As the grandson of a bricklayer, I’m more confused at the notion that there aren’t brick houses in the US.
Rock Solid@ShitpostRock2
Guy who thinks a brick house will survive a tornado
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Kevin Lombech
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@FantasyGalaxies @Duplucky Those two scenes are magnificent and I really wish they would restore them.
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@FantasyGalaxies @Duplucky Also, it emphasizes how much Luke matured in such a short period. Here he is like an annoying kid brother talking to the cool older friend. By the end, it’s an almost starstruck Biggs presenting Luke to red leader as though he’s a veteran ace.
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You don’t want to miss this deleted scene from Star Wars: A New Hope 👀
It shows a conversation between Luke Skywalker and his best friend Biggs before they both join the Rebellion.
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Yes exactly, this is really the key. "Guy who watches nothing but slasher films but does not think literally any of them are actually good" is not really a type I run into anymore but this was the median horror fan at the turn of the millennium
yeah Chris@UpdateTheGrids
@PetreRaleigh A lot of horror fans I knew in college also thought many of the stuff they loved and/or watched voraciously were bad
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これぞ怪作、「戦闘機対戦車」（原題：Death Race）。1973年にアメリカで製作されたテレビ映画。空を飛べなくなったP-40戦闘機と、狂気に満ちた将軍が指揮する一台の戦車（どう見てもM4 シャーマンですw）による、砂漠での極限の追撃戦を描いた異色のアクション・サスペンス作品。面白いんだよね。
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I’m not sure why he’s taking flak for this. Human agency absolutely matters in Homer and later Greek dramatists, but it has limits. One cannot defy Fate, who holds sovereignty over even the gods themselves, but a man’s actions can, as Carlyle puts it, help weather the storm.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
Homer is the original Great Man Theorist of history. He’s not telling you the Trojans lost the war because of climate change. He’s telling you the tale of Hector, Odysseus, and Achilles.
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@iosif_lazaridis We read it in high school (USA, private school, circa 1997).
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The discussion about reading the Odyssey in college is surprising.
Is it common not to read Homer's epics in secondary education at all? People from different countries, chime in.
In Greece we read the Odyssey/Iliad in the 1st/2nd year of secondary education (ages ~11-13).
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So, circa 1998, we read half of these in high school, and for two of the others we watched the movie versions instead since we didn’t have time to read the novels.
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
What were High School students reading in 1963
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@curiouswavefn A fictionalized account of this can be seen in the S Korean film, My Way. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_(2…
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One of the more bizarre anecdotes about D-Day (Stephen Ambrose):
“At the beach called Utah on the day of the invasion, Lt. Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, captured four Asians in Wehrmacht uniforms. No one could speak their language; eventually it was learned that they were Koreans. How on earth did Koreans end up fighting for Hitler to defend France against Americans? It seems they had been conscripted into the Japanese army in 1938- Korea was then a Japanese colony - captured by the Red Army in the border battles with Japan in 1939, forced into the Red Army, captured by the Wehrmacht in December 1941 outside Moscow, forced into the German army, and sent to France.“
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George Lucas knew that in order for characters like those on the right to work, they need to be used sparingly, seen through the eyes of characters like those on the left.
Once you take the characters on the right and make THEM the main protagonists, they lose their mystique and become mundane.
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@pure_slime Still weird to me that Palpatine is a native of the most peaceful, idyllic planet in the republic, a Ruritania in space, and the idea of an origin story has apparently never occurred to anyone in Disney.
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i really like Rey's introduction, but i can't help but think how much more interesting it'd be if it weren't on yet another beige sand planet
Anish@filmicshailar
Rey's dialogue-less intro with Williams' theme gets me everytime
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Kevin Lombech retweetledi
"This book was seminal 30 years ago but the field has since moved on from it to less accurate conclusions."
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Describing Caesar Rodney, a man who rode 70 miles through a thunderstorm while dying of cancer to cast the deciding vote on independence, as merely “an officer during the American Revolution” is wildly reductive.
NBC4 Washington@nbcwashington
Thirteen new statues have been installed at Freedom Plaza in downtown D.C. The NPS says the statues depicting prominent American figures will be on display for the nation's 250th anniversary, but there is some controversy surrounding at least one of them. nbc4dc.com/0L7uZA2
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Because the NT was written by committee.
Stephen C. Carlson@sccarlson
Why is that our "best" New Testament translations are done by committees and not individuals, while Homer is constantly translated by individuals?
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@IMPERATORAUS “No. It seems you’ve burnt the wrong village.”
“They always say that, and what does it matter? A village betrays us, a village is burned. The point’s made.”
“Your point, their village.”
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Kevin Lombech retweetledi
Der zufällige white boy dabei ist lore accurate chinese civil war
Jim@JimHistHub
Everyone should LARP ideologies and wars they have no connection to.
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Ukraine has fought Russia to a bloody stalemate. This is one the most important strategic developments in world history, and it’s largely downplayed because the social media landscape is filled with brainless Ukraine fanboys and Kremlin assets.
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The democracy piece is immaterial: for over thirty years the RF had the luxury of having no peers or near peers on its Western border. That strategic cushion has evaporated with the rise of Poland & Ukraine. What Putin feared he has helped conjure. The possible is now manifest.
Meanwhile in Ukraine@MeanwhileInUA
Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works. Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this." That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door. Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply. Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.
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Zulu, Khartoum, The Man Who Would be King, Gunga Din, The Charge of the Light Brigade, and The Guns at Batasi.
Angloid@angloid0
What are the best British empire films?
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If you live long enough you will see the same tropes recycled at least a half dozen times:
>new tech polluting the water
>young kid invents something that will change the world (subsequently forgotten)
>riots caused by outside agitators and lack of rec centers
>Israel-Palestine
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus
Do… do they think the data centers are fracking?
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