Quite a bit like Soccer actually except nobody talks shit to the ref, at least not where he can hear it. He can and will red card you or hit your side with a backchat penalty if he wants, which is a scrumdown or a free kick IIRC. It rarely happens at the professional level, I think Ive seen it twice in the 13 years…

My wife actually likes these things. Seriously.

I was planning on doing the same for AC5, Zero and 6, but I have to actually find the games first as well as replace my PS2 as its on its last legs (I can barely get anything to load, AC4 is about the only game that works on it at this point and even then sometimes it'll hang. Nothing quite like making low altitude…

Yeah, I hated Assault Horizon, but I agree the story was pretty good. However, HAVING to go into that stupid unrealistic "dogfight" mode really killed that game, same thing with the stupid helicopter mission where you have an AH-64D but for some reason you don't use TADS (Target Acquistion and Designation System, its…

No, it would not be. I think it would be quite appropriate considering all the shit Blackhawks fans talked this entire season.

I was about to say bullshit, as every rifle on the planet and presumably other planets requires zeroing (which is what I figure you meant by calibration, Luke) before you can fire accurately with one and actually expect to hit your target. Except of course those that don't actually fire anything, like this one and the…

See my other posts. I'm sick of repeating myself.

Actually it was World War I, and he was the Battalion Commander of the 333d Machine Gun Battalion, part of the 172d Infantry Brigade (Much later they were the original Stryker BCT) which was one of the Brigades under the 86th Infantry Division during WWI. I just learned this tonight from this page actually. And having…

Its cool man, neither am I. Hell, I'm honestly trying to teach people who may not know about my tribe and our war aside from the name of the team and the UH-60 helicopter's name. The Blackhawk is one of the few Army helicopters to not be named after a tribe, and the only one to be named after a person.

Uh no, I said the logo needs to be more realistic. And how is it my logo? I don't work for the team, I don't live in Illinois, and I don't like the Blackhawks. My only connection with anything to do with it is that I'm a Sauk on my mom's side and also apparently the first owner was in a Brigade, the 172d Infantry…

I was talking about the Black Hawk War. I had no idea that the first owner had been with the 86th during the first world war. Knowing that now, I probably should have clarified. The Black Hawk war is not a very well known conflict even in Illinois, even though there's a ton of stuff named Black Hawk, like the 86th…

Three actually. The Touch Judges are also certified as refs by the IRB and they do make calls, though they're limited as to whether the ball has gone into touch or not and what they saw if there are questions they have regarding a try or a possible penalty if one of the touch judges had a clearer view of what…

Well, calling someone Black Hawk is not a racial slur while calling them a Redskin is. Black Hawk was a person, a Sauk war chief who knew better than to trust the State or Federal governments, and naming the team after him is honestly pretty cool considering most people have no idea about that war.

I don't really get how DAT was a failure either, the Recording Industry Ass. of America was terrified of it so it never had a chance in the consumer arena, as this was before they had squandered their goodwill among consumers but quite a number of recording studios in the 90's were using DAT for recording and…

Its a non-native english speaking Microsoft fanboy schilling for them, so it may as well be an ad. Especially with the lame "pony" insults.

Ah, Hamster Dance. I remember basically doing the equivalent of rickrolling people with it on IRC and AIM. Brings back memories.

Oh okay, the letters that Twilight sends are the message. That makes sense, I just wasn't thinking about it I guess.

I never took down my old Angelfire site, so if its still around I'm not surprised, but I feel sorry for anyone that happens across it. I managed to embed a .wav of a song by The Locust that would always load after the page had, and if you've ever heard them, you know what I mean but I don't quite know how to describe…

I'm using registered youth player numbers in 1990 and then again in 1995, as my metric. You can take a look for yourself here. For a country with a pretty large population, our registered numbers didn't start to take off until after 1994 and have actually been contracting since 2008, though the "great recession" may…

I remember GIFs too. And gawd-awful embedded MIDI "music" or a five to ten second .wav file set to loop infinitely. Ugh, Im having Geocities and Angelfire flashbacks.