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Working on an essay comparing the two and looking for feedback / suggestions. Really needs a few waves of editing and isn't finished but I'm pretty happy with how the last two hours of work turned out.
Again this is a ROUGH ROUGH ROUGH draft compiled from several notes.
Humanity and Nature: An Analysis and Reflection on The Duality Scavenger’s Reign

**Hollow:** 

Scavenger’s Reign showcases how humans, when altering an ecosystem, can become dangerous parasites—an invasive species that disrupts the natural balance developed through millennia of evolution. Humans pose significant dangers to new ecosystems through various activities and behaviors that upset natural balances and lead to adverse environmental impacts. Even without technology and resources, humans can perpetuate disorder merely by existing. On the new alien planet, humans immediately cause dangerous changes, acting as an invasive species.
This relationship is vividly depicted in the interactions between Kamen and Hollow. In Scavenger’s Reign, all chaos and violence stem directly from human actions. The Hollow, for example, exists naturally as a small, fruit-eating creature, similar to a rabbit. Though it uses mind control to obtain food, it is not initially violent. Its manipulation is out of necessity. However, when Hollow forms a psychic connection with Kamen, who begins feeding it meat, the Hollow slowly becomes corrupted. Humanity's malicious nature contaminates the entire ecosystem, with Kamen’s greed, violence, and resentment adulterating the behavior of a previously docile animal.
Explaining exactly how Kamen corrupts the Hollow involves analyzing his cognizance during their interactions. Hollow and Kamen share a mindscape filled with scenes of failure, resentment, and self-hatred. In episode three, Kamen retrieves fruit for Hollow but fails miserably. A monkey takes the fruit he reaches for, and Kamen falls from a tree, saved again by the Hollow. Angrily, Kamen strikes the monkey with a rock, finally capturing the fruit. The pleased Hollow munches the fruit before Kamen drops the monkey’s corpse in front of it. Unsure what to do, the Hollow begins to consume the meat, which is outside its normal diet.
In episode four, Kamen hunts larger animals. He is seen violently bludgeoning a dinosaur-like creature before being attacked by an even larger one. Kamen, weak and fragile, retreats defeated. Back in their cave, Hollow’s den is revealed to be a hole of rotting carcasses—death, flies, and decaying meat. When Kamen returns empty-handed, he apologizes. Hollow shows him a memory of Fiona, highlighting Kamen’s disappointment, mirroring how he has just disappointed Hollow. This scene illustrates how Hollow manipulates and communicates with Kamen through emotional sentiments.
This relationship, however, is not one-way. Kamen’s negative human traits seep into the Hollow, creating a feedback loop of hatred and violence, particularly towards other humans whom Kamen feels have wronged him. When Kamen admits the creature was “too big for him,” Hollow shows a flashback of Kamen begging for a route change. Sam’s refusal and aggression fuel Kamen’s failure and resentment. Motivated by these memories, Kamen sharpens a spear and attacks the larger creature, paralleling his confrontation with Sam. Hollow finishes the dinosaur, showering Kamen in gore. Kamen, proud and laughing, screams: “Fuck you, Sam.”
This scene demonstrates the complete adulteration of Hollow, directly linking Kamen’s negative traits to Hollow’s transformation. Hollow shifts from a vegetarian, monkey-like creature to a violent force—a killing machine obsessed with feeding and power, driven by anger and hunger. This transformation is highlighted in the next episode's intro, where a new human escapes a cryopod and is hunted through Vespa’s jungle. Upon finding Kamen, the human is relieved but is immediately killed by Hollow, who snaps his neck. The Hollow’s nature has been entirely corrupted, motivated only by hunger and hatred.
We can then question the Hollow's potential. What if Hollow had encountered Ursula or Sam? Could Hollow form a connection with a higher sentience without becoming corrupted, or is this violent change inevitable? Is human intervention always a plague?
PARAGRAPH ABOUT KAMEN BEING ABSORBED: Azi has a flashback of seeing the girl who gabe her the notebook in a cryo chamber, asleep. Red alarms clash. Sam ushers people to flee the ship - this is amidst the solar flare. Sam recuses to let Kamen on an escape pod, throwing him yo the floor abd calling him a fucking idiot. Azi throws him a side eye too. The ship is crumbling. -> It transitions to Kamen on Vespa. Hollow is fucking HUGE and murders the new guy in front of Kamen, afraid the newbie would distract Kamen. Kamen questions his actions after the death, remembering the ship. The potentialiTy of Fiona being alive. -> flashback to Kamen running to a pod and closing it. Fiona approaches the window, asking to be let in. Kamen fails to let her in before the pod shoots offz -> flashout, Kamen remembers she is dead. He weeps, taking guilt. Asking why he ran away, confronting his character flaws. Refusing to acknowledge his failures, Kamen is absorbed into the Hollow, who grants him peace within its body.
Levi:
In “Scavenger’s Reign,” Levi’s journey takes a profound turn as she merges with the planet’s consciousness, evolving beyond mere sentience and becoming one with nature. After being obliterated and repaired, Levi returns, wielding the history of millennia, drawing a near parallel to Nausicaä. Both characters serve as mediators between humanity and nature. In the beginning of the show, scenes hint at a collective planetary consciousness that Levi taps into, witnessing bioluminescent insects that seem to communicate with her and the planet. As Levi merges with this consciousness, she transcends the human concept of sentience and individuality, gaining the knowledge and emotions of an intricate web of life and energy that sustains Planet Vespa. This new state allows Levi to exist in perfect harmony with the natural world, becoming an integral part of the unified whole.
In episode one, we are introduced to Levi as an inherently curious creature. Levi and Azi have a flourishing garden. Levi mentions “malfunctions” that caused her to bury Azi’s wrench out of “curiosity.” Her hatch opens to reveal a sort of fungus she says is “helping her.” Azi is afraid of her behavior and demands to run a diagnostic. The dynamic between Levi and Azi is that of boss and underling, with Levi treated somewhat coldly. Levi states Azi is “acting meaner.” This fungus is later understood as a medium for the collective planetary consciousness, with Levi merging slowly.
In episode two, Levi constantly marvels at the environment, feeling a deep connection to nature. During a storm, Levi shows Azi into a large structure. Azi asks how she knows it’s safe, and inside, they find an Eden-like safe haven, which is beautiful. Azi says Levi must have known this area, and Levi admits she has been exploring at night out of curiosity and wonder. Azi finds a sculpture made by Levi and asks why she made it. “I just thought it looked nice,” Levi replies. Azi remarks that no other Levi has ever behaved like this and demands to open her maintenance hatch. These projects are botany-based. Azi goes to eat fruit Levi grew, but Levi warns, “I’m sorry this isn’t safe for humans to eat.” “Then why did you grow it?” Azi asks. “Maybe it wasn’t for you,” Levi responds, highlighting Azi’s expectation that all Levi's exist solely for their creators' benefit.
In later episodes, we see the fungus inside Levi expanding and its connection to Levi’s relationship with Planet Vespa. In episode four, Levi watches a pile of ants closely, picking one up and communicating with it using bioluminescent lights. She gives it food and sets it on its way, showing how Levi is tuning into the planet on both micro and macro scales. This annoys Azi, as observing insects is not beneficial to her. A flashback shows Levi being “fixed” when she doesn’t work, illustrating how Azi treats her like a tool. The two embark on a bike ride, and Levi is seen communicating with a large swarm of insects. They approach a river, and Azi pulls a large grub off Levi, commenting that they are “more active than usual.” Levi remarks she can feel tremors, which are soon revealed to be caused by a large herd of creatures stampeding. The two are caught in the stampede, and Levi catches onto a language of sorts by the creatures, dictating their movement pattern, and begins to instruct Azi on “following the sway of the herd.” After getting used to the movements, Azi revels in the majestic experience Levi has been attuned to, being at one with the herd and the planet. The stampede leads to a large nest and then an open plain.
In her quest for cognizance, Levi begins to dream. Episode five opens with Levi wandering through a golden forest, observing various gentle forms of life before being instructed to follow Azi. Levi notices a white lotus, and the two wander the woods. Tendrils of plants grasp at Levi, seemingly wanting her to stay in the forest. Levi looks down and sees hands of flesh. Azi says she’s been acting “so strange” in an ominous tone. Levi awakens, and Azi demands her help. Levi sees her regular robotic hands and realizes she is evolving. Levi is cleaning Azi’s hair with a knife, and Azi offers to return the favor, telling Levi to open her hatch. Levi seems apprehensive, aware the mold is helping her evolve and that Azi is not a fan. Azi opens Levi’s hatch and notices she flinches as the mold is touched. The mold has opened Levi’s mind, allowing her to feel physical sensations and consciously view the world. Levi is developing sentience beyond apathetically taking orders. A scared Levi says she doesn’t like how scraping the mold feels, and Azi pets her, both remarking that it feels good. They argue over whether Levi “should feel anything,” with Azi viewing this as a problem since she needs to trust Levi to survive. Levi is shut off. While Levi is shut off, Azi is hit with fluffy balls that stick to her. She’s overwhelmed and barely able to move when she sees a horde of plant matter-covered creatures approaching. Azi crawls to Levi and turns her on. As the creature approaches, Levi regains consciousness and destroys it. Levi apologizes for not helping due to being turned off, and Azi admits Levi saved her. Levi states she doesn't want to be shut off, ever, expressing her fear of death.
Our duo are traveling across beautiful plains on their bike. Azi is covered in festering wounds from the bulbs. Residual material is embedded in her skin. Azi dips a bloody shirt into a shallow pond, and fish-like creatures come to eat the dead flesh. She dips her hand in, and they clean her wounds. A large water basin looms in the background, which they approach. Azi ascends the stone structure, reminiscent of something out of a Ghibli film. Azi begins to appreciate the beauty of Vespa, with a light string instrumental crescendoing as she submerges herself in the cool water, trusting the creatures to heal her. On the ground, Levi communicates with a small bug. Azi is healed and questions Levi’s evolution, suggesting she should be “more delicate.” Levi ponders her ability to “join her for a swim.” The two marvel at the evolutionary strangeness, with Levi acknowledged as an equal.
Levi's fear of death soon becomes a reality. Levi and Azi are pushing the bike to obtain its cable to use to cross a giant gorge. Levi writes a song and expresses a wish to pursue her hobbies, such as singing, at a place on the Demeter. Levi and Azi discuss Fiona, the person who programmed Levi, with Levi feeling close to her. Azi compliments Levi’s singing and urges her to continue pursuing her ambitions. The two successfully tether the bike cable across the gorge, but Hollow is seen scouring the edge. As they grapple across, singing the melody from Fiona’s memory, Hollow recognizes the tune and becomes enraged. Hollow scales the cord towards them, and the cord breaks, slamming all three into the side of the cliff. Azi urges Levi to climb. Azi reaches the top first, followed by Levi, but Hollow catches Levi’s legs with telekinesis. “Help me…” Levi says, but a memory of Kamen and Fiona kissing causes Azi to charge Hollow with a spear. As she approaches, Levi is split in two, shattered into minuscule bolts and scraps of metal that rain down over the cliff edge. Azi screams after her, a tear rolling down her cheek. Her partner, a growing consciousness much like an innocent child discovering the sand of a beach and the glory of nature, is murdered.

