yep, and it’s probably the right solution. Speaking from experience, no one is going to lift a finger until someone completely innocent dies, then they will close the bridge, and the residents will have to suffer the completely unbearable hardship of driving a few blocks out of their way to get across the tracks.

have you ever once, in your entire life, seen firsthand what happens when a truck hits something at high speed? I’m talking real life, not youtube views from the safety of your office chair while you avoid doing work. It’s one part mortar round explosion, two parts yard sale, and then season liberally with a real-life…

these old rail bridges are all fun and games with truck strikes until some jackass hauls a shipping container or a loose heavy equipment and it gets knocked off the back of the truck and kills the guy behind the truck. This has happened before. Then EVERYONE gets sued and all of a sudden, the cost of raising the…

no, they’re not. there’s both ground/ship based laser and drone based laser, which can be piloted remotely. where’s the need?

delivery systems and munitions? yes. 100%. Manned tactical dog fighter craft that usurp vast amounts of funding from everything else? No. They are now pointless.

Then it’s not an air superiority fighter anymore. it’s a gunship with no need for high speed maneuverability, and these days, you can do that with a drone. This isn’t Top Gun anymore. A pilot can’t dodge a beam of light. All he can do is be a target.

you have to be odd to be number 1

he really didn’t. his fame for advances in aerospace technology are impressive, but he’s more famous for his involvement in the movie business and being insane.

I’m gonna say it: Cameron’s movies aren’t that great. Yes, they’re visually stunning, but the stories are blah. Is he wrong? No. He’s dead-on about TFA. When it comes to making movies about man’s failed relationships with technology, the guy knows his stuff.

yes. very much so.

Some of it comes down to the way I see kids using them;. There are many MANY kids who agonize over building the lego sets and then leave them be. Too few kids (that I see) actually dismantle them and build creatively with them. then they just sit and collect dust on a bookshelf for fear of the direction-built whatever…

so I have to ask; a laser that can instantly burn a plane out of the sky... doesn’t that implicitly obsolete the idea of an air superiority fighter jet? What’s the point of an F-35 if you can incinerate it with a glance?

this is just an aside, but my daughter must have 20 lbs of lego, same of the larger ‘duplo’ scale mega blocks, and same again of Playmobil widgetry. I honestly think we get better creative play out of the playmobil and the big ‘dumb’ blocks. there’s something liberating about not having 1200 specialized parts…

merchandising, merchandising! where the real money from the movie is made. Yogurt was so sage and wise....

there’s so many ways you could go with this; you could cite Queen lyrics of “I want to Break Free”, you could go with the Braveheart “FREEDOM!” scream when they’re spooling his guts out at the end, you could even go topical with a Game of Thrones reference to Dany freeing the unsullied and then surfing the crowd. I’m…

thank you.

he’s deliberately and without hesitation attempted to murder Ezra by knocking him off of an airborne craft. The only reason he’s not a (confirmed) serial killer is because of the intervention of others. I love chopper. I might love BT-1 even more: an astromech assassin droid so hellbent on destruction he killed his…

the reach of this movie may exceed its grasp, but you gotta love those ambitious bastards for trying.

both battles were epic, but in the grand scheme, sad.

considering the fanbase has spent more time dissecting the novels to develop fairly accurate (so far) predictions of where GRRM was going (in principle), we’re kinda boxed-in with that respect.