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I just had a panic attack. I'm better now. I'll see a doctor as soon as I can, for now I'm just going to stay the hell outdoors.

I just got stuck in a crawlspace for over an hour. It was dark, and dusty, and I couldn't breathe. I tore myself all to hell on every single fucking nail clawing my way out, and now I can't see straight and I can't stop shaking. I am not okay.

Banned for thinking I'm using IE when I'm actually using Firefox. And, as I said, NOT my computer.

You know, we don't agree much. This feels a bit weird.

Stalling HARD on getting to work while listening to the Dark Souls soundtrack. I'll get to work eventually, I swear.

I can relate. Dark Souls will likely be my favourite for a LONG time, but eventually something will replace it. I'm used to that. If I'd made this thread before discovering Dark Souls, I would've said The Elder Scrolls myself. (Also, I mod The Elder Scrolls as well. Always good to see somebody else who does.) Before that, I don't know.

Alright, it's time for each of us to list our favourite game or favourite franchise. The game doesn't have to be perfect, it can be heavily flawed as long as it's your personal favourite, and you can change your answer later if you want. My favourite game to date is Dark Souls. If you've seen any of my posts on the subject in the last month you already know that. This game was something I just picked up because it was supposed to be really hard, and within the day I was hooked. I can't get away from it. It sucked me right in, and I've been deeply immersed in the game and its story ever since. Now, it has its flaws, but it's a great game. I can count all the poorly designed bosses in the game on one hand, (Bed of Chaos, Demon Pyromancer, Stray Demon, Centipede Demon and Ceaseless Discharge) and everything else is fantastic. The game is beautiful, atmospheric, just the right kind of difficult (fair and skill based, with by far fewer unfair or luck-based moments than other games), is just generally well designed, has a magnificent soundtrack and despite its lore being conveyed mostly through item descriptions, dialogue and visual design, there's a lot of it and it's very well done. I could lose myself in this game for days (and have).

This soundtrack is glorious. It's epic when it should be, inspiring when it should be, moving when it should be, and crushing when it should be. It might not sound like it at first, but it's one of the darkest, saddest soundtracks you'll ever listen to, and that fits the game's atmosphere perfectly. It also may not seem like it at first, but it's one of the darkest, saddest games you'll ever play. I particularly recommend the tracks "Great Grey Wolf Sif", "Gwyn, Lord of Cinder" and "Nameless Song". In particular, Nameless Song. The Nameless Song is the credits theme, and more importantly it's your theme.

You going to tell us the title, or just keep vaguely alluding to it? As for me, preparing coffee for another day working on my aunt and uncle's miniature farmstead out in the sticks. There's nothing else out here to do, might as well work. If it wasn't for the glorious solitude I get out here, (nobody else is here, not even my uncle, and nobody will be until wednesday) I would never put up with this shit. As it is, I've been waiting for this for weeks.

I hear that. Stun-locking is bullshit in all games at all times, and I fucking hate it.

Banned because I did notice, thank you very much. I'm not using my own computer, there's no spellcheck on this damned thing.

And now you're the one taking a joke too seriously.

You're copy+pasting? Well there's your problem. Stop doing that.

The same is true of grey and gray, and yet we all know which side of the pond each is used on. One was retained chiefly in the US and one chiefly in the UK. And I happen to be using the one retained in the UK, rather than the one retained in the US. Using "American" as a shorthand for "the version of the word most yanks use and most limeys don't" is acceptable in either instance. Moving on from the English or English-English debate and going back to the game... I don't see much use for that kind of gravity control, but since I'd know the changes are coming and nobody else would I would likely use them to gain an edge in self-defence scenarios and otherwise leave it alone. Maybe think of a prank or two it would be useful for. If each night's dream was a lifetime long, and you could control what the dream would be before you went to sleep? (No control once asleep.)

Banned for thinking he was the one I was comparing to a pigeon.

BTG, go back and reread it. You said, and I quote: Either you meant "class II-A, and old class II" or you meant "class II, and old class III-A". Because, as I said, II-A is weaker than II, so it being able to defeat class II but not II-A unless the II-A is old makes no sense. I went with the latter because it seemed more likely you had a small typo than got your sentence backwards. And so you know, I've seen PASGT vests that took enough UV damage on tour to be defeated by 9mm bullets. Oh, and Randomguy, I'll give your post here a proper response tomorrow, but I don't know if I'll have time tonight. (Basically just making dinner and going to bed.)

