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Doing shots without any CGI forced those more locked down shots. Taking away CGI entirely takes away options, which can be bad, but also takes away the ability to create a huge CGI tornado of noise where a fully digital camera whips around. The scene also, regardless of the CGI situation, was shot and acted by the AT-AT crew, snowspeeder pilots, and rebel ground troops in a way remarkably similar to 1950s WW2 movies.

Jack Black was in the movie 'Waterworld'. It's before he was a big name, so he isn't given any special camera treatment as one of the raiders.

The alien queen in 'Alien: Resurrection' is the same prop as in 'Aliens'. A fan had bought and stored the prop for years and loaned it back to the studio for filming.

The Elcan Specters are part of the package for the new rifles. Not personally my favorite, but it could be worse.

The module in the article is interesting. Militaries seem finally serious about putting non-pathetic white lights on IR modules. Also interesting the German military is sticking with active IR as the standard issue night aiming solution.

With a pretty rare Rkm wz. 28, the Polish licensed copy of the BAR.

A special internal sabot. For .30 cal or 7mm, with the revolver rechambered.

What I really like is that there is an understandable flow to the battle.

Both sides had objectives and took reasonable steps. The rebels clearly knew they weren't going to win, so everything they did was a delaying tactics to evacuate. The Empire knew it was going to win, but the scale of the win was determined by how fast they could stop rebel ships from escaping.

So many scifi battles are both sides just smushing together in a fight to the death.

I genuinely did not know there was another suppressor capable revolver, beyond the Nagant 1895.

You should watch the video on it. The KA special order weapon uses custom ammunition with an internal sabot that fills the cylinder gap while firing and is retained inside the spent brass. It's a very engineered solution to fulfill a number of requirements for one weapon.

I don't think anyone should preorder. It's a predatory way to suck a full price of the game or even higher than normal price out of customers by using often laughably cheap benefits to drum up FOMO.

For me personally, I rarely have interest in brand new AAA games, which are the most guilty of pre-order sales tactics, so the problem more or less solves itself.

Early Access games can be a different story. I'm more willing to throw money at a small studio or solo project that appears to have some passion behind it. Even so I only spend with the mindset that whatever state the game is in might be all I ever get, so match the price to that expectation. I recently played through Deathtrash. It's unfinished and is historically slow to get updates, however for the $11 I got it for on sale, it had a lot of content and I felt happy with what I got.

Project Zomboid is another example of a "permanently Early Access" game. It might never get out of Early Access but it has so much content now that $20 is a perfectly acceptable price. The history of devs supporting it and the community around it means support for it is unlikely to simply disappear.

If you think the number of people that use ad blockers is not a fraction of a percent of internet users, you’re in a bubble.

It's about 30%.

Nowhere near the majority, but also not a "fraction of a percent."

Afghanistan

Nothing to do with Al Qaeda

Maybe /pol/ isn't the best source for deep thoughts.

Unnamed government agency.