I think you’ve got it in one there. They simply couldn’t be bothered.
it’s either the solenoid or stem lube.
Can we for once just delete the sound effects of space battles? There is no sound in space.
Have they checked the wheelbase yet?
“It’s called fiction” isn’t a good response to “These are specific details that the writers got wrong.” It may not be important (it’s not), and you might not notice the mistake until someone else points it out because you don’t play the game (I didn’t and don’t), but if they’re going to use a real game like WOW it would be relatively easy to get the details right.
So you think it was crappy writing? 
But using a fictional game like “Mystic Warlords of Ka’ah” allows you to do whatever you want without making a mistake is some obscure rule
I think using the fictional game is just fine, but outside the scope of the thread. I just think saying “It’s called fiction” doesn’t work for the WOW example. (If njtt wasn’t talking about that, then my response was off-point.)
I find it hard to believe this is even true. Are you expecting us to believe that the writers had their characters go on an elaborate adventure, complete with slapstick ball kicking comedy gold, when they could just as easily and every bit as entertainingly had them fill out a form? I literally cannot think of any reason the writers would have chosen not to fix that mistake had it really happened.
Some sitcom (I thought it was Friends, but I can’t find a reference) had the character referring to a Fassbinder double feature which included Berlin Alexanderplatz. It was meant to be funny that they were going to something foreign/highbrow/boring and the name is foreign enough to amuse. Except Berlin Alexanderplatz was a 14-hour miniseries for German TV and wouldn’t be in a movie double feature.
I like to think sound effects in space are created by a computer in the cockpit and rendered in surround sound. For example, when an object is coming from behind, the computer will generate a sort of whoooOOOSSH sound with the proper frequencies filtered so it sounds like it’s coming from behind the pilot. This gives the pilot the ability to sense where objects are coming from without having to see them. It is similar to the surround sound in an IMAX theater being able to produce sounds all around the listener.
Right. And we can eliminate the musical score, too, because musical instruments aren’t playing to underscore the dramatic points of our lives.
“thes” should be “the”
I’ve read somewhere that they made up the game on purpose to avoid rules lawyering by wanking fans as has already been mentioned. The other stuff I read said that they tried to make the game internally consist and at one point the guys wanted to actually make and sell the game but the show or network or whatever wasn’t interested in it.
“is” should be “in”.
That sounds more like it would be on Mad About You, someting Paul would try to drag Jamie to.
To be fair, if you happen to know the actual person who hacked your account, and you think ball-kicking could accomplish the return of all your stuff, taking matters into your own hands could actually be the preferable solution, since reporting a hacked account means Blizzard locks it down so you don’t get to play that character until they figure it all out, which can take a while. If that is your main character, it might well be worthwhile to go off in search of wacky hijinx.
Yes, this is a fanwank I kinda like, (though if the sound comes with an outside-the-ship POV, then it has to be for our benefit.) I seem to recall it was even added into a scene in the PBS Star Wars radio play, where Han is teaching Luke how to fire the laser cannon for the Falcon. It does make sense. The human brain is not evolved for things like rear view mirrors to look at what’s behind you - but it’s evolved to map sounds in 3d, especially sounds coming from behind you.
The quote button is on the bottom of every post. It even says ‘quote’.
I hear that modern cars have more than one type of solenoid.
Indeed. Even today’s fly-by-wire controls give mechanical feedback to the pilot, even though there’s no need to other than that’s the way humans are used to flying airplanes!
What really honks me off is the use of fifty-star US flags in movies like The Eagle Has Landed. No, just because the flag in Larry Hagman’s office was draped around a pole doesn’t mean you can’t tell the difference between it and a proper 48-star flag. It was immediately obvious to me, and completely destroyed my suspension of disbelief.
The latest occasion I had for such a feeling was watching The Great Race on TCM. At the start of the movie, the crowds in New York are all waving 48-star flags. Oh, wow, I thought, they actually got it right!* At the end of the movie, the crowds in Paris are waving 50-star flags. Oh, crap, I thought, Alaska and Hawaii were added to the Union while they were on the road! :mad:
*Actually, I found out later, this wasn’t true. The actual Great Race (yes, there was one) was held in 1908, four years before Arizona and New Mexico were admitted to the Union. So there should have been only 46 stars on the flags, but hey—48 is better than 50!
It might have been a miniseries originally, but Berlin Alexanderplatz did receiving a theatrical run in the United States three years after its broadcast. The movie would be broken up over the course of several nights, so it’s possible that a theater would air the film within a set of four or five double features.