If I was to be killed by science-fiction villains, I'd rather:
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Obligatory XKCD - Centrifugal Force (Score:5, Funny)
Some other fate... (Score:5, Interesting)
It might take decades...
Re:Some other fate... (Score:5, Informative)
that's basically what marriage is, without the luxury or skill part, and the fucking not as frequent
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that's basically what marriage is, without the luxury or skill part, and the fucking not as frequent
From this, should we conclude that you're single?
I'm married for almost 20 years, and my experience has been different.
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Re:Some other fate... (Score:5, Insightful)
I've been married almost 7 years, have a full time job, and two young kids, and just recently my wife and I decided that sex should be as awesome as it was when we met. Our average over the last two weeks has been >1 hour long session per day. :)
Put the effort in to make it awesome, and you can avoid the sexless marriage cliche.
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+1 Insightful.
"You gotta keep the spice flowing, man!" - Paul Atreides
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"You gotta keep the spice flowing, man!" - Han Solo - Capt. of the Serenity.
Re:Some other fate... (Score:5, Funny)
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Seven years? You mean you had Ponn-Farr?
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That's fine assuming your wife is in agreement and you're both at the same sexual level. As much as I enjoy sex and would be happy to experience it at least weekly, if your wife isn't interested then it won't matter.
When I attempted to romance my wife, I got laughter. She was just not that into romance. It made it difficult to get her in the mood. At the end, it was impossible and we spent the last two years of our marriage without sex (the prior three years, sex was down to about twice a year).
Yea, she's g
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Yea, she's gone now.
Good, cause this was going to be my advice to you. It's not marriage, it's the people in the marriage. Better luck next time.
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7 years?
Come back and tell me how you're doing after 37 years.
Now, get off my lawn. :)
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that's basically what marriage is, without the luxury or skill part, and the fucking not as frequent
What a great comparison.
So using a car analogy.. Driving a Bugatti Veyron on the German Autobahn with a cool chick next to me is basically the same as driving a Yugo on a Russian dirt road with Putin's grandmy in my lap?
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Snu Snu!
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I really wish I'd listened (Score:2, Interesting)
to what my mother told me when I was young.
Re: I really wish I'd listened (Score:4, Interesting)
[obligatory] Why, what did she tell you?
Re: I really wish I'd listened (Score:4, Funny)
She said "stop doing that!"
Re: I really wish I'd listened (Score:5, Funny)
[obligatory] Why, what did she tell you?
Dunno. Didn't listen.
Death by snusnu (Score:5, Funny)
NT
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This shouldn't be an option.
It should be the ONLY option.
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That's where my twisted mind went.
Better option (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Better option (Score:4, Funny)
What, are you gay?
Re:Better option (Score:5, Funny)
What, are you gay?
After surviving an attempted snu-snu execution... Yes.
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To be quite fair, Snu Snu must be excruciating pain.
Both Fry and Zapp gets their pelvis' pulverized.
Exhaustion (Score:5, Funny)
... be forced to impregnate the multitude of daughters as part of the diabolical plan to produce an evil army. Is that still sci-fi?
Re:Exhaustion (Score:5, Informative)
Cheers,
Ian
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So does Ellison complain about THAT screenplay adaptation as well?
Its a virtual impossiblity (Score:4, Insightful)
to be killed by being pushed into the cold vacuum of space.
The infinite improbibility drive would ensure that you'd be rescued in 29 seconds precisely.
Hiya Zaphod!
Re:Its a virtual impossiblity (Score:4)
It's a virtual impossiblity to be killed by being pushed into the cold vacuum of space..
Tell that to Laura Roslin.
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It's a virtual impossiblity to be killed by being pushed into the cold vacuum of space..
Tell that to Laura Roslin.
I have a suspicion she wouldn't hear me if I tried.
narfled the garthok - I'm not dead yet (Score:5, Insightful)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=narfle%20the%20garthok [urbandictionary.com]
Definitions:
1. Fighting a tough enemy against your own will. (Movie Definition)
2. You/Friend(s) about to sleep with someone nasty
3. Taking a shit
The question "If I was to be killed by science-fiction villains, I'd rather:" kind of assumes you're going to die. I'd rather re-word it, I would prefer: "If a science-fiction villain were to attempt to kill me I'd rather:"
Narfle the garthok seems to give me more of a fighting chance than the other alternatives. Arguably I've narfled the garthok in several different ways, and I'm still here.
ejected into space (Score:2)
If a fleet of spaceships and a nebula [youtube.com] are the last things I see, that definitely outweighs watching my guts flow out of my abdomen.
Re:ejected into space (Score:5, Informative)
urban & hollywood legend. your guts won't flow out of your abdomen, you won't freeze, your eyes will not pop out, blood will not come out your orifices.
instead, says NASA scientist, "expect to fart a lot".
A human can survive hard vacuum for a short time, 60 to 90 seconds.
