A good point Alex, but at what point does tragedy become fair game? Bill and Ted made light of Khaaaaaan, the Mogul butcher of yesteryear. Monty Python has made sketches of the Black Death...so what's the time limit on these things?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nothing like 9/11. Japan attacked the US first in an attacked depicted in the horrible Michael Bay flick, Pearl Harbor. (I had to get that in there for sake of relevance to the format war.) The US military weighed its options for ending the Pacific theater and nuking Japan won because the alternative was an estimated additional 1 million US soldiers dead. It also ended the war in a matter of days rather than dragging it on for potentially years. While 9/11 was about a radical group of Islamo-fascists that hate everything about America and what it stands for.
I didn't mean to imply there is a time limit, I don't think there is one, I was mostly asking if it was ok to make light off recent events as it seems to be for ~63 years old one.
@RN My point was, that it's not cool to compare tragic events, foreign or not, old or not, to a stupid format war.
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LOL at people complaining about Enola Blu-Ray pic. I think it's tastelessly hilarious!
A picture of the burning twin towers with "HDDVD" written on it would be hilarious too.
Oh, too soon ?
Ridiculous picture.
A good point Alex, but at what point does tragedy become fair game? Bill and Ted made light of Khaaaaaan, the Mogul butcher of yesteryear. Monty Python has made sketches of the Black Death...so what's the time limit on these things?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nothing like 9/11. Japan attacked the US first in an attacked depicted in the horrible Michael Bay flick, Pearl Harbor. (I had to get that in there for sake of relevance to the format war.) The US military weighed its options for ending the Pacific theater and nuking Japan won because the alternative was an estimated additional 1 million US soldiers dead. It also ended the war in a matter of days rather than dragging it on for potentially years. While 9/11 was about a radical group of Islamo-fascists that hate everything about America and what it stands for.
Or so we're told...
@borland502 (SDF - Macross Ring)
I didn't mean to imply there is a time limit, I don't think there is one, I was mostly asking if it was ok to make light off recent events as it seems to be for ~63 years old one.
@RN
My point was, that it's not cool to compare tragic events, foreign or not, old or not, to a stupid format war.
My bad for the post down, meant to reply here.