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52 posted on 05/20/2012 6:56:18 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

I have “Yamato”. My first impression of it (loosely anyway) was “Titanic with gunfire”.

Once you manage to look past the cultural “tropes” (i.e. the inevitable citation of Hiroshima and We-Will-Never-Fight-Again), it’s actually pretty good. And its battle perspective (being on the receiving end and essentially trapped like a rat) is very different.


56 posted on 05/20/2012 8:51:18 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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