Banned because I'd then genetically reprogramme future trees so that they fell on conservationists to piss off those against genetics as well.

banned for I would then genetically modify conservationists, so that before they get to the park, they realize the monsters they have become and try to kill themselves. Of course, the genetic modification would involve glands that produce large amounts of unstable fluids, so any piercing death, such as slitting wrists or shooting ones self, results in an explosion, leaving bits of charred conservationist goodness all over the place.

Edit: btw, THIS is what the banned game is all about. Woot!

@Draak: Banned for being a psychopathic genius!

OOOH, I WANT TO READ UR FANFIC.

Banned for making me post that in all caps. Also, I really do want to read your fanfic, as I consider Avatar to be heretical in the extreme. After all, the idea that an interstellar civilization would lose to BLUE MONKEYS WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE OF WARFARE is bullshit in the extreme.

Banned for the monkeys I'm sure had war.

My issue is that it's not really well made from a story or technical point of view.

Humans can travel to other planets, but we don't just come back and kick ass or nuke it from orbit.

The military engagements were amazingly sloppy, especially for someone who did an okay job with Aliens. The big plane was so slow and had open sandbag positions. That makes no sense. The walking machines were cool, but cumbersome and barely armored. Why use unarmored infantry where breathing is such an issue? The lines were too spread out.

Why are we going to drop a large amount of explosives strapped to pallets on some shrine of theirs when A) A small nuke would do, and the deposit of material is under the tree we burnt down, not the shrine dealy. We don't need to secure the whole planet and the plan depends on a bulky, cumbersome set of equipment.

Unobtainium? Great name...

This guy goes out there and doesn't do his job, rather aims to get laid. He also somehow manages to figure out a lot of the biology without any problem and catches a big ass bird he knows nothing about. Since we know he'll get the bird, why not show us the action involved? Going to black and having him showing up suddenly with the animal? Yeah, not very climactic.

The story is basic. The lights were many. Same argument I had with Star Trek.

I think monkeys could manage to some degree. Afghanistan did quite well against the Russians even before our intervention. BUT, when you step up the firepower to a certain point, the burning rubble of their treehouse is pretty much all that should have come of it.

Anything done on a technical level that has not been done in film before? Nope. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Beauty and the Beast, Final Fantasy or Star Wars: Episode I accomplished more on a technical level. Cameron didn't push to do new, just better at the old. That's fine and good, but even Willow did something never before seen and still got bashed as an overall film.

Banned because I fix a lot of that stuff.

• "Unobtanium" is actually something of a slang term for the rock. It is actually called unundyneum, but people who can't pronounce that use "unobtanium".
• I had a hard time making the battle at the end of the movie make sense. Here are some of the equalizing factors I came up with: (I may not use all of them, if the consensus is that only some would be required)
  
  • The Humans only have a few hundred soldiers and about 50 to 70 choppers, who are lead by disgraced Marine corporal with no understanding of tactics.
  • Their equipment is very poor quality, with a lot of corners cut in the designs- the choppers probably weren't up to spec 50 years before when they were new. As a result, they have, for example, real glass in their windows as opposed to bulletproof or even regular plexi.
  • The Humans have no fissile material, bombs, or other weapons of moderate destruction on the base, because they want to keep up the illusion of being a peaceful operation with the public back home.
  • Humanity of 2137 is not actually a very good spacefaring society- they can barely get to and from Alpha Centauri in that ship, and it is not designed to maneuver in-system or enter the atmosphere.
  • On top of all of that, Human insurrectionists back on the base (lead by the fanfic's main character) actually sabotaged the fleet's fuel supply before the battle. They added some "magic" contaminant (possibly nanotechnological or biotechnological in nature) that did nothing until the engines were placed under slightly elevated stress (not anything they would encounter while maneuvering normally, but the sort of excess load caused by, I don't know, a giant bird throwing them around) it would case the choppers to either lose power or blow up.
  EDIT: Also, Jake is able to be such a great hunter and warrior and so on not because of anything unique to him, but because his Avatar body was genetically enhanced to give him superhuman (or should I say super-Na'vi) strength, agility, stamina, eyesight, and so forth. That enhancement includes certain neurological stabilizing factors that allow him to attain a much faster and deeper neural link with anything he plugs into. In the fanfic, these same enhancements allow a 63-year-old genetic engineer with no combat experience to keep up with and eventually beat up a Na'vi warrior just by chasing him around the forest until the latter collapses from exhaustion.

Banned because they sort of win, sort of not. They get assimilated into the colony, which means they start using technology, farming their food, living in buildings, and most importantly putting some pants on. They actually wind up living on the (rebuilt) base with the Human rebels in a unified society, charging Earth through the nose for unundyneum, playing the US and China off of one another, and getting filthy rich.

So yes, the blue space monkeys sort of win, but they do it by stopping being blue space monkeys. I thought it would be the best way to attack the "noble savage" drivel by showing them winning by giving up their traditions and becoming "the next us".

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Banned for being completely retarded.

"We were inhuman beings....butchers on a field of corpses....corrupt and depraved....only a sum of viscera, blood, and bone - Creatures without soul."

Banned for not realizing that this kid has the brain of a monkey. Literally.

"We were inhuman beings....butchers on a field of corpses....corrupt and depraved....only a sum of viscera, blood, and bone - Creatures without soul."

Banned for starting this page.

Banned for why are you page creating here?