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  1. One last post before I voluntarily depart the CM forums. OUT IN A BALL OF FIRE 1. "Piss in the cornflakes" is an expression I know to mean some type of accidental angering of someone. I respect Steve and if he wants me banned or whatever because of the above posts, ok, I accept it. I have tried to be a contributing member of this community. I admit I have an odd sense of humor and maybe I am risque. Steve didn't like my years ago Kate Upton scantily clad post. OK. I got the schwimmwagen and I thank whoever made that happen. 2. "SAME GAME WITH A DIFFERENT NAME" I have made a post long ago and didn't get banned for saying it. I have no idea where it is. BASICALLY, THE GAMES ARE ALL THE SAME. I will only comment on the WW2 titles. A building is an Italian restaurant with some decor, menu, music and wait persons. Snap your fingers and it is Chinese restaurant. Snap again...it is Somali restaurant. Buy your game. Click on the icon and the game fires up to show you the splashscreen, hear the intro music, pick the forces, pick a scenario, hear the languages, see the uniforms, see the vehicles, the ranks, branches, portraits, fight the battle, see the results. Deep down it is all the same. I think Italians cannot break into teams. How different are the other sides? Team A, B and C. One game has the spreadsheet info and 3D model for a certain vehicle. Different weapon physics. Is it available in another game? Maybe. Maybe not. Copy and paste. 3. "FAKE LOBSTER" I have done my 2 cents to change the game to amuse myself. Some are rough apples to apples. Some are not too shabby. I have only so much ability to stick my hand into the game. Me by myself or with a few other kind friends in a few weekends or months have done stuff that these pros couldn't seem to get to. Steve said without specifically mentioning me that he was glad that modders took the game where he wouldn't. Something like that. I feel that the CMX2 engine could have been milked better to BFC's profit venturing into other A versus B clones of the main game. Now it is getting aged and old I guess. This was when they went off to various nations to sell CM as a military training project I THINK. No longer any of my worry. 4. "CODING" I already said I only took Basic in college in 1982. Got a B? I salute Charles and have no clue what his super-brain does. I cannot ever criticize him but only wondered as an outsider if he was making the big bucks elsewhere. What have we had as dramatic changes since CMBN? I now understand that it takes him years to make these changes. Engine upgrades. OK. 5. "STEVE SAID HE DOESN'T PLAY THE GAME ANYMORE" I think that was where I realized it was not a love of the game for him. He is a business man. Do what you gotta do. In his early 60's. Today mention quitting? Go ahead and quit. Attack me because I said go ahead and quit if that is best. Oh my gosh. 6. "GREAT GUYS I HAVE MET" I am blessed to have worked or rubbed elbows with so many awesome folks. Inside BFC I have had so much gracious help from Ben Parks. Elvis is an awesome guy. I have tried to be a good helpful forumite and vector folks toward the helpdesk tickets. Hovering in the forums to answer questions if I could. Other awesome forumites are too numerous to mention. I have been a tiny battery among the dynamos. Thanks for the help, support and all that. Best wishes to everybody!
  2. Sorry to piss in your cornflakes. If you're this pissed now, you're gonna love my Subway joke. Maybe I will go away and work on my dining room a few months.
  3. NOT AT ALL! I did not say that at all. I said it was my perception (in italics). OK, you brought it up. Don't quit. If you say so.
  4. He brought up quitting. I agreed and ultimately it is his call. I honestly see more passion at my local Subway. BFC SUBWAY I would like the Italian herb footlong with turkey and monterey jack. Toasted please. It will be a while. Can I maybe add some radicchio? Listen buddy, we've been making sandwiches a long time. No radicchio! Can I have a cookie while I wait? I can do that - but I will charge you for the cookie, your sandwich and WHAT I COULD HAVE SOLD while I just helped you. Any updates on my sub? <2 hours later, Charles is back and only he knows how to bake the bread...> <1 hour later> Here is your sandwich... I see a bug in it. We do fix the bugs! No, an actual bug, walking in the bread. We can quit and make more elsewhere! I love you guys. Thanks for the games and especially the "modability". I wish you the best! Go out on top while you can. Come back in 5 years for a revival maybe.
