“since GRRM is hardly mainstream”

You couldn’t hipster any harder even if you weren’t trying.

Nothing about the show is inferior to the books except length. That’s it. Martin is a long winded, horror writer. Sure he nailed the shit out of some world building, and back story for this whole saga, but it doesn’t discount the fact that the books themselves read like 2nd rate Stephen King. Obviously there is more…

It’s because regardless of what GRRM and fans say, there has been absolutely no point to the story what so ever, its not a microcosm of the futility of life, love and betrayal, its just a meandering horror story with dragons and ice zombies with extremely good world building.
Maybe bringing in some writers with less…

That my friend, is because, we are, still mortal after all.

Jessica Nigri herself is an insult to female cosplay. She was the fat picked on girl at school, bought herself some boobs, and went for the one demographic of males desperate enough to give her attention, cos-play. Syfy ran that Cosplay show for a season (maybe more I never made it past the first couple episodes) and…

That was one of the biggest thing’s that bugged me in my 12 years in the Army. Anytime a vehicle broke down, it was ALWAYS someones fault. It didn’t matter that it was something annotated on a 5988 for months, or that the parts request had been in there for the same amount of time. I was the TC of one of the old…

According to the lore of the game, its very highly hinted there was Russian involvement. They of course leave it open for a sequel.

It’s like a monkey with an Abrams tank, if.... A human started it. A human loaded it. A human removed all safeties.....

Wouldn’t even that metric be skewed by population increase? The time it takes a population of 1,000,000 is going to take alot longer to achieve a billion miles travelled, than a population of 5,000,000. Of course the population of 5 million is going to have more traffic fatalities than a population of 1 million no…

Depends on your metric of success I suppose. From a purely military standpoint, Phantom Fury, Restoring Rights and Imposing Law all were success in that they achieved the end goal of denying the enemy the ability to plan, rest, and equip in certain area’s of the country.
In order to defeat them using your metric of…

Funny story:
During Desert Storm, Eagle Troop 2ndACR, captured a Iraqi Battalion Commander. He was placed into a M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, where there on the turret door hung a picture of Rommel. When the Iraqi Battalion Commander asked “Why do you have a picture of your World War 2 enemy hanging in your vehicle.”…

I have worked with both sides of the coin tho. In 2005 I had had the shitty, hard to teach, lazy bastards, but it was just a standard Iraqi Army platoon who’s entire job was to stand at checkpoints and check cars. On the flip side my last time in Iraq 2009, we were training a brand new Iraqi combat engineer platoon in…

Among the myriad of reason’s Iraqi’s weren’t deserting or surrendering in record numbers is, they would most definitely be killed for doing so. Also Arab vs. Persian is a very old feud.
The Iraqi’s at the beginning of the Gulf War weren’t surrendering, in fact there was quite a few units that fought to the last man.…

Look up Operation Phantom Fury and Operation Restoring Rights.
2 very similar situations. Completely similar enemies. Completely successful operations.
It’s siege warfare, it hasn’t changed in 1000 years, the weapons have, but the principals have remained the same since forever.

White Phosphorus as a element is not against the Geneva Conventions to use. The application of white phosphorus and what it is being used for is where it gets tricky. Technically, a person is not allowed to target another human being with White Phosphorus (Willy Pete) with the intention of that being the mechanism of…

I wasn’t a part of Phantom Fury, but I was a little cog in the big machine during Operation Restoring Rights in Tal’Afar (2005) which was where Al Qaeda Iraq was basing its troops due to its close proximity to the Syrian border and Mosul, Iraq. They used connecting highways to move fighters, supplies, and weapons. In…

Yeah that’s what I am telling you. Ask any Iraq or Afghanistan war vet about their time spent unloading pallets of bottled, store bought water. It’s cheaper to buy the stuff in bulk in cases like that than it is for the military to find a source and purify it. Depending on where we were in Iraq we were under a general…

That bustle rack is the only sort of storage for things on that vehicle. Normally its duffle bags and ruck sacks up there. But inside there is no space for anything besides bodies.

Tell me where you going to put all your stuff inside this:

It’s standard practice to have water on the vehicle. I always made sure we had 2 cases of water in all my vehicles when I was a platoon sergeant. It’s not like you can just stop in the middle of everything and go fill up a canteen from a faucet.

It never failed, the Phalanx at Basra, would let loose on IDF EVERY SINGLE TIME I WAS IN THE SHOWER!