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Spoiler[06:06am] Godbot: guys what if there was a disaster movie where the protagonists had 48 hours to destroy the world
[06:06am] elpie: Before what
[06:07am] Godbot: I haven't figured that part out yet
[06:07am] Schazer: before someone else does it for 'em
[06:07am] Sanzh: Before the universe is destroyed
[06:08am] Pharmacy: "to save the world, we must destroy it!"
[06:08am] Godbot: yes
[06:08am] Pharmacy: "I have no idea how we are going through with this plan, but we shall!"
[06:09am] Sanzh: "Mr. President, are you seriously suggesting we launch /all the nukes/?"
[06:09am] Pharmacy: "yes"
[06:09am] Schazer: "ok we are broke"
[06:09am] elpie left the chat room. (Quit: elpie)
[06:09am] Pharmacy: "
[06:09am] Godbot: "SELL THE COUNTRY"
[06:09am] Pharmacy: the world will thank us for this"
[06:09am] Godbot: "BUY MORE NUKES"
[06:10am] Schazer: "we can lie to space insurance that we dropped nukes by accident"
[06:10am] Agengie: "Where shall we store all these nukes?"
[06:10am] Godbot: yesssss
[06:10am] Schazer: "it's ok we have a backup earth on Alpha Centauri"
[06:10am] Godbot: it's insurance fraud
[06:10am] Godbot: that HAS to be it
[06:10am] Pharmacy: "the best thing since the Ponzi Scheme!"
[06:10am] Sanzh: "We'll store the nukes in Russia, damnit"
[06:10am] Godbot: that's fucking perfect
[06:10am] Schazer: it's like bank heist meets apocalypse movie
[06:10am] Sanzh: "and by store I mean detonate"
[06:10am] Pharmacy: "we are tactical geniuses, also master businessman"
[06:11am] Godbot: we've hired a ragtag team of accountants with guns
[06:11am] Sanzh: that's what first contact will be
[06:11am] Godbot: and a love interest who is also a scientist?
[06:12am] Godbot: man that's what happens
[06:12am] Sanzh: we meet aliens trying to sell us planet insurance
[06:12am] Pharmacy: "it's either US or THEM"
[06:12am] Godbot: it's first contact and they sell is planet insurance
[06:12am] Godbot: exactly
[06:12am] Sanzh: in case, you know
[06:12am] Pharmacy: "there can only be one"
[06:12am] Godbot: *us
[06:12am] Schazer: The Italian Job meets Armageddon
[06:12am] Sanzh: anything bad happens
[06:12am] Godbot: oh man what if it was such a huge scam
[06:12am] Godbot: that our economy would never recover unless we destroy the world
[06:13am] Godbot: so now we're destroying the world on a budget!
[06:13am] Schazer: The Budget Blowout of the Billenium
[06:13am] Sanzh: this all sounds like COFCA-boardroom level madness
[06:13am] Godbot: or else the economy… WILL EXPLODE
[06:14am] Schazer: this sounds glorious
[06:14am] Agengie: well
[06:14am] Agengie: spending is the grease of the economy :3
[06:15am] Agengie: what better expenditure than USING ALL THOSE NUKES XD
[06:15am] Sanzh: Agen have Aaron try to sell planet insurance
[06:15am] Agengie: SO WE CAN MAKE MORE
[06:15am] Agengie: pffffft
[06:15am] Agengie: is this before or after he buys a channel XD
[06:15am] Schazer: planet insurance is totally a hting
[06:15am] Sanzh: I dunno maybe like round 2
[06:15am] Schazer: hell they can probably back up a whole planet
[06:15am] Godbot: oh, well sure!
[06:16am] Schazer: just put it on a hard sphere
[06:16am] Schazer: (it's like a disc but more dimensions)
[06:16am] Schazer: "memories are restorable"
[06:16am] Schazer: "geology is not"
[06:16am] Schazer: "now pay out the insurance money"
[06:17am] Sanzh: The planet's indentured for the next millenia or so
[06:19am] Schazer: "lava doesn't grow back"
[06:20am] Sanzh: "oh, you wanted the moon also? shit, that'll set you back another five hundred years"
[06:22am] Godbot: they enlist the help of some grizzled old mad scientist
[06:22am] Godbot: with a doomsday device that nobody said would work
[06:22am] Sanzh: they laughed at him at the university
[06:22am] Sanzh: but he'll show them
[06:22am] Pharmacy: but they will know!
[06:22am] Sanzh: he'll show them all
[06:22am] Pharmacy: dun dun duun
[06:23am] Godbot: but only our upstart accountant protagonist can figure out which wires to put together in time to destroy the earth
[06:24am] Pharmacy: while escaping from ruthless secret agents and malicious tyrants
[06:24am] Schazer: they'll need some red herrings
[06:24am] Sanzh: wait hang on how would they blow up various landmarks prior to the finale?
