Recent content by Powderhorn

Realize, I'm active duty Navy, currently, though I work on the medical side of things, and often very closely with the Army. I'm an E4 (Hospital Corpsman, 3rd Class), and a bunch of the different clinics decide to have some fun and go out and play paintball. Somehow, I ended up being the...

The problem with hard age limits is that people mature at a different rate, depending on their life experiences. The parent knows their child best, and if the parent deems it appropriate for a child to play a game, then that is the parent's business. However, a parent should also be well...

Dvorak's 9th symphony, with any massive swarms of anything in a gun fight. (Left 4 Dead, taking back Stalingrad in Call of Duty 2, anything like that.) The song is just MADE for epic battles.

Flintlock Jaeger rifle :) It's accurate, powerful, and has that stocky German elegance we all know and love. (In this case most the furniture on it should properly be done in brass, however, this picture is fairly illustrative and compact.)

Saranac and Sam Adams are decent, in my own opinion. And I can honestly say I enjoyed the German beers I came in contact with as well when I was over there. Though I will freely admit, I find it generally depends on what I'm eating to see what I want to drink. If it's a lighter meat (such as...

I like my computer parts to be new, so they're fairly close to top of the line, and I know they should work out of the box. Furniture I'll always go for used over new, as that just makes sense when you move around a lot. Though my one big thing is that I won't buy pre-ground coffee. It's...

I think this is more of a mental exercise for me, but any time I'm stuck in a long line, I try to figure out how I would triage and treat the people if someone started shooting, a bomb went off, or something along those lines.

goodman528, just bear in mind, medics, corpsmen, etc. are also soldiers these days. They carry rifles, and it's mission first, medical treatment second.

I think the people that say that the government isn't to their liking right now are far too short-sighted. In the States (because most of them are griping about the USA), people have a chance to elect a president every four years, a third of the senators every two years, and every one of the...

What I seem to hear a bit of is that people would be willing to fight and die for a "popular" war. needausername said he would fight in World War 1 or World War 2. But, why? Because now we have this rosy perception of those wars after the fact? We got involved with World War 1 over the...