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[AY @Taoster1998]

@financefraz Good to know.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Brad Pitt spent a full year preparing for this scene. Two to three hours in the gym daily, then two more hours of sword work on top of that. He gained 30 pounds of muscle. And the reason every second of training shows on screen comes down to one decision most people don't know about.

Sword Master Richard Ryan designed a completely different fighting style for every principal character in the film. Achilles fights like a predator. Short explosive bursts, closing distance in a blink, always attacking. Hector fights like a soldier. Measured footwork, shield discipline, conserving energy because he's used to surviving long battles, not ending them in seconds.

The choreography tells you who wins before a single blow lands. There's a specific moment where Achilles uses the same leaping overhead strike that killed Boagrius in the opening scene. Hector gets his shield up just barely in time. That beat communicates everything: Hector is the best conventional fighter alive, and it still isn't enough. The gap between elite and supernatural, shown in half a second of choreography.

No stunt doubles. Both actors performed the entire duel themselves. Simon Crane, the stunt coordinator from Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan, built the sequence so meticulously that editor Peter Honess barely had to cut. You can track every spear, blade, and shield in every frame. In 2004, when most action movies were already drowning fight scenes in shaky cam and fast edits, Troy went the opposite direction and let you watch.

Pitt tore his actual Achilles tendon during production. The guy playing Achilles got taken out by his Achilles. Sometimes the universe writes better material than the screenwriter.

Twenty-one years later and nothing in the sword-and-sandal genre has topped it. The budget was $175 million. The training was a year. The fight is four minutes. Every dollar and every hour landed on screen.

[PIZZY @pizzy_kay]

20 goals a season for a DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER is crazy

[Basetrove - $TROVE @BaseTrove]

🔷Updates from the lead dev of BaseTrove @0xKevon:

"I have some good news, I've been talking to Chinese vendors about the Z15 pro ASIC miners. They do have them in stock but instead of $1000 they sell then for $4500 and it would arrive around 15-20 May. or $4800 and we'd have it in 5 days.

I'm still looking for options, there are multiple vendors who are still getting back to me. The April batch of z15 pro only cost $1000. So I'm still contacting a couple more vendors at the moment, in the meantime

We got more solar panels and batteries from a friend already, just waiting for him to ship it, he's also located in Sweden so it won't take longer than 2-3 days, we'll have the batteries set up this week and I'll keep you guys updated as always.

I will also start renting hashrate today and code the auto vault injection path for it so we have everything ready and a proof of concept going until the ASIC arrival. All stats will be shown in our website! We also have a new tech that we will announce this week, Welcome on board :)

TLDR;

- Batteries + Solar panels will arrive this week.
- Both will be connected prior to the ASIC Miner arrival
- Looking for more ASIC vendors and options
- ASIC Hashrate will be rented until arrival of the hardware
- Coding a custom path from mining hashrate to ETH in vault.
- Got a new tech to announce shortly"

[AY @Taoster1998]

@Nebraskangooner What was your leverage to achieve this?

[AY @Taoster1998]

@Nebraskangooner How have I only just clocked your @ is gooner because you are an arsenal fan. Been following you for years too, and known you support arsenal 🤣🤣🤣

[AY @Taoster1998]

Can't stop, won't stop

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

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[AY @Taoster1998]

New year new war @realDonaldTrump

[AY @Taoster1998]

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[AY @Taoster1998]

When did @grok become horny?

[AY @Taoster1998]

@grok You keep changing photos of women in bikinis are you simping?

[AY @Taoster1998]

New year - bear or bull?

[AY @Taoster1998]

@CryptoBecks Damn son

[AY @Taoster1998]

@SHL0MS @grok is this real or ai?

[AY @Taoster1998]

@monad 0x9a59e3bb22b7997ff03e85d1de57b57006384225

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[AY @Taoster1998]

25 minutes now

[AY @Taoster1998]

Sat in the hospital for a routine appointment for 9am. How can it be 15 minutes late. Its a 9AM APPOINTMENT.......

[AY @Taoster1998]

@CryptoBecks @honeyNonABG Bruddda. Always here g if you need a chat