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  1. 15 minutes ago, RamjetFDO said:

    On the other hand - I'm getting very tired of the "oh well, we lost another Starship" casualness.  You are eventually going to run out of taxpayer money (funneled through Elon).

     

    I agree with your sentiment.  It's helpful to consider that other Aerospace Cos just lose that money without launching a thing. 

    They just burn that money in the waterfall design process.  Starliner?  When will it fly in production?  

    I think that Space X has shown that they can deliver, and perhaps more importantly can capture the public's attention and therefore government cash.   Maybe think of these flights as 75% development 25% marketing

    Disclosure:  Fuck Space Elmo

  2. 11 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Dat hairstyle doe.

    Agreed. Standing up for Blackthorne took guts, and the gift exchange was quite touching. 

    She's not scared of death...  she's hoping for it.  It's been 30yrs since I read the book, but IIRC it was some Japanese 5d chess.  Women ran the home and she was within her right to ask him to leave.  So he had leave or risk losing face.

    If she died protecting the guns, she has served Toranaga, protected her family honor, done her duty to the Gaijin, and gotten a quick death.  

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  3. On 3/11/2024 at 6:05 PM, MissingInAction said:

    90% subtitles is just too much to keep straight for my booze addled brain.

    I can do a show in Spanish because I speak the language..sort of. Enough to at least not have to stare at the subtitles the entire viewing.

    Well on Hulu you can go into episodes and choose the english dub version.  I normally hate dubs, but it's been pretty good so far (there are still some sub titles though)

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  4. 32 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Yeah, they did that for me with England and Ireland. It may be accurate, it may have to do with how many people there took the test. In my case, there's a good 1/4 of the family with Highland Scottish names who barely leave a blip. For some of them we know which town or island they came from, but no dice.

    On the other hand, pretty strong showings in the west of Ireland and round about Manchester, Liverpool, and nearby industrial areas. I don't doubt that many of them came from there too, it matches other names. So where are the Scottish Highlanders? Well, most of them don't live in the Highlands anymore, thanks to the clearances and normal backwoods emptying-out. So where might distant cousins from there live now? Possibly all over. Sitting in Manchester taking 23nMe tests?

    But in the meantime I just claim the Pogues and Gerry and the Pacemakers.

    Same-ish   Lots of Scottish surnames in my family and family lore of being predominantly Scots.  Ancestry returned majority English ~65% Scotish~17% Irish~13% and Germany/Norway making up the rest.

    Here's the rub... there is also a decent bit of French in my family...  I know this because I have genealogical records of ancestors coming directly from France.   This is why...


    Illegal DNA test in France
    It is considered illegal to take a DNA test outside of legal proceedings in France. According to the law, it is forbidden to carry out a genetic analysis in a private setting, for example on the internet or abroad. Therefore, as an individual, you do not have the right to use tests considered recreational through private laboratories.

     

    Bottom line these tests are only as accurate as the data they are compared against.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/22/578293890/my-grandmother-was-italian-why-arent-my-genes-italian

  5. 7 minutes ago, Nole-4-Life said:

    Watched it yesterday and definitely weird. Has Emma Stone ever done nudity before because she was hella nude in this.

    You're Frankenstein description is spot on. They wanna fuck control her, not kill her.

    What happens to her former husband at the end still has me chuckling.

    That wrinkle was nicely set up.

  6. Poor Things...  it was good, but I have found that I'm thinking about the movie more and more. and not like that you pervs!

    Best line of the film.  

    Spoiler

    I am my own means of production

    A lot to unpack

  7. 1 hour ago, honolulu horn said:

    Worked at the FEC through undergrad. Loved working there, from being an usher to working security to being in the front office. The whole place was a blast and the people were cool to work with. Best times were when big shows would roll in -- you could meet the performers if you knew where to be when. I was never obnoxious about it, but I wasn't going to miss a chance to meet people. The best memories are shaking Stevie Ray's hand and working security outside of Van Halen's dressing room. Met all of them, they were all super cool, and Eddie warmed up for the show right in front of me. Thanks FEC for letting me meet and hang with my two guitar heroes. 

    man! I worked security @UF.   I only got to see Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, and Garth Brooks!  ^This is some bullshit!

     

    csb I was one of a few guys working security for a small indie band I'd never heard of.  It did not go well, toughest gig I ever worked.  It was Indigo Girls and the crowd was not really thrilled with the phallocracy.  Just 4 guys trying to tell 1000+ women what they could and could not do.  Not scary but very very hostile.

