Monte Carlo

Because of course they couldn't possibly do that for themselves.

What, never? Why run the risk?

Never eat yellow snow.

For the love of God, why?

The music in this thread makes me glad it's Saturday.

I like Boo. I didn't enjoy pointing out the history, and hopefully we can all agree on enough points to move on. I am bitterly sorry that civilians were bombed in his country. The difference between the total war of the old days and the limited wars we fight now is that there is no agreed narrative of what happened. The Balkans, with a bitter history of its own notwithstanding any western involvement, is a case in point. The real villain of the piece is the USSR. It collapsed and **** happened. And still is.

Good drills, GD. Shame I'm a continent away, it would've been a pleasure to join you!

Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Amusing article about EA v Activision. Especially like the line

What, like making it an RPG?

For the record, I am a caveman who is happy to be led from scene-to-scene by t*ts and ass.

Robbed of my manifest destiny. Again. *sigh*

::shrugs:: Boo is Serbia, we bombed his country, he's pissed off about it which is fair enough. Serbia's government at that time was complicit in genocide, this is a matter of fact. The Serbian regime brought the bombs on Belgrade.

FFS let the hawt sapphic sex scene go. Some of us like that sort of thing.

GEEKOUT IN TEN SECONDS...

Somewhat. But it is far more geek to have in-depth internet arguments about which elements of a fantasy book were borrowed by a particular fantasy vidyagame. What he said. And denial ain't a river in Egypt.

He's also only got one post, despite posting a fair bit. This is obviously his spetznatz training kicking in.

As regular readers may remember, I served in the Underwater Knife-Fighting Recce Kommando (Kampfgruppe Monte) for five years. Our ability to peel potatoes, polish things (literally anything), shout BANG when we ran out of training ammunition and (of course) hide contraband* from the military cops within four-ton lorries was second to none. Spetnatz? Pah. Pyjama-clad, vodka-dependant GIRLS. *Pr0n mainly, and booze

*shrugs* substitute it for a Chianti or anything French. Except Nikolas Sarkozy, who I imagine tastes unpleasant.

ALERT DANGEROUS LEVELS OF GEEKAGE DETECTED!!!

Hippies. I hope that wind-farm thingie and yurt-dwelling works out for them.

I skin rabbits now and then, it's like pulling a sock off. I'd like to try a bigger animal, butchery is quite an interesting skill. Charles Dance looked like he had done some research for that scene. Monte's rabbit recipe du jour: Saltimbocca. A Northern Italian delicacy, rub garlic, olive oil, lemon, black pepper and rosemary onto a saddle of rabbit. Pan fry in a little butter. Once browned wrap in parma ham / proscuttio (you can keep it in place with a wooden splint) and put in a hot oven to finish for ten minutes. Serve with roast cubetti potatoes and fresh green vegetables and of course a glass of barolo. Prago!

The Black Watch was proud Scottish infantry regiment and there are no kilts in DA2.

It was a gift from the Great Stallion.

Amazing scientific / biology type discovery this weekend - drinking eight pints of Guinness, two bottles of claret and half a bottle of cognac over a fifteen-hour period gives you a headache and upset stomach. Whoda thunkit, science fanz?

Welcome to the forum sir, good to see another paragon of common sense and good taste. Like me.