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Lets discuss current world events like civilized people in this thread instead of having to deal with autistic shut-ins in D&D. Stay on topic, don't shitpost!
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gently caress yeah
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Jan 1, 2015 21:50
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Gigi Galli posted:Lets discuss current world events like civilized people in this thread instead of having to deal with autistic shut-ins in D&D. poo poo poasting.
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Jan 1, 2015 21:53
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hell yeah gigi did a thread In current events, Soccer is still the gayest sport and nine bodies have been recovered from a plane crash. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/01/world/asia/airasia-disaster/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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Jan 1, 2015 21:59
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Master Bateman posted:poo poo poasting. MODS
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Jan 1, 2015 22:04
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Current events: New year, I have a headache, waiting for deliverance by nuclear fire.
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Jan 1, 2015 22:40
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a good start to the year, the top story on cnn is about a tranny teen.
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Jan 1, 2015 22:53
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Migrating some F-35 chat from the old threadBooblord Zagats posted:Russian fighters carry the same load and have had a good deal of success with it IIRC Russian cannons fire significantly slower. 180rds at 3,000rpm and 150rds at 1,500rpm is a pretty significant difference. Maybe the software prevents the pilot from blasting his wad all it once but who the gently caress knows
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Jan 1, 2015 23:09
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Please change to the name Current Events: Ignore Everything Courthouse Posts
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Jan 1, 2015 23:10
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holocaust bloopers posted:Please change to the name Current Events: Ignore Everything Courthouse Posts Hmm, well I don't know about that, but how about this. Hey Courthouse, every time you post in this thread I will flip a coin. Heads I probate you, tails you live to post another day.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:11
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Bolow posted:Migrating some F-35 chat from the old thread It has since the 1970s at least. It's programmed for bursts based on number of rounds. I think the F-16 is limited to something like 100 rd bursts. Current fighters carry less than a second's worth of ammo more than the F-35. And the F-35's will be more powerful and probably more accurate. I love how people raging about the gun thing bounce between "It's unnecessary and adds weight!" and "It doesn't carry enough ammo!" which would add more weight. Pick a side. Here's my post from the end of the last thread: Courthouse posted:Intentionally delivering a gun that does not work? Well my apologies then, the system works. The gun works fine. It's fired thousands of rounds on ground test platforms. This aircraft IS NOT OPERATIONAL. It doesn't need a goddamned gun yet. It WONT be operational until AFTER that software upgrade. Who the gently caress cares if the gun works while they're still testing whether the drat plane will fly reliably and live up to expectations? This has been the plan for like a decade. The AF and Navy aren't planning to declare IOC until well after 3F is delivered. The Marines are the only idiots doing it sooner, and frankly that's dumb as gently caress. Get angry about that, not because the gun aspect is actually proceeding exactly as loving planned. Edit: Wikipedia for the M61 says bursts are limited to 40 or 50, but there's no citation and I don't think that's accurate. I'm pretty sure I've actually watched longer strafe runs than that. That's .4 to .5 seconds. Godholio fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jan 1, 2015 |
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Jan 1, 2015 23:13
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Hmm, well I don't know about that, but how about this. Best mod
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Jan 1, 2015 23:15
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who is courthouse
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Jan 1, 2015 23:19
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FAT SLAMPIG posted:who is courthouse Some motherfucker who's always trying to ice skate uphill.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:24
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haha blade reference so fresh right?!
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Jan 1, 2015 23:25
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who the gently caress needs an f35 anyway just build a shitload more a10s in fact i'm pretty sure the entire airforce could consist of just a10s and sr71s and still be the best
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Jan 1, 2015 23:37
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Godholio posted:It has since the 1970s at least. It's programmed for bursts based on number of rounds. I think the F-16 is limited to something like 100 rd bursts. Current fighters carry less than a second's worth of ammo more than the F-35. And the F-35's will be more powerful and probably more accurate. It's more of a "it doesn't have enough ammo so it is not worth the weight" kind of thing. I mean I don't know much about current fighter ammo loads so maybe 180 rounds on a 3000rpm gun is enough. Maybe with the "x number of rounds per burst" function it stretches that out to a useful amount. It just doesn't seem to allow much room for error.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:42
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It's less than a second's difference from other planes. With more power and probably higher accuracy. Six missiles isn't a whole lot, either. Hell, it's less than Russian jets carry.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:48
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Hey Courthouse, every time you post in this thread I will flip a coin. Heads I probate you, tails you live to post another day. That's a 50% ratio of miscarriage of mod justice. Not sure if you are cut out for the job. Godholio posted:This aircraft IS NOT OPERATIONAL. It doesn't need a goddamned gun yet. It WONT be operational until AFTER that software upgrade. Who the gently caress cares if the gun works while they're still testing whether the drat plane will fly reliably and live up to expectations? This has been the plan for like a decade. The AF and Navy aren't planning to declare IOC until well after 3F is delivered. Last I heard it was 2016, but I guess that's only the marines then? I don't really care about the gun or any of the other specifics. In this case it's that it's supposed to be doing close ground attack missions and the loving gun is an afterthought. The article was just another note in a long row of different mission capabilities not fitting together and the loving thing being worse of at all the other ones as well. The frustration is at watching enormous resources be pissed away, as well as the opportunity costs. For me it's a politics and bureaucracy thing. The nuts and bolts of it I don't claim any expertise over, and if that leads me to say dumb poo poo then I do actually appreciate being corrected. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 1, 2015 23:50
