Agiel

We should probably note that her backstory seems remarkably similar to that of Fenris from *suppresses a bit of vomit* Dragon Age 2, except Sebille is also part Space Marine, what with the ability to gain the memories of someone whose body parts she has eaten. Will still play as her first.

Well that submarine game I've been playing is called <<Cold Waters.>>

Try it now.

Trump complained that the Kuwait leader's plane was longer than his, continuing his peculiar obsession with size. Some here might have his or her differences with Garry Trudeau (on some issues myself included), but I've long held that if you wanted the truest sense of Trump's character Doonesbury can't be beat.

Perhaps it is explained in a sequel which takes place in an alternate timeline in which XCOM done 'effed up again and they find themselves in even direr straits.

I'm still a bit puzzled as to why the New Republic armed forces are called "the Resistance" when in fact that title is more appropriate for the First Order all things considered.

I'm sorry, but I can't really picture this crashing into Starkiller Base II.

You're telling me. Whilst painting in an air-conditioned room my water pot was evaporating before my eyes and my wet palette was curling up due to it drying out. At the height of the heat wave it stayed in the 90s outside until 8PM.

Perhaps I'll come off as at least a little pedantic but the Kamov design bureau did come up with one for the Ka-50/52 attack helicopters. Perhaps a better analogy is a military maintaining seven different types of land-based ICBMs, three types of SLBMs, and having two new strategic bomber designs in the pipe.

December 31st, Day 7 of the war: "Conn, radio, new message traffic received, VLF frequency" By attacking resupply tankers in the North Atlantic NATO would be able to severely hamper Soviet activity there, and hopefully remind them whose seas these are. After a day spent at patrol speed we find our quarry. "Conn sonar, new contact bearing zero-four-five, designated Sierra One." "Dive at five-zero feet, dive aye." "Up scope." "Mark contact bearing zero-three-nine, range fourteen kiloyards. Sierra Three re-designate as Master Three. Submariners have a saying: "There are two types of ships in the ocean: Submarines, and targets." The Dallas has located a Dubna-class AOR replenishment ship, and joy of joys it's in the middle of conducting an UNREP with a Sverdlov-class gun cruiser. As an aside here's a fun history lesson about the Sverdlov-cruisers courtesy of Nebakenezzer from his blog: As you might imagine in an era of high-performance SAMs and anti-ship missiles such vessels had little utility as ASuW combatants beyond surface raiding undefended convoys. Most likely it was resupplying from providing fire-support to Warsaw Pact troops on the Norwegian front. The Dallas prepares to pounce "Weps, open outer doors, fire point procedures on Masters One through Four." "Shoot tube one, aye sir." Weps repeats the process against the escorts. "Conn, Weps. Units are running normally." This is somewhat of a holdover from the Silent Service of the Second World War, as the reliability of torpedoes then left something to be desired. In extreme cases a torpedo would sometimes circle-run back onto the firing boat, forcing the crew to conduct an emergency dive to avoid getting hit by its own torpedo. Detecting the launch of the Mk 48 torpedoes one of the tanker's escorts, a Krivak-class frigate turns and blasts its active sonar. But he realises too late that he's about to get a Mk. 48 torpedo down his throat. "Conn, loud explosion on the bearing of Master One, contact breaking up." Shortly after fish number Four hits her sister ship, a Grisha-class corvette. Two and Three acquire the Sverdlov. It was going to take more than one torpedo to send her to the briney deep: Looking through the the Dallas' scope, the skipper bears witness to the Sverdlov's final moments: With her escorts taken care of the Dallas now has the tanker to finish off. She loads a UGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile and fires: Upon reaching the surface in its enclosed capsule the missile fires its solid fuel booster to escape from it before firing up its turbofan engine. And acquires the Dubna: "Note to self: A 500lbs penetrating blast-frag warhead and 8500 tons of diesel and oil does not mix well." While that Sverdlov was certainly a feather in the Dallas' cap, the real benefit was putting the Soviet Northern Fleet on the back foot. NATO "skimmers" should be able to breathe a little easier now:

Idle thought, but I have to imagine whenever Trump shoots his mouth off over a hot war with North Korea Mattis has to show him a graph titled "Projected DJIA Losses" that simply shows a giant cliff.

