I’d put that one on Audi, actually.

While the Jag-M was indeed a very cool-looking plane, it had some real operational problems that weren’t going to be overcome easily or cheaply.

The best part of every online game is offline mode.

Fortunately, there is a company that’s putting out a ton of Star Wars-licensed games and lots of additional content updates: Fantasy Flight Games.

There was a familiar-looking shape in the hangar control tower aboard Finalizer, briefly.

And the fact that the stormtroopers had different voices.

edit: whoops, i see that this was already addressed multiple times.

The idea of damage points—a holdover from the simplified record-keeping needed for tabletop games—remains an albatross around game design’s collective neck.

Point of order: Vietnam, back when it had a Vietnam-era airforce, managed to shoot down 15-18 of them.

Given how effective fighter shields were in the films, the Empire clearly made the correct decision to omit them.

There was a point, waiting tables at China Coast (hahaha, remember them?) when I realized that I’d begun wishing I’d never left the Navy. Standing Feed Pump Watch from 10PM to 3AM in the 135F ambient was more pleasant than wearing a faux coolie jacket and talking to people who were less interested in eating a meal…

There are plenty of people who have actual dietary restrictions. There are other people who have made up bullshit rationales why they “can’t” eat things they don’t like, and I’m betting everyone in this discussion has encountered them a lot more often.

The Expanded Universe, we had been telling ourselves, was Star Wars canon.

You would be amazed at how blue the ocean can get on a cloudless day.

This was true until around 1989-1990, when all the black topworks were painted haze gray to match everything else.

And yet, oddly, battleships were historically sunk or mission-killed by hits with pretty much the same characteristics of antiship missiles.

The Model S pano sunroof doesn’t cause that problem, and I assume the Model X takes advantage of whatever tinting sorcery it uses.

That was, once upon a time, the plan. It was a hi-lo mix that would have directly replaced the F-15/F-16 hi-lo mix. The idea that the two planes were set up as political competitors is an artifact of drawdown spending.

Does everyone have a jetpack?

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