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Got to do a bit of gaming today and some trainign with Raider.

Been thinking a bit about stuff with the crosshair and ammo counter off. I shoot good but can’t toss grenades for crap, even by my normal standard !!!

I like no crosshairs though, it means I have to “do it” right the first time. Normally when I walk in game, I walk in my little version of a ‘low ready’. Weapons at a kind of down angle but high enough I can see where I’m going, since in RvS/S4 your PoV is slewed to the weapons Point of Impact. If a target was about punching distance away, my weapons esitmated point of impact should I fire it. Would probably be around the belly or mid-section. While my line of sight is stright ahead along my travel path.

When I spot a threat, I raise the weapon to firing position and let’er rip. Head, knee, toe, balls what ever I can hit. Usually I’ll try to aim just below the collar bone. I figure that way if I’m to far off to the side, I can get’em in the shoulder. If its DOBA it should hit in the upper torso, maybe ride up into the neck or chin area. Basically I can generally hit what I can see but not always very accurate without the crosshair. Like trying to shoot some one in the ‘crew cut’ thats ducked just below a box or some thing is hard. Although the tango can usually shoot me any way…. without having to have muzzle clearence in RvS !

In general I’ve found it more accurate, making my self have to adjust the weapon to a proper shooting posture before I can engage. And it helps make sure I don’t shoot a friendly by mistake ! I have very good IFF in general, as long as I don’t get the thought “I think its a tango” before they cross my LoF or I round the corner. Whats really funny… lol

Every now and then a FF issue will pop up, where I’m about to fire and have one of those “oh !@#$” moments when I see its a Friendly after all and try to throw my aim off as I pull the trigger. Usually ends up clipping some one in the shoulder or denting the wall..

And they do the same exact thing at the same time, hit me, have an “oh crap i shot a friendly” moment… and I figure “ooppse, tango after all” and shoot them by reflex =/

Also was thumbing through my early posts on [SAS], My introduction way back when and a thread on SWAT3. Interesting to see and think about how far I’ve come since then… in a number of ways.

never ending interuptions…

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I logged on an hour ago with ONE goal in mind, to update my blog for the day…

I spent Friday cleaning my room. Got to vacuum spots that haven’t been cleaned
out in near 10 years lol. /* Note to self remove laugh out loud iab from
$MYVIMRC */

Shifted the bed from along the North wall going West to east. To going South to North. In such a small room its a huge space saver, even if it means blocking half the closet off (never use it any way). Moved the cubby from the South-East corner to North-East corner. Moved the stand next to it — finally can access
all 3 electrical outlets.

Shifted the book shelf by the door from the South-West corner to where the Cubby was. Moved the TV to the other side of the dresser and pushed it more to the Eastern wall. The amount of clutter is less near the door and rises up as you get to the opposing wall (doors south-west corner). Leaving a lot of space in the main areas of the room.

Finally a major improvement… best since we moved in (the room was empty them :-P). Got to throw out a lot of crap. But got stuck helping ma rearrange crap all morning !!! How nice a price eh? Oh wells all that ends with doughnuts ends well xD

# For later
Terry@vectra-$ cat lions_book.lastpage
page ?? (pdf) which is page 42 of the book.

Section: 9.1


Source Code:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V6/usr/sys/
        With line numbers: http://www.tom-yam.or.jp/2238/src/
        PDF: http://v6.cuzuco.com/

The sections have been dumped into two derectories.

/usr/src/sys/ contains the headers and /user/src/sys/kern/ which contains the
source.c files.


PDP-11 Emulator?
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/

Operation Echo Base

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room cleaning time…

In English to rearrange crap in a more optimal manor

IF any one missed the movie reference you’ve been living under a rock for the last 30 years ^_^

more to say later….

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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Syntax

What a nice find hehehe.

I know the most about C syntactically, I even tend to think in terms of C when my brain tries to figure out how to deal with some thing. But I’d like to have the same grasp on Ruby as I do on C’s syntax. Get ride of those oh joy I need to fetch a language reference moments when I’m trying to do some thing.

Todo

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  • Merge/Split issues on movement as needed (SOP Rewrites)
  • Settle up the Way of Engagment stuff -> movement and planning&leadign sub-sections
  • Finish changes to passwords module
  • Train the crap out of Sniper

Just the top of the iceburg.

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Dang gum it….

I’d love to see a SWAT4 Sabre Sqaudren

trained to real lifes edge…

Personal Training

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Got to spend some time alone on TG#1

MP5A4+SD, Suppressed 9x19mm
Cobra Stun Gun, T-Shot Taser with cattle prod feature xD
3 x CS Gas Grenade
1 x Opti-Wand
3 x C2 Breaching Charge
No body armour
Night Vision Goggles

Map, victory imports auto store.

Made insertion, had a tango walking through the area. His back was turned to me and I could’ve put 2 right in the back of his head, no problem. And keep the Stealth, however I decided to sneak by all together, gather more intelligence and secure the exterior parking area.

Manged to get into the building without getting compromised, one tango KiA on the way in. Secured the lower area without much fuss, one arrest. Spotted a Suspect facing the door coming out of the work area closest to Side 2 and an Open door to the middle loading area. A wedge would’ve made this much safer. But I flanked through the middle work area, securing one contact and neutralising another. Gas’d the Side 2 work area, secured one contact and neutralised another. Gas’d the Side 4 work area and headed up with another arrest.

Made it upstairs, snuck up on a Tango and tasered him in the back, his shout of pain draw some attention 🙁 So I puffed gas and backed off. That took the fight right out of them, got the Goon that came to investigate, the one I tasered, one behind the divider I was using for cover, and one in the lobby all without a loud shot to give me away.

