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Source4Leko posted:Gas powered 20 foot pole saw. Like a pike but with a chainsaw at the end. If I ever write a hacky time travel scifi fantasy novel this is going in it.
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canyoneer posted:If I ever write a hacky time travel scifi fantasy novel this is going in it. "A Florida Redneck in King Arthur's Court"
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I'm starting to think I should just ask y'all for feedback on this stuff because every """expert""" that has approached me so far has either been very extremely talking out of their rear end or hasn't offered me anything I couldn't learn from Wikipedia. Plus a 20-foot pole saw would rule as a weapon.
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It would I'm surprised it never showed up in any of the evil dead movies.
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According to the red army (who I consider reasonably expert on the subject), the best infantry weapon for house-to-house fighting is a shitton of grenades.
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The Lone Badger posted:According to the red army (who I consider reasonably expert on the subject), the best infantry weapon for house-to-house fighting is a shitton of grenades. There’s a great WW2 story about a USGI who had a lucky dud grenade and would clear a building by throwing it in then immediately kicking down the door and hosing people down with his submachine gun. He’s search around, get his grenade back and attack the next house the same way.
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Toxic gas and flamethrowers are the key to a successful hostage situation according to Spetsnaz.
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Casimir Radon posted:Toxic gas and flamethrowers are the key to a successful hostage situation according to Spetsnaz. They prefer to call them unintentional combatants, not hostages
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Yuri you idiot! You didn’t bring enough bodybags. Like half these people are gonna have to double up. We can maybe fit three kids in some of them.
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Casimir Radon posted:Toxic gas and flamethrowers are the key to a successful hostage situation according to Spetsnaz. Step 1 of a hostage situation: make it stop being a hostage situation.
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Vengarr posted:If you don’t take this opportunity to add an underslung angle grinder, you’re making a big mistake Excuse me sir, this is the idiots thread not the genius thread.
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drat I never got to do any cool poo poo in the military
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Did you at least get to piss hot?
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Casimir Radon posted:Toxic gas and flamethrowers are the key to a successful hostage situation according to Spetsnaz. What about a toxic gas used in an experimental flamethrower? https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-you-time The nazis wouldn’t try it, but we* went on to try and use it as a rocket fuel and spilled over a ton of it  (a link to that incident report is in the above link)*it was probably nazis, just working for us after Operation Paperclip.
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Midjack posted:Sources say yes: Wrong Theory posted:There was the GREM: Both of these are lobbing explosive munitions. I was thinking of something like the M576, but using a pressed-powdered-metal projectile instead of lead balls.
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The Lone Badger posted:Both of these are lobbing explosive munitions. I was thinking of something like the M576, but using a pressed-powdered-metal projectile instead of lead balls. This has "Hold my beer..." written all over it.
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Iirc someone makes a 12ga adapter for 40mm launchers, use that.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:drat I never got to do any cool poo poo in the military The "coolest" thing I did was super nerdy. We got permission to plug in an Xbox (and a Playstation, for testing, of course) into the secure side of the network and went online with it. It was a whole "todo" since we were the one of the first to swap our secure side for non secure communication. It was a big plan involving disaster response and FEMA. It was interesting taking classified equipment, making it unclassified, using it, then putting everything back the way it was. It was worth it to see the post commander lose his poo poo when he found us testing.
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Kith posted:I'm starting to think I should just ask y'all for feedback on this stuff because every """expert""" that has approached me so far has either been very extremely talking out of their rear end or hasn't offered me anything I couldn't learn from Wikipedia. When I was deployed I thought about making a video game based on being in the military and decided it would have to a Cart Life / Wario-Ware style collection of mini-games about trite, meaningless bullshit and no actual "excitement". I'd love to help with your stuff but all my military experience was hiding in hidden buildings on the flightline trying to avoid the world. My NCOIC once ordered me to make friends. Told him I had a ton of friends, I spent the entire weekend every weekend out and about in Tokyo. He says, no no, friends in the military, to which I absolutely refused. Nothing good would come of that.
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Wrr posted:When I was deployed I thought about making a video game based on being in the military and decided it would have to a Cart Life / Wario-Ware style collection of mini-games about trite, meaningless bullshit and no actual "excitement". Kind of like Real Army Simulator?
