Stuff you don't get.

[Amake]

Mob mentality is hard to understand unless you are a mob. Get 1000 people together and one of them is likely to do something stupid, and it easily escalates from there as people tend to feel they can absolve themselves of responsibility when they just do things they see someone else doing.

Originally Posted by grthwllms

I don't get my face.

That's also a gland related issue. Those things happen when your body grows older. You just got to accept it. Think of it as practice for when you get really old and your bladder starts doing things all on its own.

Golf.

A lot of sports have grown from formalized rituals that have lost all meaning over the ages. To put it in perspective golf makes more sense than, say, royalty, or the concept of countries.

Drugs.

That's a little complicated. All known drugs have their own individual reasons to be illegal or not. Alcoholic beverages are permitted because they've been used regularly by large amounts of people since before civilization as we know it began, while for instance LSD is illegal mostly because Terence McKenna had a few too many groovy parties financed by schools. These laws stay unchanged for so long probably because it comforts parents to think their children don't get up to the same fun they did when they were young.

I'd theorize that generally psychedelic drugs are illegalized because the establishment fears an enlightened population challenging the state of affairs, and downers and relaxants are illegalized because it makes people less productive. Alcohol is the exception to the rule obviously, but notice that it's always more acceptable to drink in the evening, on weekends and on festive occasions, in other words when you're not working. Stimulants meanwhile are generally encouraged as they let you work harder; coffee and tobacco is practically required in most workplaces and while they are nominally illegal, stimulants tend to carry milder punishments for use and possession than the other two.

[greed]

Kubrick's only really good movie was Dr Strangelove. And honestly that was more Peter Sellers than him. It was REALLY good though. And there were a number of classic Sellers less scenes too, so yeah.

And yeah I also don't get awkward comedies. They just irritate the fuck out of me.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

A lot of sports have grown from formalized rituals that have lost all meaning over the ages. To put it in perspective golf makes more sense than, say, royalty, or the concept of countries.

My original answer was I don't get countries but they actually make heaps of sense if you are a rich overlord and want to keep the peasants distracted, divided and busy. Same for royalty. They make heaps of sense for certain people.

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

I don't get protesters.

I can understand the need to stand up and voice your opinion when you don't feel like being heard.

I don't see how that relates to flipping cars and setting shit on fire in the name of Gay Rights.

I am ashamed of the people I know that protested and got involved in that crap.

Considering the times we live it is one of the only ways to get messages across and about the only historically effective method. I'm not sure what alternatives there are that are actually effective.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Lumenskir

Kubrick didn't direct Apocalypse Now

....and that explains why it was good.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Hahahaha, indeed he didn't. What a massive brainfart I had.
At least I will have dispelled the illusion that I am a perfect being, transcended above you lowly mortals which some of you must hav ehad.

[Amake]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

They make heaps of sense for certain people.

Yeah, same thing with golf. In North Sweden we call it Moderatbandy, which translates to "land hockey for supporters of the right wing political party".

(It's something for bored rich people to do that resembles sport but doesn't get their clothes dirty.)

[Si Civa]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Hahahaha, indeed he didn't. What a massive brainfart I had.
At least I will have dispelled the illusion that I am a perfect being, transcended above you lowly mortals which some of you must hav ehad.

So you mean that you aren't a hobo?


And I don't get most of the people. (I had to think what I don't get but I didn't get anything amusing enough)

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

I don't think it's so much that guns are weak in videogames so much as they have kind of a set power. Even if that power is quite a lot, compare it with a guy who can who can explode flying mecha by throwing playing cards at them. When you're dealing with people who can, through personal training, become strong enough to punch down mountains and move fast enough to appear in ten different places at once, guns aren't going to measure up very well.

This is the best explanation so far in the thread.

I'd say more about games using strength of all things to determine gun damage (what, pulling the trigger harder makes the bullet go faster?), but then I remember that good games (like Chrono Trigger) actually link it to your dexterity/accuracy/some third-party aim stat.

Originally Posted by Fenn R. S. Wolfenhauser

I don't get why you people still don't use thread tags when making a new thread.

Because you just implemented the dang things. Or at least you just implemented the current ones, which are actually descriptive, where the old ones were largely superfluous. Culture change takes time.

[BitVyper]

(what, pulling the trigger harder makes the bullet go faster?)

Well you're still thinking about this in terms of mundane forms of propulsion through controlled explosions. Now look at the Hulk; we've seen the Hulk hulk out so hard that he could punch holes in reality. What I believe actually happens here is that Dante pulls the triggers of his guns so hard it imbues the bullets with sentience and scares the everloving piss out of them so that they're motivated to go that much faster.

Either that or the character is so fast, he fires his gun, catches the bullet as it leaves the barrel, then throws it at his opponent.

Edit: Realistically speaking, strength can apply to firearms somewhat. Like there's controlling recoil and stuff, which will keep you accurate over multiple shots.

[Si Civa]

I came to think that gun thing now and I thought that why the gunner doesn't shoot six bullets* instead of one in his turn?
*Well not all guns but you get what I mean.

It makes sense in some games that you don't shoot all of them at once, but like Final Fantasy kind of turn based battle, where there's turns that gunner would logically wait his turn loading his gun to shoot again. Of course it wouldn't make sense that why characters doing meelee would wait, but world ain't perfect place.