I modded the hand gun in Marathon so that the rounds it fired resulted in grenade blast graphic on impact and caused 1/10th grenade type damage. And carried 200 rounds per clip. And fired full auto. I miss Marathon.
I carried a Boys Anti-Tank Rifle (chambered for.50 BMG) for a day, with 4 5-round mags. Talk about heavy as hell. Didn't make my shoulder feel too good, either.
Back in Desert Storm (ok, almost 20 years ago), we (Air Force Med-Evac unit) were issued M-16s with no forward assist. In the desert. The S&W.38 Sp. revolvers they issued us were more useful. Never underestimate the power of military stupidity. The entire med-evac concept was based on the idea of being embedded with an Army or Marine unit in a static firebase, like in Vietnam. Talk about planning for the last war. Fast moving desert war (1 deuce and 2 pick up trucks for 40 person unit with medical equipment?!!!) totally wasn't planned for, despite strategic planners and even SF writers in the 60's predicting our next major wars would be in Middle East.
I miss my Garand. Once we're finished building the house (yeah, right), I am so getting another one. The last one I had, a 1952 from CMP, was so sweet, even a duffer like me was able to keep things in the 10 ring, standing, at 200 yards (my shooting buddies were from the Marines and Rangers and had fun training up a zoomie).
Or folks, with a long path in front of them, may not feel all that compelled to finish things./had week off for Thanksgiving and didn't accomplish everything on my to-do list around the house
And as more people live longer, will be more difficult for folks to move far, far away from everyone else. Already pissed that someone built a house a quarter mile away from ours. Looks like everyone will need 40 acres, a mule, and a really tall fence.
Oh, sure, spread us out around the solar system but you get just one rogue neutron star wandering through and WHAMMO! Next thing you know you're having to go out scrabbling for a pail of air.
Yeah, the only computer game I play anymore (can't do first/third person 3d stuff due to headaches) is SMAC/X. I've been playing this game, over and over again, since 2001 or 2002. I guess I'm easily amused.
Yeah, Earth before stars; AINULINDALË and VALAQUENTA.
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad.
Then Ilúvatar said to them: 'Of the theme that I have declared to you, I will now that ye make in harmony together a Great Music. And since I have kindled you with the Flame Imperishable, ye shall show forth your powers in adorning this theme, each with his own thoughts and devices, if he will. But I win sit and hearken, and be glad that through you great beauty has been wakened into song.'
But when they were come into the Void, Ilúvatar said to them: 'Behold your Music!' And he showed to them a vision, giving to them sight where before was only hearing; arid they saw a new World made visible before them, and it was globed amid the Void, and it was sustained therein, but was not of it.
Ilúvatar called to them, and said: 'I know the desire of your minds that what ye have seen should verily be, not only in your thought, but even as ye yourselves are, and yet other. Therefore I say: Eä! Let these things Be! And I will send forth into the Void the Flame Imperishable, and it shall be at the heart of the World, and the World shall Be; and those of you that will may go down into it. And suddenly the Ainur saw afar off a light, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame; and they knew that this was no vision only, but that Ilúvatar had made a new thing: Eä, the World that Is.
There was need of light, [and] Aulë at the prayer of Yavanna wrought two mighty lamps for the lighting of the Middle-earth which he had built amid the encircling seas. Then Varda filled the lamps and Manwë hallowed them, and the Valar set them upon high pillars, more lofty far than are any mountains of the later days. One lamp they raised near to the north of Middle-earth, and it was named Illuin; and the other was raised in the south, and it was named Ormal; and the light of the Lamps of the Valar flowed out over the Earth, so that all was lit as it were in a changeless day.
But Melkor, trusting in the strength of Utumno and the might of his servants, came forth suddenly to war, and struck the first blow, ere the Valar were prepared; and he assailed the lights of Illuin and Ormal, and cast down their pillars and broke their lamps.
But as the ages drew on to the hour appointed by Ilúvatar for the coming of the Firstborn, Middle-earth lay in a twilight beneath the stars that Varda had wrought in the ages forgotten of her labours in Eä.
Then Varda went forth from the council, and she looked out from the height of Taniquetil, and beheld the darkness of Middle-earth beneath the innumerable stars, faint and far. Then she began a great labour, greatest of all the works of the Valar since their coming into Arda. She took the silver dews from the vats of Telperion, and therewith she made new stars and brighter against the coming of the Firstborn.
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So, wanna taze him?
I modded the hand gun in Marathon so that the rounds it fired resulted in grenade blast graphic on impact and caused 1/10th grenade type damage. And carried 200 rounds per clip. And fired full auto. I miss Marathon.
You'd have to make it a really small mortar round.
I carried a Boys Anti-Tank Rifle (chambered for .50 BMG) for a day, with 4 5-round mags. Talk about heavy as hell. Didn't make my shoulder feel too good, either.
