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Owlbear Camus posted:it cannot be overstated the degree to which the officer corps of the usaf is kirkland brand templars. half the officers i talked to during my stint were died in the wool, the other half were probably just hiding their power levels. look at the loving chapel at the academy in colorado springs it's loving 40k poo poo. That's more Star wars
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smug jeebus posted:A 40k church is just Notre Dame with (a lot) more skulls, attached to the star destroyer from Star wars
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smug jeebus posted:A 40k church is just Notre Dame with (a lot) more skulls, Notre Dame isn't half gothic enough. Those pointed arches, heck the whole thing, could be MUCH pointier. I'm partial to Cologne's cathedral myself. nomad2020 posted:Remember when Glenn Beck accused SA of being a CIA front? That would legitimately be a better option. Specifically Goonswarm and he may have been right CN CREW-VESSEL posted:This is what happens without Anglicans Wow
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D-Pad posted:I would like to know more please the two people most in charge of goonswarm were a d&d mod computer toucher who 'worked for the state department' and a sex pest lawyer with media connections afaik there are no smoking guns but it's really not any kind of stretch to assume
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Probably was completely coincidental that Goonswarm took their security more seriously than most companies I've been involved with, also the other team was Russian. Maybe more frenemies than enemies.
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gradenko_2000 posted:wasn't there also the one where the CIA agents were meeting at a Beirut Pizza Hut and their password was pizzahut or something I'm at the spy dead drop I'm at the Pizza Hut I'm at the combination spy dead drop and Pizza Hut
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when are we getting the matt damon / brad pitt / robert redford Beirut Pizza thriller
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there was so much moolah getting laundered through icelands banking system lol
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broke: iran-contra woke: libya-syria
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atelier morgan posted:the two people most in charge of goonswarm were a d&d mod computer toucher who 'worked for the state department' and a sex pest lawyer with media connections the only thing smoking was vilerat's lungs
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I had never really considered this before but yeah of course the CIA is just as incompetent and full of grifters as the military. We just don't hear about their failures often.
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yellowcar posted:the only thing smoking was vilerat's lungs the tattoo was pretty smokin
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The CIA isn't good or even competent, it just has infinite money to keep trying with.
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gradenko_2000 posted:The CIA isn't good or even competent, it just has infinite money to keep trying with. they need infinite money to defend against cuban mind flayers
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Justin Tyme posted:govfaqs spinoff cialinks FBI
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https://twitter.com/dstlmod/status/1791027270439645679 britain spending billions of pounds for something that can be accomplished by existing autocannons lol
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Danann posted:britain spending billions of pounds for something that can be accomplished by existing autocannons lol when is it going to ukraine, where the ukrainians will declare it useless like the gps guided shells
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/dstlmod/status/1791027270439645679 but only ten pence a shot (plus billions per unit and billions more in maintenance contracts)!
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/dstlmod/status/1791027270439645679 Those are 100% going to be used on UK civilians before they're used on anyone else.
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So that thing is going to attract every anti-radiation missile in the theater and get destroyed basically instantly against anyone with an industrial base Its only use case is going to be bullying insurgents who use drones, which tracks for the latest fruits of British innovation
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you know they're lying because they wouldn't actually design it to only be 10p a shot. Cost efficiency isn't in anyones interest. Hasn't been for decades. This thing will have been made to be as expensive to run as possible so everyone can keep getting paid.
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Regarde Aduck posted:you know they're lying because they wouldn't actually design it to only be 10p a shot. Cost efficiency isn't in anyones interest. Hasn't been for decades. This thing will have been made to be as expensive to run as possible so everyone can keep getting paid. I'd expect that the cost per shot is actually measuring the theoretical cost of the electricity used via conversion of the amount of gas their preferred generator type would use to create that power. Or possibly the charge from the electric company if plugged into city mains. No guarantees of compatibility with other generator types or anything other than their proprietary power conversion plug, no comment on the spare parts per shot, reliability or refire rate requiring more units, etc. etc.
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This was exactly how the US Navy tried to pitch that railgun thing 20-30 years ago and it ended up being hilariously expensive compared to chemical propellant munitions, when push came to shove.
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Yeah but the projectile does go really fast at least in the case of the railgun
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:This was exactly how the US Navy tried to pitch that railgun thing 20-30 years ago and it ended up being hilariously expensive compared to chemical propellant munitions, when push came to shove. The rail gun idea was so pants on head stupid. You'd have to basically build the entire ship around it in order to hook in the power plants directly and account for the recoil, leaving a ship that sucked at anything that wasnt shooting the loving rail gun. Not that it mattered though because the rail gun itself was an idiot's fantasy
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There was a period in US culture where railguns kept coming up as a thing. Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger was in 1996, and Quake 2 was in 1997. Tiberian Sun was in 1999. Babylon 5 was 1994 to 1998
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gradenko_2000 posted:There was a period in US culture where railguns kept coming up as a thing. Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger was in 1996, and Quake 2 was in 1997. Tiberian Sun was in 1999. Babylon 5 was 1994 to 1998 quake 2 railgun is still one of the pinnacle fps weapons in terms of design
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gradenko_2000 posted:There was a period in US culture where railguns kept coming up as a thing. Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger was in 1996, and Quake 2 was in 1997. Tiberian Sun was in 1999. Babylon 5 was 1994 to 1998 Gauss cannon in mech warrior and robotech
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cagliostr0 posted:Gauss cannon in mech warrior and robotech Gauss was also in Xcom Terror from the Deep, 1995
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that's because railguns are a really cool concept
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gradenko_2000 posted:Gauss was also in Xcom Terror from the Deep, 1995 I just want to say as an engineer gauss can go get hosed. What a jerk.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:that's because railguns are a really cool concept yup
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Kitfox88 posted:quake 2 railgun is still one of the pinnacle fps weapons in terms of design
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Nix Panicus posted:The rail gun idea was so pants on head stupid. You'd have to basically build the entire ship around it in order to hook in the power plants directly and account for the recoil, leaving a ship that sucked at anything that wasnt shooting the loving rail gun. Not that it mattered though because the rail gun itself was an idiot's fantasy Remember when they said the Zumwalt is designed for lasers, but will use a railgun until they are ready, and will use the extended range conventional gun until the railgun is ready, oops that costs $1 million per round so we won't buy any rounds
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Kitfox88 posted:quake 2 railgun is still one of the pinnacle fps weapons in terms of design The sound design was so goddamn satisfying. Gimme that background hum all day.
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q3 removed the corkscrew effect, but they added an option to enable it in one of the patches soon after launch because people revolted lol
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gradenko_2000 posted:There was a period in US culture where railguns kept coming up as a thing. Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger was in 1996, and Quake 2 was in 1997. Tiberian Sun was in 1999. Babylon 5 was 1994 to 1998 can't forget stargate
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