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I think you could like that @Cult Icon. I just thought about now. 

Here the works from a french drawer named Romain Hugault. He's also pilot.

And he's the author of a serie of albums called Pinup Wings / Angel Wings. 

Some of his works:

Here his blog >> http://romain-hugault.blogspot.fr/

Once i met him in a festival, but only one of my brother got a dedicated album  

^

I have digitals of his stories.  His artwork is top-notch.  The stories are extremely...romantic and idealistic, lol.   There is one where a German pilot and a soviet female pilot have a romance..

On 1/24/2016 at 7:14 PM, jj3 said:

 

 

I didn't watched this movie, so, i can't really tell... But i know this time pretty well. But tell me what you think about it  

The movie or the time period? 

^ The time period, i never watched the movie or read the book. 

4 hours ago, jj3 said:

^ The time period, i never watched the movie or read the book. 

 I don't know that much beyond the general things.  The British have a tendency to fight well or fight badly throughout their history.   A Briton once told me that he blames it on centuries spanning.. rigid bureaucracy.  In the F & I war, they were not very capable of really utilizing their economic advantages to the fullest and they often had trouble when they attempted to fight irregular and surgical warfare. 

I just finished AS:3 which starts during that war and ends after the revolutionary war.  

Revolutionary Wars Era is one of the most exciting and interesting time of the History !

As a french, it's hard to say, but British "won" this time of the History. British Empire shined among all the others.

I'm admirative about the way they managed their situation and capacities at the best. Pragmatic and effective. The opposite than French, basically  

The french however were extremely outnumbered (many multiples) in the F & I war.

The american gameplan during the revolutionary war was to deny the British overwhelming victories and stall them long enough to defeat them politically.  Giap later did this to defeat the US in Vietnam, as did america's enemies in Korea, Iraq, and Afganistan.

AS:3 has a rendition of the Battle of Bunker Hill- this is a classic battle  that gets lampooned.  Americans like to portray the British as rigid, out of touch automatons that march up a hill while being killed in mounds by crafty american guerrillas.  I remember being taught this battle in high school and the children/teacher had a good laugh.    I have to admit that Mel Gibson's "Patriot" movie makes me laugh (The British are portrayed as a type of nazi).   It portrays the revolutionary war in a comedic way.  It drives British patriots nuts, of course...

Yeah, i agree about 'The Patriot', i noticed that too when i watched it. Soviets did the same with French in their movie 'Waterloo'.

Funny enough, this guerrilla type of way the conduct a war, defeated french armies in Spain a few years after ...

Talking about Revolution Wars Era, i really like this canvas:

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_souper_de_Beaucaire

^

I've been watching AS: Syndicate as of late and it's a funny depiction of late 19th century London/Industrial revolution- also very much the "Marx" view of things with the evil capitalists with the top hats, dangerous factories, pseudoscience, and child labor.  :=p

what are the most interesting parts of the French revolution for you?  AS: Unity has several depictions of famous events, such as the execution of King Louis, storming of the Bastille, Paris under revolution, etc.

The terror time after the exucution of Louis XVI has been very bloody, and that was just a big mess. But in the same time, the first battles of the Wars of the Revolution happened, so, it's mixed. This revolution has many aspects same time, so, we have to keep that in mind imo. 

In France we do the difference between the Revolution Era, and the Napoleonic time, i think, we can actually mix the two time. Because Bonaparte was a revolutionary, and through the war of the Empire, he tried to spread the idea of the Revolution. So, iwould say the Napoleonic time was the most interesting. Before that IMO, that was just a prelude.

One of the ideas/personal daydreams I have is starting a simple business that leverages my special knowledge about the Eastern Front in WW2.  I also have a collection of images and access to some of the images from the war archives.

My thinking is to publish shock comics and use vendors such as Amazon (straight to kindle).  The problem however, is I need a business partner who has artistic talent in the comics medium.  or a Graphic designer who can assemble images using templates.

