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The X-32. Boeing's failed bid for JSF, losing out of course to what was then Lockheed Martin's X-35.

Apart from MGSV, I thought the high watermark for open world, "see-that-mountain-you-can-go-there" games was New Vegas and ever since I've kind of been tapped out on that form of game. Even as beautiful as Skyrim in its time was my playtime for that paled in comparison to New Vegas and *gasp* Oblivion, to say nothing of the fact that I haven't touched Fallout 4 yet.

Likely at least a Test and Evaluation wing for trials of new munitions and sensor and software upgrades. I know for a fact there will at least be one doing a flight demo for Fleet Week later this month

Dieter loads a DM121A1 HEAT round into the breech of the 120mm L/55 Rheinmetall. "MZ geladen, Alle Waffen feuerbereit, Hydraulik ist Ein, klar zum Gefecht!" "Scheisswetter..." the commander remarks before ducking back into the turret and buttoning down the hatch. He remembered an Israeli maxim that went "A tank loses 60% of its effectiveness with its commander buttoned up." Then thank god for the "Peri's" second generation thermal imaging suite. Looking at a Finnish Leopard 2A4, which only had a daylight "Peri". The gunner's sight with his own TIS. A few minutes into our border patrol and all seems to be quiet... "Feindliche Schützen!" the commander shouts, observing some Little Green Men being somewhere where they shouldn't. Shortly thereafter an RPG-22 narrowly misses the tank "Give them a taste of the MG-3! I want that barrel glowing red!" The gunner's co-axial machine gun roars while the loader opens up with the pintle-mounted MG-3. The Marder lets them have it with their 20mm autocannons. The Danish Infantry squad dismounts from their Piranhas to mop up what managed to survive the onslaught. Once the dust settles, the group is given orders to proceed and investigate one of the border posts that have ceased contact with HQ. What they find isn't promising:

I thought the fight was easy. Getting into the vents, one level up to the terminal. Befriend the turrets for a little distraction. Shoot down the flying robots with AP ammo. Then on top where the terminal is, is another vent- you can use it to quickly move "inside" and "outside" of the big hall, therefore making it so he can't reach you. Whenever he is confused and can't find you, shoot him with grenade launcher or AP ammo. Got him down in 5 minutes or something. Try fifteen seconds. Cloak, stun-gun, takedown. All the robits and turrets promptly blow up once he goes down.

This dude agrees:

I do think Obama's administration and the rest of the world understands him, which is why there have been ample opportunities for Putin to cash out early and still come out on top and have business go on as usual up until mid to late 2013 when Putin started his new Cold War. Assad could have been "asked" to step down willingly by Putin to live comfortably in exile in some Black Sea dacha while a general with at least mildly less blood on his hands took his place. He could have let Maidan run its course and Ukraine would likely have kept going on as it has while periodically vacillating back into Russia's camp, and now it's unlikely it will ever return to Russia's fold (barring full scale invasion). Putin could have contented himself with Crimea and while it would remain a sticking point like Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria it would be something the rest of the world could work through. Now he has the blood of thousands (plus that of the 298 people on MH17) on his hands and millions of displaced. Simply put, just like Trump with this campaign, Putin has too big of an ego to walk away while he still had money in his pocket.

Steel Beasts 4.0, with some new crewable beasts in the stable, including: Leopard 2A6 And Marder 1A5. Have a step into my office: And to my left, the loader, Dieter, at the ready: Accompanying us today on our patrol is a Danish Motorised Infantry squad in their Mowag Piranha IIIs. And scout section in MB G 250s: "Fahrer! Panzer vorwärts! Marsch!"

Donald Trump’s Campaign Stands By Embrace of Putin People might think the US is going to hell in a hand basket with a diminishing middle class and ever divisive identity politics... THERE IS ABSOLUTELY _NOTHING_ ABOUT PUTIN'S GOVERNANCE ANYONE WHO ASPIRES TO CINC SHOULD ADMIRE OR SEEK TO EMULATE. Well, unless your thing is re-nationalisation of failed industries, f** drags, covering up the shootdown of a 777, assassination of journalists, and the seizure of other people's property (which I suppose explains Trump's predilection for eminent domain).

He seems a rather jovial fellow. Wouldn't mind having a few shots of vodka with him. Describing a trip to an American supermarket:

I worked a retail job through college behind a cash register, then one day they had me fill in for someone on the replenishment team who called in. After that day I couldn't imagine myself surviving a job like that doing that for ~40 hours a week. Now here I am working a cushy studio job and now I'm starting to feel the chair aches. Thankfully the new department head on his own initiative decided to get all of us standing desks. We'll see how that works out for my sciatica.

Apparently story DLC for Mankind Divided (part of my digital deluxe edition) will drop on the 23rd of this month, with the next one in 2017. At least I can move the game off my SSD for at least a few months until that next story DLC comes after I finish that first one.

Finished Mankind Divided...

Well they still have 20 years to go until Deus Ex. Eidos Montreal would probably like to wrap up the Jensen arc in a trilogy but there can easily be another trilogy arc between that and Deus Ex. Actually to be honest even if the main plot isn't very good I'd prefer they took it into a different continuity since I've always considered the story of the original Deus Ex to be jumbled, schizophrenic, pseudo-intellectual mess to begin with and in light of how much of a triumph Human Revolution was (at least in my eyes) I dread the inevitable point at which Montreal's effort gets dragged down by the baggage of the original game's plot.

I'm 50 hours into Mankind Divided and only just now finished the Swiss Alps. However, that may be because I insist on contriving double takedowns for all the guards and hacking _everything_ including all the alarm panels and TVs and radios in areas in which all the guards are now in cuddle piles (or stuffed in air vents) for maximum XP.

FINALLY got the last mission in Terror at Sea campaign. Lost track of how many attempts it took. Final time was glacier slow - 10:04 but no casualties! The time I managed to beat it I made the mistake of sending a team down to the middle deck using the middle stairwell and they found themselves surrounded on 3 sides by the guys with vests and M4s. Thankfully liberal application of 5.7mm to the tune of 900 RPM got them out of that jam.

https://youtu.be/dW83U4bkC_k?t=1m5s Would have been awesome to see a similar tour of those Mk. 26 Ticonderoga cruisers that were decommissioned.

Congratulations to Sir Nils Olav for making Brigadier:

Documentary based on Eric Schlosser's "Command and Control": Recommend also David E. Hoffman's "The Dead Hand." Be warned, however, they can make for rather depressing reads.

"Trump's change of heart on amnesty Is sure to be a hit From border wall to open door Watch Coulter lose her s***" Courtesy of Rick Wilson.

Bill Burr, again:

Can't quite remember if I had posted this idea earlier in this thread, but if I have I think it bears repeating: A Devil May Cry/Bayonetta-esque action game where you play as an Eldar Harlequin.

As Bill Burr noted, the problem isn't big cars and not enough jobs, it's too many damn people. And not as in too many foreigners coming in, too many damn people on the planet, period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3nsgTQNiI