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What’s your favorite movie that uses lots of practical effects?

The Thing has to be up there if the criteria is just an overall great movie heavy on practical effects.

Do you have a favorite practical effect of all time?

The "digital" wireframe view of the city from Snake's glider in 'Escape From New York'.

It was accomplished with miniature buildings which is rad.

"Nah, I'd win."

The special provisions that exist or have been proposed are for first responders because they breathed in dust and were exposed to various health hazards during the response.

What above and beyond taking care of do people who weren't exposed to any of that in the backend need?

In your own question you are identifying something that isn't a first responder. First responders arrive on scene. By being on scene the first responders were exposed to health hazards. Those hazards are what existing or proposed programs deal with.

Repeat from the other thread:

I beat The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.

It was alright. A third person shooter where you are theoretically giving tactical orders to two NPC followers. In reality, good or interesting tactics go out the window in favor of just spamming special abilities as much as possible in a chaotic mess of fights. The story was decent and gets interesting near the end, although for my money after the big reveal it feels like it drags out a bit longer than it needs to. For $3 I got my value.

I beat The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.

It was alright. A third person shooter where you are theoretically giving tactical orders to two NPC followers. In reality, good or interesting tactics go out the window in favor of just spamming special abilities as much as possible in a chaotic mess of fights. The story was decent and gets interesting near the end, although for my money after the big reveal it feels like it drags out a bit longer than it needs to. For $3 I got my value.

The reason they haven't succumb to sponsorships is exactly because of their giant Patreon. That's about the same reason they don't really care about monetization on every video. This video was more about their uploads being entirely hidden from view by YouTube's nebulous automated system.

A choice which also has many downsides.

It just seems really difficult to envision a way to put Stargate back on TV that isn't somewhere between underwhelming to full on disaster.

How embarrassing.

In Stargone, the largest single human territorial zone is overseen by the Universal Corporate Council (UCC), which is a loose union of megacorporations who established themselves and their zones within what would become the UCC early in the days of interstellar colonization. Within the UCC, English is the most widespread language and considered the official standard language for communicating with or among the general population. For higher status families in the management class, different corporate zones tend to have distinct upper class languages that are taught in schools in addition to English. In the Fortschrittliche Zukunftslösung (FZ) zone, German is the language of management. In the Chen Zone, a variant of modern Pyojuneo, the South Korean language is taught to the families of management. It is common in all the different corporate zones for those in the shareholding class spend considerable effort to educate their children in the management language of their zone in an effort to appear more high status. For members of the general population, it is normally seen as above their station to display a knowledge of the management language beyond basic slogans or chants.

The independent colonies for the most part speak English, although like all things regarding the colonies there is no complete uniformity. The Liefeld colony for example still speaks English, with classes taught by the I.M.A.G.E. central computer. However despite the computer's ability to teach, the generations of genetic alternation leading to mental degradation has left the Liefeld population loud, rowdy, and while capable of average conversational speech often unable to articulate complex concepts or read at a high level.

The Azonian colony are another exception to the norm, as they learn and speak Portuguese as their primary language, and only learn English in the later years of their educations so that they can communicate with outsiders. This makes them stand out as their English tends to be distinct as they are one of the few populations to learn it as a secondary rather than primary language.

The arweli, the alien race with which humanity has had the most contact, speak and are taught a language that the first humans to interact with them dismissively named "Umwelt". Young arweli are taught by their family pod, and with the addition of some level of genetic memory they tend to pick up on the language very quickly. Before the collapse of the arweli government, young arweli would be sent to large academies to receive formal education that expanded on what their pod had taught them. While other arweli languages are known to exist, Umwelt was the language of the arweli central government and military before it collapsed, making it by far most encountered by humans. Almost no humans are able to to decipher the various calls and croaks. Arweli on the other hand tend to be able to pick up human languages, although without surgical modification they are unable to speak them. After the war ended, it was not uncommon for arweli living in mixed areas with humans to have surgery to implant devices to modify their vocal cords to be able to speak human languages.

I'm curious what a new Stargate show would even look like. The strongest part of Stargate's identity was modern earth interacting with the scifi stuff out there. Throughout the shows, earth kept unlocking more of the XCOM tech tree until it was finally granted Asgard knowledge. SGU was able to somewhat sidestep this by mostly being isolated from earth, but a new show would have to deal with the fact earth (or at least the governments of earth) have had access to advanced alien technology for decades.

A new show could lean into that, but to me that kind of takes away what is special about Stargate and just turns it into another space opera. A new show could also hit a big reset button by denying earth access to the Asgard knowledge again and somehow taking away a bunch of the backup knowledge to de-power earth, but that route has the danger of feeling cheap and having details not make sense.

A pretty mainstream choice, but 'LA Confidential'. I got really into James Ellroy books for a while.

Or if you don't want to feel horribly depressed, I guess I'd recommend 'Guards! Guards!'