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  1. 1 hour ago, RPM said:

    I got Lasik about 10 years ago for $2500. I would have easily spent more than that on a new glasses in that time. 

    Same here, but I've gotten to the point where I'm going to need it again.  I've had to start wearing contacts/glasses again to see clearly, although it isn't nearly as bad as it was before lasik (20/200 lol).  

  2. 5 hours ago, ernest_t_bass said:

    CSB - I had a glazed donut burger tonight.  Marijuana not involved.  Gouda, apples, pork belly, 6oz burger, glazed donut bun.  Finominal

    I need to have a smoke to make myself feel healthier after just reading this. 

  3. 2 hours ago, Macanudo said:

    There should always be ships of the line in the USN named Wasp, Hornet, Enterprise, Yorktown, Lexington, Saratoga and Ranger.  And I might even include Essex, Intrepid, Midway, Constellation and Bonhomme Richard in there.  Fuck naming them after Presidents. 

    One of the new carriers is going to be named Enterprise.  Wasp, Essex, Bonhomme Richard, and Hornet are amphibs.  Those seem to mostly get the cool names these days.

    Yorktown, Ranger, Lexington, Saratoga, Midway, Constellation were all decommissioned in like the 90s or 2000s.  They'll probably be back.  America, the carrier, was decommissioned in the 90s, and is now an amphib (and class, should have been the name for what is the Ford class but oh well).  The Intrepid name hasn't been used for a while though, which is unfortunate.

     

     

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  4. 3 hours ago, Parliament said:

    I know the F35 has external hardpoints, but didn't know the F22 did. 

    There are 4x of them, although I've only seen them with fuel tanks and/or missiles on them.  TBH, I should have said "theoretically" up above, because I'm not 100% sure they've ever actually bothered to implement or test the capability to drop bombs from the externals.  I do know they've dropped live bombs from the internal bays though.  

    E: Now with markings!  https://theaviationist.com/2016/05/16/f-22-raptor-stealth-fighter-sports-low-visibility-bomb-markings/ 

     

     

  5. 11 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

    I had to leave so I couldn’t watch the rest of the game, but I think the aaf only does reviews during coach challenges

    Yeah, Singletary challenged it.  The announcers wouldn't stfu though, and they only piped the booth audio in at the very end of the review when the dude up there was talking about not being able to see it and it stands.  

    E:  Speaking of which, the ref seemed familiar.  Not Big 12, I don't think, but maybe Pac 12?

  6. 28 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

    The NFL influence is slinking in.  A questionable critical call, suddenly we don't get to see and hear the replay ref making his decision, who weasels out and just sticks with the call on the field, and did we even get one replay ourselves during the whole time?   

     

    You could hear them talking about how they couldn't see the ball.

  7. 1 hour ago, Parliament said:

    As an air-superior fighter the F22 outmatches the F15 (including the X) by every measure. But it can't do all the other roles modern fighter jets can do. It wasn't intended to.

    With the exception of its ungodly cost and those oxygen problems at the start, I think the F22 has been pretty good?

    I think about the only thing it doesn't do quite as well is external load capabilities.   They can hang bombs on the wings if they aren't worried about being stealthy, but not quite as much (and also why when you have F-15Es, F-16s, F-35s, etc to do that for you anyway). 

    Did they ever say how may F-22s were trashed by that hurricane?  I'm assuming that one would basically have to be broken down to atoms before they completely write it off given the small number of them, but there are/were also probably several that we not flyable for a while.

  8. 40 minutes ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    Ah, ok. For some reason I was thinking 12 teams. But yeah, 8 teams makes more sense, especially with an inaugural season. I can't imagine this won't do well enough to allow for expansion. If the rest of the season goes like this game, this could really take off. 

    They're going to be directly competing with the XFL next season, but this one seems to kind of embrace the idea of being a D league for the NFL, while the XFL supposedly doesn't want to have anything to do with that.  I feel like working with, instead of competing against, the gigantic piles of cash and power (football wise) known as the NFL is probably the better way to go, but then again I'm just a random dude.

     

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