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Lived all that time and still too stupid to figure out how to die?

posted 4 years ago by TerraFirma69 (2269)
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There are ways to obliterate yourself if you want to. eg, build a machine that cuts off your head, dashes it to tiny little bloody cellular bits and incinerates it and the body. Don't tell me there's any coming back from that.

If you're going to argue that wouldn't work somehow, then if you lived for a few centuries you can't tell me you couldn't come up with something equally or more thorough and final.

I mean in the movie it depicts them whining about not being able to die and it never even addresses something as simple as what happens if the head is cut off.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

Think like if you're videogame character that keeps respawning everytime you'd die. Even if you manage to be chopped up to the extent of the game engine allowed, you will still be brought back to life SOMEHOW. The characters inside the videogame would never ever can explain or understand how that works. It simply does.

The player of the videogame can see it clearly how they would pop to life again. Like "pop" in the respawn area, or just outside the hospital if it's GTA. It's just polygons and some textures to us. But imagine if we're inside the game. We would never understand.

[–] TerraFirma69 (2269) 4 years ago

Fair enough, but why not take a minute to demonstrate that in the movie? I would.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

That's what I take. I'm not sure that's what the filmmakers intended. The movie is already too long. To flesh out more would be even more boring.