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[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Tolstoi at age 20. I think he bears a passing resemblance to Andre. [:D]

Wow! Yer right! [X(][&:]

Well, you may not have the lofty birth, wit, writing ability or literary immortality of Uncle Leo, but you can always say you look like him. Should make a pretty interesting tidbit to throw around at parties. [:'(][:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
We decided to spend a few years someplace where it doesnt become generally unbearable to go outside for half the year. [:D]

Yeah. So long as the wildfires, heat and smog don't bother you. Also, be sure to remember your flak jacket if you want outside to be bearable, vato. [:'(]

I dont think anything in The Valley proper has ever suffered from wildfires, but I am a bit anxious about those hills the other side of the 118. It is a little too close for comfort.

[Onime No Kyo]

Andre Tolstoi UNP (hey, that sounds almost Russian!).

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
I'm finally wrapping up my Fallout 3 game.

[holds up hand sheepishly] I know absolutely nothing about Fallout 3. A worthwhile FPS for those slow WiTP:AE days?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Well, you may not have the lofty birth

Was he born in the Urals?

wit,

See above. [;)][:'(][8|]

writing ability

Oh sure. He's probably written more volume-wise. I'll give him that.

or literary immortality of Uncle Leo

You mean you haven't read my "Eustrogylides ignotus in Eastern Great Blue Herons" paper? [:(]

, but you can always say you look like him.

Meh. I'm still trying to say that I look like Brad Pitt. No one believes me there either.

Should make a pretty interesting tidbit to throw around at parties. [:'(][:D]

Ah yes! Cuz nuthin' says 'happening dude' like phenotypical comparatives to some long-dead verbose commie. [:'(]

ETA: Re-reading his bio, I was impressed with how anarchist / anti-government this guy was. Definitely not a commie!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
I dont think anything in The Valley proper has ever suffered from wildfires

Yeah. Not since...well, September. Before that? July.

http://lafd.blogspot.com/2012/07/model- ... -acre.html

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
I'm finally wrapping up my Fallout 3 game.

[holds up hand sheepishly] I know absolutely nothing about Fallout 3. A worthwhile FPS for those slow WiTP:AE days?

Absolutely. But its not really an FPS, per se. Its more of an RPG, in that most of the game revolves around leveling up your character and completing quests. There are no magic/dwarf/orc elements, which usually turn me off on most RPGs out there. There is an FPS component which allows you to blast away "from the hip" if that what you're into, but I think most of combat was intended to be done in VATS, which freezes time and allows you to use your character stats to kill rather than iron sights. Very, very fun game and an awesome universe. Quite a bit of toungue-in-cheek humor, black humor, and even some very sad scenes. The computer terminal entries at the refugee camp outside the Germantown Police HQ get me every time.

You can find it dirt-cheap these days. Definitely give it a shot if you have the time. The main plot line would only take about 50 game hours to complete, but there is so much other content that it genuinely kept me interested for years.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Was he born in the Urals?

He was born on his father's estate of Yasaya Polyana (Bright Meadow) about a hundred km outside Moscow and was a hereditary Count.

wit,

Much of his writing is very witty and even satirical in places. Unfortunately, most of the wit is incomprehensible to later generations much as most of Shakespeare's wit isnt.

Oh sure. He's probably written more volume-wise. I'll give him that.

I'm sure if you were a Count and had nothing else to do with your time, you'd be more prolific as well.

You mean you haven't read my "Eustrogylides ignotus in Eastern Great Blue Herons" paper? [:(]

No. No, I havent. Is much of the wit in that piece incomprehensible also?

Meh. I'm still trying to say that I look like Brad Pitt. No one believes me there either.

See, people actually know what Pitt looks like. If you say Tolstoi, most folks would just take you at your word. [:D]

Ah yes! Cuz nuthin' says 'happening dude' like phenotypical comparatives to some long-dead verbose commie. [:'(]

I was about to argue against the Commie bit, but thought better of it. Most of his populist ideas that he came by later in life were very much reminiscent of early Communist ideas. He just had better intentions in an ivory tower/lofty birth/the peons are not spoiled by civilization kind of way.

ETA: Re-reading his bio, I was impressed with how anarchist / anti-government this guy was. Definitely not a commie!

See above. Not a Commie in the sense that Communism has become associated with in the US thanks to the Cold War, but that part of the development of the Communist ideology in the late 19th/early 20 century which concerned itself with "going to the people" and all that, was very much in tune with what Tolstoi wrote.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
I dont think anything in The Valley proper has ever suffered from wildfires

Yeah. Not since...well, September. Before that? July.

http://lafd.blogspot.com/2012/07/model- ... -acre.html

Yep, open spaces, dry grass, hot weather, flame source.....but everything west of the 118 where I live is concrete.

[alaviner]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
I'm finally wrapping up my Fallout 3 game.

[holds up hand sheepishly] I know absolutely nothing about Fallout 3. A worthwhile FPS for those slow WiTP:AE days?

