The 2,000,000th post game

Barry Bostwick was cast in the lead after the producers saw him on stage in The Pirates of Penzance in Los Angeles. Producer Al Ruddy said he and the director had talked to one other actor earlier in the development stage, when the script was more serious. However, then Ruddy "decided I didn't want to do another Dogs of War type movie. I wanted this to be more camp, more of a spoof, but still believable. Once we'd seen Barry we knew right away he was just right for the part."

Conan the Barbarian is co-written by Wall Street and Platoon director Oliver Stone, who himself was originally slated to co-direct. Other directors on the short list for the job—before it was given to John Milius—were John Frankenheimer, Sam Peckinpah, Alan Parker, and Ridley Scott.

Really

Are you a fact finding fact guy full of fun fuken facts by a shit load?

Its Tim the tool man Tyler everyone

The original plan was to use a Swedish JA 37 Viggen jet fighter as the Soviet aircraft, but the Swedish government refused permission.

Because his role in the movie required him to speak some Russian, Clint Eastwood prepared by studying the language with resources provided by the U.S. Military's Defense Language Institute.

The story was loosely based on an actual event in which a Soviet fighter pilot (Viktor Belenko) defected to Japan on September 6, 1976. Belenko was stationed in Chuguyekva, Primorsky Krai, R.S.F.S.R. (Soviet Russia) where he flew a MiG-25 to Hakodate, Japan. During his defection, he brought the pilot's manual, where the U.S. Air Force were, and American personnel evaluated and tested the aircraft. The U.S. Air Force determined that the MiG-25 was more of an interceptor rather than a fighter-bomber (which the F-15 Eagle had a superior edge, later demonstrated by the Israeli Air Force where it was used in combat against Syrian MiGs (they also operated the MiG-25 with no losses). {This may or may not be significant, the MiG-25 flown by the Syrians would have been the "export" model, the versions of military aircraft most major nations sell are of lower performance than the home models.} The captured MiG was later dismantled by the Japanese technicians and returned to the Soviet Union.

Shit wrote a lot

god, this world is bleak right now.

is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?

maybe it is just me. everywhere I seem to look, all I see is tribalism and division. the sane voices are ever drowned out. there is no shade, no nuance. just lines being drawn in the sand, constantly, and if you don't stand behind at least one, you're on your own.

all of my heroes have the worst takes. going on twitter was a bad idea.

then, all of my friends have the worst takes. shouldn't have gone on facebook, either.

here? don't even get me started. I don't know why I'm here. because I have nowhere else.

and out there, outside, well, **** that. they're all crazy.

the joke is meant to be that 'we live in a society' but I'm not sure we do anymore.

learning to weather criticism and hate is hard. all I've ever wanted to do is fit in, avoid attention, avoid criticism, please people enough that they leave me alone. but it's getting harder and harder to do that.

this isn't the end of the world.

at least I have this thread. you were at my side, all along... my true mentor, my guiding moonlight

I guess I'm not doing shit all today

that's life

I hate how social humans are. forming their little cliques. rivalries. etc.

let's get the next page on the go. maybe that one will be better

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how did it all end up this way