Posts made by balungaloaf

roman legionaries recieved 15,000 sestertii and praetorians 20,000 after 25 years of service as their retirement……

whats the amount in todays dollars?

i have more…

cleveland, or wait, was it garfield.  cleveland

the “peace/security” bases crack me up.

every one of the areas is to be “demilitarized”  except of course america, the UK, and the USSR

isnt that what the world wants now.  a world government so to speak where everyone is disarmed.

i see striking similarities towards this same goal.

funny how in 1942 they already knew that hebrewland was going to come into existence.

i couldnt upload the map onto here b/c its too big so here

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Gomberg_map.jpg

would have been weird to see this be the world today.

but i find many many similarities.  africa today is basically treated as a whole entity.  the countries of sub sahara dont add up to much and the AU will be the future.  you have western europe via the EU.  south america is weak without unification of some sort, and south america is treated as a whole (basically) by world politics.

what do you guys think about it.

is it a pretty valid interpretation of now……i mean mostly. eastern europe isnt under communist control and yadda yadda.

weird aspects though…iran as a member of the USSR…that’d be nuts

oh, and lol at hebrewland… :lol:

RIP.

its pretty political of course.

roll dice this time imperious. the A&A way!

@Emperor_Taiki:

@balungaloaf:

an aside……marcus is the best part of the movie.  true story…the role of john connor was supposed to be just under 1/4 of the film.  it was supposed to center on marcus aka the name of the movie.  but christian bale flipped out big time and demanded to be made lead.

thats probably why the movie sucked so much.

So right, how come M16’s dont work on terminators in 1 and 2 but in salvation they are just as good as a laser.

well, in the new movie, we only see the m-16 stop one machine.  thats john connor shooting the machine that the helicopter already crushed in the head.  in the 2nd movie, arnold tells john where the chip is in his head.  in the new movie thats precisely where he shoots it.  he got the chip.

@Emperor_Taiki:

I saw it yesterday, the machines are way too week. In the first terminator the humans were living underground and starving and how the hell do they have A10s and heuys those would been the first things the machines would have taken out.

everything is a cliche and the scene with the semi-truck is beeing chased down the highway is exactly the same scene from The Road Warrior except now their are robots. I saw Road Warrior just last weekend, their is no difference.

It was a joke. Instead of having cool weapons like EMP’s bombs and stuff that works against machines they defeat the machines with stuff we use against Iraqi’s. The humans are way to organized. They fight like marines when they should be fighting like insurgents.

this is just the beginning of the resistance remember.  john connor just now got his scar you see in terminator 2.  reese is still just a young boy.  things will get worse for the human resistance.  they’ll run out of fuel and parts for those A10’s soon enough.

in the first terminator the humans use new energy weapons and lasers.  reese says to sarah connor that he’s not sure if he can defeat the terminator “with these weapons”(weapons of the 80’s)

in the battle scenes in terminator 2 they are still using energy weapons.  but things are going badly for the resistance.  you can tell b/c john connors HQ is under direct frontal assault by the machines.  not a good spot to be in.  in this movie, we get to see those huge tracked machines.  (in terminator salvation, we see huge biped machines, that ride on carriers)

so the story line of the resistance is that terminator salvation takes place first, then terminator 1, then terminator 2.(by battle flashforwards/or backs depending how you look at it)

so long story short, they have A10’s and hueys b/c the resistance still has some left early on

an aside……marcus is the best part of the movie.  true story…the role of john connor was supposed to be just under 1/4 of the film.  it was supposed to center on marcus aka the name of the movie.  but christian bale flipped out big time and demanded to be made lead.

this is from the set…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihsJQHt48

about 2 years.  whats wrong with me.  growing up blows, everyone told me, but you’d never think it would happen.

To everyone!  hope you all have a great day.  I’m with the family, we went to bruch, it was a buffet at a steakhouse, i’ve never been to a buffet with prime rib…. :-D

Well, whats anyone else doing today?

i leave you all in the peace of the Lord.

@Obergruppenfuhrer:

Bare in mind that Great Britain won the battle of Britain with damn near no help from us in a military sense.

the US also sent planes to help with the battle of britain.  old design planes, but they were used.

Winston Churchill said it himself, “if america doesnt enter the war, Britain is finished”

was hitlers invasion of the soviet union code named “barbarossa”?

why on earth would they knowingly give the biggest operation undertaken by the german army  the codename which is the name of an byzantine emperor who drown while swimming in a creek on his way to leading his army to jerusalem.

wouldn’t they consider that bad luck? i mean, they were basically launching a crusade to moscow themselves.  and look, they wound up short themselves, drowning metaphorically on the banks of the volga.

not a big deal, i was just wondering.

omaha’s nightlife has grown in leaps and bounds.

now there is a major show every week or so here.

just saw elton john and billy joel together here.

we have downtown, the riverfront, midtown, or out in west omaha for the nightlife.  either that or just a bar or something.

quest center for the win!!!

zombie thread post update

in feb i’ll be 25

i have to strongly disagree with zhukov here.

its not insane to attack the russians.

americans were the only ones with the bomb.  japan wouldnt want to get bombed again, and russia could give japan NO support.

american could begin daily bombing runs again on all modes of russian factory output.

plus add nuclear devastation to many key soviet cities and to whole armored divisions.

1945 then

so did you guys know that nebraska is now cold as shit?

it went from 45F on saturday night, a perfect warm night, beautiful, to in 24 hours -25F.

24 hours.  thats how quick that happened.  the -25 is with wind chill, and the next day got colder.  and then it finally snowed.  awesome, might as well be snow on the ground for it being this damn cold i figure.  they call it an “arctic blast”, well to hell with that jive.

and its warmed up to 20F.  oh boy.

take box number one, pull a firearm on toad, and force march him to the location where he keeps the million that goes into box number 2.  then dispatch of toad.

yes, indeed the mauser.

i think i know! i’m sure i know.  crap well how about donkey kong jr.  i probably played every nintendo game ever.  well maybe not every, but pretty close.