Posts by Gman

What he officially was banned for was finding some guy who was live streaming on Twitch, and using that to hound and harass him, and make videos of it laughing the entire time. He tried deleting the vids but I downloaded them and sent them to someone else (another player), who then sent them to HT. Apparently HT blew a gasket and banned him.

I should never have gotten Skyyr banned, he was the prefect villain for that game, kept things entertaining. I admit error and fault in the matter.

I hadn't flown in a couple years, and the first flight back I dueled Skyyr in Spit5s. Shot him down twice in a row, him doing his stupid climb/wingover thing that he'd always get people with, he didn't think anyone could reliably hit him at the 800 to 1000 yards he was usually out in front going 80 degrees straight up. I did. Then he killed me 3 straight, but still, almost got him in that duel. I have the film somewhere still.

He came back as some girl name on the forum, many claimed it wasn't him, but it was - flew identically, had an identical YouTube page setup, same film settings, etc. Been gone a while from what I've seen on the forums.

I remember Golfer, he flew bizjets for a living IIRC.

I paid $57 a month in CDN dollars back when AH1 was around - with my DSL it was $115 a month to play AH, which was still a deal compared to Warbirds. Still, much, much wife ack circa 2000/2001 over that. I had 3 free accounts too HTC gave us when combatsim.com did a big spread/interview when the crossed from beta to "open". Combatsim's owner was a stickler for rules, so we didn't use the free accounts for personal play, despite HT giving the thumbs up for that.

The last serious time I spent flying in AH, was pretty much all in the Ki43. Never flew over 10k, and I could pull average of 10 kills/hour, sometimes 12, and keep my k/d around 3. I really like constant furballing, and the Ki43 ensures you'll get fights. I came back from the early 99 to 2001 years in the mid/late 2000s and flew mostly with the best Spit5 pilot in the game, and learned a lot about close in fighting/angles/aggression/accuracy/etc. Flew wing with Citabria/Fester for a while too, learned a ton from him. G10/K4/262/Ki43/Spit5 = good times for me.

AKAK, always liked flying with him too. Flying B25's and busting tanks was always guaranteed hilarity, listening to tank tards wail and moan as AkAk butchered them with the 75mm. Probably the hardest I've laughed in AH was with him picking off whining GVers. Fucking SUCKS he died so young, even if he was a bit of a libtard, I still liked the guy, a lot. He was a repository of AH/gaming info, no wonder his job title was "Competitor gaming intelligence" at his big Jap gaming company job. He forgot literally nothing, not once did I ask him something he didn't immediately answer.

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They remind me of the typical Canadian...terrified of breaking rules

I demand satisfaction! Ban him Skuzzy.

Does anyone remember the pre Skuzzy years at HTC on the forums? I remember the Bush/Gore election saga, and it was great times on the forums there, no moderation, no swear filter, there were some truly great threads. I'd bet anything that they lost far, far more customers over moderating/punishing them, than they did gain customers by moderating people and bleeping out "bad" words. HT is a brilliant coder, and a really nice guy in person (well on the phone in my case), but he made a few poor business decisions, the moderation of the forums and to some extent the game itself being top of the list IMO.

I nagged HTC for years to run their game on Steam - when they finally decided to, the numbers of downloads of AH were staggering, tens of thousands for weeks - the problem was they were NOT ready to service a general gamer customer. The help/startup docs weren't very good, the website was ponderous to navigate, etc etc. Had they been prepared properly, they would have captured a lot more of those Steam clients. I also think blending in some sort of FTP model would be a huge benefit - allow x many FTP clients in the arena, limit them to a very small number of aircraft/vehicles, and it would have the effect of making the arenas "full" most of the time, giving paying customers more targets for PVP action, while also capturing a good number of the FTP players who might want better/more access to the full range of aircraft.

Remember the Blue/Orange server days? The game was so popular you had to fight to get into the arena where your squad/friends were.

Hey Astac/Storch/other USN guys- I've read in a few different books that a sub at pretty deep depths - as in our SSN/SSBN/SSGN/DE/etc subs - such as say 7 or 800 feet and deeper, that the pressure at that depth would mean that if they took a torp hit at that depth and the hull had a breach, the resulting rapid compression from the hull failure would cause the air to ignite, and pretty much burn/vaporize all human materials/remains.

Is there any truth to this? I know Clancy had mentioned it in both Red Rock Rover and Red Storm Rising, and some other similar authors have said much the same.

Astac, was the USN system similar to SOSUS? Or is it the same thing and just renamed now?

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"...the best life boat for mankind is underwater"

You can't make this shit up LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Typical Leftist Climatard - The irony is thicker than the air he is breathing right now.

Remember that show Seaquest DSV, where there was a whole new frontier underwater? I bet that's where this tard got this idea from.

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I saw this video on a Sperm Whale that came to a diver in the ocean to get the guy to pull a big ass fishing hook caught in it's mouth. Then after it thanked him, and would recognize him when he went back to the spot some time later.

