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I just wanted to cut out this snippet and paste it here because I completely agree here. There is no being that's invincible, no matter how unnecessarily overpowered you make them.
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Meyer thinks that humans are limited to two types of weapons: guns and slow-moving bombs. Oh, Meyer. You silly, silly bitch. There is one thing that we humans have been consistently good at since we first picked up a rock and looked speculatively at that turtle hiding smugly inside of its shell:
We’re really, really good at figuring out how to kill things.
But we don’t like to stop at “kill it dead”. Nah, that’d be boring. We like to figure out inventive ways to kill things. And we like to do it with pizzazz. We like to figure out how we can kill as many things as possible with just one tiny weapon. We like to think up many different kinds of weapons to do the job for us. We also like to see if we can kill just that one thing that’s hiding and leave everything else around it untouched. We can target literally anything we want. All we need to do is exploit a distinctive trait that whatever we want dead has. We can kill multiples, we can kill singles, and we can do it creatively.
And it is the twenty-first century. We are armed with a lot more than just sticks and, what did you call them in Bree Tanner…ah yes, “pop-guns”.
A whole lot more. (link)
Think of the sheer amount of military-grade weaponry you know about from the USA alone. Now think about all of the military-grade weaponry you know about from other countries. And now think about all of the military-grade weaponry you probably don’t know about because it’s kept top secret.
Your vampires have basically just revealed themselves to humanity. We know they would—look no further than Bree’s own words about her species to get confirmation of that:
"Again, I imagined the whole horde of us on the loose without a curfew. I could see Diego and me moving like ninjas through the shade. But I could also see Raoul, Kevin, and the rest, sparkling disco-ball monsters in the center of a busy downtown street, the bodies piling up, the screaming, the helicopters whirring, the soft, helpless cops with their dinky little bullets that wouldn’t make a dent, the cameras, the panic that would spread so fast as the pictures bounced swiftly around the globe.
Vampires wouldn’t be a secret for very long. Even Raoul couldn’t kill people fast enough to keep the story from spreading."
Yeah. Without fear of repercussions, vampires would gladly march out into the sun and start killing people for no other reason than to laugh and show everyone how powerful they are and crush the humans beneath them because they’re gods and humans are tasty morsels.
You have just introduced a global threat to the human race. This isn’t something that is attacking one country—oh no, these things are attacking everybody. This is the equivalent of an alien invasion.
*delicately* You just united seven billion people against a common enemy, and those seven billion people have more technology, weapons, and ways to kill you than you can possibly comprehend.
You can’t hide—we can easily find you. You can’t blend in—Meyer didn’t make you that way. You can’t run—your top speed is 180 mph. You can’t hide behind human shields—we can narrow the focus and kill just you. And most of all, you do not have the advantage. Meyer’s all about numbers, as we know, and brute force. It is now, at most, a few thousand vampires against SEVEN FUCKING BILLION.
THAT. IS NOT. A SMALL. NUMBER.
THAT IS A BIG NUMBER!!!!!
I know you think you’ve made your vampires invincible against humans, Meyer, but the truth is you haven’t. Aro is right—humans would wipe them out. We would. We would kill them all, your precious Cullens included. And if you continue to insist that no mere human weaponry could kill them, well, you also provided humans with two potential allies that are very powerful and can definitely kill your vampires, because they have.
Shape-shifters and werewolves. Shape-shifters are guardians against vampires, and werewolves were driven to the brink of extinction by vampires.
The only possible way the Cullens could survive a human uprising would be to side with the humans and reveal all vampire weaknesses and fight with them. Even then, they would so not get to go back to their lifestyle once it was over. They would have severe regulations and restrictions placed upon them—if they weren’t just locked up in a lab on Area 51 for the rest of eternity—to say nothing of what the government and law officials would say when they discovered all of the ill-gotten gains the Cullens have been sitting on for the past few centuries. All of that money would go bye-bye.
Basically, Meyer, what I’m trying to say is that you have made yourself a world where they Volturi have to exist for your Cullens to enjoy your perfect fantasy life. The Volturi are guaranteeing the Cullens’ lavish, untouched existence. They don’t have to worry about the Southern vampires coming up and trying to take them out and take their territories, they don’t have to worry about vampire babies eating all their food or destroying their stuff, they don’t have to worry about werewolves killing them, and they don’t have to worry about humans tracking them via their heat-sink bodies or a slight glimmer from their sparkly cells and firebombing the shit out of them. They get to live without fear of anybody killing them and get to enjoy all of that money and rich stuff because the Volturi keep vampires in check and make sure they don’t run wild and destroy the world—because you said it yourself. Without the Volturi, they would.
You fail on every conceivable level.
I just wanted to cut out this snippet and paste it here because I completely agree here. There is no being that's invincible, no matter how unnecessarily overpowered you make them.
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Meyer thinks that humans are limited to two types of weapons: guns and slow-moving bombs. Oh, Meyer. You silly, silly bitch. There is one thing that we humans have been consistently good at since we first picked up a rock and looked speculatively at that turtle hiding smugly inside of its shell:
We’re really, really good at figuring out how to kill things.
