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Hmm, well a tank can be taken out by Gasters missiles. So if you must compare, it's probably comparable to C4, except in Gasters case it's a liquid filled missile.

Haven't heard of it. But will google it up, so thanks for the reference. Always loved street fighter, great potential for story, but people keep screwing up the basics. I also recommend Steet Fighter: Ten Years Later. A fantastic parody and deep fan love for the series.

She's a great powerhouse, and her backstory is creepy! Love her design. I still follow the manga and enjoy it. How about one of my favorite videogame villains? King Bohan! Now, in most cases, in paper, he'd seem generic as a villain (Even looks a bit like one) in any movie, any game. But there is a HUGE difference. He's played and directed by Andy Serkis. You know? That guy who played Gollum Lotr? Despite this game being over 8 years old, it's cinematics motion capture, and production values are great. It's got a gripping story and everything. As a result of the acting, and his direction, all the villains come out as unsettling, pathetic, or insane. The most entertaining is King Bohan himself, even before he becomes the horror movie creepy Raven King. He's pretty much got every villainous trait... all the while being incredibly funny and entertaining. You aren't supposed to laugh when you see how horrible he is, but his personality is so charming... also, that bird of his... who is the real master, him, or it...? You can watch all the cutscenes here yourself. It's a great movie on it's own, if you can get past the weirdness. I thought it silly at first until halfway through, then saw just how incredibly good it is. I was about to skip it, then suddenly it blew me away. So glad I stuck through it. On a special note, General Flying Fox, is the stuff of nightmares, completely creepy. With odd ticks, a love for style, awesome combat ability, and utterly bizarre. He seems love playing around with his victims, a general who's really a serial killer at heart. A great villain who is almost on par with the main antagonist.

Yeah, if you can find the size explosion needed from TNT, you can pretty much do the math by explosion size/strength. There is a measuring chart for it. An example is in Nuclear Weapons, they use TNT as the measure. They also do this when mining or creating controlled construction like mount Rushmore which was done with precise mathematics and TNT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield Even the anti-terrorist guides use them as a guide along with car size. There's a lot of math involved, and I wish I had a better list, but I never researched explosives outside of bullet wield and gun construction.

Oh, what you might of seen was a new 3D printer type since older ones used a more cheap low heat tolerance plastic (but were flimsy products). The original purpose of them was to develop test run prototypes for new products like say, plastic case, or a controller. Ah yes, the progress of technology and production. Remember how long it took computers to hit Offices, then homes? Decades. It's the same with this. Hell, calculators used to cost $2,000 when they were first developed. Hard to believe I can just buy one in a dollar store in comparison. If the demand and the competition of a product demands it, the evolution of product will speed up considerably. Weather it be nuclear weapons or cellphones, we progress fast when focused and competing. =D I really suggest you read Popular Science. There are hundreds of products featured each year on that thing, new technology. Some of it pops up real fast on the market, some never see the light of day but lead to new technology. WHen I was a kid reading about the Abrams Tank technology for information transmission, imagine my surprise that it was stated to be used for new long range communications... instead it became Bluetooth. The magazine is now partnered with google, and they have 140 years worth of magazines to overlook. They even release more recent ones after a year of publication to be read. Love it! http://www.popsci.com/archives

3D printing has been around since the 80's. It just didn't start becoming a commercial product until this decade for private users. Anyone starting to feel that this will lead to replicators? XD Seriously, I think these plastic machines will be common in homes in 10 years, maybe 20 years for the metal printers. One that's the norm, we'll see a big change in culture norms. Maybe we wont have the stuff from star trek, but it's a step towards it.

Well in the case of Panadyne, similar to Gaster, two separate colored liquids combined for an explosion. Panadyne's attack only has a 2 US pints worth (946ml Metric) of liquid, but the explosive result seemed about as big as a mid sized apartment. Gaster's missiles actually have smaller explosions! But they are remote range guided weapons, so that makes sense. Also they likely have less liquids in them. But I bet that the destructive power the his liquids when fired from his wrists are about as powerful if not more than Panadyne's. So what equals an apartment's worth of explosive material?

great work there.