And they mentioned that a Sperm Whale can kill you at will with it's sonar at close to medium range with ease. They're reasonably benevolent creatures with humans it seems.

There's a vid of some people helping a humpback that was all caught up in lines. It was so happy after they freed it that it did about 50 breeches in an amazing display of power. All kinds of tail slaps and massive clicks/noises from it. I'll try and find it.

I've only scuba dived a few times, when I was 15 in Australia in 1988, a guy that had been aboard Jaques Cousteau's boat was a diving instructor at our hotel near where they took us to the barrier reef, and taught me and a few others willing to dive in the pool at the hotel, well enough to get a cert to dive with an instructor in Australian waters. So I dove the barrier reef, never very deep at all, I forget now, but we're talking like 10 feet sort of thing IIRC. Sure fun, I have friends that are mad into it, but I have a big fear of white sharks, and would never open ocean dive anywhere they could possibly be unless my life depended on it. After cage diving white sharks about 2 weeks after diving on the reef in Australia, I was like "fuck.this.shit.". Not getting in that water ever again unless I'm on a sinking ship or my plane ditches in that water.

edit - video of humpback

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Whenever you bury someone at sea the coffin utilized is holed to allow water in. However the cadaver contains some air. If the burial is in waters deeper than three hundred feet and if you're on passive listening in the sonar room you can hear the body crush.

Hah Storch, as macabre as that is, that's a fantastic tidbit to add into a book. I've NEVER heard that before, crazy!

The guy from subbrief in that video is awesome. He started by writing articles for The Warzone and the site that preceded it, mostly about sonar and SSN/SSBN sonarman stuff (he's a 20 year vet, both of SSN and SSBN sonar, plus he's worked about 10 or 15 years after that doing work with subsystems contractors/etc on weapons and sonar systems). He's done some amazing videos on everything from how modern torpedoes actually work, to how the chow is on board a sub. His back catalogue can keep any Navy fan interested for months.

Anyhow, his video is great on this one.

I'm still laughing about Storch's cadaver crush depth post. I shouldn't, because I'm sure if Storch heard this himself it was a fellow sailor aboard his ship that crunched, so I do apologize and want to give honor/credit where it's due. But JFC Storch...

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It seems childish and stupid from the outside, but what would you rather have? A piece of equipment that has been made a million times, and has been tested to stand up to THOUSANDS of hours of abuse each?

Or a custom made controller with custom components that may break, and can't be replaced?

I wouldn't be surprised if they had 2 back ups in there with them. And didn't spend more than a hundred bucks on it, total.

I can understand that argument, like I said, lots of USN ships use similar controllers to use the 25/30mm guns now, but that's different than one of the controllers being the only method of controlling propulsion/depth/etc. Logitech's controllers are pretty reliable, but still, I wouldn't want my ONLY method of controlling systems that are crucial to my survival at that depth - or any depth - to be a video game controller. Sure, in the video they said they carried "a couple" spare ones on board, but this is my point - in the dark, sitting on one of those things, or pushing off on it with a foot in pitch black conditions, could easily bust that controller. Or what if the wireless antennae on the receiver inside that sub fails or breaks off - then wireless controller= useless. I'd much rather have that as an "additional" or secondary control system, and have a dedicated built for purpose industrial level control stick mounted high near a screen in that thing, in order to avoid the exact issue I described.

Supposedly there can be a lot of fishing nets in the area of the wreck, and getting caught up in one of those would be a catastrophe. I still don't get why they don't have an arm or at least an ROV that can take action against structures/nets.

Also, I wonder how tough it is to have a strong steel cable attached to that sub, that tethers that sub to the surface at that depth, so that in a worst case scenario they can just winch it back up. I know they do that with ROVs at that depth sometimes.

Great video here, this channel I've been watching for years, worth a watch and sub-

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looks like they use a wireless fucking game controller to run everything.

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Fun huh, stuck nearly 3 miles down in very cold ass water, and be completely blind/blacked out. Good thing they have 2 extra playstation controllers on board with which to control the sub - lol. Moronic.

I know, that was the place I wtf'd out on - I know the USN uses similar stuff to run turrets and masts/ISR, but as your primary/only means of controlling a sub at 13,000ft depth? Wow.

Toad said the first thing I brought up when talking with my pops about this - why the hell don't they have an inexpensive ELT/noise maker that can easily be detected by passive sonar/search systems? For all the $ put into this mini sub, how the hell did they omit that? The thing already was "lost" once before, when they had a similar comms failure, and just floated around on the surface until someone found them after hitting the eject button - - aside from the large platform they are attached to when making the descent, once free of that and able to maneuver with thrusters, it has a sled of ballast which they can release and they'll rocket to the surface due to the positive buoyance that little sub has.

Also, why don't they have at LEAST one other identical unit on standby in case they get fouled at that depth, and stuck on some debris/whatever. Another thing that's obviously missing, is some sort of controllable arm with a cutting torch/cutting shears/grips/etc, in order to have some sort of thing to use other than swear words if they get hung up. Stupid.

