Re: (1522) High TL 'iron sights', et.al.

     Look, Ma!  Dueling attribution lines!  Get the banjo.  ;-)

 In message 1522, [email removed] (Mark F. Cook) writes:
 >
 >In message 1510, [email removed] (Brent L. Woods) writes:
 >
 >> In message 1509 [email removed] (Mark F. Cook) writes:
 >> >
 >> >I'm a pretty good marksman, too, if I do say so myself...  :-)
 >> >
 >> >I, too, think of myself as "a pretty good marksman"
 >>          ^^^^^
 >>     I can show you my targets.  Honest.  I killed them all fair and
 >>square...  ;-)
 >
 >I didn't mean to suggest that you were over-stating your skill, Brent.
 >I just meant that my opinion of my own marksmanship is very subjective:
 >my deer drop when I shoot at them and bottles shatter (most of the time)
 >when I aim at them.  God knows what kind of damage I could do if I actually
 >started using ammunition. :-)

     Doing more than scaring things to death?  ;-)

 >>>>     Jarhead training, eh?  ;-)  ;-)
 >>>
 >>>As a former member of an Elite Fighting Force, consisting mostly of
 >>>highly-trained, knuckle-dragging men with no neck and one eye-brow,
 >>>I feel I must warn you that ANY derogatory or disparraging remarks
 >>>you make, containing words of more than one syllable, will almost
 >>>certainly be mis-understood :-).
 >>
 >>    Shame on you.  Damn' near fell out of chair from that one.
 >
 >Ah-ha!!  Humor as a weapon!!  This is good.  It means that everything
 >the Piranha brothers taught me is working!!! :-)

     You too?  Gee, I went to high school with Dinsdale.  Heard from
'em lately?  ;-)

 >Long ago, I came to the conclusion that the Corps is no place for an
 >intellectual,

     One of the reasons my friend is leaving the Corps.  He wants to get
a degree so he can go back as an officer.  I think prolonged exposure
causes brain damage...  ;-)

 >>     Aw...  Life's too important to take seriously.  ;-)  No 'fence,
 >>eh?  ;-)  I'm entitled--I'm one of them Navy types...
 >
 >That's OK.  Two of my best friends are cabbies...er, ah... ex-Navy types.
 >Somebody's got to drive the boat. :-)

     That's "ship," if you please.  I want to stay *above* the surface
thank you...  ;-)

 >Anyway, enough of this 'moochual admiration society' hoo-haw.  Let's get
 >back to the gratuitous sex n' violence.

     Right.  Off we go...

 >Unfortunately, once this happens (within the context of the game) you
 >start coming uncomfortably close to treading on the ol' anti-cyborg
 >sentiment so prevalent throughout the Imperium.  Actually, I prefer
 >to run my campaign with a strong 'cyberpunk' flavor to it, so I tend
 >to just ignore the 'anti-cyborg' bit and go on my merry way.

     Anti-cyborg prejudice?  Where'd that come from?  The only general
prejudice that I know of in the Imperium is *anti-psionic*.  Where'd
they get a problem with cyborgs?


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     Brent

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