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MadBurgerMaker

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  1. Hey Parliament's article talks about the new F-15EX buy too.
  2. Yeah, we charged Afghanistan $18m for them two or three years ago (depends on when that decision was made too). They were also something like double the operational cost on that page at that time too. We're going to hit $25-30m a pop. They're WAY less capable than a "legacy" A-10, let alone a new one. E: WE bought the 20 Afghan ones for $427m, so like $23m each, then sold them for $18m/ea. Not a bad deal for the Afghans, especially since it also included training and probably support for them. A new A-10 would be hideously expensive.
  3. The A-29B. Last I saw the Air Force cancelled the program, but IIRC the Navy is looking at them for some different things like special operations air support. They run like $25-30m each though.
  4. Shit, my Chromebook uses a USB-C charger. I'm lazy and got a magnetic adapter (like the old Apple ones), because its better when you can just move the thing kinda close to the charger and it attaches itself, but without that those things are like $15. Buy all of them and place them strategically. E: This is an Asus. HP, naturally, probably has a snowflake proprietary charger because they're HP.
  5. Why don't you have chargers in every place you could possibly exist?
  6. Very first one was a Cowboys game in the 80s with Danny White at QB. I was like 5 or 6, an don't even remember who they were playing. I remember Danny White though, cause we ate at some place (in Burleson, I think? I want to say it was on that road where Spinks is, but I might be fucking that up since my dad lives out that way) that had his handprint on the wall on the way back.
  7. I'm convinced the 350i is the perfect plane. It's too bad the avionics are a little fucky at the moment in this game. Regardless, OnAir sent me down to South America for some mission stuff, and it can pretty much land and take off from anywhere. Made it in/out of MHDA just now on the way down, which consists of some Honduran farmer's backyard: 680ish feet of grass. Maneuver around the buildings and between the hills and you're golden. E: Also it has working windshield wipers, just FYI. This is one of those times where I start thinking about the choices I made, or didn't make, in life.
  8. This one has been around for a while I think, at least relatively speaking. They just added the capability of using the new sim's planes in it, and then I guess made sure the SimConnect thing was working properly with it. There are planes available from FSX, XP11, P3D, along with MSFS. Speaking of: I had been limiting the planes I was giving to my AI peons to hand-me-downs that I had been using, but changed that up. Sold off all the TBMs, the Bonanza, and one of the two Caravans. The AIs are rolling in a King Air 350i, a King Air 200B, and a Mitsubishi MU-2B-60. I can only jump in the first one. I'm thinking about just buying myself a Savage Cub and running around to local dirt strips slowly delivering stuff by pure VFR while the lackeys make the real money.
  9. Okay so play this drunk. It apparently helps with decision making. I've now got two TBMs, a Caravan, and a Bonanza with AI employees flying them around all over the country plus $450k in the bank.
  10. I've been using this with OnAir for the last couple days, and I'm liking it kindof a lot. It gives you more purpose vs just flying around and checking shit out. Currently on one last run in a DA-62 from Montana to California with 656lbs of cargo, then I'm buying my first TBM with the cash I've built up. You can hire AI employees (maybe real people too, I dunno) and stick them in planes to make runs and all that shit, set up your own FBO, etc. You don't even have to use a simulator to fly, and can instead play it like a management type game with all AI pilots if you want for whatever reason. It costs money (like $68 for two years), but I like it better than FSEconomy, which looks like its from the 90s. There's a trial so you can try it out if that interests you: https://www.onair.company/
  11. I mean it's kind of a bummer. We could always use an extra cupcake W.
  12. Wat. The reporter's name is Steve Patterson...
  13. Nice spot. I always have trouble with that CJ4 for some reason, and here you are plopping it down on a damn mountain like it's just another runway. Haha that shit was so ridicuWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH E: Oh hey. If someone lands on the field at DKR, there might be a bug where the textured turf is floating like...I dont know 20ft off the ground. I'm not sure if it's my current settings being a little fucky or what, but it looks weird. I flipped the Shock Ultra stopping on it:
  14. I had a graphics card mishap (it's overheating and seems fucked and I can't pull it apart to check it out due to fucking loctite on the tiny screws), so I've had to downclock it and turn everything down to med/high until the new card gets here on Monday. It still looks pretty great, so those of you with lower tier hardware might still consider giving this one a shot. Right now, for stability, my card is maxing out at 1375mhz with a Ryzen 3600X processor and 16gb of slow DDR4, and it's still hitting 30-35fps on med-high 1080p, which is fine for a flight sim. The graphics aren't something you'd rub one out over or whatever, but they're still pretty damn good. E: I do have Google Fiber which gives a good connection speed and can make a difference, so bear that in mind too. 1375mhz (with 8gb of vram) puts it in the old RX 570 range for clock speed, I think, just for comparison purposes. There are, of course, some other things about it that are better, but we're not exactly talking about peak Vega 64 performance here. E2: By "overheating" I mean I have to keep it below about 62-63 degrees in the Radeon software or it blackscreens and needs a reboot. https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/898055-black-screen-gpu-fans-at-full-speed-crash-fixed/ Basically any stress on it and it starts risking a crash. I also set it to 1000mV to keep that low too, but these seem to respond favorably to that anyway, and adjusted the fans to start ramping up at 50 and to all out by 60.
  15. I honestly don't know. I've heard it both ways: it's artificial and that it's just that some of them are so popular that they can't keep up. Regardless, they're doing something right.
  16. Works for the value continuing to go up though.
  17. Except Rolexes don't randomly fall apart. Fucking JKs. E: Yeah, I'm bitter. So what? Should have bought a couple of Rolexes instead of those two turd Jeeps and just walked everywhere.
  18. Is that Handjob Mountain on the left or right? I was thinking left, but wasn't sure, so
  19. I was buzzing around San Antonio after I took that DKR pic, and they've got stuff like high school fields (flew over Central Catholic and Alamo Stadium) and small colleges (Incarnate Word) modeled. There are also business signs that are readable on some buildings, like Alamo Cycleplex on 410 and a nearby Whataburger. It's the 3D photogrammetry stuff. In places where that doesn't exist, they still have at least some of the field markings, but the stadiums are flat, like the AI didn't know what to do with them.
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