Moronic Max

Why must you toy with our emotions like that, you cruel, cruel man.

...and then, someone will figure out how to jam the signals, and people will realize that remote piloting maybe isn't the way of the future after all.

Well, hell, in that case, don't bother funding your own insurgency; just invade, leave, wait a year, invade again, leave, wait two years, invade again, leave, wait three years, invade again, leave, and so on.

Something I've been curious about for a while: can MOAB realistically be used in an area where there're anything like significant AA threats? I may be way off base, but C-130s don't strike me as the safest plane to use in hazardous airspace.

Heh. Now there's a thought; use it to test self-control. Let's add in tube fired tactical nukes for that same purpose.

Certainly. How long would it take to cook off an AFV's ammo? 'course, an ATGM would be infinitely more reliable and effective, so barring revolutionary advances in point-defense for AFVs, I don't suppose there's any compelling reason to bother exploring that avenue.

Maybe. Or maybe it's an oversight; something left in the code from BO, before things like covered arcs were around, when if you didn't issue a hide or ambush order, your guys would shoot at everything they saw. It's possible nobody thought to remove the relevent code (or thought they had removed it). Just a guess.

CM at Toys R Us would be wonderful, provided CM wasn't dumbed down to make it there. Hell, don't you want the average eight year old to play wargames?

That's an interesting point about cooking off the ammo in the AKs. I wonder how long it takes to heat metal to the point where ammo explosions would be a problem. I further wonder whether such heating might ever have a role in a more conventional conflict. Anyone have any links to reading about the potential employment of zee microwave weapons?

I wonder how long making that nine foot high, twelve mile long dirt berm took. I was a bit confused by parts of the article, though. How many of the civilians in the city left for the camp? A quarter? Half? More? How long did they stay there? Are they still there? EDIT: I forgot to thank you for the link, Juan. It's nice to see something that isn't doom and gloom every so often. [ February 16, 2006, 06:51 PM: Message edited by: Moronic Max ]

Well, we do with this module. How about a "Steve's Ideal American Army vs. [West Bumm-fuqq]" module in the future? Or, failing that, a battletech and/or heavy gear mod : p Okay, okay. Topic. Right. As far as the blast (overpressure?) from the gun causing bodily harm to nearby folks...how close is too close?

Thanks for the answer, Civ

Does the government pay for that, or does the person trying to get the clearance have to pony up?

This is probably a really dumb question, but I think my handle means I can get away with asking dumb questions. Anyway, are those cables part of the production model stryker (as opposed to being there for tests), and if so, are they vulnerable to small arms fire?

*shrug* given your comments in another thread about the difficulty of deprogramming yourself and the consequences thereof, it seemed a reasonable assumption. My mistake.

Why do you people argue with J. Kettler? He's clearly not taking his meds. I'm not being sarcastic or insulting; I'm being bluntly honest. It's not that he has a primitive brain, it's not that he's an idiot, it's that he's unwell. Sick, if you prefer. Amusing though it can be, it's also a stark reminder to take my own mental health seriously.

Force on force sounds vaguely like a porn video about a group of female cops.

Dorosh, get a(nother?) woman. Or at least a ticket to Brokeback Mountain.

Actually, I'm the bastard love child of Michael Moore and Anne Coulter. How did you guess? As for the People's Jihad... B, B, A, B, B

So the PRC is an arm of the worldwide Islamic Jihad? Ah. Thank you for pointing that out; I had overlooked that facet of the War on Terror. I'm confused. Are you saying that if it weren't for Brokeback Mountain radical Islam wouldn't be trying to kill us?

Terrain is an abstraction; there're enough trees and branches and leaves in the way to block LOS, even if you can't see them on the map.

Uh huh. In that spirit... Bush is appeasing the terrorists! He says they hate us for our freedom, so what does he do? He tortures, "detains" indefinitely, spies on Americans illegally--in a word, appeases the terrorists by reducing freedom! If you support Bush you support appeasement! On topic, I wouldn't be surprised if China and America continued trading even through a conflict over Taiwan, as ending trade would be tantamount to economic suicide for both nations. Yes, it'd hurt China more, but not that that much more. Of course, we all know how rational politicians are, so I wouldn't be surprised if trade was ended, either.

Well, he got real drunk, see. He had his beer goggles on. So he goes home with a likely looking lady, only when he wakes up in the morning it turns out she's a he and he has a mitocardial infarction.

Absolutely. Unfortunately, every big-name engine (Source, Doom 3, Unreal 3, whatever the Oblivion engine is called, or even, going back, Max Payne) that comes down the pipe gets praised as being photorealistic and oh-so-lifelike--and they never are. Hence my irritation with them. I'd be perfectly content if graphics had never advanced past the stage they were at in 2000, but I realize in a very slim minority there.

To me it's more a matter that current and next-gen (and probably next-next-next-next-gen) engines don't have photorealism. The more advanced graphics get, the less impressed with them I am. Yeah, we've got pixel shaders, vertex shaders, trilinear filtering, 32 bit color, and 1600x1200 resolution, but the stuff just don't look real. All the more advanced graphics do is emphasize the difference between real (just glance away from the screen for half a second and see the difference) and game. Not that having a clear demarcation between fantasy and reality is a bad thing, mind. If the companies are going to talk about photorealism, I'm not going to be impressed until they actually deliver.