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oh OK I was just promoting Tarquelne's orignal idea because it sounds like it has potential for GREAT humour in the game It will never make it into final design of the game because it is a totally unnecesary FRILL, I just wanted to see what new "taunting and trash talking" phrases and sayings folks would come up with on the forum. (for fun) he he -tom [ January 27, 2006, 10:11 AM: Message edited by: aka_tom_w ]

I KNOW there are some folks here who are very talented at taunting and trash talking during online games and seemingly 24/7 in online posts in the various Peng Challenge Threads. It should not be all that hard to capture some of their "abuse" (or entertaining "patter") and load it into the game for the AI to spew forth for fun and for entertainment. And of course this idea will never fly, but it won't only be tolerable if the player could toggle it off (of course ) -tom w [ January 26, 2006, 09:20 AM: Message edited by: aka_tom_w ]

Tarquelne Member Member # 8422 Now, how about a "trash talk" window where auto-generated barbs from the computer opponent appear? I figure something with an 80's gangsta rapper vibe. You guys want to be on the forefront of wargame design, am I right? Tom W replies: Oh Yeah! ROTFL Thats a good one! "auto-generated barbs from the computer opponent appear? " No no, I want to hear them live in real time from the AI and the computer Taunting you and trashing talking its way to AI glory and AI computer victory!!!! LOL! Oh yes..... PLEASE let the AI taunt players who are losing badly!! (or just losing) yes yes I can see it now Real live audio files (a good variety of them may be extracted directly from the Peng Threads (lots of Material there!) if I am not mistaken) that speak to the player trash talking and taunting! Who here would NOT volunteer to record trash talking, taunting sayings for the AI to "speak"/bark to the player when triggered by obvious bone head moves!! (or JUST bad luck). This is such a GREAT feature I can't believe it has only come up now SO LATE into the development cycle.. This idea has SO much potential it really deserves its very own thread! ...... really, LOL One possible example: (please submit more I am sure there are FAR more creative "taunters" out there than myself!) AI to the player: "Hey LOSER!... WHAT!?!? :eek: ... you didn't think I would see that column of Strikers on my left flank!? Mu HA Ha ha.... See they are all in flames now, bet you can't guess what smoked them!/brewed them up!?." (or something) -tom w [ January 26, 2006, 09:19 AM: Message edited by: aka_tom_w ]

Oh Yeah! ROTFL Thats a good one! "auto-generated barbs from the computer opponent appear? " No no, I want to hear them live in real time from the AI and the computer Taunting you and trashing talking its way to AI glory and AI computer victory!!!! LOL! Oh yes..... PLEASE let the AI taunt players who are losing badly!! (or just losing) yes yes I can see it now Real live audio files (a good variety of them may be extracted directly from the Peng Threads (lots of Material there!) if I am not mistaken) that speak to the player trash talking and taunting! Who here would NOT volunteer to record trash talking, taunting sayings for the AI to "speak"/bark to the player when triggered by obvious bone head moves!! (or JUST bad luck). This is such a GREAT feature I can't believe it has only come up now SO LATE into the development cycle.. This idea has SO much potential it really deserves its very own thread! ...... really, LOL One possible example: (please submit more I am sure there are FAR more creative "taunters" out there than myself!) AI to the player: "Hey LOSER! WHAT?! you didn't think I would see that colomn of Strikers on my left flank!? See they are all in flames now, bet you can't guess what smoked them!/brewed them up!?." (or something) -tom w [ January 25, 2006, 07:42 PM: Message edited by: aka_tom_w ]

Why is it that the only thing I can think of to add to this thread is: "People who live in glass buildings shouldn't points their weapons." Sorry just being silly carry on -tom

WOW!! Now all I want to know is when can I play it on the next Generation Intel Mac laptop? I for one, am not underwhelmed. -tom w

OK Does this mean the Map editor or map maker or terrain editor is in "The Editor" ? How does this impact WHEN the player gets to see the map for the first time? I am not sure I understand how the Terrain Editor can be in the Unit editor? (a very clever interface I suppose?) So I am left to wonder if in the Editor there is a button or selection or "window" for units in the OOB and the TO&E and then another button or window for the terrain editor. OR am I confused and there is infact two seperate programs? ONE for "The Editor" for units and another whole program or application or UI window for "The Terrain Editor" ? :confused: -tom w