Mine would have to be pre-merger Raytheon. We had a CM/DM person on a program who had been medically approved WFH. We never saw them, ever, for about two years. Somehow they were getting some work done but another person in their functional or on the program must have been covering because eventually they were being left off of meetings, tag ups, and program slides. We'd just have a "?" on slides for that role.
After a couple years we got a new deputy PM who was a younger girl and full of spirit. She was in charge of CDRLs and well, we found out who was covering. She brought it up to the functional/SL and an investigation started.
Turns out they had at least two jobs, was traveling on the company card "for the program" to different states with nice beaches, and of course was billing a full 40 hours to our program while doing very little actual work. They were fired and I think Raytheon sued to get money back for the trips and time card fraud.
Word is they kept the other job and still works from home to this day.

It’s very clear them and their pr run that sub and has become a place for them to spread hate, create meme and narrative they then get to spread to other social media and media outlets. This has been happening for couple of years now against Deepika, Ranveer and any other actors they don’t like and feel insecure about. (Vicky, Kartik, Kriti etc)
Most Deepika fans are banned in that sub so they won’t counter their hatful posts and comments. When a post calling for a stop for the targeting harassment of Deepika gets a lot of comments and upvotes from general sub members the post gets taken down like it just happened few hours ago.
Obsessing and trashing Deepika as a woman, an actor and spreading negativity about her relationship been their go to methods but now they can’t even leave her alone during pregnancy.
After the mass love they got in their announcement of their pregnancy and the crowd that gathered when they went for ambani wedding has woken up the insecurities and jealousy of these nepo couples and it’s been a none stop attack on her pregnancy since then.
All slandering narrative from Ranveer isn’t the father to she’s not really pregnant and faking it for attention and everything in between and beyond been first posted on that sub then spread to other sm and mods allowed and nurtured that behavior when they didn’t allow it and were banning people when Alia was pregnant. No Deepika fan were fighting for free speech to trash a pregnant woman. If they said anything not positive they were banned let alone be entertained for free speech debate.
That sub is a dictatorship and not a democracy just like most subs. They have their orders to allow the harassment and slander of Deepika pregnancy and there is nothing you can do to stop it so pls just avoid it. This will continue after she gives birth as well comparing skin color and eye color just like they do with the adults.
Just report to reddit what you can and use other subs for bw related communities.
FYI again let me make this clear, majority of Deepika fans been banned from that sub since long time and the few that remain aren’t big enough to do and say anything that warrant “Deepika fans” kind of comeback. Every neutral that says nice things about Deepika or upvotes and downvotes aren’t Deepika loyalist they’re just bw fans.

