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Except it's German.

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Had a little chat with a military researcher about this, and his stance was more or less like: "If you say so... *hint* *hint* *wink* *wink*".

Says Nettheynjieël . Like you don't have a sound like the first two letters of my name, we don't have the 'th' sound. Just call me Bronze (even though that's an utter mispronounciation of the first part of this nickname) or Big G, as Colli likes to call me, for some reason. I dunno how he came up with that since I'm neither big nor a gangster. I'm a pasty white dude.

From what I heard on Teamspeak, yeah you better not speak Dutch.

Will China ever learn that digital camo does not work like that?

While glass fiber reinforced plastics will wear more on the nozzle and screws than normal plastics, it's not that bad. With the production runs of firearms, it shouldn't be a problem at all. I know for a fact that the mold of the grille of an Audi R8 (the part that's chrome plated) costs over half a million euros. I've visited various factories, and one that made bottles stored their molds in a fireproof bunker/room. The machines themselves weren't all that well protected. Granted, moving a machine isn't something you'll do, but still. It wasn't so much due to the production costs of the mold, but more due to the molds being the only one of its kind. If they threw a mold away, and had to do a re-run of that part, the new mold would have slighly different dimensions from the old mold. They didn't want to risk parts not fitting properly. With weapons you don't have these problems because you won't make millions of parts on one mould anyway. k

Speaking of anecdotes, the the final English exam on Dutch high schools have a time limit of 2 hours. People are still allowed to enter half an hour after the official start of the exam. When I started leaning back and relaxing after 15 minutes, a supervisor came rushing to me: "...something wrong?" - "Nah, I'm done" "... you sure? You did finish all parts?" - "Yep" "Well, I can't let you go, people are still entering, you gotta wait for a bit, just... double check your answers". Half an hour after the start I got waved over to the front and I could leave. If looks could kill, I would have been killed about a hundred times , I could feel the hatred burning in my back. Students in that high school are 'notorious' for speaking bad English. (No, it's not the school, it's demographics*.) Yes, I passed. Thankfully, it was a written exam, my pronunciation was, and still is, garbage. * There is a noticeable difference between religious and non-religious 'back in my day'. This is most likely due to religious people not having TV and not watching movies.

Which, as a plastic, is amazingly strong. I've seen glass fiber filled PA tensile test sample break a 1+ cm aluminium clamp in two. Turns out you can't use clamps intended for normal plastics when testing glass fiber filled plastics.

Without Remorse is a good read indeed. It took some getting used to though, coming from a few John le Carré and Frederick Forsyth books though. My biggest complaint about the books so far is that they're getting bigger and bigger. It just takes too long to get through, imo. And then there's the thing of my ebook copies being screwed up a bit (due to not being all that legal). There are no different paragraphs, so transitions between PoVs are kinda messy.

I'm reading Tom Clancy's Ryan universe in chronological order. Currently reading (read: slogging through) Executive Orders.

If I were to move to Russia, I'd move to a place with no people around.

Did somebody actually notice the topic title has a typo?

Have you ever wished you had access to a pool of information, but didn't because you had no way to understand it?

My town doesn't have any Russians (that I know of).

...I recognise languages I don't even speak.

For me it was easy, but I cheated a little. My native dialect is more related to German than to Dutch. While it's more related to Low German than High German ('Official' German), the combination of speaking Dutch (a Low Franconian language) and Low German (an Ingvaeonic language (No, I dont know how to pronounce that either)) makes German rather easy for me. EXCEPT FOR THE ANNOYING DER-DIE-DEM-DAS AND WHATEVER OTHERS THERE ARE

English is that kid that beats up other languages and steals their lunch moneygrammar and spelling.

