> > Getting flashbacks from playing "Carrier Command II" here....:-), I have
> > it on floppy disks here somewhere.......
> Shhhh. You're exposing the source of my knowledge here...
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> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:12:08 GMT, "David G Fisher"
> >To all of you I say........
> >.
> >GPL is not realistic.
> >David G Fisher
> Nope. No single sim released yet is realistic.
> But GPL comes close and is damn fun.
> And has excellent 20-multiplayer support.
F1 = a multi coloured pile of kevlar and carbon fibre parading around
boring tracks in single file, which translates very poorly in terms of
sim racing.
Gerry
>/Jens
Andre
Andre
> >Ooooh, must find Carrier Strike or Carriers at War. Again. I have wasted too
> >many hours on these beauties long ago. Or perhaps a game of Gary Grigsby's
> >Pacific War (freeware)?
> >http://www.matrixgames.com/games/pacificwar/features.asp
> >/Jens
> Carrier Strike: http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?id=177
> Lots more of 'boat games':
> http://www.theunderdogs.org/theme.php?name=Naval
> Have fun :)
/Jens
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:47:39 +0000, Gerry Aitken
> >GPL = realistic racing, all the cars handle differently, the tracks are
> >fantastically exciting to drive around, the GUI is superb, the
> >controller set-up the best and most simple to use, the GPL community
> >grows daily, 3rd party stuff grows daily too, the FOV can even be
> >changed in game, a free floating camera came be flown around in replays
> >and DFG's a *** :)
> Whoa, big list of facts there :)
> But David is right in one point, the tire model of GPL is a bit
> lacking.. even Kaemmer and Cassidy said so in a chat we had with them.
> But even though the cars slide too much in GPL, it gives the best
> feeling of racing at high speed with fast, responsive but damn hard to
> handle cars, and that's what makes GPL still the best.
> Halleluja!
Problem is that Prange is not necessarily "historically correct." He
is one of the inevitable anti-*** types that comes out in any possible
debate. There is always the claim that we should just take the commonly
accepted theory without question.
-Tim
There's the key term. Luck.
We have a national mythos. Part of it states that anyone and everyone,
through their own efforts, can and will succeed. (With that comes the unstated
assertion that anyone who doesn't succeed obviously didn't work hard enough and
is at fault.)
Unfortunately, our myth is really incorrect. Yes, effort matters. But
it is possible to fail despite effort, and it is possible to suceed despite
lack of effort. All due to luck, really. Luck of the name you are born with
is merely one example.
-Tim
> >I'm as embarassed by the U.S.'s shady dealings and their role in human
> >rights abuses around the world (particularly in Central America) as anyone,
> >but let's at least be historically correct.
> Problem is that Prange is not necessarily "historically correct." He
> is one of the inevitable anti-*** types that comes out in any possible
> debate. There is always the claim that we should just take the commonly
> accepted theory without question.
Dave Ewing
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You could go back further than that, and examine how an isolationist
country had lived in peace for 300 years before the US sent a fleet of
warships into Tokyo bay and said basically "Trade with us or we'll ***ing
kill the lot of you".
But then, as a Brit, I've enough history to be ashamed of without picking
on the US in particular (It seems we picked on India just so we could get
a "success" having been kicked out of the Americas), but also just enough
reason to be proud, I think. which is just about all most people want at
the end of the day, assuming they've got food and shelter.
cheers
John
Allied leaders "allowed" the Luftwaffe to bomb the living shit out of
Coventry (having known of the proposed attack well beforehand) without so
much as a hint of evacuation for fear of revealing that the Enigma codes
had been deciphered. Our leaders have been capable of many terrible
things when it came down to it.
That's not to say I believe immediately that FDR created some ***,
but I don't think the idea is so unlikely.
I'd rather look forward than back, but I see history repeating every day
on the news.
cheers
John
>>Ooooh, must find Carrier Strike or Carriers at War. Again. I have wasted too
>>many hours on these beauties long ago. Or perhaps a game of Gary Grigsby's
>>Pacific War (freeware)?
>>http://www.matrixgames.com/games/pacificwar/features.asp
>>/Jens
>Carrier Strike: http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?id=177
>Lots more of 'boat games':
>http://www.theunderdogs.org/theme.php?name=Naval
>Have fun :)
Eldred
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