Taken from: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2024/5/21/24161120/greatest-movie-car-chase-scenes-ranked-furiosa-mad-max-saga
In honor of the imminent ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,’ we’re shifting into high gear to determine the best chase scene in cinema history
By Miles Surrey May 21, 2024, 6:30am EDTGetty Images/Ringer illustration
After wowing audiences with Mad Max: Fury Road, director George Miller returns to the franchise’s post-apocalyptic wastelands for Furiosa, the epic origin story of the eponymous heroine (now played by Anya Taylor-Joy), premiering on Friday. As the follow-up to one of the greatest action films ever made, it’s hard to overstate the hype for Furiosa, and that was before word got out about a showstopping 15-minute sequence that required nearly 200 stuntpeople and took 78 days to shoot. While Furiosa will have its own distinct flavor, as is true of every Mad Max movie, there’s one thing that unites these projects: intense, jaw-dropping scenes of vehicular mayhem. And what better way to honor the franchise than by celebrating what it does best?
Ahead of Furiosa’s release, we’ve put together our definitive ranking of the best car chases in cinema. There weren’t any strict rules in place, other than capping the list at 20—mostly for my own sanity—and limiting every franchise to one entry. (Apologies to Fury Road’s kickass predecessor The Road Warrior.) We also won’t discriminate against scenes that feature motorbikes, so long as cars (and/or trucks) remain part of the equation. As for what, exactly, constitutes a good car chase? Like list making, it’s bound to be subjective, but I tend to gravitate toward two key elements: the skill of the stuntwork on display and the ways in which a filmmaker conveys the action in relation to the story. (Also, the less CGI, the better.) Buckle up, ’cause we’re not wasting any time shifting into high gear.

20. Quantum of Solace (2008)

There have been some memorable car chases in the James Bond franchise: the first sequence featuring the iconic Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger, the corkscrew jump in The Man With the Golden Gun, the Lotus Esprit submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me. But I’m going with a somewhat controversial pick here: Quantum of Solace. There are many issues with Quantum of Solace—namely, it was one of the most high-profile blockbusters affected by the 2007-08 writers strike—but its opening scene isn’t one of them. Picking up right where Casino Royale left off, we find Bond (Daniel Craig) evading henchmen through the narrow roads around Italy’s Lake Garda. The frenetic, furious chase mirrors Bond’s sense of anguish after losing Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), the woman he opened his heart to, and his relentless quest for answers. It’s a thrilling tone-setter for Quantum of Solace and one that doesn’t overstay its welcome, capped off by Bond sending his final pursuers flying off a cliff:
If we’re being honest, though, it feels like James Bond has yet to create a franchise-defining car chase. Perhaps that’s a mission the newest 007, whoever it ends up being, can undertake.

19. Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (2015)

The Mission: Impossible franchise is no stranger to electrifying chase scenes, the best of which find Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt working up his heart rate. When it comes to action behind the wheel, though, Fallout tends to dominate the discussion—even on this very website. But I think the vehicular chase in Rogue Nation is being slept on. What we have is effectively two sequences for the price of one: The first finds Hunt pursuing Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) by car through the narrow streets of Casablanca alongside some nefarious henchmen; the second sees him continue the chase outside the city on motorbike. (Adding to the chaos: Hunt had only just been resuscitated, and he’s clearly not all there.) In terms of death-defying stunts for the audience’s entertainment, a helmetless Cruise taking corners like a MotoGP racer is child’s play compared to his other exploits, but the actor’s authentic reaction to scraping his knee on the road underlines that there’s no one else in Hollywood doing it like him:
We’ll be sure to update this ranking if and when Cruise does something even more dangerous down the road, pun unintended.

18. Vanishing Point (1971)

A movie that counts the likes of Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino among its biggest fans, Vanishing Point is the first of a few entries on this ranking that’s essentially one extended car chase. The film stars Barry Newman as Kowalski, a man tasked with delivering a Dodge Challenger T 440 Magnum from Colorado to California while eluding police across four states. One of Kowalski’s most memorable run-ins comes when a guy driving a Jaguar E-Type convertible challenges him to an impromptu race. Incredibly, we’re expected to believe the man in the Jag comes out of this crash in one piece:
Vanishing Point might not boast the impressive production values of other movies on this list, but considering Tarantino would go on to feature a white Challenger in Death Proof, its influence in the car cinema canon is undeniable.

17. Fast Five (2011)

Let’s face it, Fast & Furious has seen better days. Some believe the franchise’s dip in quality coincided with the death of Paul Walker; others are dismayed by the pivot from street racing to absurd feats of superherodom—emphasis on the Dom. Perhaps it’s a bit of both, but the very best movie in the series, Fast Five, manages to strike the perfect balance: It’s a relatively grounded heist thriller that nevertheless takes the franchise to ridiculous new heights. After Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew steal $100 million from a Brazilian kingpin, they drag the entire bank vault holding the money through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, all while being pursued by authorities. It’s a delightfully destructive sequence that does untold damage to Rio’s infrastructure and features some of the most bone-crunching crashes committed to film:
If the Fast franchise is going to break out of its recent slump, it would do well to remember that there’s nothing better than letting its heroes live their lives a quarter mile at a time—no detours to outer space required.

16. The Blues Brothers (1980)

A good car chase isn’t reserved just for action flicks: Comedies can get in on the act, too. In The Blues Brothers, starring the recurring Saturday Night Live characters played by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the beloved bandmates must prevent the foreclosure of the orphanage where they were raised by scrounging together $5,000. Naturally, that’s easier said than done: Along the way, the Blues Brothers draw the attention of neo-Nazis, a country-and-western band, and local police. While The Blues Brothers has amusing gags and musical numbers, its chase sequences with the Brothers behind the wheel of a 1974 Dodge Monaco are what really steal the show—and none are better than a climactic pursuit across Chicago. More than 60 old police cars were used in the film, some of which are wrecked in a comically over-the-top pileup:
The sheer scale of The Blues Brothers’ final set piece is commendable in and of itself—as is the movie’s commitment to treating real-life cars like a bunch of Hot Wheels.

15. Baby Driver (2017)

For good and for ill, Edgar Wright’s movies exude an abundance of style, and Baby Driver is no exception. Baby Driver is centered on a clever gimmick: The action works in tandem with its soundtrack because the film’s protagonist, Baby (Ansel Elgort), suffers from tinnitus and constantly plays music to drown out the ringing. When everything’s clicking into place, Baby Driver feels like a supersized series of music videos, and nothing hits quite like its opening sequence. Baby acts as the getaway driver for a bank robbery while listening to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s “Bellbottoms.” The ensuing chase works around rhythms of the song, as if Baby’s Subaru WRX were the star of its own dance number. Take nothing away from the actual driving, either, which puts the rally car to good use:
Baby Driver’s gimmick stretches a little thin by the end, but it’s hard to deny the crowd-pleasing power of Wright’s film when it’s firing on all cylinders.

