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How The [chat] Was Won
Bogart
Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
It's not a great film, but my God it's a great theme. Tom Hanks was on Desert Island Discs recently, picking a few records he'd want to keep forever, and this was one of them. It never fails to stir him, he said, and it's easy to see why.
The opening notes blare out and you can see the horse rearing up, a grim-faced man of action wielding a silver-handled colt on its back waving his hat. Wagons roll, hard-bitten women carve out a homestead, their man does what a man has to do, and of course there is the uncomfortable matter of genocide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBUOYybHC6w
The opening notes blare out and you can see the horse rearing up, a grim-faced man of action wielding a silver-handled colt on its back waving his hat. Wagons roll, hard-bitten women carve out a homestead, their man does what a man has to do, and of course there is the uncomfortable matter of genocide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBUOYybHC6w +6
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Because I killed the last [Chat]
I posted this and Geth immediately gave me a popup saying [Chat] is dead and it's your fault, meatbag.
Spot one test that doesn't run, so I re-enable it.
9/16 tests are green. Hooray, non-isolated tests!
Ostensibly because of his powers but I'd like to pretend it's totally because he's worthy.
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So, shit got real.
He does lift it!
But apparently that's only in the Ultimate universe.
There are always exceptions to every character's power, as the writer will insert a caveat about it not working on magic metal or something.
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Germanium and cobalt
"Magnetic metals, how do they work!"
This is the worst kind of ferromagnetic privilege
Wonder what Warren Ellis' spin would be on a Planetary version of Magneto. He did interesting stuff with the Fantastic Four analogues.
Yeah, and Magneto does a lot more than move metal too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_(comics)#Powers_and_abilities
He does stuff like attempt to reverse the polarity of the Earth, freeze people in place by controlling the iron in their blood (which is very silly) and point compasses the wrong way because he is a dick.
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...that turned stupid like, immediately
The Asgardian metal uru, apparently.
When he gets really imaginative he amplifies his power and reverses the Earth's magnetic poles. He's done this twice.
comicbooks :rotate:
why does he do that
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To be a dick
He wants to cause as much destruction as possible and kill a whole lot of people. The implication in the comics is that he's killed untold tens of thousands (minimum) each time*. But events like this are kept on the down low in comics, or he'd be a complete monster the readers wouldn't sympathize with anymore. And that's ignoring the fact he does things like this on the big and small scale through his super-villain career. That's why it's jarring whenever he joins the X-men.
* when he did it in Alan Davis run there were panels showing things like electronics dying in hospitals, airplanes mid-flight etc.
edit: This isn't new with Magneto, either. One of the earliest depictions had him steal a Soviet nuclear sub to use it as a weapon to destroy America or something. That guy wants to kill people by the truckload.
but instead of doing that, he reverses the polarity of earth's magnetic field.
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Is it possible in iOS to give someone a nickname but have Messages, for instances, show their real name? I just want the nickname there for like, another data point when searching or for autocomplete or whatever.
In at least one instance he pretty much just does it out of spite.
It makes me laffo every time because while I'm sure Garth Ennis isn't a talented engineer or physicist, I'm equally sure most of my friends aren't either
I do like comic books, as a matter of fact.
Comics!
reversal of the earth's magnetic field is a thing that happens regularly (or every now and then instead of regularly? I can't remember)