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wait so you guys arent a sock puppet?

Well... its 9:03 there. Im pretty sure Steve still lives in the EST

What their penis graffiti wasn't on point or something? ha sorry had to. Thanks for the answer man

not just you. i lurked from sept 99 till i registered to line up pbem opponents in may 2000. i was 15 and the world was my oyster. pre my own stupidity. pre 9/11 and all that. @Mord i dont know what nena looks like now but shes gorgeous circa 83..

@sburke of course youre completely right. its why I edited my post just now and have been pm.ing someone about the issue. I have zero love for the current US govt as is and frankly am freaked out by the general decisions and way things have gone since september 11. I was mediocre at best on Obama and I dont want to go much into US politics as it always causes problems with the authorities on the forum but I think Ive made my opinion of donald clear. I can pretty much legitamitely bash any nationality. as i said i see nations as entities and dont hold everyone from a country accountable.for those decisions. its the persons own actions and my own biases that form that. id be just as likely to freak out if I started hearing Germans defend invading Polans, talking about how awesome Hitler was, and how its ok they did ww2 because america invaded iraq or x y or z.

Im more worried about seeing this many posts by mord this often. you havent been fooling around with 99 balloons lately have you? the end is nigh!

no really dude I dont hate Russians. But I will call out behavior I see. Thats not to say I havent met tons of pr!cks from all countries especially America. Then again I live here. Ive had off the boat Russian friends. Online Russian friends. But I will call it how I see it its my opinion. And lately I cannot understand the seeming utter willingness large amounts of Russians I encounter online and read about to collectively set asixe their intelligence to wholeheartedly buy into the absolute nonsense Putin and Co. propagate and how the toxic mix of insane conapiracy theories, rewritimg history, lies, and nationalism has trickled down to where now I see outright pro Russia biases for anything Russian in Russian made video games and Russian posters will go to the greatest lengths to propagate inane or bizarre conspiracy theories.On Arrse. com the Brit Army rumor svc site theres plenty of great examples of this. Still I think the biggest blowhard leader in the world isnt Putin but Americas own 'dear leader'. It really saddens me. I used to be impressed by the general level of intelligence of Russians I encountered.Now it just seems so many are willing to turn off their brain and let sputnik choose. and stalin as the most popular russian leader ever? Imagine if Germans smugly proclaimed how awesme Hitler was and F You if you dont agree. Stalin wasnt evem Russian anyways! Anyways at the end of the day I dnt think any govt is on my team. Im on my team. I expect nothing else and have no fondness of authorities. wherever they may be. Some may know why because my past but Im not going to go into it. edit : Id like to add I will freely bash on any nation state as I see it different than its people who I see as individuals. I assumed Carl was Russian from his very first response to me about me being the 1st person he met to believe in Russian trolls or influence on the election. I didnt mean to offend anyone.. err well I didnt mean to apologize anyone simply bexause theyre russian, and apologize if I did of course.

you call this chaos? chaos on these boards IMO at its *finest* was when a VERY WELL KNOWN game developer involved in Close Combat started posting here than became am outright troll, got banned, and started makong fake accounts to keep trolling.It actually went on awhile and frankly I was like friggin 16 or 17 but I was EMBARRASSED. for the guy. It also took the last of the fun out of CC2 and 3. Then again CM really destroyed them for me but I still loved CC2s campaign and individual soldiers. Still imo the greatest change for x2 of all was representing each person on map, I could never go back to CMx1s abstraction.

Well frankly its done when its done has been BFCs policy since I remember reading Moon and someone else fighting a pbem beta of CMBO. How many times do they have to repeat themselves? Its ALWAYS been when its ready and its never changed. What I dont understand is where this extreme pessimism is coming from - people are acting like they contributed to a gofundme and dont have a product already or that BFC hasnt made about a dozen games now. These prophecies of bankruptcy doom and gloom or sock puppet companies.. it all seems to be realllllllly jumping to extreme conclusions. (nvm)

Of course Im sure Carl will never say oh I was wrong or anything. Going out on a limb but based on things he.s said and the auto jump to conspiracy theories he seems a Russian and on my humble experience Russia as a nation never admits to mistakes or outright lies, and unfortunately most Russians Ive encountered in the last 4 years ( wtf happened? ) are the same. Then again he wouldnt need to apologize because any post 'from steve' is clearly NATO agitprop on a sockpuppet wargame company to bash Russia. Or something. Sorry I just still cant believe the constant insanely stupid conspiracy theories online actually are about something in my life now - namely the idea steve and bfc are fake. lmao. Ive never met steve but all indications lead me to believe hes real and is really living in maine. a great example is a joke he made about the city i live in which is notorious for obnoxious @$$holes (ring a bell? ) and this is something that someone living outside new england would most likely not know. theres about a million other shreds of proof that steve et al are not sock puppets but yeah. im remembering why i left originally. i used to escape from my problems here and in CM. Now this forum often irritates me moreso. Ah well.. wish you guys the best ( you guys who i wish well know who you are )

Hear hear! Theres heresy about! The devil has taken hold of DerKommisar I fear!

