One of the most alarming missions planned for the Battle Mole was to send it off the California coast, where it would burrow into geologically unstable areas to plant nuclear charges that could be detonated to cause earthquakes, tsunamis, and other wildly destructive events.
Yeah, I realize this makes me a stodgy old fogey, but, to me, bullet sponges are antithetical to what I think of when I think about “Tom Clancy’s” games.
Thoughts & prayers.
If someone told me to watch something on a CD then I, too, would throw it in the trash.
“I’ve been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.”
- Creed Bratton
- Michael Scott
The reality is that the coverage on ESPN was never going to be good. Technical issues during pre-race aside, trying to broadcast F1 on ESPN by simulcasting from SkySports, who themselves do not broadcast commercials, is going to lead to misses in action due to commercials. NBC got around this by having their own…
Massachusetts has been studying this and has put forth a recommendation that we move to AST. The fun part is most of the New England state legislatures have passed measures that basically say “if Mass goes, we go” so one vote on Beacon Hill could shift an entire region.
Nothing beats The Final Sacrifice, in my eyes. But there are a couple in that new list I don’t think I’ve seen. Exciting!
She’s got an armadillo down her trousers.
“Sir! We’re detecting a massive object emerging from hyperspace!” says one of Admiral Raddus’s subordinates, immediately before cutting to the Death Star appearing over the limb of Scarif. No secondary sources needed; the Death Star canonically can travel through hyperspace.
Not on topic at all, but we keep making redneck/hillbilly jokes about his supporters when a lot (maybe even most?) of them aren’t that. They’re educated. Our CEOs and VPs, and those privileged kids that went to the “best” schools. It’s not just people missing teeth in Kentucky, it’s people that knew exactly who they…
They also set that up saying he used to target womp rats about the same size and was already a pilot. so...
Luke Skywalker destroyed the Death Star his first time in an X-Wing. So....
It’s just as you say. The movie sucked in ways many video games do because the movie was made the same (wrong) way those games are: end to beginning and bullet-point driven.
There’s a delicious irony in the fact that games have for years tried to catch up to movies as a storytelling medium, usually falling short to the point where truly well-executed game stories (Final Fantasy VI, Fallout New Vegas, The Witcher 3) stand out precisely because they’re so far above the minimum standard,…
I might have enjoyed Finn & Rose’s story if the codebreaker they had been sent to find had turned out to be Lando.
I was out as soon as Leia woke up and started flying through space like Iron Man. This movie sucks, it has a few cool visuals and that’s about it.
Uh, no. The best analog to the Falcon is clearly the PBY Catalina. Modest multirole interior space, small crew, side turrets, and a reputation for going anywhere and doing anything.
