
Gunrunner
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Amen, it's time some people realize they're not children anymore and that "mommy, the angry guy yelled and said naughty words" doesn't/shouldn't work in real life. You screw up, you pay the price... being yelled at and being at the wrong end of empty threats is a small price to pay for mistakes costing hours of work for dozens of people...
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SkippyBing> Because it's no better in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Greece (and I guess the rest of Europe)... That the US, Japan, Korea may be better on some issues but have ones we don't even have in Europe. Iceland (well, if you like a dying economy dependant on Russia's good will), Switzerland, Luxembourg might do better, but they are special cases... The real trouble is that while, once upon a time, justice was concerned above all with protecting the public/victims/innocents from criminals, now they are more concerned with respecting the criminals rights, and protecting them from the public/victims/innocents right[eous|ful] anger, too often forgetting its first and foremost duty in the process. That's what you get for living in compassionate societies...
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Let's see, 12hrs community service, that's fair... £850 fine, that is not under the circumstances... Now for the real culprits... Electronic tag for 9 months ? That is not fair, unfortunately you have to think of the alternatives... Prison ? If british prisons are even twice better as french ones, it will only make those little morons even more dangerous... Fine ? How does that do justice to anyone ? Putting their parents in prison (for default of education), and the idiots in foster care in the meantime, and maybe fining the school for not properly securing the children on school grounds ? While it may be a way to solve a larger problem it wouldn't represent justice in that particular case either. Beating the idiots senseless ? While it may feel quite good and is rightly deserved, it wouldn't help your niece either, and probably wouldn't teach anything to the little punks. I also guess the judge chose this lenient verdict because of the "young" age of the culprits, not taking into account the fact that if they are old enough to rape in such a way, they are old enough to face the consequences of their acts. Oh, and the school's spokeperson needs a shovel experty applied on the cranium to get their ideas back in place... what ? The same events outside of the school ground would have been perfectly alright ? What disturbs them is that it happened on school grounds ? Idiots -_- Justice is a difficult equilibrium to find, especially in cases where no verdict would really help the victim and redeem the culprits...
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Is there any way to make weather more seasonal ?
Gunrunner replied to Gunrunner's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - Mods/Skinning Discussion
From my little experimentations (but CA_Stary, Deuces, Lexx_Luthor and a few others are the only one outside TK who really know about these things), the clouds are random, but they can be fixed (including rain/snow emitters) or moving using the target method Lexx_Luthor uses for his cirrus clouds etc... I didn't find anything allowing to link a precipitation emitter to randomly generated clouds. In the stock game, in inclement weather, as long as you're under the cloud layer, you'll get rain/snow (in fact, it seems that the engine only generates rain/snow around the player's aircraft and/or the focus of the camera). -
Is there any way to make weather more seasonal ?
Gunrunner replied to Gunrunner's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - Mods/Skinning Discussion
Thanks Wrench but I know seasons are there, I'm using them. ^^ It's just that so far it seems that weather and lighting (environmentsystem.ini) settings are game-wide (applies to the whole game installation, regardless of the terrain used or the season), not terrain-wide (applied only to a particular terrain, regardless of season) or season-wide (applied only to a particular season, either for all terrains, or for one terrain in particular). PS : It seems from your ANW4 that it can be terrain-wide at least, thanks. ^^ Unless I misread you and it IS there... Well, off to reinstall FE and ANW4 just in case I missed something... Code-side it shouldn't be too difficult to adapt the engine to override the game-wide environmentsystem.ini if it finds one inside the terrain it is loading. HHF> Sorry but in Europe in the 60's with very few really AW fighters, flying conditions were a pretty important factor. Remember that it is weather (and lower altitudes) which accounted for a great part of the accident rate of the F-104 in Europe. And while in peace-time most aircraft wouldn't fly with crap weather, in a state of war, if there's bomber out there, rain or snow, you've got to intercept them... and conversely, if the weather means you're less likely to be intercepted, it might be an opportunity to strike. Also, take into account that having "hard" ground object means more computing and thus a little less performance, seasonnal weather only costs a little tweak in the way settings are loaded. -
Of course they do, they wouldn't dwell here otherwise...
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I... don't... get it... what's the point ? Is she brain damaged or something ?
