Gromnir

is first time we ever seen somebody use the artiste bit for Gromnir... add another to the list... and we suspect more folks would use ego for us if it were name changed to egomaniac. HA! Good Fun!

btw, the poll screwed us... were forced to go with 3rd option 'cause as 'posed to describing accurately our feelings 'bout sound, it described Gromnir best. HA! Good Fun!

for Gromnir, sound is right up there with smell as far as importance goes. am exagerating... but only barely. ever play a game w/o sound on? makes a difference, but it ain't crippling. turn off graphics? turn off gameplay? iwd had nice music, and that made game better, but am not sure how much better. with some games, if you gots a real spiffy speaker system, you gets real nice effect with enhanced sound. can hear the bad guys trying to sneak up behind you... and you can feel the explosions in your chest with bass turned up... and if music is good, the total may be greater than the sum o' the parts. but even so, sound is still a second tier aspect. more important than good manual, but far less than gameplay or visuals. HA! Good Fun!

little bits from column a & b & c... has seen this list lots of times, and each time somebody knows what category we fit in, it is different from the last time somebody successfully labeled us. btw, eldar has, in the past, lost his cool far too often for us to be willing to label him as a diplomat

the russian navy is cash-strapped in a big way... is the reason they got no viable rescue vehicles to speak of. now personally, given their relative poverty, we thinks that it is highly unlikely that the russian navy is working on super torpedo programs at the moment, and the notion that the krusk were testing such things not seem initially likely to Gromnir. however if they was, it is a sad commentary

baseball is a warm fuzzy sport. folks likes baseball 'cause they grew up playing baseball, and 'cause maybe the best memories of their childhood were going to wrigley or fenway for the firstest time with their old man. if you got a bat, a ball, and 9 gloves, you can has a baseball game at nearly any park in america... and on more than a few streets and vacant lots. the sport gots loads of history in this country, and you can mark pivotal national events and trends simply by reflecting on baseball games and players of the past. personally we prefer football... real american football, but we understands the appeal o' baseball. we can still recall our firstest home run in little league and we recall when thurman munson died, and we recall how much our grandfather loved baseball, a slightly dotty oglala man who lived 30 miles from nowhere who made sure that his grandson got to play little league. HA! Good Fun!

ds2 is kill the critter and collect the 1007. some folks really like that kinda thing. diablo were hugely popular offering little more than that, so right off the bat you can tell that Gromnir ain't the ds2 target audience. after playing the demo we concludes that the makers o' ds2 really had much like for diablo 2... 'course the only thing that Gromnir liked 'bout diablo 2 were the skill trees, and ds2 not have skill trees so much as skill saplings. nevertheless, if you liked ds1 and you liked diablo 2, then we sees no reason why you shouldn't be satisfied with ds2. also, visually uninspiring is ds2, though such things ain't all that important to Gromnir. HA! Good Fun!

am remembering an interview that josh did... said that dave m were one of the 2 designers he would most like to work with. ... dave must have a really cute arse or something. HA! Good Fun!

anybody know what in the hell dr. manhattan is talking 'bout? point of fact, this is the first kotor3 rumor thread we has seen in a while... ironic, no? HA! Good Fun!

is somewhat misleading... for two reasons. while we got no doubt that hans were one o' the greatest ww2 pilots (if not the greatest,) when he were flying a ju-87 he were flying in early part of war over the eastern front. later he switched to a bf-109. am not sure of final split per aircraft. HA! Good Fun!

easiest way to deal with me-262s were to let them fly 'bout 10 hours... then their engines would fail... but their speed and rate o' climb made them very impressive in the role of interceptor. too bad for germany that they were used so often in bombing roles. HA! Good Fun!

http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/quarters/9485/P-47M.html googled for your reading pleasure. HA! Good Fun!

yes, the thunderbolt. the "jug" most is familiar with is the the p-47d, but the p-47M were in a class all its own. HA! Good Fun!

ok, fine... we shares our favorite ww 2 fighter just for the hell of it. p-47M... proof that pretty planes ain't always the best. HA! Good Fun!