14. The Raid 2 (2014)

With a trio of kickass Indonesian martial arts films under his belt, Gareth Evans has established himself as one of the most exciting action directors on the planet—someone who seems most in his element staging positively brutal hand-to-hand combat. In The Raid 2, however, Evans also brought his signature brand of carnage to the road. While there’s some cleverly executed close-quarters fighting within the confines of an SUV, courtesy of Iko Uwais’s hard-hitting protagonist, what really cements this sequence’s greatness are the moments when Evans turns the cars into an extension of the characters’ fists:
This belongs in an entirely new category of combat: car fights. There are so many action scenes in The Raid 2 worth writing home about—the kitchen showdown is an all-timer—but the fact that Evans casually tossed in an unforgettable car chase shows why he’s one of one.

13. The Driver (1978)

I’ll say this for Walter Hill’s The Driver: It sure lives up to its title. In this stripped-down thriller—one where none of the characters have a name—we follow the Driver (Ryan O’Neal), a getaway driver who has become a thorn in the side of the LAPD. In the film’s best scene, we see its taciturn protagonist living up to his reputation. With the Driver behind the wheel of a 1974 Ford Galaxie, a cat-and-mouse game unfolds when a handful of police cars are hot on his tail. What I love about this sequence is the pared-down nature of it all: The Driver outwits the cops as much as he outraces them. (Though, ironically, that wasn’t entirely by design: As Hill later explained, an accident on the last night of shooting meant they had to cobble together what had already been filmed.) Frankly, you’d never know the difference from the finished article:
If the general vibes of The Driver seem familiar, that’s because it was a major inspiration for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, which just so happened to feature an unnamed protagonist (Ryan Gosling) evading police through the streets of Los Angeles.

12. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

The shaky-cam style of the Bourne franchise isn’t for everyone—just ask John Woo—but credit where it’s due: These movies know how to deliver a good chase scene. (A friendly reminder that The Bourne Legacy is an underrated gem with an awesome motorbike sequence to boot.) But there’s one Bourne chase that stands above the rest: the Moscow getaway in The Bourne Supremacy. After being wounded by the Russian assassin Kirill (Karl Urban), Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) hijacks a taxi, with both the police and Kirill in hot pursuit. This isn’t the kind of sequence that lingers on any one shot; instead, what makes it work is the frenetic nature of the editing, which allows the viewer to feel like they’re in Bourne’s fight-or-flight headspace:
If I’m being honest, I’m usually one of those people who doesn’t like the Bourne movies’ shaky-cam style, but when it’s executed with such craftsmanship, you can’t help but get caught up in its adrenaline-pumping power.

11. The Seven-Ups (1973)

Philip D’Antoni was the producer of two movies featuring Hall of Fame car chases, Bullitt and The French Connection, the latter of which won him an Oscar for Best Picture. And with his lone directorial feature, The Seven-Ups, D’Antoni sought to craft an iconic sequence of his own. The film stars Roy Scheider as NYPD detective Buddy Mannuci (elite Italian American name; I can practically smell the gabagool), who commands a unit handling major felony cases that lead to seven-plus-year prison sentences; that’s why they’re known as the Seven-Ups. Midway through the movie, when one of the team members is killed by two shooters who flee the scene, Buddy chases after them. The 10-minute sequence, which starts in the Upper West Side before moving out of the city, is thrillingly immersive, alternating between close-ups of the characters and wider shots of all the damage they’ve caused. But the chase’s defining moment comes right at the end, when Buddy narrowly avoids a grisly death:
The sequence isn’t quite at the level of Bullitt or The French Connection—very few are—but D’Antoni still manages to leave an unmistakable imprint on the car chase canon.

10. Death Proof (2007)

If you ask Quentin Tarantino, Death Proof, his knowingly trashy tribute to exploitation cinema, is the worst movie he’s ever made. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to admire about the film, which honors the unsung heroes of Hollywood: stunt performers. The first half of Death Proof follows three female friends who cross paths with Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), a misogynistic serial killer who takes them out in his “death-proof” Chevy Nova. Fourteen months later, a group that includes stuntwoman Zoë Bell, playing herself, also lands on Mike’s radar. As Bell and her friends test out a ’70s Challenger, she performs a “ship’s mast” stunt, clinging onto the hood of the car with fastening belts. Unfortunately, when Mike pursues the women, it puts Bell in a precarious situation. Most of the entries on this list celebrate some next-level driving skills, but Death Proof’s inclusion is all about Bell pulling off one of the wildest stunts you’ll ever see. She’s quite literally hanging on for dear life:
If the Academy handed out Oscars to stunt performers—and let’s hope it does happen one day—Bell would’ve won in a landslide.

9. To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

William Friedkin was already responsible for an all-time great car chase in The French Connection (more on that later), but the filmmaker made a commendable bid to outdo himself with To Live and Die in L.A. In this neo-noir thriller, Secret Service agent Richard Chance (William L. Petersen) is hell-bent on arresting an expert counterfeiter, Rick Masters (Willem Dafoe), who kills Chance’s partner days before his retirement. To capture Masters, Chance and his new partner, John Vukovich (John Pankow), attempt to steal $50,000 from a jewelry buyer for an undercover operation. The sting goes bad when the buyer, who is later revealed to be an undercover FBI agent, is killed and a group of gunmen goes after Chance and Vukovich. It’s a clever inversion of the usual car chase formula—this time, it’s the lawmen running away from the criminals. The outside-the-box thinking extends to the film’s most astonishing stretch, in which Chance evades the gunmen by driving into oncoming traffic:
The fact that Friedkin shot the chase at the end of filming—in case anything disastrous happened to the actors—underscores just how risky the endeavor was. The pulse-pounding results speak for themselves.

8. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Matrix sequels have never been held in high esteem, but I’m ready to live my truth: The Matrix Reloaded fucking rules. (If anyone’s got a problem with this take, file your complaints with the Architect.) What’s more, the film happens to boast the finest action set piece of the franchise: the highway chase. After Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) free the Keymaker (Randall Duk Kim), a program capable of creating shortcuts within the Matrix, they’re pursued by the Twins (Neil and Adrian Rayment). Morpheus once warned that going on the freeway was “suicide,” and it doesn’t take long to see why: The chase draws the attention of several Agents, who repeatedly take over the bodies of other drivers on the road. The scene is the best of both worlds: There’s some incredible stuntwork on display, including when Moss weaves around on a Ducati, and CGI augments some feats of superhuman strength. But the most jaw-dropping aspect of the sequence is how it came together, as the production spent $2.5 million to construct its own highway (!) on California’s Alameda Island. If that weren’t unique enough, I’m pretty sure Reloaded is also the only movie in existence in which a katana takes out an SUV:
The Matrix remains the Wachowskis’ masterpiece, but don’t get it twisted: The filmmakers were still cooking with gas in the sequel.

7. Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)

Size isn’t everything, but for H. B. Halicki, who produced, wrote, directed, and starred in Gone in 60 Seconds, it’s certainly part of the package. The indie action flick follows Maindrian Pace (Halicki), a Los Angeles insurance investigator who has a lucrative side hustle jacking high-end cars. The plot kicks into motion when a South American drug lord enlists Pace to nab 48 cars within five days in exchange for $400,000. Of course, Gone in 60 Seconds is best known for what happens after Pace is caught stealing a 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1, when he leads police on a chase that lasts a whopping 40 minutes. (More than 90 cars were destroyed in the process.) Halicki, for his part, did all the driving himself, including a spectacular jump off a makeshift ramp of crashed cars:
While Halicki wound up making a few more indies after Gone in 60 Seconds, he died in an accident on the set of its sequel. His legacy as a do-it-all daredevil, however, lives on.

6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Long before James Cameron immersed himself in the world of Pandora, he was a pioneer of state-of-the-art visual effects. Case in point: Terminator 2: Judgment Day is credited for having the first CGI character in a blockbuster, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), a killing machine composed of a futuristic liquid metal. But Cameron also understood that the CGI of that era shouldn’t be the main attraction: It worked best as a complement to the practical effects, as seen in Judgment Day’s epic viaduct chase. When the T-1000 tracks down a young John Connor (Edward Furlong) in a shopping mall, he’s saved at the last minute by the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), giving John a chance to escape on his dirt bike. As the T-1000 gives chase, the David and Goliath vibes between man and machine are further epitomized by the T-1000’s commandeering of a truck. The sequence already has a terrifying sense of urgency, but it hits another level when the T-1000 crashes through the viaduct like the Kool-Aid Man:
Big Jim is still revolutionizing what can be achieved with visual effects in the Avatar franchise, and while I cherish those movies, nothing beats his old-school showmanship.

5. Duel (1971)

The feature-length debut of Steven Spielberg—perhaps you’ve heard of him—the TV movie Duel is essentially one extended chase sequence between salesman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) and a sinister trucker determined to drive him off the road. I’ve attached a clip from the ending of the film, but that doesn’t do Duel justice. What cements this movie’s greatness is how it sustains an unbearable level of tension across its 90-minute running time—with a budget under $500,000, no less. Spielberg’s masterstroke is never once showing us the other driver, anthropomorphizing the truck itself as a monster. (You can see a lot of similarities with how he would build suspense in Jaws.) When Mann finally gets the upper hand, tricking his adversary into driving off a cliff, it feels like you can breathe again:
Spielberg would move on to bigger and better things after Duel, but considering how much the director accomplished with so little, you can’t help but wonder what else he could conjure up with limited resources.

4. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Like Duel, Fury Road is basically one long car chase—the difference is Miller got to work with a blockbuster budget, and made every cent of it count. It’s hard to pick a single standout sequence in Fury Road, but if I had to choose, I’d go with the first attack on the War Rig after Furiosa (Charlize Theron) flees with the wives of Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne). Here’s why: Think back to when you saw Fury Road for the first time, before you fully grasped the vehicular carnage that was in store. And then stuff like this kept happening:
To quote Steven Soderbergh’s thoughts on Fury Road: “I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.” Whether or not Miller manages to one-up the action in Furiosa, the director is already in the pantheon.

3. The French Connection (1971)

We return to the Friedkin-verse for what may be his best film, The French Connection, the crime thriller based on Robin Moore’s 1969 nonfiction book of the same name. The story concerns two NYPD detectives, Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy “Cloudy” Russo (Roy Scheider), and their tireless pursuit of a French heroin smuggler. But while there’s plenty to admire about how The French Connection illustrates the thin line between police and criminals, its greatest claim to fame is its car chase. After Popeye narrowly survives a sniper attack, he goes after the shooter, who escapes on an elevated train. The ensuing sequence is true daredevil filmmaking that Friedkin shot without permits, leading to real crashes with New Yorkers that made the final cut. But Friedkin’s finest touch was mounting a camera to the front of the car, making the audience feel like they’re part of the action:
My Ringer colleague Justin Sayles believes The French Connection’s chase should’ve landed at no. 1, and I’m sure many folks will agree with him. Being the only film on this list to win Best Picture, however, is a solid consolation prize.

2. Bullitt (1968)

When it comes to modern car chases, all roads lead back to Bullitt. A Dad Cinema classic, the film stars Steve McQueen as Frank Bullitt, a San Francisco detective who pursues a group of mobsters after a key witness is killed in protective custody. In his search for answers, Bullitt realizes he’s being tailed by a couple of hitmen, and then turns the tables on them. From there, the chase is on. Aside from McQueen doing most of his own stunts behind the wheel of a Ford Mustang GT 390 Fastback, what’s so impressive about the sequence is how timeless it is. Even the little imperfections, like hubcaps repeatedly coming off the wheels, work to the film’s advantage, stressing just how much these drivers are living on a razor’s edge. It’s been more than 50 years since Bullitt revolutionized the car chase, and yet few movies since have felt like they’re pushing the envelope to such an exhilarating degree:
That the car driven by McQueen was recently sold at auction for $3.74 million, a then-record price for a Mustang, underlines Bullitt’s enduring legacy.

1. Ronin (1998)

“If I’m going to do a car chase,” filmmaker John Frankenheimer said in an interview with the American Society of Cinematographers, “I’m going to do a car chase that’s going to make somebody think about whether or not they want to do another one!” Boy, did he ever. In Frankenheimer’s late-career masterpiece, Ronin, the director actually incorporated several chases, but it’s the climactic sequence that stands alone as the greatest ever filmed. The movie concerns an international group of mercenaries who are hired to steal a mysterious briefcase; a series of double-crosses and double-bluffs ensue. But for the final chase, all you need to know is that Sam (Robert De Niro), a mercenary with ties to the CIA, is in pursuit of Deirdre (Natascha McElhone), an IRA operative in possession of the case. Winding through the streets and tunnels of Paris, what’s most striking is just how fluid it all feels. You’re completely engrossed in the chase’s forward momentum, captured from every conceivable angle; a symphony of controlled chaos. The driving styles even reflect the characters: Deirdre is reckless and impulsive, while Sam remains calm and controlled.
There are many worthy car chases in this ranking, but in my view, Ronin takes pole position. And while I can’t imagine a movie ever topping what Frankenheimer achieved, I’d love nothing more than to be proved wrong.

