My favorite WWII story is still that dude who ripped a mounted machine gun off of whatever it was fixed to and carried it into the fight.
He didn't know it, but he pretty much invented the first person shooter genre.
I think you're talking about Audie Murphy. He ordered his men to retreat back into a woods and fought a delaying action, engaging with his carbine and calling for artillery. Then he mounted a burning tank destroyer and used it's machine gun to engage the Germans. He got shot, kept killing Germans. Ran out of ammo and retreated back to the woods. Where he rallied his unit and launched a counter-attack. He got the Medal of Honor and for it. He was the most decorated solider in US history.
He's also kind of a big deal because he had PTSD. And him speaking out was influential for making the DoD recognize it because he was one of the few people the Army couldn't call him a coward.
Didn't he also join like waaaaay under-aged as well?
And starred in a bunch of movies about WWII?
I don't think he was underaged, just tiny as fuck.
He did star in a movie about himself, which they toned down, because they felt the reality would seem too ridiculous.
and this image which I stumbled upon in some folder somewhere. SVAROG Corporation ideas.
what is with the multiple gas ports on that bottom one?
me coming up with as many ideas as I can before rejected harebrained or ugly ones
if I was gonna use what I'm gonna call the three lined look I'd retool the bottom thing to be something. Rail supporting the handguard or something.
cleaning rod is the classic
ah, yeah, of course. I didn't like the three nearly equal pipes look anyway. I liked the general look of three things, because svarog is the most mechanical metal looking of them all. Off-shoot of vulcan, which has plain no nonsense designs, but without plastic furniture and more just metal junk. I think the example we talked about was G3 variants, where Vulcan would make it look like this
(which is pretty much how the non-LMG looking vulcan gun looks)
and Svarog would make it look like this
but of course exagerrated
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So my buddy is a climber who makes a living doing repairs, cleaning, maintenance and painting at extreme heights
As we speak he is painting the fucking CN Tower in Toronto
He will be home at 7 am
What kind of life
painting houses definitely conquered my fear of heights
watching roofers lay down shingle still amazes me though
those guys just give no fucks about a 30° grade forty feet off the ground
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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Speaking of the circle of life, just read this
And look--a thousand blossoms with the day woke
And a thousand scatter'd into clay:
And this first summer month that brings the rose
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away
The idea of the pretentious Japanese guns having module names that assemble into haiku is so good.
If this was my game and the guns weren't already made of three modules I would consider retooling the game to make it happen.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
oh also the books don't have to be sci-fi/fantasy. i only read hyperion because donk jizzed over it
things i like: awesome, brutal fights. uh, cool surprising strategies. titties. smart writing even if not especially dense or challenging. or none of this.
i guess most of the stuff i read tends to be sci-fi/fantasy/spy stuff. hmm. alternative history is p cool, it often has the above in spades.
Meanwhile she and I had a conversation about structural social determinism and whether life has any inherent value
At one point I said her stance's logical conclusion was that she was morally beholden to kill all human beings, possibly all conscious beings
These Toronto people
I also went to a punk metal coffee shop with a spare modern stone stair instead of benches and black steel strips instead of a counter
The customer in front of me had a shaved head, towered above even me (I'm 6'2") and wore a black leather bomber atop painted on black jeans and black leather dress shoes
I did not take any cream or sugar
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oh also the books don't have to be sci-fi/fantasy. i only read hyperion because donk jizzed over it
things i like: awesome, brutal fights. uh, cool surprising strategies. titties. smart writing even if not especially dense or challenging. or none of this.
i guess most of the stuff i read tends to be sci-fi/fantasy/spy stuff. hmm. alternative history is p cool, it often has the above in spades.
the temeraire series hits a lot of those points but is not necessarily exciting all the time
but is a good read
basically napoleonic wars historical fiction where there are dragons
oh also the books don't have to be sci-fi/fantasy. i only read hyperion because donk jizzed over it
things i like: awesome, brutal fights. uh, cool surprising strategies. titties. smart writing even if not especially dense or challenging. or none of this.
i guess most of the stuff i read tends to be sci-fi/fantasy/spy stuff. hmm. alternative history is p cool, it often has the above in spades.
I suggest the biography Tokyo Vice.
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan is a 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein of his years living in Tokyo as the first non-Japanese reporter working for one of Japan's largest newspapers, Yomiuri Shinbun.
oh also the books don't have to be sci-fi/fantasy. i only read hyperion because donk jizzed over it
things i like: awesome, brutal fights. uh, cool surprising strategies. titties. smart writing even if not especially dense or challenging. or none of this.
i guess most of the stuff i read tends to be sci-fi/fantasy/spy stuff. hmm. alternative history is p cool, it often has the above in spades.
