Happy B-day, Shifty. Did you get a boomarang or a kangaroo? ;)
Happy B-day, Shifty. Did you get a boomarang or a kangaroo? ;)
Funnily enough I had Kangaroo for dinner on Monday.
Last night the Army gave me a pineapple though! :p
Oh well, remain upbeat and carry on... a few of us are now going to be waiting the extra six months to graduate, suppose I can use that time now to workmore diligently and aim to be student of merit; Sword of Honour up for grabs.
Congratulations. You have survived Australia another year.
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Thats actually quite an achievement too!
So is that the school that you have been attending as part of the Officer candidacy? Hope this does not mean that you could have graduated but got the shaft instead. How does kanga taste other than like a kangaroo, harhar.
Surprisingly so (considering how stringy and mealy looking the animal is) roo tends to be a very tender and tasty meat. Best done in grilled in steaks.
I like Emu too - chicken-ish, though with a much gamier and deeper flavour behind it.
Yeah, the Staff College is our Officer Training School - hence there is a cohort of us that are now going to be sitting out the final field assessment in four weeks and instead we will be going through in Jan.
So yeah, graduation should have been just a few weeks away, it is now a factor of months. Sucks to be us, but thats the way it goes some days.
Holy crap. If ADF is anything like the USAR, then being in the school environment for another 6 months really blows. I am in it now and forgot how bad I dislike it, lol.
Kid brought the stomach flu home from school and gave it to me. I feel like complete crap.
It really blows. That said, we get a lot of leeway as its pretty recognised we are just sitting around waiting for our time to go get finished off so at least our time of being treated like numpties is pretty much over. Essentially we will be given the flex and space to just quietly work on our 'stuff'.
Its just an...extra challenge...thats the one, chins up men! :p
Well if that is the case it is much better than it could be.
Yeah, there are a few positives I suppose - at least they wont be on our cases.
Shifty or Mark, in Mad Max was that an Aussie Ford of some sort he was driving? I've heard it was Falcon, but wasn't sure if that was right. Was watching Deathrace 2000 today and it made think of both it and "Car Wars." Anyone know if Steve Jackson Games is really going to release an updated version or which of the older versions is best?
You mean 'the greatest movie car of all time' from one of the 'greatest movies ever made'?
1973 XB GT Ford Falcon Coupe
http://www.madmaxmovies.com/mad-max-interceptor/index.html
There are quite a lot of these still kicking around, and there are also a few remakes of the yellow pursuit specials.
My day to day driver is a Toyota Aurion Sportivo ZR6 (black of course), but my garage car is a top condition 1987 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (In burgundy - red being faster right?) with Targa tops and a heavily worked 5ltr engine :)
I kind of like cars.
I was sure you would know,hahaha. Nice choice of rides. I had a 87 Formula Firebird with T-Tops that really enjoyed, but I am an aircooled VW man through and through. Just sold my 73 Super and it about broke my heart.
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Yeah I think the Camaro and I have had our good times, and its almost time to break up. I always wanted a late 70's Trans-Am, black of course, way too much Smokey and the Bandit. There are few here in oz, but like all cars of the vintage it is hard to find one in good condition.
Such classics will never pass this way again (because latte sipping, environmentally friendly hemp mocassin wearing namby pamby panty waisted tree-huggers insist musclecars are badwrongfun)
I'll just quote:
Awesome excuse to drive Hot Wheels around a table and shoot at each other. Easy to learn and teach, as people seem to grasp the concept really quickly.
Fifth Edition from 2002 is cool!
Good thing Shifty answered as I would have had to refer to google :P
However air cooled VWs I am actually far better on as my father is an absolute dub nut - he's got a splittie and a beetle that he's restoring (and actually restored bugs as first cars for me and my two brothers).
I drive a crappy mini-van, as taxes on foreign cars mean something like a VW golf costs ~US$70,000 in malaysia.
Car Wars will be getting re-launched in a kickstarter soonish actually. SJ Games just did Ogre as a kickstarter and raised ~$900k, and one of the stretch goals was to guarantee a Car Wars run. I think the choice of ruleset is going to be open to public opinion and review.
Too bad those cars never made it stateside. They are all pretty badass.
Mark, I would love a split. 70K for a Golf! Sweet Jesus, I guess they believe that the VW is the rich "poeple's" car. I have been thinking about getting square or fastback the next time around.
DMZ, so the 5th ed. is pretty good then. I'll look into that.
Shifty, what are going to replace the Chevy with? I had a '51 Deluxe Coupe that I still kick myself in the ace for getting rid of. I would like to build a Chevy Vega GT or Ford/Mercury Maverick Grabber/Comet GT. Opel GTs are pretty sweet, also.
I've always had a soft spot for the thing or the karmann ghia's.
My dad had an oval chassis that some philistine had gone and baja'ed as well! - pity it was lost when the shed got burnt down in a bush-fire, but it would have turned some heads at VW shows.
One of my brothers had a kombi that had been tricked out with a V8 as well. Apparently went like greased butter... but didn't get enough kms to a tank... though I think his wife had a say in getting rid of that one ;)
Though the pinnacle I'd have to say would be getting a kubel or a schwimmer... though those are understandably rare even in Germany.
Hahaha, indeed. V8 Kombi would be nice given the love of that model to overheat due to being under powered. I would love a 23 version. I have seen a lot of Suby engined V-Dubs lately. 200hp bug would be nice.
too cool car topic!
my father had a Kharman ghia. the ingenious air conditioning ran off of over inflating the spare tire.
That is a lot of bread to have a Golf in Malaysia! crazy!