So we have a bunch of people running around who speak very different languages, and yet nobody is talking about it. Hmm. To me, it's very interesting to hear experiences of somebody who does not speak two or more languages. I've been bilingual since I was 4 years old and I started learning my third language when I was 9. So I, more or less, do not have memories of speaking only one language, especially since I had an acceptable level of English when the internet really became a thing for me. As of today I claim to be fluent in three languages: Low Saxon (my native language), Dutch and English. I have a basic understanding of German, enough to read a few of Spielberger's books about tanks in German. I can read and understand South African, but not speak it. Lastly, I can generally understand the gist of texts written in Danish, Swedish or Norwegian, but I haven't bothered really learning any of those. The language I'm really trying to learn is... *drumroll* Russian. I don't know why, but I just love the sound of it. I'm still nowhere near a basic level, I'm still trying to become fluent in reading Cyrillic. So I guess I do know what it's like to be able to speak only one language. So for the Russians on here, after I can properly read Cyrillic, what should be my next step? Reading and trying to understand news articles maybe? Or should I go a different route and listen to Russian radio stations? As for people who only speak English, have you ever felt you were missing out because you didn't speak a certain language? Ever thought about learning another language? If yes, why? I've been looking at Japanese as well, but you know, weeaboos and shit. So in the end I didn't bother. To add something myself, here are a few of my things on a few languages I speak: (Dutch) Low Saxon Some call it a dialect, some call it a language. Opinions differ, but it's generally considered a (regional) language. It's not a single language per se, but more or less made of various dialects which are all quite similar, but different as well. Saying you speak Low Saxon is like saying you speak Germanic. Which you can't because Germanic consists of various different language groups. Because you know English doesn't mean you know German. It's different with Low Saxon. I speak a Low Saxon dialect, which means I can understand all the various dialects, as well as a lot from our granddaddy language group Low German. I might not understand all the individual words, but I do know exactly what he's saying. I once tried it with a German who spoke a German dialect as well. He spoke his dialect, I spoke mine. We were able to understand each other perfectly. Which is freaking amazing. Why? Because he spoke a Low German dialect, and Low Saxon is part of Low German: (So I guess you know what part of the Netherlands I live in.) Say I met an old lady from Berlin and we'd start talking to each other in our dialects, we'd be able to understand each other perfectly. I don't think English has the same thing. Maybe compare it to an American trying to understand freaking Welsh. As for the language itself, I'm amazed that it cannot be written. Sounds strange, but it just doesn't have any rules at all. Which, in linguistics, means you can't write it. And yet it has survived for quite some time. But sadly, its time has come and less and less people are fluent. It's dying, and quite rapidly at that. Also, it does not have a female word-form. "Officially" there is no difference what-so-ever between "his bike" and "her bike". Or "he went to the shop" and "she went to the shop". I can already hear the feminazi's partying because "finally proper equality between men and women", but alas, we don't say "her bike" or "she went to the sop", we just say "his bike" and "he went to the shop". Rekt. If you want to get a lot of words across really quickly, learn this. It's very suited for talking fast, and most speakers do. Dutch It's a mess. Don't learn it unless you have a reason to do so. - Its grammar rules are disgustingly irritating. Writing it can be a disaster. And guess what, it doesn't matter for pronunciation! Don't you love grammar rules like that? "Oh, I wonder, does this word end in a 'd', a 't' or 'dt'?" Guess what sucker, it doesn't matter! Except if you're a language purist, then fuck you. Of course, if you screw it up you'll get punished and people will point and laugh. - Sentence structure is different from Dutch Low Saxon, so automatically it's inferiour. It also different from English, which is also inferiour. - Dutch is totally and absolutely unfit for shouting. Shouting Dutchies are the silly. The language and pronunciation of words just doesn't suit it. English If Dutch is a mess, English is a trainwreck. Seriously, I only speak it because it's the main language of the world. If French had the same status, I would be speaking French, but I don't. And I quite dislike French. Your grammar rules are disgusting, so is the pronunciation, whoever came up with all the fucking rules must love torturing people. Who the fuck came up with the fucking silent-E? Seriously, fuck him. It's like Dutch, but waaaay worse. If I could advise against learning English, I would. Also, fuck English for invading other languages even though half of English is fucking French. It's slowly strangling other languages, which infuriates me. Seeing a language die first-hand isn't funny if you're any type of linguist.

You can disable those invites in your settings.

