This is exactly how that opening scene in fast and furious wouldve gone down in real life

Please tell me you have that long string of “keywords” saved off somewhere and that you didn't just type them all up for this post.

Yup, agree 100%. Tyler built a great community here, and everyone lived up to his example. You don’t find stuff like this on the internet very often.

I really hope Nick Denton has had the opportunity to read Tyler’s work, because he’s presented a realistic, workable alternative to his current business model.

Crap I didn’t realize we were having a meeting. Be right there guys.

Fred is coming with me!

I don’t mean to offend, but probably could...Tyler’s writing was one of the few instances on Gawker of something being “fit for print.” Wonderfully solid articles. He will be missed.

Tyler, without you…

Yeah I’m just nitpicking because I can about the pilot thing.

He was a naval aviator, not a pilot.

Care to explain?

Calling a downed pilot a coward is so stupid. Even more so when they spent that kind of time as a POW, and refused special treatment or early release.

He was shot down by a SAM you dumbass. He spent over five years as a POW, after fracturing his arms and a leg and getting bayoneted by his captors. He only received medical treatment days later when they figured out who his dad was. Then when he refused to be released early for North Vietnamese propaganda reasons, he…

HAHAAH! “A-X”

Half of Europe would have a life expectancy of 2-3 weeks if full scale war broke out in Europe.

Unfortunately it takes Ferrari’s to get to targets inside a modern integrated air defense network. Those old F-18's are great... but someone has to clear the way.

The lead designer held a celebratory brunch at a retirement community in Florida. Prune juice and oatmeal raisin cookies were served, and the event was followed by an afternoon nap.

They don’t even need to build more of them, we already have 300 of them, and most have been highly upgraded.

The desperation to kill the A-10 seems to be crossing well into the insanity realm. Our obsession with having the fanciest and newest shiniest weapons is going to bite us in the ass here. And probably not in the too distant future if we continue to gut everything to support the mammoth cluster f*** that is the F-35.…