Discussion Main / SchrodingerFu

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Name doesn't seem to fit the trope, started by BonsaiForest on Feb 23rd 2011 at 3:39:17 PM

This isn't a good example of a fighter with random movements. It's shoehorning in something rather off-topic. It's also natter-bait.

• Particularly dangerous in so-called Mutually Assured Destruction scenarios (like the nuclear stand-off of the Cold War), which rely on rational actors who don't want to be destroyed themselves even if their enemies would die too. People like North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il destabilize the entire "game" because they are NOT rational in their actions and cannot be relied upon to even act in their own best interest. He seems to be more than a little crazy (and may deliberately cultivate that image), and his orders are completely unpredictable to friend and foe alike, which has made him much harder to deal with than a dictator with no economy and almost no allies would have been otherwise.
  • Well, their best interest is to make everyone wonder just what is their best interest...
  • Richard Nixon tried to cultivate this image as well; he called it "The Madman Theory." He would purposely fly bombers near arctic airspace to make the Soviets think that an attack was imminent, and would send Henry Kissinger to tell their leaders that he had tried to talk sense into Nixon, but Nixon was out of control. The result was that Soviet leaders were on constant standby to launch a Counter-Attack.
  • This could also be applied to Ronald Reagan, though it was more a media perception than any tactics Reagan employed. Basically, Reagan was presented as so crazy and war-happy that he might just push "the button" on anyone who upset him. As a result, no major nation ever really confronted him.
  • At one point in the 80's Soviet intelligence experts were certain that NATO wargames were being orchestrated to hide an actual first strike. Fortunately they could not convince the decision-making leaders to retaliate preemptively.
    • Perimeter system was built exactly against such experts... Ordering Perimeter and early warning systems in high-alert state would be enough to ensure that any strike would cause Critical Existence Failure for the USA - either via the remaining half of USSR arsenal (Perimeter ensured that destroying major command centers was not enough) or by fallout of their own strike.

I think the header picture needs to be changed. It just shows Faust in a goofy pose. Only people who've played Guilty Gear would understand it's significance, and the caption is just some stupid joke. Neither of them explain or show the article in action adequately.

Removed this:

• Lampshaded in the 2009 Star Trek movie: Spock remarks that since the enemy is expecting him to do something logical, the heroes' best chance is to try something illogical (eg, one of Kirk's "so crazy it might just work and always does because it's James T. Kirk, bitches" plans).

This doesn't happen in the movie. The scene you're thinking of is when Kirk says that they should be unpredictable because Nero is from the future and knows what can happen. And this was fail-logic on Kirk's part, as Spock immediately points out that Nero has no more idea of what's going to happen than Kirk.

There might be a deleted scene where this happens, but it certainly wasn't in the movie proper.

Am I the only one who thinks 'What The Fu' would be just as good, if not better? It's admittedly much simpler and might get confused with What the Fu Are You Doing?, but I think it lets the, erm, feeling through much more easily.