I figured they were RQ-170 Sentinels or some kind of updated A-12 the first time I saw them. It looks an awful lot like an A-12 though, and the Navy's been sort of fucked when it comes to medium bombing, something that was one of their traditional strengths until after they got rid of the A-6E. I don't care how great…

Ugh.

As much as I like old school adventure games, from Maniac Mansion to Beneath a Steel Sky to Broken Sword to the Dig and some weird ones like this adventure game for the Genesis where you played a worthless alien (Cosmic Spacehead or Spaceboy or something like that I think), I hated Willy Beamish and still do, I…

Half-Life 3 confirmed

Its Busgate. I wonder who's gonna be deepthroat, or who got deepthroated on that bus.

Just curious, are you a lawyer?

If so, do you feel that the case has any merit as a professional? And what about the clause in the EULA which says you'll submit to arbitration? I've always considered that legally questionable, but case law backs it up, does it not?

I wonder who ESPN will suspend next week. Any bets?

And Origin Systems' Wing Commander III by Chris Roberts (a much better game imho), is free forever right now on Origin until next month. It may be visually dated but its a fun game, and its damned difficult. Then again, I got BF4 for free when I bought my wife's laptop and I haven't been too impressed with it.

I…

Probably Medal of Honor (2010).

One of the player characters, the Ranger, shares the same rank and last name with me, and in that particular mission, you tend to die. A lot. I'm nowhere near badass enough to be a Ranger, or even an infantryman, but it still cut to the bone.

It probably wouldn't bother me much usually,…

Apparently you did enough to reply.

Watch them make it the most powerful Pokemon in history. Just to troll all the Magikarp haters.

I'm sure its been said already, but this entitlement complex that plagues gamers has got to stop, people already think we're immature enough on our own without us proving their point for them. If we ever want to shake that "games are for kids" bullshit off, we're going to have to stop acting like my 2-year old does…

Their rifle, the L85A1 isn't the greatest in the world, British Soldiers still complain about it and the SAS and SBS still won't use it (they're using H&K 417s last I'd heard), though it has come quite a long way from how bad it was when they first introduced it as a replacement for their version of the FAL, the L1A1.…

I know you're exaggerating but its quite honestly true enough.

I worked with the Marine Corps quite often in California and beyond, and I've never seen a group of people (who weren't technically SOF) improvise solutions better than Marines.

I wanted to join the Marines initially actually, but I found out about the…

Half Life: Black Ops: Future Soldier Warfare 3: Shut Up and Jam, The Phantom Menace Part Sixteen and 5/4ths Returns—-Tactical Espionage Cutscenes

Where are all the batteries?

Hear me out, It may sound stupid but if you've ever been in a NATO or Allied Army since about 1989 onward, you may very well be wondering the same thing. It varies from person to person and unit to unit but I used to have to carry about 30 lbs of batteries for my sights, radios,…

Oh god yes. I tend to write a lot, one of the reasons I don't use twitter actually, and my professor in Disaster Communications used to get on me about being too long winded in press release assignments. If you're not direct and to the point, people may not pay attention and that can (and does) cost lives. Same goes…

Yeah I know. I didn't say it was Patricia. I was just musing that I usually prefer her writing style when dealing with topics like this as opposed to the more artistic style employed by Cara Ellison. Probably should have made it clearer

Don't worry about sounding condescending at all dude. I know for a fact that you're being honest because I hear my friends and other students at my university in programs like that complain about it, or conversely really enjoy it.

Fortunately for me, my BS is in Emergency Management with Radiological Science as a…

Cara Ellison is a Scottish writer and a veteran war poet of the early 2012 game critic wars. Her medals have stopped at least three bullets in the past, one still residing in her chest. She has written for little rags like The Guardian and the New Statesman, and writes the best-named column in the world (S.EXE) at…

Me either. I usually like Patricia's articles about this sort of thing, but this is just way too far out for me. Its not the bad poetry either. TL;DR maybe.