JediMaster

Luckily good ol' Nikita didn't think Cuba was worth getting nuked over. As the analysts said decades later, though, the Soviet threat at the time wasn't nearly what many thought it was. The USSR likely would've been eradicated, but the West would not have. Now what the long-term effects of that many nukes going off would've been, well... Let's just say I don't think those in the US or Western Europe would've been that much worse off than those in Brazil or South Africa. The world would be an irradiated mess, but life would go on.

I'd say few people fire 90 degrees up. I'd guess 60 degrees is far more common. Doesn't land on THEM, it lands on people living nearby.

That long ago already? Didn't seem that way...

You want the Complete mods for the STALKER games. They improve things all around without really changing anything. The games actually run BETTER with the Complete mods, fewer crashes and glitches.

Those injured in Miami by morons firing their guns into the air on New Year's would disagree.

Well, it misses all types equally well, so...

Ok, so PS aired in 83 or so I think. There was another scene in one of the other episodes where the guy who gets shot makes like 10 different "pain" faces in slow-mo. That was a great show, too bad it only had 6 eps.

Unfortunately someone needs to explain that bullets don't have escape velocity, and any fired up will still come down somewhere, possibly on their own heads!

There's a setting for most everything, you can tinker with it easily to get a good performance/visuals balance. The other thing to note is WOI was designed for the XP days when people would put mods into the game folder itself. Starting with Vista, MS said "don't touch the Program Files directory, put files into your profile!" So SF2 puts mods into your profile/saved games/thirdwire directory. Frankly SF2 is where you want to go. If you like SF2I and it runs well, there are lots of other titles/DLC and mods you can get to expand it. WOI had its expansion but other than that is now over 4 years since its last patch. Its day is done.

TBH, most sims fail utterly at the multiple-level-difficulty thing. They're designed to work one way, and when you crank it up or down you instantly see the weakness. Case in point: DCS. Great at top-level realism if you can take the time to get into it. No? Ok, ARCADE BIRD! Don't want arcade? Well then, go back to the full realism! Wait, you want something in between? Like LOMAC levels? Sorry, can't do it. F4 was little better there. It just wasn't quite so tough at the top end as DCS. Simply put every sim has a wild arcade mode that may or may not be enjoyable, and full realism which may succeed to varying degrees. People who want to fly in the area between the two are SOL.