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  1. JFC Kettler could you just once not spread your conspiracy bull**** all over the place. Goddamn man.
  2. aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sorry had to get that out of my system. Regarding your comment on other thread about sending a care package. Folks are definitely still bonkers. I really don't get the TP thing. I've tried, but I just don't get it. Meanwhile I just went to my local market. Got some more milk, yogurt and a few more perishables. We are shopping a little differently to lower the trips to the grocery store. Only thing they were out of was eggs..... and toilet paper. WTF I don't get it. Grocery stores are still functioning and restocking. Your friend might just have to get in early. Thanked the person at checkout for working and them being open though this. Saw one Zombie, oh wait that was just one of my upper management. Neighbors are fine. We offer to pick up stuff for each other if going to store so folks don't have to make a trip for a single item. Now it is about time to open a bottle of wine. Alcohol kills germs right? Our routines are disrupted, but nobody is freaking out. Did see one interesting article, this is someone who gets their news feed from folks like Hannity and Limbaugh. Learned the hard way that those were not good sources unfortunately. https://news.yahoo.com/her-facebook-friends-asked-anyone-121508662.html
  3. Ha that’s why I have a wine fridge! I am good for quite a bit. ;+)
  4. I get worrying about the economy. I was hoping to retire in under 2 years. That is likely out the window. However your first priority and you are on target is your family’s health. Look out for your mother. i only wish I was close enough to mine to look out for her.
  5. Because sometimes, most people agree based on facts. And yes the Russian bots are active at spreading mis information. So it becomes even more critical to go to verifiable sources you can reasonably show have a basis for knowledge. In this case the medical community who are overwhelmingly giving the same advice bar a few exceptions who generally pop up on right wing conspiracy sites. If you tend towards bogus information sources you will get bogus information. That Fox has gone 180 on this in the space of a week should make anyone pause. Clearly they are a bad source of info.
  6. we don't yet know what is happening now as this disease has only been here since late November. The Epidemic of 1918 circled the globe 3x due to reinfection in a world nowhere near as connected as ours. They didn't even really know what a virus was and their world was already totally disrupted by the war. This won't be the same for sure. However to say we are over reacting (and I'm not referring to those idiots buying 100 rolls of toilet paper) by getting people to socially disconnect in order to give our health care system a chance to handle the influx of folks is just wrong. Think about it - old folks, pregnant women, cancer patients etc etc can't go near a hospital as they could easily die from this. Respirators are already in short supply with little ability to ramp up to meet demand if the number s rise too quickly. Yes there is a severe economic cost we are going to pay, no question. The real question though is are we willing to take action and take the economic hit in order to take care of folks, to make sure our healthcare system can manage this? You ready to risk your parents? Mine are in their 80s with preexisting respiratory issues. This WILL kill them. As to whether to believe that guy - what qualifies him to make that statement? He has no real expertise, he isn't known in any circles as an expert or viruses or epidemics. You can get 1% of scientists to say climate change isn't real...so you gonna say you aren't sure whether you believe that 1% versus the 99%? That dude just spun a bunch of crap with no real facts, WHY would you believe him? https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-11/1918-flu-epidemic-coronavirus
  7. Are you guys F'n kidding me? You really fall for this clap trap? Good lord. The panic and hoarding is a sad over reaction, but the ostrich head in the sand attitude is far worse and more dangerous. That guy basically spun a web of no real facts and you accepted at face value that yep , all is good this is normal? wtf?? Sorry, wrong. This is a serious highly infectious and much deadlier disease. What next? The pandemic of 1918 was just another cold season? At least you guys are consistent in where you go for source material. Won't be surprised at all to hear you watch Seam Hannity, except now he says he always took this seriously. In the public discussion of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in early 2020, Wodarg gained notoriety as an interviewee in video clips typically published on rightwing video channels. There he presented his thesis that SARS-CoV-2 was only one of many similar viruses which usually go undetected as part of an ordinary seasonal period of respiratory infections (casually called flu or cold), and that the worldwide activities to stop the pandemic were only a "hype" caused basically by selective perception of researchers.[4] He detailed his thesis in publications on his personal website.[5] His comments on the COVID 19 pandemic caused criticism from German scientists. Various German media examined Wodarg's claims for accuracy and concluded that his statements would largely contradict the verifiable facts, some statements were neither refutable nor verifiable, but on closer examination proved to be misleading.
  8. That is some logic. If everyone gets the virus at once, the hospitals get inundated, respirators are already in short supply - result LOTS more people die. Health care workers that would be needed to treat folks are sick. The mortality rate for Corona virus is well above that of the flu even by conservative estimates. In Italy the mortality rate for older folks is close to 19% (overall rate is estimated at around 8%) Flu rate is around .1%. Might want to spend a little more time reading up on real facts. The panic etc is in good part due to our leaders spreading false information and our response coming so late. The social distancing that is being encouraged has one major goal - to spread the infection rate over time to allow the health care community to manage the influx - that's it. It won't stop the virus, but it might keep our healthcare system from collapsing and therefore keep more people alive. The alternative and the result of what you are proposing is every country becomes Italy - the comparable death rate in the US if we go though that is about 18,000 people in the space of 6 weeks. (had to correct that, googled the wrong info)
  9. awesome. The game that never stops giving... and taking.
  10. And many of us buy a copy anyway... especially if we feel pretty lame about the amount of time we've been able to put in testing etc.... looking n the mirror here...
  11. If I could only own one CM game Shock Force would be it. Does that answer the question?
  12. Just a matter of timing. I actually have additional folders for maps I mess with a lot so yes you can create one, but the CMBN installer won’t put any there even though it had the first ones (Pete’s wonderful map for MG for example)
  13. My experience with a lot of time in urban maps in no way supports it is somehow easy to take out armor with infantry. While I can, it is far from assured and if that armor has any support at all I am toast. Keep in mind CM doesn’t reflect at all the constraints armor would face. Inability to turn turret due to barrel., incredibly reduced visibility etc. in my eyes quite the opposite. Armor is pretty unfettered in urban space compared to reality.
  14. actually not so sure it would have as the main thing Monty was SUPPOSED to be doing was freeing the Scheldt estuary and getting Antwerp going. Logistics win wars and Monty failed in that regard. The Allies in general got ahead of themselves. To be clear Monty was not unique, he had nothing to do with the disaster in the Huertgen which rather than a decision that was bad they tried to manage like MG. Nah Huertgen was a bull headedness of continuing to insist on pushing a bad idea for an extended period of time.
  15. thanks guys this is the original map used as an overlay https://www.dropbox.com/s/0lm27i8ijom7a4k/special editor overlay.bmp?dl=0
  16. Good lord, someone is having a bad hair day.
  17. yeah someone is having a bad day, maybe he should eat a candy bar or sumfink
  18. Also trying Flickr. Photobucket besides charging is just a pain.
  19. The tiles were used in lieu of roads because I hate zig zag roads....
  20. These were released with Steve's okay to one person who was working on a campaign a while back but never posted anywhere else by me. They were always intended to be part of the module.
  21. your game engine will be the same, you just won't have access to the content of R2V though (and don't quote me on this) there was discussion about being able to access in PBEM. Elvis could more appropriately answer that. Basically the way it works is you both download the exact same game. Their license however activates the R2V module material and yours does not.
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