Posts by Toad
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Ground LOOP. Ground Loop. Not a loup.
Take off with less than full power. Not as much P factor. If you have enough runway, use half power and see if that helps. Full right aileron might help a little when you get some airspeed but it won't do much.
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Secret Decoder Ring for all the handles/names posting here that I would probably know from Aces HIgh or Flamewarriors. Some are pretty easy, like Elf Man. Others...I can't break the code.
I'll start:
In Aces HIgh I was: Toad
On Flamewarriors I was (wait for it)...Toad
On IceCreamonMars I am....well, you can probably guess.
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The carrier fights were always the best part of the game. Then some doofus would sink the boat.
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I’m sure you know to be careful of fumes when melting lead, correct?
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Exactly what's needed. I bet Eric will quickly find the best way to get your ice cream right to the highest density population areas of Mars. You'll be fabulously wealthy!
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AH-HA! They've got him now! Rogan is DONE!
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Just raggin' ya. I know they'll get done eventually and they'll be perfect. Pope Julius II didn't rush Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel.
Oh...he probably did...but anyway... do it when you feel it.
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Ah, of course! Coercion. You MUST be vaxxed! I can't wait till they try to herd me into the unvaxxed concentration camp. <EG>
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Every soldier does. It's what defines a soldier. Risking his or her life to protect others.
But it's complicated, and that complexity is hitting me hard right now.
Machinegunning one people in favor of another.
Like a torque wrench, a machine gun is just a tool.
But someone has to apply that torque.
All true. Ideally, soldiers machinegun the bad guys to save the good guys. That's where it gets complicated. Soldiers don't get to decide who is good and who is bad. The old saying is "If you take the king's shilling, you do the king's bidding." When you take the oath, you become subservient to those over you; you agree to obey orders unquestioningly.
All fine and dandy when the political leadership are men of honor and morality. All fine and dandy when the "bad guys" have shown themselves to the world as unquestionably evil; see Adolph Hitler.
Unfortunately, things are rarely black and white in our times. It's often a case of evil vs evil and politicians declare one side somewhat less evil than the other and send in the troops. The troops obey because they swore to do so and their own sense of honor obligates them to do what is ordered. Seeing evil on both sides leads to the problem.
QuoteArcane has bothered me for weeks now, and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. It has grabbed me by the heart and wrenched it.
I'm sorry for laying this on you people, but I don't know where else to put it right now.
I don't know what Arcane is; you'd have to explain. As far as talking it out, go for it. I took the King's shilling but I was an unarmed recon pilot. I didn't have to pull the trigger on anyone. I had no trigger. There were times when I seriously had problems with the leadership about what they wanted me to do but...I think the statute of limitations has expired.