Is There 'A Hill You're Prepared To Die On' ?

[The Minsky Moment]

The Last Jedi is a good movie.  Come fight me.

I tried to attack your position from outer space from my bomb bay but they won't drop.  Damn you Newton's laws.

And there's no sound in outer space, and ships don't move like WWII-era planes.

The Falcon does, because it's a modified B-29.

[The Minsky Moment]

TLJ had lots of good ideas but the execution was horribly flawed.  Especially the main plot line from beginning to end of the Resistance attack and the slow motion chase through space, full of silliness from scene 1 to the very end.

And yes SW is full of handwavey science fails but TLJ was unique in hinging key plot moments on logical inanities. It's not just the WWII style bomb dropping in space, it's the fact that the critical moment of the entire opening scene revolves around opening the bomb bay doors.  It's the heroic sacrifice of Holdo because a civilization capable of FtL travel and planet killing weapons can't rig a simple remote control to activate a hyperdrive on another ship.  Suspension of disbelief is one thing, repeatedly hitting the audience in the face with an iron anvil of disbelief is another.

[Maladict]

Having lots of books in your home, read or unread, is a good thing.

People who sleep in public libraries are the worst.

Someone here recommended Uniforms and Flags of the Imperial Austrian Army 1683-1720.

[Eddie Teach]

 

[Razgovory]

I was okay with it.  I'm not a huge Star Wars fan so that might have made a difference.  I didn't care for the Rise of Skywalker one though.  Last quarter of the movie was filmed in the dark or something and I couldn't tell what was going on.

[The Brain]

Having lots of books in your home, read or unread, is a good thing.

People who sleep in public libraries are the worst.

Someone here recommended Uniforms and Flags of the Imperial Austrian Army 1683-1720.

Well you're a poopypants.

[Savonarola]

Marvin Gaye's album "What's Going On" is overrated.  All the songs, except "Inner City Blues" are variations on the title track.  It's a good album, and a fine last hurrah for The Funk Brothers before Motown's move to LA, but it is not the greatest album ever made (as Rolling Stone rated it on their latest version of Greatest Albums of all time) or in the top ten (as they had it on previous lists.)

[Razgovory]

Does it have to be a hill?  Most of the hills in my area have crappy names. 

"Here lies Raz, buried where he fell on Hobo Hill."


I guess that is better than "Hog Alley"

[mongers]

Does it have to be a hill?  Most of the hills in my area have crappy names. 

"Here lies Raz, buried where he fell on Hobo Hill."


I guess that is better than "Hog Alley"

Better than the Netherlands, which only has one hill worth dying on.

[Sheilbh]

Marvin Gaye's album "What's Going On" is overrated.  All the songs, except "Inner City Blues" are variations on the title track.  It's a good album, and a fine last hurrah for The Funk Brothers before Motown's move to LA, but it is not the greatest album ever made (as Rolling Stone rated it on their latest version of Greatest Albums of all time) or in the top ten (as they had it on previous lists.)

Christ

[Razgovory]

Does it have to be a hill?  Most of the hills in my area have crappy names. 

"Here lies Raz, buried where he fell on Hobo Hill."


I guess that is better than "Hog Alley"

Better than the Netherlands, which only has one hill worth dying on.

In my case "buried where he fell" sounds more noble than the reality: "Dammit, If Raz falls in another hole he's too fat to get out of we are not digging him out.  We are just going to toss dirt on him.  Godamnit, there he goes again!  Get a shovel"

[DGuller]

Does it have to be a hill?  Most of the hills in my area have crappy names. 

"Here lies Raz, buried where he fell on Hobo Hill."


I guess that is better than "Hog Alley"

If you're mortally wounded on a hill but die in the hospital, or die in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, does that still count as dying on a hill?

[Eddie Teach]

Marvin Gaye's album "What's Going On" is overrated.  All the songs, except "Inner City Blues" are variations on the title track.  It's a good album, and a fine last hurrah for The Funk Brothers before Motown's move to LA, but it is not the greatest album ever made (as Rolling Stone rated it on their latest version of Greatest Albums of all time) or in the top ten (as they had it on previous lists.)

Christ

It's Rolling Stone, what do you expect?

[Maladict]

Better than the Netherlands, which only has one hill worth dying on.

I do intend to be buried on one, although technically it's a moraine rather than a hill.
Although the thought of a lowland cemetery, to be submerged by the sea, is not entirely unappealing either. Plus, more land for the living.

[Josquius]

Cars.

Seriously fuck cars.


They destroyed society and are destroying the planet.