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  • I have been watching LOTR at least once a year when i was younger.

    There used to be a LOTR marathon for the easter weekend on one private TV channel in Germany for at least a decade.

    Spin off video games like the battle for middle earth have been hugely popular among my friends

    The movies are ranked 6, 9 and 12 place in the imdb top list. No other triology comes close.

    It will be hard to find a media IP that is as generations defining as LOTR.

    At the end of the day it is also one of the last “great stories” an arc of the epic battle between good and evil that is executed well and not just a self referential pile of dung like all the superhero IPs.






  • In the late 2000s, for instance, rumors circulated about a bunker in Iran struck by a bunker-buster bomb. The bomb had failed to penetrate—and remained embedded in—the surface of the bunker, presumably until the occupants called in a bomb-disposal team. Rather than smashing through the concrete, the bomb had been unexpectedly stopped dead. The reason was not hard to guess: Iran was a leader in the new technology of Ultra High Performance Concrete, or UHPC, and its latest concrete advancements were evidently too much for standard bunker busters.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordow_Fuel_Enrichment_Plant

    Construction on the facility started in 2006, but the existence of the enrichment plant was only disclosed to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by Iran on 21 September 2009,[6][7] after the site became known to Western intelligence services. Western officials strongly condemned Iran for not disclosing the site earlier;

    Seems to fall into the same timeframe.













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    Your cousin coming to your home to visit or asking you to live there is very different from him coming to murder you and steal your house and tell the world how he is right to life there and your family trying not to have their house stolen is literal terrorism