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Other F-111 Projects Left to Do
Gunrunner replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
Exactly, so imagine the trouble with a plane weighing empty nearly as much as a fully loaded Tomcat. ^^ No, the only good point of the F-111B is that it was so messed up it gave time to the US Navy to refine their requirement and gain enough political pressure to mostly get their way with the VFX. Had the F-111B been just a little better (well, a lot more to be honest) it might have been adopted and the Tomcat would never had seen the light of day... -
Other F-111 Projects Left to Do
Gunrunner replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
Brillant Vampyre -
Other F-111 Projects Left to Do
Gunrunner replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
Except that a) it was meant as a fighter and b) even in a bomber role they wouldn't have been able to shave enough weight for carrier operation, especially with any useful bomb load (or they would have had to jettison any remaining ordnance before even trying to land). BUMF = Barely Usable Manatee Fighter ? -
windows home server
Gunrunner replied to ONETINSOLDIER's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
Don't even try that... WHS is not meant as a desktop at all, it is meant to be headless and probably lacks quite a few components for gaming (I guess you could install most but I doubt it's worth the effort). Strangely enough, you wouldn't have such limitations with Server 2003/2008 (you know the "real" Microsoft server OS). All in all, WHS always was a crippled solution in search of a problem; Inadequate as a server (home or anything), unusable as a desktop, limited to 32 bits. -
Other F-111 Projects Left to Do
Gunrunner replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
Well, Orca would be too much of a compliment for that "thing"... Come to think of it... a F-111B in VF-84 colors, for the utter blasphemy of the thought would look nice named Orca... -
Other F-111 Projects Left to Do
Gunrunner replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
Well, let's see, on the USAF side they chose a mammal to fit the silhouette of the aircraft (long nose), let's pick a sea mammal for the navy side doing justice to the silhouette... F-111B Manatee... F-111B SeaCow... F-111B Beluga... -
Epic Fail (Jet Engine Minor Malfunction)
Gunrunner replied to column5's topic in Military and General Aviation
Vampyre, the fact that you see the charge and hear the countdown, plus the fact that C5 is not, to my knowledge, a complete idiot indicates he was well aware of it but thought it funnier to present it that way. ^^ Dang, and now I'm competing with you for the title of Captain Obvious -_- -
One might say it was only because she was still under novocaine's influence...
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Enemy Skill Level
Gunrunner replied to Spinners's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
Hard for all except flight model (as most 3rd party AC seem to be tweaked for normal), fuel, blackouts and enemy skill (as I've read somewhere that it dumbs down your wingmen) on normal. -
It's no excuse, it's an explanation why it doesn't matter... Were they wankers in a civil society they would stand out and merit crucifixion... but in a sea of wankers of all size and fame, who cares about a few famous ones ? What I find disturbing is that the negative reaction is more due to the social status of the perpetrator than the actual facts. It reeks of the good old "the powerful are all corrupt, the rich are all overpaid, the famous are all prima donnas and they don't deserve what I can't get"... not that it's your point, just that being French and part of a whole nation with such mindset, it kind of irritates me... I've never been much of a populist...
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There were less wankers indeed, but there were some. You also have to consider that the relation of power between studios, directors and actors changed dramatically since that era, making actors more powerful, more independent, meaning that throwing a hissy fit has less consequences for their careers now than then. Also, studios had greater power over regular press, eliminating scandals before they pop up. Gutter press had a smaller reach, meaning incidents were less known. And finally with so many recording-able devices on a modern set, with convenient digital format, it is easier than ever to record and disseminate such incidents, while at the time it was very hard to do. And finally, in the general population, such behaviour is also far more present than in the 50's/60's, we have become (the US as well as Europe) far less civil, and what we may have gained in "freedom" we pay in producing self-centered drama-queens.
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It's not support, it's just stating what apparently isn't obvious to some... they may be famous, they may be rich, that doesn't mean they have to be any better than anyone else... they're as humans as we are... and we all know what assholes we can be from time to time... why should it be any different for them ? Just because they are famous and often overpaid they should be some kind of inhuman exemple of perfection ? In the Bale case, you have to consider that if the circonstances as they appear are true, the retard who actually ruined two scenes (and countless hours of preparation, countless hours more work for everyone on set, and quite a lot of money for the studio) should be the one getting sacked first... That Bale's reaction is childish and mostly out of line is not the question... Damn, I know I have abused some people at work even worse than that... Does that mean I'm an asshole ? (well, I am anyway, wrong example) Doesn't a guy get a right to be pissed off and blow a gasket when he hires someone on the insurance that he knows his job, that it appears the guy lied and doesn't even know the basics, that out of pity you take nearly a week trying to teach him (at the detriment of your own workload), that after a week the guy still doesn't do any effort to get up to speed and manages to ruin your work, not once, but twice, getting you two days behind schedule ? I guess I was heard from miles around, the moron was lucky I'm not enclined to grab blunt objects and bludgeon idiots.
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Agreed, yet the world is full of them...
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Nothing to do with being overpaid or a prima donna... Some react to such things by ranting, others would just leave the set/their post without a word, some would just punch the guy, others would quietly restart but do their best later to make the life of the interrupter a living hell, others would just elegantly forget it and move on... We all have ways to deal with accumulated frustration, our sense of self-worth and the perception of unprofessionalism on the part of others, why should actors be different ? They're not paid because they are nice people, they are paid because of their qualities as actors (either their capacity to act, or to fit a physical model). Some of them do it for art, some by passion, others for fame and quite a few only for money (Bronson and Caine come to mind).
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Let's see, I'm doing my job, some wanker just walks by ruining it and forcing me to start over again... I'd be quite pissed too... especially if, believing a clue dropped by Bale during his rant, it actually was the second time said wanker did that...
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How could we forget the most enjoyable Star Trek inspired movie ? Galaxy Quest ! By Grabthar's hammer, by the Sons of Warvan, you shall be avenged !
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Other F-111 Projects Left to Do
Gunrunner replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
That "thing" does compete with the F-111B for the title of ugliest vark... Let me guess, it was a backup plan if/when the B-1A project collapsed (salvaging the power plant and probably the parts of the avionics that were working as per specifications) ? -
Combat Ace ? What's this Combat Ace you're talking about ? This is BioHaz right ? What year is this ?