Pff - everyone knows that a beetle comes stock with 2 x 60 air conditioning... that is two windows by sixty mph.
The nicest karmann I've had the pleasure of seeing is one of the original beetle karmann cabriolets. Was at a car show and really well restored - the half-height windows on the beetle give it a nice flow of lines.
I spent my early childhood in a Kombi travelling around Australia, one hippy commune at a time... serious. I must have gone to every tree-hugging peace loving moon-baby festival in the country. The Kombi was replaced with a beetle once the trips slowed down.
I may have forgotten some of the various elements, but I will never get the smell of patchouli out of my nostrils.
Now I'm just a very militant peace loving moon-baby.
I am pretty sure the "Bog of Eternal Stench" in teh "Labrynith" smelled of patchouli, lol.
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My scarring kombi experience was being driven around by my father (who is quite beardy) at the age of 14 or so.... while he blared out macarena for all to hear through his homemade subwoofers.
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If my IROC goes I am really at a loss of what could take its place.
I guess for me 'car enthusiasm' is also tied to a particular era, really its the late 70's through 80's; sure there are some great classic rides EARLIER, but after about 90 I think the designs became a bit 'me too'.
Those older cars are iconic, you could immediately spot an American car vs Japanese, vs Euro. These days only the badges really differ. There are some ok cars now kicking around the high end - recent Mustangs and even the Camaro, however they are high ticket price cars whereas their historical counterparts were more the 'every man' concept that the average guy could reasonably attain one.
It was that attainable spirit that truly made these great cars, that they were that little something special any guy could aspire to, and not just a plaything of the rich and famous, that you knew it was possible. You could watch Cannonball Run or Smokey and the Bandit, and know taht in a couple of years you could take your bucks down the carlot and buy your slice of the dream. They were the good looking girl next door, not the high rent supermodels we get shown today.
So what replaces it? Dunno, most of that vintage is slowly breaking down and fading away, just like the free spirit of the era :)
Perhaps somewhere out there is an old Corvette Stingray under canvas, or maybe that black Bandit with the screaming eagle all golden on the hood - hugging that shaker hanging out of the bonnet, or maybe, just maybe, some forgotten car of yesteryear just praying to be ripped once more down the 1/4 mile....
(Camaro does just over 13 down the 1/4, but that was after I took the nitrous kit out, didn't think to do a proper run with the NOS in, just informal runs when the street light went green.)
If anyone is looking to get their Wild West Pathfinder on, I have opened up a recruitment thread Here
Ok all, back at home and attempting to get caught up. I had 503 unread posts as of yesterday morning, still have 300+ to get through.
Good Lord, that is a lot of post. I am duty today and will not be posting. 12 hour shift on a four day weekend sucks, but oh well. See you guys later.
Wow that does suck!
I've got a while of cruising about, so should be good for grinding study.
85 of them are in one campaign, the others are all in the 20-30 range. Will get through them all today.
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Question for Zyren and Riddles folks:
Caterine is currently still in the employ of Croat, though obviously her player has a desire for her to continue with the group rather than go back to Croat's employ if we make it off the isle alive.
Since it's indistinct whether Cat is working as a pure merc or if Croat has anything on her - would it be amenable to use the windfall of the pirate ship to assist in wresting her free from Croat's employ?
That way she can stand on her own two feet as a character and have the employment / service ties to Croat cut in a reasonable and effective manner.
Thoughts?
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You suggesting you want us to trade in the ship in exchange for you?
How many miles have you done? Do you run on regular gas? Do we get a warranty? :p
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Not the entire ship - just Cat's share in it :P
This is more of a 'Storage Wars', you get five minutes to peek from outside and no touching before you've ponied up the cash.
Is cat a Riddleport native? If so, I would suggest she is part of Croat's gang and not "just a mercenary".
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Unless Croat's state of mind has changed I doubt he would even notice that Cat's no longer around. If you are a mercenary then I dont see where you'd have to deal your way out at all. But if you're part of the gang like DM Zyren pointed out then we'd have to deal.
A question - where in Golarion do you think would be a decent place to stage a mount-friendly campaign?
I'm thinking Qadira as it's got a fair horse culture there and there are late game implications with Taldor and the power struggle that would follow when the Padishah emperor falls off the perch. Though it's pretty sandy there...
Nothing wrong with sand and mounts.
Just look at the cavalry charge in WWI at Beersheba! (Sinai campaign, as well as Egypt and North Africa, and boy do the Arabs love their stallions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba_(1917)
Taldan and Qadira seem to be the best. Nidal and Lastwall also have a history of raising and using large groups of cavalry.
As a matter of fact I watched The Lighthorsemen only a few weeks ago :P
The sand issue was more to do with the one-colour canvas that might result - though looking over the map again there are a few forests and mountains and plains and the like. Plus it would be fun to stage a Hidalgo style enduro race across the sands.
Hidalgo!!!
I think the Riddles gang is more of a mind that if Caterine wants to leave, and Croat tries to interfere with her freedom to do so, then Croat gets stabbed in the kidney... or is that just the way Bree see's it?
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I would be more of a fan of either hamstringing him or drawing and quartering him, but a kidney stab would probably work.
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Well based on what Croat's gone and done now... maybe the problem has been removed :P
Now now, there'd be none of that... it would be a long winded reminder of the need for his wisdom and understanding, and there would be a furious bit of letter writing from Winter heeding him to consider his actions and their consequences most carefully.
Dear Mr Croat Esq,
I am writing to you on behalf of...
Oh I get it, lace a sleep spell into the text and coup de grace for the win?
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You've seen Winters long winded letters in gamechat right? :p