The Gaming Den

Stahlseele wrote:Or Ben Riley.

Shut your lying whore mouth.

Man, I love Top Gear . We watched the fifth episode of last season last night and I love the demolition with military vehicles . Those guys must have so much fun filming (and costing BBC a bloody fortune). I saw their Iraq episode and almost died laughing. "Evasive manuevers" to cross the...

Neil, I strongly encourage you to read Balko's piece "Overkill" , about the increase in militarization of police in America. Falls sort of flat for me. I think it's ... horrific that address mistakes and lying snitches get innocent people killed, but I don't see it as an inevitable result...

My wife is in the local theater's production of "It's a Wonderful Life". So they gave me a free ticket. By the time intermission rolled around, I wanted my money back. The lead actor was unconvincing, and the script was shit. I was going to walk out, but gritted my teeth and endured the se...

Still, what the fuck do you people want? That history is taught "and then the evil slave owners were defeated by the Union..."? Yeah, that would be a good goddamn start. I grew up having to listen to these hicks talk about how "we" lost the Civil War. It was all I could do to ke...

I totally agree on this point. I came to America as a 13-year-old. After the first two weeks of history class, I raised my hand and asked why aren't the confederates treated like the nazis? I shut up about it. But, seriously, I've been in America for almost 15 years now. I still don't really see wh...

:shocked: I amend my previous statement. Citizen complaints can be effective if you don't live in Florida . I've never heard of SWAT being used outside of drug raids or hostage situations, PoliteNewb, and I'm puzzled why they felt the need to waste all that money when most of those could be accompli...

Thought about this before bed last night. I personally have no power to hire or fire any police officer; they are not elected, and they are not answerable to me except by civil suit. This is all true, but you can influence them. Write and call the mayor and the police chief, councilmembers and the n...

Besides which, saying "well, if you don't want a negative experience don't break the law" overlooks the fact that it is virtually impossible to get through life these days without breaking laws. Sorry I was unclear. I meant people will almost never have a positive experience with police, ...

The point is that you can refuse to immediately comply without being dangerous. No, you really can't. We don't read minds, and have no way to know how far they'll take their resistance. Are they just a little ornery, or are they about to fight to the death? The court understands we have almost no t...

Negative experiences with cops are comletely natural. If we're around, either you've broken the law or someone has broken it against you. In the latter case, consider that to the victim, a horrible trauma has occurred and must be made right. To us, it means we have to work overtime on a project that...

I think some of those perceptions, while valid, are made by a lack of information. #1 A cop can arrest one person by themselves, but someone is going to be injured, and there is no way to know how many friends the arrestee has that will jump in. The goal in outnumbering the arrestee is to disuade hi...

Work is pissing me off. I had gallbladder surgery soon after I got back from the war, and while I was on light duty patrol let me putter around in the detective division. Instead of using me as a gopher, the detectives trained me up, and the head of detectives assigned me a few cases. I healed and r...

I'm from New Jersey, currently stuck in Alabama. Not counting airport stopovers, I've been to three other countries. Egypt - To perform customs inspections of returning US soldiers. - A horrible land of filth. The water is so contaminated, one of my men got diarrhea from taking a shower. Everyone's ...

Yeththiree, I always wanted to use Yeth hounds, but I just couldn't thqueeze them in. (And that ith how they'd talk IMC.)

My department recently got ahold of an HK 416. It's heavier than I expected.

Koumei wrote:...whereas they usually don't bother flicking safety off (because that's not cool)?

It might just not be noticeable onscreen -- it can be done as you draw the pistol with just a twitch of your thumb.

RadiantPhoenix wrote:Don't reducing overpenetration and increasing wounding go pretty much hand in hand?

To an extent. But limited penetration is more guaranteed than a kill.

sabs wrote:And if you DID use Hollow Points, that means you didn't just want it for protection, but you /wanted/ to kill.

You misunderstand the purpose of hollowpoints. They are designed to reduce overpenetration.

Goddammit, Count! You know how many murder victims I'm going to have to look at to reset my retinas?

I'm not sure, but it came in pretty handy in Iraq.

After all, there was that one guy who kept flipping out over Frank's "If you are not joking about the paladin spellcasting I will murder your family" line. Yeah, I remember that little shit. It's too bad, cause I've made some vivid threats.... Had to deal with one of the local crazies, an...

Koumei wrote:I know it's no longer allowed that people wish death (or other horribleness) on others, nor that they threaten to do so....

Sonofabitch! When did that change?

JigokuBosatsu wrote:KILL IT WITH FIRE

I have that toy! It's got a pretty good heft, you could hurt someone with it.

Good to see you're still kicking, Des.

Kaelik wrote:Fuck you. How can I get off if I don't see a Space Marine shooting an Alien in the face every six seconds for the rest of my life.

If it doesn't have space marines, it's probably not even a video game, you fucking nerd.