Possibly Yamamoto’s scale model for the operation?
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RAvery
May 25, 2020, 4:14am
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All good guesses. But a different Yamamoto was involved.
Hawai Mare oki kaisen (ハワイ・マレー沖海戦), The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya, is a 1942 black-and-white Japanese war film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto and made during the Second World War.
Hawai Mare oki kaisen was the most costly film made in Japan up to that time, costing over $380,000, when a typical film cost no more than $40,000. It used special effects and miniature models to create realistic battle scenes. These were intercut with genuine newsreel material to create the appearance of a documen...
The man in charge of special effects later went on to work on Godzilla movies.
Eiji Tsuburaya (円谷 英二, Tsuburaya Eiji) (born Eiichi Tsumuraya (圓谷 英一, Tsumuraya Eiichi); July 7, 1901 – January 25, 1970, in Sukagawa, Fukushima) was a Japanese special effects director responsible for many Japanese science-fiction films and television series, being one of the co-creators for the Godzilla series, as well as the main creator of the Ultra Series.
During his rise to post-war fame in the wake of Godzilla (1954), many press accounts gave Tsuburaya's birthdate as July 7, which falls ...
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It was warm and fuzzy, like everything else it likes to eat?
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kxkvi
May 25, 2020, 7:21pm
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I wondered what on earth made me say “what on earth made it decide to eat a towel.” I’d forgotten all about the towel-in-snake incident.
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Losing “Regular” status is Elsewhere’s way of telling me to catch up on my reading
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jerwin
May 26, 2020, 1:43pm
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MrMonkey:
I don’t think I’ve ever run across the term creepypasta before, but it fits. I’ve barely scratched the surface, but this seems like it might be one of those sites that make me think maybe the internet wasn’t an entirely shitty idea, after all.
surely you’ve heard of this?
On May 31, 2014, two 12-year-old girls in Waukesha, Wisconsin held down and stabbed a 12-year-old classmate 19 times. When questioned later by authorities, they reportedly claimed that they wished to commit a murder as a first step to becoming proxies for the Slender Man, having read about it online. They also stated that they were afraid that Slender Man would kill their families if they did not commit the murder. After the perpetrators left the scene, the victim crawled out of the woods Expert...
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kxkvi
May 30, 2020, 7:38pm
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Either this is a photoshop or I missed an opportunity to get more soda as a kid.
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RAvery
May 30, 2020, 8:57pm
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I feel like it’s a real ad… from the Church of the SubGenius.
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jerwin
May 30, 2020, 9:42pm
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(There are societies which feed their children vitamalt, which is sort of similar)
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On a quick glance, the face in the foam looks disturbingly like Trump…
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RAvery
May 30, 2020, 10:14pm
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Well, Guinness is good for you. You can’t argue with that.
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jerwin
May 31, 2020, 12:48am
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a movie set? Or a convention?
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RAvery
May 31, 2020, 1:12am
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Or is it real?
The evidence is puzzling.
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RAvery
May 31, 2020, 3:59am
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Gah. Whoever wrote that apparently never watched the episode.
For example: there are two Trumpies, the parent is the one killing people, the child is not. And “idiot control now” is not the actual chorus of the song. That’s the joke.
There is a much better moment in Moon Zero Two.
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