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[BIL]

Tina Turner, an absolutely iconic singer, dancer, and performer. Her ex-husband, Cocaine Ike, made her life a living hell early on, but Tina broke through and became legendary. Known for her legs as well, a few times have heard she had the best legs in show business. She even did a Mad Max movie as well, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

1939-2023, gone, but not forgotten.

Man. Careful what you wish for with this thread... I was thinking "Oh. Rolf Harris carked it recently? Do I really want to post about that unrepentant nonce..." then boof, another legend gone.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

I'd be working and hear through my store's intercom speaker some background music/songs. Every once in a while Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do with It" would play through the intercom speakers for ol' times sake -- Gen X'ers will fondly Tina's MTV music videos back in the 1980s. The thing about watching music videos on MTV during the 1980s was, you never knew what going to be playing next. Rest in peace, sassy 'n' sexy sista.

Suppose if Mel Gibson had reprised his Mad Max character/persona for a 4th Mad Max sequel -- would it top the Road Warrior/Thunderdome films' "over-the-top" climatic final action scenes? Director George Miller is known to push the envelope even further when it comes to filming some insane high-speed action scenes like with Mad Max: Road Fury.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[EmperorIng]

Had to rev up "We Don't Need Another Hero" in honor of her. I didn't realize she was pushing 90... In my mind she was beyond thunderdome, forever.

[vol.2]

Had to rev up "We Don't Need Another Hero" in honor of her. I didn't realize she was pushing 90... In my mind she was beyond thunderdome, forever.

It's hard to put in perspective because I was just a kid, but she was definitely already into her "rebooted" career in the 80s when all of that was happening like mid-40s.

[drauch]

Iron Sheik. Man, pretty good getting in the 80s for how rough of shape he was in. One of the greatest.

[BIL]

Ah, fuck. But indeed, good long run for a guy in that line of work. Sheiky Baby had some hard times, even by his profession's infamously unkind standards. 3; I'm 50/50 on whether he should've gone through with killing his daughter's murderer, right there in the courthouse in front of everyone, against his wife's and other daughters' wishes. But 10/10 just for the planning. More sick shits should get wasted on live TV by iconic pro wrestlers. Actually that'd be a pretty good retirement pathway for the ones struggling with healthcare, imagine the pops! :O

May he chill with Gene Mean and New Jack, commentating the great big Extreme Torture Deathmatch in the sky. Or even the Anus Explosion Deathmatch? Not sure if those ever caught on in the West, kinda sus as the kids say tbh! But Sheiky did famously say - when questioned on his iconic warnings to rivals of 1: putting them in Camel Clutch 2: breaking they back and 3: fucking them in ass, to making them humble - that butt stuff is halal "as long as you're the one doing it," so who knows

[vol.2]

Astrud Gilberto 83. The original girl from Ipanema

[Steamflogger Boss]

Pat Robertson. REST IN PISS.

[GaijinPunch]

Pat Robertson. REST IN PISS.

The 700 Club covering Burning Man in the late 90's was fucking awesome. His apex for sure.

[GaijinPunch]

Ted Kaczynski, AKA The Unabomber

[BryanM]

There was something oddly comforting about seeing he was still alive when I checked earlier this year. Like with any of these characters from the 80's and 90's.

There's also something a bit fitting he chose to check out when it looks like we may very well be entering into an age of techno feudalism.

[BulletMagnet]

Italian proto-Trump Silvio Berlusconi, age 86.

[Bloodreign]

Treat Williams, 71, motorcycle accident.

[vol.2]

Cormac McCarthy 89

Damn. I'm still waiting for another Blood Meridian. I guess I'll check it out of a library in the afterlife

[GaijinPunch]

Cormac McCarthy 89

Damn. I'm still waiting for another Blood Meridian. I guess I'll check it out of a library in the afterlife

Came here to post this, Guess it's time to check out those two novels he got out just in the nick of time?

[BryanM]

$250,000 to come see some wreckage with your own peepers. Please sign this waiver that says no refunds if anything happens.

It brings to mind any number of other suicidal adventures. Like Balloon Man, who tried to fly over the Pacific ocean. With balloons.

[BIL]

The King of the World gives his damning verdict. Kinda refreshing to see him talk about something he's passionate for, instead of shilling dogshit Terminator sequels he later disavows! (tbf, his PWNing of Dark Stool's numbnuts director was pretty funny)

Also quite chilling, hearing the vessel and its maker's foibles laid out in perfect layman terms. Steel! Titanium! Ceramics! lmao naw, fibreglass is tuff N cheep AN ez 2 roll! Microscopic ingress of water leading to progressive hull deformation over successive dives, brrr. Not to gravedance too hard but holy fuck. "What is this thing made of" "Holy fucking shit you are speaking shit to me, give me back that quarter mil" should've been the end of it. Poor kid.

