Avatar.

So I've got a copy of Avatar on my machine right now and I was thinking of doing one of these live blogging thingies. Any suggestions or recommendations? Or better yet, an explanation on what I'm supposed to do for these things?

Blah blah blah Smurfs meets Rambo blah blah blah.

Okay, five minutes in and he's already botched the space ship design. Putting crap in front of the solar panels was such a brilliant idea, nothing like cutting the source of energy on your space flight down.

Clearly Cameron has never seen a space shuttle come in from orbit. The come in belly down 'cause that's where the thermal panels are. You need the thermal panels for the burning friction.

Running the giant dump trucks through the landing zone of aircraft could never possibly get crap into the delicate turbine blades, oh no.

Also, is it really that hard to put some auto turrets on the dump trucks?

Is the head soldiers gun holster put on backwards? I'm pretty sure you want the butt of the pistol facing backwards.

"Naturally occurring carbon fiber" is not as tough as most people think. Quite stiff and crumbly though. Given the size of the arrows, the poison is just overkill, the arrow will tear enough off to kill you anyway.

edited 26th Aug '10 2:56:31 AM by Deboss

Doing science my ass.

What's the point of the joysticks on the control systems? And why do the little screens rotate like that? Old school monitors aren't too bad. Then again, the mass reduction would help a lot given the amount it costs to ship things interstellar distances. And what the hell is with the putting green? If you're going to do that, put it on the bottom level so the ball doesn't go anywhere important. And why is multilevel? That's a needless waste of material.

Did the management just berate the controller for doing his job instead of watching him putt?

The hell is this chicks problem? At least what's his face can follow orders and has combat experience. Even if she can't use him for sciencing, it's better than wasted materials. Bah, it's not like lab assistants are hard to come by.

So they have all this wireless crap floating around, but they can't design wireless sensors yet?

So the little chopper dealies don't have nose guns. He not only had to ignore basic design ideas for the Mini-Mecha, he couldn't even bear to look at IRL attack choppers for design ideas.

Are those thrusters on the back pointed up? Seriously?

Why the hell does the belt feed go over the shoulder? If you're going to do a belt feed into a large drum, put the drum on the side, wrap the belt around the elbow and feed it into a hardpoint locked gun. And a mk19 or fancy futuristic rpg launcher or something on the other shoulder to lay the smack down on anything can stand up to the cannon.

The big fucking knife is hilarious. If you want a back up blade weapon, make it a retractable one on the arms that still hangs off the side of the arm so they can use it like a machete. Give it a chain blade too.

Why the hell would you put the arms up like that. It's got to be incredibly awkward to control. This is an instance where an armored head unit would work wonders. Just make it a damn armored plate with cameras on it.

Okay, I like the SAW he's carrying. I'm not sure whether a drum was the proper choice or not but it still looks neat. The infantry rifle, does not. What's the point in making such a big boxy rifle and magazine? The bullpup design is neat, but lends itself to a much shorter barrel. Any stopping power loss can be made up with by using Armor Piercing and explosive ammo.

Fridge Logic, how does the door SAW gun fit both sets of hands? Did they put a super sized trigger and trigger guard on it?

Good to see some basic Gun Safety being followed by Sully. The other guy accidentally pointed it at the science chicks legs though, points off.

I take it back. He seems to be able to follow "don't point it at things you're not ready to shoot" but when he takes point, he looks high and keeps the gun low. You're on point motherfucker, keep that thing to your shoulder and where you're looking.

edited 26th Aug '10 3:30:02 AM by Deboss

Okay, pointing the gun at something that made sound, good. Did he get actual gun safety training or something?

Are those closed bipods or some sort of cooling plate? Points off Cameron.

Okay genius, messing with the local wildlife that can move faster than you can see is just epically retarded. You're a motherfucking guard, go back and guard. Boredom is good when you're a guard.

The rhino thing looks like it would have a lot of trouble getting it's beak anywhere near the ground to eat with that massive horn thing. And unlike a giant pole, it couldn't just turn it's head to the side.