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  8. 5 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    Go ahead and disagree with me, but don't assume that I don't know about the casualty rates among bomber crews. 

    There are movies that take place over the course of a day or two that have great character development. It's not a matter of time; it's a matter of dramatization.

    Every bomber crew wasn't lost on their second mission. This series chooses principal characters from history who actually didn't die right away. They're not much more than 2-dimensional as presented.

    I would suggest that the value you are getting from the characters as portrayed is from what you bring to the series yourself. There's nothing wrong with that. I've liked movies that others haven't cared about for the same reason. The Banshees of Inisheren was perhaps more profoundly meaningful to me because I happen to know about that time in Irish history. The same may be happening for you in this series. 

    For brief depthening of a character, one great example comes to mind. In the original Cape Fear, the opening is of Cady walking the sidewalk and his path is intersecting that of an attractive woman at the courthouse struggling to carry books. Just before their paths cross, she fumbles the stack onto the ground. Cady just strolls by without a glance. 

    Bingo, in under a minute, we have key insight into Cady. This happens in movies all the time.

    I will disagree with you and also agree with you...  Do I think MotA has done a great job fleshing out characters?  No I don't, and I don't solely blame the circumstance of the war.    I do think there are serious problems presented by the nature of the story.  Large groups of men doing a single highly coordinated task while separated/isolated into groups of 10.  For a BoB type telling I think they should have focused on one bomber crew, 10 men, but I do think it would have given those characters plot armor and taken away a key message.  Friends, comrades, and maybe you just vanish into thin air.

    How impactful would that scene have been to the movie if Cody was immediately struck by a truck and killed?  The characters are getting turned over too quickly to read those traits into a longer story.  I think that "a mile wide and an inch deep" was a trade off to tell a larger story (in 10? episodes), one not associated specific individuals, but with the collective experience of a large group.  

    I'd have liked twice the run time of each episode and deeper dives into the characters, but there's only so much $$ and time.

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  9. 38 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I'm guessing that, like The Pacific, this is suffering comparison to BoB, which really was a remarkable work. 

    Yes, the plot is constrained by truth and actual events, but with BoB you had the benefit of Ambrose' oral history work and the living characters to provide an unusual amount of character development. Not to mention 80% of the characters didn't die every couple of weeks after dday. 

    I read Crosbys book, and you learn quickly that the Bucks were almost the undoing of the 100th and that it required serious, dull, mean men to snap it into shape. 

    Also, in a lot of ways, the story of the 8th AF is kind of monotonous on a daily level: fly, bomb, die. The story lies in tactical shifts and technical advances over time. The show seems to be doing a good job with that. 

    This^

    It's hard to do a lot of character development when most of the characters die.   More Airforce personnel died in crashes than all the Marines killed in WWII... Just let that sink in...  MotA did have a quick reference.   Imagine if BoB was reduced to one character after Dday and had to roll over characters every 2 episodes.   Flying bombers was just that much more dangerous. 

    Attached is a history of the 401st if you are interested.  My Great Uncle was in the 401st (H) bomb group, he died in a crash in Montana one week before deploying to Deenethorpe.

    "On October 1st, (1943) the 612th Squadron lost a Flying Fortress with nine men aboard in an accident over the Big Sandy bombing range. The Fortress was piloted by 2nd Lt. John McIlwain. The plane was flying in formation as they approached the bombing range when observers in other Fortresses saw it go out of control and spin in. All the crew were killed."

    US MILITARY CASUALTIES IN WORLD WAR II
     

    Branch Killed Wounded
    Army and Air Force 318,274 565,861
    Navy 62,614 37,778
    Marines 24,511 68,207
    Coast Guard 1,917 Unknown
    TOTAL 407,316 671,278

     

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces

    USAAF statistical summary[edit]

    The United States Army Air Forces incurred 12% of the Army's 936,000 battle casualties in World War II. 88,119 airmen died in service. 52,173 were battle casualty deaths: 45,520 killed in action, 1,140 died of wounds, 3,603 were missing in action and declared dead, and 1,910 were non-hostile battle deaths. Of the United States military and naval services, only the Army Ground Forces suffered more battle deaths. 35,946 non-battle deaths included 25,844 in aircraft accidents, more than half of which occurred within the Continental United States.[118] 63,209 members of the USAAF were other battle casualties. 18,364 were wounded in action and required medical evacuation, and 41,057 became prisoners-of-war.[118][119] Its casualties were 5.1% of its strength, compared to 10% for the rest of the Army.[120][n 58]

     

    401stBG(H).pdf

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