Imagine the guy who, after his crew said "Fuck no we're not doing that!" personally chased a helicopter underneath a highway overpass to get the coolest shot for his robo gunfight extravaganza tells you "Bro that's fucking dangerous shit you're doing there" and you don't listen.

[BryanM]

I do remember him talking these movies up, like saying they had new ideas relevant to the current times.

Instead of making a Black Mirror episode where Skynet is a nice and well meaning, but slightly misaligned, AI, where it gives humans a sense of shared purpose and community by enacting its cyberwar LARPing scenario (complete with some full dive VR missions for "time travelers", "sliders", and the like)... they made some schlock instead.

Anyway, the Action Park guy seemed to be more safety minded.

Here's a youtube doc on balloon guy. He was around as crazy, but he didn't murder any 19 year old kids with his antics..

19-year-old was reportedly 'terrified' to board the Titanic sub but agreed because it was Father's Day

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[vol.2]

Trivia night yesterday there was a whole category for the sub. Had to listen to the OceanGate marketing team trying to spin their commitment to safety and name the variety of duplicitous statistical fallacies they engaged in

[xxx1993]

https://apnews.com/article/julian-sands ... 5255c12fff

Julian Sands has indeed passed away after a long disappearance.

[BryanM]

The number of people who die while hiking bums me out. It seems like a pretty safe hobby on the surface, but nope. Literally everything that's fun, is dangerous. Which sucks.

It's not to the level of helicopters, those flying death toasters where dying is a matter of when not if, but still. The Shin Chan guy taking a fall and the like really put a damper on an activity I always thought I'd enjoy some day...

[BIL]

My sweet prince Kaneto Shiozawa died after he fell down the fuckin stairs 3;



Watch this! ORA ORA ORAAA
These belong to you.
What the - AIEEEEEE!
Oi. Do you know of a man with seven scars?
N... N... NO!
Tch. *unspeakable horror* *enjoys burrito*





^ bangs to the head should always be investigated IRL! cf Liam Neeson's wife Natasha Richardson. I tell myself Jebus wanted Shiozawa to voice his shaweet HNK fan film.

[xxx1993]

My sweet prince Kaneto Shiozawa died after he fell down the fuckin stairs 3;







^ bangs to the head should always be investigated IRL! cf Liam Neeson's wife Denise Richardson. I tell myself Jebus wanted Shiozawa to voice his HNK fan film. 3;

Should have put a GIF of Tony Redwood’s death scene from Policenauts somewhere.

[BIL]

Ha, I know x93! But we'd be here all night, eh. Snatcher and Guilty Gear too! Here's to an iconically cool antihero VA. His leading man roles were great, as well.

[xxx1993]

And what does U.N. Squadron have to do with him again?

[BIL]

Shin Kazama in the 1985 OVA - bit of a change from the lone wolves and outsiders he's acclaimed for. Shin's quite a fiery boy in that one! At a glance I'd have assumed Shiozawa would play cocksure Mickey, haha.

[xxx1993]

Did he voice him in the 1985 OVA?

[vol.2]

Fuck man. 46 is no way to go. Waaaay too early to take a spill

[BIL]

Did he voice him in the 1985 OVA?

Yep! Unmistakable controlled intensity. The OVA's a great watch. I've meant to try out the manga for ages. It's easy to assume it was part of the Top Gun craze, but it actually dates back to '79. Still very much part of the later Cold War zeitgeist, though. Funny that it's mostly known to we STG fans for the SFC game, when the IP predates even the FC, and is more of Space Invaders and Galaxian's time.

The "UN Squadron" moniker is darkly amusing, given the series is about a ruthless mercenary company the protagonist was shanghaied into... maybe it was a dig from someone at Capcom's localisation team, haha.

Fuck man. 46 is no way to go. Waaaay too early to take a spill

Yeah. 3; In so many of these cases - Natasha Richardson is yet another, slipped while skiing and whacked her head - the person insists they're fine, and might even appear fine, only to die several hours later. Your skull can't expand, so any hard hit to the head needs careful monitoring for cerebral contusion.

[vol.2]

Yeah. 3; In so many of these cases - Natasha Richardson is yet another, slipped while skiing and whacked her head - the person insists they're fine, and might even appear fine, only to die several hours later. Your skull can't expand, so any hard hit to the head needs careful monitoring for cerebral contusion.

This happened to my friend Mark. He was out drinking and fell over and whacked his head on a step, but he was like "I'm fine, no prob." Went to his GFs house and fell asleep on the couch and in the morning she woke up to find him dead. I can't remember anymore, but he wasn't older than 35, I think more like 33.

Always get it checked out