Falcon

I turn them off, LCD flatpannel = no screen burn. Plus, it is a pain in the ass to keep moving the mouse when I am watching a movie .

I turn them off, LCD flatpannel = no screen burn. Plus, it is a pain in the ass to keep moving the mouse when I am watching a movie .

New Mexico for life...

New Mexico for life...

Warcraft II, then StarCraft, then Diablo II, then CS, then BF1942/FA/DoD, then BF:V, then WoW, now BF2. In the future I see myself playing another EA BAttlefield game.

Warcraft II, then StarCraft, then Diablo II, then CS, then BF1942/FA/DoD, then BF:V, then WoW, now BF2. In the future I see myself playing another EA BAttlefield game.

Ah yes, the days of CRT monitors....

Ah yes, the days of CRT monitors....

Cyclone, that is the general idea and is generally true. The only problem is that in most firefights you dont have time to line up a good shot and hut the guy in the head, and more often will hit the body (bigger target). The 5.56NATO round which is the standard round for: M16A2/A4, M4A2, M249, and variations of, a nd other standard issue weapons in the US Arsenal. The problem with the round is it tends to not kill on a body shot, as any one who was involved in the Somalia incident in the early 90's will tell you. Don't get me wrong, it is a lethal load, but its level of lethality is relatively low for a rifle caliber round. Let's look at what the two most commonly used rounds do: 5.56NATO: Round is effective up to the range of about 750-1000m. When it enters the targets body it will bounce and lodge itself, unless it bounce through the stomach, in which case it will exit or go down into the pelvis, and lodge there. The 5.56NATO round loses a lot of velocity when it bounces around in the body, which means if you dont hit a vital organ on the first shot, you gotta put 1 or more into your target before he is killed. 7.62x39/NATO: Effective up to 800-1200m. Round enters the body and then exits, leaving an exit wound anywhere between 100%-300% larger than the entrance wound, can be higher or lower depending on many factors, but that is a general medium range shot. Not only does this COMPLETELY mutilate the body parts it went through, it does so much shock damage to the surounding area that it usually damages surounding organs. Again, don't get me wrong, the 5.56NATO will kill a person quite easily, but I have heard and heard of way too many complaints of the 5.56NATO just not doing the job, and have seen the penetration differences between the two. If the forces we fight against were half as good as our men and women in uniform, the superiority of the AK47 to the M16 would rear it's ugly head in a very bad way. I mean, there is a reason our troops have been using the AK-47's they capture from enemies as opposed to the M16 (reliability, power, simplicity).

Cyclone, that is the general idea and is generally true. The only problem is that in most firefights you dont have time to line up a good shot and hut the guy in the head, and more often will hit the body (bigger target). The 5.56NATO round which is the standard round for: M16A2/A4, M4A2, M249, and variations of, a nd other standard issue weapons in the US Arsenal. The problem with the round is it tends to not kill on a body shot, as any one who was involved in the Somalia incident in the early 90's will tell you. Don't get me wrong, it is a lethal load, but its level of lethality is relatively low for a rifle caliber round. Let's look at what the two most commonly used rounds do: 5.56NATO: Round is effective up to the range of about 750-1000m. When it enters the targets body it will bounce and lodge itself, unless it bounce through the stomach, in which case it will exit or go down into the pelvis, and lodge there. The 5.56NATO round loses a lot of velocity when it bounces around in the body, which means if you dont hit a vital organ on the first shot, you gotta put 1 or more into your target before he is killed. 7.62x39/NATO: Effective up to 800-1200m. Round enters the body and then exits, leaving an exit wound anywhere between 100%-300% larger than the entrance wound, can be higher or lower depending on many factors, but that is a general medium range shot. Not only does this COMPLETELY mutilate the body parts it went through, it does so much shock damage to the surounding area that it usually damages surounding organs. Again, don't get me wrong, the 5.56NATO will kill a person quite easily, but I have heard and heard of way too many complaints of the 5.56NATO just not doing the job, and have seen the penetration differences between the two. If the forces we fight against were half as good as our men and women in uniform, the superiority of the AK47 to the M16 would rear it's ugly head in a very bad way. I mean, there is a reason our troops have been using the AK-47's they capture from enemies as opposed to the M16 (reliability, power, simplicity).

