Parts of the episode are uploaded to YouTube by Comedy Central.
Large portions of the show, actually.
chaogomu
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I hate to break it to you, but ritual and religion have been a thing forever.
Walk into most homes today, and you'll find a bunch of ritual objects. Crosses, Rosary Beads, Menorahs, and dozens of other every day objects that you'd never think twice about.
The ancient world had even more such objects.
A fun example that I can think of off the top of my head is the demon trapping bowl. It was common in parts of the Middle East, and how it worked is you'd write a bunch of incantations on the inside of the bowl in a spiral down to the center, and then bury it upside down under the main entrance to your home.
That's clearly a ritual object. It serves no other purpose.
These dodecahedra might be the same. After all, there are 12 zodiac and playing with the meaning of the zodiac was quite popular in the Roman world at various times.
The knitting technique required to make gloves with that weren't invented until the 15th or 16th century. And no examples of knit gloves older than that have ever been found.
Also, many of these dodecahedrons don't have hollow centers, which is absolutely required for knitting with them.
The Romans had dice that would roll better.
They seem to have favored d20 and d6, but other dice have also been found.
But I would bring my own to a Roman game of D&D, because the Romans also tended to use lopsided dice (They believed in fate rather than luck, so hand waved away loaded dice)
An item that only the absolute best blacksmiths or metalworkers could make.
Sounds valuable.
Brother printers are great. If only because they don't add all the pointless bullshit add-on "features" that everyone else does.
Brother printers, they're just printers. Nothing more, nothing less.
They also take third party ink.
All of that info is in the link.
Or in this link.
Starline is not involved here. Every dummy round used in Hollywood has the Starline logo, but that's just because they make the brass that everyone uses to make dummy rounds.
No, the company that fucked up before the armorer fucked up was PDQ Arm & Prop, LLC. They sent out the co-mingled rounds.
A search warrant executed in 2021 found live rounds mixed into their supply of dummy rounds.
Did you read the link?
It walks through how some Starline Bass casings were loaded with live ammo, and then ended up on a film set where there should not have been any live ammo at all.
As to the armorer, yes, she was incompetent. That's the whole point here. The hiring director (who was not Baldwin) took a chance on someone who had past safety issues on her only other film, because she was the daughter of a well respected armorer.
She didn't know how to check the bullets to see if they were dummy rounds (completely fake, but realistic looking) or live rounds.
I know the article says blanks, but from everything I've found online, there weren't even blanks on the set of Rust. Just dummy rounds, and a few live rounds that snuck in via a coffee can full of co-mingled rounds from a previous film.
You've also been spreading lies and misinformation up and down this thread.
Here, read this.
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/rust-investigators-live-rounds-alec-baldwin-1235122384/
It's how live rounds made it onto that set in the first place. Until Baldwin pulled that trigger, no one on set had known that there were any live rounds on set.
Baldwin didn't hire anyone. He was one of 10 producers, and was listed as being in charge of funding and script changes.
And yes, family connections did play a big role here, the armorer is the daughter of an armorer who has worked on hundreds of films and TV shows.
And she didn't even know the brand name Starline Brass when questioned by police.
That alone is a major red flag, because Starline Brass is the company that makes all the dummy rounds used on movie sets. They do not make live rounds, and yet, the round that Baldwin shot, was in a Starline Brass casing.
The story of that has been known for 3 years now.
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/rust-investigators-live-rounds-alec-baldwin-1235122384/
it's called a camera test.
Baldwin, the cinematographer and the director were all working through blocking (the movements needed for when the camera would be actually rolling).
The camera was in position, and the cinematographer and director were both looking through the monitors to adjust lighting and such.
This is all very standard stuff, and if one of the dummy rounds hadn't actually been a reload of live ammo, it would have remained standard.
This talks about how the live ammo made it onto the set.
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/rust-investigators-live-rounds-alec-baldwin-1235122384/
Baldwin could have looked at the logos on the bullets, seen the Starline Brass, and assumed that they were all dummy rounds. Only 5 of the 6 were.
He was doing his own thing until Apple killed his show over fears that he would talk about China.