May 24, 20223 yr Figured this show has earned its way into deserving its own thread and I didn't find one. Best: Kind of obvious. Fick, Iceman, Elvis for comic relief. Worst: There are some shitty characters on this show but I believe Casey Kasem is the worst by far. Encino Man is a moron and Captain America is a little bitch but that dude is a conniving little asshole.
May 25, 20223 yr 4 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said: This part killed me ahahha "what the fuck??hahaha" Love this scene.
May 25, 20223 yr … and I love this miniseries. And the book. Amazing stuff. Modern day Band of Brothers and not appreciated.
May 25, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, A-Tex Devil said: There is a reason this happens with such frequency here and not other countries and 100% of it has to do with GOP policy from 1980 onward. 100%. worst: Sixta. Because of the diddling.
May 25, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Celery Man said: worst: Sixta. Because of the diddling. And the petty bullshit that he bitched about. But mainly the diddling. He maybe getting out of prison in a few years.
May 25, 20223 yr Fick was the leader you could count on. He was the leader you wanted. He was the leader you needed. Capt. America was none of the above.
May 25, 20223 yr 40 minutes ago, baboso said: Fruity Rudy. Wasn’t he an actual Recon Marine playing himself in the show? Pretty badass.
May 25, 20223 yr 10 minutes ago, Frank The Tank said: Wasn’t he an actual Recon Marine playing himself in the show? Pretty badass. Yep
May 25, 20223 yr The guy who played General Mattis owned his 2 minutes of screen time. Dude knew how to curse effectively.
May 25, 20223 yr Brad, the Iceman, the unflappable platoon leader. Ray, the comedic effect. Fick, the only competent officer, who listened to his non-coms and stopped (or at least did his best to stop) the shit rolling down from his superiors from hitting his men. Doc, Espera, Rudy, Scribe... the ones I'm forgetting at the moment... So many characters, all great in their own way. So many great lines, but this one always makes me lulz: "Ray... the battalion commander offered no sit-rep as to J.Lo's status." Edited May 25, 20223 yr by Dutch
May 25, 20223 yr My other recollection, and this is more from the book, was how it was a near miracle that the unit the reporter was following had no one killed even though they were being thrown into harms way over and over for reasons that weren't entirely rational. Really highlighted that not only were these guys badasses, but they were brilliant tactically (as well as a little lucky).
May 28, 20223 yr Author On 5/25/2022 at 9:51 AM, Frank The Tank said: Wasn’t he an actual Recon Marine playing himself in the show? Pretty badass. So was Godfather's aide-de-camp, Major Todd Eckloff, who was played by Benjamin Busch, who had a lower rank but did two tours. Busch also played a meathead detective in The Wire and is an acclaimed author and photographer. Sixta's accent was just too ridiculous. I grew up bouncing back and forth between Tennessee and Texas and I never heard anything like it anywhere. And he's a diddler too so fuck both the actor and the character.
June 5, 20223 yr just ran through this again since this thread came up this scene cracked me up fuck captain america fuck casey kasem
July 15, 20241 yr https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/evan-wright-generation-kill-rolling-stone-dead-obit-1235060077/amp/ Evan Wright dead by suicide at 59
July 15, 20241 yr What is the evolutionary cause of suicide? Some wires got crossed as our brains developed from monkeys to humans?
July 15, 20241 yr 5 hours ago, Parliament said: What is the evolutionary cause of suicide? Some wires got crossed as our brains developed from monkeys to humans? I came across a situation in my family where a teen daughter, her dad, and his mom/her grandma, all killed themselves about 120 years ago - the daughter first over being denied permission to marry somebody, poison, then the dad a few days later shot himself after being overwhelmingly grief stricken in the aftermath of her death (he wouldn’t eat and would cry himself to near unconsciousness) and then a few months later the grandmother went out a window. The grandmother had “acted peculiar after her son and granddaughter’s deaths”. The only people I actually knew who committed suicide did so probably because of PTSD though, and Wright could have fallen into that category.
July 16, 20241 yr Reading his obit, his stint in Iraq was just another event in his life. The guy had seen some shit. RIP
July 16, 20241 yr 9 hours ago, drt said: The guy had seen some shit. This. I'm not saying it wasn't suicide, but the man had some powerful enemies.
July 16, 20241 yr There is some evidence that the brain (mal)adapts to environmental factors, contributing to mental health problems such as substance abuse disorder and major depressive disorder. And there may be a genetic component both to such disorders and to the susceptibility to environmental factors. So, there is nature, and nurture, and nature stemming from nurture.
July 16, 20241 yr The question itself (what is the evolutionary cause of suicide) also has an implicit assumption that we evolve perfectly or something like that. Given the starting point, natural selection and time have done a pretty good job but I think frequently our shit is fucked up simply because it is fucked up.
July 16, 20241 yr Pain. I've lost two friends and a doctor to suicide. I'm medicated (perfectly) for depression. When you're down in a trough, you can't imagine ever leaving it or having ever been happy. When you're out of the trough, you can't imagine why you were ever in a trough. I rode a largely manageable rollercoaster. My friends had deeper, darker troughs. Despair is pain. You want out. Both of my friends were the nicest people you'd want to meet. Smart. Fun. Caring. They went down that hole and never came back up. I almost never talk about them because it seems cheap to drag out their stories. You can't find or give the full dimensions of anyone's life. It usually seems foolish to me to try.
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