JediMaster

There is always one in every group

 

Okay what type of tree is it then?

#3...the larch.

You have your own special way...

Maybe the MiG-17 was just smoking a lot of reefer?

Arma (and OFP) has really always been about the infantryman's view of the war. Armor is just a side trip, and as such isn't modeled nearly as well as other things in the game. Dedicated tank games do a better job generally.

That said, I've yet to try the ArmA 2 demo (that's tonight!) and I don't know how tanks are done in the final game. The demo is free, though, so try it!

FYI this is not the OFF forum, this is the forum for all WWI sims that do not have forums elsewhere. First Eagles and OFF have them.

So any tweaks or tips for RoF you may have, feel free to post them in this forum (although I would recommend starting a new thread for it).

Well, an argument can be made that while a murder ruins ONE life and family, what he did has ruined the lives of MANY families.

Intent is also an issue, as has been stated here. An accidental murder, even in the commission of a crime like a holdup, isn't the same as purposefully ruining as many people as you can so you can get rich and live the highlife.

I don't think a financial crime like this should be treated more lightly than some guy on crack killing the dude at 7-11 for drug money, but I agree to give them a magnitude harsher sentence doesn't make sense either.

Unfortunately, sentencing guidelines for breaking laws are often created in a vacuum, without really comparing them to existing sentences for breaking other laws, leading to these disparities.

They were comic relief, of course. I LOL'd when I saw Jetfire had a walking stick that was part of him with the nose gear at the end of it!

I think the extravagant sentence is because of parole laws. By making it so long that dictates the minimum amount of time he must serve before he can possibly get released for "good behavior"...because let's face it, it's hard to commit financial crimes in prison.

Of course, the Daily Show had a hilarious bit on a new Ponzi scheme Madoff was going to setup in prison...

I think we all know who won the MPG battle...

Honestly, HD space is cheap and as stated getting some of these mods updated will be a major PITA. So I'm not going to trash any old installs unless an updated one comes out (like OTC) to 100% replace it. Just like I sometimes load up a classic FPS or RTS to play, so I also load up older flight sims, especially modded ones.

There's room for all of them on my HD!

I loved Sam's parents and the Chevy twins (whatever their names were). Jetfire was cool, too. My wife said "Hey, we took pictures of that plane when we were there!"

Tony Todd was great as the Fallen, too. It was like hearing Worf's brother again but dressed in metal.

Maybe they should feed him to the Sarlacc.

"In its belly, you will learn a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over 1000 years..."

"...today in the news, many weaker citizens of the UK fled to Italy for no apparent reason..."

Weird Al only did 2 MJ songs in 25 years, so that's hardly excessive. He's also done 2 Star Wars songs. He's done 2 Billy Joel songs (one unreleased). He's done 2 Madonna songs, if you count the fact that his American Pie parody came out before her cover of it.

Anyway, Thriller is the best by far because of what it did for the musical video form...it legitimized it and also made it separate from the song itself.

This is just a console port of Il-2 with some graphical updates and I'm sure many other things removed or simplified. I don't doubt it will be the most realistic WWII flying combat on the console, I just don't know how much that will actually be.

Where's the brand name of the card? That should tell you what it is. All that is there is the generic model name.

I have that exact CPU and video--E8600 and 260/216--and it works great, although I don't have RoF. I haven't tried OC'ing yet, but I'm sure I can get something good out of it if need be. Right now 3.3GHz seems enough.

I decided to go 2 cores right now because few games take advantage of 4, so faster 2 cores better bang for the same buck as 4 slower. The new core i7s however have this ability to auto OC themselves if you only run 1 or 2 cores, a truly brilliant idea. Still too pricey for me, though, so that will be my NEXT upgrade last next year or so.

It's amazing how intense some of those missions can be in SF2V. I'm also in a Rolling Thunder campaign, albeit with the F-105.

I can't believe those guys used to do Iron Hand missions for real! Nothing but CBUs vs AAA units firing at you from all directions in a plane that rolls ok but has the pitch authority of a C-5...until you get hit when you get the roll rate of a C-5 and NO pitch authority.

F-16s were called lawn darts like 25 years ago. Way to stick with the times! How about that Rick Astley?

That's just it, though, the B-2s and F-22s aren't as expensive as claimed. If you add in the R&D costs then each plane costs that much more, but the more planes you make the cheaper they are.

The other thing is in a limited war you DON'T need a lot of F-22s or B-2s, but what about extended ops like we're facing now? When you need to have X number of planes on station 24/7 for YEARS you wind up running into maintenance issues as you don't have enough to rotate home for enough time to overhaul them. The only way we have enough F-22s for that is if ALL F-22s are devoted to that one conflict leaving none in CONUS for defense or ops anywhere.

Unfortunately, every game mods differently depending on the coding used. Some are almost impossible to mod, some are very easy.

We have such a tutorial and knowledge base here for the Thirdwire sims, but other than that I'm afraid not.

The Avenger as it appeared in the film is the way the early concepts of it appeared. The film remember was worked on mostly last year, with the finishing work this year. The real Avenger was only revealed in the last month or so, so how would they know what it looked like?

There's a message from HQ.

HQ? What is it?

Well, it's a big building with lots of generals in it, but that's not important right now.

We've been selling our planes for over 60 years now, including ones like the F-5 that were never really used by the US!

The problem is that while things like effectiveness and reliability have improved over the decades, you still have a minimum number necessary for continuous ops at a high rate. I think we barely have enough F-22s for that right now. Give it 10 years and regular attrition means we will likely fall below that number. Early F-35s will definitely be more expensive than the F-22 is right now, taking I think at least 3 years before they become cheaper, so just how cost effective is cancellation anyway? We already spent the money to make the thing, now it's just parts and labor for any more.

Honestly, I was affected more by Ed McMahon's death than this. Quite simply Ed did more with his life in the past 15 years than MJ did. It's too bad for his kids (which he should never have had), but frankly he's been nothing more than another washed-up C-list celeb in the 21st century. He almost could be one of those "Oh, I thought he was dead already" people for all the positive things he's done.

I own Thriller and listen to it regularly, but really I only listen to songs from Bad on occasion and nothing after that was worth even hearing once.

I just find it amusing that over 30 years after the F-15 and F-16 entered service they're still in production, but then these newer planes like the B-2 and F-22 they end production just as the plane enters service!!