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"Knife to a nuke fight..."
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Naomi Hale
#1 - 2013-05-29 19:01:37 UTC
Something was niggling at the back of my mind every time I watched the EVE Universe: Origins trailer, and I only just realised what it was. At about 3.00 the bold capsuleer warps to a fleet battle in a Navy Slicer and is confronted by an epic battle with dreadnoughts and flying debris.

A phrase from a movie popped into my head "Who brings a knife to a nuke fight?"

Then I remembered the rest of that scene...

So, yeah, fly what you like, and EVE touches so many levels.

I'm Naomi Hale and this is my favourite thread on the forums.
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#2 - 2013-05-29 19:17:53 UTC
Thanks, what are you going to fly?

Oh god.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#3 - 2013-05-29 19:19:10 UTC
Naomi Hale wrote:
Something was niggling at the back of my mind every time I watched the EVE Universe: Origins trailer, and I only just realised what it was. At about 3.00 the bold capsuleer warps to a fleet battle in a Navy Slicer and is confronted by an epic battle with dreadnoughts and flying debris.

A phrase from a movie popped into my head "Who brings a knife to a nuke fight?"

Then I remembered the rest of that scene...

So, yeah, fly what you like, and EVE touches so many levels.




Arrgh! my hand!

*kills you with his brain*

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#4 - 2013-05-29 19:26:40 UTC
Naomi Hale wrote:


A phrase from a movie popped into my head "Who brings a knife to a nuke fight?"



*throws a knife through your hand.

"Becasue the enemy cannot use a nuke, if you disable his hand. MEDIC!"

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Jame Jarl Retief
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-05-29 19:29:36 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Naomi Hale wrote:


A phrase from a movie popped into my head "Who brings a knife to a nuke fight?"



*throws a knife through your hand.

"Becasue the enemy cannot use a nuke, if you disable his hand. MEDIC!"



It's really a classic, isn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNhYJgDdCu4#t=0m13s
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#6 - 2013-05-29 19:31:06 UTC
Naomi Hale wrote:


"Who brings a knife to a nuke fight?"




The guy smart enough to invent a nuclear powered knife, that's who.
Naomi Hale
#7 - 2013-05-29 19:35:16 UTC
Jame Jarl Retief wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Naomi Hale wrote:


A phrase from a movie popped into my head "Who brings a knife to a nuke fight?"



*throws a knife through your hand.

"Becasue the enemy cannot use a nuke, if you disable his hand. MEDIC!"



It's really a classic, isn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNhYJgDdCu4#t=0m13s

That's the one Big smile Classic.

I'm Naomi Hale and this is my favourite thread on the forums.
Anna Karhunen
Inoue INEXP
#8 - 2013-05-29 20:23:04 UTC
I much prefer the book:

"If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an axe. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want to do. Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how—or why—he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people—'older and wiser heads,' as they say—supply the control. Which is as it should be."

No throwing knives, just lesson given.

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Markku Laaksonen
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#9 - 2013-05-29 20:34:43 UTC
Anna Karhunen wrote:
But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how—or why—he fights...


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Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#10 - 2013-05-29 21:25:34 UTC
Anna Karhunen wrote:
I much prefer the book:

"If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an axe. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want to do. Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how—or why—he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people—'older and wiser heads,' as they say—supply the control. Which is as it should be."

No throwing knives, just lesson given.



Both the film and the book are good.

Different themes in them, but good.

There's a reason the book's on the reading list for a couple of military branches.

Woo! CSM XI!

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Klymer
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2013-05-29 22:16:48 UTC
Just remember, the guy with the knife might have friends your not immediately aware of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5jXDvrOu4


Twisted
Nexus Day
Lustrevik Trade and Travel Bureau
#12 - 2013-05-29 22:27:46 UTC
I nuked the knife factory...now what?
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#13 - 2013-05-29 22:33:22 UTC
Nexus Day wrote:
I nuked the knife factory...now what?

Now we send Tommy Lee Jones after you…
Hesod Adee
Perkone
Caldari State
#14 - 2013-05-29 23:15:01 UTC
Who brings a knife to a nuke fight ?

This answer is obvious to anyone who has taken part in any table top roleplaying: A player character.
Ckra Trald
Ckra Trald Corporation
#15 - 2013-05-29 23:23:06 UTC
potato

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Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#16 - 2013-05-29 23:29:19 UTC
Always a place for tackle.

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ACE McFACE
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#17 - 2013-05-30 00:12:27 UTC
They would have been in a fleet

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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#18 - 2013-05-30 00:33:53 UTC
Onoes... knife fight TiDi....

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