Critical support for more cinematic portrayals of climactic moments of hubris among billionaires with god complexes that lead to mortal realization.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
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may I interest you in Shadowrun
That's the problem: there isn't nearly enough hubris payoff in Shadowun, usually. Dragonfall comes to mind. 
Get a better GM
When it's a CRPG from Harebrained as the technical GM, what am I supposed to do?
(my own tabletop group prefers vanilla fantasy D&D slop)
shrugs in I haven't solved this problem and since leaving uni finding a regular group has gotten a lot harder
re: HBS game, did you play the people's university user created adventure?
I may need to check that out.
I think it's CalFree In Chains (I'm at work atm), the setting is during the Japanese fascist occupation of California and you fight out of a university that's sheltering a bunch of refugees.
That sounds pretty wiz.
Could be the Modern Day Greek Tragedy of Hubris.
When it's bazinga billionaires in a self-designed submarine with a fucking game controller, it's more farce.
It would be even better if, in a dramatic recreation of the submarine explosion, they included as a prop, the exact same model of controller that they used.
Now imagine the Joss Whedon version where the camera pans to Stockton Rush as he says "well, that's not supposed to happen" right before it implodes
Stockton: "Well, that's not supposed to happen..."
Crew #1: "What is supposed to happen?"
Stockton: "Not that!"
Crew #2 : rolls their eyes "Good talk."
Crew #1: "No it wasn't!"
the camera zooms out of the sub through the porthole, and pans around to a side angle
for a split second, you see the sub rapidly start to decompress but it immediately hard cut transitions to Guillermo Söhnlein crushing a can of beer on his forehead
for a split second, you see the sub rapidly start to decompress but it immediately hard cut transitions to Guillermo Söhnlein crushing a can of beer on his forehead
I don't know who that is but lol
he's the other co-founder of oceangate that left in 2013 lmao
Oh lol
Stockton: "This dive is about to get very interesting"
Passenger: "Define interesting"
Stockton: "Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die..."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We are having a little trouble with our re-surface sequence, so we may experience a little turbulence and then, uh, implode."
I know the show and wheedon are problematic but I fucking love that scene.
"Just get us on the ground"
"That part will happen pretty definitely"
"Are we exploding? I don't wanna explode."
totally. people shit on the guy and the show/movie, but it was clever and let its cast shine through their characters. in a world where 80% of media is skullsplittingly dull and stupid, it was a solid ass franchise.
Alan Tudyk is an extremely rare and often underutilized talent. Nathan Fillon can make my eyes watery and put a lump in chest seemingly without any effort, but also plays the "smart mouth / dumb where it counts" sandbagging bushwhacker so well, it's like he reinvented the archetype.
alternatively we hear "well, that's not supposed to happen" in the background as the camera slowly zooms in on the pilot looking at the audience like Jim from the Office
i bet you could make a The Office style mockumentary detailing the building and launch of the sub and then that's how you end the series right there
Pretty sure these guys are not actually dead. They are down there somewhere, and if Elon Musk would just head down there he could find them and bring them back. We already know he has designed a submarine, and that was designed to survive the pressure of a god damn Thai cave system. Open ocean is nothing compared to that. He should build his submarine and head down to the Titanic before they run out of food down there. This is important.
Looking into it
The Titanic Trilogy has a nice ring to it...
some say they're still down there suckin and fuckin to this very day
more like Stockton Crushed
stockton mush
Fuck, I'm going to save that for a future screen name! LMAO!
What STILL blows me away is that Rush had a B.Sc in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, yet ignored the obvious problems with a carbon fiber hull on a submersible that were easily explained by a former truck driver.
Wealthy people’s experience of university is very different from someone who attends purely on merit.
University isn’t some great filter that distinguishes legitimately intelligent people more often than not it’s just a tool to separate social classes based on arbitrary expertise requirements.
I spent way too much of my life beating up on myself for never completing higher education before truly understanding this truth.
You don’t get to use a lack of higher education as an excuse to be ignorant though. Not saying you do, but there are people that take the idea that just because there are stupid people who are highly qualified means that all ‘experts’ can be disregarded. Not true.
There are plenty of intelligent people at uni, just like there are plenty who never did higher education.
The things that both of those groups have in common though is that they are curious, intellectually honest and can be reasoned with when presented with evidence.
I wish more people understood this. Going to some university that costs tons of money isnt what makes you smart, and being smart is less of a reason why people get in then just having connections and money.
And pressure differences for submersible hull are orders of magnitude greater than pressure differences for aircraft hull.
Hell, even a spacecraft hull differential is typically the same as one atmosphere, total. By about 10m down you're already 1 atm of additional force beyond the 1 atm that exists just by existing at sea level. So, at the depth of the Titanic (around 3800 meters) you're at around 380 atm of pressure, give or take.
Hey what do you call the dumbest motherfucker who graduates engineering by cramming before every test?
Dumb motherfucker B.Sc Aerospace Engineering
Bachelors moment
Well... this does tell a tale about the quality of Princeton B.Sc in Aerospace Engineering or the corruption possible at that university.
Judge me if you want...but I'm a real sucker for a happy ending like this.
Same scene but with Benny Hill music.
need this NOW hollywood cmon!!!
Hilarious if real.
I'd watch this (pirated). Maybe they could give it the Celine Dion kazoo treatment.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Jim, plz