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by Stofsk
Sun May 26, 2013 5:12 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Spain just spent $680 million on a submarine that can’t swim
Replies: 15
Views: 2392

Re: Spain just spent $680 million on a submarine that can’t

I meant the entire project costs thus far. The entire sub project for Spain was slated to cost 3 billion for 4 subs. Now it will cost more. The amount of money paid for the F-35 has produced a workable combat aircraft with teething problems, that will be produced in the thousands. So no, the F-35 d...
by Stofsk
Sat May 25, 2013 3:08 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Spain just spent $680 million on a submarine that can’t swim
Replies: 15
Views: 2392

Re: Spain just spent $680 million on a submarine that can’t

I meant the entire project costs thus far.
by Stofsk
Sat May 25, 2013 2:29 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Spain just spent $680 million on a submarine that can’t swim
Replies: 15
Views: 2392

Re: Spain just spent $680 million on a submarine that can’t

You spent 680 million dollars on a submarine that can't even float!?! BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH! OH MAN AT LEAST THE F-35 CAN FUCKING FLY! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OH... oh God... I needed that. I... wow. You know, we can make fun of the Air Force for quite a lot. However... as much of a deba...
by Stofsk
Sat May 25, 2013 2:12 am
Forum: The Arts
Topic: At the Movies with General Havoc
Replies: 800
Views: 180816

Re: At the Movies with General Havoc

I was entertained by the film, but in retrospect it has many problems and I think ultimately I'm disappointed with nuTrek. RE: Scale of nuTrek being small. They're probably trying to emulate TOS more than TNG/DS9, with its 'only the Enterprise can save us!' motif. The thing is though, outside of TMP...
by Stofsk
Sat May 18, 2013 4:14 am
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: Star Trek Fleet Captains board game review
Replies: 4
Views: 1267

Re: Star Trek Fleet Captains board game review

Another game we've been playing regularly is Spartacus.

That's an amazing game.
by Stofsk
Fri May 17, 2013 12:22 am
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: Star Trek Fleet Captains board game review
Replies: 4
Views: 1267

Star Trek Fleet Captains board game review

Hi guys, I've been away from the board for awhile now. I thought I'd pop in with a review for a board game I got over a month ago, called Star Trek Fleet Captains. The game is very good. I like it a lot. I've only played it twice, but my regular gaming group seem to like it so it'll become a mainsta...
by Stofsk
Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:15 pm
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: Endless Space: For scratching that MOO itch
Replies: 17
Views: 3313

Re: Endless Space: For scratching that MOO itch

Are you guys sure that nostalgia isn't colouring your impressions? I remember SMAC, MoO2 and GalCiv 2, and engaging diplomacy wasn't anywhere near those games. SMAC and Galciv 2 had personality, but that was it. It was still just a 'Here's one of my tech for one of yours' mechanic, and little else. ...
by Stofsk
Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:26 pm
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: Star Citizen / Squadron 42
Replies: 50
Views: 16104

Re: Star Citizen / Squadron 42

This puppy has raised over five million clams. That's more than Project Eternity, which broke all kinds of records last month. It's pretty fucking hilarious that they can't go to conventional production companies because 'lol nobody wants to play those old classic style games :v' Yeah, horseshit. He...
by Stofsk
Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:36 pm
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: Star Citizen / Squadron 42
Replies: 50
Views: 16104

Re: Star Citizen / Squadron 42

^ Yeah, same. I would never play it, but I kinda like to observe it or read stories about some of the weird shit that happens in it.

EDIT DayZ is in the same boat as EVE for me.
by Stofsk
Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:08 am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: To which extent does space AWACS make sense?
Replies: 26
Views: 20300

Re: To which extent does space AWACS make sense?

Good luck ever having anything other than computers deal with that kind of stuff. I'm just sayin'.
by Stofsk
Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:07 pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: [concept] Powered Armor
Replies: 4
Views: 7641

Re: Powered Armor (concept)

Shouldn't you also add another category: how to power the bloody thing? Because that is what I would consider the biggest limiter to powered armour. I guess it also depends on the type of powered armour. Like if we're talking Mass Effect style hardsuits, you don't have to power mechanical servo join...
by Stofsk
Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:25 pm
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: The Old Republic
Replies: 68
Views: 11653

