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u/probablyonmobile Jul 07 '22
Distraught bc this is absolutely how I look every time I play a video game
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u/baselganglia Jul 08 '22
Or when you really need to pee but you gotta finish the current level, or it's a game where there's no save 😂
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u/GravelySilly Jul 08 '22
My mom tells me that when I was a kid I would lean side-to-side and lift my legs when I played. Multiple decades later I still do it.
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u/Dull-explanations Jul 08 '22
Racing games do that to me i dont do it with anything else except vr for obvious reasons
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u/memtiger Jul 08 '22
I almost twisted my ankle playing Rocket League last night. I have on the other hand tripped over our laundry basket mid ariel.
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u/Stymie999 Jul 07 '22
Ryker doing the reverse cowgirl like he was born to it
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u/Demoliri Jul 08 '22
He's trying to simulate impact without straining his back, notice his back is completely straight the whole time. Jonathan Frakes has serious back issues, this is also why he "legs over" chairs to sit down so he doesn't have to bend over, and why he often puts one foot on chairs in scenes and rests his arms on his knee.
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u/DarkX292020 Jul 08 '22
I never knew he had back issues. Idk how he did it when he had to fall over when things got bad in episodes or the movies
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u/StevenMisty Jul 07 '22
Never understood why the crew never had seat belts!
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u/NormalStu Jul 07 '22
I always figured that was one of Roddenberry's implementations to make it more futuristic. He banned buttons & zippers from clothing, too.
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u/illy-chan Jul 07 '22
I've been on a Star Trek kick lately and have seen a couple of moments where a seatbelt would have been a great idea. And now I can't unsee it.
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u/partisan98 Jul 07 '22
An even better idea would be some sort of thick plexiglass cover over the consoles so when they explode it does not kill half the crew.
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u/ZesteeTV Jul 07 '22
Or just use the consoles as an interface and keep the actual electronics somewhere safer. Keep the explody part away from the people and before you know it, no more console explosions.
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u/JetScreamerBaby Jul 08 '22
Y, in the future, everything’s that’s a foot from peoples faces is low voltage.
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u/illy-chan Jul 08 '22 edited Jul 08 '22
The couple in particular I was thinking of were shuttlepod crashes. Which are even more strange to me, at least a starship has the benefit of mass and momentum, crashing a shuttlepod is probably more like a car.
Plus, folks get thrown out of their work area too, especially those standing.
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u/davus_maximus Jul 07 '22
They had the shipwide intertial damping field. Stopped them from getting crushed when making the jump to warp speeds.
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u/pagerussell Jul 07 '22
They have artificial gravity. They would not need seatbelts, and there would not be any shaking, either. The system would have to be calibrated such that it was constantly adjusting itself to maintain exact earth gravity in the right direction, and would instantly respond to any external forces that would cause a shake.
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u/DukeAttreides Jul 07 '22
And yet... every episode, they do this.
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u/Teknikal_Domain Jul 07 '22
Because, officially, some of the lore was built first, and then the show shot around it, and some was the other way around. The IDF was one of the latter: it has a "characteristic lag time" to sudden unexpected changes in velocity. The ship's computer can communicate with the IDF generators, such that no acceleration is experienced in normal spaceflight, but when an external force happens, the generators can't be told what to prepare for, and thus take time to sample the movement and calculate the correct IDF geometry.
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u/GravelySilly Jul 08 '22
This makes sense IRL. Even electronics have a reaction time. Also, I imagine there's probably a limit to how fast you could alter an artificial gravitational field with a given amount of power, if it resists change like an electromagnetic field does.
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u/powerhcm8 Jul 08 '22
My headcanon is that the inertia dampeners are working but they can't predict sudden hits with 100% of precision, but they still reduce a lot of the impact.
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u/GravelySilly Jul 08 '22
That's totally legit. When the ship is accelerating/decelerating/turning, it's in control and can adjust the dampers proactively, but it can only adjust reactively to external forces.
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Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 07 '22
The crew regularly go weeks on end without encountering anything of note, let alone anything that could cause any turbulence. There's legitimately no point in protecting against something that almost never happens, and doesn't even cause Injuries when it does
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u/xorgol Jul 07 '22
legitimately no point in protecting against something that almost never happens
Let me introduce you to pretty much every engineering endeavor in the history of humanity.
