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just saw a screening of Starship Troopers at my local cinema. nearly passed out from irony when they played an army recruitment ad before the movie in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

seen the film a few times but something I didn't notice before was that the ship they pilot is called the Rodger Young

Born in the small town of Tiffin, Ohio, in 1932, Young suffered a sports injury in high school that led to his becoming nearly deaf and blind. Despite this, he was able to pass the exams necessary to enter the Ohio National Guard. Soon after the United States entered World War II, Young's company was activated as part of the U.S. Army. Soon after his activation, in 1943, Young was killed on the island of New Georgia in Solomon Islands while helping his platoon withdraw from a Japanese ambush. For his actions, he was posthumously awarded the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.

so much of the movie is about the death drive

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just saw a screening of Starship Troopers at my local cinema. nearly passed out from irony when they played an army recruitment ad before the movie (hexbear.net)
 

satire: not only dead, but dug back up and killed again for good measure

Settlers 2 is where it all began for me in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i had a port of this on my nintendo DS when i was young and played through the campaign up until a bugged map which i couldn't beat :(

Why Aren't There Locust Plagues Anymore? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

didnt they huge locust swarms in the horn of africa in 2020

China is simultaneously building over 30 nuclear power units, with 10 more having been approved in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

they reached that point when they upgraded all their railways to level 5 a decade ago