june gloom on 11/9/2011 at 20:42
And then comes that spooky moment when you hear the developer's in-universe reason as to why the NYC skybox couldn't have the portion with the WTC in it due to memory limitations- terrorists blew it up.
june gloom on 11/9/2011 at 23:22
Aside from that being an awful movie with awful ideas I'm not sure what it has to do with this thread? :confused:
DarkDragon on 12/9/2011 at 00:03
Oh its got plenty! the idea is to watch it the whole way through though.
june gloom on 12/9/2011 at 00:28
I'd rather tie a grenade to my dick and go on a jog before I watch that thing again. So please, explain to the class what that film has to do with anything, at all, ever?
Kuuso on 12/9/2011 at 00:37
It's a nice way of not dealing with the nation-wide trauma created 10 years back.
BEAR on 12/9/2011 at 02:32
Good stuff dethtoll. Probably summarizes a lot of peoples feelings. Still sucks about the first-responders and what not, but hey what if someone who doesn't deserve help gets it? Not in my America goddamnit.
Tocky on 12/9/2011 at 03:39
Dethy summed up the decade in inimitable style. I laughed several times. You really are a writer. Then Queue made me think and demy made me feel. It's the second biggest thing that's happened in my lifetime and all things considered I'll take the moon landing. I'm surprised I can feel anything about it still but I see the images and I do. Now it's just a vague sadness for all that was lost but at the time I was more angry than I've ever been.
If it hadn't been for dropping in on the only recruiter with a conscience that day I might have made a big mistake. He told me I was a little old and to think about it awhile. I still feel some guilt but I know I could never cover my bills on a sargents salary and my kids needed me home. Knowing how much we owe to those that did go I can't stop thinking maybe I should have. One of my old buddies did. Now that I'm free of responsibilities again I could except I'm way old now too. I wonder what a recruiter would say. I know what my wife would say. Damn those repressive bombing bastards for drawing us into their vision of religious war anyway. Today is my dads birthday and all I should be thinking of is how I wish I could get him with trick candles again.
PeeperStorm on 12/9/2011 at 05:34
I remember my reaction that day. I worked off my anger doing something constructive: I killed every last little bastard ground squirrel on my property. Fukin' terrorist rodents. They undermine house foundations.
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http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8481/whowevotedfor.jpgShug on 12/9/2011 at 06:09
Not that anybody needs to tell dema he posts interesting things, but that was an especially fascinating read.
I was on a two-week high school exchange in Japan, and from memory we more or less woke up to the footage on TV. Given the rapid-fire Japanese it took a little while to understand what we were viewing, which made it all the more surreal.
Australia's second biggest airline at the time was already being propped up and the subsequent air-travel havoc was their death sentence. That left us all stranded in Japan, and we were 'lucky' to be picked up by Qantas for the flight home. Staying another month would have been fine with me. A teacher later confided in the older students that they'd rushed us through the Tokyo day trip for fear of a related attack.
Half the kids in the trip fielded panicked calls from parents after the WTC hits, which gave me a vague sense of disgust as a cool 16 year old.
