u/CleanAd8632

I started a new game (on "casual" mode) and played it to the first Maul Griever battle in the Great Mine with Duke and Armstrong. Normally, when the drill breaks through, I just jump in the hole, but I've always wondered what the game would do if I didn't jump. So this time I didn't and kept firing. The number of Grievers slowed but they kept coming and Duke started yelling stuff like: "Get in that hole!" "Hurry, they're still coming!" LOLOL It was hilarious!!

I really like the beautiful background art of Prime Beyond, but I think the background art of Dread is very overlooked and underappreciated. This ocean scene in Burenia is fantastic.

This is my most favorite move of all of the Metroid games I've played. I get a lot of satisfaction after defeating a boss or EMMI or completing a complex shinespark, but this particular sequence is my favorite. I've started new games just to pull off this specific maneuver! It looks simple but it's kinda hard, but I get a rush whenever I accomplish it.

What's your favorite Dread maneuver?

...do I need to get:

- Psychic Beam Upgrade (25%)

- Control Beam Upgrade (25%)

- Green Crystal Finder (38%)

- Legacy Suit (60%)

- Memory Fruit (60%)

When Samus receives the Psychic Grapple, she shoots a beam in the air, then finishes with a slight shoulder shudder that reminds me a little bit of that shoulder shuffle the Munchkins of the Lollipop Guild make as they welcome Dorothy. I call it the Samus Munchkin Shimmy.

Spock mentioned "a zeptosecond": it's one sextillionth of a second written as a decimal point followed by 20 zeros (0.000000000000000000001) and a 1. It is an extremely tiny fraction of time used by scientists to record subatomic events.

Facinating!!

In recognition of Samus' 40th Birthday, I was going through my video captures when I noticed something funny about how each EMMI (White, Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow) dies after being destroyed by the Omega Cannon. Each has the same parts explode from the head, the same electric sparks, they fall in the same way--direction and manner. Obviously the devs reused the same template. I'm now going to find others in the game.

During the opening sequence, it appears to show the Enterprise (NCC-1701) flying effortlessly at very low planetary altitudes, something I thought was not feasible (due to design limitations) for Constitution-class starships, which were not built for the kind of low-altitude, atmospheric flight, like the Intrepid and Sovereign class ships (Voyager and 1701-E).

If this is accurate, why are they depicting this kind of flight in pre-Kirk SNW? The only TOS episode or feature-length movie to reference low altitude flight was "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (S1E19) and they made it seem not only a problem for the Enterprise, but that it was risky and the ship struggled to stay aloft.

SPOCK: "...Mr. Scott is holding us in orbit on impulse power..."

SPOCK: "We are too low in the atmosphere to retain this orbit...we have sufficient impulse power to achieve escape velocity."

SULU: "She's sluggish...she's just slow in responding..."

https://youtu.be/NcV\_7xCREJw?is=0jFNqPex\_sc7-lbe

When the imaginary second away team with Pike showed up on the Griffin, this shot of Pike's face actually gave me pause!

That's movie serial killer scary!

I feel like I might have to surrender my "1970s" membership card!

I'm a late-edge Boomer (born in 1958) and came into manhood in the 70s! I mean, I had a nice Afro, wore stack shoes and bell bottoms, ate "Double-R-Bar Burgers," smoked "Kools," said "Right on!" all the time, read "National Lampoon" and Gilbert Shelton's "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" religiously, let myself get caught by the "Moonies," and even bought a "pet rock!!"

I'm bona fide, damnit!!!

But late last year and just today, thanks to the Amazon Music app's lyrics feature, I realized that for the last 50 years I have been singing the lyrics to the following two songs soooo grossly wrong:

"I'd Really Love To See You Tonight"
(England Dan & John Ford Coley, 1976):

MY LYRICS:

"I'm not talking 'bout the live-in
And I don't wanna change your mind..."

ACTUAL LYRICS:

"I'm not talking 'bout movin' in
And I don't wanna change your life..."

"Let's Take It To The Stage"
(Funkadelic, 1975):
[Link]https://youtu.be/l1deFnklMG0?is=Yo2Q4JqUxivya7dI

MY LYRICS (the bridge):

"Funk is a work of honor
[Something]* on the trigger
My eyes on my heart
I like laughin' at ya!
Laughin' at ya!"

ACTUAL LYRICS:

"Sittin' in the woods upon a log
Finger on the trigger
My eyes on a hog
And I sat back
Laughin' atcha!"

I feel so....80s!!!!

(*NOTE: "[Something]" meant I never really knew what that particular word was anyway; I just mumbled it.)

u/Impossible_Bread8472

In the early 1970s, at the end of the broadcast day, most television stations in the Washington, DC, area would show either the multi-color bar screen, the test pattern, or the B&W scrambled screen. But on station WTTG, they played a poem called "High Flight." As a pre-teen, I found it so emotional and inspiring, I looked forward to when TV ended just to watch it.

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High Flight

(By John Gillespie Magee Jr.)

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of--wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace where never lark, or even eagle flew—and, while with silent lifting mind, I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

https://youtu.be/Qx3WueJWlb4?is=0ruqYJFPQq7\_tF1G

What the heck is this?? Seen during the Fire Dragon fight in Chrono Tower.

I'm Black and was born and raised in Washington, DC. I attended high school in northwest DC, not far from Arlington, VA.

I first heard and liked Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side" in 1973 while in high school. Racial tensions were still a bit tense in DC following MLK's murder, exacerbated by the agitation of the followers of George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party which was headquartered in Arlington.

I liked the song, despite the line: "And the [colored girls] go..." This was a time when Black people had soundly rejected the term "colored" and viewed its use as derogatory. But despite this, I liked the song for its counterculture statement (even though the use of the term "colored" contradicted that).

The song got a LOT of airtime on the local radio stations here, and I even heard it occasionally on the Black stations (WOL, WOOK, and WHUR). But it wasn't until about 1979 that I first heard the second verse:

"Candy came from out on the island
In the backroom, she was everybody's darlin'
But she never lost her head
Even when she was givin' head
She says, 'Hey babe,
Take a walk on the wild side'
Said, "Hey babe,
Take a walk on the wild side'"

When I first heard that lyric, I understood immediately why it wasn't played on some radio stations in the early 70s, but I didn't understand why a specific sex act was such taboo, when the rest of the song highlighted homosexuality, transsexuality, drugs, racism, prostitution.

What was it about that particular lyric that shook the country so?