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Apparently, we've found the person who wrote the questions for the survey in question. He's even come here to share some new questions he intends to put into the next survey. I'm sure we'll get an equally legitimate outcome for that survey as well. Ownt

Oh. Well, next time remember not to go posting after being hit in the head repeatedly with a louisville slugger. It doesn't help.

What was this all about, again? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Learning how to scroll up What's this? Are you actually making an effort not to make sense?

What was this all about, again?

The question is... is it possible not to powerlame your way through the game?

No. EA is a sucessful company. Don't mistake those two things. I agree with you that monopolies are bad for the customer, but you can't blame them for having a flawless market strategy. They aren't doing anything illegal. If you don't like it, get into politics and make some anti monopoly laws. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Have you ever thought that all big companies are evil? Yep. But that was before I learnt that Santa ain't real. )

No. EA is a sucessful company. Don't mistake those two things. I agree with you that monopolies are bad for the customer, but you can't blame them for having a flawless market strategy. They aren't doing anything illegal. If you don't like it, get into politics and make some anti monopoly laws.

erm...what? was this a bad joke or a misunderstanding mixed with plain old fashioned ignorance. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Your knowledge is only surpassed by your ignorance Don't mind Laozi. He's just had a bit too much of his good ol' 'cough medicine' again.

Hmm... are you going to start 'rebalancing' it right away? (w00t)

It's not the political or economical threat that has me worried. It's the cultural one. For starters, learning chinese is a pain in the ass, my friend. are you communist? Naw, he's just fond of the absurd! (w00t)

Quite a list for one just starting out... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Agreed. Start with Fallout and Fallout 2... nice games, with strategic combat to get you going Yup. Listen to her. She knows her stuff, even though she doesn't care if the world is turned into a nuclear wasteland. :ph34r:

Understandable if her teacher actually taught Castillian and not 'spanish'. I don't know how it works over there, but we have something called 'Real Academia' which is somewhat of an unifying criteria for Castillian. They decide what words officially 'exist' and which don't. And believe me, a lot of words used by mexicans don't exist. By our book, at least.

It's nice to read some positive feedback, for a change. While it might be exaggerated at some points it's still better than your usual 'OmG oMg OmG KoTOR2 R0x0Rz j00 Box0rZ!!!!11'

The questions are too simplified for the test to yield an accurate result. From what I've seen you would have to be authoritarian by nazi standards to be portrayed as 'righty' by the test. Feh.

The funny thing about that is that Bloodlines wasn't rushed. It was finished about a month before release date. It couldn't be released though due to the agreement Valve had with VU that prevented anything using the Source engine to be released before HL2 hit the shelves. Somebody would think that they could have used that extra month to polish the game... but no. As I said, funny. <_<

Yeah. Ultimately it's the greedy shareholders fault for wanting their money NOW. Call it what you will, I don't care. It's not the bugs themselves that bother me, it's the fact that, for whatever reasons, somebody didn't do their job.

Which is 100% true. Shrapnel and low caliber ammunitions are the two top hazards the soldiers are exposed to. Incidentally, that's what ballistic body armor is designed to protect from. Sorry, every time your arguments are defeated you cling to minor, technical or outright irrelevant details such as 'the variety of colors of the vests would offset the fact that they are bought in bulk'. You have proven to be one of the many people on these boards who are totally impervious to reason, logic and facts. Congratulations. I am done with this thread.

That would be funny if it weren't people we're talking about. I guess you would just go to war in sweatpants and a t-shirt because armor vests are only good for providing a false sense of security.

No. That example isn't applicable to body armor because your reasoning is based on that the different configurations of humvees (due to different functions) raise the price. I don't know about that but I'm willing to accept it. However, there are no different armor configurations because those things only do one thing - protect against fire. Basic logic, you lose. I don't need to put words into your mouth. You said it yourself: So, when proven wrong by evidence, you just deny what you said earlier, eh? What will be next, deleting your own old posts?

I don't know. However, I have seen some slow-mo videos and pics of fruits being shot with pistols, and every time the fruit is blown to dust/tiny pieces, literally. I guess getting shot in the liver is bad news. Much worse than getting shot in a knee or the hip, vest or not.

Well, lately it seems they barely have time to do the beta testing so... no. <_<

What kind of game is that?

/Agree

Depends on the armor. There are quite a few links about body armor in this thread, I suggest you read them. 100% true. Rifle rounds are usually much faster than handgun rounds due to the greater length of rifle barrels compared to shorter guns. Penetrating power doesn't entirely rely on the round's speed, though. Anyway, the body doesn't need to absorb all of the bullet's kinetic energy since when hit without body armor, the bullet will usually not stay in the body. With the larger calibers though, getting hit by one of those ensures there won't be much left of you to be recognized, due to the massive kinetic impact, as you pointed out. That's not what body armor is designed to protect against however, since larger calibers are used mostly against vehicles. And it's not like the militias in Iraq have plenty of .50 Barretts to play with. No. Penetration ammunition will not fragment upon impact. It's designed to resist the impact and be strong enough to go through whatever protection layers it's designed to defeat. Consider that when a bullet is fragmented, the individual fragments will have a much lesser chance of penetrating due to less kinetic energy, oblique trajectory, and irregular shapes. In that respect, penetration rounds are less 'damaging' than hollow point ammo.

Can you provide figures about how much each Humvee costs to the Army? I didn't think so. However, and if indeed they are more expensive in comparison to the civilian versions, perhaps it has something to do with the military equipment they bring, namely light/heavy armor, TOW launchers, whatever? Either way, it doesn't really matter. Purchasing in bulk is cheaper, and your reasoning and example don't apply to body armor because that kind of equipment has only one possible function. That is, preventing you from getting a lethal overdose of lead. It's not like they are going to use armor plates as frying pans, you know. As I said, until you can prove that the Army gets the same prices for their equipment as you would, I'll go with what I do know. That is, buying in great numbers decreases the costs. First you claim that body armor is next to worthless. Then you state it would cost too much to equip every soldier with it. That's arguing that it's not cost-effective, even if you don't say that explicitly. Again, leave politics out of this. I'm just discussing facts here. You are trying to turn this into an argument about how the democrats f*cked up the military budgets. I don't know nor do I care about that. You want to whine about it? Don't let me stop you. However it is rather cruel to have soldiers dying just to make a freaking point.