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Just a note that 1988 was, gulp, 35 years ago.
by pdxandi 4y ago
Just a note that 1988 was, gulp, 35 years ago.
- zikduruqe 4y agoJust a note, Star Wars was released closer to World War 2, than today's date. Makes you feel really old.
- bee_rider 4y ago1977-1945=32 2023-1977=46 2023-32=1991 Quite a bit closer! That’s an interesting note, given that the Tie/X-wing fights were heavily inspired by WW2 dogfights, right? Can you imagine something that draws on the Gulf War similarly? It just seems wrong, too proximate to pull out purely aesthetic themes.
- coliveira 4y agoWW2 had an immense importance in the minds of people who lived it. Gulf War... who even cares about it, except for the ones involved? Many people don't even remember that.
- johannes1234321 4y agoWhich of the gulfwars are you even talking about? - Even Korea and Vietnam, which were big and had quite some cultural impact, are more and more forgotten.
- jefftk 4y agoIf someone just says "The Gulf War" they almost always mean the 1990-1991 invasion of Iraq ("Desert Storm"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
- antod 4y agoAlthough during the 80s and until Desert Storm, the same term was applied to the Iran/Iraq war - which is another mostly forgotten thing despite the huge human cost. (I realised after I typed the above that the wikipedia disambiguation page also links to the Iran/Iraq war anyway)
- onetokeoverthe 4y ago[dead]