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"Some men see things as they are and say why?"
"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

- Some guy 

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The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder.

 

-Teknoman2-

What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past?

 

Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born!


We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did.

 

Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand.

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Uuuuaaargh, the feelz :( :(

 

probably fake.

"Some men see things as they are and say why?"
"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

- Some guy 

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Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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Walking the Walker...

 

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i was thinking that the design of the walker was cool back in the day, but now that i know a few things it looks pretty ridiculous and impractical for combat. the most obvious flaw is that all weapons are on the front and have a limited fire arc, leaving the back and sides completelly defenseless. 

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The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder.

 

-Teknoman2-

What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past?

 

Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born!


We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did.

 

Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand.

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Walking the Walker...

 

 

i was thinking that the design of the walker was cool back in the day, but now that i know a few things it looks pretty ridiculous and impractical for combat. the most obvious flaw is that all weapons are on the front and have a limited fire arc, leaving the back and sides completelly defenseless. 

 

 

To be fair, it's a classic piece of Imperial design philosophy. It's a troop transport with minor assault function. It's geared to look big, mean, be intimidating, and head towards the enemy relying on it's heavy armour to shield it from most irritating attacks. The weapons at the front are geared to blast defences in front of it to allow the troops in the compartment to deploy.,..

 

But yes, it's still silly.

 

Edit: Oh yes, and they did use the EU to slip in an explanation for why so many of the Imerial War Machines used Legs/Walker tech or wheels.. Because a bunch of planets had weird magnetic fields that messed around with the standard "hover/antigrav" technology....

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Well there were plenty of WWII assault guns and tank destroyers (most famous of which being the StuG) which could only really engage anything in a ~15 degree arc in front of the vehicle, though that was mostly for cost reasons since a turret would have at minimum increased the cost by 50%.

 

That said, we really don't see those types of vehicles anymore. Infantry fire support has been taken up by turreted lightly armoured, wheeled vehicles like the MGS Stryker and the Centauro for the 105mm class and up or autocannons on the Bradleys, and for anti-tank that's been fulfilled with ATGM launchers on a swivel mounted on Humvees, jeeps, and the like. 

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

-Rod Serling

 

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