A bit late, but oh well. I like it. It's a tactical shooter with an emphasis on tactical, but it's not forgetting it's a shooter. As said, it's a 5v5 game. The fact you don't have a huge team and that teammates don't respawn will make you quite careful quite quickly. In my opinion the game does a very good job to force teamplay on the players. There are quite a bunch of so called operators, each with their own special ability. And they complement each other quite nicely. While there are a few operators that allow the player to play alone, it's not recommended. And if you don't know what you're doing, it's not fun. Players generally band together nicely. As the name of the game indicates, one team has to defend while the other team has to attack. There are various gamemodes which will exclude certain tactics or operators. Sadly some people don't realise that and throw a cluster grenade in the room with the hostage. Some gamemodes reward hardcore camping, while others punish it. The defenders can set up an elaborate defence with the use of signal jammers, (shock)razorwires, reinforced walls, etc. But then again the attackers can plan an elaborate attack. Do we attack from two or more sides? Do we ECM their electronics immediately, or do we ECM their stuff on a side we won't be attacking? It's totally viable to breach a bunch of walls and to just run away. If you're playing with friends it can be a whole lot of fun, even on games you lose, purely because of the teamplay. Solo can be frustrating because pubbies gotta pubbie. The gunplay is very satisfying. The guns look and sound amazing (imo), but I'm not sure if they're completely true to life. But I don't care, spamming an HK417 indoors is fun. The game features a lot of breakable things, so it's totally possible to shoot through walls and other things. The game has quite good audio, so if you have a nice 5.1/7.1 setup you can totally nail people through walls based on their footsteps alone (heck, it works even with my 2.1 headset). Of course the game has a sneak feature which can be toggled. The game also features a very good lean system. It's nothing more than the usual left/right lean, but it can be toggled, which is freaking amazing. The only bad thing about the gunplay is that the damage of a gun or the armour on the enemy doesn't matter. A headshot is always a killing shot. 9mm hit on your helmet? You're dead. 9mm hit on your ear protection? You're dead. I dunno why, but apparently earmuffs are an integral part of your head. Aside from helmets being capable of stopping 9mm. So basically: Spam at head; you win. But firefights are still very tense and rewarding, possibly even due to the fact that a headshot is always a killing shot. Basically everything that isn't considered an integral part to the level due to the level design can be destroyed. Some walls are indestructable to give defenders at least a chance of winning, but if you shoot through a destroyable wall, the paintings on the other side are totally going to fly across the room. In pieces, of course. The game itself looks pretty freaking amazing. I've been looking at a lot of walls lately, and never have I thought "this texture is fugly". You do need at least 4.5 GB of VRAM if you want the best quality on 1080p though. While there are a few no-brainer operators and a few tell-me-why-did-you-pick-this-one-again?-operators, all operators can be made viable if you know how to play them. But then again, very useful operators can be made completely useless if you ignore your team. What use are EMP grenades to destroy jammers if you're not even near your teammates? Your team can't breach and you're just a useless dude with a gun and no protection. The game is absolutely not without its faults, but I can only think of one that has an actual effect on the gameplay, and that's the always-killing-headshots. Most other faults have to do with random disconnects, XP gains not working, not getting into a match, etc. But when you get into a match, it's an amazing game. If you like tactical shooters, absolutely go for it. The big thing for me is that, while it's tactical, it's accessable. ArmA3 and America's Army: Proving Grounds are tactical as well (albeit in a different setting), but they can't be considered accessable. It's a game with a low skill floor, but a very, very high skill ceiling. It takes only a few games (or singleplayer missions) to know what to do. But it will take hours and hours to refine how you're doing what you're doing, Every moron can breach a window and rappel inside, but it takes a little more skill to place a breaching charge, sneak away to the window on the other side of the room, listening for people moving (yes you can hear clothes rustle when players look around), rappelling through that window (all entry points in the building are always boarded up), set off the breaching charge just before you break through the boards so people look at the other window *and* won't be hearing you crash through the window and shoot the bastards in the head when they're looking at the breach thinking "When will the bastard appear!?". It's a bit rambo to do so, but shit is it a lot of fun. Yes you can totally coordinate this with your team so they'll breach the door at the same time. ...holy crap what a load of text.

About those burning Jap planes. When I was still playing IL-2 Sturmovik, Jap planes were 'famous' for their "ten-second burn". When they caught on fire, they'd burn for approximately 10 seconds, after which they'd explode. I'm wondering whether it's even remotely true or not, but I can't really find anything on it. (Or I'm just not searching in the right places)

I think I actually understand what happens inside an ERA block when a shaped charge hits it and how those two interact. Help me remember to make a post about it this weekend.