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Removing Mystic Fortune from the game probably won't be an option, since it was something that people had to spend money to get.

How about changing MF to a self buff?

It shouldn't take long to, it sort of adheres to the premise of the power, and the would be 100% positive control over having it without the need for a pop up.

When the MA first came out Leandro had a great little tool for writing up most mission offline. I'm wondering if there is anything that is more up to date than that one.

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"I'm only here for Keyser Soze, the rest of you can go."

Way back when, I was part of a static team that had a really bad day in a COT cave. One died, so I went in to rez him, and died. We both recalled to the hosp... COT prison cell.

In just a little while, the rest of the team joined us, and we had manage to get all the doors open, but still hadn't been able to get out of the room. Since the doors were all down, the Death Mages were free to spawn camp us. You die, respawn in a cell with two +3 Death Mages and an overlord, Die again, and move to a new cell with similar room mates.

The whole team hit the debt cap in that room, and we stayed there for quite a while. That day was possibly the most fun I've ever had in this game.

I don't have any way to get a total or count, but I'm willing to bet we had a deaths per minute rate of close to 5 for a while there. My average lifespan between spawns was 3 to 5 seconds for a couple of minutes straight.

Add me to the list of people that say that no (mainstream) US military unit would use the Desert Eagle as a combat pistol. I'll even add a reason I've not seen listed yet.

Ammunition supply.

The US adopted the 5.56 NATO round back in the 60's when it switched from the M-14 to the M-16 as the main rifle. The M-60 uses the 7.62 NATO round, known to deer hunters across the US as a .308 Winchester. The Beretta M-9 was adopted largely due to standardization issues. The US was one of the only countries still using the .45 ACP round in anything. That made for a logistical nightmare if war ever broke out in Europe. There would have to be a completely different supply of pistol ammunition for US forces, and ONLY for US forces.

The chances of there being any provision, at all, for a US combat unit to be assigned a 100% non-military caliber is nil* No .44 mag. No .50 AE, no .41 mag, 10mm, none of it.

As for the Desert Eagle being made to penetrate armor: No. big and scary as it looks, it still fires the same .44 Mag round that Dirty Harry used to teach basic counting.

We did some testing on a square of bullet resistant glass (plexiglass really) on night. It was about 1.5 inches thick and it stopped .44 Mag, 45 Win Mag, .357 Mag, 10mm, and 454. Casull. The only handgun that went through it was a .357 Automag which uses a .308 case blown out straight, then necked back down to .357. A .308 and 30-06 both made it through as well. The 5.56 NATO did not.

*There may be some very rare exceptions, such as those units that have a very specific reason to NOT be caught with US military issue weapons and ammunition, but those will not be any form of front line combat troops.

For that matter, I happen to know a guy that does gunsmith work for a few covert ops groups. The only pistol I ever saw him work with at all was a 1911 or variant. The main rifle, other than an M-16 or variant, was the M-14.

Quick aside about the sound of grenade launchers. They don't use a conventional type of propellant arrangement. Rather than use a single powder charge in a single case, they use a low-high pressure system where the initial charge is a low pressure charge of propellant to get it moving, then a second stage of higher pressure propellant takes over and finished the job. This makes for more of a push than a kick.

Glad that diagram helped. It was actually in GIMP (open source photoshop).

On the subject of recoil, take a look at some of the late 19th century rifles being sent to Africa. This is long.

Firearms come in either caliber (.45, 9mm, .22, etc) or gauge (12 ga., 20 ga., and so on.)
Caliber is the diameter of the hole, so a bigger value means a bigger hole.
Guage is the opposite. Gauge is the number of lead balls that diameter that make a pound. A 20 gauge means that each ball that just fits the hole is equal to 1/20th of a pound. A 16 gauge will fire a 1/16 pound ball. A 10 Gauge is considered very large and unpleasant to shoot.
Some of the early elephant guns were 4 gauge and still shoulder fired. These could actually be lethal on the firing end. For that matter, so can many modern guns. Of course, the velocity was very low compared to modern guns. It's just that once that mass gets moving, it likes it.

Here are a couple of frame by frame descriptions of recoil; one from a hand gun and one from a very large rifle. But first a bit of background.

I'm about 6 feet tall, and around (at the time) 200 pounds. I've been shooting since I was five, and had fired several SMG's (a MAC-11 in a competition once) by age 13. My father saw to it that I was no stranger to recoil management and muzzle control.

At the range he used to run, we had a guy that was a load developer. He would come in and use the chronograph to see what his current load was actually doing, and to show it off a little. He had somehow managed to make a significant increase in velocity without a significant increase in pressure in handgun rounds. The one we fired this night was a 454 Casull firing a 270 grain bullet. Most people only fired it once. When it was my turn, I stepped up with my feet outside shoulder width apart, a line from my heel of the rear foot passing through the ball of my lead foot and on to the target. This is a basic Neutral Bow stance from Kenpo karate and not much different than other martial arts forms. I leaned forward slightly and relaxed my waist and hips as much as possible. I held the gun in my right hand (rear) and kept my elbow bent slightly (NEVER LOCK YOUR ELBOW). The left hand held the right, with the left elbow bent at a 90 and pointing down to the left at about a 45 degree angle.

