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- Comment on A live-action Call of Duty film is on the way 13 hours ago:
I’m not saying Clancy stuff is always completely grounded, especially the longer it goes on, but I’m trying to use the Clancy comparison to capture the essence of an idea. COD4 while fictional, and with moments that aren’t wholly realistic if you really hold them up to the most intense scrutiny has the overall texture of realism. MW2&3 and Black Ops games all exist as throwing bigger and more insane setpieces out with no regard to any realism.
It’s a the last COD with a real gutpunch moment that says anything about anything. The nuke going off it a moment of realizing you aren’t a special main character and you die like everyone else, and that maybe war isn’t just a big fun adventure. All the shock moments have been trying to top it are so dramatic that they don’t have the same effect that the nuke did.
- Comment on A live-action Call of Duty film is on the way 14 hours ago:
While (classic, I’m not counting stuff Ghost written under his brand) Clancy characters have hyper competence, it’s to be expected given that they are turbo ultra elite soldiers or spies. Their motivations and ability to act doesn’t reach the point of self parody.
For a COD4 example: Yuri, the Russian that the player rescues early on in the game. He is a mole inside the Russian antagonist faction feeding information to the SAS who got made. He’s being kept at a house with a handful of regular soldiers watching him. When you rescue you him he is calm or at least puts up a calm front and thanks you. That’s a pretty believable guy who could have been a real person who is doing something realistic and dangerous.
In MW2 that character can materialize with apparently infinite types of military aviation hardware, and he is also a pilot able and willing to do insane maneuvers. And he is personal friends with Captain price rather than just being an SAS asset. And he is in touch with a militia group.
There is a distinct jump from COD4 to MW2, where it goes from Tom Clancy to Michael Bay.
MW2 is still fun, but it exists in an entirely separate tonal reality than COD4.
- Comment on A live-action Call of Duty film is on the way 16 hours ago:
I’m replaying COD4 and taking notes at the moment, coincidentally.
Looking at just COD4 without being influenced by knowledge of the sequels, it’s got a decent story and if you look at the edges it has contemplations of cycles of violence, and while not to the point of being anti-war it does emphasize the waste of it.
The characters are Tom Clancy levels of larger than life, which is significantly more restrained than what came later. Individually the story beats and scenarios have at least a texture of realism, often loosely based in something real and then strung together in a story that isn’t convoluted.
I could see it being a good movie with the right handling. It probably wouldn’t be.
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 1 day ago:
Spock in the original series goes into his mating season, which is a time where Vulcan emotions become too uncontrollable to repress. Vulcans are ashamed of this loss of control and try to hide it away.
Spock had to fight Kirk because Spock’s arranged marriage wife-to-be was allowed to chose anyone as her champion against Spock when she decided she didn’t want to him. Spock was out of control in full ragemode and only regained his senses when he thought he’d killed Kirk.
Vulcan society has, to my eye, always been one that acts like it has everything figured out but its repression has created just as many bizarre rituals as any other culture.
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 1 day ago:
I’ve long seen Vulcans as something of a cautionary example of going to an extreme. Rather than living alongside their emotions and learning their appropriate uses, Vulcans just repress them until it all occasionally explodes in an uncontrolled outburst.
Trek has from the beginning framed the strict adherence to cold logic as a flaw. That’s why Spock got a bunch of people killed on the Galileo 7.
- Comment on He took it literally 2 days ago:
but isn’t considered asserting the right.
I put it right there. It is obviously ideal to affirmatively invoke your right to silence.
I emphasized clearly demanding a lawyer as that is what, legally, makes the questions stop.
- Comment on What is the difference between these 3 sets of movies? 2 days ago:
The first one has slightly different foreign languages dubbed. It is also listed as a Sony manufactured box set, I really don’t know the rights history there, but that’s what the product page says.
The second one is listed as a Disney made box. It contains one disc with everything on it.
The third product looks the same as the second but containing three discs instead of one.
