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[TheDR]

D!

[Liten]

Stop that!

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

Liten, on 18 August 2012 - 07:21, said:

Average: 34.1 km/h

Okayyy

HE LIKES TO LIVE LIFE ON THE EDGE.

[TheDR]

FAST!

[Krieger22]

Burning rubber like nobody's business.

[Liten]

Nope

[Destiny]

NOooooooooooooooo

[Chyros]

Major Fuckup, on 18 August 2012 - 06:50, said:

Chyros, on 18 August 2012 - 00:54, said:

Destiny, on 17 August 2012 - 23:50, said:

Major Fuckup, on 17 August 2012 - 23:07, said:

OMG.... making my engine put down 420HP at the wheels make things go fast O.O

When will you hit the 1000 HP barrier?

When he further rices his farmyard moped so far that it breaks the vulgarity barrier .

Vulgarity barrier? something like this

Pretty much exactly that, yeah .

Bob, on 18 August 2012 - 10:06, said:

Liten, on 18 August 2012 - 07:21, said:

Average: 34.1 km/h

Okayyy

HE LIKES TO LIVE LIFE ON THE EDGE.

LOOOL

That seriously did make me laugh out loud very hard .

[Krieger22]

Intel - GDI Archives - Excerpt: A Concise Explanation of the GDI Commando Program - Colonel Jack Harper, GDI 22nd Special Operations Battalion
Ninety-eight percent washout rate. Twenty-two percent fatality rate. Some tout this like it is supposed to be a good thing. Others use it to criticize the commando training program, saying it is a complete waste of good human life. Neither side knows the truth. Technically, yes, the program produces a twenty-two percent fatality rate before training is completed. The reason why is both simple and complex.
Simply put, the training produces a twenty-two percent average fatality rate, which is the exact same current fatality rate attributed to active duty commandos. The reason for that is because as far as the Commando Program is concerned, you never graduate. Every mission is a brutal learning experience, and the loss ratios are high, despite the advanced weapons, the strength-enhancing reactive polymer weaves beneath the reinforced armor plating. These are men and women who plunge into the most dangerous operations across the globe: reconnoiter into Nod-held cities, pursuit of mutant raiding parties, assaults on dangerous sites in the Red Zones. They die.
There is no graduation for a commando. You join, you learn, you fight, you kill, and if you don't wash out by going back to your old unit, you die in service. In "training."
Its brutal, but that's what the commando is all about. If you didn't have the mindset to commit yourself to the life of the commando, you can't handle the mental stresses of the job in the first place.
That's where the washout rate comes from. That's where the high fatalities in "training" come from. There are no bloody drills and bloodless battle; for a GDI commando, they are one and the same. Learn or die.

[TheDR]

:O!

[Liten]

No

[Chyros]

Creepy Christ it's 31 C over here atm, I'm all but melting Oo .

[Destiny]

Krieger22, on 18 August 2012 - 13:09, said:

Intel - GDI Archives - Excerpt: A Concise Explanation of the GDI Commando Program - Colonel Jack Harper, GDI 22nd Special Operations Battalion Ninety-eight percent washout rate. Twenty-two percent fatality rate. Some tout this like it is supposed to be a good thing. Others use it to criticize the commando training program, saying it is a complete waste of good human life. Neither side knows the truth. Technically, yes, the program produces a twenty-two percent fatality rate before training is completed. The reason why is both simple and complex. Simply put, the training produces a twenty-two percent average fatality rate, which is the exact same current fatality rate attributed to active duty commandos. The reason for that is because as far as the Commando Program is concerned, you never graduate. Every mission is a brutal learning experience, and the loss ratios are high, despite the advanced weapons, the strength-enhancing reactive polymer weaves beneath the reinforced armor plating. These are men and women who plunge into the most dangerous operations across the globe: reconnoiter into Nod-held cities, pursuit of mutant raiding parties, assaults on dangerous sites in the Red Zones. They die. There is no graduation for a commando. You join, you learn, you fight, you kill, and if you don't wash out by going back to your old unit, you die in service. In "training." Its brutal, but that's what the commando is all about. If you didn't have the mindset to commit yourself to the life of the commando, you can't handle the mental stresses of the job in the first place. That's where the washout rate comes from. That's where the high fatalities in "training" come from. There are no bloody drills and bloodless battle; for a GDI commando, they are one and the same. Learn or die.

Source?

