Posts Tagged ‘The September Issue’
… a couple of films that we wanted to see but overall I’m pretty happy with our agenda:
The September Issue – Tue 4 Aug 2009 | 07:15 pm
Moon – Thu 6 Aug 2009 | 09:50 pm
The Lovers – Fri 7 Aug 2009 | 05:00 pm
Mademoiselle – Sat 8 Aug 2009 | 02:00 pm
Black Dynamite – Fri 31 Jul 2009 | 10:30 pm
The Missing Person – Fri 31 Jul 2009 | 06:15 pm
It’s an interesting mix of films I think and I’m really looking forward to Moon and Black Dynamite!
Comment by MC: … that one is the one I’d like to see.
Tags: BIFF Black Dynamite Brisbane Brisbane International Film Festival Mademoiselle Moon The Lovers The Missing Person The September Issue
Staff weapon from Stargate
I was reading an article the other day regarding the staff weapons that are featured in Stargate SG1, the basic idea of the piece was that the staff weapon would be a very ineffective weapon for day to day use and that one would have to be trained from a very young age to be a skilled warrior with one.
There were all good points made in the article and I can see why the SGC (Stargate Command) wouldn’t want to change over from the weapons that they usually use which are Heckler & Koch MP5s (at least up till season four). But I can’t work out why they wouldn’t have swapped over to the other Goa’uld weapon that the team recovered.
Zat gun from Stargate SG1
The zat’nik’tel (Zat gun) which is a hand held pistol like device that has three degrees of effect when firing upon someone, the first shot stuns a person, the second shot kills and the third disintegrates. Apparently later on in the series they retcon (rewrite history) the disintegration part for some reason.
Even with the stun and kill aspect intact surely this is a superior weapon to the ones that SG1 carry around? One shot and a dude goes done? They make what appears to be half the noise of a machine gun and generally you can short out electrical devices.
It’s the problem I’ve seen over and over especially in but not limited to science fiction and it’s something that us gamers already know, if your enemy has a better gun or weapon and drops it, you pick it up and use it! Imagine playing Doom and looking at the BFG9000 and going nah, I’ll stick with my stupid pistol!?
Over and over in science fiction shows and movies the aliens have awesome weapons and we ignore them and don’t trade up.
I’m happy to entertain ideas though if anyone has any ideas on why in Stargate SG1 they don’t use Zat guns as standard issue?
Hi everyone, it would appear that my comments system Disqus has gotten a little trigger happy with some of your comments and I want to apologise to everyone who has had their comments disappear.
It was especially a problem when posting links to other items and some of you guys who have been commenting for years were automatically classed as spam and I feel more than awful about that as I missed a bunch of really positive and thoughtful comments.
To be honest I doubt I’ll be able to go back and find all of them that I haven’t read, I certainly doubt I’ll be able to now answer them all but I am disengaging the disqus comment system from the site. Fortunately it synchronises the comments and pretty much all the one’s that went missing are in my WordPress database still.
A couple of problems though:
- the threading does not show up and so all comments that already appear no longer fall indented under the intended comment – I have no idea how to fix this – it makes me really pissed off just thinking about it.
- all the spam and seo crap keyword comments are going to be back and frankly I’m possibly more annoyed by this and will spend some time going through and removing them.
- the reply button works but seems to drop you back to the bottom of the page (I’ll work this one out)
A couple of cool things though:
- the flying monkeys are back (if you don’t know what I’m talking about leave a comment with a valid email and you’ll soon see)
- commentluv is active again
So the grand experiment is over. I really liked the service and I think that I would still recommend it but it’s not for me as I get really picky about these types of problems. It should be said that it could be my fault somehow too but then that is probably a good reason to drop it as well.
Just a quick side note too, you may have noticed some advertising showing up on the site and a great way of supporting the site is by clicking on some of them and seeing where they lead, so please don’t be shy!