[06:24am] Schazer: at least one slick talker who reckons that a biological method is the way to go, none of that fancy-schamncy gadgetry
[06:24am] Godbot: nukes
[06:24am] Godbot: orbital lasers, proboably
[06:24am] Godbot: all sorts of high budget shit
[06:24am] Pharmacy: kill sat
[06:24am] Sanzh: aw they can't like
[06:24am] Schazer: they'll need the computer whizz who's watching on high from the International Space Station
[06:25am] Schazer: oh and solar flares'll be a plot point
[06:25am] Sanzh: use giant rockets to move the Earth closer and initialize an irregular higgs boson wave
[06:25am] Godbot: oh certainly
[06:25am] Sanzh: (that's what's big in science right)
[06:25am] Schazer: maybe they could knock the earth out of orbit
[06:25am] Schazer: or blow up the moon
[06:26am] Godbot: that's totally the finale
[06:26am] Sanzh: yesss blow up the moon
[06:26am] Godbot: they knock the moon out of orbit and crash it into the earth
[06:26am] Schazer: maybe that's easier and has fewer political undercurrents than nuking a country specifically
[06:26am] Schazer: oh man
[06:26am] Sanzh: but it turns out the guy who did the demolitions rigging just wanted Earth to have some rings
[06:26am] Schazer: let's punch the ozone layer until Antarctica melts
[06:26am] Schazer: and that's the opening
[06:27am] Sanzh: what if we have a couple of tectonic plates just turn upside down
[06:27am] Schazer: our protagonist (a sassy somehow wealthy semi-retired journalist on a houseboat?) tries to find the source behind the recent melting of Antarctica
[06:27am] Schazer: and discovers this task force that needs to blow up the world
[06:28am] Godbot: that is basically every carl hiaasen character ever
[06:28am] Sanzh: a multinational task force of course
[06:28am] Godbot: of course!
[06:28am] Schazer: but then he leads the misguided World Feds to the task force's door and then it's a race against time to get those nukes to the moon?
[06:29am] Sanzh: maybe throw in a criminal syndicate trying to hijack the operation for their own ends
[06:29am] Schazer: they want to mess up the operation
[06:29am] Schazer: because they want to sell the intact world to somebody else
[06:29am] Schazer: then it's a double-heist
[06:29am] Schazer: they sell the world
[06:29am] Schazer: then blow it up
[06:30am] Schazer: because the criminal syndicate is led by a sexy capable female foil to the everyman taskforce member male protagonist
[06:30am] Sanzh: this is a legitimate first contact scenario
[06:30am] Sanzh: all because someone tries to sell us planet insurance
[06:30am] Schazer: I want this to be a movie
[06:31am] Godbot: I would watch it
[06:31am] Sanzh: I would watch the hell out of it
[06:34am] DragonFogel: So what do we call it?
[06:34am] Godbot: deconstruction
[06:35am] DragonFogel: Anyways, I did some writing, but I wasn't too pleased with it.
[06:35am] Sanzh: wait hang on there's no way this'll be made unless we have a sequel pitch
[06:35am] Godbot: next they have to blow up the alien homeworld?
[06:35am] DragonFogel: Basically it was going to be about a conman who was selling electricity, except I couldn't settle on a direction for it.
[06:37am] DragonFogel: In the sequel, they have to blow up Mars.
[06:37am] Sanzh: the protagonist has fallen on hard times and has to take on one last job
[06:37am] Sanzh: to blow up the Sun
[06:38am] DragonFogel: The sequel probably involves the insurance company looking for signs of fraud.
[06:38am] Sanzh: wait no suns don't have enough landmarks, disregard that
[06:39am] DragonFogel: And the only way to derail the investigation is to blow up another planet!
[06:40am] Godbot: but there won't be any familiar landmarks to destroy!
[06:40am] Sanzh: they blow up Earth a second time
[06:40am] Sanzh: with time travel
[06:40am] Godbot: maybe they have to go back in time and blow up the past
[06:40am] Godbot: yes
[06:40am] Godbot: I was just about to say that
[06:40am] DragonFogel: Maybe they have to make it look like a biblical apocalypse.
[06:41am] Sanzh: they have to stop themselves from blowing up the planet so they can blow up the planet themselves
[06:41am] Godbot: yes.
[06:41am] Godbot: that.
[06:41am] Godbot: exactly, sanzh.
[06:42am] Sanzh: time travel makes everything better
[06:42am] DragonFogel: Then the third movie involves doing it again, except this time they plant a bomb in the Earth's core.
[06:42am] DragonFogel: "Journey To the Center of the Earth (To Blow It Up)"
[06:43am] DragonFogel: In the fourth movie, they blow up the Earth... IN SPACE