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[PA Comic] Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - Ouroboros Or Whatever
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LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
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Funny aside, they would keep coming up to me thinking I was a second year dramatic arts student and out of the blue ask me things like "How do you do a Texas Accent" (by the way I am Canadian) and because I was curious and the people asking were often attractive young women I would help. Finally when they found out they laughed to tears and embarrassment while I applied "well a B.E. is 'a bachelor of everything' (engineering is considered the "cool" collage at my University).
At a big party they wanted to do this skit that had a generic set of movie heroes that were like Conan and Indiana Jones and so on. At one point a crabby professor starts chewing them out for mistakes that they made like running from things that are rolling in one direction when they could just walk a few steps to one side. I played the Professor with little prep and ended up scarring the other actors when my charater "lost my temper" at the others.
It got allot of laughs and ended up with me getting harranged by a member of the drama program to take elaqution lessons and "quit wasting my time and do something creative". I thought engineering was the definition of being creative. ;P
The ending, though, reminds me of
(the question in the comic comes up at 3:05)
So, so true
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"Holy shit, a large alien snake which looks like a penis and appears to be threatening us!... It looks so cute, let's pet it."
Looks more like a bicycle tire to me.
Or a very, very moldy onion.
But think about the overall plot and gets even worse. The whole thing started when ancient civilizations had a starmap pointing them to a certain planet, right? But it turns out that the planet was an alien <i>bomber base</i>. The aliens had set it up purely to store bombers full of WMDs (as the ship's captain explains at one point).
Why point people there, of all places? Unless they wanted to kill us, in which case, why not just kill us instead of leaving a series of silly clues?
If that scene was your biggest problem with the movie, then it seems you're really just picking nits with it.
I'll also point out that, in the movie, both routes were taken by the survivors. One was crushed when it rolled over them, and one was saved by plot armor after it fell on top of them and almost crushed her. That thing was friggin massive, there's no guarantee for them that running to the side would have gotten them out of the way.
That would make Prometheus awesome if the circle chased them.
It was not my biggest problem with the movie. My biggest problem was
Also, we both seem to remember the crash scene a bit differently. I don't remember anyone taking the route suggested in the comic. I remember
No, you're right. They were both running the same direction. One fell down, apparently hitting her head and having an epiphany, and proceeded to roll about six feet to the side to safety.
Alternatively, it did seem in character for that first guy to take his helmet off. I would have loved it if he died almost immediately as a direct result. Then everyone else would keep their helmets on no matter what.
It's a callback to the original Alien trailer.
Also movies where someone ion foot is being chased by some in a car and the run down the friggin' street. Terminator was especially bad.
we must get the word out.
Given this, what is the optimal direction? It is given by Vt/Vl=d/a. In other words, rather than running perpendicular to direction of OID's travel, you run perpendicular to the line between you and OID's edge. If OID is really far away compared to its width, then you need to mosey out of the way in perpendicular direction as indicated in the graphic. The rate of moseying being directly proportional to OID's speed. If, on the other hand, you are a world famous archaeologist running from a giant boulder that's practically on top of you, running in perpendicular direction is a very bad idea. You have better chances of outrunning it. Not that you shouldn't be trying to run slightly diagonally if there is room for that.
So. That's not really the call either. ;D
In all fairness, they started running when it was falling out of the fucking sky. They didn't know it'd start rolling, and once you start, you're hardly gonna stop for a good ol' assessment of which way it's going, are you? :P
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The comic made no sense to me until I came in here to find out the context.
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Personally, I was too busy staring at the peculiar ring-shaped object trying to figure out what it was to even take much notice of the arrows. Had to come read the thread for context to get any understanding of this comic at all.
But I have pretty much completely ignored Prometheus and all things related to it.