Tell me /k/, what is your favorite era of warfare?
>>65135917I'd take Cold War, wood and steel was still a thing but you also had some early digital tech and a bangin' soundtrack.
Space War 1.
>>65135917WW2 for steampunk losers and cold war for chaud engineers
>>65135926>WW2 is steampunkhuh?
>>65135926WW2 is Dieselpunk
>>65135931Fuck me I forgot that this movie even existed.I'm pretty sure I saw it in theaters?Might have been the first time I ever actually went to the movies by myself because literally nobody I knew wanted to go with me.
>>65135941Oh it was definitely a forgettable movie but I like art deco sci fi and 30/40s womens looks so I watch it about once or twice a year, along with pic related.
>>65135945Is that Jennifer Connelly?
>>65135929>>65135931yeah steampunk, dieselpunk whatever, it's just ugly, the only aesthetic thing to ever come out of this period is battleships
>>65135917I don't have one, war sucks. Neither war I saw first hand had any of this shit but dead civilians all looked the same like littke piles of thrashbags dumped on a street wearing clothes The cement dust was the same and the piles of rubble and the shell holesmankind is insane
>>65135917Rocks and sticks
>>65135990wut
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>>65136012Arguably these are late 30s designs, but that is the equipment the war was initially fought with.
>>65136012anon, that's a computer mouse
>>65136012>Old concept cars thought cars in the future would be cool space ship looking things>Modern cars are all egg shaped SUV'sWhere did it all go so wrong?
>>65135973Yes at her peak.
>>65136022Fastest one in the world for 77 years too.Public road, not dragstrip or salt flat>>65136035Looks as if they had let Delorean make the car designs for Demolition Man.
SPACE.
>>65136040Physical or acting form?
>>65136059>Space CIA
>>65136064Her acting is fine in it, but I meant her looks.
>>65135917napoleonic and it's not even close
>>65135973Sure is, looked delicious in that movie too.
>>65135917Africa is an Era that never ends
>>65136035Tesla tried but not hard.Car companies need to spin these all off the second they won't use them to a company called "concepts" that makes a few hundred or thousand of them all.I'm still butthurt over lincoln not doing suicide door gangster cars and ford's ranchero sport thing.
>>65136059>perhaps he's wondering why you would laser a man before throwing him out the airlock
>>651359171450-1650 is peak. >wide variety of weapons >unique national aesthetics >small and mid-sized players instead of a few great powers>warfare goes global
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>>65135917I started out big into WWII, but then switched to the Cold War. Lately, though, I've gotten increasingly interested in that stretch between the American Civil War and WWI where breechloaders start to proliferate but the old lines of battle remained the tactical meta. Dunno if that's going to overtake my Cold War fixation or not, though.
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>>65136035Gas mileage became king.Edges are bad in crashes, especially with pedestrians, so safety regulators pushed for fewer sharp edges.Women became the largest market to sell to, and aesthetics tended to be lower on the list for them over interior space and comfort and ride height.Men became obsessed with the rural, blue-collar aesthetic as peak masculinity and so trucks and boxy SUVs became the way to sell to them.
>>65136558Fuck cyclists and fuck pedestrians
>>65135917cold war aesthetics are my favorite, but i think i like ww1 stuff a little more than ww2i want to get one of those airdrome aeroplanes kits down the line and build a fokker, or maybe one of those jenny repro kits
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>>65136558apparently edges were also in part due to introduction of computer simulations, with less powerful computers of the 80s requiring less complex shapes for aero simulations etcanother cause of boxy vehicles is crash safety:>higher beltline = better impact protection for occupants>lower wedge shapes are worse for pedestrian collisions; moving the hood up to knee level means the body would be bending at the waist rather than the knees, reducing degree of injurybut of course all that extra space on the front/sides/back doesn't look too good, being part of why it ends up getting filled with big ugly fake grills/vents/diffusers etc like it's insecure about being an economy car
>>65136035>Where did it all go so wrong?Unironically the Pontiac Aztek. It caught all sorts of shit back in the day for being the "ugliest car ever made," but at some point everyone decided to buy cars that look just like it, and at this point it's a pretty bland design.