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since when are old Board Game, wargamers that used to play ASL and spend more time argueing about the rules than playing the game... "sane persons" ?? :confused: -tom w

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that is sort of sad I think we should leave Scientology completely out of this thread Sure John and I have posted about some controversial issues and YES none of it is clearly within the realm of "proven science" but at no point did any one talk about paying money for "enlightment" or spiritual "wisdom" as in the (crooked) case of those theives from the Scientology cult. (I better watch out now, I know that they are after me because on the internet you can't say anything bad or disrespectful about the "religion" of Scientology or they will come after you, its true look it up and do a search of Scientology and freedom of speech on the internet or Scientology and harassment. IF you are really interested I am sure there is a GREAT article somewhere on wired.com about their freedom of speach battle with the Scientology gag police!) Right John? -tom w

There is more here with Pics on the B2 <a href="http://www.only1egg-productions.org/AltScience/Electrogravity/LifterPage.htm" target="_blank">web page, another</a> web page with B2 model pics Is this an anti gravity model of the B2? What do you think? -tom w

Just how crazy is this: Is Antigravity Technology being Employed in the B2 Bomber? contributed by Chalcedon very special thanks to www . NANODATA . com Nanotechnology, Biosciences and Femtosecond Return To Lifter Page Retired Air Force Colonel Donald Ware has claimed that a three star general revealed that "the new Lockheed-Martin space shuttle (National Space Plane) and the B-2 (stealth bomber) both have electro-gravitic systems on board" and that "this explains why our 21 Northrop B-2s cost about a billion dollars each." I feel that it is also worthy to note that the Selected Acquisition Report (with which United States lawmakers track the cost of major U.S. weapons projects) valued the B-2 program at $45 billion. With 21 aircraft built, that works out at $2.14 billion each, twice the cost as stated above. After taking off conventionally, the B-2 has the option of switching to anti-gravity mode. It has been said that using it's anti-gravitic technology, the B-2 can fly around the world without refueling. The F-117 stealth fighter also has hybrid propulsion and lift technologies which may be electro-gravitic systems. Utilizing conventional thrust for public take-offs and landings, switching to anti-gravity mode would allow an extended cruising range, lightning fast maneuverability, and for shrouding the airframe in invisibility (by having its local counter-gravity field bend light around the airframe). How are anti-gravity systems controlled? It has been known for sometime now by "Black World" technologists that the key to controlling gravity is Element 115 on the Periodic Table - Ununpentium. The most important attribute of this heavier, stable element is that the gravity A-wave is so abundant that it actually extends past the perimeter of the atom. These heavier, stable elements literally have their own gravity A-field around them, in addition to the gravity B-field that is native to all matter. By controlling the gravity A-wave, you can control gravity. By fuelling an aircraft reactor with ununpentium, you have an aircraft capable of utilizing anti-gravity propulsion. Electrogravitic (antigravity) technology, under development in U.S. Air Force black R&D programs since late 1954, may now have been put to practical use in the B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber to provide an exotic auxiliary mode of propulsion. This inference is based on the recent disclosure that the B-2 charges both its wing leading edge and jet exhaust stream to a high voltage. Positive ions emitted from its wing leading edge would produce a positively charged parabolic ion sheath ahead of the craft while negative ions injected into it's exhaust stream would set up a trailing negative space charge with a potential difference in excess of 15 million volts. According to electrogravitic research carried out by physicist T. Townsend Brown, such a differential space charge would set up an artificial gravity field that would induce a reactionless force on the aircraft in the direction of the positive pole. An electrogravitic drive of this sort could allow the B-2 to function with over-unity propulsion efficiency when cruising at supersonic velocities. For many years rumors circulated that the U.S. was secretly developing a highly advanced, radar-evading aircraft. Rumor turned to reality in November of 1988, when the Air Force unveiled the B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber. Although military spokesmen provided the news media with some information about the craft's outward design, and low radar and infrared profile, there was much they were silent about. However, several years later, some key secrets about the B-2 were leaked to the press. On March 9, 1992, "Aviation Week and Space Technology" magazine made a surprising disclosure that the B-2 electrostatically charges its exhaust stream and the leading edges of its wing-like body. Those familiar with the electrogravitics research of American physicist T. Townsend Brown will quickly realize that this is tantamount to stating that the B-2 is able to function as an antigravity aircraft. "Aviation Week" obtained their information about the B-2 from a small group of renegade west coast scientists and engineers who were formerly associated with black research projects. In making these disclosures, these scientists broke a code of silence that rivals the Mafia's. They took the risk because they felt that it was important for economic reasons that efforts be made to declassify certain black technologies for commercial use. Two of these individuals said that their civil rights had been blatantly abused (in the name of security) either to keep them quiet or to prevent them from leaving the tightly controlled black R&D community. Several months after "Aviation Week" published the article, black