Given that the “enemy” has F-14's, and the only nation still flying F-14's is Iran. Iran is getting aircraft for delivering drones to Russia for thier invasion of Ukriane. At the current rate of Iranian getting more and more advanced kit for continued support they’ll likely end up with the SU-57 by the summer.  Which…

given that evangelical stance of many of them that is the active truth. They see it as God would protect the planet unless it was the end-times. The think they are so close to getting thier heavenly reward and the wicked will suffer as Earth is thrown into the lake of fire.

So he probably needs to make a single sale to recoup the costs. Either that or it’s money laundering. 

Given the AI derived art and ridiculous price tag Tech-Bro would also fit with your criteria.

You realize that everything you listed in your last paragraph are propagated by men right? Men who have thier own ideas of what being strong and masculine entail? Men are suffering at the hands of other men, not feminists. 

The clear solution is to go like ED-209 and make it fail deadly.  

It was part of our treaty with the Ent’s.

Given that Mass Effect was a modern twist on classic scifi tropes I thought the title card thing was in intentional throwback to how 80's movies would set things up? I mean Top Gun was hardly the first nor the last to do it. Plus without Harold Faltermeyer’s instrumental “Top Gun Anthem” transitioning into Kenny…

I mean Alex Jones’ lawyer accidentally threw him to the wolves and is facing bar issues. 

Yeah, poop jokes aren’t my favorite.

They are however a solid number 2. 

It’s the techbro mentality. They engage in age old criminal activity but change the name and repackage it as an open business model.  

The original Archive 81 podcast that it was based on is pretty interesting. 

The marketing of the movie tried to make it appeal to a demographic that didn’t tolerate speculative fiction at the time. This was before speculative fiction movies had broad mainstream appeal and the film executives had an understanding of that appeal. Scifi was either straight up popcorn movie or a family affair.…

You’d think Nintendo would want to scrub the fact that there are Zelda games for the Panasonic CD-i in existence.

Lockheed Martin built the darkstar mockup for the movie.  

honestly with the production line closed and so few hours on it the parts are worth more than keeping it airborne. Those parts can be used to keep other workhorse aircraft flying which have a greater impact on the global economy.

It was definitely intended to be difficult. It’s just some of the mechanics were clunky is all. I think the falling over was the thing that irritated me the most, really upsets the flow of combat, you could avert it with the dash pedal but that uses more fuel. The narrow field of view in some of the VT’s was annoying…

I owned Steel Battalion. About half the buttons only had a function in the mech (VT) start-up process and you’d only need to touch them again if your mech stalled. You could toggle them off once you started the engine to no ill effect making restart slightly faster. The game itself was kind of clunky. The pitiful fuel…

I wonder if they’ll bring back PLOW much to the chagrin of the hardcore AC players? Human Plus was the neatest little easter egg in the first game. For those unaware if you ended up with like -20000 credits in debt you’d get a “game over” cutscene with doctors ostensibly performing surgery on you. Then the game would…

I’m curious about how they’ll deal with mecha speed. The games were always slow and plodding. I wonder if they’ll speed things up to fit with the times?