Now I'm starting to wonder, do they use the tanks when they go fishing? And what the hell are they fishing for that requires tanks?

--
Mr. Fnord is gone fisson.

They're called Angler Team because their tank's mascot is an anglerfish.

--G.
as opposed to Duck Team, Turtle Team, and of course The First Föur Black Sabbath Albums.
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It's the scene from John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) in which MacReady is checking whether Donald Moffat's character is the shapeshifting alien.

Unless you were talking about my original post, in which case it's a joke about something the radio voice of your tank says in World of Tanks when your shot pierces the target's armor.

--G.
"That one bounced!"
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Indeed, yeah, that's definitely a reference I had not recognized. Thanks.

>
>Unless you were talking about my original post, in which case it's a
>joke about something the radio voice of your tank says in World of
>Tanks when your shot pierces the target's armor.

Oh, that one I understood. =)

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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

This is my brain. It's a bit of a strange place.

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

Peter Eng
--
Insert humorous comment here.

Here

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

Yamato: Call it, Admiral!

Corwin: Alright, listen up. Until we can initiate the frame shift, our priority's containment. Ōyodo, I want you on the water, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Yamato, you got the perimeter. Anything gets closer than three klicks out, you turn it back or you turn it to ash. Kaga, you gotta try and bottleneck that fleet. Slow 'em down. You got the lightning. Bring the rain. And Inazuma? nanodesu!

Peter Eng
--
Insert humorous comment here.

AIRFIELD PRINCESS immediately blasts YŪBARI, throwing her back into wall and initiating a fight between the two groups.

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- YUUBARI as Tony Stark/Iron Man: While Kancolle fandom has two girls as the resident "wrench wench," she's the one usually more depicted as a "mad scientist" and thus really fits well with Tony's personality.

- IOWA as Steven Rogers/Captain America: The "All-American" kid from Brooklyn who loves all things American and chugs Coca-Cola. Kinda hard to find a better fit.

- BISMARCK as Thor Odinsson: The Teutonic powerhouse who the fandom like to show as a hard-drinking party girl when she's not bashing in heads.

- KAGA as Clint Barton/Hawkeye: An archer who is also a deadpan snarker who loves to dump on others. Check, check, and check.

- GRAF ZEPPELIN as Natasha Romanov/Black Widow: Okay, this one was sort of a stretch, as Graf was (at the time I cast her) the only carrier who uses her turrets as a weapon rather than some form of bow or crossbow. Saratoga's since been added, but her personality doesn't really fit.

- INAZUMA as Bruce Banner/The Hulk: Come on, what is funnier than the idea of a little kid who becomes crazy strong and mean when angered?

- OOYODO as Phil "Agent" Coulson: Okay, I admit it, I just went with my first instinct which was "Who is the person you least expect to be a badass?" and Ooyodo was the answer. I get tickled by the fandom's interpretation of her as secretly a goddess of death because of her daily mission of "scrap two ships."

- TAKAO as Maria Hill: I can't take credit for this as Gryphon selected her, but I do see her as a common secretary ship in fandom so it makes sense.

- TENRYUU as Nick Fury: Again, another Gryphon pick, and yeah it was mostly about the eyepatch. But she also is generally depicted as having a fiery personality (when she's not playing "cool big sis" for destroyers), so I like it.

- SHIMAKAZE as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver: Be honest, how does this not work? Without Le Fantasque, Vashkent, or Capitani Romani in the game, there's only one speedster and she's also an arrogant little twerp who disrespects her elders.

- HIBIKI as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch: Kancolle has a few "creepy" girls, but Hibiki's too cute not to include in this cast.

- AKASHI as Howard Stark: Another Gryphon casting choice, the other half of Kancolle's "wrench wench" duo.

- KONGO as Margaret "Peggy" Carter: Kancolle's original British girl, before they added Warspite and Ark Royal. Might have to recast now, if only because Kongo has a tendency to butcher the English language...but then again, so does Iowa...

I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure those are most of the parts cast so far. I'm lost on who to cast as Vision, but I'm leaning towards Kirishima as she's another girl who is frequently depicted as a secretary ship with a cool and calm personality. Scott Lang or Peter Parker? I'm drawing a blank right now.

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That, and Akashi isn't really armed and so generally doesn't find herself in combat unless the admiral has very screwed up.

Yuubari:Akashi::Wheeljack:Ratchet

>- BISMARCK as Thor Odinsson: The Teutonic powerhouse who the fandom
>like to show as a hard-drinking party girl when she's not bashing in
>heads.