... is this your way of coming out of the closet... not that it matters. uncle tupelo, march 16-20, 1992 HA! Good Fun!

we explained the main reason why. russians build aerodynamically stable aircraft... but they ain't really functional over today's battlefield... especially given america's situation. HA! Good Fun!

use google and search for "david lee "Tex" hill" no doubt you get a number o' good images o' flying tiger p-40s. HA! Good Fun!

bit of an oversimplification, but you is entitled to your opinion. just one example of many possible: if american pilots had to fly russian fighters, they might as well be flying giant bullseyes. a sam is much cheaper than a plane or a pilot. *shrug* HA! Good Fun!

am doubting that very much, but regardless, you got an answer to your earlier question, no? HA! Good Fun!

no beauty in sharks or tigers? HA! tiger, tiger, burning bright in the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry? in what distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes? on what wings dare he aspire? what the hand dare seize the fire? and what shoulder and what art could twist the sinews of thy heart? and when thy heart began to beat, what dread hand and what dread feet? what the hammer? what the chain? in what furnace was thy brain? what the anvil? what dread grasp dare its deadly terrors clasp? when the stars threw down their spears, and water'd heaven with their tears, did He smile His work to see? did He who made the lamb make thee? tiger, tiger, burning bright in the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry? you is welcome to live in your world, but we want no part of it. HA! Good Fun!

is funny how tree huggers can look at a shark or a tiger and see beauty, but they looks at a f-15 and only see a instrument o' death and pain. the tree hugger might even appreciate some geek' s fascination with cars, in spite of the environmental hazards they present, but the vegan/hippie/give-peace-a-chance flower child can't seem to grasp the notion that a plane or ship can have similar appeal. for folks who like planes, warplanes is gonna have basic aesthetic appeal as they is most sleek and predatory looking planes built. furthermore, they tends to push the performance curve. however, Gromnir were only pointing out plane specs to illustrate a point 'bout the chinese development of the ju-10... didn't really get into the "my favorite plane" crap. HA! Good Fun! p.s. the russians/soviets got a very different design philosophy that were necessary 'cause of their relatively poorly trained mechanics and technicians. soviet planes were all designed 'round stable airframes, something that has been largely abandoned in the west in favor of smaller/lighter/radical designs. in the west we use advanced electronics to keep unstable airframes from crashing... but you need highly trained personnel to keep such planes flying.

Looks awfully familiar to the Israely F-21, I guess it's the predecessor of the J-10, but yet again looks like the Israely pay little attention to design like the US does <{POST_SNAPBACK}> lavi and f-21 airframe is dissimilar... look at canopy and fuselage. HA! Good Fun!

It's amazingly ugly. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> and very little of it is chinese. take a russian/soviet su-27 engine and pop it into the israeli Lavi... which itself is a modified u.s.a. f-16 HA! Good Fun!

ok, well, duh. So are lots of various investors. Not all of them nessasarily bringing "American" values or having to answer to the American people. Like when Microsoft (I think it was MS) help the Chinese gov censor words like "freedom" on the internet. My point wasn't that US companies are solely driving the chinese market, but that US companies have a unique role to play in this. as I said, we're already there. Edit: to a degree Want to venture a guess who is number one in human rights violations and in the bottom five of press freedoms? I'm guessing China doesn't get "nicer" when it gets more powerful. Without, of course, some serious reforms. Those reforms would, of course, very likely hurt the chinese economy badly for some time to come. As I said, interesting, isn't it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "My response was in reference of Groms question about what will Europe do when China rises in power. My thought: Align themselves closer with the US and vice versa. " align with u.s.a to combat growing chinese influence? HA! so no, we don't really agree... at least not as far as Gromnir can tell. HA! Good Fun!

"What I want to see is what part American corporations wnd up playing in all this. Not from a "corporations are evil" perspective, but just because they seem to play a very interesting role in all of this. They help support Chinese expansion in many regards while spreading american ideas." you is being foolish if you think it is just american corps. the euros is falling all over themselves to get access to chinese markets. cold war 2? not a chance. HA! Good Fun!