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    Can you grok this?

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    5 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

    Thanks, I do try.  😁

     

    And yes, I do know that CPO is Navy, being former navy myself. But when I saw the Air Force pic I had to poke fun, Chief.

    And us squids have hijacked yet another thread.

     

    So the the OP, I learned something from you beucase I just assumed it was some dumb new internet word used to describe something not that old but not internetty enough for the internets.  The only Heinlein I ever read was Starship Troopers.  So thanks for the edumacation.

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    Can you grok this?

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    43 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

    Chair Force?!? I thought you were real military.  🤣

    You are funny PF.  I wasn't going to post my pictures of drinking from grog bowls over the years, but I found one that wont get you in trouble, not me you.  The Navy invented that shit and the AF just realized how awesome it was.  I am the one in the secksi choker whites on the left.  the scared guy on the right was one of my people who I told I was going to send to the bowl all night for every little infraction.

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    Clearing Out Junk

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    In real life I hold onto things that I have actual memories attached to vice things like DVDs and such.  I have unloaded stuff or simply donated to the country donation bins; clothes, movies, books to the library.  This comes from my childhood and to a lesser extent military adulthood of moving around and not having lots of room to keep stuff or having to leave stuff behind.

     

    In game, well I freaking hate busy inventories.  It kills me actually.  I will totally break play flow in order to clean up that shit.  And not just CoH.  I did it in tabletop D&D, and the games and any game with an inventory, often to my regret.   I really notice it when playing ipad tappy tap games like Merge Mansion, I love merging that shit to free up space but go bonkers when the space is getting tight.  I am so selling that damn wrench, screw Maddie.

     

    In CoH I am that person that the market workers love, I just throw it up for 5 inf and take whatever I get.   unless I am tossing it into SG bins.

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    April 1st, 2025

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    So for those who do not know, the birthday of the establishment of the rank of the Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is the 1st, a separate observed thing to the Navy Birthday.  It is something that is not lost on a Chief as one once said it to me during the season "When asked, a Chief is expected to know, if not, they know where to look, otherwise they are a fool."  Thanks Senior Chief Cardulo.

     

    I am sorry for kind of hijacking this thread with yaarrr, sea stories but around this time as we approach that date I get kind of sentimental.  Sorry.

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    April 1st, 2025

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    24 minutes ago, Healix said:

    I hold our veterans in high esteem, so if you were in the Navy, High_Beam, thank you for your service. em/Praetorian Salute

    I appreciate that and am proud of it like many of the vets here in the forums.  I hold all who serve others before themselves in high esteem.  Doctors, teachers, firefighters, cops, lawyers who fight for right, a press that stands uncovers lies, even politicians who represent their constituents rather than themselves.

     

    Plus we have the best stories and the funnest good natured brawling.

    MassivelyOP's Game News Website mentioned HC regarding Toxic Positivity

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    I don't have exact numbers but the majority of the player base of Homecoming is not in their 20s or 30s.  I personally am in my mid fifties and I can guarantee that the opinions and what that generation consider toxic (as a whole - not the clusters of assholes that ruin many things) differ from those writing for gaming blogs.  This is fine mind you, its the age old process and discourse that our parents had with us and theirs to them, just via different means.  You navigate around or if need be through it.

     

    Toxic this and toxic that are just more words attempting to describe complex things relating to humans being around other humans, its no different than the introduction and constant misuse of the term passive aggressive; it became the word used to describe arguments that don't go your way.

     

    But if you don't slap a new coat of paint on it or rebrand it, then it isn't yours and we all need agency?  That's the word they use now right, agency? 🙂

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    Snarky's back!

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    First off, welcome back, we all need to clear our heads at times.

     

    Second, to @Luminara

    On 3/7/2025 at 5:05 PM, Luminara said:

    Two fire farm brutes run 'round the AE, 'round the AE, 'round the AE!

    Two fire farm brutes run 'round the AE, 'round the AE, 'round the AE!

    @Snarky's back, back again.

    @Snarky's back, tell a friend.

    @Snarky's back, @Snarky's back.

    @Snarky's back, @Snarky's back.

    @Snarky's back, da na na.

     

    *butt shaking ensues, with much vigor*

    *back pain ensues, with much cursing*

    Get out of my head Lumi!  🙂

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    Wind Control

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    Of course the moment there is a micron of Knockback people will bitch and moan about it until it is removed and thus no longer windy.

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