The Nerd Thread (comics, movies, anime, cartoons, video games, lore, fun stuff, ect.)

@Zincy
 
“It just does.”

@Dustcan
 
It just does because of magical strings from alternate dimensions that produce anti-entropy.
 
 
Because I am a lunatic and this is how I spend my time.

@Dustcan  
That was hilarious.

@Zincy  
“A wizard did it”  
Or is it something like, the world is surrounded by a grid of energy that you can tap into to do supernatural stuff?
 
Edit: I didn’t read ahead

@Dex Stewart
 
The fact you guessed that without looking is unnerving lol.
 
More or less, but in this case there are strands of energy that manifest in different dimensions, and all drift through the prime material plane. Along with a native strand that is central to the plot.
 
In my story, mages can “see” (sort of) these strands and actually weave them together to create spells and imbue items with magical power. Others can still use magic, like Paladins who rely on their faith in a specific realm to manifest powers from it, but they are clunky and chaotic spells.
 
A Pally can summon a burst of light magic that will fuck someone up, effective but crude.
 
An actual mage could weave together strands to form a spiraling torrent of different elements, and control it through a throng of bad guys. Or create a golem out of the rocks around them, imbue it with a specific magic, and then control it with an extension of their will. Much more powerful, intricate, and effective. But also much more difficult and dangerous.

@Zincy
 
So basically The Banner Saga.

@Dustcan
 
Never played it, but always wanted to.
 
All of fantasy is iterative, hence why orcs and elves find their way into everything.

Did Star Destroyers have systems in place that would render the ship unusable or have its location constantly tracked in the event that it got captured/stolen by Rebels or Pirates?

@CaptainXtra
 
Not that I know of, no, since there were plenty of instances of them being hijacked or stolen.
 
 
There was a time in galatic history when an entire armada was programmed to jump into hyperspace, fly to a random point in space, and permanently disable the hyperdrive. Thus stranding literally millions of sentients in the unknown regions to slowly starve to death.
 
 
But, it was an armada of fascist religious zealots straight out of 40k so they deserved it.

@Zincy  
The grid idea cane from Power Rangers,back in MMPR Zordon talked about a “Morphin Grid” but it didn’t mean anything,it was just a cool name. Later on it was a grid of energy surrounding the earth,or the Universe. RPM confirmed that,and now Power Rangers loves using the grid a bit too much.

A random thought occurred.
 
In Japanese mythos, alcohol was used to defeat the 8 headed Orochi.
 
King Ghidorah from Godzilla was inspired by the Orochi. And in GvK Mechagodzilla was built using Ghidorah’s remains. And Mechagodzilla was only beaten when some spilled alcohol caused a short circuit.
 
I don’t know if that was intentional or not but that’s clever.

Every time I watch DS9 I wish that Q had come in and snapped the Prophets out of existence.
 
Worthless wormhole aliens who meddle with the life of a good man just for their own sake.

Speaking of Star Trek, “Insurrection” should’ve been a two-parter in TNG, not a feature film.
 
The third Next Generation movie could have depicted the Enterprise’s involvement in the Dominion War, if any.

@Background Pony #5859
 
Games Workshop has always been a litigious and fickle bunch of asshats.

@Zincy  
Yeah.  
Hope they backtrack.

they are supposedly working on their own animated shows, so they may see fan animations as a threat that could allow theft of their properties now that they are expanding into that market,

@Dustcan  
The Dorats that fused together to become Ghidorah were come up with by drunken Toho executives.

@Background Pony #5859
 
They won’t.
 

 
@Thanotos Omega
 
 
They make bank on the minis and sets already.

@Zincy  
yeah but losing control of any part of the property is bad for buissness, they could legit be worried that if they don’t defend against Text to speech being backed on patreon they could see other companies steal their IPs for commercial release, copyright law can be weird like that,

@Thanotos Omega  
It’s why Calvin and Hobbs ended.

@Zincy  
Any company can backtrack eventually.  
But, sadly true.

@Thanotos Omega
 
They take down text to speech and I’ll never buy another warhammer product again. They’ve already pissed me off with the recent stories.
 
 
The Warhammer YouTube community is a tightknit and dedicated bunch who have spent years celebrating their favorite franchise. This is a stab in the back of the fans that built their stupid empire.

@Zincy  
Tbf, you have to agree with Omega on this.

@Background Pony #7E7F
 
Actually I don’t. Copyright law is not as cut and dry as people think. It’s a myth that if you don’t defend, you lose all rights. Companies can be selective, and plenty of them have done so in the past. It requires the company to be proactive, and form relationships with the larger fan products. But it can and has worked in the past. An example is Team Four Star, who has forged relationships with the main rights holders of Dragon Ball.
 
Fan works do not siphon off cash from the main product. The very existence of fan works implies fans, of the works, whom will be consistent consumers of the product. If they were not fans of the product, they would have no interest in the fan work.
 
 
These works are a net positive to the company. They can be gateways for new fans, advertising opportunities, and a way to build good will with the fan community.
 
But greed and stupidity prevent companies from realizing how lucky they can be. The same shortsighted, myopic thinking that they use to justify stock buybacks and mass cost cutting campaigns.
 
As an organizational development specialist, it infuriates me. These companies forgoing obvious paths of longterm gain all for the sake of short term bullshit.