[General]

Krieger22, on 18 August 2012 - 13:09, said:

Intel - GDI Archives - Excerpt: A Concise Explanation of the GDI Commando Program - Colonel Jack Harper, GDI 22nd Special Operations Battalion




Ninety-eight percent washout rate. Twenty-two percent fatality rate. Some tout this like it is supposed to be a good thing. Others use it to criticize the commando training program, saying it is a complete waste of good human life. Neither side knows the truth. Technically, yes, the program produces a twenty-two percent fatality rate before training is completed. The reason why is both simple and complex.




Simply put, the training produces a twenty-two percent average fatality rate, which is the exact same current fatality rate attributed to active duty commandos. The reason for that is because as far as the Commando Program is concerned, you never graduate. Every mission is a brutal learning experience, and the loss ratios are high, despite the advanced weapons, the strength-enhancing reactive polymer weaves beneath the reinforced armor plating. These are men and women who plunge into the most dangerous operations across the globe: reconnoiter into Nod-held cities, pursuit of mutant raiding parties, assaults on dangerous sites in the Red Zones. They die.




There is no graduation for a commando. You join, you learn, you fight, you kill, and if you don't wash out by going back to your old unit, you die in service. In "training."




Its brutal, but that's what the commando is all about. If you didn't have the mindset to commit yourself to the life of the commando, you can't handle the mental stresses of the job in the first place.




That's where the washout rate comes from. That's where the high fatalities in "training" come from. There are no bloody drills and bloodless battle; for a GDI commando, they are one and the same. Learn or die.

Thats same for real life commandos. I got commando training but did not become one since my arm muscles too low for the job. Though commando title remains, they don't send you to missions.

[Major Fuckup]

Chyros, on 18 August 2012 - 13:07, said:

Major Fuckup, on 18 August 2012 - 06:50, said:

Chyros, on 18 August 2012 - 00:54, said:

Destiny, on 17 August 2012 - 23:50, said:

Major Fuckup, on 17 August 2012 - 23:07, said:

OMG.... making my engine put down 420HP at the wheels make things go fast O.O

When will you hit the 1000 HP barrier?

When he further rices his farmyard moped so far that it breaks the vulgarity barrier .

Vulgarity barrier? something like this

Pretty much exactly that, yeah .

Bob, on 18 August 2012 - 10:06, said:

Liten, on 18 August 2012 - 07:21, said:

Average: 34.1 km/h

Okayyy

HE LIKES TO LIVE LIFE ON THE EDGE.

LOOOL

That seriously did make me laugh out loud very hard .

Thought some one would get a kick out of that

[Chyros]

I just noticed; it's in kilometres, not miles =o . One would almost think the Aussies have seen the light .

[CJ]

Sometimes, I get the feelind that some people aren't even worth the electronic ink necessary to reply to their messages

[Alias]

Chyros, on 18 August 2012 - 19:05, said:

I just noticed; it's in kilometres, not miles =o . One would almost think the Aussies have seen the light .

Funny that you mention that, but Australia (and New Zealand) are about the most metric English-majority countries there are.

The UK still has a fair amount of Imperial nonsense, the US of course doesn't even know how to use proper measurements and Canada has the usual corruption that seeps over the border.

[Chyros]

Alias, on 18 August 2012 - 19:17, said:

Chyros, on 18 August 2012 - 19:05, said:

I just noticed; it's in kilometres, not miles =o . One would almost think the Aussies have seen the light .

Funny that you mention that, but Australia (and New Zealand) are about the most metric English-majority countries there are.

The UK still has a fair amount of Imperial nonsense, the US of course doesn't even know how to use proper measurements and Canada has the usual corruption that seeps over the border.

Hmmm, nice.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

You U Eye I

[TheDR]

D!

[Libains]

Work colleagues randomly acquiring my number... I have no complaints with girls texting me. At all

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

The Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod looks craxy.

[TheDR]

It is crazy, I played it! Its fun for a bit, but its hard to do anything that has any meaning because either: There is no one around for miles until a random helicopter shoots a couple of missiles at your face and you die (that happened to me, stupid helicopter) OR there are too many people in one place and because the hit detection is so heavily WIP, shooting people doesn't kill them and everyone just runs around, firing grappling hooks into stuff and floating about aimlessly (or it looks like they are floating because you can't see other peoples parachutes).

Its definitely worth a try though!

[Destiny]

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