u/Vinylmaster3000

Obviously the gulf war was a textbook example of a one-sided military engagement where better logistics, training, technology, and planning led to a lopsided defeat, but was there ever any way for Iraq to have succeeded in dealing a significant blow to the Coalition?

I'm not talking about Iraq actually destroying the coalition in the battlefield, I mean them at least being able to inflict a significant amount of casualties to not make the war look entirely lopsided (I.e, 1,000 to 4,000 casualties). Was this ever possible?

I'm talking about well before many Industrial bands started making music which was danceable. I feel like groups such as Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire had an interesting philosophy that was both inspired by the changing socio-political climate of their time and as an anti-thesis to post-industrial revolution art and literature. You rarely ever find that in modern Industrial music, there is no incentive or philosophy behind that sort of music, it's only seemingly created to sound similar to bands like Skinny Puppy or Depeche Mode.

And the weird thing is that we live in a world which has gone through circumstances and events which were similar to the socio-political climate of the 70s that many Industrial bands came out of. The GWOT, the failings of a late-stage capitalistic society, the proliferation of emergent technologies like AI and the solidification of mass surveillance, all of these topics feel like they could be explored thoroughly by modern Industrial Groups in the same way that the pioneers of the 70s did. But you don't really see that same lineage in modern Industrial groups, which is why those bands still feel extremely timeless.

Does this ultimately have to do with the commodification of Industrial Music after the advent of synth-pop and New Wave hitting the US and UK charts? Or were the early bands of the 70s just hard to make overall?

As in, any better lore or QOL features that the original game did not have?

I think there's more incentive and opportunity to actually make Haven City more interesting, like having actually interesting side missions or more "events" that happen within the city. Or say, more explorability in the way of rooftops and scaffolding.

Talking about something like Stalingrad versus a more improvised environment like Warsaw. How did the Soviets at stalingrad utilize anti-tank rifles to ambush German heavy tanks? Did they try to utilize these rifles in areas where troops would be funneled in or did they also use them in conjunction with heavier weaponry like stationary anti-tank guns? Did it ultimately depend on factors like positioning and luck?

How did guerrillas and insurgents deal with them in areas like Warsaw, where obviously combatants did not have access to alot of heavy weaponry or tanks? Did they attempt to use IEDs (I know this is a mostly modern thing) or did they also utilize similar tactics?

It feels weird to think about. When I was in High School (2014-18) Phone usage was more incremental, I still remember calling my parents through the office phone but later on we used our mobile phones more often. The focus of social media was mostly on actual posting within your own friend group, now it feels more centered around reels and content. The Social landscape in that regard feels very different, though if you ask me it's all the same when you think about it.

The vastly different thing now is LLMs and AI in general just overturning the education system in general, when I was in High School and College we did not have any AI tools which allowed for the generation of essays. Maybe it's also similar to how older generations didn't have computers versus newer ones who did their education on computers, idk.

I've found a (kindle friendly) copy of Jim Butterfield's "Machine Language for the Commodore 64" and I understand some fundamentals of programming in assembly with supermon64. I want to try some graphics stuff, I know that I should do some BASIC graphics programming first but I was curious on what I can find. A small project I wanted to do was create an XL1-styled (i.e, the album) program which displayed moving graphics and lyrics in time to some music.

So far I can only find general assembly books, nothing specific to graphics. Does anyone have anything which details how to program graphics? I needed something which actually loads on my Kindle Scribe because AFAIK all of them have serious issues loading, esp that Compute! magazine book on Graphics and Sound.

I recently found a secondhand copy of Bill Nelson's Red Noise in the bargain bin for 3-4 dollars. I had gotten Be-Bop deluxe albums for a similar price and liked the instrumentation (not to mention Bill being a good lyricist and all), so I decided to give this a spin.

In all honesty, I don't think I've ever heard an album as crazy as "sound on sound". The first track is just straight-up fucking bonkers with the premise and the instruments going between discordant and extremely catchy, and other songs like "For Young Moderns" and "Furniture Music" are just very well written and they resonate even today. You can still kinda hear Be-bop deluxe in the background in songs like "Better home in a Phantom Zone" but alot of the early romanticism Nelson used to write about is very much gone. This album feels far more robotic and techno-fascist than ever.

And of course, the record executives seemed to agree with the notion that Bill was writing insane people's music because they booted his band and forced him off the label. Was 1979 ready for this album? Probably not.

Kinda made me think, I see alot of abandoned farmland and parcels with run down driveways and hidden structures in the woods, and these parcels are actually very large. But 90% of it is woods and there's literally "no trespassing" signs on every other telephone pole and tree.

What could they even possibly be restricting people from doing? And the weird part is that some of these areas have "Green Acres" signage so you'd think that it's legal to "explore" in a sense. Like I get putting signs on abandoned houses in commercial zones and large industrial facilities, but woods?

Do the authorities genuinely monitor these areas with security or is it just something that's there out of a legality to include them? I feel like many of these abandoned parcels are in the hands of real-estate firms and they're in some sort of limbo, I noticed something like this while taking a walk where I encountered a road to an abandoned farm with 50 no trespassing stickers on the trees and one green acres sign which was placed recently. And a covered up real estate agent's number.

By this I generally mean an album which was given very low reviews during the early 80s and might not have gotten a decent retrospective appraisal.

I was considering this and honestly, I feel like my opinion is between Berlin's "Pleasure Victim" and Thompson Twin's "Into the Gap". I feel like this question is actually quite difficult to answer because many albums from the early 80s were well-defined and have all gotten well appraisal decades later.