The collision of this assessment with the alternate interpretation of Bismarck as Big Akatsuki resonates weirdly with Movie Thor's daddy issues. :)

>- GRAF ZEPPELIN as Natasha Romanov/Black Widow: Okay, this one was
>sort of a stretch, as Graf was (at the time I cast her) the only
>carrier who uses her turrets as a weapon rather than some form of bow
>or crossbow. Saratoga's since been added, but her personality doesn't
>really fit.

Ark Royal looks the part the most of the extant carriers, though she is also an archer. Natasha doesn't really need to be a carrier, though. I mean, if anything

GANGUT
(crouching behind cover while fairy gun crew frantically reloads #1 turret; muttering around the stem of her pipe)
Is like Arkangelsk all over again.

KAGA
(giving her the side-eye)
You and I remember Archangel very differently.

yeah? I mean...

>- INAZUMA as Bruce Banner/The Hulk: Come on, what is funnier than the
>idea of a little kid who becomes crazy strong and mean when angered?

As someone else noted, "Middle of the night, this neighborhood, books on naval strategy, I figure she about to start some shit."

>- OOYODO as Phil "Agent" Coulson: Okay, I admit it, I just went with
>my first instinct which was "Who is the person you least expect to be
>a badass?" and Ooyodo was the answer. I get tickled by the fandom's
>interpretation of her as secretly a goddess of death because of her
>daily mission of "scrap two ships."

I am amused by the fan works in which Ooyodo and Akashi, the ships, are Totally Not the Mission Girl and Item Shop Girl, and get annoyed when the admiral mistakes them for same.

>- TAKAO as Maria Hill: I can't take credit for this as Gryphon
>selected her, but I do see her as a common secretary ship in fandom so
>it makes sense.

I think it was mainly just about the hairstyle. I needed someone to stand there and provide the straight line for Tony's question about the holodisplays, and she was available. :)

>- TENRYUU as Nick Fury: Again, another Gryphon pick, and yeah it was
>mostly about the eyepatch. But she also is generally depicted as
>having a fiery personality (when she's not playing "cool big sis" for
>destroyers), so I like it.

"I recognize that the Admiralty has made a decision. However, since it's a stupid-ass decision, I have chosen to ignore it."

>- SHIMAKAZE as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver: Be honest, how does this
>not work? Without Le Fantasque, Vashkent, or
>Capitani Romani in the game, there's only one speedster and
>she's also an arrogant little twerp who disrespects her elders.

I haven't seen any of the Marvel films past the original Avengers, but I gather from fragmentary references I've seen here and there that he comes to a Bad End in whichever one he appears in? Which is kind of too bad.

>- HIBIKI as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch: Kancolle has a few "creepy"
>girls, but Hibiki's too cute not to include in this cast.

And then she said "no more cruisers" and really bad shit happened.

>- AKASHI as Howard Stark: Another Gryphon casting choice, the other
>half of Kancolle's "wrench wench" duo.

The chronology doesn't really work, but on the other hand, Akashi as Howard in Captain America leads to Akashi as Howard in Iron Man 2.

"Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of all of us here at Akashi Industries, I'd like to show you... my ass."

>- KONGO as Margaret "Peggy" Carter: Kancolle's original British girl,
>before they added Warspite and Ark Royal. Might have to recast now,
>if only because Kongo has a tendency to butcher the English
>language...but then again, so does Iowa...

I tend to ignore the fan convention that Kongou's forgotten how to speak English, instead treating her weird dialect as an artifact of the voice casting. If anything, her lines read in translation like the joke they were going for is that she doesn't speak Japanese very well, but they hired a Japanese voice actor, so in implementation it ends up coming across the other way desu.

>I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure those are most of the parts
>cast so far. I'm lost on who to cast as Vision, but I'm leaning
>towards Kirishima as she's another girl who is frequently depicted as
>a secretary ship with a cool and calm personality.

I almost think Vision ought to be an Abyssal defector. They tend to have the appropriate affect. Destroyer Princess, maybe, or the one who's basically an evil mash-up of the whole Sendai class.

And introducing Fubuki as James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, obviously.

(I love that joke because it works two ways, since fubuki is Japanese for blizzard.)

>Scott Lang or Peter Parker? I'm drawing a blank right now.

I don't know Ant-Man well enough to speculate, but

EARTHFORCE MP
(brandishing pistol)
Hold it right there!

