Hilarious. Everyone says the Terminator series is great. I guess I should check it out.

I always wanted to do a 'Los Grenados' post-op report for Resident Evil 4

* Way too much random ammo and weaponry left carelessly out in the open.

* Who let that mysterious weapons dealer set up shop in our base?

* Perhaps the resources that went towards building that expensive and impractical indoor gatlin gun - which our enemy ended up gaining control of and wiping out dozens of good men - would have been better spent elsewhere.

* When setting up catapults, aim them AWAY from our base.

* Maybe we should hang on to our important keys, rather than allow them to be distributed by simple logic puzzles?

etc...

Wow, talk about histrionic titles.... geesh.

Look, if you want any Western strategic interests located in the heart of the Middle East, this is how it's accomplished. If the US didn't pay this money, they'd have less influence over Israel and the region as a whole. The money buys the US a spot at the table. It also buys the US a military presence, a proxy military, a military jumping-off point, and thus political pressure in the area. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is another discussion.

As to the current fiasco: it's war and it's not a new war. If this were the dark ages and the groups could fire weapons the distance of a football field or two, I'm sure the groups could live together. Given the small size of the country and the advancement of weaponry, it's far easier for for the Israelis to be harmed by state or non-state players.

Look at the current situation: Hamas in Gaza started firing rockets into Israel. Israel asked the world for help. No help came. Israel attempted to remove this enemy once and for all. The attacks wouldn't be a problem if we were in the pre-rocket days - catapult fire wouldn't travel far enough. Pity our advancement of "civilization", eh?

Is there a right or a wrong in this fight? Wow. That's a naive question. Both sides have a right to live in the area. What right? There are historic rights for both groups. Military rights, too, for the Israelis, since 1948 and reaffirmed in '67. Both groups also have political/lawful rights. The problem is that the groups can't seem to Just Get Along. That puts Israel in a pickle: they can't readily defend themselves from hostile fire from enemies, many of whom refuse to accept that Israel is a legitimate state. They can't get make those people move to other countries... not legally, anyway. That leaves them with their only legal option: defend themselves from attack.

The Palestinians this time are fighting against the war of attrition; being cut off. The Israelis are defending against the reprisal terrorist attacks. Enter the circle of violence.

Of course nobody wants the civilian deaths in Gaza; neither child nor adult. That said, if you choose to live in Gaza or the West Bank, there's no doubt you'll have terrorists (and I say "terrorist" instead of "freedom fighter" because Hamas, Hezbollah, and the PLO have have plenty of civilian blood on their hands) living with you. And if you have terrorists as neighbors, you'll have bullets as weather.

The POS thief should be thrown in the air like that, by catapult.

so far I've hacked together contraptions that barely make the grade. I went to the forums to see what other people were talking about and found that they post the save game of how they completed each level. Holy Crap. people are making wicked advanced things. Talk about over achievers :-) this user built and threw a basket to the final destination, then catapulted the ball into it... amazing... check it out
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=2775825

Sounds good! I'm in CST as well.

In reply to this comment by MrFisk:
I live in Central timezone and work at 10 on Friday. Count me in so long as it's a couple hours beforehand.

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
Ok! So it seems like for this game, unless someone else chimes in throughout the week, that it will be you me and gwiz. So, do you have any requests for game type? map type? Preferred special game rules?

I was thinking having us three and then a full board of AI's on Noble/monarch/whatever difficulty, depending on how good you folks are. Maybe we could potentially ally up if prudent when we find each other and just try to survive against them? Or would that be too easy/unfun?

As for game start date/time, how does friday late afternoon or evening sound? We basically only have to all simultaniously be there to start the game. Everything else is just gravy.

Let me know.

In reply to this comment by MrFisk:
Not familiar with Pitboss but it sounds intriguing. Count me in. Beyond the Sword really balanced out the techs in the endgame better, I think. Also, reduced the power of catapults etc. by about half. I have tried playing online a couple times but it seems the anti-cheat codes aren't fixed. That and everyone logs in and out. I have a few friends who play but am waiting for them to get the BTS expansion.

I live in Central timezone and work at 10 on Friday. Count me in so long as it's a couple hours beforehand.

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
Ok! So it seems like for this game, unless someone else chimes in throughout the week, that it will be you me and gwiz. So, do you have any requests for game type? map type? Preferred special game rules?

I was thinking having us three and then a full board of AI's on Noble/monarch/whatever difficulty, depending on how good you folks are. Maybe we could potentially ally up if prudent when we find each other and just try to survive against them? Or would that be too easy/unfun?

As for game start date/time, how does friday late afternoon or evening sound? We basically only have to all simultaniously be there to start the game. Everything else is just gravy.

Let me know.

