Baron von Eevl posted:

I could have told anyone that, I ate an autoban once after... Who was it that was really obnoxious about Wikipedia so radium made it so anybody could edit his posts? Anyway I changed one of his thread's tag to a ban me one to see if it would autoban me or him. It was me.

Baron von Eevl posted:

I could have told anyone that, I ate an autoban once after... Who was it that was really obnoxious about Wikipedia so radium made it so anybody could edit his posts? Anyway I changed one of his thread's tag to a ban me one to see if it would autoban me or him. It was me.

Baron von Eevl posted:

I could have told anyone that, I ate an autoban once after... Who was it that was really obnoxious about Wikipedia so radium made it so anybody could edit his posts? Anyway I changed one of his thread's tag to a ban me one to see if it would autoban me or him. It was me.

Baron von Eevl posted:

I could have told anyone that, I ate an autoban once after... Who was it that was really obnoxious about Wikipedia so radium made it so anybody could edit his posts? Anyway I changed one of his thread's tag to a ban me one to see if it would autoban me or him. It was me.

Baron von Eevl posted:

I could have told anyone that, I ate an autoban once after... Who was it that was really obnoxious about Wikipedia so radium made it so anybody could edit his posts? Anyway I changed one of his thread's tag to a ban me one to see if it would autoban me or him. It was me.

Captain Hygiene posted:

Thank you for making my day better by sharing this anecdote

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Liface.

RFC2324 posted:

Correct, whih is why he published them and pulled them off SA

Humper-Monkey https://www.amazon.com/dp/0557708834/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_fabc_2J02YND73NRHTXAS3X92

Captain Monkey posted:

What is ronin a typo for?

mllaneza posted:

Speaking of 50FA, the whole Haunted Barraks series is here:
http://nothotbutspicy.com/para/

Put a good editor on that and he's Baen Book's next superstar.

Khizan posted:

Yeah, I had assumed they meant that mowing over fallen cherry blossoms got you a samurai infestation.

Mx. posted:

What thread is this again

Alaois posted:

its a pyf thread they're all the fuckin same dog

Son of Rodney posted:

I honestly thought the ronin thing was a weird name for male wasps, similar to drone for bees. It would even kind of fit, since some wasps live by themselves.

some plague rats posted:

I finally decided to have a read and see what the big deal has been for all these years and god drat do these stories ever suck poo poo but at least I have context

Antifa Poltergeist posted:

It's got a insane Mary sue and it kinda goes more off the rails and poor structure in the side stories, but the setting and description of gi joes freaks and band of misfits , there's something interesting here.like someone said , get a good editor, rework the cardboard caracters and I would read "Dead Snow: G.I. Joe Meltdown"

And there should be a payoff to the " I don't smoke but I'll bum a cigarette" thing.

Baron von Eevl posted:

I could have told anyone that, I ate an autoban once after... Who was it that was really obnoxious about Wikipedia so radium made it so anybody could edit his posts? Anyway I changed one of his thread's tag to a ban me one to see if it would autoban me or him. It was me.

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

I've gotten to the part of the thread about losing serialized gear, and crashing two helicopters trying to find one missing M9 in Iraq, and I got a good one.


Digging a deeper hole via international arms dealing

So after OIF-2, our battalion has a real mess of records, trying to reconcile the different accounts and figure out our combat losses, regular losses, extra poo poo we somehow acquired, etc. My recollection is that part of the complication was guys getting medevac'ed with all their gear and the hospital confiscating their weapons and us trying to eventually get them back.

Midway through this reconciling process, L Battery's armorers realize they have two M16A4s in their cage that aren't on their books. So of course the immediate reaction is "hey, free rifles!" One guy took one home to keep at his on-base housing as a souvenir, the other gave one to his dad as a gift. A couple weeks go by and more records get cross-checked, and the armorers are given an updated sheet which now has them two A4s short.

Now at this point, there are a couple smart ways to go. The absolute best would be to immediately gather the rifles together, smuggle them back in, and come out saying "oh hey we looked under a pile of barrel-bags and found them or they fell behind a shelf or something" and the issue would be resolved with at the most an rear end-chewing for not looking hard enough. The next-smartest would be to fully disassemble the rifle, take a hacksaw and cut the serial number area off the lower and throw the lower all duct-taped up in junk and chuck it in a dumpster far from home, and then take the unserialized parts and sell them on AR15.com

Nope. At this point "tripling" or even "quintupling" seems too light of a word. They decided to X-down to the whatevereth power. So one guy calls this girl he knows who allegedly has some underworld connections, and she agrees she can make the rifles disappear forever and cut them in on the profits. So they drive the rifles to her apartment IN TIJUANA. Yup, hid them in their car and smuggled stolen federal automatic weapons into Mexico.

After a few days of missing rifles, eventually NCIS gets involved. They apply Occam's Razor and figure that armorer theft is the single simplest solution, so they separate the two guys and interrogate them and both immediately narc each other out. They provide NCIS the girl's phone number, and they call her and say "Listen carefully, you have one hour to wrap the rifles up in a blanket and take them to the front office at the San Diego border crossing, ask for Inspector Smith, hand him the bundle and just walk away. If you don't meet him within one hour, we're giving all your information to the Federales and telling them you're smuggling automatic weapons for the narcos." Girl ain't dumb, so thirty minutes later she's handing over both A4s to a NCIS agent and the issue is resolved.

