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Felix

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  1. None of the things you mention reduced competitiveness in the sports you cite. In fact, I would suggest that all increased the competitive nature of their sports and allows more money for more players while the owners continued to benefit. LIV is entirely different. It's a worse product that limits player opportunity and reduces competition. Not to mention it's entire reason for existence isn't to grow the game, but to satisfy one mans ego and provide positive press for a bunch of unmitigated scum. I may have to eat some shit from Saudi Arabia because they have a product we all need, but I sure as shit don't have to support this and I'll stop watching golf before I watch this.
  2. I don't give a fuck who goes I won't watch it. Tradition means something in golf and while I don't blame anyone for taking the money, I'll be damned if I contribute to it in any way.
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    Top Gun 2

    F-14 was an interceptor. Very specific mission. Destroy enemy bombers before they could launch ASM at the carrier group. It was meant to fly really fucking fast in a straight line and then fire phoenix missiles at approaching bombers. Any air superiority role it had was secondary to that, but it was surprisingly effective for as big and heavy as it was.
  4. I loved it when they asked Pedro Guerrero about playing 3d base for the first time. He said in effect "Every time a batter comes up I think 'Don't hit it to me, and don't hit it to Sax.''
  5. I've started frying mine in lard. Much cleaner flavor IMO. I can't imagine it's any worse for me but if it is I'll take my chances. Cheaper than oil too.
  6. I have nothing to add except that I played softball against Dr. Brian Roberts years ago in various city leagues and that big, goofy, bucket hat wearing dude could hit the ball out of any of the Krieg fields any time he wanted to. You never know by looking at him, but dude could swing it.
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    The Boys

    Nothing is stopping Homelander but his own fucked up psychology. That's why all the other supes are so terrified of him.
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    The Boys

    He's got the video from the plane crash where Homelander lets them all die and talks shit to the passengers as the plane crashed from the damage he caused while trying to "save" them.
  9. Made a speed run up on Saturday to move daughter (no pics) back from UTD. Left at 6:30 am and got there in 3.5 with little issue. Return trip started at 11:30 am and took right at 4 hrs with most of the crap in Waco and Georgetown to RR. When I was heading South the Northbound side in Waco was entirely fucked.
  10. Saw it yesterday and laughed my ass off. A little longer than necessary but a really entertaining movie IMO.
  11. Ran a timed 40 thirty+ years ago in the Army. Just our CO trying to make PT more interesting and also cut down on all the shit talking about who was faster. I shocked myself in a good way by running 5.5. Hand timed so more likely 5.6. Now I'd have stop after 10 yards to hit my asthma inhaler and call an ambulance.
  12. It's been 30 years since I was there but there is a shitload of cool stuff to see there. It's a beautiful country and the people are pretty bad ass IMO. Start in Seoul and then work your way around from there. See the DMZ if you can. The War Museum in Seoul is very cool. There's a bad ass old castle near there that I can't remember the name of that's worth seeing too.
  13. If not even the mighty Colorado can supply the SW and California, we need to seriously rethink the water rights for those areas. Time to start building desalinization plants all up the west coast if you ask me. God only knows if this will get any better since it's been going on for so long and with climate change in process, I don't think anybody can predict what will happen with any certainty.
  14. Didn't see the video, but I had the distinct displeasure of seeing a guy get crushed between two M113s while we loaded on trains to move south of Seoul for Team Spirit when I was stationed in Korea. I heard yelling and turned just in time to see it. Haunts my dreams to this day, so I'll pass on that one.
  15. Dr. Otto was my allergist. He just retired. Great guy and I miss him.
  16. I believe we call that the "Moe".
  17. I'm know I'm wasting my time here, but what the hell. The reason I neg your bullshit posts (not all of your posts as you know) is because I used to believe the same bullshit you're spouting. So did Brisket, Twice, DDD, GOLL, etc that post on this site. When I really started to look at what was going on and stopped just listening to the crap being spewed by the AM radio crowd, and actually decided to take a real look at the records of both parties it was an eye opening experience. Seriously, if you can, take a genuine look at the actual governing records of both parties. Not what they say they are going to do, but what they actually do. It's out there, if you're willing to take an open minded look. If you can look past your need to be on the right side (a failing we all suffer from) to what is actually being done by each party when actually governing, and you still think the Democratic party is a threat to this country at all, much less more than the Republican party, then I have to think we have no hope. I don't post much because I don't have much time and I like to spend some time defending my thoughts if I can, and since I can't, I don't. I've been reading these sites since Hornfans and I've learned way more than I could have possible imagined from these assholes, left and right. At times the right has dominated the boards, at others the left, but in each case it was more center oriented than fringe. So when all I've seen from one side for the last 10 years is the same tired talking points that have little to no basis in the actual reality of what is going on, I had to question my own beliefs because they didn't match what my eyes were seeing. Then I had to get over my ego and realize that I was being lied to and that I was part of the problem. I often see posters here say "well we aren't going to change each others minds" but I've seen it happen quite a bit. Interestingly enough it always seems to change in one direction. Why, I wonder?
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    Facing Nolan

    My favorite Nolan story is still when he drilled his wife in the back when she signed up for a fantasy camp just to face him. I guess he'd already drilled her so many times, what's one more?
  19. Nothing lasts forever but until there is a new system (powered infantry armor) that is as tough, fast, and with the firepower of a tank, they will have their place. They may be easier to kill but there is still nothing else that fills that niche. IMO the biggest threat to armor that I see is guided artillery as Ukraine is using now. Currently you still need someone to paint the target but eventually it will be able to identify the target itself (safely enough to prevent blue on blue kills) and that's the end of the road. I've been out of the biz for a while so it wouldn't surprise me if we already have something like that in the works that is very near, if not already, in production.
  20. I'd say doctrine instead of tactics since one informs the other, but in essence I agree. If our Army had been conducting this operation the Ukrainian military would have been utterly destroyed as a fighting force within a week. We would have lost people and we'd have the same issues with an insurgency as anyone but the war would have been over for all intents an purposes within a very short period of time.
  21. I'm not sure I could actually get in one now, but that's nothing to do with "will". Seriously I'd get in a M1A2 operated by the US Army tomorrow and feel pretty good about my chances in any conflict.
  22. As for the "is armor obsolete" debate like most things it's complicated. As for pure combat power, nothing beats a MBT, but that also makes them the primary target for the enemy. The US combined arms strategy is designed to protect the mobile units as they attempt to break through and encircle the enemy, thus breaking supply lines and preventing enemy formations from being able to operate as fuel and ammunition runs out and they can be mopped up by follow on units. That hasn't change much and still has it's place. Seeing as how we developed these tactics based on blitzkrieg (as did the Soviets) it's well established doctrine. Tanks operated with infantry, artillery, and air support are extremely effective at controlling territory because of their mobility, firepower, and ability to communicate and coordinate. Now on the modern battlefield there are more challenges, but as was touched on above, what sets us apart is our ability to see and engage the enemy. It's very, very hard to hide from thermal imaging tech and ours is light years beyond anything Russia uses. All that being said, sure it's easier to kill individual tanks, but formations of tanks used correctly will dominate most battlefields. Exceptions being urban, forest/jungle, or mountainous. Full disclosure. I was a tanker.
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