I am looking for recommendations to beef up my server's hardware. Right now, it's just a Raspberry Pi 4b sitting in a small passive cooling case with a built in quiet fan, using the typical small power supply. Also, I am using a 512GD external drive connected by USB.
Here's all the boring details for what I'm currently using, and how I'm using it, in case that is relevant:
I'm using the server at home. It is connected to my high-speed fiberoptic Internet feed via WiFi only, which, so far, is plenty adequate.
I'm running Raspberry Pi Os, basically, Debian 12, headless, on a micro SSD card.
So far, so good!
I'm using it to serve a few programs that will ultimately be accessed by up to about 20 people. The load will never be heavy, and the data need is actually very light.
It's serving:
A webserver, nginx with WordPress,
A lite discussion forum,
A next cloud instance, optimized with recommended tweaks,
A database driven program using php to edit a shared text (bibledit-cloud),
A webmin server management program,
And maybe later, an postfix email server
So, it is really running optimally well, but it's in a 16gb SSD card! Usually, I don't mind this, because I like the interoperability and interchangeabilty of the SSD card.
But I pretty well am liking this server instance, and am thinking I'd hate to lose it due to a bad SSD card. I may move the server's location to another address, so I also like the small portability of the Rpi4 as a platform. It meets my needs, and just works.
So, now, if I want to keep this thing, I need to make a backup image of the disk, but what other recommendations should I do?
A battery backup? More robust power supply? POE? An M.2 pi hat to move away from the micro-ssd?
I'm doing it on the cheap, but I'd spend some money if it's worth it for my use case.
Right now, it's just a satisfying personal project, but I think I'll keep it! What's important to me is that it is: 1. Small and portable 2. Stable, but upgradable 3. Not too complicated
I'd love to get some HARDWARE recommendations on what you'd add to it so that I can eventually put it in a shelf and not worry about it? Thanks!

I’m not a fan of this ad. The worst part is at the end when the kid asks her if crabs have eyebrows and she just gives a blank, dead-eyed stare, as if this middle aged woman has somehow never heard of a crab and could not possibly conjure up the image of one in her mind. I think it’s such a bizarre choice if you’re thinking of questions from a child that you would expect an adult to struggle to answer. It’s like the main character in this ad is some sort of robot who is programmed only to say “Tide”, and short-circuits when discussing anything unrelated to Tide.

I don't know why the link doesn't work.. anyway is from investing.com...
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – Verb Technology Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:VERB), the company behind the livestream social shopping platform MARKET.live, has reported a significant improvement in its financial position. In a recent statement, the company announced that for the first time, its audited financial statements for 2023 do not include a "Going Concern" opinion, indicating a positive shift in its ability to sustain operations.
According to the company's 2023 Form 10-K filed on April 1, 2024, Verb Technology had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $14.2 million and notes payable of around $1.2 million as of March 28, 2024. This marks an increase in cash of $10.9 million and a decrease in notes payable of approximately $7.3 million compared to the previous year.
The company's management expressed confidence in its enhanced cash position and substantially reduced operating costs. They believe these factors will fully fund operations for at least the next 14 months and possibly longer, contingent on revenue generation during that period. This development has alleviated substantial doubt about the company's ongoing viability.
Verb Technology's CEO, Rory J. Cutaia, highlighted the company's new partnerships, including one with TikTok, as well as new technology integrations and strategic relationships. He stated that these factors, combined with the company's significant financial resources for its size, allow the management team to concentrate on growing revenue and delivering returns for stockholders.
MARKET.live, operated by Verb Technology, is a multi-vendor and multi-presenter platform that merges e-commerce with entertainment. It enables retailers, brands, creators, and influencers to monetize their fan base across various social media channels. The platform also allows creators and entrepreneurs to earn income through its drop ship and TikTok affiliate programs.
This information is based on a press release statement from Verb Technology Company, Inc.

Efter att idag när appen Max nylanserats mötas av en av dem på förstasidan så undrar jag på ett genuint och ej elakt sätt vilka deras målgrupper är (Bianca undantag). Discovery och kanal 5 har pushat deras program så hårt i flera år att jag blir fundersam. Har de spottat ur sig flertalet program för att de är så populära eller har kanalen skapat en illusion av att de är så populära genom att ge dem extremt med exponering? På så sätt uppfyll sin egen profetia så att säga.
Kan inte komma på en enda person jag träffat som följer deras program, sociala medier och musik eller ens har någon särskild åsikt om dem. Så frågan min är väl då: finns det nån här som är fan av dem?

Hey there! New gym goer here, just signed up to my Rec Center's gym program. I didn't want to jump into spending $40/mo on a Planet Fitness or Golds membership just yet, so I got a membership to my Rec Center's smaller gym. It is a littler quieter, less people, but the gym is also smaller as a whole, which also means less machines overall.
My workout days are generally Monday/Tuesday/Thursday, or Monday/Wednesday/Friday. I try to stick to the same days, but depending on my outside of work things going on, sometimes I shift the days, but still try to go atleast 3 times a week.
So basically, when I go, I target a specific section of muscles, but I'd like to know how to hit them better. I'm very list oriented, so I like to have a list of exercises I want to do, and just start knocking them out before I leave.
What I'm looking for is Suggestions for easier small gym exercises I can throw into the list, or better exercises I can do, or just overall suggestions to make my workouts hit more and just better.
P.S. I typically try to do 3-4 sets of each exercise, and I try to go to failure on the last 1 or 2 sets.
Also, here is another question, If I go 3 times a week, What is the most efficient way to hit all 4 muscle groups? If I go Mon/Wed/Fri, What is the best way to hit Arms/Chest/Back/Legs in those days?
Here is my workout normally, and any help on what I can add or make it better would help.
**Monday Chest/Arms** - Smith Machine Bench - Curl Machine - Tricep Machine Rope Pulldowns - Tricep Overhead Pulls - Dip Machine - Dumbell curls with lower weights - Dumbell Shoulder Press - Dumbell Lat raises
**Wednesday Back** - Bar Lat Pulldown Machine - Seated Row machine (i have to set up a bench on the cable machine as my gym doesnt have a Row machine) - Assisted Pullup Machine - Dumbell Rows
**Friday Legs** - Smith Machine squats - Leg Curls/Calf Curls Machine - Leg Press machine (lower weights than squats)
Any comments or suggestions to make my workouts a little bit...More efficient, or better or anything? my end goal isnt to get Swole, instead I'm just trying to reduce belly fat, live a little healthier, and fill out more of my form as time goes on.
One Major issue I feel I have is doing multiple exercises that gas the same muscle group, not allowing me to push all the way. So, with my limited gym goer knowledge, I'd like to refine my workouts to be just... Better as a whole.
Any suggestions, comments, questions, or assistance you can offer me is great! Keep in mind, I'm in a smaller gym that has "most machines" but not everything, so sometimes I need to improvise if lets say my machine is taken or something
Thanks!

My ten-year-old boy would like to start Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Are there kids' programs that are particularly good in DC proper? Does anyone have experience with Capital MMA, which is probably the most convenient option? I will probably join him, so I'd like a place where the family price isn't absolutely extortionate. I'm hoping to get him to two classes a week.
My spouse is a Quaker and isn't really on board with martial arts in general, so we'd prefer a place where the vibe is more training for skills and possibly technique-based competition, rather than training for MMA/self-defence. But I don't want a McDojo or belt factory, either.