- Comment on He took it literally 2 days ago:
I didn’t miss your point. My original point was the people, guided by headlines, think a court ruled that he asked for a “lawyer dog”. That’s not what the ruling hinged on. I agree that the ruling should have gone the other way, but the popular fixation on the “lawyer dog” aspect stops the actual examination dead.
That’s it. That’s my whole point. You’re basically agreeing with me that the ruling was wrong, so I’m not sure what the problem is.
- Comment on He took it literally 2 days ago:
I agree that he should have gotten a lawyer. That wasn’t the point of my comment. The point of my comment is that by fixating on the irrelevant “lawyer dog” aspect people are reacting to that part of the case that doesn’t matter.
- Comment on He took it literally 2 days ago:
Full thought:
they think they can talk their way out of it if they just explain themselves enough.
- Comment on He took it literally 2 days ago:
The answer is that most people have never been in a police interrogation and they think they can talk their way out of it if they just explain themselves enough.
It’s panic thinking. And once you pop you don’t stop.
If you’re in a police interrogation room you have to assume and internally accept that you’re getting charged with something, and not try to talk your way out of it.
- Comment on He took it literally 2 days ago:
You can simply remain silent. Asserting your right to silence is what stops the questioning. You can just sit there and not answer the questions.
- Comment on He took it literally 2 days ago:
The decision in this case was wrong I think, but it is better to be more accurate in criticism so that people can’t undermine you.
The ruling did not hinge on the “lawyer dawg”. You can completely disregard that. The ruling hinged on if he asserted his right in asking for a lawyer.
His exact words:
“I know that I didn’t do it, so why don’t you just give me a lawyer dog ‘cause this is not what’s up.”
Sliced very finely, he did not directly ask for a lawyer, but he asked a question. Instead of saying “give me a lawyer” he asked “why don’t you just give me a lawyer?”
I think the ruling was wrong by hinging so finely on his exact wording when he indicated he wanted a lawyer, but if you’re going to make headway please stop repeating the Buzzfeed headline version of the ruling.
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- Comment on Are drones in war just a one off. Like they drop one or two bombs and are done for? Or do they get flown back to the site to get rearmed and repeat? Asking in context about Russia Ukraine debacle 6 days ago:
Questions like this are why I don’t like “drone” as a catchall description. Drones are everything from single use first person view suicide devices, to off the shelf quad copters for recon, to essentially unmanned aircraft.
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- Comment on do what you love 1 week ago:
Looking down on manufacturing jobs is so cool.
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- Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord, Barbarossa to Berlin, and Afrika Korps are returning with updates to Steam in Septemberwww.pcgamesn.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on True art is polarizing 2 weeks ago:
The movie telling us that Teslas can be remotely hijacked feels like it should counteract any positives about automatic driving.
Then again this movie starts with an armed warrant execution for posting a YouTube video critical of the NSA, so the values are bit catywompus.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 2 weeks ago:
Something that you missed, which became increasingly amazing as the movie went on was the elastic nature of time.
It took the same amount of time for earth to globalize its military, fight the tripods successfully, have the tripods break into data centers, disable all the military technology, and put the military on the defense as it did for a car with his daughter in it to drive a mile.
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- Comment on True art is polarizing 2 weeks ago:
Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 2 weeks ago:
It’s a readymade interactive art piece. That will be 30 million dollars.
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- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 5 weeks ago:
I bought GamePass just for Outer Worlds because everyone pointing out that’s it’s from the team that made “New Vegas”.
I did a whole review of this game, and one of the first things I tackled was that it is absolutely not from the New Vegas team. I completely blame the marketing for setting wrong expectations by creating that connection.
It is a good game, but going in wrongly thinking (due to misleading marketing) that it is New Vegas In Space is going to leave you frustrated.
- Comment on Anon does the shopping 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 1 month ago:
I’m from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all.
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- Comment on There is no greater loss than that which is inflicted in the name of war. 1 month ago:
This is the best comment any drawing I’ve ever done has gotten.
