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2019-04-20, 03:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2013
Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
Cop shows need a degree of certainty. You can't have too many plotlines where someone was declared kinda sorta maybe possibly guilty.
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2019-04-20, 03:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2009
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- Washington D.C.
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Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
Kinda maybe sorta is not guilty. They're supposed to get by on reasonavle doubt. Also that's a law show. Cop shows just need enough for an arrest, nobody cares about the verdict.
Im looking at you, "Law & Order" SVU, with you bare minimum lip service to the lawyer parts.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-04-20, 04:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2010
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- Toledo, Ohio
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Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
CSI is worse - the only reason any of the cases get closure is because the suspect is locked up with a guy saying "We know you did it, just confess already" until the suspect does so. Half the time even their magic evidence isn't very good.
Regarding hair specifically, using hair may well be a holdover from a pre-DNA time. A once heavily-lauded forensic technique (which is now thoroughly debunked) was "hair analysis", where you could supposedly match a hair to a specific person just like matching a fingerprint to a finger or a bullet to a gun.
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2019-04-20, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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- Iceland
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Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
Just how does Wonder Woman put those bracelets on? They are completely solid.
"Is this 'cause I killed the hippie? Is that even illegal?"
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2019-04-20, 05:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
They're also epic-level magic personally forged by a god. I'm more curious about how she manages to breathe in that top.
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2019-04-20, 06:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2009
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Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
Stealing all the soul gems from the Bosmer in Balmora while doing Ajira's missions "Hey guys, I'm going out a minute, please don't touch my 60.000+ worth gems while I'm away!" But it was cool to learn that creatures named "winged twilight" existed long before you met them, because there was a soul gem with one inside.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-04-20, 07:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2016
Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
"If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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2019-04-20, 07:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2012
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Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
Last edited by Lemmy; 2019-04-20 at 07:32 PM.
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Not all heroes wield scimitars, falchions and longbows! (I'm quite proud of this one ) - Lemmy's Homebrew Cauldron
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2019-04-20, 08:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2016
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- Canterlot, Equestria
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Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
Princess Celestia's Homebrew Corner
Old classes, new classes, and more!
Thanks to AsteriskAmp for the avatar!
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2019-04-20, 08:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
She does if she wants to talk.
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2019-04-20, 10:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2016
Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
One thing that has always really bothered me is the way hit dice, saves, skills, and attack bonus work in D&D 3.5e, and specifically the fact that they're so tightly correlated to each other. It makes no sense for a creature for a higher skillcap and will save just because it's big, or to be easily mind controlled because its small [or, for that matter, for a man whose practiced his profession all his life to not be able to improve his skills because he can't also swing a sword or take a punch (or conversely for him to be able to swing a sword and take a punch because he has gotten better at his skill)]. They unnecessarily overextrapolated from the concept of character levels instead of assigning stats that make sense. Also its even more jarring that in many other editions the monsters are all unplayable standees whose stats are technically non-formulaic by virtue of the fact that half of them are missing entirely
"If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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2019-04-21, 02:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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- Cippa's River Meadow
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Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
In the most recent movie, they have straps on the inside:
Spoiler: Gal Godot as Wonder Woman
I have no idea how Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman's cuffs stayed on, nor how the comics series does it.
I was more concerned how she managed to stay in that top while fighting, until my wife reminded me of body tape.
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2019-04-21, 02:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
Body tape didn't exist when Marston created her. Somedays, I wonder if body tape was invented by early cosplayers trying to get the standard superheroine uniform to stay put.
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2019-04-27, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2013
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- The Chi
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Re: Small things that break you suspension of disbelief or immersion
Only after painfully trying to use conventional tape for the same purpose.
The laws of physics are not crying in a corner, they are bawling in the forums.
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