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Deployment for me was 80% trying not to kill myself, 5% trying not to get killed by someone else*, and 10% trying not to step on IEDs. The 80% of me not trying to kill myself can further be broken down as 50% beating off and 50% burying all of my emotions and feelings and becoming a broken individual. Combat arms, folks. *This includes by people in my own platoon. We were a very broken group of people. I was also shot at twice by ANP. boop the snoot fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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Wrr posted:When I was deployed I thought about making a video game based on being in the military and decided it would have to a Cart Life / Wario-Ware style collection of mini-games about trite, meaningless bullshit and no actual "excitement". The game is closer to "what if Left 4 Dead, but an ARPG instead of a FPS and a military squad instead of plucky survivors". It's based on a series of mods from Warcraft III and Starcraft II called Night of the Dead, which I also worked on. I don't want to derail the thread any more than I already have, so if anyone's interested in sharing their experience or hearing about what I'm up to, just shoot me a PM.
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Have a mission were you have have to stay awake at a table with radio comms for 12 hours (no saves), hourly you have to look at another screen to get info to update on your main terminal and after 6-7 hours you get a ping about message traffic. If you don’t respond in 10 minutes your sat phone blows up with inquiries on your position, speed and direction. Your relief also arrives 15-30 late to relieve you so the mission doesn’t really end at 12 hours. Have the computers camera track your eye movement and if they close too long an angry chief jump scares you and you fail the mission. I wouldn’t play this game but I’d make my kids do it once before they get any smart ideas to enlist.
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Crab Dad posted:Have a mission were you have have to stay awake at a table with radio comms for 12 hours (no saves), hourly you have to look at another screen to get info to update on your main terminal and after 6-7 hours you get a ping about message traffic. If you don’t respond in 10 minutes your sat phone blows up with inquiries on your position, speed and direction. Hard mode: The system breaks due to a software update that was pushed to your terminal without your consent. Despite the fact that it is now impossible for you to do your tasks, you are still somehow expected to do your tasks. There is no real-world consequence for doing them or not doing them.
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Crab Dad posted:Have a mission were you have have to stay awake at a table with radio comms for 12 hours (no saves), hourly you have to look at another screen to get info to update on your main terminal and after 6-7 hours you get a ping about message traffic. If you don’t respond in 10 minutes your sat phone blows up with inquiries on your position, speed and direction. When Papers, Please came out and was getting a lot of praise, I tried it out and quit after about 40 minutes because it was eerily similar to the work I was doing at the time and as such just wasn't fun
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To keep with the intention of the thread and talk about real life idiots I may have mentioned it before but deployment is where I learned that you do not Ever Ever Under any circumstances No matter how bad it gets Do not EEEEEEEEVER beat off with hand sanitizer
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boop the snoot posted:To keep with the intention of the thread and talk about real life idiots I may have mentioned it before but deployment is where I learned that you do not Even if it has aloe?
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Kith posted:I'm starting to think I should just ask y'all for feedback on this stuff because every """expert""" that has approached me so far has either been very extremely talking out of their rear end or hasn't offered me anything I couldn't learn from Wikipedia. You have to put this in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfNPihoelPM
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boop the snoot posted:To keep with the intention of the thread and talk about real life idiots I may have mentioned it before but deployment is where I learned that you do not  Oh god.
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mllaneza posted:You have to put this in: any problem can be solved through sufficient application of a stick of high enough quality
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boop the snoot posted:To keep with the intention of the thread and talk about real life idiots I may have mentioned it before but deployment is where I learned that you do not once when I was maybe 14 I couldn't find any lotion to beat off with so I tried using burn cream
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Kind of like Real Army Simulator? That actually looks exactly like how I was imagining it; art style and all. Although maybe one of those really old school graphics style would work, like the "high detail" images you see in something like Shadowgate 
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Wrr posted:When I was deployed I thought about making a video game based on being in the military and decided it would have to a Cart Life / Wario-Ware style collection of mini-games about trite, meaningless bullshit and no actual "excitement". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTkgi7scKo
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Finnish army simulator is some indie project by an ex conscript basically trying to create a game where you’re an E nothing dirtbag sucking your way through your service period http://finnisharmysimulator.com
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quote:Flagged soldiers will also be ineligible for tuition assistance, attending military or civilian schools, and being paid their enlistment bonuses. Never realized this about a flag, drat
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Scratch Monkey posted:once when I was maybe 14 I couldn't find any lotion to beat off with so I tried using burn cream The stuff with silver? That’ll turn your dick blue. Not really, as far as I know. You’d have to eat it.
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