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Stalker was hard to watch. Yes, I just admitted I am a faggot.
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With a much lighter barrel, and that tells you something! I've handled an FNC, they are enormous for a 5.56mm rifle. They've got decently lightweight construction, that's just totally subverted by them being huge.
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Collimatrix's Terrible Music Thread
Sturgeon replied to Collimatrix's topic in Fiction & Entertainment
Well, I had to ban Toxn, because he linked to Cracked.com. I mean, you guys think I'm kidding, but seriously...- 904 replies
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Ensign, as a hopelessly American lad, Russian films are seriously hard to watch. You gotta keep it simple for us poor muricans!
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You've got a lot of catching up to do to beat me, mate.
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Those are huge, heavy guns for the caliber they're in, even with a barrel that short. They sure do look cool, though, especially with 40 round mags.
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Ensign, I think what qualifies as unapologetic propaganda to Europeans qualifies as a nuanced, even-handed handling of the subject to Americans. I don't normally use language this strong, but seriously, if the bad guys aren't literally demons incarnate and the good guys aren't literally Jesus' deputies on Earth (however flawed they may be to allow the audience to identify with them), then Americans think the movie is "grey" and "nuanced". When we (and I mean "we" - myself included; I'm only self-aware about it) see European propaganda we think it's like super deep and shit. I mean, take a great example: The movie Fury. I really liked this film, but it's nothing if not a propaganda film about how the Germins were bad and MURICA and stuff. But, I guess all the main characters aren't saints, and the writers didn't think just having them whomp up on Nazis was enough of an excuse to not give them some nominal amount of depth, so I really liked it anyway. I KNOW it's propaganda, but in the same way I KNOW the Panzer IV is cramped on the inside (i.e., as a "fact" only; I've never been inside a Panzer IV), fundamentally the film worked on me.
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I am given to understand that you shouldn't put too much stock in the max speed numbers of paper projects from that area as, to be blunt, they didn't know shit.
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Hah! It's a bad translation of "compact assault rifle".
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The Medieval Misinformation Detox Thread
Sturgeon replied to Sturgeon's topic in History, Culture, and Archaeology
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The Medieval Misinformation Detox Thread
Sturgeon replied to Sturgeon's topic in History, Culture, and Archaeology
I think a lot of the armor myths come from bad reproductions from the 16th century onwards. I can only imagine what sort of myths will become common about guns in a few hundred years. -
Well, you know, it's hard to get proper AKs these days; I had to take some pretty extreme measures...
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Anti-Aging Technology And Physical Immortality
Sturgeon replied to Sturgeon's topic in Open Discussion
Clarification: This is a cure for aging, not an invincibility serum or magical sparkly vampire juice. If you take it as a child, you will still mature. If you have taken it, and you fall into lava, you will still die. So basically, if you take it and live, you'll be stuck in that Keanu Reeves look where you're clearly older than your twenties, but you aren't showing any signs of aging. However, it cannot reverse aging that has already occurred. -
The Medieval Misinformation Detox Thread
Sturgeon replied to Sturgeon's topic in History, Culture, and Archaeology
Fun fact: The Inquisition at its height killed people at a lower rate than the State of Texas. -
The Destruction of History By Barbarians
Sturgeon replied to Sturgeon's topic in History, Culture, and Archaeology
I feel this is a reasonable account of things. Though I hadn't really considered the Middle East as a proper part of the Western Empires, since they weren't under their control for very long. -
The Destruction of History By Barbarians
Sturgeon replied to Sturgeon's topic in History, Culture, and Archaeology
I agree with the first bit, and I do agree that the Brits and French made a hash of things in the long run, but I don't really think that was because of the policies they initiated in the first place. If it were, wouldn't you have seen the decay happen slowly? In Rhodesia, for example, that didn't seem to be the case; collapse came swiftly, once the levellers took hold. -
The Destruction of History By Barbarians
Sturgeon replied to Sturgeon's topic in History, Culture, and Archaeology
Your argument appears to be that you can't keep the natives in line because someone will want to expand the borders of the Empire. Sorry, not following. -
The Medieval Misinformation Detox Thread
Sturgeon replied to Sturgeon's topic in History, Culture, and Archaeology
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The Destruction of History By Barbarians
Sturgeon replied to Sturgeon's topic in History, Culture, and Archaeology
Oh don't underestimate the US State Department's ability to fuck things up in a malicious, calculating way, too. Besides that, I agree without reservation that the US is shit at empire. -
The Destruction of History By Barbarians
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Oh, that's easy. Conquer it and make it a formal part of the Empire. -
Anti-Aging Technology And Physical Immortality
Sturgeon replied to Sturgeon's topic in Open Discussion
Given the passing of Leonard Nimoy, I thought I would broach this discussion topic: Imagine that a pill that cured mortality were invented tomorrow, but it had a totally random 5% chance of killing - instantly - those to whom it was administered. 1. Would you take it? 2. If you were King of The World, would you administer it to your population like we do vaccines? 3. If the percentage of fatalities was not 5%, what values of "X" would be your thresholds for answering "yes" to 1 and 2?