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Post by [GG]Buxford on Feb 5, 2009 17:52:25 GMT -5
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Post by [GG]SirDabrowski on Feb 7, 2009 2:50:07 GMT -5
Yeah, you Kentuckians have been a little cold these past few weeks. What exactly does the fire dept do during winter storms? Everything utility companies do, except we're actually punctual. "ETA on Nolin Utilities, Control?" "They can't give an ETA." "10-4 on Nolin doing nothing." "........ 1034, call Control." By the way, George W Bush should have been on the list. I'm sorry if you disagree, but his crazy-ass behavior was the only reason we weren't attacked again.
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Post by [GG]Buxford on Feb 8, 2009 1:56:15 GMT -5
Yep. BTW, don't you hate it when old friends say hi then disappear again? I'm looking at you Tuncarl and GS.
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Post by [GG] Lord General Store on Feb 10, 2009 13:06:57 GMT -5
Sorry guys, I have been busy playing the ETW demo...its absolutely awesome!!!!
Got it sent to me by a beta tester....sweeeeet!
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Post by [GG] Lord General Store on Feb 11, 2009 4:32:30 GMT -5
I am joking by the way Just wanted to trigger a famous DAB rant How you all doing? Looking forward to ETW?
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Post by [GG]SirDabrowski on Feb 15, 2009 5:56:16 GMT -5
Dude, I've chilled since then. I am extremely embarrassed that I took shite on the internet seriously. Not that I don't take your friendships seriously. But.
You get the idea.
How am I doing? We had a ice storm that knocked out most power lines and trees in both of my fire districts. Then, a week later, we had a wind storm that knocked down the power lines and trees that hadn't been knocked down.
And the utility companies reached a new level of retardation -- outside my fire station there is a utility pole that was knocked over at the base by high winds. The utility companies put it back up by putting a new utility pole in the ground and literally stapling the old one to the new one.
Pictures forthcoming.
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Post by [GG] Lord General Store on Feb 16, 2009 7:53:11 GMT -5
Everyone was quite into it at one stage. I must say I am still dissapointed that all the hard work I put into a new website for GG was just cast aside due to politics, anyway, that's a big reason why I just took a step back.
I want to see those pics Dab! Should be a good chuckle I am suprised they have shipped you guys off to Oz,t hey could of used some help down there
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Post by [GG]SirDabrowski on Feb 17, 2009 13:40:43 GMT -5
I find it highly embarrassing. Australian firefighters regularly are shipped to the US to help with major wildfires in the West. I more than likely wouldn't go (I only have an Ops-level certification for Wildland Firefighting), but there's plenty of western firefighters who could get their share in Australia firefighting and loving. Hey, we just found out who the next GG Council will be for ETW. Oh:
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Post by [GG]Buxford on Feb 18, 2009 2:06:46 GMT -5
I need a new computer, d**nit.
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Post by [GG]Buxford on Feb 23, 2009 4:42:59 GMT -5
Anyone else think that ETW, though it may be quite beautiful, will be terrible?
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Post by [GG]SirDabrowski on Feb 23, 2009 5:03:47 GMT -5
It'll be horrible, historical-wise. I don't remember flame throwing ships in the 1800s.
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Post by [GG]Olaf_Rassmussen on Feb 23, 2009 9:45:07 GMT -5
So people planning to play together when ETW pops out?
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Post by [GG]Buxford on Feb 23, 2009 23:28:57 GMT -5
That's the idea, I think, but I'm still trying to scrounge enough money to buy a new computer, or at the very least a new graphics card. My motherboard only has a PCI and an AGP slot, if that gives you any idea on how outdated my pc really is.
And the ETW demo is out, anybody play it yet?
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Post by [GG] Lord General Store on Feb 24, 2009 5:45:22 GMT -5
I played it.
In short its hard to say much from the demo about the battle AI because it seems scripted. They still have a fair bit of unit balancing to do.
Overall I would say that its not as impressive as it was hyped up to be. Yes, the graphics can be good, but I have a top end pc and it couldnt handle them on high, let along ultra high...so you would need a super computer to handle it. And then once you set the graphics to medium, the graphics dont look like they have for the past 4/5 years. On ultra high it was impressive, but the video kept stuttering. The battle map for the demo battle was very nice.
Some cool features, like the light infantry and artillery could lay down stakes, but overall just not that impressive...no wow factor. Hopefully the campaign is great.
Anyone else have an opinion on it?
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Post by [GG]SirDabrowski on Mar 1, 2009 13:01:49 GMT -5
My computer can't play it. I don't know if I'm willing or not to blow $500 to play it. I just blew $608 on a 98K Mauser.
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