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Maybe not the intended point...

Funny thing is, I searched for LLIE to find out what it was. The only reference to it I can find is on your channel.

Watching a pair of kittens trying to out-kitten eachother.

We just got spammed. Is it just me or is this the first time we've been spammed in quite a while?

Because they're delicious. Oh no wait those are croutons, simple mistake really. Somehow I doubt lubricated rubber tastes any good. It must also leave a foul taste on the skin, if my girlfriend's behaviour is any indication.

Do you understand the legal definition of the term "Conspiracy"? Because that is still legally a conspiracy. You can't claim that $20 trillion in tax evasion, between a corporation that only exists to set up shell companies for tax evasion (fourth largest, there are three larger ones), the corporations and individuals it helps evade taxes, and the government figures that assist in this and often evade taxes themselves through this system, isn't a conspiracy. Please, take a moment to read a couple articles on the matter. There's a dozen of them a Google search away, this story is inescapable at the moment.

WHO CALLED IT? ... *AHEM* So, there was an enormous leak recently that shows an enormous tax evasion conspiracy. We are talking about an actual, formal conspiracy involving massive numbers of powerful people. Only instead of a smoke-filled back room, it's probably a teleconference between people in office buildings dozens of floors above ground. They're getting together, setting up companies specifically to help them evade their taxes, and conspiring with corrupt national leaders to help. It is so crazy that one address in the Cayman Islands has 18,000 businesses registered to it. Tax dodging is revealed to be a 20 trillion dollar industry, a figure that doesn't surprise me one bit, and we still only have info from the FOURTH largest offshore legal firm. The Panama Papers are 11.5 million documents spanning from 1977 to 2015, so we don't have all the information yet as journalists are still pouring over them. The point of this thread (aside from me gloating about how much I called it) is to discuss it as new information comes to light.

Well, with my mods bullets had travel time and drop, so it was a lot less... "Video-gamey". I remember Aurelius of Phoenix leaning on his railing, a tiny speck in my scope as I sat next to where the Gobi rifle spawns. (I wasn't using the Gobi rifle, I was using an anti-material rifle.) I aimed up a bit for drop (less than normal, since I was so much higher up than him), waited for him to start his lean animation, fired a shot. It took almost a second for the bullet to arrive, but the spray definitely came from his head, and that was the only way I could have killed him in one shot anyway. He was still there when I went down, the only blood was on his helmet. At this point, there wasn't a soldier alive in the camp, each taking a single .50 bullet. Except Canyon Runner. That pain in the ass took three bullets because he kept stopping and starting. This is one of my fonder memories from the game. I was on fire that day, and I haven't been able to replicate it since.

I miss New Vegas... Nothing quite like putting a bullet through a centurian's head from a kilometre away. Fucking Wondows 10...

Neither do I, but I can say it's closer to 6' 2".

ZC5g98AbMBQ Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

Hungover, so... Nothing.

5'11... If my math is right. You imperials bug me.

That technicality makes me want to strangle people.

Shitty phone.

It's raining somewhere else... Noteworthy, I'm in Seattle.

Riesling.

Reaching for a bottle of white grape flavoured brain bleach.

Partly cloudy with a chance of inexplicable power outages with no wind.

Look at this cute little guy... So tiny, so soft, so... GODDAMMIT CAT THAT'S MY SKIN. Ahem. So tiny, so soft, so cuddly.

