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As a former grunt in the US Army, i can tell you that the army is mostly a support mechanism.  For its sheer size, only a very small amout are actually combat personel.  That being said, it is possible to be caught in combat while providing support, but that means that a:  someone screwed up or b:  someones in trouble and the support must go, period.

If you want a cool combat job without the bullets, go for the "Kings of Battle".  Artillery rulz.  Just bring ear plugs.  Lots and Lots of ear plugs.

And yes, they own you.  Why this would seem unusual to someone, I dont understand.

Dont worry about the Drill's Sgt.'s.  By the end of basic training, you will be having the time of your life.
Also, the army will TRAIN you do do all kinds of things, and any civilian company with a brain will take a retired vet over a green college grad anyday of the week.  Heck, it will take an NCO with four years service over a college grad any day of the week.  Now I know someone will say, "but the army wont teach you "x" tech skill" or whatever, and no, it wont teach every "x" tech skill you can think of, but a company will hire you to be the "x" skill guys boss since you will have developed leadership training and proven your ability to manage very difficult tasks under very difficult circumstances.  Plus the schooling is great - Army vets get more school monies from the Gov than any other branch, all military get special home buying breaks.  Many colleges are offering up to 1 free year for service men and women now.  But, yes, you must be willing to attach yourself to something greater than yourself and be a part of something that affects the real everyday lives of people around the world.

Wow jude, do you actually believe your delusions?  how long have you lived in this fantasy world?  I strongly suggest disconnecting your tv for awhile and going outside to see how the world really works

If they really own you, then how long is the minimum term? I was going for 2-3 years,I'd like to try out for somekind of intel or commanding job but grunting will do finely.

I"m thinking about joining to pay for things and overall get some training and body building, but the main thing I'm not so sure about is that actuall job. From what I hear it's fairly straght forward,but the biggst question is that am I going actually be fighting? If you haven server'd or are serving could you please run down a list of what you do?

I'm Trying to make somekind of Temple in which people can get water in, I'm trying to make it look good but so far I'm not really getting what I think I should be getting

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I'm trying to make a little scooper like dome

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But what I'm worried about is that if I pour say magma on top will the magma go into the dome or will it just slide off like water on a house?

I adore Dwarf Fortress to death, I just want to try my hand at something similar, but with the UI of our dreams.
You can't actually play it yet, but you can look around the local reigon (it's 2D, but I have plans to change this, and there's only your randomly generated local reigon, no vast world, which will change eventually, too.) and demo the UI, but none of it can actually be used to play the game.

The UI is described pretty nicely by the screenies of the worklog (zoom in if the text is unreadable, dumb freewebs wants to scale down my pictures) What is shown is the screenshot above and not there is that menus can be navigated with the keyboard AND the mouse, simultaneosly if you so please. (The mouse is actually hovering over the text that says 'Adjust Landscape'.)

You can try a dungeon keeper approach for a more warlike game. Why not emulate the stockpiles into rooms,use 1 or 2 simple reasources, and start in a mountain with the goal to dig out and conquer the town?
Or Defend the mountain type?

I think you should make a game about trenches, you already have the digging feature out,so why not?Build bunkers by Digging Z levels,Order in objects.

No. It is not. In any way.

The death of anyone is not a good thing. To claim it is, you are sacrificing your belief in a value that most people take for granted. A belief in the sacredness of life. Well done, you've convinced me you do have a problem and will most likely never find love, as you claimed. I'm sure that was your intention. None of the advice in this thread applies to a person with the ideology you have.

Farewell.

I doubt i'll get a response but as I just edited in to my post, its about morals.You can say that it isn't but quite frankly your stating that whatever you belive in is true and anything else is false.I could state that Capitalists are evil and communists are good but hey that doesn't make it any true.Now I can't argue about the fact that you've put me into the corner.


"None of the advice in this thread applies to a person with the ideology you have."

This, on this alone I'd like to state I'm wrong about how I should act however that battle of morals will continue till the end of time.I should have ploted my words more carefuly but I didn't, I realize that I about as close to the normal teen as ever.I should have acted better, I did get angry at people in this thread but as you know during these years of my life I do face alot of hostility.

Now I could open up something saying I'm sorry but then again most of you already closed down your aid so I leave you ado with this.

I only walked a path that I thought was right
During my years I learned, I did wrong , and I thought wrong
Through the woes that I've felt, Through the cracks in my foundations
I continue
What I think will degrade me has kept me back
I don't feel the breeze , I don't feel the grasp
I cannot change
I cannot move
I cannot advance
I cannot evolve
I place my loyalty to what I serve
Blindly I went, being used as a pawn
I hated the people who I became
Seeking allies I only find Shells
Shells that were not hollow
A bitter crust to an more friendly Center
What I have exploted
What I took for grant
What I thought was mine
What I hated
What I detested for my loyalty
What I excluded
What I missed


Beeing unable to finish my poem I think I'll leave you people with some final words

I think that you poeple belive in a good future, I think that Your Ideals are as right as anyones,I can't say that I didn't make mistakes, I can't say that I'm not a Oxymoron right now.I wish you all good luck to whatever goals you have.Maybe I lost all remains of my humanity,I can't be any better of a person I am right now."I die"
 

Quote from: Uber dwarf2.0 on September 14, 2009, 04:43:20 pm

I do support the actions on 9/1/1

 Capitalists died
 The Us showed more atention to 3000 peole compared to the lot in africa and everybody else realized that the've been looking up to assholes

Firstly, it's 9/11, no 9/1/1. Secondly, you bastard hypocrite. You can honestly put someones life above someone elses? Then you are no better than those 'asshole' Americans that ignore the deaths in Africa.

The death of anyone is a bad thing. Saying you don't want and hate the deaths of people in Africa is fine. I don't. Turning around and saying you support the deaths of almost 3000 people is not okay. It totally undermines your points, makes you a hypocrite and strips you of any real humanity in the eyes of people who are not assholes who couldn't care less about life

well it all about the view points isn't it? I think that 3000 slobs die is fine while people who have experianced extented hardships shouldn't

To be honest I don't really care if I have any humanity left


EDIT: Well to your extent maybe you have to buck up your ideas, your asking me to state my ideals without any time to present them throughly. I think you'd stat the same.I try to take your view into mind, and so should you. I do realise that I'm an Oxymoron right now, but claming someones ideals is wrong well thats horrible.I do indeed try to debate with you, but I don't clam your wrong about something that is based on morals seeing as morals are flawed.