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Let's do some science
- In Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi novel Rendezvous with Rama the Centrifugal Gravity shouldn't work the way it does. There is really no such thing as centrifugal force - only inertia. Nothing wants to change its trajectory so it is constantly pushing on the inner side of the wall which in return is pushing the thing towards the center.
- So unless you're in physical contact with the spinning object you shouldn't be subjected to pseudo-gravity regardless of your position. You (or any other object) could literally hover an inch "over" the surface and it would "run" beneath you as long as you wouldn't touch the "ground" or collide with some obstacle sticking out of it. Of course there's some atmosphere inside Rama and since it's affected by its rotation, the drift should eventually push you towards the surface.
- Still James Pak wouldn't have to care too much about his altitude when flying the Dragonfly to Rama's "south pole". Sure he'll have to mind the air current but that should be quite low around the center. Actually the atmosferic pressure should be rather low there too, since most of the air is "being pushed" to the ground by its momentum/inertia. Which would have made breathing more of an issue than the risk of losing altitude and crashing.
- Speaking of James Pak it is stated that his only interests are ''sport'' and ''sex'' and ideally combined together. How the Precision F-Strike does anybody achieve that?
- In Portal 2 remember how you shoot the Moon, you see a twinkle and then the portal opens? This is wrong. Assuming the connection between portals is faster than light the pathway should open 1 second before you see the twinkle since the light is travelling in normal space. Or is it an incredibly slow portal?
- Let's just go over this one step at a time. Assuming the ASHPD "projectile" moves at the speed of light:
- t=0 you shoot the gun.
- t=1 the projectile hits the Moon, portals are connected and the flash of light begins traveling back.
- t=2 the flash of light reaches Earth surfacenote .
- See how it works?
- Also regarding the following events - Wheatley and the Space Core are sucked through the portal into outer space and after the credits finish rolling we see both aforementioned spheres happily orbiting each other. Except weren't they launched from the Moon?
- Even though Moon's gravity is only one sixth of Earth's it is still a force to be accounted with. The push of the escaping atmosphere simply wouldn't give the cores enough momentum to even reach Moon orbit. Its gravity would promptly turn them back and probably with enough speed that they would smash against the surface. Sorry Wheatley but you should be dead now ... not that you were really alive in the first place.
- Let's just go over this one step at a time. Assuming the ASHPD "projectile" moves at the speed of light:
- Isn't it funny how in Strategy Games (especially real time ones) viewed from above you hear the sounds of your units exactly the moment they perform the respective actions? Have you ever considered that you're watching them from at least several hundred meters above? Now bear in mind that the sound also travels at a finite velocity - a very finite one (it varies with the conductor/environment but there aren't much strategies taking place underwater). In common Earthly air it's about 334 meters per second. So as long as you're floating at least 100 meters above ground you should certainly notice at least slight delay between seeing your tank fire its gun and actually hearing its noise, don't you agree?
Tropes launched
Working on:
Works pages started
...and still maintain most of them.
- Angry Dog
- Azure Sheep
- Combine Nation - moved under different namespace by Graf von Tirol
- Devastation
- Draconus
- Fragile
- Half-Life: Invasion
- Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.²
- Indigen
- Lazerman
- Nanook's Great Hunt
- Point of View
- Retardo and the Iron Golem
- Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse with a great deal of help from Endark Culi
- Wire Lips
- World's End Touring
Under construction
- Help is greatly appreciated.
What I expected/got
Sorted in roughly alphabetical order:
- What I saw: Black★Rock Shooter
- What I expected: Troubled "Romantic" Two-Girl Friendship
- What I got: Middle-schoolers have severe psychological issues.
- What I saw: Bocchi the Rock!
- What I expected: Absurdness akin to Detroit Metal City
- What I got: "Ah ... Irashaimase ... A-ta-ta-ta-taa..."
- What I saw: Long Riders! anime
- What I expected: Girls riding bikes. Nothing more, nothing less.
- What I got: CYCLING IS LIFE! JOIN US!
- What I saw: Porco Rosso
- What I expected: Airborne Walking the Earth show
- What I got: Sentimental life story of a rogue Ace Pilot
- What I saw: Saki
- What I expected: Les Yay
- What I got: Mahjong is SERIOUS BIZNESS!
- What I played: The Sandmannote
- What I expected: Something at least a bit scary.
- What I got: Nothing Is Scarier turned into comedic fairy tale.
