Gregory's ServerIt annoys me in films when they 'science-up' an ordinary word. Like in Avatar when the humans were on Pandora to mine Unobtainium. Or in the new Matrix when Trinity is held in the area they create the anomalies called.... The Anomaleum. You can't just add an ium/eum to the end of things to make it a thing. Where do I keep my fruit? In the bananaeum. Oh I need to wash the floors, I'll use some of this floorium cleanium. IT'S STUPID.
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@GayDeceiver @TheBreadmonkey Itβs one of the many reasons I did not like Avatar @farah @GayDeceiver @TheBreadmonkey I'm glad I'm not the only person who didn't like it @NickGates @GayDeceiver @TheBreadmonkey Every time someone says they like Avatar, I just imagine theyβre talking about the last air bender, for their sake @farah @NickGates @GayDeceiver @TheBreadmonkey @Nuncio @farah @NickGates @TheBreadmonkey The first version of the TV series slapped. The movie by M Night was terrible. @GayDeceiver @Nuncio @NickGates @TheBreadmonkey Anything by M Night is terrible @Nuncio @NickGates @GayDeceiver @TheBreadmonkey Not the movie, the animated series @farah @NickGates @GayDeceiver @TheBreadmonkey @farah @NickGates @GayDeceiver @TheBreadmonkey @Nuncio @farah @NickGates @TheBreadmonkey Avatar the Last Airbender was a Nickelodeon animated series. It was really great. It did so good, M Night decided to make it into a live film β¦ and stripped all that was good about the TV show from it. @farah @GayDeceiver @TheBreadmonkey I hated James Cameron's Avatar movie but I loved the Cartoons (OG and Korra) and Last Airbender movie. Have yet to watch the Netflix series.  @GayDeceiver @TheBreadmonkey It sounds like something you come up with as a temp name because you don't have time to think of anything better right now. And never get around to coming up with an actual permanent one. @GayDeceiver @TheBreadmonkey Iβve always thought it was purposefully lazy. Kind of like using plain old Papyrus font for the title.  @TheBreadmonkey The term unobtainium is far older than Avatar. βSince the late 1950s, aerospace engineers have used the term "unobtainium" when referring to unusual or costly materials, or when theoretically considering a material perfect for their needs in all respects, except that it does not exist.β  @TheBreadmonkey As someone who needs to make up names on the regular I just want to say... It is hard out there lol π Yes I realised after hitting send on this I couldn't do any better. We're on this planet to mine precious gems we need for some reason. What are they called? Sparklyoniums. Terrible. @TheBreadmonkey @Aviva_Gary Right next to the dilithium crystals @TheBreadmonkey @TheBreadmonkey @GayDeceiver Florium cleanium sounds like something they teach in Hogwartsβ Janitorial Arts class. @TheBreadmonkey Back when he was making Babylon 5, J. Michael Stracynszki held an impromptu contest for the fans to come up with the name of the fictional material needed to make the jump gates and drives the show used for FTL. Of the top three candidates, two were trademarked and the third got him a call from an unspecified Three Letter Agency asking where he'd heard that word. So yeah, this can be a challenge. π   @TheBreadmonkey LOL, I didn't think of that as sciencing up but dumbing down. Unobtainium really was lame. |
@TheBreadmonkey yes I canium