The partnership is expected to unlock a number of opportunities in the Mexican market. The partnership is expected to unlock a number of opportunities in the Mexican market including launching Alta's flagship Warrior Training Program at multiple gyms and developing content that can directly engage and monetize the 18.6m Mexican fans of UFC.
This collaboration also marks a significant milestone in Alta's mission to broaden its reach and impact within the vibrant Mexican MMA community.Upper Management boasts a roster of top-tier talent, including renowned fighters such as Yair Rodriguez, former interim UFC featherweight Champion, Daniel Zellhuber, Ronaldo Rodriguez, Manuel Torres, Ignacio Bahamondes and Eric Silva. Through this partnership, Alta aims to leverage Upper Management's extensive network and expertise to tap into the burgeoning Mexican market for MMA enthusiasts and participants.
https://www.accesswire.com/865395/alta-global-group-announces-strategic-partnership-and-investment-by-upper-management-to-expand-its-presence-in-the-mexican-mma-market

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The partnership is expected to unlock a number of opportunities in the Mexican market. The partnership is expected to unlock a number of opportunities in the Mexican market including launching Alta's flagship Warrior Training Program at multiple gyms and developing content that can directly engage and monetize the 18.6m Mexican fans of UFC.
This collaboration also marks a significant milestone in Alta's mission to broaden its reach and impact within the vibrant Mexican MMA community.Upper Management boasts a roster of top-tier talent, including renowned fighters such as Yair Rodriguez, former interim UFC featherweight Champion, Daniel Zellhuber, Ronaldo Rodriguez, Manuel Torres, Ignacio Bahamondes and Eric Silva. Through this partnership, Alta aims to leverage Upper Management's extensive network and expertise to tap into the burgeoning Mexican market for MMA enthusiasts and participants.
https://www.accesswire.com/865395/alta-global-group-announces-strategic-partnership-and-investment-by-upper-management-to-expand-its-presence-in-the-mexican-mma-market

The partnership is expected to unlock a number of opportunities in the Mexican market. The partnership is expected to unlock a number of opportunities in the Mexican market including launching Alta's flagship Warrior Training Program at multiple gyms and developing content that can directly engage and monetize the 18.6m Mexican fans of UFC.
This collaboration also marks a significant milestone in Alta's mission to broaden its reach and impact within the vibrant Mexican MMA community.Upper Management boasts a roster of top-tier talent, including renowned fighters such as Yair Rodriguez, former interim UFC featherweight Champion, Daniel Zellhuber, Ronaldo Rodriguez, Manuel Torres, Ignacio Bahamondes and Eric Silva. Through this partnership, Alta aims to leverage Upper Management's extensive network and expertise to tap into the burgeoning Mexican market for MMA enthusiasts and participants.
https://www.accesswire.com/865395/alta-global-group-announces-strategic-partnership-and-investment-by-upper-management-to-expand-its-presence-in-the-mexican-mma-market

The partnership is expected to unlock a number of opportunities in the Mexican market. The partnership is expected to unlock a number of opportunities in the Mexican market including launching Alta's flagship Warrior Training Program at multiple gyms and developing content that can directly engage and monetize the 18.6m Mexican fans of UFC.
This collaboration also marks a significant milestone in Alta's mission to broaden its reach and impact within the vibrant Mexican MMA community.Upper Management boasts a roster of top-tier talent, including renowned fighters such as Yair Rodriguez, former interim UFC featherweight Champion, Daniel Zellhuber, Ronaldo Rodriguez, Manuel Torres, Ignacio Bahamondes and Eric Silva. Through this partnership, Alta aims to leverage Upper Management's extensive network and expertise to tap into the burgeoning Mexican market for MMA enthusiasts and participants.
https://www.accesswire.com/865395/alta-global-group-announces-strategic-partnership-and-investment-by-upper-management-to-expand-its-presence-in-the-mexican-mma-market

The partnership is expected to unlock a number of opportunities in the Mexican market. The partnership is expected to unlock a number of opportunities in the Mexican market including launching Alta's flagship Warrior Training Program at multiple gyms and developing content that can directly engage and monetize the 18.6m Mexican fans of UFC.
This collaboration also marks a significant milestone in Alta's mission to broaden its reach and impact within the vibrant Mexican MMA community.Upper Management boasts a roster of top-tier talent, including renowned fighters such as Yair Rodriguez, former interim UFC featherweight Champion, Daniel Zellhuber, Ronaldo Rodriguez, Manuel Torres, Ignacio Bahamondes and Eric Silva. Through this partnership, Alta aims to leverage Upper Management's extensive network and expertise to tap into the burgeoning Mexican market for MMA enthusiasts and participants.
https://www.accesswire.com/865395/alta-global-group-announces-strategic-partnership-and-investment-by-upper-management-to-expand-its-presence-in-the-mexican-mma-market

Hi there! I’m hoping someone can help with my LED situation in my PC. I am not the most knowledgeable so any help is appreciated. I’ll drop my specs at the bottom of the post for context. I bought this PC off marketplace and everything works beautifully - I believe it was a prebuilt originally bought from best buy. I’m enjoying it so far but I don’t think it has aura sync support and I haven’t found a way to change the colour of the LED fans inside of it.
I’ve tried a remote, I’ve tried through programs and it is never detected. I’ve heard it’s often controlled and managed through the motherboard (?) and mine is an ASUS Q170M-C, so I downloaded aura sync but it doesn’t detect my PC. The other thing is that two of the fans rotate through red green and blue only, and the other two are rainbow. I’d really like to be able to change it so I’m trying everything!
If anyone knows how to fix it or what I should try next I would love some advice. I am new to PCs and would love to learn. (:
My specs: Intel Core i7-6700 processor (4.00GHz) 6th gen Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 8GB GDDR6 ASUS Q170M-C RAM - 16GB of DDR4 The RGB fans are 4 120mm ones and I am not sure of the brand because I bought it secondhand but they are black with a red sea monster (?) looking logo on the front.

I recently bought an MSI Raider GE68, but the fan is a bit noisy when I go to coffee places. I tried undervolting it, but the issue persists. I'm looking for a quieter laptop with mid-level performance. I mostly use it for programming and gaming (League of Legends, Rust). I like the specs of the Omen Transcend 14, which I've heard is one of the quietest gaming laptops out there, but the screen is too small for my liking. I prefer a laptop with a screen size of 15.6 inches. I'm wondering if there is another laptop that matches my description. My budget is around $1200.

I recently bought an MSI Raider GE68, but the fan is a bit noisy when I go to coffee places. I tried undervolting it, but the issue persists. I'm looking for a quieter laptop with mid-level performance. I mostly use it for programming and gaming (League of Legends, Rust). I like the specs of the Omen Transcend 14, which I've heard is one of the quietest gaming laptops out there, but the screen is too small for my liking. I prefer a laptop with a screen size of 15.6 inches. I'm wondering if there is another laptop that matches my description. My budget is around $1200.