No, BTG is wrong, and I can prove it. And I should not have to link to a dictionary to prove that I spelled a fucking word right, but here I go. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/offence American spellings are not the "correct" spellings and you don't get to force them on people. I would take it. What kind of question is that? If your home country, already not a very bright place, kept getting dumber at a disquieting pace and trying to force their stupidity upon you?

III-A, maybe. III, no. Otherwise, you are surprisingly correct on the rest of this. I think you mean III-A, not II-A. Because II-A is weaker than II by rather a lot.

Effect, yes. Serious effect, no. Bullets that don't get through armour really are like a much nastier version of paintball. A 9mm that doesn't penetrate armour won't cause a serious injury. Repeating it won't make that much better. Asking how many it would take is like asking how many times somebody could stand being slapped. It's not a consistent number at all, really depends on the person, and when adrenaline comes into the picture it increases dramatically. The number of shots it would take to kill somebody with these wounds, a much lower bar than immediate incapacitation, is many times higher than the armour can actually stop. It really does just come down to when the armour gives out. More plausible than the HK53 theory, but that would be assuming Half-Life is in 2002 and that seems unlikely. And there being few soldiers left in 2002 is even more unlikely. It seems much more likely this is occurring later, especially if the soldiers really are that bad, since in 2002 we'd have plenty of GOOD soldiers out and available. In 2004 or 2005, this theory would make more since because of the Iraq war, and them wearing PASGT would still be plausible because it did see use by military reserve units for a while. However, the big flaws here are that bullets that don't penetrate somebody's armour do very little and the armour would give out before they were seriously impaired, ISAPO was out in the 2000s and they would have plates on, and the armour they wear is clearly too thick and bulky to be PASGT anyway. Not to mention that a special forces unit would have better armour, and HECU is supposed to be special forces. Alright then. But I'm out in the sticks so don't expect a rapid response.

Oh joy, another STUPID yank who doesn't know how to spell and insults people for spelling things right. Moving on with the game: Wonder how that was possible considering that ebola is infectious, NOT contagious. If you had to argue with somebody so incredibly stupid and willfully ignorant that it always goes about as well as playing chess with a pidgeon? (In other words, if you had to do what I always get stuck doing?)

Banned for still trying to argue with BTG even though it's like playing chess with a pidgeon.

That is not what's going on, and I take offence to that. As for your question, I'd spend my last day trying to make some sort of impact on the world. I don't know how. Probably try to assassinate the Koch brothers or something. What would you do if you were reincarnated whenever you died, with all memories intact. (And no concept of "karma", by the way. Totally random rebirth.)

That is a question that can't be answered. It's a kevlar vest. If the shots are real close it might only be two or three. It they're all over it might be dozens. And for the record, III-A requires stopping a .357 Sig and a .44 magnum. Not that hard. That 12-gauge slug is harder to stop than both of those combined. If it stopped a 12-gauge slug, it's a III-A. Let me explain what's different between this test and others. This vest they are testing is fairly new. It is not old, or worn, or damaged. And that REALLY matters in armour, especially in a PASGT vest. Most PASGT vests on the civilian market are used, so most tests of them are on used vests. Kevlar deteriorates very quickly, especially in sunlight as it is damaged by ultraviolet radiation. After being used on tour and then put up on the civilian market, it absolutely will be a lot weaker. Especially with a PASGT vest. PASGT was the first military armour made of kevlar. They didn't know jack shit about how to treat kevlar then. The kind of kevlar used had a very low resistance to UV damage, and the outer fabric provided almost no UV protection. PASGT vests were then taken out to the middle of the desert where the sun bore down on them at all times and deteriorated. Then these deteriorated vests were taken and sold on the civilian market when they were phased out. That's where the testing vids come from, old and deteriorated PASGT vests. I just showed you an unused, fairly fresh vest and what it'll do. The PASGT vest isn't shitty because it doesn't work as a bulletproof vest. It's shitty because it wasn't built properly for what it was used for. It wasn't designed to stop rifles, the military didn't understand kevlar couldn't stop shrapnel, and took this vest that already couldn't do the job it needed to or the job it was meant to and put it in an environment that absolutely destroys it. If they just wanted a vest to stop pistol fire then they'd just need to replace it often and it would have been fine, but they needed a vest that could defend against rifles and shrapnel and survive in a desert, and that is why the PASGT vest had to go.

Just giving him a little perspective. And implying he should stop whining.

III-A yes, according to the military. And your test video specifies it was a heavily used vest tested, and gets II-A and II totally ass-backwards. Here's an actual test of an unused vest. And why yes, it's a III-A. The guys testing it were mystified when it stopped a 12-gauge slug.