Thanks for the answer. thats interesting.. is that a chicken$hit issue or is there some reason i.e. " sleeves have flame retardent material etc"? In your experience was it the same for the Marines as well? Also and yes I know a comic book (though far cry than the likes of Sgt Rock) is a bad sourxe of info but the Terminal Lance book the White Donley about Max Uriartes ( and a marine grunt friend of mine who was in fallujah for all of phantom fury said it was the best book about iraq he ever read) time in country, he makes a few funny comments about African contractors hired to protect the base all carrying AKs. Was this common theaterwide? How responsible were the contractors really? Were they expected to really put up a pitched defense or were they more like a trip wire so American troops could mass to defend if needed? To me it seems more like a token force that would ve a speedbump and delay any insurgents enough that a QRF or air or arty or all could come in. Any thoughts or expetiences at all are welcome - I never served

So its also heavily enforced in combat AOs? i know it was a completely different army in fact not name but I think about all the pics from Nam of guys shirtless with just flak jackets because the heat which you.d think might be a problem in Iraq too?

have at it. by then theyll already have seen to ours. sharing is caring

well since we.re all sock puppets that are working with a secret organization thats coopted BFC and deceived the world about its true defunct state, and that I dont actually exist, and Steve and Charles havent been around in over 15 years - Id say sburke will be fine. The package will blow up in some poor saps face while burke and I clink margaritas on an undisclosed tropical coast. After we enjoy some massages from local women Ill go pour some fish food into Charles brain dish and we.ll all have a laugh about swindling everyone on a 10 ( or was it 5 ) dollar update.

This must be how like American civvies captured by the Norks ( or just Trump ) feels.. UTTERLY CONFUSED about every aspect of the conversation, disagreement, and responses.

nevermind the fact that your handle confuses me - and I havent even smoked yet today.

Ah. Well can you clarify more then? because we.re probably agreeing on more than we think

No as in read the rest of my post for reasons why. As it is the Oplot and AM are in game so whats your point? Though the Oplot is barely even around, and the amounts of BMP3 s and AMs is pretty tiny when you consider the US is fielding thousands of M1A2s, Bradleys, and hundreds of Strykers. Those are absolutely commonplace in the US military. So saying the US is overpowered when everything it gets in the game it gets a ton of versus IRL the Russians maybe having a couple bttn tactical groups of T90Ms and BMP3Ms. As far as mot talking about bugs or rarity... thats like saying I want to argue about say the US election but I refuse to discuss any aspect of the electoral college or popular vote. Those are hands off

@DerKommissar care to elaborateas to where the confusion lies?

ya fair to say aragorn.im going to landscape.

Bro I can literally prove ( use the search function you can too) half of my life through these boards. You have sporadic posts in the early 2ks when I was 115 or 16, started at 14.I even mention my age. you have the posts when I was rlly messing my life up. The posts after. FFS look at my profile. Who the hell in America at least still uses AIM and ICQ? Plenty of other old accounts around who can back me up. Steve Charles Moon et al have beem around since 99. The beta testers have changed and the company expanded somewhat. I dont work for BFC in any form whatsoever but its right from Steves mouth (or fingers on a keyvoard) that charles still does almost all programming. I also seem to recall that CMx1 was NOT the first WeGo game. I bet it was the best though..at least in its day.

Well.. not CNN.. and I dont know if that won him the election alone... but Russian bots? Yeah def believe that. MH17? Russians definitely did that. Donbass? Russians definitely involved and lying about it. So basically whatever you were assuming about me in your head is probably rught you just got the backround wrong. It has come to my attention however that Steve and BFC were Russian trolls going back to 56.6k modems in 99 ( coincidence Putin came to power 4 months after BO went gold? ha!) We.ve all been had. p.p.s. most of us americans dont think russians are satanists. we just think its odd so many russians luuurve their soft core gay Putin porn but are *all about* making homosexuality illegal. Almost like someones trying to prove something or fight.some inner nagging demon. Oh and my cousins brothers friend was a SEAL operator in the Ukraine who loved nailing ethnic Russian babies to trees in crucifix positions. point to sputnik n00z.

Which long absence? What messages over and over again? What did you guys infiltrate Tinder as well? Jeez you guys coulda just sent a response frm BarelylegalXoXo<3 or one of the other accounts saying " haha trolled loser!" instead of laughing at my akward attempts at variations of roses are red, violets are blue, poems. Hmph.

nice with a T72 as well