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Wrr posted:Oh drat the Gavin is what the APC in the original C&C is based on isn't it? Yep. A truck with tracks. Why go half-track, when you can have the whole track? It was the lightest, most basic vehicle needed to keep up with armor. Earlier vehicles with the same form factor ended up being as heavy as a tank. Huge engines, heavy transmissions, and steel armor that still wouldn't hold up to heavy machine gun fire. Weight for no practical protection. The immediate predecessor of the M113 did pioneer the "power-pak" concept. Open up the front hatch, and the whole engine and transmission pulled out on a shelf. Modern perspective: US light infantry liked the Stryker, because it's better than marching around or riding in a truck.
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Wrr posted:Oh drat the Gavin is what the APC in the original C&C is based on isn't it? Don't call it that. That's not its name.
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McNally posted:Don't call it that. That's not its name. The proper name is Command and Conquer. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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A 'G' is a 1000 Greek numerals A = 1 Roman numerals VI = 6 And N = 50 1000+1+6+50 GAVIN = 1057 M = 1000, so M113 = 1113 Thus, we have mathematically proven M113 > GAVIN (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Tunicate posted:A 'G' is a 1000 The Roman numeral for 50 is L.
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Who tf is Gavin
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boop the snoot posted:Who tf is Gavin Oh, some chucklefuck took it upon himself to give an "official" name to the M113 and chose to name it after LTG James Gavin
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My favorite tank is the Longstreet
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Anyone whose favorite tank isn’t the Sherman with a flamethrower bolted on is so far beyond wrong that it’s ridiculous 
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https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/o5rut5/i_fixed_mike_sparks_cartoon_about_the_gavin/
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Light infantry broke my knees and back but I’d rather do that for five years than the year I spent in an armored unit. gently caress tracked vehicles forever. I’d rather walk and recon for IEDs with my feet.
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boop the snoot posted:Who tf is Gavin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G49cXZnj61Y&t=23s McNally posted:Oh, some chucklefuck took it upon himself to give an "official" name to the M113 and chose to name it after LTG James Gavin LTG James Gavin isn't a racist or white supremacist or confederate is he?
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Wrr posted:LTG James Gavin isn't a racist or white supremacist or confederate is he? According to Wikipedia he was a proponent of integrating the military. But that's not a no.
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McNally posted:According to Wikipedia he was a proponent of integrating the military. Inside the belly of the Gavin there is no room for race to separate us; we're all one and the same, like at the end of Volcano (1997) (Or was it Dante's Peak?)
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quote:On Jan. 6, 2021, a Donald Trump supporter named James Mault took part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. What takes it into idiot territory: quote:Then, in June, James Mault joined the U.S. Army as an active-duty soldier. and quote:But the events of Jan. 6 occurred during a short window over the last eight years when Mault was not in the Army. He first enlisted in 2013 and was an active-duty soldier until 2016, once deploying for a year to Kuwait, Buccino said. From 2016 to 2020, Mault served in the Army Reserve. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james-mault-capitol-attack-trump-army-military_n_6168753de4b065a54971c1d6
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Davethulhu posted:
Whether or not this period is what they meant with the phrase "short window", this period of time was not one I would have described as feeling...short...or having passed quickly... Quite the opposite really.
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SerthVarnee posted:Whether or not this period is what they meant with the phrase "short window", this period of time was not one I would have described as feeling...short...or having passed quickly... A few days ago I had the realization that 2021 has flown by at warp speed compared to 2020. 2016 to now has been a lifetime of poo poo happening.
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SerthVarnee posted:Whether or not this period is what they meant with the phrase "short window", this period of time was not one I would have described as feeling...short...or having passed quickly... They definitely did not refer to 2016 to 2020 as a short window. They said he stormed the Capitol during the short window he wasn't in the Army, sometime in 2020 to early 2021.
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End of Dante’s Peak Brosnan, Hamilton, a kid, and maybe a dog are trapped in a mine, and radio for help with an impossibly small ELF transceiver.
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Casimir Radon posted:End of Dante’s Peak Brosnan, Hamilton, a kid, and maybe a dog are trapped in a mine, and radio for help with an impossibly small ELF transceiver. Okay I looked it up, in Volcano there is a sub-plot about an Black man being hassled by a racist LAPD cop, but the volcano makes them have to work together. then at the end a kid remarks that racism was solved because the volcano ash makes everyone "look the same" Dante's Peak also has the old lady get roasted in an acid lake or something.
