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atomheartbevo

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  1. Came across this, and it backs up what I heard from somebody I know who recently went through the NTC - US Army is doing full-blown drone warfare training, complete with drones dropping various items on soldiers during training exercises. Soldiers Train to Counter Growing Drone Threat | AUSA
  2. RPM, did you see Conclave yet?
  3. I'd be good with bringing back the Roman Empire. I mean, we all think about the Roman Empire multiple times a week, if not every day.
  4. At his age, shingles will fuck you up.
  5. To be fair, this was swimming on the planet he was raised.
  6. I want to comment on this, hopefully you are not institutionalized by this point. There are some really good ST novels, particularly covering the original characters, that were written by legit sci-fi authors who happened to write some ST novels (and even some episodes of Star Trek TV). Then there are ST novels written by people who were…authors…and most likely commissioned to pump them out. There were as bad as some of the shitty Star Wars EU stuff, complete with Kirk and Spock saving the universe dozens of times.
  7. I think they were too afraid of repeating earlier stories. I wish they had compressed or ditched a few side plots and instead spent the last half of the season with Jo running Playpen and interacting with Ubisoft management while Mythic Quest fades and maybe Ian tried to bring it back. Maybe bring in another old sci fi writer. The writing staff is amazing as you can tell by some of the standalone episodes. I give them credit for wrapping up some story arcs like Pooti aging, etc.
  8. I don’t know how far you’re in, but while I love the main cast, my favorite episodes are the ones focused on other people: A Dark Quiet Death / 1st season Backstory / 2nd season The Side Quest mini-series (released last month)
  9. $660 million ain’t bad, and passed up Sonic 3 as second biggest video game adaptation. The irony is the target audience is probably too busy playing Minecraft to see the movie multiple times.
  10. Doesn’t matter if it’s shit, it was their top streaming movie of the year. If they don’t get rid of everybody and bring in Gunn, she would have pumped out Wonder Woman 2036 or had her Amazonia TV series in production (she even wrote or co-wrote the scripts for the season). Gunn has backed up her comments about her time there. And LucasFilm could have let her out of her contract last year (it was signed and sealed right as the strike started) but they still wanted to work with her in some capacity, but there’s some weird shit going on there with what can and can’t go into production. For a while it sounded like everything live-action Star Wars except Mando and Andor was finished, but now the flood gates are opening up. Shit, I didn’t have a stand-alone Maul series on my bingo card. We really are likely to get a Thrawn series.
  11. Legislature is going to have to take over zoning and permit approvals. Can't let the locals think they have a say!
  12. She actually turned in a script last year to LucasFilm (she started writing it in March of 2024) - they held her to her contract they signed right before the strike happened. Unfortunately for her, outside of existing Star Wars IP, it sounds like everything is going to take place in the future (Starfighter) or in the past (Knights of the Republic stuff). I would have liked a Rogue Squadron movie, but if you're into conspiracy theories, it's more proof that some at Disney are embarrassed that the stuff set around the OT does better with fans than the shittastic sequels. Wonder Woman 1984 was released simultaneously on HBOMax streaming and was released in only a few theater chains during COVID when many/most theaters were still shut down. She had the misfortune of COVID combined with TimeWarnerDiscoveryCNN taking over HBOMax and pushing all of the DC people out and bringing in Gunn and Co. and starting over (and Gunn has supported her comments about it on social media). It was still HBOMAXTIMEWARNERCHIPJOANNAGAINESDISCOVERYTRUECRIME's biggest streaming movie of the year. A fuckload of people watched it at home.
  13. So what's up next for Coogler? X-Files Reboot & Gillian Anderson's Potential Involvement Get Encouraging Update From Ryan Coogler
  14. It needs to be an Apple TV series done by the Foundation people.
  15. She's also one of the really super powerful ones that could come in and do what about 30 other Avengers couldn't do.
  16. I would rather this have been set 5 years before New Hope.
  17. They are going all-in on the Jack Kirby era and artwork, so it looks pretty awesome to me.
  18. But I’m not dropping $500+ just to play it (game plus a Switch 2). We still have original Switch games to crank through. But damn it looks awesome.
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