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499730, People with a firm understanding of what's so
Posted by Wrongthink, Wed Jan-27-10 03:01 PM
Take something you firmly understand, like the sound of a raindrop falling into a pool of water.

You know the sound goes "bloop" or whatever, because you have a strong understanding of what sound that makes. It always has made that sound, and always will.

Now imagine it's a movie convention that whenever a raindrop hits water it makes a fart sound. It doesn't make a fart sound for any real reason, it's just that that's how movies have always made raindrops sound.

You'd probably be bothered by that completely arbitrary lack of realism that people choose to include in the movie.

So now, maybe you're not somebody with a firm understanding of chemistry and physics. For you, a burning spaceship might seem normal, why not? That's cool, enjoy your movies. But for us, that shit is as ridiculous as raindrops farting.

This post is for us.