Metalhead

Hmmm... tempting... will see if I can find my cd's.

IMO... Gen 3.

Holy ****, that KSG went for $2400. Some people are crazy.

TN Gun Country are good folks. Dennis & David (The owner of TNGC, or at least I thought? Don't know a John up there) are good friends.

What issues?

GLaD (hah!, been playing Portal) to hear about your experience. Nick is new to us and is quite young compared to the rest of us, good to hear he's doing well enough. This Christmas season we've been... overwhelmed to put it lightly. I've been working at Greenbrier for about 10 years now, and dont remember a time when we were as busy as we are now. It's great and good for business, but I think it's starting to tax on our folks, myself included. It's nice to hear someone getting a good experience amid the madness. Just serves to drive me and the guys onward. I'll pass it along to Nick, I'm sure he'd be happy to hear it. Lord knows the boy needs all the encouragement he can get haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdqyTmfDwk0

Shoulda sent me a PM!

John's a good man, I hate to hear this happen to him but I'm glad no one was hurt. I hope things get sorted out for him quickly, I know how much a pain in the butt a fire can be, even a small one.

I already had volume 2. Plus other stuff, cash, some clothes, that kinda thing.

Looks like a standard vid from Tactical Response to me!

And if anyone can identify the song in that third trailer has my thanks. EDIT: NM, Found it.

Why I did not know this already is beyond me. Twisted Metal:Black was one of my favorite PS2 games. I thought they had abandoned the series. Apparently not!

Why I did not know this already is beyond me. Twisted Metal:Black was one of my favorite PS2 games. I thought they had abandoned the series. Apparently not!

Kim Jong Il's nukes, threats stoked world fears | Asian Headlines | World News | Comcast SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il, the mercurial and enigmatic North Korean leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69. Kim's death 17 years after he inherited power from his father was announced Monday by the state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. The country's "Dear Leader" — reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine — was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease. North Korea has been grooming Kim's third son to take over power from his father in the impoverished nation that celebrates the ruling family with an intense cult of personality. Kim's longtime pursuit of nuclear weapons and his military's repeated threats to South Korea and the U.S. have stoked fears that war might again break out or that North Korea might provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorist movements. South Korea put its military on "high alert" and President Lee Myung-bak convened a national security council meeting after the news of Kim's death. The two Koreas remain technically in a state of war more than 50 years after the peninsula's Cold War-era armed conflict ended in a cease-fire. Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but he had appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media. Kim Jong Il inherited power after his father, revered North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, died in 1994. He had been groomed for 20 years to lead the communist nation founded by his guerrilla fighter-turned-politician father and built according to the principle of "juche," or self-reliance. In September 2010, Kim Jong Il unveiled his third son, the twenty-something Kim Jong Un, as his successor, putting him in high-ranking posts. Even with a successor, there had been some fear among North Korean observers of a behind-the-scenes power struggle or nuclear instability upon the elder Kim's death. Few firm facts are available when it comes to North Korea, one of the most isolated countries in the world, and not much is clear about the man known as the "Dear Leader." North Korean legend has it that Kim was born on Mount Paekdu, one of Korea's most cherished sites, in 1942, a birth heralded in the heavens by a pair of rainbows and a brilliant new star. Soviet records, however, indicate he was born in Siberia, in 1941. Kim Il Sung, who for years fought for independence from Korea's colonial ruler, Japan, from a base in Russia, emerged as a communist leader after returning to Korea in 1945 after Japan was defeated in World War II. With the peninsula divided between the Soviet-administered north and the U.S.-administered south, Kim rose to power as North Korea's first leader in 1948 while Syngman Rhee became South Korea's first president. The North invaded the South in 1950, sparking a war that would last three years, kill millions of civilians and leave the peninsula divided by a Demilitarized Zone that today remains one of the world's most heavily fortified. In the North, Kim Il Sung meshed Stalinist ideology with a cult of personality that encompassed him and his son. Their portraits hang in every building in North Korea and on the lapels of every dutiful North Korean. Kim Jong Il, a graduate of Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung University, was 33 when his father anointed him his eventual successor. Even before he took over as leader, there were signs the younger Kim would maintain — and perhaps exceed — his father's hard-line stance. South Korea has accused Kim of masterminding a 1983 bombing that killed 17 South Korean officials visiting Burma, now known as Myanmar. In 1987, the bombing of a Korean Air Flight killed all 115 people on board; a North Korean agent who confessed to planting the device said Kim ordered the downing of the plane himself. Kim Jong Il took over after his father died in 1994, eventually taking the posts of chairman of the National Defense Commission, commander of the Korean People's Army and head of the ruling Worker's Party while his father remained as North Korea's "eternal president." He faithfully carried out his father's policy of "military first," devoting much of the country's scarce resources to its troops — even as his people suffered from a prolonged famine — and built the world's fifth-largest military. Kim also sought to build up the country's nuclear arms arsenal, which culminated in North Korea's first nuclear test explosion, an underground blast conducted in October 2006. Another test came in 2009, prompting U.N. sanctions. Alarmed, regional leaders negotiated a disarmament-for-aid pact that the North signed in 2007 and began implementing later that year. However, the process continues to be stalled, even as diplomats work to restart negotiations. North Korea, long hampered by sanctions and unable to feed its own people, is desperate for aid. Flooding in the 1990s that destroyed the largely mountainous country's arable land left millions hungry. Following the famine, the number of North Koreans fleeing the country through China rose dramatically, with many telling tales of hunger, political persecution and rights abuses that officials in Pyongyang emphatically denied. Kim often blamed the U.S. for his country's troubles and his regime routinely derides Washington-allied South Korea as a "puppet" of the Western superpower. U.S. President George W. Bush, taking office in 2002, denounced North Korea as a member of an "axis of evil" that also included Iran and Iraq. He later described Kim as a "tyrant" who starved his people so he could build nuclear weapons. "Look, Kim Jong Il is a dangerous person. He's a man who starves his people. He's got huge concentration camps. And ... there is concern about his capacity to deliver a nuclear weapon," Bush said in 2005. Kim was an enigmatic leader. But defectors from North Korea describe him as an eloquent and tireless orator, primarily to the military units that form the base of his support. The world's best glimpse of the man was in 2000, when the liberal South Korean government's conciliatory "sunshine" policy toward the North culminated in the first-ever summit between the two Koreas and followed with unprecedented inter-Korean cooperation. A second summit was held in 2007 with South Korea's Roh Moo-hyun. But the thaw in relations drew to a halt in early 2008 when conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office in Seoul pledging to come down hard on communist North Korea. Disputing accounts that Kim was "peculiar," former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright characterized Kim as intelligent and well-informed, saying the two had wide-ranging discussions during her visits to Pyongyang when Bill Clinton was U.S. president. "I found him very much on top of his brief," she said. Kim cut a distinctive, if oft ridiculed, figure. Short and pudgy at 5-foot-3, he wore platform shoes and sported a permed bouffant. His trademark attire of jumpsuits and sunglasses was mocked in such films as "Team America: World Police," a movie populated by puppets that was released in 2004. Kim was said to have cultivated wide interests, including professional basketball, cars and foreign films. He reportedly produced several North Korean films as well, mostly historical epics with an ideological tinge. A South Korean film director claimed Kim even kidnapped him and his movie star wife in the late 1970s, spiriting them back to North Korea to make movies for him for a decade before they managed to escape from their North Korean agents during a trip to Austria. Kim rarely traveled abroad and then only by train because of an alleged fear of flying, once heading all the way by luxury rail car to Moscow, indulging in his taste for fine food along the way. One account of Kim's lavish lifestyle came from Konstantin Pulikovsky, a former Russian presidential envoy who wrote the book "The Orient Express" about Kim's train trip through Russia in July and August 2001. Pulikovsky, who accompanied the North Korean leader, said Kim's 16-car private train was stocked with crates of French wine. Live lobsters were delivered in advance to stations. A Japanese cook later claimed he was Kim's personal sushi chef for a decade, writing that Kim had a wine cellar stocked with 10,000 bottles, and that, in addition to sushi, Kim ate shark's fin soup — a rare delicacy — weekly. "His banquets often started at midnight and lasted until morning. The longest lasted for four days," the chef, who goes by the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, was quoted as saying. Kim is believed to have curbed his indulgent ways in recent years and looked slimmer in more recent video footage aired by North Korea's state-run broadcaster. Kim's marital status wasn't clear but he is believed to have married once and had at least three other companions. He had at least three sons with two women, as well as a daughter by a third. His eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, 38, is believed to have fallen out of favor with his father after he was caught trying to enter Japan on a fake passport in 2001 saying he wanted to visit Disney's Tokyo resort. His two other sons by another woman, Kim Jong Chul and Kim Jong Un, are in their 20s. Their mother reportedly died several years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9uuPza41Uw Wonder how this is going to play out.