I have to point out that Metal 3D printers have proven reliable and strong. You can create some metal products far stronger than factory standards. I looked for the article from BBC news, but couldn't find it for reference, but it's been proven already. But like I said, they are not cheap yet. The machines cost raises with quality of what you can do with the metal. Everything depends on the set up. Theoretically, you can produce cars and planes far cheaper using these machines if done in a huge scale. But at home, currently, it's the reverse. The trend will change though over the years. Take a look at the article below. http://www.3ders.org/articles/20140207-china-developing-world-largest-3d-printer--prints-6m-metal-parts-in-one-piece.html

I guess we haven't evolved as much as we'd like to think, considering that video above. What the hell indeed!

lol, is he fighting the Ku Klux Klan? More or less, and a young ....John Lennon? =P

wasn't he in first of the north star?

I don't hear many updates about the crimea, everything is focused on eastern ukraine now. The situation just keeps getting worse.

3D printing can be cheap, but depends on what, and materials. Metal 3D printers are still far more expensive than plastic 3D printers.

Jesus! She's like the female version of the villain from the Patriot but even takes it up a notch by doing what the patriot guy would never do, cut a man's "valuables" off. D= Hmm, about that comment earlier about the forced laughs... yeah, it's cliche no matter what media. I find it rather stupid and tiring. There are exceptions though, like when Joker from "Batman beyond: Return of the Joker" is strangling our hero! He gives out the most clearly insane and joyful laugh when he's strangling the teenager. Just skip to 3:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LikMS5gDDI

Still following it, it's been a bit stretched out for an arc, and it's kinda starting to bug me, but at the same time it's been going back and forth between the good guys and bad guys, and that's pretty cool. A little conflicted by some of the generic shonen stuff they've thrown, and it's starting to feel like it'd DBZ... which is awful. But on the other hand the body count and devastation actually has given me the chills. Something DBZ never did. Also, side note, bleach has been following a similar set of lines, but without as much plot and Naruto's been a bit better at it. Bleach's strength is that it's heroes are pretty close in strength, with Naruto you pretty much know that Naruto and Sasuke can destroy almost anyone together.

The metal printers would make creating customized, improvised, or out of stock replacement cars. But the costs will vary from car to car, and as guyverfan pointed out, the cost can be insane. The reason the Model T was so successful in the first place was because it was built fast and easy with all parts being interchangeable. Before that, all cars were built from scratch by hand, quality varied, cost was much higher, and maintenance was a nightmare. Imagine getting into a car accident and having to replace 55 components just for the fenderbender. or 10 broken components for that once of a kind headlight. See where I'm going? On the other hand, there are plenty of people who make their own cars because they can't stand the industry, or find themselves wanting a challenge or fulfill a curiosity. Me personal wish to build a car is a Doble.A full steam powered car. They were incredibly good, powerful cars powered by steam. Despite their weight, they were fast, and the design allowed the car to be up and running in the middle of a snow storm in less than 2 minutes, which is kinda Ironic since you have to warm up a gas powered car for several minutes before you can even drive for fear of breaking components.

Kefka's actually got a side of him that's also pretty pathetic. A madman who was once sane but gave up on human values and even the cycle of life because it's a painful remorseless and possibly pointless existence. He sees destruction as the natural order of things, and everything else just a route for painful existence. He's in truth, a coward trying to avoid emotional pain. Kefka's only escape is madness, and some characters have questioned if he's actually tormented more than he is insane. I have to agree, he's a great villain in the sense that he's so dogmatic in his goal of destruction, but before they expanded on about why he became a madman, I figured him more of a badly done villain with a greatly done personality. These days I figure him as one of the top villains Molluck's from Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee They turn an entire sentient species into slaves and then later, cattle. I mean literally, they are turning their slaves into glue, food, drinks. One of their plans even involved them torturing slaves for their tears... so the tears can be turned to a tasty commercial brew. Granted, there are several of these guys around, but Molluk's as a whole are just god awful. Did I mention they are also slowly polluting the planet" They also do not care for the cruelty they force upon each other, let alone soldiers and slaves!

<p>Even if the cars don't sell and the company eats the losses. We seem to forget there are plenty of government policies in effect that help cover those losses. The companies don't lose much from the cost of construction, they do lose potential revenue, but the cost of building the car is actually not that big. When that small loss is recorded, a company can write the losses off and get reimbursed by government... or governments in some cases.<br /> <br /> Also, just saw this today, and I can't stress just how much this relates to this problem. if you don't figure it out, take a break and think it over, on how a car company that is so big in a country can effect it's economic policies through donations.<br /> <br /> http://youtu.be/gIcqb9hHQ3E </p>

I liked him but was a little disappointed he brought in Blades mom into the plot, totally ruined a good sequel material by not having her used as a villain in those. But I had to admit, he was a pretty good villain in what would otherwise of been a fairly forgettable movie.

