Moronic Max
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He's practicing for his upcoming congressional run.Originally posted by Sergei:I think Boomy offers us a great lesson on how to go on about internet discussions: when you say something silly and are proven to have done so, never admit that you were wrong. That would show weakness! Rather, attack the French. That always confuses people from seeing your idiocy.
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Presumably he meant 'they shot the crap out of the enemy infantry, so the enemy infantry didn't shoot the crap out of my infantry'.
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He meant the rest of the world likes Putin as much as they like Bush--not a lot.
But Russians like Putin a lot.
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On nationalism, perhaps.
Most potent drug in the world, don'cha know.
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I'm pretty confident Steve's stated, on multiple occasions, that they won't do a Fulda Gap title because the market isn't there.I've often wondered why BFC has been so visibly opposed to the idea of a 1970-80's 'Fulda Gap' title. -
Who says they'd be left wing?
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F: waiting to upgrade my computer, first.
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I'm in LA County, and I'd be interested. Might be able to con a buddy into going as well, but probably not.
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Even if each and every Syrian plane takes one American plane down with it, there still won't be any Syrian planes left when the invasion kicks off.
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To hammer home what Steve's saying here, the team Irrational has making BioShock had two programmers spend a whole year doing nothing but water effects.Another reason why water wasn't included, in addition to the "if we don't have bridges, let's not have water" thinking is the need for special animation of terrain in order to give the effect of water. It is something that people have come to expect. So to do this right we have to also introduce code to animate terrain in a special way that currently doesn't exist in the game.Combine that with the 3D modeling stuff that we'd have to do to get the bridges to mesh with surrounding terrain, and it really is a huge amount of work that we felt was not worth holding up the game for. Charles' conservative estimate was 1 month just for bridges. Based on CMBO's teething problems, I think that sounds about right.
The mind boggles.
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I'm in the 'in BFC wants to simulate it, I want to play it' camp.
But maybe that's just my fanboy heart shining through.
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Wait, you couldn't get Far Cry to run on that? I had it running a 2.8ghz Celeron with a piss-poor intel integrated GPU.
I mean, okay, the grass wasn't rendered. At all. And large chunks of the ground weren't textured. But it still ran.
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Wow, that worked really well. I wonder if a thread saying "jesus, I want CM:SF NOW!" would have a similar motivating effect. Hmm.
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Just wait 'til Cyrsis comes out. Then you'll see jerky. I think the screenshots alone cause my GPU to have aneurisms.
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It has to be going fast enough not to stall immediately, to begin with. Fine if it's already cruising along at 300 mph with the nacelles horizontal. Less fine if the nacelles have a 30 degree tilt and it's only going 40 mph when someone puts a few .50 rounds into an engine.Why couldn't the Osprey glide in a total power loss?And I'm guessing it's most likely to take small arms fire when it's transitioning.
SAMs, of course...
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John, don't take this the wrong way, but your support is often the kiss of death.I posted the link because it seemed pertinent to Moronic Max's argument -
Yeah, since US meddling in Latin America goes back to 1898, I don't think we can bring out the commie canard to explain it.
Much as I'm reluctant to mention anything Kettler has, Smedley Butler's assertion that he was nothing more than a racketeer for American corporations has entirely too much truth to it:
Now, I suppose the motivation for American intervention may have changed post-WWII, but the evidence indicates otherwise.I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. -
Although his last post did have some decent points, to be fair.
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Northern Ireland, anyone?That kind of crap happened along time ago and stopped along time ago as far as Christianity is concerned. -
Ah, I should make it clear that I am not, in fact, serving; I was thanking those who are for their service.Originally posted by civdiv:Max, and everyone else serving, you are in our prayers. Drive on, draw fire, and DUCK!!
civdiv
My fault for not articulating that clearly.
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Splinty, M1A1, civdiv, Sixxxkiller, everyone I'm missing:
Thank you.
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Granted, it could just be a publicity ploy. But they talk about 'encouraging' stuff like veil wearing while simultaneously saying that no one should be 'forced' to wear it.How do you reconcile Sharia law AND democracy? The latter is just a publicity ploy. Given, I agree with many of its complaints (The previously mentioned dictatorships), but they are just another collection of Islamic nutjobs.And then there's what the ISG advisor said (don't have the article handy, and it's not online; I'll post a name in a day or two); what they'd like to do and what they actually can do are two separate things. The Egyptian populace wouldn't stand for strict Sharia.
I'll grant upfront that your knowledge is likely more extensive than mine, so if one of us is wrong, well, it's probably me.
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I don't agree.I agree more needs to be done in regards to our foreign policy, but only so much can be done.
They--at least the group in Egypt--have renounced violence, and AFAIK have stuck to that. So, frankly, even if they do hate all things western--which I'm only willing to concede for the sake of argument--it doesn't matter. They're not our problem.But making nice with the Muslim Brotherhood, are you insane? They hate all things western and what would that do to our relationship with Mubarak?And, given that every observer I'm aware of holds that if there were free and open elections in Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood would win a pluarity, we need to take them seriously, and engage with them.
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Meh. If we really wanted to take on militant Islam, we'd be making nice with groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. We'd be desperately trying to encourage 'reform' groups in places like Saudi and Pakistan that aren't a bunch of googly-eyed lunatics. We'd be engaging in constructive dialogue with Iran. We'd be seriously pressuring Egypt and pals to ditch the corrupt, undemocratic processes.
But we don't, so we're not. Because dealing--really dealing--with militant Islam is going to require a major shift in American foreign policy. And, well, that ain't gonna happen anytime soon. Can you imagine what O'Reilly and Coulter and pals would be saying if we actually started talking to Iran?
Bring it down!
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I suppose you could get a joke thread on-rails, with enough effort, but who needsthat much work?