Back in Desert Storm (ok, almost 20 years ago), we (Air Force Med-Evac unit) were issued M-16s with no forward assist. In the desert. The S&W .38 Sp. revolvers they issued us were more useful. Never underestimate the power of military stupidity. The entire med-evac concept was based on the idea of being embedded with an Army or Marine unit in a static firebase, like in Vietnam. Talk about planning for the last war. Fast moving desert war (1 deuce and 2 pick up trucks for 40 person unit with medical equipment?!!!) totally wasn't planned for, despite strategic planners and even SF writers in the 60's predicting our next major wars would be in Middle East.
I miss my Garand. Once we're finished building the house (yeah, right), I am so getting another one. The last one I had, a 1952 from CMP, was so sweet, even a duffer like me was able to keep things in the 10 ring, standing, at 200 yards (my shooting buddies were from the Marines and Rangers and had fun training up a zoomie).
I failed Ranting in college.
Good *and* short!
Just put that crystal in their palms...
Or folks, with a long path in front of them, may not feel all that compelled to finish things. /had week off for Thanksgiving and didn't accomplish everything on my to-do list around the house
And as more people live longer, will be more difficult for folks to move far, far away from everyone else. Already pissed that someone built a house a quarter mile away from ours. Looks like everyone will need 40 acres, a mule, and a really tall fence.
Not a head in a jar? I want to be on the same shelf with Uhuru!
For some reason, I hear Prof. Farnsworth's voice in my head.
Don't step on the turtles.
Tolkien was a bit better of a poet, though.
Oh, sure, spread us out around the solar system but you get just one rogue neutron star wandering through and WHAMMO! Next thing you know you're having to go out scrabbling for a pail of air.
I bet there's lots of land under the surface of the Moon.
Bender?
I hardly knew 'er!
At least he didn't offer to dance with you.
As a bonus, would you be able to buy Wizards of the Coast and screw with them?
Just picked up our Wii last month. D'oh! So trailing edge.
Yeah, the only computer game I play anymore (can't do first/third person 3d stuff due to headaches) is SMAC/X. I've been playing this game, over and over again, since 2001 or 2002. I guess I'm easily amused.
You can feel Nintendo is losing it's Mojo for anyone who has been playing the last 20+ years of gaming.
Wii was the first console I've bought since Atari 5200. Made a 9 year old really happy!
Wankel
Rotary
Engine
Ah, but is it of an unusually high temperature? Is it made out of anti-matter that can degrade a GP hull?
Yeah, Earth before stars; AINULINDALË and VALAQUENTA.
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad.
Then Ilúvatar said to them: 'Of the theme that I have declared to you, I will now that ye make in harmony together a Great Music. And since I have kindled you with the Flame Imperishable, ye shall show forth your powers in adorning this theme, each with his own thoughts and devices, if he will. But I win sit and hearken, and be glad that through you great beauty has been wakened into song.'
But when they were come into the Void, Ilúvatar said to them: 'Behold your Music!' And he showed to them a vision, giving to them sight where before was only hearing; arid they saw a new World made visible before them, and it was globed amid the Void, and it was sustained therein, but was not of it.
Ilúvatar called to them, and said: 'I know the desire of your minds that what ye have seen should verily be, not only in your thought, but even as ye yourselves are, and yet other. Therefore I say: Eä! Let these things Be! And I will send forth into the Void the Flame Imperishable, and it shall be at the heart of the World, and the World shall Be; and those of you that will may go down into it. And suddenly the Ainur saw afar off a light, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame; and they knew that this was no vision only, but that Ilúvatar had made a new thing: Eä, the World that Is.
There was need of light, [and] Aulë at the prayer of Yavanna wrought two mighty lamps for the lighting of the Middle-earth which he had built amid the encircling seas. Then Varda filled the lamps and Manwë hallowed them, and the Valar set them upon high pillars, more lofty far than are any mountains of the later days. One lamp they raised near to the north of Middle-earth, and it was named Illuin; and the other was raised in the south, and it was named Ormal; and the light of the Lamps of the Valar flowed out over the Earth, so that all was lit as it were in a changeless day.
But Melkor, trusting in the strength of Utumno and the might of his servants, came forth suddenly to war, and struck the first blow, ere the Valar were prepared; and he assailed the lights of Illuin and Ormal, and cast down their pillars and broke their lamps.
But as the ages drew on to the hour appointed by Ilúvatar for the coming of the Firstborn, Middle-earth lay in a twilight beneath the stars that Varda had wrought in the ages forgotten of her labours in Eä.
Then Varda went forth from the council, and she looked out from the height of Taniquetil, and beheld the darkness of Middle-earth beneath the innumerable stars, faint and far. Then she began a great labour, greatest of all the works of the Valar since their coming into Arda. She took the silver dews from the vats of Telperion, and therewith she made new stars and brighter against the coming of the Firstborn.