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Inspired by this post.

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Holy shit!

I've just realised that I was born May 30th 1981, while Herc Hansen was born on November 10th 1980.

And my dad was born on May 27th 1950, while my mom was born on November 7th 1949.

The age difference between my two parents is the exact same age difference there is between Herc and I!

And I just had to realize this on Operation Pitfall Day?!

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Beanie Man, making an exclusive return for a special Operation Pitfall Day screening of "Pacific Rim"!

I feel like so much has happened since the last time...

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This video feels a bit more symbolic and personal...

While I haven't been active very often on this blog over the last few years, "Pacific Rim" has been the movie that's probably had the greatest influence on my life ever since I saw it back in July of 2013 for many, many reasons (that would take way too long to explore in depth here, and make this post probably much heavier than it should be).

I don't think that my interest in the original movie has ever fully or truly waned. It's more a question of having explored most of what was available to explore from it, and a lot of fellow fans having moved on to other fandoms and personal interests since.

Of course, I've been exploring other fandoms and personal interests since, too.

One of them being "The Witcher", and the absolutely wonderful music co-created by Joey Batey (that plays Jaskier the bard on the show) and Madeleine Hyland from "The Amazing Devil".

So, I felt like celebrating January 12, 2025 - the day where "Pacific Rim" no longer remains a "futuristic movie", but instead becomes part of the present for one last, brief day before its timeline finally fully enters history - by combining some of the themes of a movie that I've been irrevocably in love with since 2013...

...with the music from a band that is currently moving my soul like no other.

And I'm even going to take a page from Batey's book by letting you all interpret those themes through your own personal lenses, rather than telling you what the video is specifically about, or what it personally meant to me while I was putting it together.

So, to all "Pacific Rim" (and "The Amazing Devil") fans out there, I'm wishing you all to have a wonderful Operation Pitfall Day!

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HAPPY OPERATION PITFALL DAY!!!

It is finally here and we all made it folks!

We have cancelled the apocalypse!

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Bonus:

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Happy Operation Pitfall Eve!

Tomorrow is the day we'll finally be all caught up with "Pacific Rim" 's entire timeline.

So, I felt like celebrating Operation Pitfalls's Eve with a great classic that came out in December 2013: the delicious song "Not This Time (The Kaiju Song)" by Mike Phirman.

I don't know if this has been done before but, if not, I thought it would be a crime to let "Pacific Rim" move into the past without visually illustrating this absolute masterpiece!!!

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Bonus:

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Happy New Year!!!

There are now officially only 12 days left to enjoy "Pacific Rim" as a movie portraying "futuristic events"!!!

Important dates to add to your calendar!!!

Between January 1 and January 8, 2025:

Striker Eureka is decommissioned from active combat.

Category IV Kaiju, Mutavore, breaks through Anti-Kaiju Wall and is killed by Striker Eureka, thus proving the Anti-Kaiju Wall ineffective.

Stacker Pentecost recruits Raleigh Becket for breach assault.

Raleigh Becket arrives at the Hong Kong Shatterdome.

Pilot tryouts with Raleigh Becket begin proper.

Raleigh and Mako nearly destroy the Shatterdome during their first attempt at drifting together in Gipsy Danger, prompting Stacker Pentecost to ground her, and inform Raleigh that he would be paired with another co-pilot.

January 8, 2025:

Double Event.

Newton Geiszler drifts with a Kaiju brain.

Category IV Kaijus, Leatherback and Otachi, emerge from the breach and attack Hong Kong.

Crimson Typhoon, Cherno Alpha, and Striker Eureka are deployed.

Crimson Typhoon is destroyed and the Wei Tang brothers are killed by Otachi.

Cherno Alpha is destroyed and the Kaidanovskys are killed by Leatherback.

Striker Eureka is incapacitated by Leatherback's EMP, and Herc Hansen's arm is broken.

Since Gipsy Danger is analog and the only Jaeger able to withstand the EMP (don't ask! I didn't quite get that part!), Stacker finally agrees to let Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori co-pilot her in the field.

Stranded with an unresponsive Jaeger, Herc and Chuck Hansen decide they should do something really, really stupid climb on the top of the head of Striker Eureka and shoot at it with flare guns. For the record that was Herc's dumbass idea!

To absolutely no one's surprise, the flare guns do absolutely no damage to the Kaiju whatsoever, and they only manage to piss Leatherback off but still look badass doing it!

Gipsy Danger is deployed and saves Herc and Chuck Hansen 's sorry asses.

Chuck Hansen is revealed as a secret Gipsy Danger fanboy.

Leatherback and Otachi are killed by Gipsy Danger.

Otachi's baby Kaiju is born and dies via strangulation by umbilical cord during pursuit of Newton Geiszler.

January 12, 2025:

Triple Event.

Category IV Kaiju, Scunner and Raiju emerge from the Breach.

Since Herc Hansen is unable to co-pilot Striker Eureka with his son, Stacker Pentecost decides to take his place in the conn-pod.

Stacker Pentecost launches "Operation Pitfall", an assault involving Gipsy Danger and Striker Eureka on the Breach.

Category 5 Kaiju, Slattern, emerges from the Breach.

Raiju is killed by Gipsy Danger.

Striker Eureka self detonates thermonuclear bomb near the Breach, killing Scunner and a bunch of fishes and badly wounding Slattern.

Slattern is killed by Gipsy Danger.

Gipsy Danger uses Slattern's dead body as a "bar code" to grant them access to the Anteverse through the Breach.

Raleigh Becket sends Mako Mori to safety in her escape pod after she loses consciousness upon entering the Anteverse.

Raleigh Becket arms Gipsy's nuclear reactor to self-destruct, destroys the Breach, and narrowly manages to escape the Anteverse through his own escape pod before the Breach collapses.

Herc Hansen stops the War Clock!

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THIS IS IT FOLKS!!! WE FINALLY MADE IT!!!

On January 12th, 2025, everything in the movie will now have happened in the past!

We've got 12 days left to enjoy the movie as portraying "futuristic events"!

I can't believe we've almost reached that day already. Man, it feels like I only saw it in the movie theater yesterday!

Also, I'm now officially as old as Herc was in the movie! Lol!

Happy New Year to all of you! Once again, wishing you all plenty of love, happiness, good health, and successes throughout the year!

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May 2015 be filled with plenty of love, happiness, good health, successes, and anything your heart desires!

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And it's 2024!!!

1 year to go (more or less) before the end of the Kaiju War!

It's so good that everyone managed to become friends and get along so well... Have you gotten in your Jaeger and hugged a Kaiju today?

Once again, my best wishes for the year 2024!!! May it bring you plenty of love, happiness, and everything your heart may desire!

XXX

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May 2015 be filled with plenty of love, happiness, good health, successes, and anything your heart desires!

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Happy New Year 2023, to all of you that have managed to make it this far!

Part of me still wonders if a Kaiju invasion wouldn't have better succeeded at bringing us all together, but still...

To whoever is currently (still) reading this, I hope life is treating you kindly, or that, if not, things will get better for you in 2023!

Lots of love, and please take very good care of yourselves,

XXX

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May 2015 be filled with plenty of love, happiness, good health, successes, and anything your heart desires!

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