Re: The Old Republic

Free-to-Play launches Thursday. Remember to roll on Ebon Hawk! :wink: So what does the free-to-play option amount to? ETA: I mean for a newb to this style of MMO and all, since I've never done WoW or anything of the sort. Essentially you'll be restricted to what races you can use and a few customiz...
by Stofsk
Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:07 pm
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: The Old Republic
Replies: 68
Views: 11653

Re: The Old Republic

I've heard that TOR's F2P matrix is pretty bad. STO's the only yardstick I have to measure it by, though.
by Stofsk
Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:22 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Anders Behring Breivik's prison conditions 'inhumane'
Replies: 17
Views: 2787

Re: Anders Behring Breivik's prison conditions 'inhumane'

Is there a problem with inmate murder in Norway? If not, can there be one? This is the second time you've made what I'm assuming to be a facetious remark calling for this guy to get shanked. I know that this guy is a reprehensible human being, and I know that some might feel his punishment is somew...
by Stofsk
Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:09 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Bradley Offspring, GCV, May Top 84 Tons
Replies: 5
Views: 1282

Re: Bradley Offspring, GCV, May Top 84 Tons

This reminds me of the film 'The Pentagon Wars' humourous send-up of the Bradley's evolution: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA[/youtube] Seriously, this kind of mission creep in the design process is fucked up, and needs to die. 'Oh it's a transport vehicle. Let's also turn it int...
by Stofsk
Fri Nov 09, 2012 8:50 pm
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: The Old Republic
Replies: 68
Views: 11653

Re: The Old Republic

Man shitheads running off their leashes in chats aren't anything new. It's been something I've seen in STO and you either ignore it or... well, that's it really.
by Stofsk
Fri Nov 09, 2012 8:48 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Coal Co. Fires 150 Because Mitt Failed
Replies: 5
Views: 940

Re: Coal Co. Fires 150 Because Mitt Failed

What a sack of shit. I'm sure had Mittens won those guys would still be employed. /sarcasm
by Stofsk
Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:09 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: USS Enterprise sailing off to history’s scrap heap
Replies: 23
Views: 2892

Re: USS Enterprise sailing off to history’s scrap heap

I honestly don't see why naming warships after presidents is any worse than naming them after cities or states, really. Honestly? It's as frigid says, they're politicians. At least with a city or state you can go 'that's a place filled with millions of people, that's worth something'. And those civ...
by Stofsk
Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:02 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Essay on American failures in Generalship
Replies: 4
Views: 978

Re: Essay on American failures in Generalship

Though detailed, this analysis is shallow on several points. It criticizes the generalship of the Army by the time-honored tradition of simply not talking about anyone except those generals that fit its premise and pretending the rest don't exist or don't matter for unstated reasons. This does not ...
by Stofsk
Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:52 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: USS Enterprise sailing off to history’s scrap heap
Replies: 23
Views: 2892

Re: USS Enterprise sailing off to history’s scrap heap

We don't name ships like that anymore, now we name them after politicians. According to the Navy office, they have decided that policy is no longer popular and are considering going back to traditional names. Thank fuck for that. Speaking as a non-American outsider-looking-in, naming warships with ...
by Stofsk
Sun Nov 04, 2012 11:18 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Essay on American failures in Generalship
Replies: 4
Views: 978

Essay on American failures in Generalship

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/general-failure/309148/?single_page=true General Failure Looking back on the troubled wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many observers are content to lay blame on the Bush administration. But inept leadership by American generals was also responsible f...
by Stofsk
Sun Nov 04, 2012 8:15 am
Forum: Great Hall
Topic: We Survived
Replies: 44
Views: 7706

Re: We Survived

I'll take the occasional bout of Nazism that essentially goes nowhere (and at this point I wouldn't be surprised if there were more Nazis in the US than there are in Germany) over a biannual natural catastrophe any day but they're your lives to complicate any way you see fit. :wink: Of all the ways...
by Stofsk
Sat Nov 03, 2012 7:13 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Disney Buys Lucasfilm
Replies: 20
Views: 3144

Re: Disney Buys Lucasfilm

I'm pretty apathetic to this news. As in, I couldn't care less. Lucas killed off my remaining esteem for his work, first with the special editions of the OT, then the prequels, then the DVD release of the OT which had the original originals with the shitty laserdisc transfer (right next to the SE ve...
by Stofsk
Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:11 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: Skyfall
Replies: 12
Views: 3121

Re: Skyfall

Josh wrote:I loved Casino Royale up to the last fifteen minutes or so
IDK if I like the last 15 mins of Casino Royale, but the last minute or two make up for it.