1,226 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Invid wrote:

You could decide not to go back in time smile The system you describe gets rid of quite a lot of free will.

Missing the point. It's not about free will. It's about the universe not playing by your silly laws of seeing time one second at a time. You could at any point decide to use a time turner, free will, but you using the time turner would have already happened.

The universe essentially has a giant non linear editing system in the sky and can see the entire timeline, even though we can only experience it one frame at a time.

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1,227 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Spoilers for Azkaban on:

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Everything in the books (and movies) says this, they even ramped it up in the movies.

A few specific examples from the top of my head: The first time the gang is in Hagrids hut, the rock flies through the window from future Hermione smashes the pot. The wolf call by future Hermione. And then there's that little thing with the Patronus.

At every single instance they assume it was some other, outside force, an actual wolf, Harry's father etc. But in truth it was them, they wait for the wolf call, but it doesn't come, Harry waits for his father but he never appears. Every action they took after using the time turner had already been collapsed and melded into the main timeline, there was nothing they could do that had not already happened.

And thinking about it from a story standpoint, I'd never considered it before, but that's a genius thing on JK's part. To have the almighty godly power of TIME TRAVEL, "We'll just fix everything with that!" but the universe just goes "Fuck you bitches, that's not how this is gonna work.", so it once again falls down onto Harry to solve the problem the hard way. There are no easy answers.

You gotta wonder how many nights they lay awake while camping going "What if we could just do the time travel thing?", but having to remind themselves that won't work, and it's impossible right now anyways. That must've sucked.

Of course then she went the extra step of destroying all the Time Turners just to make doubly sure they couldn't mess with Time Travel... the more I think about it, the gang would fit in really well with the Moya crew hmm

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1,228 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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mkeithddc wrote:

Now what you are saying about the time turner not working that way, I don't know
about that because the kids do go back and mess with their own lives, if only very little.
Its basically a paradox, which I think is what you mean when you say they can't change
anything. You are right, of course, but are not really saying it right. They can change
things, but its something they were going to do anyway, because they are only messing
with themselves.

No. But yes. You're trying to overcomplicate it.

The Harry Potter universe, the one that is experienced in real time, is a compression of all possible time travel events into a single, master, timeline. Anything that will ever happen re: time travel has happened and has been flattened and incorporated into the master timeline (The one we experience).

Therefore, it is literally impossible for anyone in the Harry Potter to change the universe through time travel because whatever they did had already happened and was already a part of the "real" timeline that everyone experienced. So therefore the only thing they can do is whatever has already happened.

The only reason it seems (to Harry) like he was able to change the past is because he didn't realize that he was the one doing it in the first place. but everything they did had already happened in the main timeline, they just weren't aware of it.

I'm not saying it's perfect or even a particularly great example of time travel theory, but it's how TT's  and time travel in the HP universe are shown to work.

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1,229 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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paulou wrote:

yebmv

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj80wbu6Rk1qbvn8yo1_500.gif


/Best Bless You gif I could find hmm

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1,230 Topic by BigDamnArtist

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Just finally making a dedicated thread to throw all of my video and photo work.

First up:

A couple photos from a shoot I did with an actor friend of mine the other day.

https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t31/1979938_604791046272599_779465556_o.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/t31.0-8/1941308_604791036272600_398865503_o.jpg

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1,231 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Awe Zarban, I didn't know you got a dog big_smile

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1,232 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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My skin is literally crawling.

It desires escape.

Holy crap.

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1,233 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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1,234 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Oh that's tasty.

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1,235 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Vapes wrote:

http://thesouthlawn.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/01-how-about-no-bear.jpg

/caring

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1,236 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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1,237 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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JAAAAAAAAZZZPUUUUUUNK!

Woo! Can't remember who on here told me about this game, but it's awesomesauce!

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1,238 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EWLmQwtuYl8/UmFoWDGXEAI/AAAAAAAAAPU/sR5Rwmr_Y_w/s1600/waiting.gif

http://static2.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/MFW+still+waiting+for+the+gif+to+load+_cf14b8b06d0be4651e41d88734d3920b.jpg

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1,239 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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I didn't say it was going to change the industry or anything like that. But you seriously can't see filmmakers actually being allowed to make the movie they want regardless of what the audience thinks (read: what the studio execs think audiences want/playing to every human-being-with-cash-they-can-fork-over possible, ala basically every tentpole these days) isn't a good thing? It might just be one, but so what? It still happened, somehow they managed to get by the system and make the movie they wanted to make.

That's fucking awesome.

/this is still of course assuming that's actually whats going on, and the movie hasn't actually been whitewashed for a mass audience appeal (Although judging by what I've seen so far, I'd say it hasn't)

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1,240 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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fireproof78 wrote:

About them giving any sort of care or thought towards what other people think of their film? They don't give one tiny, little...

If a modern tentpole, fucking MARVEL movie can actually get away with doing that, holy frack I don't care how good the movie actually is, that's a win in my book.

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1,241 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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fireproof78 wrote:

The whole raccoon thing is probably what throws me the most, but I suppose I should be used to weird stuff in comics by now...

http://scapecast.org/media/IntroductionToFarscape/PilotJohn.jpg

This is a character you will cry over because you care about him so much.

I think a talking Raccoon in a sci-fi/comedy should be fine.

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1,242 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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I was referring to the actor, but I didn't know that either.

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1,243 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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I feel like you think I should know who that is. I do not.

Either way that is a very large man.

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1,244 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Oh gods, you're one of them.

http://kaispace.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-78.jpg

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1,245 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Ewing wrote:
Trey wrote:

The computer code website I referenced in the commentary:   http://moviecode.tumblr.com/

I cannot fathom how anyone can care that much about coding.

Code at least has a legitimate use and can be examined like that, there are entire blogs chastising and examining FONT choice. That is what blows my mind.

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1,246 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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All the character design looks awesome, would love for there to be more just balls out sci-fi cyberpunky stuff like this.

I haven't actually played it, but the designs feel very Mass Effect-y.

(That is a compliment of the highest order)

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1,247 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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I am your clickwhore.

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1,248 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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It wasn't so much a direct shot at your comment...more of using it as a gravity slingshot to get to the main idea I wanted to say.

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1,249 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Jimmy B wrote:
BigDamnArtist wrote:

Ah, well obviously that's what they meant.

Cause a walking, gun toting Racoon and a walking, fighting tree are just an everyday thing these days, but holy shit if them things done talked, WOOOWHEE we'd have ourselves a ballgame.

Well, it seems to obvious to everyone else that they meant hearing the characters talk. You get a better feel for the characters that way, although Vin Diesel will just sound like the Iron Giant. Or Vin Diesel

I just find it amusing that every damn day I come on this forum, another person complains about how shitty modern trailers are and how they routinely fail to accurately represent what a movie actually is. And yet every damn day I come on this forum and find another thread like this, dissecting split second moments of context-less sound and image. So far I've seen the movie written off entirely and defended... by a modern shitty trailer that has every likelihood of misrepresenting the final movie.

So if y'all want to take this seriously, good luck with that, but for now I'll continue to shake my head and laugh at the batshit hilarious awesomeness of the images being put in front of my face.

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1,250 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Ah, well obviously that's what they meant.

Cause a walking, gun toting Racoon and a walking, fighting tree are just an everyday thing these days, but holy shit if them things done talked, WOOOWHEE we'd have ourselves a ballgame.

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