Carlos the Jackal

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X-com

I'm almost convinced you're misinterpreting things on purpose :O

Oh the usual. Moved interstate, met a girl. Got married. Got bored playing FPS's one night and remembered I used to play X-Com apoc and post on a little forum....

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I was there when Kennedy got shot this thread started.

Just posting to add to the running tally of things pete didn't expect when he made this thread.

muppet (clumsy) muppet-armed (Clumsy with your hands) Fraggle (Useless or stupid person) "Why don't I get you a cold can of concrete so you can harden the F*(Happy happy joy joy)** up?" Carpet-bagger (A person who just pulled a fast one) Going jack (Not helping your friends) Jack-rations (Your own food that you brought with you. Thats fine, unlike actually 'going jack' which is never appriciated) Two-way firing range (combat zone) Pink mist (Head shot) buckets of bullets (A high rate of fire, typically used when withdrawing, magazines are emptied in constant bursts by the men closest to the enemy, reloading on fallback) Arse-end arnold (The guy at the back) Bongo's, as in 'Get your bongo's on' (Soldiers equiptment, usually webbing, occasionally webbing and rifle) Brass up, as in 'Brass/ed 'em up' (Shot them. Refers to the brass casings ejected from the rifle) Gong (Medal) Fruit salad (Multiple medals) Bird shit (The ranking pips on an officer, most often used when speaking of an officer one has a low opinion of) Musket, pitchfork, gat (Rifle) Thats about all I can think of for now. Enjoy.

And I thought it was because it was me. Why else would my best female soldier be named Tammy?

Hope to, It seems everytime I think about coming back I get swamped again with work and uni. We'll see how things go this time though

Well, Warlord was far more replaceable. 'Meet new Warlord, same as old Warlord' Rocket-jockeys don't need impressive stats, but my best female scout/UFO stormer does

Sorry, I failed to translate this from Chinese to English, I think. You don't like dogs and you think it's cruel to hold it up by its back for a photo? No, it doesn't bother little dogs to be held belly up.

Hydrogen fuel cells, artificially produced oil (YES! They have done it in labratories and it IS viable for mass production, even better it uses common household WASTE to produce it), Nuclear power (Which is more than safe and ecologically sound when done correctly) Solar power, Thermal energy, Hydro power, Wind power, Coal power (Dirty, I know, but carbon can be re-absorbed and buried.. it even turns back into coal), Nuclear Fusion (It currently CAN be done by containing the plasma in a magnetic field. Too bad the magnetic field costs more energy than the core puts out )

Hey look, I thought this that a sub-forum committed to genuine debate. What is all this teenage angst 'all the leaders of the world are so corrupt, maaaaaaaan'? It disturbs me, this trend of recent times to become incredibly divisive along political lines. I've found people of differing political views to myself to become increasingly antagoinistic, and even close to violent towards me when I express my views.(Which puts a huge dent in their 'no war, peace man' arguement). There have been great and compassionate leaders of men, as well as evil tyrants, and all shades of grey inbetween, and there still is today. Now, cause the US is the yardstick by which all other countries are measured at the moment, lets examine a little how Bush and the Republican party are constantly attacked, and unfairly. Bush has a speech impediment, and for this he's seen as 'dumb as a chimp' or an ignorant fool. Steven Hawking has a speech impediment as well. Is he a fool? The content of articles and speeches written by G.W Bush himself have been intelligent and well balanced. He examines multiple angles of issues and acknowledges the differing views of the opposition, and presents an arguement for his point of view. Even in public speaking, which is not his strong point, until he trips up on pronouncing a word or mangles a phrase he carries himself with sincerity and compassion. Perhaps people have forgotton the speech he made just post 9/11. The Republican party is portrayed by the Democrats as being for big business, and against the concerns of the average joe. However the Democrats raise taxes, the Republicans lower them, the Democrats pretend there isn't a problem with America's welfare system, while the Republicans are introducing sensible reform. 90% of the Republican party's campaign funding comes from private citizens making donations of less than $50. Over 70% of the Democrat's funding comes from big busininess and large contributions from the independantly wealthy, such as actors and buisnessmen. Gee, who's for big buisness and who's for the common American? I'd type more, but I need a smoke and I'm tired of the topic. I debate it at every forum I'm on.. It gets tiring. Edit: I just re-read this and I KNOW it's a bit over the place. But you get my point.

Thats what I was aiming for but I'd forgotton what they were called.