Nope, we had math for elegan to some degree (how do you measure bio-electricity against regular? is it just the same but different source?) but gaster had no comparison, we just know how his process worked. Thancrux was the same principle as guyver's blades with advanced zoanoid muscles to help with his speed. While Derzerb was based around muscle and bone density, and his fire ability was not liquid based, but rather bodyheat based. Zxtole was the interesting one, he seemed he have advanced energy reserves for bio lasers and an emergency bio laser based on him absorbing heat and light from around him. I wonder if he restores his reserves over time simply by absorbing light and heat over time in regular forms. Gastar, just what the heck is it with his compounds? they were most certainly hazardous as he had to keep them apart or they'd blow up, so they couldn't even be stored close to one another internally.

Aside from hatred, I never figured him to be all that great. But the actor makes him really come alive. I suppose he's truly evil because he absolutely has no remorse and no love, yet he's the most human of the machines, just so overly emotional and flawed like a human. That's really his best quality as a villain. My next choice is Professor Ratigan and Scar. I know, I know. Disney villains... But they are great villains that would stand in any other media. Both are more or less based off literally antagonists, one from Sherlock Holmes, the other from Hamlet respectfully. However, Disney gave them both a nice spin. In the case of the charismatic Professor Ratigan, He is a vile person who seems cultured and refined, truly intelligent and cunning, greedy and devious. But it's all a facade, as his body is not just physically imposing, but he's a rat in a world of Mice, and one you peel away that facade, he is a monster. A creature with animalistic brutality and such savagery as to betray everything he's spent his life trying to break free from. Simply a brilliant take on Moriarty. But even before all this though, he's still a a cruel and unforgiving being when disguised as a civilized intellectual. This makes it all the more shocking towards the end of the movie. Scar, what can I say. he's shrewd, toady, and cunning. Although not incredibly powerful like his brother, he is still formidable and dangerous, the cunning just makes it even more scary. He's also charismatic, having created his own faction in the pride, and winning the loyalty of his natural enemies, the Hyena. He's unfortunately too much of a coward, but that's makes him all the more hateful as he tried to murder his brother and nephew, usurp a kingdom, more or less enslave his sister in law, and nearly bring the land into ruin.He's not as good as Professor Ratigan, but he's a damn good villain. By the way, did I mention he has nazi undertones and eventually betrays everyone?

Cars are kinda like the steel industry in the US. The costs of labor and economic value of the company eventually starts to force that labor overseas. What happened to cars is what happened to the steel industry, companies went under, or went on strike, and this caused a need to import. Once people learned that you can import steel from japan at a far lower cost than being mined locally, they switched. Same happened with the cars, material bought in several countries, brought to china, and assembled, important parts assembled in korea or japan for better quality control, then imported to china to also be assembled. Eventually you ship them out back to whatever country. It's even more lucrative when you realize that even if labor in the US got cheap enough to attract companies again, the cost of exporting thanks to tariffs would raise the prices again. You see this sort of stuff constantly hit every industry, every niche. Even traditionally made products like Shemagh's in small corner venues got killed off by chinese labor. It's it's not china, it's korea, if it's not korea, it's mexico, if it's not mexico, it's jamaica, if not that... you get the idea. The issue with cars and everything else is cost vs profit, all companies seek it, and someone always pays the price. It's become more apparent as you see the economy in countries like the UK and the US see a larger gap between rich and poor. The reason is because all those jobs, labor, and money are eventually going to other countries. Now, these countries, like India, China, Korea, and the more are coming back with that money, buying up US and UK assets, buying up companies, the decades result of our money and labor being pushed in there and raising their standards of economy. Just look at the UK, several major companies, even entire ports owned by India or China. The US has had similar results, even protests over some plans to sell them overseas due to security risks. It's kinda weird that the rich call themselve job makers. They aren't, they never invest back into our local economies, thus leading to these problems. People are buying cars precisely because these job makers sit on their money or send it overseas. =/

oh, but he knew how to party. Somethings tells me he would of gotten along with Loki if he were a marvel character.

Didn't stop Genzo from being commanded to spontaneously combust. XD