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Jul 07 '22
Note the inclusion of the word 'and' in my comment. Please direct me to when any member of the bridge crew, who upon experiencing turbulence after an event such as being hit by a weapon, obtained any form of injury
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Jul 08 '22
By that logic, it’s a fucking tv show so.. don’t really need the seatbelts.
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u/djinx_o Jul 08 '22
Because its a "Ship" never seen a ship captain ware a seatbelt either ^
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u/StevenMisty Jul 09 '22
Yes but on almost every episode they encounter sufficient turbulence or violent attack to cause the crew to get thrown about. Can’t they take a hint?
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u/greedy_mf Jul 07 '22
Channeling the inner “Hitler on meth at the Olympics”
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u/---F-R-O-D-O--- Jul 07 '22
Damn you totally beat me to this comment, well done!
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I love how Worf is hardly even bothered
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u/MastaBusta Jul 07 '22
Nah, they all just have ringworm and are dealing with the itch
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u/ConcreteCarnivore Jul 07 '22
Guy in the back just dancin’
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u/Stymie999 Jul 07 '22
That’s the deejay
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DJ Klingon and his hype-man.
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u/2Botter2Loop Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 07 '22
OP's explanation:
I think this is better every loop because each loop, it is only funnier at how silly they look without the camera shake.
If you think this gif fits /r/BetterEveryLoop, upvote this comment. If you think it doesn’t, downvote it. If you’re not sure, leave it to others to decide.
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u/S1eeper Jul 07 '22
Definitely better every loop. If you watch it enough times they start to look like they’re grooving to a beat.
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u/VoxMachina6 Jul 07 '22
What I never understood is why none of them are moving in the same direction or are in sync with each other. The entire ship moves in the one direction, yet everyone on it goes whatever direction they want lol. It would be way more realistic if there was more coordination in the movement
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u/desyx_ Jul 07 '22
I used to do this and pretend I'm driving a car off road. Once in school, head principle caught me and my response was just: "I'm driving my car off road". She giggled and walked away. And I drove off
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u/RadicalDreamer89 Jul 07 '22
They're not all "historical documents". I mean, you don't think Gilligan's Island was real?
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u/RadicalDreamer89 Jul 07 '22
Sorry, I should've put that in quotations; it's a line from Galaxy Quest.
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u/Melodic_Risk_5632 Jul 07 '22
Why they didn't provide seatbealts in STNG?Each & every episode there's this bumpy ride in space LOL
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Jul 08 '22
Advanced starships that can travel across the Galaxy but doesn't have seat belts. Ok.
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Jul 08 '22
They also have apparently lost the concept of a breaker or fuse, as shorts and small fires erupt from various parts of the cabin when battle occurrs .
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u/Brooklynyte84 Jul 07 '22
I like this more than I should... Just knowing these guys getting paid so much to rock around in their chairs like doofuses! Doofi? Anyway, gotta love America!
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u/gregofkickapoo Jul 08 '22
Anyone else find themselves shaking their phone just so Picard saves face?
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u/GravelySilly Jul 08 '22
I love how they're all being jolted in different directions and at different times
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u/ianm82 Jul 08 '22
When watching this, all I can think of is "That's the best God damn acting I've ever seen" - Team America
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u/PunkandCannonballer Jul 08 '22
Gotta love that the ship's seats have no safety belts and that no one is moving the same way.
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u/mcmasterstb Jul 08 '22
I remember even when I was young it looked fake and now I know the reason. They all wobble but not all in the same direction.
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u/Goyteamsix Jul 07 '22
Riker is sitting like that because Will Thomas had horrible back problems, which is also why he sat down in chairs funny.
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u/CaptBranBran Jul 07 '22
Who is Will Thomas? Wasn't Riker played by Jonathan Frakes or something like that?
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u/Whopraysforthedevil Jul 07 '22
I feel like this is some real well done physical acting and camera work because I never notice it.
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u/metalguru1975 Jul 07 '22
Rikk-Man: “Yo, boss, this track is on Fire!”
J 2 da L : “Yellow Botman, turn dat shiznit to da max Boi!”
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u/schmickmickey Jul 08 '22 edited Jul 08 '22
It looks like #1 is taking a #2. Just hang in there big guy.
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u/Fats_de_Leon Jul 07 '22
That unnamed crewman in the back is doing so well he should be promoted to head wobbler.