You are a number
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The only way to win is not to play.
Damn straight!! :) Also, great movie.
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Anyone who has played "shooter" games knows about "hit points". I was fascinated to find rules for an 1824 Prussian war game that was attributed to later Prussian military successes. Back then they were assigning hit points to units. As infantry in 3 ranks: .2 HP per man In 2 ranks: .33 HP Skirmishers: .66 HP etc. A half-Battalion (450 men) can "fire" anywhere from 2 - 60 HP, depending on range and probabilities. I want to be a skirmisher.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
I'm currently playing Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries and am quite happy with my 75 ton Black Knight. It's armor alone has a few hundred hit points. And it can step on tanks. Why waste good ammo on them? Still, it's only a matter of time before I scrape a Marauder [^] off the battlefield, even if I have to scrap it myself first. I always had a Marauder, beginning with Mechwarrior 1.
Gerry Schmitz wrote:
1824
I must have misread that. I thought you wrote 3024.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
One of the great TV series. I don't know if it could be possible to remake it in these modern times.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Aw man! Don't leave me hanging! A great intro to a great song! :laugh: Up the irons!!!:cool: Iron Maiden- The Prisoner - YouTube[^]
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
Great song.:thumbsup:
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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He accepted ... he rejected.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Showing your age Paul - that was filmed very close to my birthplace ( Port Merion )
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
You couldn't make it nowadays - it didn't spoon feed you anything! :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm currently playing Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries and am quite happy with my 75 ton Black Knight. It's armor alone has a few hundred hit points. And it can step on tanks. Why waste good ammo on them? Still, it's only a matter of time before I scrape a Marauder [^] off the battlefield, even if I have to scrap it myself first. I always had a Marauder, beginning with Mechwarrior 1.
Gerry Schmitz wrote:
1824
I must have misread that. I thought you wrote 3024.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
These types of mechanized exoskeletons have become a lot more believable since Boston Dynamics perfected walking robots.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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These types of mechanized exoskeletons have become a lot more believable since Boston Dynamics perfected walking robots.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Not really, at least not the huge versions that can step on tanks. For the same reasons why a flea can jump a few thousand times its size while an elephant can't jump at all. It's the inverse cube law- Double something in size and its mass increases eight times. An elephant sized flea could not jump a few miles. Without some Unobtanium[^] such devices or movie giant monsters will never exist in this universe.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You couldn't make it nowadays - it didn't spoon feed you anything! :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Aw man! Don't leave me hanging! A great intro to a great song! :laugh: Up the irons!!!:cool: Iron Maiden- The Prisoner - YouTube[^]
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
CP is missing the "horns" emoji. I'll use :beer:, wich is a good synonim* * I dislike beer and am always in a embarassing position with my fellow metalheads. If only cider was common here in Italy.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Not really, at least not the huge versions that can step on tanks. For the same reasons why a flea can jump a few thousand times its size while an elephant can't jump at all. It's the inverse cube law- Double something in size and its mass increases eight times. An elephant sized flea could not jump a few miles. Without some Unobtanium[^] such devices or movie giant monsters will never exist in this universe.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
The shows in the real robot genre are at least a bit more plausible, like Patlabor. Or Fang of the Sun Dougram, where they paid some attention to terrain and tactics. For instance, a 2-legged mech isn't very useful on sand dunes.
