Tomorrow War

by on July 22, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Tomorrow War is a movie about an alien invasion in the future that asks for help from the past. And one of the most stupid parts in it that people do complain about is the main rifle they use. It basically fires colorful confetti at the aliens that has no penetrating power at all. It fires a small round, out of a short barrel, has a long stock, a dim spotlight, and basically does everything it can to look cool while being utterly useless. I could say that it is the perfect Hollywood gun, but that would be mean. The only worldbuilding reason I can see for why they use it, is it is all the future have left after the real weapons were destroyed in battle. I cannot see why the past would send people forward using that piece of crap. Now I’m used to Hollywood movies getting firearms totally wrong, so I don’t tend to rate movies by them. But it is disappointing to see it here.

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Tomorrow War

by on July 21, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Tomorrow War is a movie about a war in the future that has been lost. It is still being fought, but both the future and the past who are supporting them have long since realized there is no winning it. That continued fighting is just delaying the inevitable. But there is one hope. The future has been working on something that can kill the aliens. A poison. They have plenty of aliens to experiment on up there, and the future has been doing their experiments in what is probably one of the last major surviving cities on the planet. Miami Beach. Which is fallen when the main char arrives. His team is sent to retrieve the scientists and their research, and that data is the last hope the future has. They seek to finalize the research, send the data back to the past with the main char, and have the past mass produce the poison. For a last gasp Hail Mary plan, it’s not a bad one.

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Tomorrow War

by on July 20, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Tomorrow War is a movie about a war in the future where the future has lost and are hoping the past can help them. In the final scene of the movie, we see what appears to be the last holdout of humanity in the Bahamas. The last vestiges of their future tech are there, mostly hover drones that do a good job securing the perimeter. The flags of every surviving nation on Earth are there. And the main char talks to future soldiers there. We the audience learn that even they no longer hold out hope of survival. The world is lost, the young have certainly already been sent back, and those stuck in the future will die. There is nothing anyone can do about it. It is a sobering moment that underscores just how bad the future has been hammered. But there is actually one hope. Which is why the main char is there.

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Arizona Audit

by on July 19, 2021 at 12:01 am
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We’ve got some interesting preliminary results coming in on the Arizona Audit. The current standing is a 10,000 vote margin in favor of Biden. The audit has discovered that 168,000 ballots turned in are not printed on legal ballot paper. In addition, there are 4,000 votes by people who registered to vote AFTER the October 15 deadline. 11,000 votes by people who were not on the rolls on election day, but WERE on the rolls a month later. And there are 18,000 votes by people who were on the rolls on election day, but were removed soon thereafter. Finally, we have 74,000 mail-in ballots with no evidence that they were sent. Fact-check articles dispute this last number, but I distrust their language tag, so we’re going to have to look at those closely. Whatever the final report, these numbers are worrisome for people who demand free and fair elections.

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Tomorrow War

by on July 18, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Tomorrow War is a movie about a war in the future seen from the perspective of one guy sent forward from our time, ahead of schedule, on an emergency mission. The first scene we see is a fallen city, where the main char has to pull out some valuable intelligence. The second and third scenes are forward operating bases, where the future is obviously using old tech. It could have been reserve stuff they pulled out of mothballs, but as a world builder I would assume it is stuff sent forward from the past. Helicopters. Humvees. Stuff that can fit inside a soccer stadium. And stuff that is light enough to be sucked up into the wormhole. Assuming there is a weight limit there. We don’t see any future tech in these two scenes, which once again is a world building moment. The future simply doesn’t have enough tech left to spend it in forward operating bases, no matter their importance.

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