I can't believe whoever is in charge of planning the use of these things never wargamed out the possibility of them getting stuck on something down there, and be unable to surface due to that - let alone some sort of equipment failure. They should have at least 2 or 3 times the amount of life support needed for a rescue sub to get to them IMO. Problem is they don't have such a rescue sub or plan of action. Extremely risky. When Cameron dived on the Titanic all those times to get video/etc for his dumb movie, they always dove with 2 subs, and had ROVs that had cutting/grabbing ability they could use to free their asses if they got fucked up on something.

These guys are likely in the dark if there was some sort of major electric collapse of the systems. Fun huh, stuck nearly 3 miles down in very cold ass water, and be completely blind/blacked out. Good thing they have 2 extra playstation controllers on board with which to control the sub - lol. Moronic.

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trench cqb

https://old.reddit.com/r/Comba…s_enter_a_russian_trench/

Those 11"+suppressor 77gr 556 rounds have pretty good effects on target based on this video.

You also see the negative outcome of NOT having your weapon up to your eyeline while doing CQB fighting - every Russian had his weapon down when he came into contact. The UKraine SF didn't make this mistake. They were also telling/giving the Russians the chance to surrender. Tough shit cards earned.

We're coming close to making a move towards sovereignty in both AB and SK SLamfire. Notice that SK's premier is starting to say that we are going to dodge their carbon tax BS, firearms laws BS, and all their other woke agenda BS, by using the notwithstanding clause the Provinces can use under the charter and confederation acts - the premier even referred to Saskatchewan as "The Province of Sask - a free Province of Canada", and terms such as that. Moe in SK and the UPC Premier Smith in Alberta are both drafting sovereignty acts, which will allow both Provinces to "remain" Canadian, but will have our own laws and rules, which will supersede ALL federal laws and acts. Should be funny if nothing else.

SO many of the talented Canadians, I'm talking about execs in very successful companies, former military pilots and officers I speak with, etc, ALL want to move, almost unilaterally, to Texas or Florida, or some other "good" state. Talent and invested has been fleeing the government in Ottawa's policies for a while now, but it's increasing drastically now.

Anyhow, I had no idea Morfiend was Spitbull from FW. I still don't know who half the people here are with different names. Lord Soth for example, I don't know if you're from FW or just here. I can't remember the others right now, but there are a bunch.

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BREAKING:

Japan has passed a new law allowing it to start exporting weapons for the first time since WW2.

The new law also makes it possible to produce more weapons for the needs of the Japanese military itself. pic.twitter.com/GbWEneJaQH

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 12, 2023

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First thing Japan should do is spin up a nuclear weapons program, (be funny if yet another Tom Clancy novel prediction came true, yet again). Sell those to Taiwan, or better yet do a secret joint program with them, and then tell China once around 100 warheads have been deployed on both their nations ships, subs, aircraft, and medium range ballistic missiles. China will throw a tantrum as usual, but their ability to saber rattle and threaten other nations in their vicinity will go right out the window when they are facing a MAD scenario at last.

Spitbull was his name on FW, what was his name on Aces High's forum?

Is the fake Indian the same guy on FW who told me you couldn't drive across a certain road with firearms in Canada, and I called up the Canadian firearms center with the RCMP and posted the recording and proved him to be full of shit? If so, what is his Aces High forum name, I didn't realize he had come from AH over to FW.

Milo is Eastern Canadian - not that all Eastern Canadians are "bad", but a much, much higher percentage of them are leftist idiots than out here in the West. I just saw a "Trump 2024" flag flying from a truck in Central Canada last week, in a small town near the air force base where my father lives in Saskatchewan.

The Aussie Hornets are in great shape too - Canada received a bunch of them to supplement our extremely modified F18A/Bs we have, until we get the F35's over the next 5 years. The Aussie F18s received were great from what I read on the CAF forums, plus one of the maintainers I know that posts on the Calgary car sites I read.

My best friend is back in Ukraine as of 4 am today, in Kharkiv, at least close to it, leading his unit which is currently tasked as QRF for Ukraine SF units around the front there.

Something tells me that a big assault is coming shortly. I think Ukraine is waiting until they can get their air cover situation figured out a bit better, so that any armored division attacking the front will be fighting under at worst case, contested skies. We'll see.

Canada just sent 50+ Aim9X to Ukraine - not sure if their Russian built fighters can use it, I have a feeling they are for another platform, perhaps the Mirage 2000s rumored to have been showing up in Ukraine from France already, or perhaps some future incoming fighter like the Falcon/Hornet.

I've watched several YT videos analyzing what has happening in this clip - those people had no reason or authority to be doing what they were doing with those machines.

I don't know why a group of US citizens hasn't formed to bypass all the typical leftist lies when things like this are "investigated".

ID, then snatch the people in those videos. 5 minutes taped to a chair with a butane curling iron stuck up their ass, they'll sqawk the truth PDQ.

Just look at their body language in these videos, they look like kids raiding their parents desk drawer to steal money.

Like I said, snatch some of these perps, make them sing, and then start rolling up the line. Wouldn't take long to get to someone who knows the real story.