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[HorseManDemon]

I guess you had to be there... (lot o' post) ...There was a time when no one really knew anything, and what you were seeing was relatively novel.  That's a unique experience.

Sometimes I miss those more innocent days in the city. I remember when I made my first character, an ice-ice (baby) blaster. Not because I thought it would work well together. Not because I liked the stats on the powers. Not because I thought blasters were good. Just because I wanted a character who would shoot ice at people, and I thought it'd be effin' sweet.

My last character was an elec-cold controller who I spent hours agonizing over which secondary to pick.

Still, even though I look back on those old days in the city with some heavily nostalgia tinted glasses, I don't think I could go back to Issue 0.

[LadyVamp]

Am I the only one now thinking that "Pizza and Coffee" would be a great group name, red-side?

I was thinking that techno music scene from revenge of the nerds when you said that.

[LadyVamp]

There's worse.  Or better.  Actually, I'm not sure which this is.

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That's definitely worse, Arcana.

[Brigadine]

You misunderstood.  Not slipping pizza under the door.  Locking Codewalker and crew in a room until they reverse engineer the game.

Does anyone have a locking room or basement they're not using?  We can get the proper height door for pizza slippage later.

Or we could just get a prison style window thing to hand things through.

[MM3squints]

Just remember that the quality of food directly influences the quality of the work produced.

If that is true, you only can imagine the quality of work (or Morale) when looking at the food on a Nimitz class

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[JoshexProxy]

If that is true, you only can imagine the quality of work (or Morale) when looking at the food on a Nimitz class

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I happen to know for a fact that all food supplied to the naval ships is in fact just this terrible. and that is why no one eats it. they take this meatloaf put it in a net and throw it off the back of the ship on a long chain complete with a high durability meat hook.

Then, later, They have fresh grilled shark, tuna, swordfish or whatever else bites.

[Reaper]

"They wanted me to build them an MMO, so I took their coffee and pizza and in turn gave them a shiny MMO GUI full of used pinball machine code!"

And did they show up in a VW bus and make an attempt on your life in return?    ;)

[MM3squints]

I happen to know for a fact that all food supplied to the naval ships is in fact just this terrible. and that is why no one eats it. they take this meatloaf put it in a net and throw it off the back of the ship on a long chain complete with a high durability meat hook.

Then, later, They have fresh grilled shark, tuna, swordfish or whatever else bites.

At this point even if you try claiming you were "joking" about this statement, all I can see you is like how I see AO (Air Ordnance.) AOs are generally not the sharpest tool in the shed, but take pride in their ignorance by shouting IYAOYAS (If You Aint Ordnance You Ain't Shit) to feel good about themselves or how the rest of the fleet would say IYAOYAS (If you're Air Ordnance Your ASVAB sucked)

[Biz]

At this point even if you try claiming you were "joking" about this statement, all I can see you is like how I see AO (Air Ordnance.) AOs are generally not the sharpest tool in the shed, but take pride in their ignorance by shouting IYAOYAS (If You Aint Ordnance You Ain't pancake) to feel good about themselves or how the rest of the fleet would say IYAOYAS (If you're Air Ordnance Your ASVAB sucked)

I have been so excited waiting for your opinion on that comment all morning. You did not disappoint, haha.

[Arcana]

At this point even if you try claiming you were "joking" about this statement, all I can see you is like how I see AO (Air Ordnance.) AOs are generally not the sharpest tool in the shed, but take pride in their ignorance by shouting IYAOYAS (If You Aint Ordnance You Ain't pancake) to feel good about themselves or how the rest of the fleet would say IYAOYAS (If you're Air Ordnance Your ASVAB sucked)

I don't know what would happen if Joshex was administered the ASVAB.  Is Major Kong still a career track in the US armed forces?

[ivanhedgehog]

I don't know what would happen if Joshex was administered the ASVAB.  Is Major Kong still a career track in the US armed forces?

lab rat 1st class
nerve gas testing subject specialist
explosive ordinance kinetic testing specialist

[MM3squints]

I don't know what would happen if Joshex was administered the ASVAB.  Is Major Kong still a career track in the US armed forces?

I can answer that in a heartbeat with some pretty dark military humor especially with the type of adversary we are fighting against, but my civilian job taught me to be more "sensitive" and be aware of my audience.

Edit: On a side note, the other day I learned that movie was supposed to end in a pie fight. That made me laugh

[Arcana]

I happen to know for a fact that all food supplied to the naval ships is in fact just this terrible. and that is why no one eats it.

Josh, most naval warships have galleys.  They cook the meals, it isn't supplied to them in its final state.  They stopped catering the US Navy in the 1970's due to budget cuts.

Meal quality tends to be highly variable because humans beings cook, budgets are variable, time is often limited, and the complete DVD collection of Good Eats is not on most units' TO&E.