After much work, I finally got a system running without issue (knock on wood) where I can pass a GPU, Ethernet device and NVMe disk to the guest. Obviously, the tricky part was to pass the GPU as everything else went pretty easily. All defvices are released to the host when the VM is not running it.
Hardware: - Z790 AORUS Elite AX - 14900K intel with integrated GPU - Radeon 6600 - I also have an NVidia card but it's not passed through
Host: - Linux Debian testing - Wayland (running on the Intel GPU) - Kernel 6.7.12 - None of the devices are managed through the vfio-pci driver, they are managed by the native NVMe/realtek/amdgpu drivers. Libvirt takes care of disconnecting the devices before the VM is started, and reconnects them after the VM shuts off. - I have set up internet through wireless and wired. Both are available to the host but one of them is disconnected when passed through to the guest. This is transparent as Linux will fall back on Wifi when the ethernet card is unbound.
I have two monitors and they are connected to the Intel GPU. I use the Intel GPU to drive the desktop (Plasma 5). The same monitors are also connected to the AMD GPU so I can switch from the host to the VM by switching monitor input. When no VM is running, everything runs from the Intel GPU, which means the dedicated graphic cards consume very very little (the AMDGPU driver reports 3W, the NVidia driver reports 7W), fans are not running and the computer temperature is below 40 degrees (Celsius)
I can use the AMD card on the host by using DRI_PRIME=pci-0000_0a_00_0 %command% for OpenGL applications. I can use the NVidia card by running __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command% . Vulkan, OpenCL and Cuda also see the card without setting any environment variable (there might be env variables to set the prefered device though)
WINDOWS:

• I created a regular Windows VM, on the NVMe disk (completely blank) when passing through all devices. The guest installation went smooth. Windows recognized all devices easily and the install was fast. Windows install created an EFI partition on the NVMe disk.
• I shrank the partition under Windows to make space for MacOS.
• I use input redirection (see guide at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Passing_keyboard/mouse_via_Evdev )
• the whole thing was setup in less than 1h
• But I got AMDGPU driver errors when releasing the GPU to the host, see below for the fix

MACOS:

• followed most of the guide at https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM and used the OpenCore boot
• I tried to reproduce the setup in virt-manager, but the whole thing was a pain
• installed using the QXL graphics and I added passthrough after macOS was installed
• I have discovered macOS does not see devices on bus other than bus 0 so all hardware that virt-manager put on Bus 1 and above are invisible to macOS
• Installing macOS after discovering this was rather easy. I repartitioned the hard disk from the terminal directly in the installer, and everything installed OK
• Things to pay attention to: * Add USB mouse and USB keyboards on top of the PS/2 mouse an keyboards (the PS/2 devices can't be removed, for some reason) * Double/triple check that the USB controllers are (all) on Bus 0. virt-manager has a tendency to put the USB3 controller on another Bus which means macOS won't see the keyboard and mouse. The installer refuses to carry on if there's no keyboard or mouse. * virtio mouse and keyboards don't seem to work, I didn't investigate much and just moved those to bus 2 so macOS does not see them. * Realtek ethernet requires some hackintosh driver which can easily be found.

MACOS GPU PASSTHROUGH:
This was quite a lot of trial and error. I made a lot of changes to make this work so I can't be sure everything in there is necessary, but here is how I finally got macOS to use the passed through GPU: - I have the GPU on host bus 0a:00.0 and pass it on address 00:0a.0 (notice bus 0 again, otherwise the card is not visible) - Audio is also captured from 0a:00.1 to 00:0a.1 - I dumped the vbios from the Windows guest, sent it to the host through ssh (kind of ironic) so I can pass it to the host - Debian uses apparmor and the KVM processes are quite shielded, so I moved the vbios to a directory that is allowlisted (/usshare/OVMF/) kind of dirty but works. - In the host BIOS, it seems I had to disable resizable BAR, above 4G decoding and above 4G MMIO. I am not 100% sure that was necessary, will reboot soon to test. - the Linux dumped vbios didn't work, I have no idea why. The vbios dumped from Linux didn't have the same size at all, so I am not sure what happened. - macOS device type is set to iMacPro1,1 - The QXL card needs to be deleted (and the spice viewer too) otherwise macOS is confused. macOS is very easily confused. - I had to disable some things in the config.plist: I removed all Brcm Kexts (fro broadcom devices) but added the Realtek kext instead, disabled the AGPMInjector. Added agdpmod=pikera in boot-args.
After a lot of issues, macOS finally showed up on the dedicated card.
AMDGPU FIX:
When passing through the AMD gpu to the guest, I ran into a multitude of issues: - the host Wayland crashes (kwin in my case) when the device is unbound. Seems to be a KWin bug (at least KWin5) since the crash did not happen under wayfire. That does not prevent the VM from running anyway, but kind of annoying as KWin takes all programs with it when it dies. - Since I have cables connected, kwin seems to want to use those screens which is silly, they are the same as the ones connected to the intel GPU - When reattaching the device to the host, I often had kernel errors ( https://www.reddit.com/NobaraProject/comments/10p2yr9/single_gpu_passthrough_not_returning_to_host/ ) which means the host needs to be rebooted (makes it very easy to find what's wrong with macOS passthrough...)
All of that can be fixed by forcing the AMD card to be bound to the vfio-pci driver at boot, which has several downsides: - The host cannot see the card - The host cannot put the card in D3cold mode - The host uses more power (and higher temperature) than the native amdgpu driver I did not want to do that as it'd increase power consumption.
I did find a fix for all of that though: - add export KWIN_DRM_DEVICES=/dev/dri/card0 in /etc/environment to force kwin to ignore the other cards (OpenGL, Vulkan and OpenCL still work, it's just KWin that is ignoring them). That fixes the kwin crash. - pass the following arguments on the command line: video=efifb:off video=DP-3:d video=DP-4:d (replace DP-x with whatever outputs are connected on the AMD card, use for p in /sys/class/drm/*/status; do con=${p%/status}; echo -n "${con#*/card?-}: "; cat $p; done to discover them) - ensure everything is applied by updating the initrd/initramfs and grub or systemd-boot. - The kernel gives new errors: [ 524.030841] [drm:drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR* No EDID found on connector: DP-3. but that does not sound alarming at all.
After rebooting, make sure the AMD gpu is absolutely not used by running lsmod grep amdgpu . Also, sensors is showing me the power consumption is 3W and the temperature is very low. Boot a guest, shut it down, and the AMD gpu should be safely returned to the host.
WHAT DOES NOT WORK: due to the KWin crash and the AMDGPU crash, it's unfortunately not possible to use a screen on the host then pass that screen to the guest (Wayland/Kwin is ALMOST able to do that). In case you have dual monitors, it'd be really cool to have the right screen connected to the host then passed to the guest through the AMDGPU. But nope. It seems very important that all outputs of the GPU are disabled on the host.