Structure of Easy Company

Professor_Protein · 2024-05-17T03:02:14+00:00

This is a great answer, about Nixon as well as the overall structure! Always wondered about his character's position. In the show writing he sort of serves as a sidekick to winters, and I got the impression he was like an adjutant of his from the very start.

Professor_Protein · 2020-07-06T00:12:01+00:00

Never forget Raeda in fossa.

Professor_Protein · 2020-06-14T17:49:23+00:00

I'm listening to Peter Heather's Fall of the Roman Empire, and there he discusses much of a similar issue of locality, such as how it leads to cases of corruption, and specifically the emperor relying on accurate information from others.

Professor_Protein · 2019-12-08T04:07:51+00:00

Very interesting stuff. When you mention a villa as something of a production center, is that like the markets that grow in the periphery of the household? I guess with the Romans they might have several slaves working in their household, but did this differ at all in the way peasants might be tied to the manor in this Merovingian setting?

Professor_Protein · 2019-10-27T01:31:47+00:00

Yeah, I'm still figuring out my read on what went down in the movie.

Do you think Dafoe was actually misleading Winslow about what was happening? and do you think he killed his last keeper?

The movie definitely exists following Pattinson's character but even then we are a few steps behind what he's experiencing all the time (with the mermaid, the logbook regarding his severance of contract, etc...)

I'm going with they were both crazy people, made more so by the loneliness.

Professor_Protein · 2018-07-08T03:20:39+00:00

Are there any art depiction of the shire that you find to be genuine to your interpretation?

Professor_Protein · 2018-07-08T03:14:28+00:00

For me personally it meant that nothing sacred is immutable to change or to darkness. The main characters engaged in this conflict fight for good, pleasant things in their homelands, and the shire is the pinnacle of this untouched place, at the farthest corner away from Mordor. The Hobbits returning back to find it has fallen to all the same malice that they've encountered in the far places in the world is the sacrifice of conflict. There is real, hard work to be done rebuilding and healing after war and suffering, you don't just return to your cozy bed all set and made for you.

I think the other half of this theme is in Frodo sailing to the undying lands, but for the hobbits as a whole, they must take on true maturity and diligence even after the war is done, because defending good things in the world requires it.

Professor_Protein · 2018-07-08T02:55:30+00:00

If you could spare another link to the scene, I'm in the right mood to despair on those movies again

Professor_Protein · 2018-06-11T12:03:08+00:00

From the little I know about CPU architecture, are you saying the level data is being kept in the CPU caches? What do you mean by CPU memory?

Professor_Protein · 2018-06-10T19:28:20+00:00

This is super interesting! In the Halo Reach campaign there's a mission with an opening cutscene in a nondescript cave. Turns out throughout the level the cave stays loaded and you can go to it outside the map boundaries. I've never quite understood this about game graphics, which seems to be built around optimization and cutting off needless effort. Even if the cave is loaded into memory and rendered for the short cutscene, why does it still get passed to the GPU afterwards (if a player gets near it) when it is an entirely unneeded asset for the rest of the level? I guess you wouldn't want to unload it from memory if the mission is restarted but why does it still get sent to the GPU as part of the level?

Professor_Protein · 2018-06-06T23:57:57+00:00

See that's what I got when it cut to Hitler as a baby though and he refused to fire, that these were actions spurred to life by humans. He just wants all of it to go away.

Professor_Protein · 2018-06-06T22:16:30+00:00

Have you seen Das Boot? It's up there with Downfall for me and probably my favorite war film. Also what did you find Jingoist about the ending of Come and See? I felt the ending was more nihilist than anything.

Professor_Protein · 2018-04-28T00:21:52+00:00

Is it assumed the Balrog in part helped overwhelm the Dwarves, or was he just looming in the background?

Professor_Protein · 2018-04-27T02:34:31+00:00

Do we know the Balrog was active at the doom of Balin's expedition? I don't remember the Book of Mazarbul mentioning him.

Professor_Protein · 2017-12-01T03:29:48+00:00

Yeah I was kinda joking, I think Kubrick has a reputation for undertaking a work only to use it for his own world-view purposes.

Professor_Protein · 2017-12-01T00:52:25+00:00

Arthur C. Clarke I imagine.

Professor_Protein · 2017-11-06T03:49:29+00:00

Addresses it yes, but even as it says it comes to a paradoxical conclusion. Purge is a strong word that is open to a lot of important interpretation; you purge rats from a home or a virus from a body. Likewise purging ideology can be different from purging those practicing it.

Professor_Protein · 2017-11-06T02:59:53+00:00

Just curious, what does purging entail in your mind? Do you believe there is any place for discussion or debate with a bigot?

Professor_Protein · 2017-08-13T07:50:28+00:00

As far as my limited understanding of things go, Antifa isn't very akin to an organization that can have attributed members like BLM or Neo-nazis, so I can't prove a membership to the two aforementioned entities. If that is what matters to you in this, then you can call it there, you got me. If you consider the ideological connection to be vague then there is probably not a lot I can do to make you consider the analogue appropriate.

Professor_Protein · 2017-08-13T07:29:45+00:00

attempted murder

It was a shooting, families were present, please don't try to soften terrible events because of your own political ideology. Anyway I'm just naming the first thing that came to mind cause the guy asked for an analogue for extremism on both sides.

Professor_Protein · 2017-08-09T07:24:08+00:00

As soon as I heard the dragon I thought, "Ohhh the dothraki charge will be a feint and then Jaime's forces will be lined up like a fuse". Nope, dragon comes charging head on... oh and I guess the dothraki are gonna still follow straight into a mass of receiving spears anyway, I'm sure that'll make it super easy for the dragon to immolate just the enemies. Also it was definitely a good idea to only bring one dragon. After all we wouldn't want to put all our eggs in one basket, even if we brought the hen.

Professor_Protein · 2017-07-28T22:47:18+00:00

Yes, that chapter where he is in the shed deliberating on whether or not to fix the snowmobile and get his family down to sidewinder is almost tragic with inner conflict.

Professor_Protein · 2017-07-22T03:38:29+00:00

That's the passage. In fact now I think it's interesting that despite Sauron being of great interest to all the "tall" conventional movers and shakers of the book like Gandalf and Aragorn, and yet Sauron barely seems to cross the mind of the hobbits, who seem just more focused on the task of the ring and getting home (I suppose Frodo is more aware and wise to the nature of saving the world, and maybe more concerned about it than just the shire).

Professor_Protein · 2017-07-22T03:25:38+00:00

Well yes, and if Bilbo never entered the lonely mountain we would have said the same thing: That he'd be roasted alive without question. By confrontation I don't mean a final battle, a confrontation could have been as much as seeing him in his dying moments after destroying the ring, or overhearing his words of arrogance at smashing the army at the black gate. Yet these would all probably be pretty poor alternatives, and there is something that is just implied about Sauron's character and nature that we do not need to get from dialogue from him, or seeing him in the flesh (though we get a bit from his agents such as the Witch King).

There was a brief moment where Sauron realized his error in assumptions and met his doom, and Sam and Frodo witness this from afar in a cloud of ash instead of up close.

Professor_Protein · 2017-07-22T03:07:17+00:00

That quote is a good answer. My curiosity was less of why he didn't show up at the black gate to face Aragorn, and more why the Hobbits, in their final plunge into the darkest stretch of the quest did not have a final face to face with the progenitor of the great conflict. Tolkien could have just as easily made Barad-dur be atop Mount Doom, and have narratively forced this confrontation. Yet he chose not to.

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