- What I saw: Softenni
- What I expected: Something at least remotely resembling a sports anime.
- What I got: Batshit insane softcore porn.
- What I saw: Soul Eater
- What I expected: A bunch of Ax-Crazy teens slaughtering each other for the lulz.
- Wha I got: BAKAME!
- What I saw: Yuru Camp
- What I expected: Anime version of Camp Weedon Wantcha
- What I got: Another generic moe Iyashikei
Favorite Tropes
Sorted alphabetically, YMMV and Trivia included.
- Antagonist in Mourning
- Apocalypse Wow
- Awesome by Analysis
- Black Comedy
- Bluff the Eavesdropper
- Bluff the Impostor
- Blunt "Yes"
- Brutal Honesty
- Butt-Monkey
- Cassette Futurism
- Celebrity Is Overrated - and it's true. What's so funny about worshiping or gossiping about artificial idols anyway. It's just boring and annoying.
- Childhood Friend Romance
- Children Voicing Children - an adult woman can never make it sound authentic, often resorting to use high-pitched voice which sounds just off. In the end only an actual kid can make minor character sound like a minor character.
- Close-Knit Community
- Cool Old Guy and Cool Old Lady for the sheer juxtaposition of an elderly character being genuinely smart or badass.
- Cool Train
- Crosses the Line Twice
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass - isn't it just awesome when a seemingly total loser wipes the floor with somebody looking several times stronger?
- Cruel Twist Ending
- Deadpan Snarker
- Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
- Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes
- Drone of Dread
- Daylight Horror
- Easy Level Trick
- Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
- Fish Eyes - they look too darn funny.
- For Science!
- Four Lines, All Waiting
- Gameplay Derailment
- Girl on Girl Is Hot
- Giving Up the Ghost
- Gut Punch
- Heartbeat Soundtrack
- Horrifying the Horror
- Hyperlink Story
- Hypocritical Heartwarming
- Ignore the Fanservice
- Innocent Fanservice Girl
- Insane Troll Logic
- Iron Butt Monkey
- Aversions of Just Train Wrong
- Kill It with Fire
- Laser-Guided Karma
- Martial Pacifist
- Mind Screw
- Minor Living Alone
- Muggles Do It Better - because magic and superpowers ain't always everything they're cracked up to be and let's be honest - they're freakin' overrated.
- Negated Moment of Awesome
- Aversions of No Biochemical Barriers
- Nothing Is Scarier
- Offhand Backhand
- Parents as People
- Perspective Flip
- Plank Gag
- Poor Communication Kills
- Rape by Proxy - for Science, especially if it's GirlOnGirl.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here
- Sequence Breaking
- Rare female examples of Shirtless Scene and its walking expansion.
- Shocking Moments
- Slapstick Knows no Gender
- Status Quo Is God
- Stripped to the Bone
- Suicide as Comedy
- Surprisingly Sudden Death
- Surreal Horror
- Surreal Humor
- Taste of Power
- Token Yuri Girls - because the relationship being out of focus makes it secret and thus more valuable (unfortunately now it's defunct)
- Tranquil Fury
- Truck Driver's Gear Change
- Unbroken First-Person Perspective - this mechanic enables incredible immersion in the gameplay.
- Uncanny Valley Girl
- Undignified Death - you may think that death can be glorious especially when trying to pull off a Heroic Sacrifice. This trope is here to prove you wrong.
- Vaudeville Hook - This stock comedy trope never gets old.
- Verber Creature
- Victorious Childhood Friend
- Villainous Valor
- Well, This Is Not That Trope
- Wowing Cthulhu: If you manage to amaze an Eldritch Abomination you're quite a feat regardless of how did you achieve it.
- Xeno Fiction: There's just too much humans in fiction. Why not make a work that doesn't feature any? Or at least not in significant roles.
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
- Your Head A-Splode: Just because of how absurdly hilarious it is.
- Youthful Freckles - especially on girls
Tropes I absolutely hate
I don't like posting this but these tropes just grind my gears too much.
- Apocalypse Maiden - while it certainly does add drama to the plot, I'm not a fan of the "Law of Inverse Lethal Magnitude". In other words, this trope is an insult to all truly destructive forces which actually kind of earned their status.
- Because Destiny Says So - I know that some things cannot be affected by free will and the universe is steered by far greater forces, but insisting on some specific outcome of events is just plain dogmatic crap. I rather prefer the universe being a total chaos.