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Old movie favorites: The title track to Zulu by John Barry (he who wrote reams of Bond soundtracks) The "Ace's High March" from The Battle of Britain by Ron Goodwin (I think) As for games, the only one I see not mentioned is the opening music from Marothon 2: Durandal

In my brief but storied existence, I've had: A 1979 Mazda GLC Sport bought from my father. Just quick enough to get me into trouble. Half of a 1969 Olds Cutlass F-85. 400cid tied to a three-speed manual. Sideways at any speed. This car certainly taught you your limits. The guy who owned the other half burned out the clutch and abandoned it in Galveston. 1972 Chevrolet Caprice 2-door. Bought from a little old lady for the wife. 1966 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sedan. Spun a main bearing and I just didn't have the resources to find another engine or block. THIS WAS BY FAR MY FAVORITE CAR! 1969 Javelin SST. 325HP from 360cid and crappy drum brakes to stop it. Real fun if you could keep it in a straight line. 1980 Mazda RX-7. Sold it after it ate its second engine. Surprising for a car that did only 85mph (that's where the speedometer stopped). 1994 Chevy S-10 pickup. I bought this post-divorce basically to save money and stay out of trouble. 1988 Honda CRX. A sweet deal from my brother. I drove it exactly a month before it was rear-ended and totaled. Â Current car is an 1992 Acura Integra. It's a sedan because most of the women I date now come complete with children. Edit for the Baron: Only the Caprice and the Javelin were automatics.

Just call me Mr. Boring. Home one: Home two: Old Work:

Argh! I can't take the punishment in this thread...

++ What architect said.

As for American contributions to the French Revolution, there's several old jokes about how Ben Franklin was the father of the French Revolution. Literally.

IIRC, there are PDFs of the BIS maps on the CDs. They're gigantic, so whatever reader you use needs to be able to tile. Otherwise, you get a nice detailed page of the far northwest corner of Nogova.

Jethro Tull was a guy. He invented the Seed Drill (early 18th century). It's limes with Corona. And you don't stuff them down the neck of the bottle. When it's 95F (35C) and humidity is near 100% the method is to smear the lime wedges around the neck of the bottle, then dust it with salt similar to the way a margarita glass is prepared. Then you take a slug straight from the bottle. [edit]As far as geography goes, there's four things to know: it's either east of the Sabine, South of the Rio Grande, North of the Red River, or somewhere out west.

Tribute? I've put together my third computer since I started playing this game. Each PC got a fresh copy of Flashpoint. One I sold to a friend, cheap, with Flashpoint installed.

Just my US$0.02: OFP compares very favorably to other games with similar view distances (If you run your distance slider out to 2000m and beyond). It all looks very good in motion. For example, WW2OL is built on something like a 400 meter mesh. Fly along a coastline when the sun is low and you'll see huge squares lighting up. IL2 has beautiful lighting but nowhere near the ground level detail OFP does.

Velocity has little to do with it. Look up "high explosive anti tank", the Monroe Effect, shaped charges, etc. If I think about it when I get home, I've got a couple of great books by Ian Hogg with great diagrams that do much better than any explaining I could try. I'll try to scan one and link to it. What I find weird is that is seems to have not only penetrated the skirt (meant to stop such charges) but penetrated the hull a good half meter away, too.

I used to use <--jkg6. Then the squadron I fly with got into this game and I started using that handle, Jamail (or JamailJG14).

Put on your tin foil hat and talk conspiracy theories. The Xbox versions will run just fine probably. And hey, it's only two hundred dollars? If I wanted to start a rumor I'd say that it's a plot to get you locked into a game console. But to interject a dose of reason: the games will probably do "okay" at 1024x768 or less and 16-bit textures, low sample rate sounds, view distance fifty meters, etc...

I'm painfully average...

I remember when a hit from a LAW or RPG would send a jeep or UAZ to extraordinary heights. It made Warthog launching look tame.