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Of Hunters
I'm with Tam.The Hawker Hunter is very nearly the prettiest of the '50's jets.Hunter F.5 of No. 56 SquadronThe Douglas F4D Skyray is also very attractive.F4D-1 of VF-74 Bedevilers
View ArticleBuggin'
I forgot to take a picture of it, but I washed off at least a pound of dried insect paste off the nose of The Precious today.Many Corvette owners don't understand what I am talking about because they...
View ArticleOfficially No Longer Winter
The clear top has been placed into storage and the solid top put into service.I love being able to see out, but the sun makes it miserable once the temps are consistently higher than 77 or so.
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I'm Your Huckleberry
Today is April 15; or Buy-A-Gun Day!Up top, I give you Valentine. The $100 a month 6.8 AR. Just a tad over $900 total. The first $700 had been spread over the past six years... Underneath, I give...
View ArticleSo Old My Dice Have Gray Pips
An exchange with Siege about knives and GURPS smacked me in the face.I've been GURPSing since it was Man-To-Man in 1985; even longer if you consider that we were dabbling with the lineal ancestor to...
View ArticleBeing Rather Than Feeling
I think I would rather be safe than feel safe.I think that feeling safe leads to complacency.When I feel unsafe, I am more careful and cautious. I tend to take steps that actually make me safer rather...
View ArticleVz.2008
Willard replaced the abysmal folding stock on his Vz with a nice surplus fixed item.It shoots much better with a stock you can get a cheek weld on.Plus, muzzle blast!He'd had a double feed problem when...
View ArticleFantasy World Idea
GURPS TL 2.The mana level is cyclical.Game time is set as it is just returning to the world.The previous cycle of normal mana was unusually long, followed by periods of high and very high which lasted...
View ArticleNRA = No Rational Agenda
I can almost see that.There's no real pattern to my acquisitions past, "oooh shiny!"No rational basis to want as opposed to needs (where I can be coldly rational).Oh, wait, they're not talking about...
View ArticleDecision Point
A friend of mine is getting married.I'm invited.So is a former friend who went way out of their way to antagonize me into a fight which eventually escalated into their unfriending me. Never contact me...
View ArticleAnswered!
Dan Howard had answered my query about Low Tech armor, but I'd skimmed past it in his reply about other things!At TL1, if you're buying scale armor, you are NOT getting iron scales.You're getting...
View ArticleEaster On Four Twenty
Woah! I think that was Jesus!Dude! This stuff must've just kicked in!
View ArticleInheritor
Marv inherited a Winchester Model 12 in 16ga.It is NOT a Remington 870.It is NOT a Mossberg 500.I say that because all three are pump shotguns with internal hammers. That's just about where the...
View ArticleMy Fantasy World Idea
I'm giving it a working title of "Magic Returns" and that's its tag.For the past ten years, the world has been normal mana. For the previous fifty they'd been low mana. Before that, for hundreds of...
View ArticleThe Riddle Of Steel
The Fallen Empire had made it to TL4.There are some artifacts left over from it, carefully preserved.Mostly weapons and armor.TL3 and TL4 stuff is available at x4 and x8 pricing respectively if you're...
View ArticleGovernment
The Coastal City States are each governed by a prince and a council.The Prince is social status 6. Council members are ranked by seniority from Grand Councilor (5), Senior Councilor (4) and Junior...
View ArticleReach
The Coastal City States each control relatively small areas of land.Each is about a semi-circle of area from the shoreline approximately 30 miles in radius and they are about about 100 miles apart from...
View ArticleDetail
All of those little posts about Magic Returns are in service of making what's otherwise a bog standard sword-n-sorcery tabletop role playing game.The players have the standard fantasy world motivations...
View ArticleAutomatic Shut Off
I was reading the manual for the Vortex SPARC II and it has the line, "Note: If you forget to turn off the SPARC II, it will automatically shut down in 12 hours."Nice feature, but all I can think is,...
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