You were not alone. Back when Trump was still President-elect and some hoped that he would grow into the office and it was not entirely clear just how much of a disaster his administration would be (or at least to those who haven't been paying attention for the 30 odd years Trump has been a public figure) even national defence-minded folks were sounding alarm bells over generals in the cabinet. I suppose one should be grateful that Trump could not have bothered to have watched any of McMaster or Mattis' panels, as he seems to be under the impression that to a man US generals are MacArthur when in fact those two in particular are more Marshall and, dare I say it, even have shades of Smedley Butler.

if you wanna dig through some o' the old police violence threads on this board you will be able to find a few discussions 'bout the correlation 'tween various police qualities and excessive force complaints and convictions. am knowing a few boardies who is dismissive o' the value o' education, but the most significant police attribute resulting in decrease in violence claims and convictions is the level o' education o' the officer. yes, is correlative, so perhaps education level is not the reason for the decrease in abuse o' force 'mongst cops, but am thinking it doesn't much matter if one is simple looking for a way to avoid such problems. hire cops with at least college degree, and a large % of such events don't happen. 'course the resulting difficulty is almost nobody can afford to hire a force o' all college educated cops. the pay for typical municipal cop with only high school education requirements is already excellent. nevertheless, major cities still have trouble fulfilling hiring needs even with an extreme large pool from which to draw. increase education requirement and you need increase pay as well, no? there is a solution to the problem. sure, have only cops with university degree won't complete stop abuse o' law enforcement power, but it will great reduce. unfortunate, as with so many problems, money is a practical barrier to adopting the obvious solution. HA! Good Fun! Given the number of vets who decide to go into law enforcement after their enlistment is over, would probably convince more to take advantage of their GI Bill.

The company's previous fare is creepy, but also stunningly beautiful (for a 2008 indie game), as well as creepy and goddamn bonkers:

Were I Putin, I would keep the fact that Vladivostok used to be a part of what was called Outer Manchuria very much in mind.

Former Giant Bomb duder Drew Scanlon lost... in the Zone. "I said come in! Don't stand there!"

The Pathologic remake is now Pathologic 2.

Should they have less say? It's obviously a very tricky situation. Right now there is a decent argument for everyone being unhappy, which probably means something is being done right. You said California isn't marginalized and then justified why it should be marginalized. That's all I'm saying, let's be realistic about what the electoral college does to populated states. I don't think it is that big of a deal, I could always move to Wyoming if it really bothered me. Also I'd argue with California being some liberal wonderland. The reality is it can be quite conservative. CA booted Gray Davis out of office and put in a Republican and it voted to pass Prop 8. I'd argue the problem lies in a weak Republican leadership structure. This the state that produced Reagan, afterall, and he is probably the most popular Republican in recent history. There also seems to be a mistaken perception that the state's universities are universally dens of far left iniquity. For what it's worth most people in the other Calstates and UCs (LA, SB, SD, etc.) think people who go to UC Berkeley and moreso Santa Cruz are lefty loons too.

Muahahaha, we pass gas in the general direction of NK's puny missiles: US Missiles Destroy Airborne Target in Successful Defense Test. Don't they ever plan a 'random surprise attack within a certain period'? Because that's a heck of a lot closer to what a real situation would be rather than knowing down to the exact second something is going to be launched. Not to mention more impressive. Though I guess it'd be problematic to do so given that it takes a long time to plan and prepare for a test like that. During Aegis BMD exercises the training ship is brought to alert status for an extended period of time, but is not told precisely when the launch of the target will occur: https://youtu.be/_pr9WY2Xyj0?t=59s In any case an IRBM attack on Japan or Guam isn't what the worry is, but tube and rocket artillery attacks on Seoul. I'm sure Mattis' more tempered tone is owed to the fact that unlike Trump he's 100% cognizant to the fact that a misstep could lead to an economic depression the likes we haven't seen since the Great Depression from the destruction of Seoul that will change the course of human history for many years to come, even if no American lives save for those living in or stationed in Korea will be directly affected.

Its greatest resource is also well-taken care of when it comes to higher education. Best in class for film studies, sciences and high technology (everyone knows MIT is a punk b**** compared to Caltech, there, I said it), art, and public research schools.

Most economically productive state in the union, has some of the best public _and_ private higher education institutions, home to the busiest cargo ports in the states and the highest traffic airliner hub, hosts the principle naval base for USPACFLT, why on Earth shouldn't California matter a _whole_ lot?