world security personnel went into high gear. That sector of the black R&D community received VERY STRONG warnings and, as a result, the group of scientists subsequently broke off contact with the magazine. Clearly, the overseers of black R&D programs were substantially concerned about the information leaks that had come out in that article. To completely understand the significance of what was said about the B-2, one must first become familiar with Brown's work. Beginning in the mid 1920's, Townsend Brown discovered that it is possible to create an artificial gravity field by charging an electrical capacitor to a high-voltage. He specially built a capacitor which utilized a heavy, high charge-accumulating (high K-factor) dielectric material between its plates and found that when charges with between 70,000 to 300,000 volts, it would move in the direction of its positive pole. When oriented with its positive side up, it would proceed to lose about 1 percent of it's weight. He attributed this motion to an electrostatically-induced gravity field acting between the capacitor's oppositely charged plates. By 1958, he had succeeded in developing a 15 inch diameter model saucer that could lift over 110% of its weight! Brown's experiments had launched a new field of investigation which came to be known as electrogravitics, the technology of controlling gravity through the use of high-voltage electric charge. As early as 1952, an Air Force major general witnessed a demonstration in which Brown flew a pair of 18 inch disc airfoils suspended from opposite ends of a rotatable arm. When electrified with 50,000 volts, they circuited at a speed of 12 miles per hour. About a year later, he flew a set of 3 foot diameter saucers for some Air Force officials and representatives from a number of major aircraft companies. When energized with 150,000 volts, the discs sped around the 50 foot diameter course so fast that the subject was immediately classified. "Interavia" magazine later reported that the discs would attain speeds of several hundred miles per hour when charged with several hundred thousand volts. Brown's discs were charged with a high positive voltage, on a wire, running along their leading edge and a high negative voltage, on a wire, running along their trailing edge. As the wires ionized the air around them, a dense cloud of positive ions would form ahead of the craft and corresponding cloud of negative ions would form behind the craft. Brown's research indicated that, like the charged plates of his capacitors, these ion clouds induced a gravitational force directed in the minus to plus direction. As the disc moved forward in the response to its self generated gravity field, it would carry with it its positive and negative ion clouds and their associated electrogravity gradient. Consequently, the discs would ride their advancing gravity wave much like surfers ride an ocean wave. Dr. Mason Rose, one of Townsend's colleagues, described the discs principle of operation as follows: The saucers made by Brown have no propellers, no jets, no moving parts at all. They create a modification of the gravitational field around themselves, which is analogous to putting them on the incline of a hill. They act like a surfboard on a wave... the electrogravitational saucer creates its own "hill", which is a local distortion of the gravitational field, then it takes this "hill" with it in any chosen direction and at any rate. The occupants of one of [brown's] saucers would feel no stress at all no matter how sharp the turn or how great the acceleration. This is because the ship and its occupants and the load are all responding equally to the wave like distortion of the local gravitation field. Although skeptics at first thought that the discs were propelled by more mundane effects such as the pressure of negative ions striking the positive electrode, Brown later carried out vacuum chamber tests which proved that a force was present even in the absence of such ion thrust. He did not offer a theory to explain this nonconventional electrogravitic phenomenon; except to say that it was predicted neither by general relativity nor by modern theories of electromagnetism. However, recent advances in theoretical physics provide a rather straightforward explanation of the principle. According to the novel physics of subquantum kinetics, gravity potential can adopt two polarities, instead of one. Not only can a gravity field exist in the form of a matter attracting gravity potential well, as standard physics teaches, but it can also exist in the form of a matter repelling gravity potential hill. Moreover, it predicts that these gravity polarities should be directly matched with electrical polarity; positively charged particles such as protons generating gravity wells and negatively charged particles such as electrons generating gravity hills. (Thus contrary to conventional theory, the electron produces a MATTER-REPELLING gravity field. Electrical neutral matter remains gravitationally attractive because of the proton's G-well marginally dominates the electron's G-hill.) Consequently, subquantum kinetics predicts that the negative ion cloud behind Brown's disc should form a matter repelling gravityhill while the positive ion cloud ahead of the disc should form a matter attracting gravity well. As increasing voltage is applied to the disc, the gravity potential hill and well become increasing prominent and the gravity potential gradient between them increasing steep. In Rose's terminology, the craft would find itself on the incline of a gravitational "hill". Since gravity force is known to increase in accordance with the steepness of such a gravity potential slope, increased voltage would induce an increasingly strong gravity force on the disc and would act in the direction of the positive ion cloud. The disc would behave as if it was being tugged by a very strong gravitational field emanating from an invisible planet sized mass positioned beyond its positive pole. Early in 1952 Brown had put together a proposal, code named "Project Winterhaven", which suggested that the military developed an antigravity combat saucer with Mach-3 capability. The 1956 