Re:typo (Score:2)
I was referring to the gut-spilling caused by being chopped up by cannibals. /. doesn't allow editing of posts afterwards to correct typos that you only notice after posting)
I should have used "is a lot better than" instead of "outweighs". (but
Re:ejected into space (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:ejected into space (Score:4, Informative)
Probably it would feel like nitrogen suffocation - totally painless and quick (about 15 seconds).
Not go out like a punk ... (Score:3)
... but be beheaded by Darth Vader first after a prolonged lightsaber fight.
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study a little fencing and you'd win; the swordsmanship in the Star Wars universe is quite poor...
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They make up for fencing finesse with the using-mental-powers-to-hurl-heavy-objects-at-each-other-while-sword-fighting thing.
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No?
Thought so.
Death by weeping angels . . . (Score:4, Insightful)
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I would ask them to transport me to the future, away from the retards.
Really? [imdb.com] Why do I have the feeling that that just won't work? [wikipedia.org]
I know the answer (Score:5, Funny)
Mod me to oblivion!
Missing option. (Score:5, Interesting)
Being eaten by a grue.
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You don't any more find the required pitch darkness. Too much light pollution.
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A pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses would fix that!
Suicide! (Score:4, Funny)
Troll the villains to death! My death, in this case.
Just wondering... (Score:5, Interesting)
Now, I picked my option because of a very specific reason and I'm wondering if everyone else did as well...
Because it sounded the least painful.
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I did the same.
If I had the choice, I'd always pick the least painful option.
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What, getting hit by a disintegrator when her husband comes home early?
Re:Just wondering... (Score:4, Interesting)
I chose mine because going into space is on my bucket list.
be assimilated by 7 of 9 (Score:3, Funny)
be assimilated by 7 of 9; Yup!
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be assimilated by 7 of 9; Yup!
Yeah, but with your luck you'd be rescued by some eager beaver federation crew who'd then expect you to be grateful.
Sharks... Lasers (Score:2)
Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
* Answering Slashdot polls until I lose the will to live.
Missing option: (Score:2)
Feed me to the Krites.
Romulan Disruptor (Score:2)
internal bleeding (Score:5, Funny)
have read Vogon poetry to me
Excessive Machine (Score:2)
Rassilon (Score:2)
I would have to go with the Python's (Score:4, Informative)
I would have to go with the Python's "Meaning of Life" method of execution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ [youtube.com]
(NSFW)
You may have to watch this over and over to really appreciate the subtle nuances of the dialogue and cinematography.
Turning down the sound helps - as does slow motion.
I also kind of stunned that no one already mentioned this one.
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I guess because it is not sci-fi and does not include sci-fi villains.
Doctor Who style (Score:2)
light grenade (Score:2)
i think i might pick up a light grenade. 'cause i like to pick things up and it looks like a painless way to go.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos (Score:2)
The Cat (Score:2)
my choice - be put in a Schrodinger cell, where I exists in a superposition of alive and dead, as long as no one looks.
Snoo snoo is also a good option.
Weeping Angels (Score:2)
This one's easy.... (Score:2)
Easily escapable yet overly elaborate (Score:2)
Assimilated by the Borg (Score:2)
Always was a team player...
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Always was a team player...
After the previous comment I was thinking this should be modded a dupe. Then I realised, that's the point.
Chopped by an lightsaber (Score:2)
Being sliced, diced or Julienne by an lightsaber (the villain version is has red blade).
Schroedinger's box (Score:2)
It's in Dan Simmons' novel Endymion.
Futurama Style... (Score:5, Funny)
DEATH BY SNOO SNOO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o5i2jUzMB0&feature=related [youtube.com]
Trapped in a Time Machine (Score:2)
Where's the classic!? (Score:2)
If I was to be killed by science-fiction villains, (Score:2)
Total Perspective Vortex (Score:3)
"The most horrible torture device to which a sentient being can be subjected:" The Total Perspective Vortex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Total_Perspective_Vortex [wikipedia.org]
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I dunno... Jane Fonda is getting pretty old.
Re:Barbarella (Score:5, Insightful)
He didn't say Jane Fonda. He said Barbarella. Characters don't age.
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He didn't say Jane Fonda. He said Barbarella. Characters don't age.
I have to disagree - I've seen that movie, and I don't think it's aged very well.
Re:Barbarella (Score:4, Funny)
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but that didn't kill her, in fact she broke the machine! Woody Allen's orgasmatron was much more robust and maintenance free.
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+1, came here to explain my choice, this was it.
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... read Vogon poetry.
Even worse, sit through a political party conference ... every speech with no phone/pad to alleviate the boredom.
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I would at least die artfully.
You misspelled "awfully".
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If you are going to go being instantly vaporized is the best way to go. I would also take being transported and never rematerilizing. Or some just blinking out of existence.
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With sci-fi you can pick very fast ways to die, i.e. because some retard stepped over a butterfly some millons of years ago in a time travel hunting expedition, or Picard didn't figured Q's riddle, or you didn't manage to engage your parents playing Johnny B. Goode . At least, if "timelines changed so you never existed" accounts as death.
There are too many ways to intentionally dying in sci-fi, some taken for an advantage, that there is no need of villains for getting killed, you may want it to happen. Tel