Meh, I didn't like that game too much. They tried TOO hard to make it realistic, and failed miserably.

Yeah, I know about the SCAR, but all that low bidder crap annoys me. Also, last I saw there was an overall suspension on the OICW projects, to re-evaluate them. I just hope the brass makes the right decision.

Defcon, good point about the .45's, but I was leaning more towards the assault rifles. The M468 is an M4 variation that uses the 6.8mm round I mentioned earlier. Link: http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_M468,,00.html

Lies!

I was just doing a bit of reading up about some of the OICWs (Objective Individual Combat Weapon) in development, and their abilities and specifications, and it seems that all of them are developing for 5.56NATO (Also .223REM and 5.56x45), which is a horrible idea in my opinion. One of the major complaints from the military is the fact that most of the infanttry issued weapons (M16 and its variants) are 5.56NATO. For those of you who don't know why, we can go back to NATO *does the flashback dreamy thing with the noise letting you know it's a flashback*: They apparently decided that it was a better idea for a round to incapacitate an enemy rather than kill him. Some idiot thought it would be more "humane" to just incapacitate the enemy then to kill him. Well, ask our Rangers and SpecFor who were in Mogidishu, or any one in the current war in Iraq, and they will tell you that the whole "incapacitate the enemy" is a pile of donkey *expletive for a stinky pile of stuff expelled from the rear end of most living animals and most politicians mouths*. Basically, it was taking them several shots to kill these insurgents and terrorists, since the 5.56NATO round goes in, bounce around the ribcage once and stops, didn't kill these Somalians all hopped up on a drug that effectively made them a meat shield that could fire back without any major effect on them. The reason I made this post was to make everyone aware of the crap that our government is developing and issuing to our troops. No war has ever been one by "incapacitating" an enemy. Somewhere along the line our government decided to care more about enemy troops then our own, and has even alsmost straight up denied any contracts with weapon manufacturers making more reliable and effective weapons and ammunition, such as Barret and it's M468, which fires the newly developed 6.8mm round, which has the kick of a 5.56x45 (M16 Round), but the kill power of a 7.62x39 (AK47 round), and the M468 improves on design flaws of the M16 Family. The US is even turning away improvements to the M16 family (HK416/417) for these new OICWs (One of which is being developed by HK with the HK416/417 improvements, to be fair), but is none the less 5.56NATO. It pains me to see all our service men and women get issued poor equipment because a desk jockey is listening to the picketers outside his window rather than the soldiers using the equipment. I have many friends in the armed forces, and I would hate to see them killed because of a poor beaurocratic decision. Sorry, I just needed to vent that info, please delete the post if it is too heavy on the politics.

*wishes he hadn't sold his 10 year collection of legos so he could build a lego gun*

Good thing firefox auto-updates =D

Eh, I think IE is just trying to get some of the Firefox perks in, so people will stop using Firefox. IE7 is great, don't get me wrong, but I'll stick with FireFox =D.

I'm gonna hold you to that :thumbsup: .

Well guys, it's official, I am in the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department =D, got my offer of employment from the Sheriff himself =D. Once I pass the physical exams I will be in the Academy, and then I will be cruising around in a nice Ford Expedition. Just thought I'd let ya'll know I will be posting "Statey-Esque" pics in a little under 2 years (The process is VERY long for the County Seriff departments in New Mexico, plus the whole not 21 yet thing :thumbsup: ), I was very happy when I got that notice, and just thought I'd let ya'll know. *EDIT* Whoa, I have an avatar now...

impact, your such an ass, but it is quite funny lol.

LOL, you should have seen the WoW forums for Blizzards April Fools joke, people took it very seriously, it was kind of funny...

I have the original Queen "Great Bicycle Race" vinyl record from launch day still in the original shrink wrap. I have another Great Bicycle Race on display in the game room, showing off hundreds of ladies nude riding bicycles =D. And no, I'm not that old, it was just a nice gift from my father, who is an absolute music nut and know alot more a bout music and bands then anyone else I know. He even knows what album and what side of the record a lot of major bands songs are (The Police, Queen, Linard Skynard, any other name you can think of). I still have an 8-Track player too =D.

An interesting twist, they should have used the original lyrics though .

There is 1 thread in their forums, and they are that far in development, wow... They need to advertise.