Secured the lobby, office space, and break room. Now out of gas I decided to go Dynamic. Saw a Civilian hiding in the corner of the hall, tossed in a Flash bang near him and assaulted. Sure enough there was a Tango, tasered and arrested 🙂

All in all I was quite satisfied, I was not forced to go Dynamic until I chose to. Got to be a sneaky Son of a Gun using my Opti-wand and my brains, and a mixture of Red and Yello RoE.

Usually even in Stealth we are Green light to shoot any threat on sight, but like I tried to get at in my “Ninja Class” session last month. Some times you *don’t* want to kill the tango on sight! While the games AI doesn’t react to dead bodies and we can’t hide them (like in SOCOM). Once you engage the enemy in Stealth, you are committed to it. Ether he dies, QUICKLY or you are compromised.

One lone Spidey Vs 11 Tangos and 3 Hostages, means it is important to avoid un-necessary risks to survive the mission. Not to mention based on the levels Intel, they could always have a gun to the hostages head…. and pull the trigger the second they know we’re there.

Hence, Stealth To First Contact is a very valuable tool ! Often times I’ll plan on doing the mission in Dynamic, but take pains to avoid un-necessary contact. When I am forced to go Dynamic… it’s usually hit the fan or some one blew it. If we can get closer to the objective before having to go in loud and proud, thats better chances for the hostage. And perfectly good in my book.

Hostage Rescue and Recon Operations are kind of my specialty in games hehe.

19 Fatted horses

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Home from dinner…

All you can eat at the golden corral. I think I had like a helping per year hehehe. I must’ve walked in their with a hollow leg or some thing 🙂 Ate for like an hour and a half straight ! If I had any where to put it… I think I could eat another 3 plates lol. On the way home I had to let an extra notch in the lap belt :/

Needless to say, we don’t eat out much. And that’s good for me, or else I’d have to work out more often. And I hate exercise ! My brother took us out for dinner, between the lot of us. 19, 29, 38, and 59, all together we’d have to be like 145 years old loool.

All was good, fat happy spidey hehehe. Then I noticed on the trip back the sun was starting to set, and it made me think of where I’d rather be… Sitting under a tree watching the beautiful sun set.

Did get to spend most of the day on line in the SWAT4 server though. Room clearing with Duke and Miles, and a bunch of others. I think it may be time to start drilling the crap out of our SWAT4 division when it comes to working in larger Elements and more Complex plans. But Miles might have a good point, best to finish the SOP rewrites first lol.

I feel like a fat horse, an overweight one at that ! I’m glad I’ve only got one Birthday in a year or I’d get fat from all the food ! Think I might raid the RvS server tonight for some late night training.

now if I wasn’t still hungry………

Laugh out loud !!!!

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If I didn’t have a family history….

I think I’d be drinking, but I do so I know better.

Leave it to family to drive you to thinking about it….. lol

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To day, I’ve seen one of the mos thorriable things.

I know a lot of shit has hit the fan lately but this hurts me to see it…

When I joined the server this afternoon. The [SAS] were taking the front, Claudia was taking the ear. Being careful to avoid the other players. When I joined this evening. While every one was going into the stairs to head for the hostage. She was going for the only other area in the map.

8 players on the server, a server known for its team work. And she was effectively choosing to play alone. By the end of it she finnally started to join in a bit.

When I know damn well a few days ago, she would’ve been one of the lead assualters heading for that hostage… it pains me to see this. Some one with such potentional, for as long as I can remember. When ever a Women as tried to join the [SAS], some things always happened that sent it going tits up.

The first, car accident while she was deployed.

The other, well not much to be said.

Claudia, to much bullshit under the bridge.

The only other candiate for first women in [SAS] (history afaik). I will never ask her about it. Because I have to much respect for her, her family, and her clan.

I’m a very simple sort, I love RvS and I love S4. Which I play, is usually dependant on other people. If JB’s in RvS, I’ll probably head there unless I feel like being alone. If Lazko and Miles are on SWAT4:TSS I’ll probably head that way.

Maybe I’ve just been around long enough to notice.. The old customs of team play on our servers. But this has got to be the worst thing I’ve seen in 2-3 years of time on the server.

I can’t stand to see this, its just not right. Although the kidn of person I am. I’d provide cover just the same, unless told to stop being myself… Just the same, I’d end up following Sniper or Medic if they were around. Or vice versa, just the norm. I’d prefer to be in the middle of the Hostage Rescue, its how I like to play. But still much of the time, I’d rather follow a good team mate then take the objective my self.

Business is business, its different from personal issues for me. Needless to say, I don’t let me feelings for others get involved. If I had issue one promtion suggestion, it’d go for who I thought most able to handle the job… or not at all. I’m the same way when it comes to managing the server.

If they are nice, I am nice, if they want to cause trouble, I show them the door, if they don’t like the door, I push them through it. I’m lucky though, I’ve rarly had to do that. I hope I’ll never have to do that to Claudia, nore any one else (ban). But I can’t consider Server Regulars any different froom other people… more leniant perhapes but of course. I have to respect my peers. This is very sad… She showed such great potentional at first. But what can I do about it? nothing…. lol

I’ve only seen her good side on the server, but can’t argue with the admin actions of my friends. I suppose I should be thankful in a way, having a Woman on the server has reminded me. I’m much more a gentleman then I used to think. Peronsally I think thats saying some thing, considering as such things go. I may as well have been raised in a barn. But lately the ol’bones have shown their colours. Maybe its just a southren thing… dunno, but its how I am. I’d rather be the proverbal “nice guy” then a lot of other things lol.