SENDAI
(recoiling in unconvincingly overacted terror)
Oh no! My only weakness! Really small guns!

--G.
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James Buchanan Barnes, Fubuki from Victory Belles (seated), Fubuki from KanColle (standing left) and Fubuki from Warship Girls (baby).

Hoppou: "Hoppou thinks humans are odd."
Airfield Princess: "They're doomed!"
Hoppou: (nods) "But Hoppou thinks a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts."
Airfield Princess: "You're unbelievably naïve."
Hoppou: "Hoppou was born yesterday."

Considering you already pretty much know, well, yes. Being able to see daylight straight through a person can only be said to be a Bad End.

...!
Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"

Or unless she goes to the wrong right engineering school.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

TA-CLASS
Yes. Yes, you did say that.

BISMARCK
I lied.

--G.
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BISMARCK
Then give me one of those large enough to ride.

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"Where's Superman?"

"He's doing his Neo thing again."

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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

EXAMINER: You're walking across the desert when you come upon a tortoise that's turned over on its back--

SPOCK: (interrupts) I help it get back on its feet.

EXAMINER: (mildly irritated) I wasn't done. You could do that, but you don't. Why not?

SPOCK: Yes I do do that. It would be illogical not to assist. It costs me nothing and may save the tortoise's life.

EXAMINER: (trying to be reasonable) I need you to answer the question as it was posed.

SPOCK: I can think of only three hypothetical situations where it would be logical not to assist the tortoise, and all of them are highly unlikely. Is there, perhaps, an endangered predator species in the vicinity, which only eats this species of tortoise? Is there some concrete reason why I cannot afford to stop walking for even a moment, and if so, why am I not running?

EXAMINER: (shaking his head) Let's just move on.

I could see post-psychotic-break T'Pol baiting an interrogator this way. "Here are all the ways in which your hypothetical scenario makes no sense. Additionally, I have 17 suggestions for ways in which you could be doing this job more efficiently."

--G.
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I had to look up the Voight-Kampff test before it made sense. (I suppose I should see that film some day...)

Peter Eng
--
Insert humorous comment here.

Now I feel old....

Reminds me of the time a friend and I quoted Real Genius during a role-playing game and just got blank looks around the table...

I made a comment about Bruce Campbell and "Evil Dead 2" during our weekly game a few months back. The twentysomethings at the table didn't know who Bruce Campbell was, who Ash Williams was, and had never seen any of the "Evil Dead" franchise.

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

I have an adult coworker who's just a few months older than my oldest functioning email address.

--
-Pasha
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

Sometimes, it isn't about old. I was eleven when the film came out. Too young to see it in theaters, too cash-strapped to see it afterwards.

Peter Eng
--
Insert humorous comment here.

I mentioned Stephen Furst at work when he died. No one had heard of Babylon Five, much less Vir Cotto.

This saddens me.

I've lost track of the times me and my coworkers at different jobs are talking about movies, I mention Buckaroo Banzai and I get the response "Huh?".

In fairness, that may not entirely be because that film is old; the fact that it wasn't very popular might also be involved.

--G.
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Not very popular, or just overwhelmed? It was up against Star Trek III, Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, and Ghostbusters.

I'm still not sure how my family got it on our list of films to see in theaters; probably my mom knew something that I didn't.

Peter Eng
--
Insert humorous comment here.

I quoted it to a friend, and did not realize there was someone she intensely disliked named Mitch.

"You've never seen Real Genius?
"No."
"Right. Come over this weekend, I'll make chili and we can watch it. And Big Trouble in Little China, too. And maybe Top Secret."

Ever watch someone watch a movie and suddenly, suddenly, an entire range of jokes made sense? It's like there's this ur-source of geek humor from Real Genius, and some people know the jokes and don't know the movie.

She also finally understood why it was funny to have Optimus Prime "in disguise" as the Pork Chop Express when helping some friends fight an ancient Chinese sorcerer.

(It was online RP. It doesn't need to make sense.)

--
Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

..Wow. Just...wow. That whole movie would have been a LOT different if two street gangs started having a firefight in front of -Optimus Prime-.

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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

Here.

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

"Don't bother running. You'll only die tired nanodesu."

--G.
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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

HIEI
(smugly)
You ask her for it.

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AKAGI
I've been slowly building up an immunity to bauxite.

MUTSUKI
(making sarcasm quotes with her fingers)
Pfff. "Slowly".

--G.
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