When I fired, the gun rotated in my hands, tipping the sights towards me. it rotated over at about a 60 degree angle and pushed straight back. My wrists stayed fixed, more or less, but my torso rotated to my right until I was almost facing the other direction. The top of the gun ended up resting on my chest, tipped over on one side and still pointed downrange. My left arm had folded up tightly against my left side, and my right arm was now bent at a 90 and more or less horizontal, and both hands resting in front of my sternum.

My right wrist hurt just a bit, but not enough to make me not shoot it again. The next guy in line was much bigger (the motorcycle trailer guy from before) than me, and he left.

That was the first time I ever felt the rotational component, and that is another reason that .90 caliber would suck to shoot.

Rifling is the name for the grooves and lands that line the barrels and give the bullets the spin they need to be stable in flight. When a large bullet hits the rifling, the gun will try to spin in the opposite direction in an attempt to conserve momentum. Normally, the energy involved goes unnoticed due to the leverage of the handle and the weight of the gun being more than enough to offset what the bullet is trying to do. That .90 cal would have a nasty spin to it, and you would need a right one and a left. If the rotation forces the top of the gun to the outside of the body, the wrists probably won't have the travel to deal with it.

I should also note that I have fired two handguns guns that were both far worse than that 454, and the 500 S&W wasn't even close. Beware of the .357 Airweight Smiths. Five rounds will double the weight of the empty gun and the trigger guard will rotate over and slice your trigger finger with every shot. Also, the .357 derringer was jsut a bad idea. I lost the use of my right thumb for three days.

Now, for the rifle. My dad went through a phase about a decade ago where he started collecting English Double Rifles. These look like a side by side shotgun, but fire rifle ammunition. The "small" ones were .450 cal.

The rifle that blew Val Kilmer out of the tree stand when he fired it in The Ghost and the Darkness was one of these, possibly a 500.

The biggest one my dad ended up with was a 577 Nitro Express made by Hollis and Hollis. These were developed in the late 1800's and were intended to make a charging elephant just plain stop. My dad had the "light" version, which fired a 650 grain bullet at 1850 feet per second. It weighed 11.5 pounds. The "heavy" used a 750 grain bullet at 2100 and weighed 14 ponds. There are 7000 grains to a pound, so these bullets are about 1/10 pound.

Another fun feature of these rifles is that you can't wrap your thumb over the top of the stock with the firing hand. Well, you can, but your thumb will stop just under your right cheek, having collected your nose along the way. This basically means you can't hold onto them as you fire. Fun stuff.

The first day up, we had a box of 10 rounds to fire form. This is basically just making them go off to force them to the shape of the chamber they will be using later in life. My first shot I had close to 70% of my weight on my lead foot. Maybe 80. It stood me up completely vertical, then pushed me back two full steps. Five shots each was plenty. I was wearing a t-shirt and I could see the pattern of the cloth and stitching in the bruise after the first one.

The big game hunter in Jurassic Park 2 had a 600 Nitro. They make a 700.

The record for hardest kicking rifle (meant for hunting or similar) is probably the .585 Nyati. Felt recoil is around 195 foot pounds. Getting hit with a 105 mph hour fastball is around 100.

Desert Eagle firing in slow motion. It's still a little fast, but you can clearly see the slide move

Thanks. That's the page where I got the steps I'm using though.

I actually just had a thought about it. He said he hasn't had it quite a year yet. Version 2.6, which is needed for safe mode, wasn't released until Jan of 09. I know he's never updated it. Odds are good he doesn't have the right version installed.

For a nice Catch-22, I can't update it without being able to access the main menu, which I can't do with resetting it, which I can't do without having the update installed.

Turds.

I'm trying to help the GF's brother reset his and we can't seem to get it into safe mode by following the instructions on Sony's site.

The instructions we have are:
Turn it off with the front button
Press and hold the front power button until it beeps a total of three times. (Three single beeps about 5 seconds apart.)
Press and hold the front power button until it beeps a total of four times. (Two singles 5 seconds apart and then a double beep 5 seconds after that.)
We can't seem to get it past the three beep stage.

Any tips? Thanks.

Those two have no punch animation. The sweep doesn't either, when you get to it.

What the hell. The wheels flew right off of my NaNo attempt. Depending on the name you use, you may have to edit. it will be really tight on space.

Soledad Vega

(name) was always a shy girl, always trying, but never really fitting in with her peers. Still, she was liked well enough to be brought along. In their senior year of college, they took a week off for Mardi Gras. (Name) needed convincing, but eventually went along.


On the fourth night, in a drunken haze, they wandered down an alley and wound up well away from the party. There, behind a dumpster, lay an old woman dressed in rags and scarves. Peaking from beneath those rags was an odd, black pendant. Dares were passed around and (name) came in last. In an alcohol induced desire to finally fit in, to truly be a part of the group, she plucked the pendant from the old woman’s neck.


When the glow from the flash faded, the old woman was little more than a pile of ash, and (name) was completely sober. She felt the power of the pendant coursing through her body and she knew, somehow she knew, that with that pendant in her possession, she could never die.



Fitting in never mattered so little. Goddesses have no peers.