But we don’t like to stop at “kill it dead”. Nah, that’d be boring. We like to figure out inventive ways to kill things. And we like to do it with pizzazz. We like to figure out how we can kill as many things as possible with just one tiny weapon. We like to think up many different kinds of weapons to do the job for us. We also like to see if we can kill just that one thing that’s hiding and leave everything else around it untouched. We can target literally anything we want. All we need to do is exploit a distinctive trait that whatever we want dead has. We can kill multiples, we can kill singles, and we can do it creatively.
And it is the twenty-first century. We are armed with a lot more than just sticks and, what did you call them in Bree Tanner…ah yes, “pop-guns”.
A whole lot more. (link)
Think of the sheer amount of military-grade weaponry you know about from the USA alone. Now think about all of the military-grade weaponry you know about from other countries. And now think about all of the military-grade weaponry you probably don’t know about because it’s kept top secret.
Your vampires have basically just revealed themselves to humanity. We know they would—look no further than Bree’s own words about her species to get confirmation of that:
"Again, I imagined the whole horde of us on the loose without a curfew. I could see Diego and me moving like ninjas through the shade. But I could also see Raoul, Kevin, and the rest, sparkling disco-ball monsters in the center of a busy downtown street, the bodies piling up, the screaming, the helicopters whirring, the soft, helpless cops with their dinky little bullets that wouldn’t make a dent, the cameras, the panic that would spread so fast as the pictures bounced swiftly around the globe.
Vampires wouldn’t be a secret for very long. Even Raoul couldn’t kill people fast enough to keep the story from spreading."
Yeah. Without fear of repercussions, vampires would gladly march out into the sun and start killing people for no other reason than to laugh and show everyone how powerful they are and crush the humans beneath them because they’re gods and humans are tasty morsels.
You have just introduced a global threat to the human race. This isn’t something that is attacking one country—oh no, these things are attacking everybody. This is the equivalent of an alien invasion.
*delicately* You just united seven billion people against a common enemy, and those seven billion people have more technology, weapons, and ways to kill you than you can possibly comprehend.
You can’t hide—we can easily find you. You can’t blend in—Meyer didn’t make you that way. You can’t run—your top speed is 180 mph. You can’t hide behind human shields—we can narrow the focus and kill just you. And most of all, you do not have the advantage. Meyer’s all about numbers, as we know, and brute force. It is now, at most, a few thousand vampires against SEVEN FUCKING BILLION.
THAT. IS NOT. A SMALL. NUMBER.
THAT IS A BIG NUMBER!!!!!
I know you think you’ve made your vampires invincible against humans, Meyer, but the truth is you haven’t. Aro is right—humans would wipe them out. We would. We would kill them all, your precious Cullens included. And if you continue to insist that no mere human weaponry could kill them, well, you also provided humans with two potential allies that are very powerful and can definitely kill your vampires, because they have.
Shape-shifters and werewolves. Shape-shifters are guardians against vampires, and werewolves were driven to the brink of extinction by vampires.
The only possible way the Cullens could survive a human uprising would be to side with the humans and reveal all vampire weaknesses and fight with them. Even then, they would so not get to go back to their lifestyle once it was over. They would have severe regulations and restrictions placed upon them—if they weren’t just locked up in a lab on Area 51 for the rest of eternity—to say nothing of what the government and law officials would say when they discovered all of the ill-gotten gains the Cullens have been sitting on for the past few centuries. All of that money would go bye-bye.
Basically, Meyer, what I’m trying to say is that you have made yourself a world where they Volturi have to exist for your Cullens to enjoy your perfect fantasy life. The Volturi are guaranteeing the Cullens’ lavish, untouched existence. They don’t have to worry about the Southern vampires coming up and trying to take them out and take their territories, they don’t have to worry about vampire babies eating all their food or destroying their stuff, they don’t have to worry about werewolves killing them, and they don’t have to worry about humans tracking them via their heat-sink bodies or a slight glimmer from their sparkly cells and firebombing the shit out of them. They get to live without fear of anybody killing them and get to enjoy all of that money and rich stuff because the Volturi keep vampires in check and make sure they don’t run wild and destroy the world—because you said it yourself. Without the Volturi, they would.
You fail on every conceivable level.
Okay guys, I know everyone's got their own opinion and not everyone has the RIGHT opinion, but as a Twilight fan, can one of you Potter fans explain what you guys see in Harry Potter? Honestly, I haven't read all the books, but I've seen all the movies and they just don't make any sense. And another thing, the plot is bland and there's no real depth to it, like in Twilight. Harry Potter, also has no love in it, which makes for a boring story. Anyways, I just wanted to know what you crazies see in those books and stuff...
Okay...
See ya :D
Mariella
xxx
Okay...
See ya :D
Mariella
xxx
1. its just all thrown together and the movies leave out way to much.
2. it has no meaning just a girl falls in love then is a vampire the end.
3. is just plain stupid.simple as that
4. theres nothing to figure out. its to predictable.
