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Post by
Interest
Dear members of Wowhead who know me,
I'll just come out and say what I'm here to say right off the bat. I have decided to leave Wowhead after today, probably for good, but you can never be sure about things like that. There are several reasons for this, and I'll try to lay them all out here
Aw...see you.
Interest,
I can't say I knew you too well,
but thank you for the use of and wonderful times on vent. I will always remember you every time anyone uses ice cream and thighs in the same sentence.Then it appears that I've been working as intended =)
Post by
Kristopher
I will always remember you every time anyone uses ice cream and thighs in the same sentence.
Then it appears that I've been working as intended =)
I want to, and don't want to, know what brought that together...
Post by
Adamsm
I didn't get a shoutout =(
Neither did I; guess we just aren't that special to Jubi.
Post by
Monday
Can't stop laughing.
Post by
baradiel
I didn't get a shoutout =(
Neither did I; guess we just aren't that special to Jubi.
It doesnt mean you guys aren't that special to jubi, she didn't post ur name because she dont know alot of you.
Post by
240140
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Haxzor
I didn't get a shoutout =(
Neither did I; guess we just aren't that special to Jubi.
It doesnt mean you guys aren't that special to jubi, she didn't post ur name because she dont know alot of you.
But I am Wowhead! or atleast Randomness
Post by
240140
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
MyTie
But I am Wowhead! or atleast Randomness
99%er*
*actual % may vary
Post by
baradiel
Alvin and The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Trailer 3 Official 2011
Hear the last part.. Lol..
Post by
MyTie
I think there's something seriously wrong with a person when they claim they have almost no internet access but they use what they have to hang out at a place where everyone hates them, just to be annoying.
Perhaps this person has satellite internet, and can't play MMOs because of the ping, but it works fine for chat, and maybe they aren't motivated by popularity. Just a guess.
Post by
Rankkor
Wow, my cousins and me started watching again our old VCR tape of "Starship Troopers" and MY GOD, in retrospective, that movie has the biggest amounts of military screw ups I've ever seen in my life.
Now that I'm not a teen anymore, and I've actually read some real-life military tactic books, I've seen that they creators really have no idea of how to portray soldiers with even an ounce of realism.
I think the worst offender in the entire movie is the training ground.
Firing Live Ammo without any sort of cover? check.
Having cadets MARCH around the very area where there is a LIVE FIRE training exercise without said covers? (Not even walls) Check.
slippery surfaces? Check.
Grilling Rico for that dude's death? Check. For context, Rico was grilled because a soldier had his helmet loose, so Rico ordered him to remove it to "inspect it" at which point the soldier received a shot in the face. Naturally, the superior officers deemed necesarry to apply 10 lashes (with a barbed whip!) to rico for ordering the soldier to remove the helmet........ even though the shot was in the face, and those pissy helmets don't protect the face. That dude would had died anyways.........
And this is without mentioning sending infantry on a zerg rush when the enemy IS the zerg, not using air support, artillery, armored divisions, Mechas (And those exist, I read the book) Organizing raving parties IN THE MIDDLE of the enemy territory after a small victory, encouraging fraternization (Which IRL is detrimental to an effective discipline on an armed squad) and the list just goes on and on and on and ON!.
:P
Post by
Pwntiff
I protect my brain cells by assuming the movie is satirical, or something.
Post by
MyTie
Wow, my cousins and me started watching again our old VCR tape of "Starship Troopers" and MY GOD, in retrospective, that movie has the biggest amounts of military screw ups I've ever seen in my life.
Now that I'm not a teen anymore, and I've actually read some real-life military tactic books, I've seen that they creators really have no idea of how to portray soldiers with even an ounce of realism.
I think the worst offender in the entire movie is the training ground.
Firing Live Ammo without any sort of cover? check.
Having cadets MARCH around the very area where there is a LIVE FIRE training exercise without said covers? (Not even walls) Check.
slippery surfaces? Check.
