Friday, September 9, 2011
The Big Hair of Twilight 2000
As depicted on the ad, this is straight out of a direct to video, 1980's post apoco film starring Rowdy Roddy Piper. "Hell comes to Frogtown" had a couple of decent women soldiers. But even Sandahl Bergman's hair didn't have this late 70's Playboy After Dark Playmate style. One of them looks like Farrah Fawcett. So is this so called "realistic" aftermath type game set in the original Charlie's Angels universe?
No soldier who wanted to live through battle would go into combat alongside chicks with big hair. If they were the type of women who wanted that kind of hair, then they were the type of women you had hidden in the bunker for "Comfort time." If the men go into battle with any women at all in the aftermath, they'll likely be more like the harsh, fugly women guards at Abu Graib prison were in those wonderful photos released a few years ago.
Maybe the women on the cover are actually men in drag. Soul "sisters" of Buffalo Bill dancing naked in front of the mirror waiting for Agent Starling to show up.
I know typical nerds often have a fetish for beautiful women who can kick ass like Laura Croft or one of the blond chicks from Xena. But anyone who thinks there is anything realistic about this needs to just play in the fantasy worlds and not live in them.
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Her hair is totally against Army Regulation 670-1. Bombs drop and the grooming stnadards go out the got-damn window.
ReplyDeleteNo big hair, but I think a friend of mine who was serving as a line medic in Afghanistan last year would take offense to the term "fugly."
ReplyDeletehttps://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ELAB_tm6UXuO9sZYjqjy8w?feat=directlink
Anthony: Well, of course there are exceptions to every rule. Can't see anything on the link though.
ReplyDeleteHeh, if I understood it correctly, Brunomac was referring to Lyndie England, who was the very definition of fugly. I saw her in person during her trial at Ft. Bragg. She's even uglier in person.
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