Absolutely. But its not really an FPS, per se. Its more of an RPG, in that most of the game revolves around leveling up your character and completing quests. There are no magic/dwarf/orc elements, which usually turn me off on most RPGs out there. There is an FPS component which allows you to blast away "from the hip" if that what you're into, but I think most of combat was intended to be done in VATS, which freezes time and allows you to use your character stats to kill rather than iron sights. Very, very fun game and an awesome universe. Quite a bit of toungue-in-cheek humor, black humor, and even some very sad scenes. The computer terminal entries at the refugee camp outside the Germantown Police HQ get me every time.

You can find it dirt-cheap these days. Definitely give it a shot if you have the time. The main plot line would only take about 50 game hours to complete, but there is so much other content that it genuinely kept me interested for years.

Anyone know if any of the new scenarios keep the AI in the game longer than Scen 2

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: NCSUforest

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy




[holds up hand sheepishly] I know absolutely nothing about Fallout 3. A worthwhile FPS for those slow WiTP:AE days?

Absolutely. But its not really an FPS, per se. Its more of an RPG, in that most of the game revolves around leveling up your character and completing quests. There are no magic/dwarf/orc elements, which usually turn me off on most RPGs out there. There is an FPS component which allows you to blast away "from the hip" if that what you're into, but I think most of combat was intended to be done in VATS, which freezes time and allows you to use your character stats to kill rather than iron sights. Very, very fun game and an awesome universe. Quite a bit of toungue-in-cheek humor, black humor, and even some very sad scenes. The computer terminal entries at the refugee camp outside the Germantown Police HQ get me every time.

You can find it dirt-cheap these days. Definitely give it a shot if you have the time. The main plot line would only take about 50 game hours to complete, but there is so much other content that it genuinely kept me interested for years.

Anyone know if any of the new scenarios keep the AI in the game longer than Scen 2

Don't know, NCSU forest. Haven't tried any of them from the Allied position.

[Onime No Kyo]

Today I learned that the Luftwaffe flies MiG-29s. [X(]

I thought they only had NATO hardware.

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Today I learned that the Luftwaffe flies MiG-29s. [X(]

I thought they only had NATO hardware.

No longer.
Those were ex-DDR Mig-29 which were taken over by the Luftwaffe after the reunification. One or two of them was sold to the US to be used as enemy planes in trainings.
The rest were handed over to Poland when the Eurofighter entered service.

[Onime No Kyo]

Thanks Torsten. Good info. The pic I saw had it in regular German colors. Were they used for long?

[sprior]

Turn up

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Thanks Torsten. Good info. The pic I saw had it in regular German colors. Were they used for long?

I guess less than ten years.
They were modernized to NATO-standards quite expensively, but the Luftwaffe has the policy not to have more than 3 major warplanes.
So once the Typhoon was introduced, it was Typhoon, Tornado, F-4 and Mig-29. As there were propably 200 F-4 and only ~22 Mig-29, the Migs were sold for 1 € apiece to Poland. [:@]

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Thanks Torsten. Good info. The pic I saw had it in regular German colors. Were they used for long?

I guess less than ten years.
They were modernized to NATO-standards quite expensively, but the Luftwaffe has the policy not to have more than 3 major warplanes.
So once the Typhoon was introduced, it was Typhoon, Tornado, F-4 and Mig-29. As there were propably 200 F-4 and only ~22 Mig-29, the Migs were sold for 1 € apiece to Poland. [:@]

And I believe the F-4 is entering the final days of service with the Luftwaffe.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Thanks Torsten. Good info. The pic I saw had it in regular German colors. Were they used for long?

I guess less than ten years.
They were modernized to NATO-standards quite expensively, but the Luftwaffe has the policy not to have more than 3 major warplanes.
So once the Typhoon was introduced, it was Typhoon, Tornado, F-4 and Mig-29. As there were propably 200 F-4 and only ~22 Mig-29, the Migs were sold for 1 € apiece to Poland. [:@]

I remember reading about this several years ago. American fighter pilots went through training against the MiG-29 with true "lookdown/shootdown" helmet-enabled sighting for their SRAAMs. A rude awakening for the American pilots that prompted many of the targetting systems in the F-22 and F-35 systems.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Thanks Torsten. Good info. The pic I saw had it in regular German colors. Were they used for long?

I guess less than ten years.
They were modernized to NATO-standards quite expensively, but the Luftwaffe has the policy not to have more than 3 major warplanes.
So once the Typhoon was introduced, it was Typhoon, Tornado, F-4 and Mig-29. As there were propably 200 F-4 and only ~22 Mig-29, the Migs were sold for 1 € apiece to Poland. [:@]

And I believe the F-4 is entering the final days of service with the Luftwaffe.

Are they slated on the F-35?

[Symon]

ORIGINAL: USS America

3 hours until Navy starts whipping up on Army again. [8D]

Yes, yes, 10 v 10 at the half. And the Black Knights kick a clutch FG to tie it up.