Stone cold classic. Can’t speak for everyone else, but for me and my little friends, it really shaped how we saw Vietnam vets as victims. I’d go as far as to say it pumped GenX with the unconditional love we have for vets. Didn’t want to be guilty of that shame again.
All the actors knocked it out the park. Every scene was so natural, yet the shit that went down was so inevitable. OK, Colonel Troutman overacted it all a bit, but he clearly told us who John Rambo was.
Y’all realize this is a bubble, right? I almost feel sorry for these investors, gonna have their ass handed to them in the coming decade.
Agreed. This is most likely just some people being doofy.
MS is not going to jack with Excel. It’s the one reason they sell so much Office, and arguably the only reason the product still exists.
How is it played? 3rd person?
She may well be correct with her numbers, I’m too lazy to check. But the Saffir-Simpson scale only measures wind speed. Makes for a fair thumbnail sketch, but doesn’t say much about the actual effects on the ground. For example; a slow moving CAT-3 can easily do more damage than a fast passing CAT-5. Keep in mind, Helene was only a CAT-2 by the time it hit NC, something we laugh about here in Florida. But it was huge, slow and wet. And due to the geography, well, flooding. Florida is so flat that water just drains out, nothing to channel it.
I have seen so many pictures and videos of the damage
I’ll just add this, nothing you see, or can see, in the media does justice to what it’s like living in the aftermath. My ex-FIL was in the Mississippi Guard. Two tours or Iraq, two Bronze Stars. What he saw and did after Katrina gave him PTSD and he abandoned his wife of 32-years and his daughter. Picture destruction that the United States military struggles to push through. House in the road? They fucking chainsawed them and pushed them to the sides. Stuff like that.
Ivan was my “war” and I drove MS from the Gulf Coast to Hattiesburg after Katrina. At this point I’m numb to it and the pictures all look the same.
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia
I want villains with understandable goals. Evil for evil’s sake has struck me as stupid since adulthood.
Guns. Fuck me.
Guns don’t blow the user backwards, unless it’s a truly monster rifle fired from a standing position, and they certainly don’t blow the bullet recipient backwards. The first cowboy movies showed people dropping straight down when shot and audiences thought that unrealistic. Yes, that’s realistic and, I think, far more horrifying seeing someone’s strings cut. There’s a finality that showcases how deadly guns can be.
Rattly guns. Jesus. Guns don’t rattle you Nimrods. They might make tiny sounds here and there, but Hollywood guns sound like they left out some screws or pins after assembly. I have a Colt .45, a somewhat loosey-goosey design, can’t hardly get a sound even shaking the shit out of it. You can punt about any modern gun and not hear metal on metal.
Constantly cocking, racking, charging. Look! Here’s our super badass who’s been in danger the last 20-minutes, and he’s just now chambering a round?! Or, Mr. Badass has to charge his weapon, kicking out a perfectly good round, to show he means business! And if it didn’t eject an unspent round? Action hero was running around with an unloaded weapon. What’s funny is that a real badass would fire all but the last round and then swap magazines. No charging required! Yes, that’s way harder than it sounds.
Often we do press 2 keys and fix it. That’s what they see when tech support drops by so they thinks it’s magic and all fixes work like that.
We had the coin op at the local movie theater. Didn’t play much as a quarter was real money and I lost so quickly.
Anyone remember the vector graphics Star Wars game? Man, if I could have any vintage game in my house…
If that shit rolls up on your door, they are there to execute you. Full stop. I’ll go out wearing my boots, thank you much.
“No you won’t tough guy!”
Yeah. Not going out like Daniel Chaver, pants down, begging and pleading for my fucking life. I’d be shaking like a leaf, scared shitless, but the cops have already made the decision for me.
In unrelated news, if you can’t handle your rifle or pistol absolutely vibrating, keep practicing. That’s kind of an essential thing to master.
This is why they say one must get kids exposed to The Word as young as possible. Read a quote years ago about how a 30-yo man, having never heard of Christ, would be aghast if you tried to push Christian Bible stories on him. He would think you were bugfuck.
“Really Havelock, why do you suffer such a fool on the city payroll?”
“My dear Margolotta, for the pittance I pay the man, he does the work of 10 others. Fool he may be, but he is an accurate fool.”
Lord Vetinari would have him on the city payroll.
Reminds me of when Malwarebytes changed the interface to look like a straight up virus. LOL, we were all shitting bricks.
Can we get The Black Sun while we’re at it?