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Shadow President (1993) copied it from Balance of Power (1985).
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For your consideration, the best war movie is the new filmatization of Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier). In depth depiction of the continuation war in Finland. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4065552/ For the enthusiast there is also the 4h:30min extended version, which more closely follows the original novel.
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May 6, 2022 20:20
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Let me tell you all about a series of nine war films....in the stars
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May 6, 2022 20:22
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That has the baller dude with the subgun scene. "You just feed me magazines"
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May 6, 2022 20:23
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I'd like to present for your consideration the old as hell BBC series Sailor. https://youtu.be/xsdBsiXtXaA The whole thing was on YouTube- I assume it still is - and includes such gems as a salty as hell Master AT Arms telling a drunk young man "one of the facts of life me old son, you drink a man's drink and you act like a man"
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May 6, 2022 20:26
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Roblo posted:Why is it more scary than the B-2? The higher numbers of it that would be available? Pretty much.
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May 6, 2022 20:34
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Speaking of the B-2, are there any on display in any of the AF museums? I'd love to see that as well as the Blackbird
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May 6, 2022 20:40
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Didn't they only finalize poo poo for the B21 last year? No way we have 200~ right now, that's years of production yet to be done. Of course not brother, read closer- We’re “What If’ing” first strike viability in the future after we’ve refreshed the entire nuclear triad.. So talking like 2035-2040 a lot of the existing capabilities will be replaced by these next generation platforms in appreciable numbers.
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May 6, 2022 20:42
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Speaking of the B-2, are there any on display in any of the AF museums? I'd love to see that as well as the Blackbird I want to say The National Museum of the AF has a B-2 or a ground simulator of one. That museum is worth driving into Ohio.
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May 6, 2022 20:44
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'd like to present for your consideration the old as hell BBC series Sailor. Good series, i remember watching it as a child when it was first aired. 
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'd like to present for your consideration the old as hell BBC series Sailor. so in the first 7 minutes I've seen strippers, midgets, and guys bashing their heads. Great movie so far!
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May 6, 2022 20:51
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I want to say The National Museum of the AF has a B-2 or a ground simulator of one. Correct, the USAF museum has the B-2 they used for dynamic stress testing till the wing tore off. Then they strapped the wing back on and put it in the museum. The bolts and straps holding it back together do not look especially stealthy. They also have the only XB-70 left in the world, and a Gemini-B capsule for the Manned Orbital Laboratory spy station, and a KH-9 Hexagon satellite which is incredibly cool and awesome and secret astro-spies. Also an A-12, and an SR-71 (and the alternate nose-chine sitting next to it, which I didn't know was nearly hot-swappable) So, yeah, go to Ohio, see the USAF museum, buy yourself a wheel of Guggisberg Baby Swiss Cheese, and form an orderly line to exit the state. Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at 20:59 on May 6, 2022 |
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May 6, 2022 20:54
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zoux posted:Something like this probably I broke that game over my knee using a save editor. Budget surplus exceeding a trillion dollars despite taxes being slashed, world peace, the Soviet Union abandoning its own ideology. It was amazing. Cimber posted:Shadow President I believe. That screenshot is absolutely not from Shadow President. I nuked the gently caress out of some countries in that game and never got that screen. Arsenic Lupin posted:Shadow President (1993) copied it from Balance of Power (1985). Yeah, it's from Balance of Power and not Shadow President.
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May 6, 2022 20:55
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Speaking of the B-2, are there any on display in any of the AF museums? I'd love to see that as well as the Blackbird The USS Alabama museum in Mobile has an A-12, absolutely worth your time.
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I wish these museums weren't in such terrible states, but I guess you have to drive tourism somehow.
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bulletsponge13 posted:That has the baller dude with the subgun scene. That scene and the dude are based on a real person (Viljam Pylkäs, who the author served with) doing that in real-life, only they toned it down in the book and the movie. In reality it was a whole chain of people passing him ammo, and he had to change the gun barrel in the middle, because it overheated and the gun jammed. And that was apparently after he got a bullet in the face. Lots of the stuff in Unknown Soldier is directly lifted from the author's own experiences, and the original version of the book was heavily edited to remove some of the parts where he vents about things, though the novel was eventually re-released in an uncut form.
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May 6, 2022 21:40
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bulletsponge13 posted:That has the baller dude with the subgun scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WZurJy4B9o
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May 6, 2022 21:44
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FrozenVent posted:The USS Alabama museum in Mobile has an A-12, absolutely worth your time. IWM Duxford in the UK is fantastic, I was there about 20 years ago and they had a whole building built around a B-52 and also had an SR-71.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:IWM Duxford in the UK is fantastic, I was there about 20 years ago and they had a whole building built around a B-52 and also had an SR-71. 
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May 6, 2022 22:09
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FrozenVent posted:The USS Alabama museum in Mobile has an A-12, absolutely worth your time. I wanna say there's one in Huntsville at the Marshall Space Center, too.
