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You know what they don't tell you about Syria? Scheming nest of vipers, that's what. No, wait, everyone knows that. What they don't tell you is that the Syrians are the Romans. Phillipus--Phillip the Arab--Syrian. They're wops (Like me!) and they've always been happy to fiddle to the tune of whoever is in power. Syria doesn't have a hex, it is the hex. Arab defeat in every modern war has always rested firmly on Syria's shoulders. The failure of the Baathist movement? Syria. That bad egg roll you ate in 1987? Syria. Syria is the Strong Bad of the Islamic World. Lebanon is the Strong Sad of the Arab World, but that's another story.

Well, now, warden, isn't that a pretty piece of work? Yup, been a long-time coming, been a long-time living here in this box, thinking about all you fine folks living a good life in the sun with all your fancy drinks and mini-skirts. Yup, well, I hope you don't mind me saying, but the more I think about all you happy folks with all your happy days, up there in the sun, it makes me want to tell the governor just exactly where he can shove that pardon. You could do that for me, warden. And if he don't understand, then have him come down to solitary, and I'll make sure he gets it right.

Oh, yes, about that. I'm really and terribly sorry that the whole lot of you picked the wrong fork in the road so long ago. Poor, ugly bastards. If I still had my copy of CMBO or CMBB (Never did get the Eye-Talian one, was it any good?) I'd make sure to give you such a sound thrashing that you'd not well soon forget it. But, my wiki has been restored and needs much witticism about Kissinger's untoward influence on late 19th century Malaysia. You can come by and contribute, it's a much better cause than this rabble: http://dosomefink.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Or you can all perform a flying flop into the nearest thumbtacks-and-spent-rubbers patch. I'm okay, either way. I can't believe Lars has a boat and Abbott has a bus and Seanachai a wee, little dingy. I remember when the Peng Challenge was about more than the Department of Transportation...

Heresy? Wasn't I king? I remember being king. I'm just hanging out until dosomefink recoalesces completely. Bughunter is still a mess and I have no wiki with which to express myself creative-like.

He's right, you know.

Who cares what color the bridge is? And it's Nighttrain, you bastages. Criminy, even the dogs aren't as smart as they woulda been if the Split had gone the other way.

Nobody would be pouring chocolate syrup on babies if the Split had gone the other way...

Never woulda happened if it had been my thread that survived the Split. No sir, never woulda happened.

Wanker.

Zombies, ye fools, what about the zombies?!?!

If you're not killing zombies, you're not really living.

Have I ever mentioned how similar you are to Garrison Keillor? I mean, it's kinda scary.

How much would you pay for such a thing? A hundred dollars? A thousand dollars? Four-point-three trillion and change?

A what? A what?! Man, I don't know a long 75 from Nebelwerfer. If I were to appear in one of those barroom jokes with Dorosh, I assure you, the madcap hilarity that 'twould ensue would relate directly to my misunderstanding of his description of a Canadian trenching tool as some form of sexual offer. So the Pope, a grog and a rabbi walk into a bar...

I thought about getting into Joe Shawology once, back during the boom, but there were so few Joe Shaw heads around that the waiting list was eighteen miles long. Now look at me, I couldn't tell a late-imperial-epoch Joe Shaw from an early-metrosexual-epoch Joe Shaw. Please, Dalem, donate Joe Shaw's head, so that those kids get the chance I never had.

Yeah, all I've noticed is a Denny's, so far. But it's a nice little town, right down the street from Yosemite and far enough from Lost Angles and San Francesca so that the land prices aren't through the roof (Yet). And 29 years is a little early for UC Merced, they're just opening this year, I'll be a founding member (Wa ha, wa ha ha ha!!). It also means I get to play fast and loose with the ol' PhD. Technically it's socio-linguistics, but it's more an interdisciplinary study of the similarities between the evolution of early writing and modern computer coding. Which I think is damned cool. Because it is. No, really. Stop laughing, you sons of bitches.

Hey, is it just me or has everyone in CM-land grown incredibly, edibly pissed off? I mean, heck, I come through every once in a while to get my fix of WWII-ed-ness and now it seems like once-sane and happy people are throwing feces at one another. Oh, and as of August I shall be pursuing a PhD at beautiful, scenic Merced. Proceed to emote in the shade o' envy.

Easy thing to test, really, you just have to see which turns take 1 minute or less to process. I just hope BFC spends some quality time with environmental effects, especially during operations. Seeing the same battlefield change--through terrain deformation and weather effects--from a beautiful European hamlet into a blasted-out, muddy wreck with knocked-out tanks scattered around, would be spectacular. Plus it'd come in handy when they use the engine for WWI...

Easy thing to test, really, you just have to see which turns take 1 minute or less to process. I just hope BFC spends some quality time with environmental effects, especially during operations. Seeing the same battlefield change--through terrain deformation and weather effects--from a beautiful European hamlet into a blasted-out, muddy wreck with knocked-out tanks scattered around, would be spectacular. Plus it'd come in handy when they use the engine for WWI...

I dunno... I wouldn'ta done it.

It'd be cool if you had a mini-strategic pregame, so that you could set up a regiment/batallion, purchase and perform a couple pregame moves (Scouting, et cetera) and then CM determines the specific focus of the battle at a batallion/company level. Then you could have a certain amount of strategic level assets without interfering with CM's true focus.

It'd be cool if you had a mini-strategic pregame, so that you could set up a regiment/batallion, purchase and perform a couple pregame moves (Scouting, et cetera) and then CM determines the specific focus of the battle at a batallion/company level. Then you could have a certain amount of strategic level assets without interfering with CM's true focus.

Oh. Maybe that's why it doesn't seem very productive over there.

Full movie playback. With dramatic interludes for operations. And civilians. And entrance and exit animations for units getting into trucks, halftracks. And hit-specific graphics on tanks. That stick with the tank through an entire operation. That come back when a tank is knocked out and repaired. Turrets flying into the air from an exploding tank. Tanks flying into the air from a 16". Background chatter, that you can turn off, but that gives you a running, commander-level audio account of the turn. Multiplayer co-op campaigns.

Full movie playback. With dramatic interludes for operations. And civilians. And entrance and exit animations for units getting into trucks, halftracks. And hit-specific graphics on tanks. That stick with the tank through an entire operation. That come back when a tank is knocked out and repaired. Turrets flying into the air from an exploding tank. Tanks flying into the air from a 16". Background chatter, that you can turn off, but that gives you a running, commander-level audio account of the turn. Multiplayer co-op campaigns.