  5. Going forward I just want to pledge to everybody (especially the moderators) that this is just an apolitical thread and mod project. I have also deleted my modern version of the famous Texas "Come and Take It' flag. I have no signature anymore. I am scrounging the internet for 1948 vehicle images! Later I will post a B&W photo of an ALA (Arab Liberation Army) Otter Armored Car in a very interesting camo pattern with ALA insignia and vehicle numbers. It is in this linked article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Liberation_Army
  6. Iranian Destroyer. The Red Sea is always needing new scuba diving sites!
  7. @Suchy Well Tommy. Here it is as a raw form as a folder for the CMRT BEF1940 mod. It is "fake lobster" the best I can make it. The scenario has no AI plan. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/snv799wfi1ucaw9qrtlcc/h?rlkey=vjwvourec881ol5pzy51ib44m&dl=0
  8. Hi Tommy. I will try and get it out this next week or so.
  9. I had always thought you guys had other jobs and BFC was just a side hustle due to my perception of a slow production rate. Especially Charles. I had asked you respectfully (in my patented corny humor way) if he was just part-time for BFC and was a mastermind programmer making his big bucks elsewhere. I had thought (always dangerous) he is the bottleneck because he can barely spare you a few man-hours every weekend? You did answer me and said "No, he is full-time for BFC about 60 hours per week". I gotta find those posts. Can you make money off of advertising in the BFC forums? I think you should quit. Fold it up and move on. Get the residuals or whatever. Go get the bucks you deserve elsewhere. It is Freudian. You brought it up.
  10. Steve should try something different this year and do the briefing like Jeopardy. "This down under module should be released by June 6, 2024..." Ding ding ding ding Uhhh...what is Ithikial's CMBN Battle Pack? Edit: I am thinking of the fan made. cmrt battle pack.
  11. I have just started to read "GENESIS 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War" by Dan Kurzman. 830 pages with footnotes and index. I bought it to help me make my CMFI PALESTINE 1948 mod. He said he interviewed lots of Arab participants (of 1948) right before the 1967 war. I hope it has a fair and balanced perspective. I tend to skip ahead and then back so I already read a sad part where the Jews had 2 kidnapped British sergeants. Gruesome stuff. I can see maybe why the British didn't want these old Haganah guys back in the UK.
  12. Yes indeed. I have also been fortunate to travel around. 52 countries visited so far. I hope to do a few more before I hang it up. I enjoyed a night in the Netherlands. I think Arnhem. I have naivety to think or hope that Gaza strip could have become a Singapore. {According to the internet the population and area of Singapore is about double that of Gaza. So, the population density is nominally the same.} Maybe it will eventually. ~~~~~~~ I now recall an old Star Trek episode. (TOS, the original series baby!) It was the one where the 2 warring planets had a system where they had to eliminate people by computer simulation. A 500-year long war. "A Taste of Armageddon"
  13. I pulled into Djibouti for fuel one time. Uh, way back after the Gulf War. Woulda been 1991. My son deployed there back a few years ago. Camp Lemonnier. Approx 70 miles from the straits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Lemonnier Djibouti is strategically located by the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which separates the Gulf of Aden from the Red Sea and controls the approaches to the Suez Canal. As a result, the country hosts many other foreign military bases, including a Chinese naval base, a French airbase, an Italian Support Base and a Japanese base. Unlike French troops, who are allowed to enter Djibouti city and interact with the locals, US troops may only leave Camp Lemonnier by special permission, and most of Djibouti City is off limits. These Djiboutians(?) are really smart. Lease a base to everybody! $$$ Maybe just get the Houthis over there and settle it all with a softball game? The Chinese too while we are at it?
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