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May 6, 2022 22:23
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Hyrax Attack! posted:IWM Duxford in the UK is fantastic, I was there about 20 years ago and they had a whole building built around a B-52 and also had an SR-71. Too many things to mention at Duxford that are just brilliant but the ability to just wander into the workshops where they are actually rebuilding Merlins to put into the Spitfire right next to it never gets old. The USA hall let's you get right up to the planes, you can actually get up into the bomb bay of the B17 in a little Perspex bubble to look inside and there's also there's a sign saying "Do Not Touch" next to the Blackbird and that wing edge is just polished with how many hands have run along it.
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I think the splashes around the Makarov's bow are just the forward gun mount depressing too low. Beg pardon if this is old news.
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TheWeedNumber posted:what game is this from? Balance of Power by Chris Crawford. I have the guy's book, Chris Crawford on Game Design. The guy's a crotchety old fart and an unreliable narrator to boot, but that just makes the book fascinating - and there is some actual good advice in there, not just air balls.
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May 6, 2022 22:49
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Burt posted:Too many things to mention at Duxford that are just brilliant but the ability to just wander into the workshops where they are actually rebuilding Merlins to put into the Spitfire right next to it never gets old. Nice! I'm no expert but every UK museum I've been in has been amazing and well maintained. The museum for the Battle of Culloden had a fascinating layout where as you walk down the halls with a timeline of events leading up to the battle one side of exhibits explains the Jacobite perspective while the other is the Government's views. https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/culloden
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May 6, 2022 23:05
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GD_American posted:I wanna say there's one in Huntsville at the Marshall Space Center, too. Huntsville wins by default because it has a fully upright Saturn V that's visible from miles around.
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McNally posted:I broke that game over my knee using a save editor. Budget surplus exceeding a trillion dollars despite taxes being slashed, world peace, the Soviet Union abandoning its own ideology. It was amazing. Try Bravo Romeo Delta for that.
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May 6, 2022 23:47
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Wright Patt air force museum is fantastic. Worth a drive from Cincinnati or Columbus if you're in the area. Get some skyline on the way out and be confused.
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If you are passing by Warner Robins AFB, there's a free USAF museum next door, well worth the stop.
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I got a chuckle out of this: "The Ukrainian authorities do not yet have reliable information about the hit or sinking of another Russian warship - the frigate Admiral Makarov. The data is now being verified." https://twitter.com/ua_industrial/status/1522701028394688517
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My old man was air force and grew up around Wright Patt and took me there pretty much annually or more for about 20 years. I bought a plaque for him on the wall there after he died. It's a fantastic place and I just want to echo the statements here that it's worth the trip.
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psydude posted:Huntsville wins by default because it has a fully upright Saturn V that's visible from miles around. The real prize there is the disassembled Saturn V on display laying on its side in its own building. There are fantastic displays about the engineering challenges overcome in each subsystem (if any of you have any kind of technical bent, they are jawdropping). Added to the holy poo poo of the skyscraper sized rocket you’re walking under. Seriously, highly recommended. That said, the USS Alabama is a nice chunk of skyline itself, and a good way to spend a day
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I just remembered Vin Diesel was in Saving Private Ryan lol lmao
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Try Bravo Romeo Delta for that. If you beat Bravo Romeo Delta does the Air Force recruit you automatically? Heard that poo poo is unbeatable.
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GD_American posted:The real prize there is the disassembled Saturn V on display laying on its side in its own building. There are fantastic displays about the engineering challenges overcome in each subsystem (if any of you have any kind of technical bent, they are jawdropping). Added to the holy poo poo of the skyscraper sized rocket you’re walking under. Seriously, highly recommended. I would like to go to this disassembled Saturn V please
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The USAF museum in Dayton, OH is loving awesome. I got to sit in a fighter cockpit (F-4 I think) and had the biggest smile on my face; it was living a childhood dream. And to keep this relevant to the thread, they have a MiG-29 there. I did a double-take when I saw it, initially I thought it was just another boring F-15 but then I saw the red star.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I would like to go to this disassembled Saturn V please https://www.rocketcenter.com/museum It’s well worth a day there. The rest of Huntsville……no. See it on your way to something nicer, like Tennessee
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I would like to go to this disassembled Saturn V please It owns. One of my friends got married under the main engines.
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Eason the Fifth posted:My old man was air force and grew up around Wright Patt and took me there pretty much annually or more for about 20 years. I bought a plaque for him on the wall there after he died. It's a fantastic place and I just want to echo the statements here that it's worth the trip. Former Beavercreek kid checking in -- the AF Museum was an amazing place to go visit. At that time it was totally possible for a sneaky kid to rub their greasy hands all over the surfaces, too. Huntsville and the Saturn Vs are totally worth the visit and I haven't been to the Warner Robins AF Museum in about 20 years but I remember that being decent as well.
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Alan Smithee posted:I just remembered Vin Diesel was in Saving Private Ryan And he died doing something stupid and pointless. ?????
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