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Courthouse posted:That's a 50% ratio of miscarriage of mod justice. Not sure if you are cut out for the job. Well you can take comfort in knowing that guns mounted on fighter jets are pretty much an afterthought. This is no different.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:52
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I'm pretty tight with the only -C model zipper suited sun god who supposedly attempted a CAS strafing run in the first gulf war. Don't know if that part was true considering the cant on that loving auto cannon and the angles of attack required (And his favorite pastime of seeing how well he can bullshit me), but he legit has a mig kill star up in the 58ths bar, and also is the flight sim security manager now for the F-35 wing and tells me in terse "bro pilotese" that the F-35 is scary "for all the wrong goddamned reasons" whatever the gently caress that's supposed to mean. I honest to god can't ever tell if he's insinuating it's the worst thing to fly or the best. He's pretty drat cagey even though I'd at least seen the the capes briefs that were thrown around when they were looking for volunteers to stand up their pipeline in 06-07, for the life of me the only thing I remember from that day was the hot chick making us sign NDA's. She had legit DSL's and was DTF as all hell. I kinda hope the F-35 evolves into something awesome after the next generation of defense shake ups. Or gets canxd and we start anew. If we go on as is... 
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Jan 2, 2015 00:31
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if we gave IS some ospreys i think they'd sort things out themselves
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Jan 2, 2015 00:52
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Obama Africanus posted:I kinda hope the F-35 evolves into something awesome after the next generation of defense shake ups. Or gets canxd and we start anew. Well there's probably at least a tiny chance the acquisition process has been a massive Cold War style bluff and that when the thing becomes operational we'll all find out it can fly into space and deploy energy shields right
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Jan 2, 2015 01:18
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Courthouse posted:That's a 50% ratio of miscarriage of mod justice. Not sure if you are cut out for the job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GaXa8tSBE
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Jan 2, 2015 01:25
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All this talk about the F-35 reminds me of a previous storypost about an F-15 Canadian pilot slowly pursuing a Russian plane and then realising his plane is disintegrating as it slowly banks left. "At least this money isn't going to the dirty poors!"
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Excellent! This is AUTHENTIC horns.aiff. Not that lovely thin-sounding awful one that was used in Family Guy...
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Jan 2, 2015 02:01
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Courthouse posted:Last I heard it was 2016, but I guess that's only the marines then? Yes, just the Marines. And they made that decision KNOWING the gun wouldn't be fully integrated. That's one of the ways they're being loving stupid.
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Jan 2, 2015 03:06
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Is the Osprey still an occasionally-airborne deathmachine or did they manage to fix those issues? Even if it was 100% reliable it would still look too scary to fly in.
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Jan 2, 2015 05:35
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Internet Wizard posted:Is the Osprey still an occasionally-airborne deathmachine or did they manage to fix those issues? My former boss's son flew tilt-a-whirls for the Corps for a while. He recently transferred to be a FAC, so take that for what it's worth.
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Jan 2, 2015 06:27
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Mario Cuomo is dead http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/01/us/mario-cuomo-dies-new-york-governor/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Mario Cuomo is dead God drat can they bury his loving son with him
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Lazy Reservist posted:My former boss's son flew tilt-a-whirls for the Corps for a while. He recently transferred to be a FAC, so take that for what it's worth. That he needed a B billet?
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Jan 2, 2015 06:42
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Zeris posted:God drat can they bury his loving son with him If Hillary strokes out there's the off chance that he'll be president.
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Jan 2, 2015 07:23
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Internet Wizard posted:Is the Osprey still an occasionally-airborne deathmachine or did they manage to fix those issues? I flew in one a few times and it was pretty cool. They take off like a regular helo at first and then WHOOOOSH.
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Jan 2, 2015 07:27
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Zeroisanumber posted:If Hillary strokes out there's the off chance that he'll be president.
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Jan 2, 2015 07:30
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Zeroisanumber posted:If Hillary strokes out there's the off chance that he'll be president. Lol Like Jeb isn't going to be the next president.
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Jan 2, 2015 07:40
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Genocide Tendency posted:Lol In 2000, there was a political cartoon which ran during the Republican primaries with two men sitting on a bench; one says, "I'm voting for Bush, because he handled the war in Iraq so well!" Second one says, "I'm voting for Dole, but I don't get why he keeps wearing a dress." That joke now works again with only one word changed. 
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Genocide Tendency posted:Lol It would take: 1) Hillary not running 2) Democrats doing a massive gently caress up running into the elections 3) If Bernie Sanders run as an independent or worse as a democrat 4) We have pretty much the same voter turnout as the midterms 5) lol republicans getting their poo poo together lol Then again im am too jaded to trust either political party
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Because nothing says Republican Wave better than the smallest voter turnout in 72 years.
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