You might like the First Law trilogy then
Brutal and darkly funny fantasy
Basically "if these fantasy tropes acted like real people how would that world look" kind of people
Barbarian heroes with dissociative trauma, coldly manipulative immortals, brutal fights full of errors and bad luck and chaos
oh also the books don't have to be sci-fi/fantasy. i only read hyperion because donk jizzed over it
things i like: awesome, brutal fights. uh, cool surprising strategies. titties. smart writing even if not especially dense or challenging. or none of this.
i guess most of the stuff i read tends to be sci-fi/fantasy/spy stuff. hmm. alternative history is p cool, it often has the above in spades.
You should try HEAVY OBJECT
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cleaning rod is the classic
I am all about the circle of life, especially when it involves the destruction of my arch nemesis, the mosquitos
Between fleas and I there can be no peace. Carthage must be destroyed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy
Yeah, several sources are backing that up. Including that if he was born in 1925 he would have been 16.
Three years later he is a Medal of Honor recipient.
Also as for his acting career...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001559/?ref_=nv_sr_1
It helps when you're a Medal of Honor recipient before you're 21.
also the expanse series is pretty good soft sci fi and a bit detective noir kind of thing
discworld is great if you like that sort of Douglas Adams cheeky satire vibe, which I do
I haven't read culture
I have a birthday to go to. I guess "card for cheap bottle of wine" is today's art assignment, then
sometimes it's suddenly Saturday morning
As we speak he is painting the fucking CN Tower in Toronto
He will be home at 7 am
What kind of life
Ahahahahahah
no thank you
I hate heights
And kind of want his job
Confront all the fears
seek perfection
ah, yeah, of course. I didn't like the three nearly equal pipes look anyway. I liked the general look of three things, because svarog is the most mechanical metal looking of them all. Off-shoot of vulcan, which has plain no nonsense designs, but without plastic furniture and more just metal junk. I think the example we talked about was G3 variants, where Vulcan would make it look like this
(which is pretty much how the non-LMG looking vulcan gun looks)
and Svarog would make it look like this
but of course exagerrated
This is one of those few songs that'll come on classic radio that its just turn it up and everyone shut your mouths I need to hear this.
painting houses definitely conquered my fear of heights
watching roofers lay down shingle still amazes me though
those guys just give no fucks about a 30° grade forty feet off the ground
(man I wish this had footnotes)
He fears nothing in life, not at all, except oblivion and the loss of his loved ones, which, i mean
definitely underrated
If this was my game and the guns weren't already made of three modules I would consider retooling the game to make it happen.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
http://hex.frvr.com/
I feel like I fear death much less when I'm happy, which is horrendously counterintuitive
that was the most rewarding work ive ever done by far
I can still drive around town and point to something and say hey I built that
just $8.00/hr doesn't pay the bills now that I like things like hot water in the winter and disposable income
"Might as well go out in a good mood -- STORM THE BATTLEMENTS."
things i like: awesome, brutal fights. uh, cool surprising strategies. titties. smart writing even if not especially dense or challenging. or none of this.
i guess most of the stuff i read tends to be sci-fi/fantasy/spy stuff. hmm. alternative history is p cool, it often has the above in spades.
At one point I said her stance's logical conclusion was that she was morally beholden to kill all human beings, possibly all conscious beings
These Toronto people
I also went to a punk metal coffee shop with a spare modern stone stair instead of benches and black steel strips instead of a counter
The customer in front of me had a shaved head, towered above even me (I'm 6'2") and wore a black leather bomber atop painted on black jeans and black leather dress shoes
I did not take any cream or sugar
Once more into the breach!
We happy few, on this day, St. Shivahn day!
the temeraire series hits a lot of those points but is not necessarily exciting all the time
but is a good read
basically napoleonic wars historical fiction where there are dragons
I suggest the biography Tokyo Vice.
Its real fucking good
You might like the First Law trilogy then
Brutal and darkly funny fantasy
Basically "if these fantasy tropes acted like real people how would that world look" kind of people
Barbarian heroes with dissociative trauma, coldly manipulative immortals, brutal fights full of errors and bad luck and chaos
the guns are only made of three modules because that was what fit - stock, receiver... area, barrel for vulcan
stock, barrel and lower bit, and upper nonsense, for futura
how many parts would be needed to make haikus
in fact having them be bad haikus would totally fit
Kind of hard to be perfect when you're falling 300 feet to your doom.
Can all of them end with, "It's snowing on Mt. Fuji."?
One thousand rounds rain,
From a drone high in the sky,
They are all perfect.
You should try HEAVY OBJECT
Seriously Danny Sexbang has a point here.
That is the ideal time for perfection
You are a pure symbol of the rapidity with which we are brought to oblivion
Ugh it's not that addictive.
... *clicks play again*