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    I'm reading that thread, too:
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    I've tried to keep an open mind about anime, but the vast majority of it really is just childish to its core. Maybe it's that I can't relate to its culture, but I don't look over my shoulder while watching Looney Toons, Matt Groening's shows, or even Adventure Time/Gravity Falls in the same way I do as when I watch an anime. I guess my biggest gripes are: -The voice acting. There are four voices in anime: squeaky girl, sultry woman, deep-voiced man, goofy nasally man. 80% of the voices are squeaky woman. This limits the kind of characters you can use. -Most of it sounds like it's made for children, then hurriedly patched to sell to weird lonely Japanese guys. "Power of the human heart" speeches followed by sexualized little girls is fucking stupid. -On that, it lacks tonal consistency. You'll watch some major character get killed in the rain, then 5 minutes later they're all having a big kitchen disaster with lots of goofy faces or something. -The action ones seem to not know how to scale. Dragonball Z is the original in this, but so many just start out fucking nuts from the beginning that by the end, it's gone way too far out into left field. These are blanket statements, of course. I loved Cowboy Bebop and anything I've seen by Miyazaki. I've tried watching anything on Adult Swim or on Netflix, but I've never seen an entertainment "genre" so polluted with pure garbage.
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    Depends on the model. It could be simple as fracturing a securing link or compromising a length of track enough that it could break or fall out of alignment under enough stress.
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    Depends. The ones in the movie were field rigs, and I've never read anything about them. The British No. 74 supposedly did a good amount of work against light armor.
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    It's usually when death is portrayed in a sort of detached way that gets to me. I feel more sorry for random unknown soldier getting gunned down or exploded than close-ups of the main hollywood actors dramatically being taken down. I was reminded of this when I watched John Wick last night. I actually started feeling a little bad for the mobsters since they were mostly being killed in a disable-then-execute fashion, and not with ridiculous, over-acted death twirls like in most movies.
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    We've done "overrated vs. bad." It's not bad, far from it. Tactically, it put the American infantryman in one hell of a great position and gave them a massive edge, but having to hear the Patton quote every time it shows up in a video or book gets grating. I'm not taking it down a peg. I'm just pointing where the peg it's always been resting at is. I've fired both. If I were a submachine gunner or a tanker, I'd choose the PPS. If I wanted one to own, I would choose the PPSh.
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    I've played the first two, and I'm not really a fan. Maybe it's because I have kind of a fucked up schedule and literally fell asleep once while playing Witcher 2, but I couldn't get into them. The dialogue and the weird PC RPG fetish for layers of menus are a big turn-off for me. I've heard Witcher 3 is a massive improvement, and I'll take a look next time it's on sale, but my hopes aren't high after the first two. I've just never been into complexity for the sake of in PC RPGs, and the smugness of its players for having memorized the wiki. I never really viewed Oblivion-and-forward (and sort of Morrowind) as RPGs, more like action-adventures with RPG elements, which is why I dug them so much. Sure, I could go into menus and start doing crafting to make potions and spells, but I didn't have to if I didn't want to and/or achieved such things by exploring dungeons and the like. You can call me a thickie who can't appreciate a good PC RPG, but I won't call the Witcher series and games like it bad, they just don't appeal to me.
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    You guys kinda nailed them all. The Firefly, Thompson, and Garand are definitely there. I guess I could add the Char B1 bis, since it seems to have this myth attributed to it that the French would have won if they had more. I'd also throw in the PPSh as another possible one (mostly hindsight since the PPS-43 is so good). I'm also curious just how well the Bren performed because I haven't really dug into reading anything on its performance or why it's touted as the "greatest LMG."
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    I take Bethesda's games for what they are: Just a chance to walk around a world and find interesting stuff. They're good winter games, the type where I'm stuck indoors and just want to wander around and occasionally kill a thing or two when I get home at weird times of the day.. I liked FO1, couldn't get into 2, loved 3, and sort of liked NV (never played Tactics). That said, Bethesda usually has some of the worst writers and voice acting in gaming, which is odd because they have some of the best "un-"writing out there. There's stuff like the terrible opening sequence to Skyrim, but then interesting level designs that tell more about stuff like the Falmer and Dwarves than loads dialogue could. I'm looking forward to 4, though I'm still kind of weirded out by the presentation. A lot of it looks like a departure for both Fallout and Bethesda.