intelligence study entitled "Electrogravitics Systems: An Explanation of Electrostatic Motion, Dynamic Counterbary and Barycentric Control", prepared by the private aviation intelligence firm, Aviation Studies International Ltd., indicates that as early as November 1954 the Air Force had begun plans to fund research that would accomplish Project Winterhaven's objectives. The study, originally classified "Confidential", mentions the name of more than ten major aircraft companies which were actively involved in the electrogravitics research in an attempt to duplicate or extend Brown's seminal work. Additional information is to be found in another aviation intelligence report entitled "The Gravitics Situation". Since that time much of the work in electro-antigravity has proceeded in Air Force black projects on a relatively large scale. One indication that Brown's electrogravitics ideas were being researched by the aerospace industry surfaced in January 1968. At an aerospace sciences meeting held in New York, Northrop officials reported that they were beginning wind tunnel studies to research the aerodynamic effects of applying high voltage charges to the leading edges of aircraft bodies. They said that they expected that the resulting electrical potential would ionize air molecules upwind of the aircraft and that the resulting repulsive electrical forces would condition the air stream so as to lower drag, reduce heating, and soften the supersonic boom. (Although the author of that article speculated that Northrop might be negatively charging the aircraft's leading edge, the sonic barrier effects can also be accomplished with a positive charge, as Brown originally suggested.) Although this sonic cushion effect is purely electrostatic, Northrop apparently got the idea for investigating this effect directly from Brown, for his electrokinetic flying disc patent explains that the positively charged leading edge electrode would produce just this effect. Brown states: By using such a nose form, which at present appears to be best suited for flying speeds approaching or exceeding the speed of sound, I am able to produce an ionization of the atmosphere in the immediate region of this foremost position of the mobile vehicle. I believe that this ionization facilitates piercing sonic barrier and minimizes the abruptness with which the transition takes place in passing from subsonic velocities to supersonic velocities. Also in his 1952 paper on Brown's Saucers, Dr. Rose stated: The Townsend Brown experiments indicate that the positive field which is traveling in front of the saucer acts as a buffer wing which starts moving the air out of the way. This field acts as a entering wedge which softens the sonic barrier. Interestingly, in 1981, the Pentagon contracted the Northrop Corporation to work on the highly classified B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber. Northrop's past experience in airframe electrostatics must have been a key factor contributing to its winning of this contract, for "Aviation Week" reported that the B-2 uses "electrostatic field-generating techniques" in its wing leading edges to help it minimize aerodynamic turbulence and thereby reduce its radar cross section. The same article mentions that the B-2 also charges its jet engine exhaust stream which has the effect of rapidly cooling its exhaust and thereby remarkably reducing its thermal signature. Although these disclosures were framed in the context of enhancing the B-2's radar invisibility, in fact, they are part of the B-2's antigravitic drive capability. With a positively charged wing leading edge and a negatively charged exhaust stream, the B-2 would function essentially as an electrogravitic aircraft. Just as in Townsend Brown's flying discs, the positive and negative ion clouds would produce a locally altered gravity field that would cause the B-2 to feel a forward-directed gravitic force. The design is also very similar to the saucer craft that Brown described in his electrokinetic generator patent. The craft Brown proposed was to be powered by a flame-jet generator, a high-voltage power supply that had the advantage of being both efficient and relatively lightweight. His generator design utilizes a jet engine with an electrified needle mounted in the exhaust nozzle to produce negative ions in the jet's exhaust stream. The negatively ionized exhaust is then discharged through a number of nozzles at the rear of the craft. As the minus charges leave the craft in this manner, an increasingly greater potential difference develops between the jet engine body and the negatively charged exhaust cloud behind the craft. By electrically insulating the engines and conveying their positive charges forward to a wire running along the vehicle's leading edge, the required positively charged ion cloud is built up at the front of the vehicle. A metallic surface of wire grid positioned near the exhaust stream exit collects some of the high-voltage electrons and this recycled power is used to run the exhaust ionizers. Brown estimated that such a generator could produce potentials as high as 15 million volts across his craft. Rumors circulating among people close to the project allege that the B-2 does utilize antigravity technology. So, our conjecture, that the B-2 incorporates an electrogravitic drive, appears to be substantially correct. Although the black world scientists mentioned nothing about electrogravitics in their "Aviation Week" disclosure about the B-2, they did admit to the existence of very "dramatic, classified technologies" applicable to "aircraft control and propulsion". They were especially hesitant to discuss these projects, noting that they are "very black". One of them commented, "besides, it would take about 20 hours to explain the principles, and very few people would understand them anyway". Apparently what he meant is that this aircraft control and propulsion technology is based on physics principles that go beyond what is currently known and understood by most academic physicists. Indeed, by all normal standards, electrogravitics is a very exotic propulsion science. source web page cached as the original no longer exists