5. it dosent have enough back story which goes back to # 1
6.and stephine myer wants to keep all the good players while j.k. isnt afraid to for the sake of the book
7.why doesnt she mentention why bellas parent got seperated which geos back to #4
8. it has no plot
9. the problem is the same all the way throughout the sires as h.p. faces many problems.
10.its down right boring hmm lets read the same boring thing over and over! yea! NOT!
TEN REASONS TWILIGHT IS HORRIBLE!!!!
2. it has no meaning just a girl falls in love then is a vampire the end.
3. is just plain stupid.simple as that
4. theres nothing to figure out. its to predictable.
5. it dosent have enough back story which goes back to # 1
6.and stephine myer wants to keep all the good players while j.k. isnt afraid to for the sake of the book
7.why doesnt she mentention why bellas parent got seperated which geos back to #4
8. it has no plot
9. the problem is the same all the way throughout the sires as h.p. faces many problems.
10.its down right boring hmm lets read the same boring thing over and over! yea! NOT!
TEN REASONS TWILIGHT IS HORRIBLE!!!!
Before you all come out with pitchforks and guns, I'd just like to say this is my opinion.
1, Half of the fans only like Twilight, because they think Rob/Taylor is hot.
2, I can't argue about the plot because there isn't one.
3, Bella has no personaility.
4, Edward is just plain creepy.
5, Bella always needs a man in her life. When Edward leaves she needs Jacob. This is really stupid.
6,Bella wouldn't even look at Edward if he wasn't hot.
7, Edward wouldn't look at Bella if she didn't smell good.
8, It gives a bad message. Like kill yourself when your sparkly boyfriend is around. Or there is no point in being happy unless you have a boyfriend. Or it's ok to ditch your friends to date a super hot vampire.
9,Meyer constantly repeats the same words to tell us how hot Edward is. This gets boring after two pages.
10, The actors suck.
There,ten reasons. Feel free to add on more.
1, Half of the fans only like Twilight, because they think Rob/Taylor is hot.
2, I can't argue about the plot because there isn't one.
3, Bella has no personaility.
4, Edward is just plain creepy.
5, Bella always needs a man in her life. When Edward leaves she needs Jacob. This is really stupid.
6,Bella wouldn't even look at Edward if he wasn't hot.
7, Edward wouldn't look at Bella if she didn't smell good.
8, It gives a bad message. Like kill yourself when your sparkly boyfriend is around. Or there is no point in being happy unless you have a boyfriend. Or it's ok to ditch your friends to date a super hot vampire.
9,Meyer constantly repeats the same words to tell us how hot Edward is. This gets boring after two pages.
10, The actors suck.
There,ten reasons. Feel free to add on more.
"This kiss between Hermione and Ron is highly anticipated, it's been building up for eight films now. And Harry Potter is not Twilight, you know; we're not selling sex." - Emma Watson
If you think Emma Watson is stupid for quoting this, you are outta your mind. You think Twilight's not selling sex? Irony. Irony how some twi-hards reason out "BECAUSE EDWARD CULLEN IS SO SEXY!!!" if asked why Twilight is better than Harry Potter.
For me, Twilight is just popular 'cause it has sex appeal. Wait for several years, no one will be talking about Twilight anymore.. Harry Potter won't be talked about that much but it will never be forgotten.In my case, I know Harry Potter will be a future classic.
Twilight fans go ahead and attack me, whenever you're ready.
If you think Emma Watson is stupid for quoting this, you are outta your mind. You think Twilight's not selling sex? Irony. Irony how some twi-hards reason out "BECAUSE EDWARD CULLEN IS SO SEXY!!!" if asked why Twilight is better than Harry Potter.
For me, Twilight is just popular 'cause it has sex appeal. Wait for several years, no one will be talking about Twilight anymore.. Harry Potter won't be talked about that much but it will never be forgotten.In my case, I know Harry Potter will be a future classic.
Twilight fans go ahead and attack me, whenever you're ready.
This article isn't mine, this is just an article I found on cracked.com (one of the best sites ever!). I agree with most of it, and on that note remember this is opion based, not fact. This is...*drumroll* if you don't hate Twilight already, why you SHOULD hate Twilight!
Click here to check out the article:
link
Enjoy, and no getting pissy (that's right I'm talking to YOU Twilight fan girls) if you're going to post, DON'T POST unless you write something I can understand. For example, THIS is something I can't understand:
omg liek edward iz liek sooo hawt an like sexxii an liek OMG umminess an u hateur iz liek tttly stoopid an homo an--
It's hurts too much to even finish the example! Anyway, again no haters and enjoy!
Click here to check out the article:
link
Enjoy, and no getting pissy (that's right I'm talking to YOU Twilight fan girls) if you're going to post, DON'T POST unless you write something I can understand. For example, THIS is something I can't understand:
omg liek edward iz liek sooo hawt an like sexxii an liek OMG umminess an u hateur iz liek tttly stoopid an homo an--
It's hurts too much to even finish the example! Anyway, again no haters and enjoy!