SHutsonBlount
SHutsonBlount
SHutsonBlount

Station wagons were passe and hardly seen when they made the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, so it stands to reason they’d put the new cast in a vehicle similarly out of touch.

Every computer game with AI opponents tends to have them behave as either mindless pattern-running automatons, or unerring tireless radar-directed death turrets. Nuance seems to lie in how they switch between states.

Also:

Iran isn’t a monolith. Not all parties want to see the deal as it exists come into play.

If they don't want to do that much reading, they probably shouldn't be your friends in the first place.

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I think there's something missing from this list:

I was (and unfortunately still am) a server at a "family" restaurant with a giant smiling cookie as their mascot and a theme song that played after every episode of Mister Roger's Neighborhood.

We like hearing about design companies betting everything on the one big project they all fervently believe in, and getting the Cinderella ending when their do-or-die attitude wins the day. This is the (necessary) other side of that story—the people who lose.

Helos can hide, fixed-wings can't. It's an exponentially different NOE.

The reason the Bronco was ushered out was that is was dead meat on a stick in any kind of serious AA threat environment. And still would be—and so are all of its modern replacements.

"Don't use any unnecessary words at all" isn't advice—it's poison. Spare and lean isn't the only way to write entertainingly.

The system was seen as so capable in the 1980's that when the refit Iowa Class Battleships were put back into service, Stingers were provided for point air defense as a cost saving measure instead of equipping the massive surface combatants with Sea Sparrow missiles.

They've already got Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton (from 300) producing, with Michael Gordon (also from 300, as well as GI Joe) writing a screenplay.

Did a glass of milk shoot your dog, or something?

Was just coming here to post it.

You lost me at "heavy steel armor." The hulls are made of bog-standard 5/8ths inch mild steel and the superstructures are aluminum.

Unfortunately, "realistic" has always been an attractive idea in games

The later version of AMRAAM have the same range and the additional benefit of not blowing up halfway to the target.

Eve and WW2OL are the only MMOs that ever really got me to care about what was happening. All the leveling treadmills in the world can't touch 'em, no matter how pretty or well voice-acted.

Even worse, they're hyper-vigilant about making sure everyone only gets their allotment and no more. If you're a teetotaler, you can't swap away your beers to those who might appreciate them more.