The "That's Unrealistic!" Retort Compendium

[fanboy2000]

Well, if nothing else, the undead/golem discussion did turn up video showing that a nearly armless, effectively legless humanoid can nonetheless be an effective grappler...at least within his weight class.

There's a bright side to everything!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There's a bright side to everything!

Those kids (and those like them not posted here) are incredibly amazing, aren't they?

 

[Aloïsius]

Swim DC 30 or "it's impossible to stay that long in water !"

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQITWbAaDx0]YouTube - Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole, filmed on breath hold by Julie Gautier[/ame]

 

[El Mahdi]

Swim DC 30 or "it's impossible to stay that long in water !"

I agree...except I take a bit of issue with that video being presented as proof.

That video is not of one continuous dive, but was pieced together from multiple dives; and he did not reach the bottom (as implied in the video) as the depth of that hole is almost 2 1/2 times deeper than the current world record freedive.

That video is a purely representative video attempting to show the beauty of freediving...and does so admirably...but it's not entirely real.

Freediver's breathtaking plunge into abyss part real, part fiction

Guillaume Nery underwater base jump at Dean’s Blue Hole :: Wetpixel.com

 

[Aloïsius]

True. Well, I found this one next to the first : [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Ojj2XxyMo]YouTube - Guillaume Nery World Record Free Dive[/ame]
109 m deep is not that bad, and this record has been broken since then.

 

[Saeviomagy]

"There's no way you can fall 1500 feet then just stand up and keep fighting"

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Incidentally, it might be useful if the thread starter copied the better entries into the lead post: that way we can have discussions and arguments without destroying the point of the thread.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

"There's no way you can fall 1500 feet then just stand up and keep fighting"

The Free Fall Research Page, sponsored by Green Harbor Publications

Incidentally, it might be useful if the thread starter copied the better entries into the lead post: that way we can have discussions and arguments without destroying the point of the thread.

I can do that soon, I'm just really lazy. I'd want to put the videos as web addresses / links instead of embedded videos, to keep the page from taking forever to load, I think.

 

[Aloïsius]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo0Cazxj_yc]YouTube - PEOPLE ARE AWESOME[/ame]

Mostly strange (from a D&D point of view...biking is what ?) applications of the tumble skill and ranged attacks with improvised weapons. Some fakes included I guess.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Here's a link to that history thread:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/242110-history-mythology-art-rpgs.html

 

[Hussar]

Really, you can look at a lot of the older Jackie Chan movies. That stuff isn't faked, no wires (usually) and just amazing stuff. Granted, it's choreographed, sure, but, it's still done without any outside help.