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>>65135917Cold War Africa. Warlords and unhinged right wing, neocolonial mercenaries taking on the world. Bob Denard started off as a quartermaster in the French Navy, tried to assasinate the French President, arrested, released, and wandered in to the Congo to fight for Katanga and French and Belgian colonial interests in the region against communist guerillas backed the the USSR. Apparently someone mistaken his rank for leadership of the Marines Commandos and was given command of a troupe of deadly Belgian mercs, nicknamed Les Affreux or the 'Awful Ones.' It gets crazier from here on out but basically he's like a French Gaulist version of Big Boss from Metal Gear.
>>65136064She was never particularly great at acting, they always cast her for her looks. A process that may have potentially involved a couch.>>65136264Well she was at least an adult by then.
Vietnam was peak for asthetics. Plus all the music before Vietnam pretty much sucked ass
>>65135917For me its probably Vietnam. I love the jungle and highlands, a lot of cool tech starting to be used like passive starlight scopes, scalable/hard body armor, several of my favorite guns were used in that conflict (pic rel), good music, several of my favorite planes were also there (the F-4, A-6 and F-111 mostly). I could go on. On the other hand it is an example of failed commitments, failures of strategic planners and leaders, and the shortcomings of an unprofessional military (in some cases at least). >>65135931>>65135945Good movies.
>>65135917The last time both /k/avalry and pistols were genuinely viable tools of warfare and not kludged stopgaps at best or hopelessly obsolete at worst.
The era of flintlocks, from the 7 years war to napoleon. For a brief period, three arms cavalry, artillery and infantry existed in perfect balance to each other. Warfare became a cerebral game of rock, paper, scissors and a general had to be skilled in using all three arms. Countries that maxxed in one arm, like Austria did in artillery and Prussia did in infantry lost out to those who were capable in all three (France and Britain)Any other answer is wrong.
>>65136969>Plus all the music before Vietnam pretty much sucked ass
>>65136040>>65136953Reminder she did full nudity the year before, including a from the rear beaver shot.
>>65137265There's a reason big band shit is dead and buried but rock and roll and all the genres that spawned out of it endure.
>>65137350>mfw this postFirst, rock was born a decade before Vietnam and already mega-popular by the time the first boot touched down in Da Nang.Second, there was a great deal that predates rock that is not big band. Rythm and blues, jazz, folk, country, not to mention arguably the greatest vocalists ever to sing serenades. And that's just the '30s and '40s. Go back further and you have marches, and even further back you have the broad waterfront of classical music.Third, rock as it existed in the '60s is just as dead as big band music is. Or marches. Or classical music, for that matter. Any particular sound eventually gets played out, and the listening public moves on. But the greatest hits of any particular era or genre remain, often demonstrating evergreen popularity. The Rolling Stones still have fans, but so does Sinatra, so does Sousa, and so does Bach. And each new iteration owes a creative debt to those that came before it. There would be no metal without classic rock, but there isn't much that sounds like classic rock coming out these days.
>>65136329>Tesla triedyeah, tried making the ugliest cars imaginable
>>65137272I don't believe you.
>>65136040>at her peakShe wasn't acting at her peak. The closest we've got is Phenomena.
>>65135917Yugoslav Wars take the cake. Not an era per say but it was pretty cool compared to more recent wars. It was like actual Cold War era tactics and weapons being used, which in my most humble opinion was the coolest instance where Cold War stuff was actually used (even tho the Cold War was already over by the time, but you get the idea). After that it was>Air support, we see one Afghan popping shots 1200 meters away from us in a hut, drop a nuke on him
>>65137913The hot spot (1990) but you gotta zoom in to see it.
>>65137913Look her up on AZnude.
>>65137920That title should be reserved for the Travolta film that I randomly woke up to a girl's house recently and is way better than I remember.Peak Connelly, acting; is "Beautiful Mind" or "Requiem."
>>65135917World War II in the Philippines for how varied it was depending on where or who you were.>Be Japanese soldier fighting moro insurgents in the south in 1943>Be former Filipino Scout doing recon for 11th Airborne over Tagaytay Ridge>Be US infantryman tasked with clearing out Manila of IJN remnants in 1945>Be guerilla courier civilian in 1944 delivering messages through the literal post systemThere's a lot of crazy and weird shit to that war, but I'm also literally a Burger Flip so my opinion is probably worth less than wet toilet paper on a ceiling.
>>65135917WW2 all the way but 1985 specifically is a close second because of pic rel
>>65137265>spiderman posting>in 2026What is this, did I go back 15 years?