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    These things were the most underrated unit in Airland Battle.
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    Oh, I've been meaning to ask here. Does anyone know which MAS 49 .308 conversions were possibly good? I know Century butchered them pretty bad, but I heard a few companies did pretty good conversions.
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    I'll give it a shot. I'm already noticing a price hike in MASes, and I don't wanna pay the prices I think they'll be in the next year or two.
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    I need a new place to stay. I'm not listed on the utility bills at my current digs, so I can't buy things on GunBroker. Mas 49s are gonna be a fortune by that time, though.
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    I dig the Field Strip Fridays on TFB, by the way. I'm usually more interested in people taking apart guns and talking about them than typical shoot-action videos for some reason. Also, I'm sorry if this is rude, but I can't be the only person to notice a passing resemblance between Alex and Rib Kid.
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    We mostly like to tease him about his age, you're being too direct.
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    I do mostly agree with Alex. I prefer older weapons. It must have been hunting/hiking with my dad's old Savage, and later, my M44 Mosin, but I've never felt close to a polymer gun. There are exceptions, like the FALs and early-model M16s, but nothing with a rail has appealed to me, and that guy throwing a fit in the comments is an indicator of a few ways that I don't like where gun design and the gun business in general are going. I guess I like a reflection of craftsmanship in things I enjoy. Food, tobacco, firearms, even things like entertainment media (to dispel criticism that it's just anti-modern sentiments). I see little craftsmanship in most (not all) modern firearms.
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    I always dug the weird-looking Abrams prototypes in a way. I'm definitely having a lot of fun with Armored Warfare. Obsidian did some interesting things to balance the game out, and I appreciate it. They've created good incentives for teamwork in that each type of vehicle has its own important traits to bring to the field, and all of them can succeed in some kind of a fight. I'm having a lot of fun with BMPs, BMDs, and the Swingfire. The biggest complaint I have is that I feel like the MBTs could use some more health in the earlier stages. It gets better in later tiers when they can hold more in terms of armor, but early on, they tend to just get spotted and blapped by BMPs.
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    I wrote out a bigger post that was more vitriolic (towards the NRA, not anyone here) and whiny, but dumped it. My problems with the NRA aren't lobbying. They're public relations. Nobody without a gun knows about the NRA's information or safety programs. All they see are news stories of NRA figures blaming victims, appealing to nutsos, or organizing pro-gun rallies down the street from a major shooting within the month of the tragedy. Their public relations arm is losing the non-owner voter, and it's going to seriously hurt them (and us) down the line. People to whom pro-gun and anti-gun ownership is a very important issue are both in the minority. The rest are fence-sitters that you have to keep on your side. Otherwise, opinion shifts away from you, resulting in a legislature that you can no longer lobby.
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    The NRA is doing more to ensure crazy anti-gun laws than anybody, really.
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    You also have to take into account that lots of politicians and people of power are pretty damned tall. I got struck by that meeting politicians. It makes sense, since it lends to the air of charisma, and helps in public apperances. It's not really a rule, but if you're examining the judgement of people that would be around Napoleon the most (military and dignitary types), then you'll probably see a general trend in opinion.
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    I'm careful to jump on either side. I have no real interest to see the G36 succeed or fail. The interviewing of soldiers can be a good or bad thing. On one hand, you have testimony of using it during battle conditions. On the other hand, soldiers can have poor perspective on how much better or worse things can be. It should be taken into account, but not all at its word.
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    We're all familiar with the nonsense that gets spewed about the extreme capability of German infantry units in WW2, but does anyone have any good information or sources on training regimens?
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    You are just not hip to my le meme skills. Seriously, though, I am not a Redditor, don't even joke.
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    To be fair it looks like a kid. A very creepy kid.
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