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  • Yes, you’re absolutely right, I’d forgotten about that.

    I think my main point is still valid though - Godzilla is a physical manifestation of the destruction that nuclear activity can cause.

    As I read on another post somewhere: “Ask a Japanese, and radiation creates monsters. Ask an American, and radiation creates superheros.”


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    11 months ago

    I hate that this is even a thing.

    • Godzilla is a metaphor (either intended or simply ingrained in the Japanese psyche) for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • King Kong is a “Beauty and the Beast” love story

    They are from different eras and are important films in their own way.

    But we end up getting this shite because monsters must fight monsters, apparently.

    It’s all a load of fucking shit and devalues the importance of each movies. It should never have been made.

    Anyway, I haven’t seen the movie but Godzilla would win. Atomic breath. Come on guys, the monkey’s dead meat that you can’t touch for a hundred thousand years.


  • This will be a tough one to fix. There must be millions upon millions of embedded systems out there with 16-bit epoch burned in.

    They’ll all be much tougher to find than “YEAR PIC(99)” in COBOL was.

    Y2K wasn’t a problem because thousands upon thousands of programmers worked on it well in advance (including myself) we had source code and plenty of static analysis tools, often homegrown.

    The 2038 bugs are already out there…in the wild…their source code nothing but a distant dream.