My other ideas, which are more simple- are to do Posters/T-shirts prints with dramatic and violent imagery.   Maybe more complex products can be attempted if that proves successful over time.

I also need to set up a website and payment system.

Your first project is more interesting i think. But it must ask years of work before to be able to see some results ! 

^

I don't think the first would take years of work- probably a month per issue if I can find the right person.   The means to distribute are already set up through online vendors :-p

^ You're optimistic  

Well, it doesn't have to be a work of art.  You know what I mean right?  Eg. Manga, some american dailies etc. do not require much artistic effort.  They're throwaway stuff for a quick buck.

In AS:U Robespierre is assassinated by the player.  What do you think of that?

^ Well, i mean, why not  He was executed on the public square, à la guillotine, but yeah, that was the mass , so ...: D 

I want this in my shop ASAP  

On 1/24/2016 at 7:14 PM, jj3 said:

^ Internet did that yes...But i find the internet more and more negative about that...Of course it's fater and easier to find the truth behing the lines, and more sources and etc...But Internet UPKEEP the flame of the LAME conspiaracy theories...This worry me a lot. 

Of course our societies are perhaps "oriented" by some obscure power, or circles of influences...But extremists from every parties are insing that now to tease the less educated people living in our societies...

 

I was going to get into this earlier but forgot. in the US the main danger is not the "obvious" stuff (eg. some of the stuff from Trump, palin) but the seemingly plausible conspiracies done by (mostly) American left wing types and word smiths.   They are skilled at scamming the so-called "educated" (who, in reality, mostly do not have much real knowledge in politics, economics, american capitalism and history and have been conditioned by mass media their whole lives)  with emotional agitation . The danger comes from realistic seeming conspiracies or sweeping dangers (eg. environmentalism) that lead to unnecessary or even damaging policy and of course, higher taxes.

  Trump is popular because he is trolling the liberal establishment in this country.  Basically any opposition candidate that does this in the USA will get popular.  That's how a lot of the conservative states have their politics operate and they result in low taxes, minimal govt' etc.  but of course big business running amok, which has to be taken into account.

I think, there's a few reasons who conduct people into the conspiracy theories. Lack of education in the top of the list ! 

Nowadays, excepted a few school through a country is dispensing a correct eduction. In France, like in the US, basis education look SO poor.

Majority of people, and even those who have a good social rank, are not able to understand correctly some basis concepts, like discipline or the common good.

People think technology or modernism will save us or give us a better lives. But in the end, i feel our societies are now just out of control. Violence is everywhere. Not only poor people, in every rank of our society.

I hardly think the elite is now intelectually very poor. Nepotism is a real cancer. All the differents factors are deeply make me think about the fall of Roman Empire. 

But the process seem like irreversible, since we're living into democratic system. Pretendly democratic only. Money and personal interests are ruling the world. Let's face it. 

Environmentalism is not a big deal. It give to humanity a reason to resolve the energy issue we have now. We anyway need to change and find a new energy. Not only one. But several i think. Cleaner, and stronger, and more durable too. THE big challenge of our time. The big goal beeing the start of the space conquest before the end of this century.

Space conquest is the key. More humans from everywhere HAVE to see in real of what is made the space environment. It will kill a part of the conspiracies IMO. Space conquest will give to Humanity is real scale into this Universe.

But of course, this ask better leaders. Smarter leaders. Stronger leaders. 

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Agreed about the unreliability of political noise.  I was once very interested in trying to "figure out" US and international politics (espec. circa 2007-2010) but after a critical mass of effort.. I moved on and since then found it as repetitive and banal as ever.   Most certainly it was the collapse of the Clinton/Bush era views in the mid/late 2000s and the economic depression that instigated my search.  Seeing the fall was a rude awakening.  

I had a family contact, for instance, spend around six years building a mansion for fun.  He engaged in this hobby at the expense of his family.  He intended to see it for a gigantic profit.  But the housing market collaspsed as soon as he finished his work!

PS.  Zoolander 2 got very bad reviews.