Agiel
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I'll bet you Miami is going to be lit tomorrow night.Not sure I'd necessarily look forward to a Neil Blomkamp Alien movie. After all, he did make Chappie, which was absolutely wretched, and that seems like a recipe for an utter disaster on the level of Alien: Resurrection. I will say that the first half of Prometheus works harkening back to the first third of the first Alien movie (tied with the Thing for my 3rd favourite movie of all time) when they're exploring the derelict on LV-426, but after that it starts to go downhill. I alsoI got back some degree of confidence in Ridley Scott from the Martian, and it's been said that this one will be even more of a throwback to the first Alien.General James Mattis has been floated as a possible SecDef under Trump. Purportedly from their meeting, Trump was honestly shocked when Mattis told him that he was against waterboarding. Emphases and annotations mine: *I've spoken with quite a few enlisted guys in my time and I'm not entirely sure the term "a general's general" carries positive connotations for them, neither would any of them say this was an adequate description of Mattis. **Believe it or not, I tend to be someone who strongly believes in civilian checks on military power and abiding by institutional norms (keep in mind that normally someone would have to be out of the service for at least six years prior for this posting, but as was the case for Marshall and for Flynn when he was supposedly on the shortlist for SecDef, this requirement may be waived), so in spite of Mattis' sterling record I remain somewhat wary about his potential appointment.Food for thought:Is there not a spot before the actual character creation where you can save the game? And isn't there an opportunity to change your appearance a bit before the opening sequence ends?The writer of the original comic worked with Enki Bilal on some fantastic comics like <<La ville qui n'existait pas>> and <<Les phalanges de l'ordre noir>>, and also my favourite comic of all time, <<Partie de chasse>>: Oh, and yeah, Valerian is a bit like Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China; despite appearances, he isn't actually the hero of the story.Well KMW and Nexter have merged together, so we could see some new MBT come out of this endeavour (Eurokampfpanzer Leoclerc, anyone?). Though knowing French procurement policies once the design work is finished they'll demand that the only thing that gets done in a German factory is the paintjob.The Leclerc is actually a very solid tank as well. Between its state-of-the-art electronics package, "hyperbar" engine, and GALIX multi-spectral protection system it's a tough nut to crack.Jeffrey Lewis of Arms Control Wonk had a pretty epic tweet storm regarding Trump's incoherent East Asia proliferation/non-proliferation policy: https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/798158687533613057Stephen Colbert coined the term "truthiness" way back in 2006, which seems a thousand centuries ago, now sounding so quaint in the context of the Bush administration. But I had my first inkling of its 2010s incarnation of "post-truth" from a translation of a piece on the going-ons in Donbass on the tank-net forums back in 2014 and like many I still had that litany play out in my head "it couldn't happen here": Emphasis came from a Ukrainian pal I shared this with. Who knew that most tired of modern game franchises had the most prescient words for our times? "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."Tiny bit late, but still moving nonetheless:
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