I agree with you on the characters and plot - It leaves a lot to be desired, but the good acting makes up for it. I too would’ve loved to see the premise explored more in detail, but I think that would’ve required a much longer runtime, possibly split into several films, each of which wouldn’t really stand on their own. Think of it more as a story in a different world where the world building isn’t that important to fully grasp.

However, there are two very positive points about the movie I want to point out:

• The sound design. It actually sounds realistic. The ambience suits the scene without sucumbing to layers upon layers of what one would expect such a scene to contain. This means that the guns are free to sound like actual guns.
• The cinematography of them escaping through the battle is the true masterpiece. The continuous take approach allows for more immersion in the danger they’re facing and the urgency of the situation. It truly captures how it feels to be stuck in a war zone as a 3RC party, and it feels like a real combat scene with proper ricochets and stray bullets where you are at risk of dying at any moment even if you’re an innocent bystander and nobody is out to get you.

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I’d offer you an animal as symbol of your success, but I presently have none in store.

Any chance what you have is not an EPIRB, but a SART? SARTs are only registered with beacon ID and doesn’t require programming. Shows up on radar and sometimes AIS also. No sat comms involved.

Yes, except no plugging involved: It’s some sort of inductive way of programming it via a USB dongle. The info is written into this “programming program” which can read and write data to the unit, it’s written, and then you read it to make sure all the info was applied.

Then you label the unit physically with ship name, callsign, and MMSI. In addition to this there are two stickers that come with the unit, denoting the expiry date of the battery and the hydrostatic release. These go on the unit so that’s it easy to check if it’s time to replace them.

It’s been a while, but off the top of my head: MMSI (which is basically the radio installation identifier. Same number is used for AIS), and an ID digit (0 in wheelhouse, 1 on starboard bridge wing, 2 on port, etc)

For those who didn’t know: EPIRB = Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. Sends an emergency signal via satellite and terrestrial RF. They can be triggered manually, but they also trigger automatically if salt water shorts two exposed pads for a certain amount of time (a minute, I think).
Once triggered it will get a GPS fix and transmit a distress signal via satellite as well as terrestrial VHF. It is programmed with the MMSI of the ship it belongs to.
Works all over the world, although they take a bit longer to successfully transmit the signal in the polar regions as they then have to rely on LEO sattelots in polar orbits.

Source: I have a GOC, and I also used to work with marine electronics. I’ve programmed hundreds of these. Mainly Jordan Jotron TR60 (Ducking autocorrect). Some from McMurdo too, don’t remember the model name.

Fun fact: A coworker did have to make the phonecall of shame to the coastal radio after accidentally dropping one overboard.

I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas. Whaa.

Probably around the same time I managed to find a used 386 for sale cheaply, and I bought it. I could play some of the early greats such as Dune 2, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, while others were playing CD ROM games such as Red Alert.

But I didn’t care because I was still having fun, and lack of too many distractions allowed me to dive deeply into the fundamentals. When they moved on to the next cool game, I taught myself turbo Pascal and played with the serial ports and an old AT modem.

A few years later I got myself a 166MHz (MMX!) and got properly online (IRC, ICQ, etc) along with the rest and they had a hard time understanding how I was immediately so much better at understanding “their” stuff from the start than they ever would be.

I’ve used this a lot in the past at work. I see now that it’s discontinued, but I’m sure they have a new thing in its place. tiny, easy to use, and a huge time saver.

I guess he’s tired of superheroes, sequels, prequels, spinoffs, and reboots. Just like the rest of us.

Been doing it for almost 30 years. I still have better and more precise hearing than most.

However

Most people in the “headphones bad”-crowd fail to understand that it’s the volume and not the medium at fault. I’ve always been very afraid of permanent damage to my senses, ears and eyes in particular, so as much as I love head banging to loud music, I ensure it’s not too loud. I’m the kind of person who brings earplugs to a concert (the type that dampens the audio without distorting it). I rarely need them, but I keep them with me just in case.

The fact that I have no idea who she is tells me I must’ve made some right choices along the way.
The fact that I’ve been aware of Nick Fuentes since 2019 tells me they weren’t all the right choices.

Cheers. I’ve set up a download mirror, details posted in my root-level comment to this post.

Because I loved this game back in the day, and because the download site was having issues earlier today, I decided to set up a download mirror: HTTP or Torrent

I can try to set up a mirror. Can you provide a link to the official site?

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Choose a side, and be sure to evaluate whether that side is based on culture, ideology, something else, because those three may not necessarily be the same.

For example, imagine a scenario where the US ended up in a war against russia over a conflict against NATO allies. One could easily imagine that Russians in Europe or the US landing on both sides of the conflict, depending on whether they are pro Putin or not.

As for china, I can imagine a similar scenario where ethnically Chinese people may be on the US side on the basis that they’re against CCP and/or Xi. Sadly, due to how the US treated people who looked foreign during past conflicts, choosing the US side may not necessarily mean that you’re safe.

Super. Similar to how it’s used in windows

It’s not hate, it is complete and utter indifference beyond whatever they need to win the next election. After that it’s simply a priority of lining the pockets if themselves and their donors. Dems aren’t that much better, but at least their virtue signaling is on the right side.