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Holy s***, this girl does amazing black metal covers... on a classical piano: Speaking of which, Deathspell Omega released their newest EP <<The Synarchy of Molten Bones>>. I have to announce this here otherwise I'd run to to the top of a church belltower to yell it for all to hear, right before I set fire to it.

A German pal sent me a picture of a Typhoon in a special livery connecting Richtofen and Hartmann: I'd like to have seen something referencing Marseille. That guy was a fighter pilot's fighter pilot:

Previews of the Auralnauts' upcoming fandub of Episode V:

Got the first two tomes of Olivier Ledroit and Thomas Day's BD, <<Wika>>. Story is fairly by the numbers "a-lost-and-orphaned-monarch-setting-out-to-reclaim-her-birthright" fantasy plot, but my god is Ledroit's art amazing: While I was at it, also bought another of Ledroit's artbooks, <<Fées et Amazones>>:

Might as well. It's free. Incredibly life-like cheese wheels. Haven't gotten around to getting the DLC for it. Unfortunately just buying all of that sans the base game is more expensive than buying the GOTY edition. Think I'll just wait till that Remastered Edition is on a Steam sale. After all, I haven't had the itch to go back to Skyrim since 2012 anyways.

A food truck in Portland:

I learned today that Snoopy was retired from MetLife's advertising campaign. The news made me realise that the only reason I chose MetLife as my dental insurance provider as part of my benefits package was because of those commercial.

NROL-79 mission patch:

Given that SEALs stands for "SEa, Air, Land," wouldn't it just be "Ls"? Personally I'd go with a play on the unit's former designation, WDT. "Wasteland Demolition Team".

Yes, let us purge the bezrodnyi kosmopolit from our glorious Rodina.

DDG-1000 Zumwalt commissioned into the US Navy. As noted before, it is commanded by Capt. James Kirk: https://news.usni.org/2016/10/14/destroyer-zumwalts-commissioning-ceremony-latest-long-tradition

Whether or not sexual indiscretions are Un-American isn't really the issue here. The challenging of an integral part of the First Amendment, the slandering of the electoral process, the promise to go beyond the legal bounds of the Executive branch, and welcoming foreign intelligence services to interfere with the election on Trump's behalf is. If this is the Govenator's track, then I wholeheartedly agree.

Something relevant from the Funny Stuff thread: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/89194-the-funny-things-thread/?p=1851049

USS Nitze launches Tomahawks against coastal surveillance radar sites in retaliation: https://news.usni.org/2016/10/13/video-uss-nitze-destroys-3-houthi-controlled-radar-sites-retaliatory-strike However "tattle" ships such as speed boats with commercial GPS devices can still be a problem, helping to cue further attacks against targets further out to sea. Though I suppose it's serendipitous that the Ponce has that LaWS on board:

My guess is that this was due to balance considerations. For instance in Dawn of War 2, your hero could be doing an awesome sync kill... unable to retreat and giving your opponent's Hormagaunts more than enough time to surround him and take him down.

You can get a pretty good rundown of how the Aegis Combat System works from this video: Some reports seemed to suggest that the inbound vampires fell well short of the Mason anyways while the SM-2s and ESSM were mid-flight, probably spoofed into the ocean by jamming from the Mason. If true, then there remains not a single instance in the whole of modern naval warfare where an anti-ship missile has successfully impacted a ship that was employing any kind of ECM of countermeasures.

I think the fact that he engaged in "what-about-ism" vis-a-vis Bill Clinton in his "apology" left me with an even lower opinion of Trump afterwards, to be honest. For god's sake, for a guy as egotistical as him that opportunity was supposed to be all about him and nothing more.

In ye olden days of Battlefield 2 when by chance you find yourself in a squad where everyone else is using mics, sticking together, and _co-operating_. I remember one time we flew in the weeds in a Blackhawk to covertly insert and seize the enemy airfield and singlehandedly turning the tide of the match. Then there are the times when you take off in an attack helicopter with a gunner who knows what he's doing and can routinely nail Havocs with the notoriously squirelly TV-guided missiles. Combined with my experience flying terrain masking in Enemy Engaged and together we topped the score chart by a _huge_ margin.

As a fun little exercise, I tried to come up with a D&D alignment chart for 20th Century Firearms. Let me know what you think: Lawful Good: H&K MP5 (the SMG feared by terrorists, bank robbers, and hostage-takers everywhere) Neutral Good: FN FAL ("Right Arm of the Free World", 'nuff said) Chaotic Good: Colt M-16 (Serves the public good, just watch out for collateral damage) Lawful Neutral: Colt Canada C-7 (Based on how UN Peacekeeping missions used to be a Canadian past-time) True Neutral: IMI Uzi (You're as likely to see it being used by the good guys as it being used for a drive-by shooting in South-Central) Chaotic Neutral: Kalashnikov and derivatives (For the most prolific implement of war, this seriously goes without saying) Lawful Evil: Tokarev TT (Favoured means of execution by Zampolits) Neutral Evil: IMI Desert Eagle (Used by deadly, misanthropic computer programs and crime bosses with an inflated sense of self-worth) Chaotic Evil: Luger P-38 (The quintessential Nazi gun)

New 4A Game! Yay! But it's exclusive to Oculus Touch! Boooo!

Interestingly enough Pence went off message from Trump and thought Assad's force (or what's left of them) shouldn't miss out on the JDAM fun.

Given that the stuff he's released has had evidence of being tampered with, probably will do more to confirm his status as a butt buddy for Putin.

My family (who range from Reagan Republicans to democratic socialists of the Swedish school) has known him to be an ostentatious and crass huckster for the 30 years since he became a public figure (and myself since I was 13 when I started reading Doonesbury), so it strikes me as at least a little odd that a not insignificant portion of the electorate hasn't caught on to this fact when they had that 30 years of history to work that out for themselves.