Well you’ve got a lot of great recommendtions in general on this post, but while we’re on the topic of war movies:

• Gettysburg (1993) has some great character studies, the book it’s based on is “The Killer Angels” and also worth reading
• Zulu (1964) is another product of its times but they did an outstanding job, and it’s a solid depiction of English defensive tactics of the late 1800s

Yah, OP seems to like war movies, so I’d add:

• A Bridge Too Far - a classic, tho kinda old-fashioned moviemaking
• Apocalypse Now - another classic, still seems fresh
• Waterloo - the only good movie about Napoleon
• 1917 - some really amazing camerawork

Distance education.

dunno I don’t use mobile clients for piefed… I think there’s one but don’t know much about it.

Piefed is awesome. I really like Scheduled Posts, as well as Feeds (which are collections of communities). There are only a couple reasons why keep my lemmy.world account: uploading images in comments is difficult in piefed, and I don’t think piefed supports custom preview for youtube videos yet. But I imagine those will be fixed at some point in the near future.

The bad ending: On his way out, Thomas passes a twisted piece of metal hanging from a hook. It is his soul, which has been removed from him, and it is eternally screaming.

The good ending: And so Thomas reached immortality, his old parts melted down to make his new parts, and in time he came to rule his island nation.

a classic: “Hallowed Be Thy Name” by Iron Maiden.

I still remember the first time I heard that song.

good bot.

Just wanting Zeus in heaven to see that “Sexual Chocolate” t-shirt.

I dunno, I lived in LA in the 00s, I can think of a couple people in their 20s/30s who were that ridiculous unironically. (In a good way! Who doesn’t love Bill & Ted?!)

Just listening to that one now, never heard it before either. Wait, is this a trick to get me to listen to the entire Radiohead catalog?!?

Just listening to it now. Never heard it before.

the Hagbulbia album by Portal

thanks, I’m listening now, gonna have to dig out my best headphones!

drone

Dunno much about drone, but I’ve recently started listening to noise and dark ambient that’s sometimes also labeled drone. Any recommendations?

Radio head is like THE indie band everyone knows.

Yeah, but everybody only knows “Creep.” (Source: I only know “Creep”.)

Aw yeah, if you already know your rolls and breakfalls, Aikido is a great thing to check out. At lower levels, the “attacks” are basically two-person katas, usually involving escaping from grabs. At upper levels they do have something called randori but even then it’s all very structured. Aikido gets made fun of sometimes for not having a “live” adversary who’s actively trying to beat you. I’ve read there are some dojos that do competitive Aikido, but I think that’s rare.

In the martial arts, Tai Chi is the obvious answer.

Consider Aikido. It’s generally more like choreographed exercises. A lot of dojos are very understanding of physical constraints. Check with your doctor, it might be good way to gently test your limits. Plus, it’s important to know how to fall safely.

Evil Genie: “Granted.” It starts to rain. It never stops.

ikr on a “bad day” I’m basically just grabbing a slice of bread and opening the fridge to find something edible to wrap it around.