Posted on 06/08/2019 8:51:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
There is a series of three First Person Shooter video games called S.T.A.L.K.E.R. It takes place at Chernobyl and consists of some of the best gaming ever made.
You get so familiar with Prepyat, the Red Forest, and the entire area, it feels like you live there.
Q. What has feathers and glows in the dark?
A. Chicken Kiev
I didn’t play myself but heard it is rather precise geographically.
The giant redwoods should be on any list of must sees.
Agreed. I just watched the final installment last night. Very well done and highly-recommended. I’ve watched the earlier episodes several times over, the series is that good.
Presuming the facts are correct (this is a drama, not documentary), the revelation that it was literally one person in a police state who averted an unimaginable catastrophe is chilling. I’d never heard/read about the water tanks previously.
The game itself is Russian, I believe, so naturally, the cure for being radiation-dosed is drinking vodka.
I saw a horror movie called the Chernobyl Diaries.......that was real creepy.
Eye goggles too and I would coat my arm from wrist to elbow with betadine scrub to protect my thyroid.
Creepy and sad. Seeing the abandoned children’s toys and tea settings still in place from a rapid departure with a backdrop of peeling wall paint was melancholic.
Come and see how the Glorious People’s State, The Dictatorship of The Proletariat irradiated half the world in the worst nuclear accident in history! Don’t worry, is completely safe!
I normally don't care about awards, but that show should sweep. My 20 year old son and his girlfriend were riveted by it.
Or, if you were born after 1970, stay home
and enjoy the radiation your bones absorbed
from the open air nuclear tests of China in the
early seventies. We all got a dose of that.
The guy who played Yaslov (?), the star of the series had a role in Mad Men, as the Brit overseer of a newly acquired US agency. AIR, his character’s wife divorced his ass.
He came across as someone in over his head, and brought that cringing defiance with him to HBO. Good actor.
Probably safer and less crowded than Everest...
And probably a lot CLEANER too! /s
Nooooo!
I’m thinking it might be snubbed by the Soviet sympathizers who dominate the so-called “entertainment” industry and award shows.
The character he played in Mad Men also hanged himself - after being found embezzling from the agency and attempting to commit suicide by Jaguar in a closed garage (the car, with its fine Lucas electric system, wouldn’t start)
Is it safer than climbing Mt. Everest?
Cheaper, has to be.
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