Agiel

Having come from a Chinese household, you begin to tire of the cuisine and even local takes on it wear on you, to the point that for me what seems completely banal to my friends (meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and peas) seems totally exotic to my palette. Thankfully sushi, teppanyaki, and Korean barbecue are still foreign enough for me that it's a joy to go out and eat.

Playing a C: MANO scenario modeled after the brawl in the Indian Ocean from "The War that Never Was". A dastardly regiment of Tu-16 Badgers lobbed a boatload of AS-6 Kingfishes at my Surface Action Group centered on the USS Hue City (CG-66) in the Gulf of Aden. "Vampires inbound! Birds affirm and away!" "Good hits! Engage for second round!" "Cutting it close! All hands, brace for impact!" EASY! Unfortunately, the Hue City is down to a mere 40 missiles with a dangerous Soviet SAG still out there. Though more exciting stuff was going on in the Persian Gulf, with 2 Tu-95 Bear MPAs and four Tu-16s from the Caucasus ABs bearing down on a FFG-7 with a mechanically scanned array radar and arthritic SM-1s as compared to the Hue City's SPY-1 phased arrays and SM-2MRs and an LPH carrier escorting a convoy of tankers. Thinking that the convoy was f***ed, I lifted off the LPH's complement of Harriers to ferry them to the Nimitz battle group in the Indian Ocean, but that FFG-7 crew earned its pay. Four Kingfishes intercepted by the SM-1s, two of them spoofed by the SRBOC chaff salvos, and the remaining two vampires nailed by the Phalanx. That crew is getting the Navy Cross!

The real "Master Interrogator".

Going back to The Witcher 3's announced system requirements, there was this comic from Penny Arcade: Maybe it's Gromnir's new avatar, but I can't help but imagine Cevat Yarli channeling General Buck Turgidson in EA's war-room: "Mr Probst! We must not alloooooww... a system requirements gap!"

There was a "50 NAKED FIGHTING MEN! SKYRIM" video on Youtube I hesitated to post here. I guess I still kind of do. But put the phrase in quotes into the search bar and you'll find it just fine.

Obviously he didn't. http://youtu.be/JqDE76JjK7o

Required reading for Falcon BMS. https://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/docs/16v5.pdf "Come on, Mav! Learn some of that pilot s***!"

Not me eating it, but the most relevant place for this: <<Une armée marche à son estomac.>> ("An army marches on its stomach.") -Napoleon Bonaparte.

Agiel in the 104th Phoenix Squadron server of Digital Combat Simulator.

WARNING - Contents of video include: Sick New Wave Retro beats, Christian Right jingoism, political incorrectness, cut-rate Schwarzeneggers/Kurt Russels hailing from Sweden, squibs, child squibs, and more squibs. Contains 1% or less of the following: Class, subtlety, good judgement, concern for the feelings of non-monotheistic faiths. http://youtu.be/kepM786FU54

Impressive work, Oru.

It's weird. If you're impressing that lot than you must be doing at least *something* right. That said, were I a game developer who managed to impress RPGCodex, I don't know if I would wear their seal of approval so proudly on my sleeve.

Company of Heroes pack is gone.

Does this mean a glimmer of hope for IWD2: EE and PST: EE? Was kind of left despondent by the news from Beamdog that the Infinity Engine games that used DnD3 ruleset would be a significant challenge to bring over for the team, casting doubt that those two would ever come out.

In the context of both the attack on the school in Pakistan and this attack on Charlie Hebdo, I recall a tweet from Chris Cavas: "Those who destroy the future have no future."

I have the original Company of Heroes and associated "Expandalones" to give out as well.

Should be noted that the Netherlands offloaded all of its remaining Leopard 2s onto Finland and nearly its entire CV90 fleet to Estonia. Understandable given that those two are freaking terrified of Russia. Overspending on the military? Of the members of the EU that are in NATO, the UK, France, the Baltics, and Poland gripe that everyone else doesn't meet the mandated 2% of GDP military spending to be in NATO.

Found myself somewhat surprised that the French language is a thing in the world of Thedas.

If you're watching this at work, plug in the headphone jack and listen. I feel like I could cook eggs and fight terrorism, at the same time, after listening to this.

Deck ops aboard R-91 Charles de Gaulle

Frankly I'm more bemused by the appropriation of the Southern Cross banner: Next thing you know they'll be singing: "Oh, I wish I were in Dixie! Away! Away!"