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MadBurgerMaker

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  1. 2 hours ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

    We have that as part of missiles/bomb systems already. 

    Yeah. 

    And if you start talking about truly autonomous drones, that gets really expensive really fast (and ignoring the...moral issues, I guess you'd call it, with making killbots).  

  2. 15 hours ago, Parliament said:

    I stand corrected.  Thanks for the update.

    Might have been the F-14 you were thinking of.  IIRC they shredded a bunch of them (not all, some went to museums and shit) after they were retired so the Iranians would have a harder time finding parts.  Which they're just fabricating themselves, as far as I know.  They've still got some flying.

  3. Speaking of the shitbird, did they ever figure out if it was an Israeli F-35 that the Syrians were shooting at when they smoked that Russian plane (lol what a clusterfuck)?

    They've been using their brand new ones over there to bomb shit, so there was speculation, but I never saw anything other than "maybe."

  4. On 6/15/2018 at 11:15 AM, Parliament said:

    Tooling (and maybe blueprints?) were destroyed.  It makes sense I guess; destroy that stuff so the Chinese can't steal it.  So restarting would be a huge undertaking.  But sadly, it may be our best option.

    The F-22 tooling wasn't destroyed.  It was saved (along with procedures, etc) specifically so that we could restart the line if necessary....and then some of it was apparently lost or something, at least as of 2016.  https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/raptor-resurrected-what-will-it-take-restart-f-22-fighter-15862

  5. 7 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    ah got it.  i have a few friends in the naval service, 2 of them were on ships but 2 of them were stationed in FOBs for long periods of time.

    There are actually quite a few jobs where you can end up deployed somewhere that sucks and doesn't involve a ship, depending on the command you end up with, but really for most things odds are you're going to the fleet.

  6. 4 hours ago, gsoda3 said:


    What does this mean?

     

    That you're most likely going to be on a ship eating ship food and sleeping in a (possibly still warm) rack instead of god awful MREs and the ground or whatever.

     

    E:  Unless you're a seal, seabee, corpsman, or one of those rapid response security dudes that's unlucky enough to get deployed for operation bomb useless dirt, etc.  Then you get all the downsides of being in the Navy AND the Army/USMC!  Sweet!

  7. 1 hour ago, rpspeed said:

    I think the 2nd half might have been a tie between his love affair with  Brewer and mentioning how Baylor actually dominated the game except for the last 4 minutes of the 2nd qtr.

    Yeah that became a theme at some point.  "Except for when they got their fucking asses kicked, Baylor has dominated this game!"

  8. 9 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Or, ya know, it’s a terrible rule. 

    Yeah that's a dumb thing, although now that I know about it, I want that shit to go down again so both teams get ejected.  Or did only Florida get the teamwide PF?  Either way.  "

  9. 14 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    Can I just pick up this game and go, or is some backstory knowledge required or beneficial?  I played the first 2 a long time ago in my younger years, but pretty much quit gaming when I had kids.  Now I've been playing more single player games.  I've given up on online gaming because I suck and don't have the time or energy to get better.

    You can. The only one of these I really played before this one was Origins, which is actually set in a later time period. There's some sort of modern day storyline that goes along with it, so there might be more background there that tires in with the other games, but TBH I was finding that part to be annoying filler keeping me away from the good parts and wasn't paying much attention to it.

  10. This is a good game.  

    I'm not minmaxing armor and weapons, which is probably making things more difficult.  I tend to just go with what I think looks the coolest at the moment.  Spears are the shit, although there don't seem to be shields (for the player), which is kind of a bummer. 

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