics works that way.

Look, I could attempt to think back and pick apart every stupid part of that movie, but honestly it's just not worth my time. I attempted to back off and agree to disagree. You didn't want that. Look, IMO the movie was a horrendous bowser. You liked it(even if you can help pick it apart). As they say YMMV. We're no more likely to agree here apparently than we are as to whether chocolate or vanilla is better.

Yeah, big fat meh here. HISHE is funny when they actually have an alternate ending rather than just sitting around nitpicking at the end.

It is readily apparent that we're not going to agree on this, so I won't bother to try an explain why I thought it was contrived.

Honestly I'm actively trying to forget the movie as is.

Well it doesn't get sunk, so there was no call for it.

Admittedly this was probably poor planning.

I would have liked the sceen had it not been so contrived. The whole appearing at random places in the superstructure just made it over the top. I appreciated the sentiment, but it was very poorly executed.

That was really the problem with a lot of the movie. Not all the ideas were bad, but the actual execution of getting them on the screen usually fell through.

That's a complicated matter actually. But to keep it simple, the original Captain Marvel was owned by Fawcett comics. DC eventually managed to get the character off the shelves with a lawsuit (saying he was to similar to Superman). Eventually DC purchased the rights to the character. However in the interim Marvel introduced their own Captain Marvel and has kept the name active since thereby holding legal right to it. The DC Captain Marvel has thus been referred to as Shazam in comics titles and such (I think they made it his general name recently).

There have been more than one Captain Marvels from Marvel over time since they did kill their first one (and bring him back eventually I believe).

Heck, that's a tiny sample size compared to the total roster. It would be a chore to list all of them. However Wikipedia has the whole list here

Actually crabs and huntsmen make better superteams than widows. The widows lack the resistance debuff ability, and will have just as much defense with their toggles (cheap toggles at that).

Yes, they are 5, 7, and 10 seconds, but even the 5 seconds is theoretically enough for the single target chain to stack up once (for a 60% debuff per defender).

I can remember back when SoAs were first introduced. Everyone built one and started running them. It was essentially like superteams, but without any serious coordination. Leveling was stupid fast with all the stacked team buffs and debuffs.

That's not exactly a force multiplier. That's a synergy though. It would make for the team being extremely safe, but it doesn't make things die any faster.

Let's look at the math for a rad/sonic defender team for force multiplication.

Each member pops accelerate metabolism. This gives everyone a 200% damage boost, a 240% recharge boost, and a 240% recovery boost. Everyone is now damage capped, well past perma hasten, and has endurance to spare (which is good since you all run choking cloud which is a pig).

So assuming everyone has hasten (it's a superteam, builds should be predetermined) recharge will be sitting at +310. Thus if a power is slotted purely for recharge, you peg the cap (which is +400% where everything recharges in 1/5 the time).

Say you add in leadership toggles:
Assault: every member now has +144% more damage. This means you're at +344%, well past the defender cap, so you don't even need to slot damage SOs. Heck, might as well just do an accuracy and recharges.

Add in maneuvers, and everyone is basically softcapped. Throw in tactics and you'll ignore any defense in front of you. A MoGing Paragon Protector is now a joke.

Now you're all sonic blast. So say everyone throws down a Howl -everything is going to be hit for 116 damage the first time. I know, ho hum. However that initial blast just did -160% resistance debuff. Next time it does 300 per (2400 aggregate to each of 10 targets). Howl is recharging in 2 seconds at this point. However I don't believe its debuff will self stack (someone can correct me if I'm wrong). Then again how often do you need to hit a bunch of separate targets for that kind of damage? A group of bosses would have melted under those two volleys.

If you move to the single target attack chain shriek-scream-shout (seamless at this recharge), you do an initial 120, 478, 1276 (total: 1875 per). Next volley is now at the resistance debuff cap (400%) will be for an aggregate of 3040 damage (this assuming everything is fast enough keep the debuff stacked which is theoretically possible given the numbers). Thus you have pumped out around 39K damage in 13.66 seconds. Reichman becomes a speed bump.

Now mind you, we haven't even brought out the -240% debuff possible from enervating field. I imagine that's kept for compensating for the purple patch (for when you mow down +5 AVs). It also debuffs damage. Add in radiation infection, and nothing hits you (but heck, you're already softcapped).

I assume you get the idea. If you want to break the game into little pieces and roll over it, stack buff/debuff.

While that brute squad would likely do fine, the stacked force multipliers would simply be better. It's just how the game works. Stacking the buffs and debuffs is how you break the game. A pile of brutes is a linear accumulation of power. Adding together force multipliers ends up exponential, as every addition increases the power of every prior one.

The real superteams are buff/debuff.

Arguably a /shield defense team can be force multipliers to en extent because of phalanx fighting and grant cover, but then people can softcap the set without that so you're only saving on sets (or opening up for more recharge).

The whole 'strong and pretty' thing lost most of the wind in its sails when both sets were buffed to be top performers.

Yeah, I had thought of those since you can do much higher -resist, but I prefer the durability of crabs, and they get some more area from their AOEs. The huntsman team would kill faster as you say though.

Instant ---hole, just add gamma radiation?

OK, didn't realize it was that high. Nevermind then.

Why do I have a feeling that a Sgt Rock movie would probably end up being about as good as the Jonah Hex movie?

Hmm, that's a good idea. Never thought of it. I could see that as more likely to work. Hope they have plenty good lawyers though. The notion that the company holds no liability is hard to come by it the U.S. legal system.

Or perhaps the U.S. Military prefers to help with films that are portraying the actual U.S. Military (no matter the context). As the article stated, they weren't quite sure what the heck SHIELD actually was. It's not like the movie defines it particularly well for that matter.

The cars do have sensors of various types and pattern recognition coupled with object avoidance. You're not going to slam into something in front of you as long as the system is working. Google is not staffed by idiots.

Actually I can remember some of the preliminary work on self driving cars back when I was an undergrad. It was a defense contract so it was a humvee which was set up to drive itself. Back in those days it had a bunch of Sun workstations in it, and drove itself around the local park at a walking pace. Things have come a long way.