Hakko Ichiu
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All this talk of schism and revolution is so much chin exercise. We who have been here since the beginning know that there is but One True 'Pool. Those who pretend to petty titles of Knighthood, Lordship or CaptainPugwashdom are merely fleas dancing on the back of the Giant Turtle that Supports the Universe. The Five Elements are immutable and the Master knows that by understanding the Way he is superior to Ten Thousand things. All that was, is now and will be.
So who's for a bit of a sing-song, then? Here are the words of the Prophet.
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
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... Realising the uncharacteristically foul words he had uttered, Mace...
... proceeded to rinse his mouth out with Matt's Flaming Heidman, which still stood undisturbed upon the bar. He drained the glass, swished, swallowed and then...
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Originally posted by Slapdragon:
The Sherman uses the assault boat and its crew as additional armor, in addition to fooling German gunners into believing it is just a defenseless assault boat. This was of course more rare as German gunner found out that assault boats were more dangerous than Shermans, but it still shows the dedication of these fine units and their value in CM.
This issue has already been discussed on the board. Please do a search. Some people. Sheesh!
http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/005563.html
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Ethan
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"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." -- Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
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Another thing to remember is the difference between maximum range (30m - 60m - 100m) and effective range. I don't pretend to know exactly what these are, but they are certainly significantly less than maximum range.
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Ethan
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"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." -- Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
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They were considering the best course of action when...
When Chief Constable Harry Q. "Snapper" Organs ruined the entire scene with his whiney cries of, "What's all this then?"...
[This message has been edited by Hakko Ichiu (edited 01-29-2001).]
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From Tero:
Even when the back of the house is out of LOS and there is no way for the AI to start thinking it is surrounded when it has been monitoring the approaches which are all within relatively unobstructed LOS ? This early in the game to boot.
The fire started on the wall facing my troops and the FO exited the house from that same side. Fire blocking all exits is feasible if they had to jump out of the second storey and the back wall was facing a slope. But why did they jump from the side facing my troops ? Why not through a window on the two walls that would have allowed some coverage from LOS once they were out.
In CM, graphical fire is an abstraction. From its graphical depiction, you have no way of knowing where in the building the fire started. It is unclear to me whether you recognize this basic aspect of the game.
I don't know, and perhaps only Charles does, whether the game engine models the position of the fire relative to the occupants of a building when the TacAI is determining which action to take. If it does model this, then the FO was taking precisely the correct action: get out of the burning building ASAP and take your chances. If the game engine doesn't model this, then you're still operating from a data set of 1, which leaves a heck of a lot of room to say "stuff happens".
Personally, I have not seen wholesale panic flight toward the enemy in any game I have played, and that is not for lack of routed troops. I play Axis and Allied troops about equally.
It is my considered opinion that you are inferring way, way too much from one data point.
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Ethan
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"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." -- Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
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Originally posted by Mark IV:
Obligatory WWII content: The Orkneys are home to Scapa Flow, final resting place of the WWI German U-boat fleet, not to mention the HMS Royal Oak and other fine ships, and, alas, many of their crew (seems the British decided U-boats were quite out of vogue after 1918, and saw no reason to add submarine defenses at the outbreak of WWII). There is a beautiful panorama of the Flow on this site as well, suitable for screen-saving.
You can take a boat tour of Scapa Flow and cruise by all the wrecks. It's an amazing experience. The rings and Viking tombs are also well worth seeing. Somewhere I have lots of pictures of the Ring of Brodgar. And Highland Park does distillery tours that are well worth the effort. Be aware, however that there is another whiskey from Orkney called "Scapa"; it is to be avoided.
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Originally posted by PeterNZer:
What we really need is a bit of grog porn to get our grog juices flowing.
From: Leather Tiger Press, Amsterdam, de Nederlands
To: PeterNZer
Re: Grogporn Request #CP034528971
Dear Mr. NZer,
Thank you for your recent request concerning the next installment of Grog Porn®. Please rest assured that our production department is hard at work on new and improved editions of Grog Porn® for our loyal customers. Unfortunately, they are currently on an extended departmental off-site at the Space Café across the road. Once they come down (shouldn't be more than a few weeks now), you can expect the flow of Grog Porn® to resume -- assuming we can pry our Head Writer out of the arms of Lili the Barmaid With the Gravity Defying Stroopwaffeln.
Thank you once again for your interest in Leather Tiger Press.
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...tracked them down by smell. Although...
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...the warranty expired.
"Brrrrng, brrrng," went his mobile phone. Trepidaciously he answered the call.
"Hello, this is the Acme Tactical Nuclear Device Company. According to our records, the warranty on your Mk XII Restricted Yield Battlfield Fission Device has expired. So sod off, you won't be getting any support from us."
"Hmm," he thought, "that's a spot of bad luck. I wonder if this painful itch in my...
[This message has been edited by Hakko Ichiu (edited 01-27-2001).]
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Originally posted by Geier:
(Also, I noted the fact that Hakkos cat is fatter than mine. Draw your own conclusions ...)
