• 1 Post
  • 35 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: May 18th, 2024
  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoGames@lemmy.world•Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 - Official TeaserEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    I’ve been playing through Black Ops II again recently, what with it taking place this year. The story is such a step up from 1. From playing as Menendez to interviewing Woods, it feels like the main actors on both sides are fleshed out. The story is insanely prophetic.

    I mean, if you had asked me if BO2 or MW3 was more realistic back in the day, I would have said MW3 hands down. Yet Black Ops II’s plot centers around advancement in tech due to rare earth minerals mainly owned by China, mass scale drone warfare, and a cult of personality grown through YouTube.

    Realizing there were multiple endings was major for me as a kid, and I honestly get chills with every time I play it.

    This one is a lame attempt to recapture what people loved about the first two games. That’s what 5 and 6 were as well. Plus, the return of Menendez really dampens any excitement I would have had. If they can barely write Woods well, how are they going to write Menendez well?

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•The movie cars is crazy
    0·
    12 days ago

    Cars in Cars have also been shown to have complete control over their components, so I think crashes would be much more avoidable.

    Other than that, I don’t have much. They would probably take a lot of measures to stop crashes, designing their societies completely differently from us. But they didn’t, because it’s Cars. At the end of the day, if you’re looking for sound world logic from Cars… I have bad news.

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•The movie cars is crazy
    2·
    12 days ago

    Well, the whole act of tripping would be entirely different. Cars don’t topple over like we do because they have a wider base. So stumbling on the curb isn’t going to kill you.

    I don’t think much would change in day to day life. Cars can go fast, but they can also go quite slow. And cars travelling on the interstate would be going about the top speed of a cheetah, which is not an animal that generally falls over and cracks its skull while running. Plus, having your entire body be the car would definitely help you notice and prevent the hazards that would cause that.

    Also if we take deleted scenes into account, there’s a scene where the townspeople of Radiator Springs transplant Lightning McQueen’s consciousness into a steamroller - so clearly their society is advanced enough medically for it not to be a problem, or the cars’ consciousness is a specific part that can be changed out.

    Tap for sensitive content

    The only major change due to that specific factor I can think of would be people would probably try to commit suicide by running into walls, realistically.

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•The movie cars is crazy
    35·
    12 days ago

    We’re watching a blood sport in real life, too. NASCAR viewership declined as the sport got safer over the years following the death of Dale Earnhardt. Earnhardt dying at Talledega is like if Tom Brady got his spinal cord fractured by a rough tackle at the Super Bowl, but deaths on the track were common enough that you expected to hear of a few. After that, they really invested in safety and hardly anyone dies - and hardly anyone watches.