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It should also be mentioned that FO armour is noticably slimmed down compared to empire stuff. Maybe in the redesign process they dropped the nbc requirements in favour of lighter weight and being able to see anything?

You're overthinking this, but I do find it interesting that so many settings with laser weapons don't include eyewear for the user/s. Lasers are to vision what guns are to hearing, after all. Only infinitely worse as at least a distant gunshot won't deafen you.

Poor thing.

Low bar to clear though.

Roger and his Flock clones, man.

Chinese equivalent to Archer?

Who's Roger? And what is his deal with Glocks?

Other possible explanations: Too few bun fights between famous historical figures. No troops harmed during events. Something something dry and techical subject matter. Other article writer included a picture of self posing in a bikini. Not the biggest, best, most expensive, worst etc. Not tie-in to Hitler possibly winning WWII. Points not given in list form. Combinatorial factors (aka: ten pics of Hitler wearing most expensive bikini)

Few comments may simply mean that you've done a great job snd coveted the whole issue very well. At least that's what I tell myself.

The damage on that thing looks way too low-energy to be real. Even ignoring the suspiciously good condition, artillery fragments would penetrate or leave splinters, producing noticable curled edges around the impact site. Bullets would leave friction-welded pieces of jacket or form distinctive furrowed scars if they bit in at all. The curled edges around impact sites would, again, be very obvious. There should be various sizes of damage, including pitting from secondary fragments and possibly large distortions where major components were warped or twisted. In short, Don has the right of it.

I'm with Sturgeon on this one. Further (and I've already said this to one of my friends) I have to mention that there comes a point where criticism turns into butthurt over the fact that the movie didn't conform to some sort of impossibly perfect version that you had in your head. Don't cross that line, as nothing good comes afterwards.

TIER 0 SPITS ON TIER 1 BRAH.

Actually engaging with the OP a bit, does it strike anyone else that the proliferation of 'elite' units is something of a running theme in peace-time armies? I mean, the only way to advance your career in an army is to either raise your rank or join a better unit. With no war on the horizon, the first option rapidly becomes rate-limited by the amount of time it takes for the people at the top to retire or die of old age. With 'waiting for the old man to die' as your only option, I assume that your organisation would be in danger of losing people who get fed up with the fact that they'll never rise above junior lieutenant or whatever. So there must be a constant pressure on the structure to create smaller units along a more finely-graduated scale in order to provide opportunities for advancement. I see something similar happening in large companies - a trend towards departmentalization and specialisation as a way to expand opportunities at the top. It's top-heavy companies all over again, basically.

And on the subject of ass-sanding: https://youtu.be/FzF1KySHmUA

Not so much, actually. I'm just winding down for the year and being generally relaxed. As such, I find histrionics of all sorts (briefly) more entertaining than anything else. I will, of course, mend my ways and start bleating my own stupid tune again in the new year. Please don't take this as directed at you. Rather, take it as thin comfort from someone who went through a tough year and is expecting the next to be even tougher: this too shall pass.

I thought one or two Germans were kind of responsible as well. In any case, once all that is good and just has been removed and we've all been brainwashed into becoming transgender postracial bronies, I hope that you'll all join me for a drink or something. Even in our pseudo-lobotomised states, I'm sure that we can we can find something worth disagreeing about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasite

I think a more pertinent question is who doesn't like Corsairs?

Speaking of untold history: http://chinamatters.blogspot.co.za/2007/01/coolie-quagmire-flogging-sodomy-and.html?m=1

Argument by absurdity disclaimer wasn't enough? Dude, you're going to ruin the flow of my OPs...

If we were trying to have the nigh-mythical productive and rational conversation about gender and society, I'd point to something like an instrumental understanding of the roles we're talking about: What is the purpose of the armed forces? To win wars, yes; but that is itself a sort of reductive and simplistic view. What is the purpose of the education system? To produce future factory workers, office drones and essay writers? To produce the few hundred people who will provide meaningful breakthroughs in research (with a byproduct of hundreds of thousands of people who do useless research or wind up with useless qualifications)? Once we've nailed down questions like this, we can move to the actual talking points: does physical strength matter? If so, is it captured properly in the tests we have for it? Does educational achievement matter? If so, then is it captured and reflected properly in the system we have? Finally, having drilled back up the layers, we can talk about the pertinent facts and how they apply in regards to the above questions. This whole argument (along with a bunch of other things related to gender) represents something like talking at cross purposes. Both sides are operating from different basic assumptions, to the extent that they barely recognise each other's logic. That is why this argument is and has been unproductive, and why my OP is written the way it is (seriously, reread the first few paragraphs). I see my argument regarding education (which was admittedly a nice diversion) as merely a continuation of the same approach this thread has followed throughout.

Apologies. It is a small piece of productivity, at least.

Looks like it's going that way. Ditto nearly all of the developed world.

This has never been a productive conversation, dude. Not here, not anywhere. Your question has now been answered, at least. So some level of productivity was attained.

So now that we've done quibbling about the phenomenon itself, would you care to give me an actual argument?