Ah, but that picture was taken before Professor Doktor Hamster X got a hold of him.
Perhaps it is time to post pictures of our cats as well. I am told that Elvis's cat would make a particularly fine roast.
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Ethan
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"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." -- Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
[This message has been edited by Hakko Ichiu (edited 01-27-2001).]
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Originally posted by Waxx_IK:
...so I dropped it on the floor and Mace promptly began to...
...prepare the auditorium for his famous seminar, "Body Piercing, Barnyard Animals, and I." Already a restless crowd was...
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...mix it with a combination of two fingers of Lagavulin and a jigger of white phosphorous. "It's my own special concoction this one," chortled the Bald One. "I call it a...
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Originally posted by Tontoman:
That's weird. How did my cut text end up in Russellmz's post?
Because you blocked off your quote using <>. UBB uses those as identifiers for commands. Since it couldn't understand the command, it just showed the brackets. Or somefink.
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Ethan
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"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." -- Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
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Originally posted by Chupacabra:
... In response to this travesty against film history, John Wayne rose out of his grave, Colt Peacemakers cocked and ready, and spoke in a sepulcheral voice...
"Who wants to spank my pert little heinie? Come on you square-headed lame excuse for a walking bad haircut, you know you want to. Why I ought to...
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Originally posted by Der Unbekannte Jäger:
...and decided to load him into the nahverteidigungswaffe allowing for...
"Windage, elevation of the deck and quality of powder, my dear Maturin," bellowed Commodore Jack "Lucky Randy Bilious Jack" Aubrey, oblivious that Stephen was, in fact, standing right next to him in the lee of the aftspankingfotheringay.
"Lah, sir, and 'tis a fine thing I'm sure," replied his saturnine companion, "though not a patch on the abdominal reticules of this nondescript beetle which I have just discovered while performing a cranial resection on the Under Master's Gunner's Bosun's Assistant Chief Pantagruel.
Jack adjusted the chelenk of his second-best hat. "The Devil take you for a lubber, sir. Have you not seen...
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Originally posted by Big Time Software:
3. Mouseholing, as described above.
So how does CM stack up? Pretty well I think. They can do all but #3, which is currently not possible with our abstract building system. We intend on fixing this for CM2.
Woohoo! Now I can do my victory dance. But tell me, Steve, will those mouseholes be large enough for Gerbiljäger?
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Ethan
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"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." -- Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
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Originally posted by Hiram Sedai:
...remote and saw what what on the telly. "BBC again today, Dear?", she asked her roomate. "Sod off!" Andreas answered as he applied some more makeup to his Japanese looking face and opened up a tube of...
Foster's. "Oi, not that dingo's piddle again!", yelled the massed throng of foam-mouthed Australians.
Suddenly, a voice off-screen yelled, at a volume usually achieved only by certain aunts, "SHEEP!". That was when all...
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CM 2: War and ... well, er, more war.
CM 2: How do you like them onion domes?
CM 2: T-34 for two.
(That's quite enough silly CM2 titles - ed.)
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I tried to ambush a WIFE Ausf36C (then in "sleep mode") with my 75L/48 yet failed to achieve penetration despite several attempts from both frontal and flank positions. This has never happened to me before! BTS please fix or do somefink!
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Ethan
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"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." -- Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
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Originally posted by Kitty:
I want kids now! =( {looking around, spies Stuka, grabs his hand} Come on, Stuka! I need your help with this!!
Kitty, I think Stuka's gonna be busy for a while, so you might want to try elsewhere.
For a quick and easy solution, take one of mine. My youngest is about to start the "Terrible Twos"; you're more than welcome to her
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Ethan
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"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." -- Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
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I see a real grog tourism opportunity here. All you re-enactors out there better brush up on your Spanish and Portuguese. Of course, I'm sure that in more than a few of these places you can get by with German just fine
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Ethan
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"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." -- Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
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Originally posted by Germanboy:
Having lunched with someone who purported to be Ethan at the time, about 3/4 of a year ago in London, I can attest that he would need pretty strong hallucinogens to even be able to dream of looking like good ol' Nick. Sorry Ethan, you may have thought your secret was safe with me - it was not.
Lies and distortions! Can anybody else corroborate this outlandish calumny? Does Germanboy have any probative evidence? I thought not.
I shall contact jd and have him afflict you with a thousand legalisms for this, see if I don't!
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Ethan
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"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." -- Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
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Originally posted by Germanboy:
Nihontekika. Bakayaroo - ima no nihonjinga minasan modaan desu. Amerikagoga ii desu. Baasudai to itte. Demo, orega tanjoobiwo wasureta. Sumimasen.
Saa, modanboi ga minna furusato no fuzoku o wasurechatta, ze. Mukashikatagi wa shinde aru no de sabishii. Tabun, seppuku o suru hoo ga ii, ka? Chigai! Lorak no hakai ichiban da zo!
Ome ga boku no tanjoobi o wasurete, burei da! Nureta udon ni muchiuchiroo!
Hakko Ichiu
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