[Triplash]

And did they show up in a VW bus and make an attempt on your life in return?    ;)

Well they tried, but they're CoH players so they don't know what buses look like.

If I ever go to a city with a monorail though, I'm screwed.

[Codewalker]

I don't know what would happen if Joshex was administered the ASVAB.

The officer who gave me my ASVAB results told me I was going to be a brain surgeon.

He told my friend, who was right behind me in line, that he was going to be a "better brain surgeon".

Neither one of us went into medicine. Or the military, for that matter, but not for lack of trying on their part.

[MM3squints]

Josh, most naval warships have galleys.  They cook the meals, it isn't supplied to them in its final state.  They stopped catering the US Navy in the 1970's due to budget cuts.

Meal quality tends to be highly variable because humans beings cook, budgets are variable, time is often limited, and the complete DVD collection of Good Eats is not on most units' TO&E.

On the Reagan you have 6,000 personnel on a rotation schedule that is out to sea for up to 6 months at a time. The food itself they did use actual raw ingredients that they make meals out of in the aft galley that are "fresh." "Fresh" is in quotation marks because in general the food was good majority of the time as in higher than edible, by edible it actually required little to no condiments to mask any bad taste except when supplies are running short and we are just waiting for the next underway replenishment. You always know when this happens when the chicken you had for lunch turns into chicken a la king for dinner.  The aft galley is on a fix schedule, but unfortunately for personnel like me, we didn't have that luxury and majority of the time, we had to eat at the forward galley which had a 23 hour taco bar. You will be amazed how many different ways you can think of eating "tacos" for 6 month. The only time I ate really well on the Reagan was when VIP/New Media showed up (then magically the mess decks had t-bone steak, lobster, shrimp served showing "how well we are being fed") or if our connections in the mafia comes through for us.

Edit: Edited to 23 hours Taco bar because 1 hour of the day from 0800-0900 will be "spirit of 76"

[Taceus Jiwede]

I happen to know for a fact that all food supplied to the naval ships is in fact just this terrible. and that is why no one eats it. they take this meatloaf put it in a net and throw it off the back of the ship on a long chain complete with a high durability meat hook.

Then, later, They have fresh grilled shark, tuna, swordfish or whatever else bites.

I happen to know for a fact this isn't true.  Because before I got deployed as a space marine I served on a naval ship.  We ate the meatloaf and then jumped overboard.  Catching a shark/tuna/sea monster. And then force feeding the fish using regurgitation.  It's a well known fact that all sea life is deathly allergic to meatloaf.  We had to do this because if you were caught fishing they would beat you for 12 hours before making you cuddle with an furless puppy.  So we had to just jump overboard and then just before drowning we would get super human surges of strength.  Using this strength we would propel our self out of the water onto the ship.  If you weren't holding a shark or some other kind of heavy fish you would overshoot and land on the other side.

[LaughingAlex]

I have to pitch in on this to.  Anyone who watched the history or military channel about navy ships would know that it's better to look at such heavy weights like Aircraft carriers as floating cities, rather than just another boat.  So they aren't going to be ignoring the quality of life of the sailors, and they tend to have room for things like galleys as Arcana just said.

Speaking of space, I wouldn't be surprised if capital ships that get larger than modern carriers would even have full size shopping malls or some equivalent.  I know for certain in my own canon I tend to give the outer-core species their individual needs and morale ratings based on ship livelihood.....

[ivanhedgehog]

I have to pitch in on this to.  Anyone who watched the history or military channel about navy ships would know that it's better to look at such heavy weights like Aircraft carriers as floating cities, rather than just another boat.  So they aren't going to be ignoring the quality of life of the sailors, and they tend to have room for things like galleys as Arcana just said.

Speaking of space, I wouldn't be surprised if capital ships that get larger than modern carriers would even have full size shopping malls or some equivalent.  I know for certain in my own canon I tend to give the outer-core species their individual needs and morale ratings based on ship livelihood.....

I was army, not navy, but I did take several cruises...they do have malls on board and the food was excellent..lobster and prime rib for dinner!! then you could go up to the buffet and graze the desert counters.

[Felderburg]

Neither one of us went into medicine. Or the military, for that matter, but not for lack of trying on their part.

So... why did you take the ASVAB?

You will be amazed how many different ways you can think of eating "tacos" for 6 month.

If you have hard and soft shells, you can make a sandwich-style pie by layering the soft with refried beans, and sticking the hard (broken in half) to it, layering the insides, and repeating on top.

Speaking of space, I wouldn't be surprised if capital ships that get larger than modern carriers would even have full size shopping malls or some equivalent.  I know for certain in my own canon I tend to give the outer-core species their individual needs and morale ratings based on ship livelihood.....

Which space are you talking about now?