Make sure to run it through its paces before you consider carrying it. The two we've had were problem childs.

I carry both. Though, I do have this stupid love of bladed weapons of all sorts from an beauty point of view.

Hey! I resemble that remark! =P

Got one last night like that. I had to finish him off with the butt of a shotgun that happen to be nearby.

Yeah one on them my traps got looked pretty preggers. I am hoping I killed off another generation with it. Does that get me bonus points? I will get some used cat litter from my brother when he changes it. At this point I'll try anything.

So I live in the country. Not too far outside of city limits, but country nonetheless. I moved into this house three years ago, and never have had an issue with mice until now. Seems this year every mouse within a mile radius has decided that my house is the perfect place to shack up for the winter. My poor dogs have been trying to battle them but are losing, and I couldnt talk the wife into getting a cat. Therefore I deployed plan C - Operation Trap Jungle. I dont know where they are coming in from, but from their droppings I know for damn sure where they are hiding. They have set up their forward base in the bottom cabinets of the kitchen. I have moved most the pots and pans out of the cabinets (save for a few - want to leave them a... little bit of terrain) and have deployed a number of traps to kill the vermin. I started the op at about 1pm today, and as of now, 11:45pm, I have killed and disposed of freaking 17 of the critters. Makes me wonder if they were here long before now and I am just a retard and didnt notice. Peanut butter has been my lure, and thus far no mouse has been able to withstand its siren's call. I almost feel bad for them, but then I saw the amount of mouse poop under my frig when I moved it. I did get the satisfaction of stomping the ever living hell out of the one that lived past the initial blow. That made me happy. Is that wrong?

Well this thread has given me the bit of entertainment I was looking for this morning. Thanks TGO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp5ekMlQvi4

I've got a mage thats... 23? Somewhere around there. Alot harder playing a mage than a melee character imo. Destro magic doesnt seem to scale well or nearly as much as weaps do.

You still get perks, and I really didnt notice it getting much harder at all.