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Stupid DC Question
Mar. 26th, 2019 08:14 pmDid JASON TODD ever appear in the Gotham TV series? Yes, I did NOT mean Dick Grayson.
Live Long And Prosper
May. 21st, 2016 12:20 amTime for an audience participation topic: Paramount has abandoned their lawsuit against the party behind the AXANAR project.
In the wake of this, would you want to make a fan movie? If so, what franchise?
Loose Note
Mar. 13th, 2016 03:40 pmFinally saw the movie Rollover after almost thirty-five years of wanting to; it was on Escape Network overnight. And it has officially become a part of the Hackett Continuum.
I'm sure you won't mind me spoiling it: at a World Trade Center investment bank, an heiress and her banker partner are eyewitnesses (and unwilling catalysts) to a diabolical scheme by a faction of the Saudi government, who (with help from inside men) engineer a massive panic on Wall Street, causing an existing recession to snowball into an all-out Great Depression.
So, this would go a long way to explaining the Hackett world--global economies often determine cycles of war and peace. Wealth breeds corruption; poverty breeds brutality.
Purr-tificial Gravity
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Let’s mix it up with some of my theoretical physics research tonight.
Useless Fact
Oct. 15th, 2014 04:00 pmDon't mind the above thingy. I'm just doing that to enter a sweepstakes.
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lurkerwithoutFantasy Flight
Aug. 14th, 2014 08:29 pmSuperman 2 was on one of the TV networks we get this afternoon, and I have to say it hasn't aged as well as I expected. It got me thinking about things like speed and how we perceive motion.
I'm about average size for a human being. If I went like the Man of Steel and flew at a rate of my own body's "flight length" per second, that's only about 5 mph--or jogging speed. Just to put this in perspective:
* A WW1 biplane fighter at combat speed travels at five times its length per second.
* A WW2 heavy bomber or transport plane at cruise speed will also be moving at about five times its length per second. (Because of the difference in size compared to the smaller planes of WW1, this would mean double the actual speed!)
* A WW2 fighter at its combat speed would go 15 times its length per second.
* A modern fighter jet at Mach 1 would be moving 25 times its length per second.
* A NASCAR or LeMans race car at 200 miles per hour goes nearly 20 times its length per second.
We don't think of these things when we watch fantasy movies (or sci-fi space opera) because we don't want to suspend our disbelief. When Harry Potter is on his broomstick we don't clock his progress because he's moving at the speed of plot, not 45 miles per hour.
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Can't Really Kick
Aug. 3rd, 2014 06:58 pmOver the course of my time here at LiveJournal, I've posted 55 times related to the show ROBOTECH. Yes, you'd think I'd have had an interest in the Kickstarter for Harmony Gold's ROBOTECH ACADEMY project--
--And you'd be completely wrong.
The problem is that the concept of ROBOTECH is obsolete on a number of levels. It does pain me to say that but it's true and I won't deny it. Harmony Gold is being very stupid with their choices, everybody knows it, and Harmony Gold is being very stupid about that too. It's a lot of playground bickering on all sides, and I'm staying the heck out of it because I know my opinion means nothing.
It's about fandom relationships more than anything else. When a producer is intent on making everybody into one another's enemies, it's better to lay down your arms and walk away than to stick around for the crossfire. This isn't worth my time.
FP
Randomnity, Again
Mar. 6th, 2014 11:00 pm*) Zvezda in Russia promises that there will be new kits in their Art of Tactic series that will be scale compatible with Wings of Glory WW2...and I'm particularly interested in the Bristol Blenheim bombers. Well, with the politics between Stateside and Moscow being what they are, I shouldn't expect to get these very quickly.
*) REIGN on CW is a mess. It's supposed to be historical but their visual RNA for scenery, props, costuming and casting is jarringly off-the-mark. Or, at least, I THINK it's supposed to be historical.
Recapsulation and Foreshadowing, Maybe?
Dec. 31st, 2013 03:15 pmhas the key to the next and the last.
But you won't solve this riddle
till the end is the middle,
and terran sands disappear with a blast.
My Life As A TV Fan Part V
Aug. 16th, 2013 10:00 pm1980-81 Season
* Favorites: Private Benjamin, M*A*S*H, House Calls, That's Incredible, Real People, Games People Play, Magnum P.I., WKRP In Cincinnati, Mork & Mindy
(The only show that DIDN'T continue from this season to the next was Games People Play...and that was mainly because it was just an offshoot of NBC Sports' omnibus show Sportsworld. So as not to duplicate my efforts unnecessarily...)
1981-82 Season
* Added To Favorites: Simon & Simon, Best of the West, The Fall Guy, Bosom Buddies