In reply to this comment by MrFisk:
Not familiar with Pitboss but it sounds intriguing. Count me in. Beyond the Sword really balanced out the techs in the endgame better, I think. Also, reduced the power of catapults etc. by about half. I have tried playing online a couple times but it seems the anti-cheat codes aren't fixed. That and everyone logs in and out. I have a few friends who play but am waiting for them to get the BTS expansion.

Ok! So it seems like for this game, unless someone else chimes in throughout the week, that it will be you me and gwiz. So, do you have any requests for game type? map type? Preferred special game rules?

I was thinking having us three and then a full board of AI's on Noble/monarch/whatever difficulty, depending on how good you folks are. Maybe we could potentially ally up if prudent when we find each other and just try to survive against them? Or would that be too easy/unfun?

As for game start date/time, how does friday late afternoon or evening sound? We basically only have to all simultaniously be there to start the game. Everything else is just gravy.

Let me know.

In reply to this comment by MrFisk:
Not familiar with Pitboss but it sounds intriguing. Count me in. Beyond the Sword really balanced out the techs in the endgame better, I think. Also, reduced the power of catapults etc. by about half. I have tried playing online a couple times but it seems the anti-cheat codes aren't fixed. That and everyone logs in and out. I have a few friends who play but am waiting for them to get the BTS expansion.

Not familiar with Pitboss but it sounds intriguing. Count me in. Beyond the Sword really balanced out the techs in the endgame better, I think. Also, reduced the power of catapults etc. by about half. I have tried playing online a couple times but it seems the anti-cheat codes aren't fixed. That and everyone logs in and out. I have a few friends who play but am waiting for them to get the BTS expansion.

>> ^charliem:
Force of the weight being dropped difference in distance from pivot point = smushed bones.


= knees driven through his chin

Send in a special forces to infiltrate the palace(s) after a bunker buster or two-
Take out every dictator on the planet first. Leave the Nations intact.
Send same forces to the Largest corporations on the planet, take out the dictators.
Launch captured assholes in catapults, on National Television.
Party Naked.
Vote Ben Franklin's exhumed bones for President.

Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3 intermediate-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching Israel and US targets in the region, Israel Radio reported. The test came hours before Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with US President George W Bush in Washington to discuss the Iranian threat.

Military officials said it was not clear if this most recent test indicated an advance in the capabilities of the Shihab 3. They said the test was likely timed to coincide with the Washington summit and with comments made by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah during celebrations in Beirut marking the 6th anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

The Arrow missile, he said, could intercept and destroy any Iranian missile fired at Israel, including ones carrying non-conventional warheads. Experts believe that if Iran is attacked by Israel or the US, Teheran would respond by firing long-range ballistic missiles at Israel.-AP Jerusalem Post

-Hizbullah is rearming quickly, Syria feeds the hate-Iran has an insane idiot-stick for a leader, a passionate delusional with missiles-Where is the valley of Megiddo again???....Why won't these motherfuckers simply die??....I am talking about the folks who manufacture and sell them the shit as well(and their families)....some French, some Germans, some sick rich cocksuckers from all nations need killing.....

>> ^neuralnoise:
Shep, you win! notcute then.
Going around 360 on a regular swingset... I wonder if that is somehow possible without a catapult.


And the lord said, "Watch Mythbusters"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PMB3d-kVKBo

Shep, you win! *notcute then.

Going around 360 on a regular swingset... I wonder if that is somehow possible without a catapult.

hell man, can you blame Jersey??? Don't expect any fundamental human niceties from Jersey....seems that most of the folks that would hold responsible a soldier for their decision to join the US army, don't know the nature of the machine anyhow and live in fantastic tunnel reality paradigms that have nothing to do with the world of the now-We have always (the masses) had the power to end the bullshit, but most would no more share in the responsibility of the sorry state of world affairs than settle for anything but full cream in their lattes....

Stop the machine for a week by non-participation in commerce, transportation, credit, etc, then follow it up with a unified protest and demands....this is the only thing that has a hope for change-


A good few years of extreme natural disaster would accomplish much as well.....a bit of world panic from without would have a great effect on the collective psyche, and usually tends to bring out the best and the worst in monkeys-wees way overdue for some real change....How about we launch Obama from a catapult???

Of course....some might argue that the flip-side of the current paradigm's machine with all it's inequality, greed, and warmongering, is that it got us here, past the industrial rev, past atomic energy, at the doorstep of nanotech and beyond.....

Human nature being what it predictably bees, it will all end quite horribly is this man's guess.....

Much more kid-friendly than Nerf's other slingshot, the "Hypodermic Needle Catapult".

These people are probably all Fox News employees with Karl Rove directing.
"Catapult the propaganda"!
If those are her friends - I'd hate to see...
Well anyway - Peace all!