Grilling Rico for that dude's death? Check. For context, Rico was grilled because a soldier had his helmet loose, so Rico ordered him to remove it to "inspect it" at which point the soldier received a shot in the face. Naturally, the superior officers deemed necesarry to apply 10 lashes (with a barbed whip!) to rico for ordering the soldier to remove the helmet........ even though the shot was in the face, and those pissy helmets don't protect the face. That dude would had died anyways.........
And this is without mentioning sending infantry on a zerg rush when the enemy IS the zerg, not using air support, artillery, armored divisions, Mechas (And those exist, I read the book) Organizing raving parties IN THE MIDDLE of the enemy territory after a small victory, encouraging fraternization (Which IRL is detrimental to an effective discipline on an armed squad) and the list just goes on and on and on and ON!.
:P
I am like this, only with every movie I watch.
Post by
Rankkor
meh when I was a kid I knew jack of military tactics, so stuff like that went over my head. Now that I know better and am re-watching them, I cringe when I see stuff like that and think to myself "how the hell do these people even dominated human speech"
Another good example of dumb military tactics would be that HORRIBLE movie Troy (Don't get me wrong, the special effects when Brad Pitt is fighting are awesome, but the rest of it stinks).
As a big fan of the original Iliad I felt that movie pretty much butchered the original greek myth it was supossed to be based on. But historical inaccuracies aside, there's a gigantic facepalm inducing stupidity on both sides when they do the first attack on troy.
Defender side:
"Hey, we got a big-ass wall, thick as a castle, tall as a mountain, but rather than stay inside them, lets put our vastly outnumbered troops OUTSIDE of the wall to fight the enemy there =D"
Attacker side:
"Hey, they have a big-ass Wall, thick as a castle, tall as a mountain, and we got neither siege weapons, nor a way to scale that monstrosity, LETS TOSS UP ALL OUR SOLDIERS AT THE WALL and somehow manage to get inside them if we hack them with our swords and spears...."
/facepalm.
makes you wonder why they even bothered to render that big-ass CGI wall in the first place.
Post by
Adamsm
Have you seen the sequels/prequels to Starship Troopers Rank? Compared to them, the first movie is a work of genius.
However, if you liked the book, I'd suggest
Roughneck Chronicles
; you see a lot of things the book mentioned, such as the Skinnies(the other Alien race), more of the war, and actual tactics being used in regards to squads of troopers, including the War Mechas.
Post by
Rankkor
Dear members of Wowhead who know me,
I'll just come out and say what I'm here to say right off the bat. I have decided to leave Wowhead after today, probably for good
NUUUUUUUUU! T_T
I just graduated college and am about to start working full time. This takes away a lot of the down time I was using Wowhead to fill. I am also moving in my with significant other permanently, and that means that even more of what used to be down time will be taken up.
Hey, I've been there, I graduated too and even got hitched =D and still have some time to post at least twice a week. =(
Rankkorr, you've always had a lot to say on a lot of issues, so I thank you for opening my eyes to see things about the world that I can't always see from the perspective I've grown up in.
awwww U_U
well hun, I'll still miss you, I do hope you return at some point, till then, you can be sure you WONT be forgotten.
Too bad I still can't give u that beer I owe ya xD.
Ohh well, Gratz on taking your relationship to the next step, and I wish you and your GF the best of luck and happiness together.
(Bit of advice: You never truly know someone till you've lived with them, learn to endure their quirks and oddities, because believe me, ITS WORTH IT, every second, every day, it really is. I should know xD)
Adios Jubilo (that's your name in spanish ;P) cuidate mucho amiga.
/sad-face.
Post by
Interest
I didn't get a shoutout =(
Neither did I; guess we just aren't that special to Jubi.
It doesnt mean you guys aren't that special to jubi, she didn't post ur name because she dont know alot of you.
But I am Wowhead! or atleast Randomness
Lol you wish.But I am Wowhead! or atleast Randomness
99%er*
*actual % may vary
I am the 99%....(of posts on Wowhead)
Post by
baradiel
But I am Wowhead! or atleast Randomness
99%er*
*actual % may vary
I am the 99%....(of posts on Wowhead)
Lol, true! only of posts.
Post by
Interest
Well I probably have 99% of the boss fights too.
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