Not all kills are 1 hit kills though. Just hits to critical areas, like the head. I mean, its not like they can run a physics simulation on a human body model every time you get shot to determine the damage. It's just to say that now you can no longer keep hitting someone point blank in the face with a shotgun and have them keep standing. I'm not sure how body shots play into things as much yet, though, since I haven't gotten into human combat yet. 1. Most of the head is not a vital area, most of the head is just bone and meat. 2. The vital parts are all defended by really thick bone, especially from the front and back, that can actually STOP many low-penetration rounds even at a perfect angle. 3. A bullet in the brain is not always fatal, and never instantly. There are two tiny, tiny, TINY TINY TINY TINY TINY TINY little patches of brain at the very bottom where there is ANY chance of somebody being immediately incapacitated, one is called the "thalamus" and the other is called the "brainstem". The rest of it can take a bullet just fine, thanks. 4. The reason a bullet to the brain has such a high fatality rate is because it's difficult to treat, and it's a supremely blood-rich organ. People still usually die of blood loss or infection when shot in the head, and those take a while. 5. Even so, about 10% of all people who receive cerebral ballistic trauma (as in, a bullet to the brain, specifically the brain) survive worldwide. That does not adjust for the number of head wounds received, additional trauma to the body, medical care in the region or where they live. 6. Some people survive a LOT of damage, an incredible amount of damage, including brain damage, and LITERALLY walk it off. Wenseslao Moguel, Alexis Goggins, Angel Alvarez and Simo Hayha are four examples involving guns, but Phineas Gage is another extreme example. Each of these people received massive brain damage from objects penetrating their skull, and were still able to walk afterwards. A. Wenseslao was executed by firing squad and survived. He was shot nine times with rifles, including a shot in the forehead, and was then shot in the jawline at point blank with a pistol. He waited for the federales to leave, got up under his own power (with his arms bound) and walked away, finding a doctor and surviving to tell his story. B. Alexis Goggins was a 7-year old girl in Detroit, who was held captive along with her mother by her mother's psycho boyfriend. Said boyfriend shot her mother in the arm and side of the head, then shot the child six times for interfering. This seven year old girl took two bullets through her brain, and four elsewhere (including one to the jawline, popular place to take a bullet it seems). Her mother (who also had a bullet go all the way through her brain) pushed the man out of the vehicle and ran for the police. The child was still conscious when the police found her, and survived the incident. C. Angel Alvarez was shot as a block party in NYC when a fello drunken party-goer pulled a gun on him and the police arrived to find them struggling over it. Not wanting anybody to get shot, they started shooting. Because logic. They hit Alvarez 27 times, including wounds to his arms, legs, torso and the back of his head. He doesn't even have a limp. D. Simo Hayha was the deadliest mother fucker to ever kill. No, seriously, look him up. He killed over 700 people in the Winter War, avoided carpet bombings of his operating areas, and killed everyone they sent against him, including a man who shot him in the head with an anti-tank rifle. The bullet caught him in the jawline and yawed up through his face, fragmenting as it went, exiting from his head having done massive damage to his jaw, carotid artery, frontal lobe, circle of willis and even damaging his thalamus. He shot the man back and killed him, before passing out from blood loss and waking up two weeks later on, get this, the day the war ended. E. This case is pretty famous. Phineas Gage was a railway worker who took a tamping rod through his head due to an accidental explosion. It entered through his jaw and exited through the top of his head, massively damaging his frontal lobe, completely destroying his pre-frontal cortex and causing massive bleeding from damage to several important blood vessels, including his circle of willis. He got up and walked off the job site and survived, somehow, despite the era. If you shoot a raider one time in the forehead with a .38 and they just obligingly fall down dead, that's absolute bullshit. Not only would that round not penetrate their glabella, it would only cause frontal lobe damage if it did, and even if it did hit something important that's not a guaranteed kill by any stretch of the imagination, and even if it was fatal is definitely wouldn't be instantly so. Rocket tag is NOT realistic, it never was, never has been and never will be.

6z5IAw-eUT0 I just heard a lot of things that I don't know how I feel about. I will be considering them for some time, until I decide. Apparently, my girlfriend's 5-year old nephew is a panty thief. My girlfriend caught him taking folded pairs of panties out of his backpack and hiding them in a toy chest under his bed. Apparently he's been stealing these from the dresser of a girl his age, who he likes, and when asked why he answered that if he takes them all, she'll stop wearing them. Also stolen were four pairs of socks and a T-shirt. All of these have been returned now, but I still feel a bit... Unsettled by that story, and his explanation in particular. Even a perfectly innocent scene of them fast asleep together in front of the TV has been corrupted, when normally it would be absolutely adorable.

The Geneva convention explicitly bans ammunition that splits into multiple pieces inside a target, yet we use core penetrator rounds, which do exactly that. It forbids incendiary ammunition, and yet our anti-material rifles are often loaded with delay-fused high explosive incendiary munitions which are illegal for being incendiary and very obviously breaking into pieces inside the target (they, you know, explode). It also bans use of chemical and incendiary weapons, white phosphorous is both but we still used it in Iraq. Cluster-munitions are also illegal, but we use them and even give them to our Saudi allies for their massacres in Yemen. It's pretty safe to say international law means dick to the US military's choice of weapons and ammunition. Business contracts not so much. As one example, we have a gigantic parking lot full of nothing but Abrams tanks that we can't use and don't have the crews for, that our own generals are telling us to STOP making, that are running up an absurd bill, but we're STILL making more of the damned things because we signed a contract with the manufacturer. But regardless of what you believe the reason is, the fact is that our rifle ammunition absolutely fucking sucks for its current application (and any application we could find for it, the 5.56mm just doesn't have to mass for armour piercing rounds to be of any real benefit), and it would be much better to use expanding or frangible rounds, or even regular ball ammo.

The rounds we're using are still illegal under international law.