Doesn't Bush have twin daughters? So then doesn't that Assad kid need to wisk them BOTH back to Syria and then post porno pics of himself and the twin "hotties" at the prince's palace on the internet! (that should about do it to cause an invasion I think) he he -tom w

Thanks Wicky! great link " posted January 14, 2006 07:09 PM Intel Macs may boot XP after all" good article!

For Most folks here I think the Syrians would realistically have to be considered "the underdog". That said, some folks like the handicap or the challenge of playing the underdog, but Steve is right I doubt there will be very many here who will consider the Syrians the "Good Guys" (White Cowboy hat and all ..... NOT!) -tom w [ January 12, 2006, 08:14 PM: Message edited by: aka_tom_w ]

Karch says this in the other thread in the general forum: interesting...

Thats the BIG question My understanding of the situation is that in the past year (sometime) Apple has stated (for the record I think) it won't "support" windows on its intel Macs BUT more importantly, it won't do anything specific or intentional to PREVENT a Windows OS from being installed on a Mac Intel machine. (lack of software drivers for video cards and periferal devices are always a problem, even in the windows world, so Apple is just saying IMHO, the won't make it "easy" like running OS X on an Intel Machine which won't be dead simple either until all the software an drivers (i.e. video drivers scanner drivers, printer drivers, (at additional user expense) are upgraded for the Intel chip so they does not have to run on the Rosetta emulation software layer.) Does anyone else have any further clarification about that? -tom w [ January 11, 2006, 11:57 AM: Message edited by: aka_tom_w ]

There are more comments on this issue here on this web page in the general forum... for those interested and YES This should mean Steve and BFC will have no more "excuses" as to the future of their Mac release of CM:SF -tom w

bump

Just this one if it works... looks like its gone it was a pencil art sketch of a "block tank with a block turrent" -tom w [ January 10, 2006, 06:00 AM: Message edited by: aka_tom_w ]

well if we are not even getting BMP-2's then I guess it looks like BMP-3's are out of the question. Its their decision so they can do what ever they like but the "they'd all be destroyed by airpower" line of logic sort of makes me scratch my head when it does not include all syrian AFV types? :confused: oh well -tom w

from this web page . Toward an Expeditionary Army New Options for Combatant Commanders (from March 2004) more SBCT deployment study info here . [ January 07, 2006, 10:41 AM: Message edited by: aka_tom_w ]

interesting comment Do the Syrian's really have 200 BMP-3's? What impact would they have on the battle or the combat simulated in CM:SF? Its a good question -tom w