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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:08 pm
by Killer Cyborg
Somebody has been watching too much T.V.
Might make for a fun adventure or two though.
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:14 pm
by glitterboy2098
too much 80's TV.
modern cartoons tend to be violent, though not gory. people are allowed to die. and your allowed a real plot, not just "villan of the day".
thanks to Anime. Robotech turned the whole concept on it's ear. later imports kept the effect snowballing.
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:18 pm
by Nekira Sudacne
glitterboy2098 wrote:too much 80's TV.
modern cartoons tend to be violent, though not gory. people are allowed to die. and your allowed a real plot, not just "villan of the day".
thanks to Anime. Robotech turned the whole concept on it's ear. later imports kept the effect snowballing.
which is a damn good thing.
there's one thing that I kept not understanding when I was watching X-Men cartoon they ran in the mid 90's.
Wolverine has claws that can cut though anything....
SO WHY THE HELL DOES NO ONE EVER ACTUALLY GET CUT!?!
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:24 pm
by glitterboy2098
Nekira Sudacne wrote:there's one thing that I kept not understanding when I was watching X-Men cartoon they ran in the mid 90's.
Wolverine has claws that can cut though anything....
SO WHY THE HELL DOES NO ONE EVER ACTUALLY GET CUT!?!
because he never uses those claws against people, animals, or the like.
just the scenery. call it a holdover from the 80's.
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:07 pm
by Thinyser
glitterboy2098 wrote:Nekira Sudacne wrote:there's one thing that I kept not understanding when I was watching X-Men cartoon they ran in the mid 90's.
Wolverine has claws that can cut though anything....
SO WHY THE HELL DOES NO ONE EVER ACTUALLY GET CUT!?!
because he never uses those claws against people, animals, or the like.
just the scenery. call it a holdover from the 80's.
As George Carlin would say "Its the pussyfication of American Culture"
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:10 am
by Library Ogre
Was anyone else reading this and thinking "GI Joe Effect" in their mind?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:24 am
by Cinos
I'd kill myself if I found myself in one of those games... Most of my gaming sessions are at least as bloody and uneditied Japanese Anime (Imaging a Chimra taking a T.K leap hit and going into the negeitives equal to it's S.D.C.). Just makes things more, colorfull...(Even more so when I start to deal with M.D guns.
I did always love how the X-Man wolverine would always conventely miss human targets, mabye cutting a shirt, but then out came the sentenals, and he'd start lopping heads off.
Cinos
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:24 am
by cornholioprime
glitterboy2098 wrote:Nekira Sudacne wrote:there's one thing that I kept not understanding when I was watching X-Men cartoon they ran in the mid 90's.
Wolverine has claws that can cut though anything....
SO WHY THE HELL DOES NO ONE EVER ACTUALLY GET CUT!?!
because he never uses those claws against people, animals, or the like.
just the scenery. call it a holdover from the 80's.
Oh, it's much worse than that.
In the old days, Wolvie used to puch his Claws through every third Human Being, or so it seemed.....
And his Adamantium Claws, CAPABLE OF CUTTING THROUGH AND PIERCING ANYTHING, would stab clean through the Target in one thrust, but always,
always get stopped by the Person's ultra-flimsy Clothing.
Ah, the glory days of the Comics Code........
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:38 am
by Killer Cyborg
[quote="Nekira Sudacne"
there's one thing that I kept not understanding when I was watching X-Men cartoon they ran in the mid 90's.
Wolverine has claws that can cut though anything....
SO WHY THE HELL DOES NO ONE EVER ACTUALLY GET CUT!?![/quote]
I remember having the same problem with He-Man.
He has a magic sword that he uses constantly, but NEVER once just cuts or stabs anybody with it.
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:25 am
by grandmaster z0b
They get around it these days by making all the enemies robots, or evil aliens or monsters. Look at Samurai Jack, every enemy is a robot or monster so it's OK when he cuts them in half and gets sprayed with "oil" (read: black blood) as their bodies split into two pieces. It's the only way a western cartoon can look like an anime.
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:32 pm
by Library Ogre
grandmaster z0b wrote:They get around it these days by making all the enemies robots, or evil aliens or monsters. Look at Samurai Jack, every enemy is a robot or monster so it's OK when he cuts them in half and gets sprayed with "oil" (read: black blood) as their bodies split into two pieces. It's the only way a western cartoon can look like an anime.
Or the Voltron solution: Ro-beasts, which implies BOTH!
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:02 pm
by Thinyser
StormKnight wrote:Heh.
Yeah, those were hilarious. Especially GI Joe...a guy runs down a hallway with half a dozen people shooting at him and no one can hit!
I was joking with someone a while ago about making an "A-Team" style RPG set.
Instead of Hit Points, people would have "Cool Points" which they would lose when getting shot at and eventually have to give up when they ran out of cool.
Weapons would have a "Property Damage" score to indicate how well they can blow up scenery. Blowing up scenery impressively is good for knocking the enemies next to it down a lot of CPs.
Thats freaking great!
Don't forget to start everyone off with the jury-rig skill!
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:29 pm
by The Beast
I saw a wolf or coyote get killed on GI Joe once. But yeah, all the pilots would eat a missile, and still be able to eject afterwards.
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:46 am
by glitterboy2098
MaddogMatarese wrote:I saw a wolf or coyote get killed on GI Joe once. But yeah, all the pilots would eat a missile, and still be able to eject afterwards.
or they'd just eject instead of trying to throw chaff, Flares, or perform evasive manuvers.
interestng trivia, the orginal GI-JOE episodes didn't have that, but the american producers made the artists add people bailing out in time. something about "people can't die"
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:10 pm
by Traska
That's the reason I stopped watching Samurai Jack after about the sixth episode. Once I realized he was going to be fighting robots every... freaking... episode... it got real old real fast.
Re: Rifts, rated TV-Y for everyone
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:06 pm
by Warmaster40k
Kikkoman wrote:an example of such can be seen here-
http://youtube.com/w/Doozy-Bots-%28SD-G ... ozy%20botstrapping CS soldiers in a giant ball, then dumping them into the river, etc.
and remember, each Rifts party must have at least one of...
Black person
Disabled person (wheelchair)
Sports guy (only ones that involve riding something with wheels, like a skateboard or rollerskates)
a D-Bee may qualify as a black Person (like in Stargate)
You may also overlap, like having a disabled black guy, or a D-Bee skate boarder
Um no that was just too painful to whatch, But that earns Panziest thing I've seen this week, last weeks winner was this....
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2691933
Re: Rifts, rated TV-Y for everyone
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:06 pm
by Warmaster40k
Kikkoman wrote:an example of such can be seen here-
http://youtube.com/w/Doozy-Bots-%28SD-G ... ozy%20botstrapping CS soldiers in a giant ball, then dumping them into the river, etc.
and remember, each Rifts party must have at least one of...
Black person
Disabled person (wheelchair)
Sports guy (only ones that involve riding something with wheels, like a skateboard or rollerskates)
a D-Bee may qualify as a black Person (like in Stargate)
You may also overlap, like having a disabled black guy, or a D-Bee skate boarder
Um no that was just too painful to whatch, But that earns Panziest thing I've seen this week, last weeks winner was this....
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2691933
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:08 am
by Gomen_Nagai
makes me Glad we never saw that version of SD gundam, we Saw Superior Defender Gundam F91 ...