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Wrr posted:Dante's Peak also has the old lady get roasted in an acid lake or something.
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Wrr posted:Okay I looked it up, in Volcano there is a sub-plot about an Black man being hassled by a racist LAPD cop, but the volcano makes them have to work together. then at the end a kid remarks that racism was solved because the volcano ash makes everyone "look the same" Volcano also has this legendary scene which is just begging to be mashed up with the ending of Terminator 2 https://youtu.be/R01bex9Ejvg
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Casimir Radon posted:End of Dante’s Peak Brosnan, Hamilton, a kid, and maybe a dog are trapped in a mine, and radio for help with an impossibly small ELF transceiver. how big are they normally?
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Volcano also has this legendary scene which is just begging to be mashed up with the ending of Terminator 2 hahaha i know without even looking that this is the dude slowly melting into the lava
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:how big are they normally? I guess hobbyists have messed around with active antennas that were only around 18”, but there were some stations with buried antennas 30 miles long. Also they need a lot of power.
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That man's field of fucks is barren and empty. No gently caress will ever grow there again. And thus he has no fucks to give.
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Casimir Radon posted:That happens right after bad CGI lava sneaks up on her cabin and bursts through the wall like it’s a slasher movie villain. Also the acid lake eats through a steel outboard propeller in about a minute, so how am I supposed to believe that this old lady can hop out of the boat and manage to push it to shore without being disintegrated in a few seconds? Not all acids destroy the same materials at the same speed.
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CainFortea posted:Not all acids destroy the same materials at the same speed.  She was played by Elizabeth Hoffman who played Catherine on SG-1, and is still alive at age 94. Edit: When a dumb computer glitch disenrolled me on accident from all my classes for my last semester of CC I got stuck in online Intro to Geology. One of the projects was to watch Dante’s Peak and point out as many in Inaccuracies as you found. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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"Are ya winning, son?"
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Casimir Radon posted:Edit: When a dumb computer glitch disenrolled me on accident from all my classes for my last semester of CC I got stuck in online Intro to Geology. One of the projects was to watch Dante’s Peak and point out as many in Inaccuracies as you found. "yes"
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If you can look that cool doing something stupid than it’s not stupid.
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The one memory I have of Dante's Peak is of Pierce Brosnan staring at bad CGI lava and muttering what the hell is that like he's completely oblivious to the fact that lava is that stuff that comes out of volcanoes.
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I was a geology major, and the geo honors society used to host "Bad Geology Movie Night" where we'd watch bad movies with worse grasps on geology than Hollywood usually has on science. We'd commandeer a lecture hall and projector and buy bulk popcorn to throw at the screen. "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano" were favorites, along with "The Core" and a couple particularly lousy versions of "Journey to the Center of the Earth". "Dante's Peak" actually gets a lot of stuff not completely wrong, but then it gets a lot of other stuff really completely wrong too and it's just an awful movie all around.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:The one memory I have of Dante's Peak is of Pierce Brosnan staring at bad CGI lava and muttering what the hell is that like he's completely oblivious to the fact that lava is that stuff that comes out of volcanoes. that's actually Volcano and it's not just Tommy Lee Jones but the whole movie, and i swear it's a bit because no one even utters the word volcano until like deep in the 2nd act. iirc there's a scene with news anchors staring at lava saying "we've never seen anything like this before," lol. it's real bad.
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Platystemon posted:Wyoming doesn’t exist, so it’s basically like being a space guardian. Has anyone seen a guardian in the wild or are they mythical beasts like unicorns?
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Did you never shut up about field camp like kids just out of basic training? I double majored in GIS & Anthropology so a lot of my classmates were Geology majors, and they’d all talk your ear off about “this one time in field camp!” Only other Geology movie I can think of that I’ve seen is the ‘59 Journey to the Center of the Earth. The one I think Raiders of the Lost Ark stole the Boulder chase from, but executed so much better. It’s a decently fun movie despite starring arch-douchebag Pat Boone. We watched it in 8th grade Earth Science. The Core came out that year but I’ve never actually seen it.
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boop the snoot posted:Light infantry broke my knees and back but I’d rather do that for five years than the year I spent in an armored unit. Curious why. The culture, the unit, the maintenance, the thrown tracks?
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