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r/pantyandstocking•

I feel like everyone is going to focus on the demon sisters finally getting an episode for themselves but the final segment completely stole the show for me. I thought it was gonna be Breaking Bad at first butt he last thing I expected them to pull was a love letter to Dario Argento and the Giallo subgenre of Italian slasher movies.

Not only does the man himself appear in the episode but there are so many references to his filmography with shots, colors and locations straight out of Tenebrae, Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Opera and Suspiria. I love how one of the final shots placed the Argento-inspired killer in a composition with all the slasher movie icons, feels like someone in Trigge

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r/pantyandstocking•

It's obvious that the first act is a parody of Hanna Barbera's 1970s animation style with the stilted movements, minimal angle changes, extremely quick animation loops and 4:3 aspect ratio. Second style is the bold-brush, krackled Jack Kirby comics that inspired those HB superhero animations, and the aspect ratio and composition goes completely nuts to make it feel like an animated comic.

But what is the third act's style a reference to? After the fakeout kill of the cube ghost, the cast gets absorbed into a black-and-white, really avant-garde looking world drawn in strong brush strokes, the backdrops become collages of realistic images, Panty's design becomes more surrealist and overloaded

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r/syriancivilwar•

There's already been multiple times where the HTS advance has either been stalled by an obstacle or stopped to reorganize for the next leg of a push. Multiple videos have already shown that when this happens the HTS offensive turns into a gigantic traffic jam of Toyotas and BMPs with their headlights and blinkers on because nobody has night vision.

RuAF and its helicopter pilots shown they've been able to stop pushes from much larger and well-equipped opponents, especially at night. There were multiple opportunities to turn the HTS convoy into the Highway of Death and not only they didn't do that but now the helicopters are supposedly retreating away from Homs. There's been a bunch of low-

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r/belgium•

There are now a grand total of zero (0) banks in Dinant and about two or so in Namur, a city that can somehow sustain 8 different Funko Pop stores for 10 years straight. I now have to drive 10 minutes to get to one of those 'cash points' ...which are apparently run by Bancontact? What's next, having to get my money directly from fucking SWIFT? Do I have to mail cash to the night shops now?

No, really, what happened to the banks? Did they all turn into money market funds and live off interest like some bizarre corporate version of retirement? Is it this bad in all the other provinces or is it another one of the federal government's projects to destroy Namur region?

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r/WarCollege•

To my knowledge, a "separate" unit, in Soviet and post-Soviet doctrine, is an unit that is not one of several components of a bigger unit such as a division, but rather it answers directly to the next higher-ranked headquarter, such as the Army's.

So, for instance, in the Soviet Union you had the 47th Guards Tank Division, which was made up of tank, rifle and artillery regiments that constituted its main fighting force. However, the commanders of the 47th GTD also had several "separate" battalions at their disposal for specialized tasks like engineering. These battalions were not part of any regiment but rather answered directly to the divisional command staff of 4th GTD.

In the current

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Chapter I: The Covid 727

The school let its aircraft (727-200 cargo) rust out on the tarmac for multiple years (starting with the covid lockdown) without activating anything or mothballing it properly so all the systems died. Originally half the coursework was going to be practical and on the plane, and the big showcase final exercise was to jack it up, turn on hydraulics via GPU, extend/retract the LG and take a photo of the class all smiling and ready to go to the internships. In the cafeteria wall here's still the photos of the classes from before 2020 in their work overalls smiling with their teacher. These photos were what the school used for recruiting. Look at all these students

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r/evangelion•

Despite being comically powerful compared to the original series (they are able to mobilize armies of thousands of Eva-type weapons and have several spaceships) SEELE in Rebuild seem like they barely care about human instrumentality and, in fact, they go “Mission accomplished!” and allow Fuyutsuki to euthanize them at the slightest hint that their convoluted plot to dig up the Black Moon is on track. The plan then fails almost immediately after.

Compared this to EoE SEELE who kept their eyes on the prize until it was absolutely certain that human instrumentality had been accomplished, the same organization in Rebuild doesn’t seem interested at all in this human evolution plan that they’ve

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