Each guy got nailed with I think three years of hard time, and both were married and I can guess that a first-termer marriage isn't going to fare well with three years of separation. So yeah, a truly impressive display of taking a handful of poo poo and turning it into a world of poo poo.

The Slithery D posted:

Thanks for reminding me of this bit of epic stupidity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/world/middleeast/27iraq.html

Here's what happened. My battalion was being moved mid-tour from the area south of Kirkuk to Mosul. Blackhawks land at a COP to pick up some soldiers and move them to FOB Warrior for further onward movement. En route, one of the pilots or crew drops his loving M9 pistol outside the helicopter into the moondust at night. (Rumor said it was a pilot who hadn't secured it with his lanyard after taking a piss.)

My company, already living at FOB Warrior and pulling the QRF mission gets the dumbest loving assignment of all time. Go to the specified grid and look for the M9. At night. In a desert crisscrossed by irrigation canals. Care to guess how many seconds after dropping the pistol they though to grab a grid, and how fast they were moving? Yeah.

So one of my buddies and his platoon go out look for the thing for an hour, and head back.

So then some genius, and I would love to know if it was at my BN ops or the aviation BN/BDE, TASKS TWO loving KIOWAS TO GO LOOK FOR THE M9 FROM THE AIR, WITH THEIR OPTICS, AT NIGHT. I don't know how long they tried this asshattery, but at some point they crashed into each other. The same loving platoon from my company went back out, secured the aircraft and bodies, and waited for EOD to come take care of the hellfires and other fun stuff sitting near/in burning fuel and then the recovery vehicles.

I would have heard if they ever executed anyone over this, so I guess no one was sufficiently punished. The most infuriating thing about the Army is leaders who can't adapt TTPs to different situations or understand why we do things a certain way and why it's completely asinine in changed circumstances. Some dipshit decided he needed to do the closest thing to a hands across the desert he could for a missing sensitive item, and four men died.

A week later the insurgency found that M9 and that's why we have ISIS now.

(The above based on testimony of the QRF platoon leader and what he was told at the time. I suppose it's remotely possible some enemy action was actually responsible, but in any case it happened while they were circling on a fool's errand someone ordered them to perform.)

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

absolute best case scenario of giving your kid unsupervised internet access right around when they hit puberty is that they end up shitposting all day under a retro gross porn themed username into their 30s

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:

Vasukhani posted:

Hodgepodge posted:

sorry for anyone who got this in the meme thread as well; it belongs in both:

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I swear it came up sometime in the ancient history of this thread that nothing keeps a relationship together like a common enemy.

Arturia posted:

I thought it was basic communication skills and common sense

Barudak posted:

I think thats a nation-state

Hodgepodge posted:

sorry for anyone who got this in the meme thread as well; it belongs in both:

Outrail posted:

Well, if you don't use an iota of critical thought this is an incredible analysis.

QuarkJets posted:

OP is just mad that they weren't allowed to become a wizard because the sorting hat placed them in Fat Camp

Baron von Eevl posted:

I could have told anyone that, I ate an autoban once after... Who was it that was really obnoxious about Wikipedia so radium made it so anybody could edit his posts? Anyway I changed one of his thread's tag to a ban me one to see if it would autoban me or him. It was me.

some plague rats posted:

Please apply critical thought to this obvious joke and post your analysis. I'm sure it will be funnier than the original image!

evobatman posted:

Engineers are why wisdom and intelligence are separate stats

Ghost Leviathan posted:

What's with the grimdark doug stuff

grimdoug

Syd Midnight posted:

venus de lmao posted:

Without knowing the context of this, yes, absolutely. I once had an engineering student try to persuade me that the Mayan long count thing was predicting the utter disappearance of the Earth's magnetic field and I should just trust him. Because "I'm a scientist, I know about this stuff" or something like that.

Honestly.

zedprime posted:

Engineers can have low int and wis but the common characteristic is they are the ones who minmaxed their skill progression so that when the DM announces "ok there's a locked door here" they instantly respond "I rolled 17 + 37 on Calculus" and piss everyone off because no, you can't calculus a door.

zedprime posted:

Engineers can have low int and wis but the common characteristic is they are the ones who minmaxed their skill progression so that when the DM announces "ok there's a locked door here" they instantly respond "I rolled 17 + 37 on Calculus" and piss everyone off because no, you can't calculus a door.

zedprime posted:

Engineers can have low int and wis but the common characteristic is they are the ones who minmaxed their skill progression so that when the DM announces "ok there's a locked door here" they instantly respond "I rolled 17 + 37 on Calculus" and piss everyone off because no, you can't calculus a door.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Oh poo poo! Was the Earth's magnetic field okay??

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

And DM worth their salt would absolutely allow that to work ..... but then immediately throw in a hidden trap where they have to roll a charisma saving throw