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Films — Live-Action
Sgt. Fanning: A troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance...
Lt. Colonel James Burton: And a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snow-blower, but carries enough ammo to take out half of D.C..
Lt. Colonel James Burton: And a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snow-blower, but carries enough ammo to take out half of D.C..
— The Pentagon Wars on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
Live-Action TV
"A good restaurant does one sort of food brilliantly. A bad one does fifty badly."
Video Games
"The lowest-rank Joblin contractor, the Sellsword is a jack of all trades, competent at none. He'll get the job done using the most generous definition of the word 'done', and then it's on to the next one."
— Joblin Sellsword Business Card, Going Under
"You must choose a path. No man can master two disciplines."
— Gouken, Street Fighter IV
Web Animation
"I mean seriously, I'm an archer that can't shoot, a fighter that can't fight, a healer that can't heal, a wizard that can't cast spells, does that sound like a broken character to you?"
— Abserd, Puffin Forest
Webcomics
"I took 1/11th of a level in all 11 classes!"
— Fumbles, Goblins
Web Original
"Stantler isn't as aggressively worthless on the battlefield as Hoppip or Delibird, but it's not good either; it has enough Attack and Special Attack to do some damage, but not enough to pose a real threat, and it has enough Speed to keep up with foes while it's not really capable of outrunning anything significant. It's just kind of there, really; not good enough to use, not bad enough to receive the vicious mockery afforded to Pokémon like Unown."
Web Video
"This is, to me, one of the downsides of multi-caliber guns, is... you're gonna be optimized for none of them."
"What's the opposite of a Renaissance Man? You know how people, when people can like act and sing and direct, like Donald Glover, people call him a Renaissance Man, MGK is like a Dark Ages Man. MGK is a Medieval Man."
"It's a game that's so horrified at the thought of losing one particular demographic that it attempts to appeal to them all at once. Do all of the things, don't let a single human being not be appealed to for God's sake. Guns, people like guns, lots of guns! Zombies? Throw 'em in! Explosions, gotta have those, stealth sections, runner bits like those iPhone games, helicopters for the Michael Bay fans, some story for story lovers, but not too much story so the other ones get bored, Christ what are you thinking! Vehicle bits for people what like them Grand Theft Autos, quicktime events, wrestling moves, arse, woman's arse! Ooh a cute boy face, yes! A T-Rex boss fight because Jurassic Park's still good, yeah? Cover system, more explosions, a first person bit, stuff from Ressy 1, stuff from Ressy 2, stuff from Nemesis, stuff from the Ressy remakes, stuff from Ressy 4, stuff from Ressy 5, it doesn't matter if any of this shit works well together or feels cohesive, just do it! Fucking do it! All! Oh God, does everybody like us yet? Does everybody in the whole world like us yet?"
"One really has to ponder Square Enix's increasingly opaque design ethos; you unfurl a majestic tapestry of fathomless possibility; go nineteen lightyears out of your way to tailor the experience to each player; and perhaps most impressively of all, you pair the player with an unrivaled retinue of supporting players, each with a fighting style as inimitable as a fucking fingerprint. And then, when the wheel of faggotry lands on Noctis? (mocking falsetto) "To hell with it, you can flip the fuck between their fighting styles like a crackhead on payday. Game design is hard!" ...if you insist on allowing me access to multiple fighting styles - instead of giving me access to all four - and watering each and every goddamn one of them down in the process, might I suggest that this ambition may be better served by allowing me to - oh, I dunno - play as the other FUCKING CHARACTERS!?"
Western Animation
"She knew my one weakness: that I'm weak!"
— Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, "The Great Wife Hope"
Miscellaneous
"In theory, the F-35 would show common purpose among the military services, since the Air Force, the Navy, and the Marine Corps would all get their own custom-tailored versions of the plane. In fact, a plane designed to do many contradictory things—to be strong enough to survive Navy aircraft-carrier landings, yet light and maneuvrable enough to excel as an Air Force dogfighter, and meanwhile able to take off and land straight up and down, like a helicopter, to reach marines in tight combat circumstances—has unsurprisingly done none of them as well as promised."
— The Tragedy of the American Military
, The Atlantic
, The Atlantic"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
