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01-18-2010, 09:47 PM | #11101 |
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Ace's codename stems from his skill in high stakes poker, according to his filecard. Interestingly enough, "Ace" was also the in-house pre-production code name for the 1964 Action Pilot figure (the Air Force counterpart of the original Army GI Joe figure). Snow-Job's codename is a reference to him being a con artist and hustler (as written in his original filecard) while Short-Fuze is a reference to his short temper, a.k.a. short fuse (as written in his original filecard) while also being a play on the ordnance term short fuze (a mechanism that has been deliberately tampered with to decrease the time to detonation of a munition).
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01-18-2010, 11:13 PM | #11102 |
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Guys and gals,
If you're like me, you don't venture out past this and a few other threads much, so you might not be aware - Target currently has RoC singles for $3.49 and the deluxe figures for $6.49. Only some of the singles are discounted, but it shouldn't be too hard to convince a cashier to price match.
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01-18-2010, 11:15 PM | #11103 |
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Guys and gals,
If you're like me, you don't venture out past this and a few other threads much, so you might not be aware - Target currently has RoC singles for $3.49 and the deluxe figures for $6.49. Only some of the singles are discounted, but it shouldn't be too hard to convince a cashier to price match. I have yet to decide if it's a good thing or bad that Target, TRU and Wal-Mart are all 5 minutes from my work..
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01-19-2010, 01:34 AM | #11104 |
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I was just reading a few pages back about the possibility of Cobra getting involved with the Drug trade. I recently watched my favorite episode, "Let's Play Soldier". That's a really amazing episode about Cobra's operations throughout the world. Obviously, it's a cartoon aimed at children, but it deals with some very serious issues. I think Cobra would certainly be involved with the Drug trade in some form or another.
Does anyone know when City Strike Beach-Head is being released?
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01-19-2010, 02:05 AM | #11105 |
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You know I was just going through all the Headhunter and Headman filecards and Gristle. It seems like they started out as Drug dealers and then they changed them the very next year to Urban crime agents of Cobra. Version 2 Headman is a smuggler and thief instead of Drug Kingpin. So which do you prefer? I personally like him as the international thief, with Gristle as his number 2, but I wonder if they were in fact suppose to be together? When I was at the KGB museum, the guide had expressed how Russia was somewhat upset about the fact that some Afghans were still allowed to operate their Poppy fields. Well 90% of drugs in Russia come from Afghanistan. I know if they couldn't grow there crops they turn to the Taliban, but I bet half the Terrorists and Gun smugglers are the same drug smugglers. What's the difference. In Columbia the Paramilitary groups like FARC have all had ties with the Drug cartels at some point. Using profits from the drug trade or direct moneys from the various drug lords. Of course they aren't doing as much weapons smuggling. Most of the illegal weapons in Mexico come from the US. |
01-19-2010, 02:05 AM | #11106 |
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I don't know that they ever gave an official date/month but I believe their general time frame was around November/December of this year
I'm waiting for that one too!!!
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01-19-2010, 02:56 AM | #11107 |
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When I was at the KGB museum, the guide had expressed how Russia was somewhat upset about the fact that some Afghans were still allowed to operate their Poppy fields. Well 90% of drugs in Russia come from Afghanistan. I know if they couldn't grow there crops they turn to the Taliban, but I bet half the Terrorists and Gun smugglers are the same drug smugglers. What's the difference.
The thing is, legal poppy cultivation is a thriving industry in Turkey, Australia, and India, where opium and its derivatives are used to make analgesics for medicinal and surgical purposes. For some reason, it's only recently that the talking heads overseeing Afghanistan have come to consider establishing a government-backed legal poppy cultivation industry in Afghanistan (the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that Big Pharma companies like Bayer have a hand in the UN and NATO's anti-poppy policy, because government-subsidized analgesics made from the poppy plant will often be cheaper than the synthetic opioids peddled by Bayer and its ilk). I can actually see Cobra doing something like that, fomenting terrorist activity in areas where poppy cultivation is part of the indigenous agriculture and encouraging local growers to affiliate themselves with religious extremists, to discourage the establishment of a legal (not to mention cheaper) alternative to the synthetic factory-produced painkillers Cobra's pharmaceutical division makes. |
01-19-2010, 06:35 AM | #11108 |
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01-19-2010, 07:51 AM | #11109 |
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Slightly off-topic, but I've always been a proponent of legitimising the poppy plantations in Afghanistan. What the UN, NATO, and the West-backed Karzai government are doing now, forcing poppy farmers to grow crops like wheat, belies a lack of understanding of the history of the country's indigenous agriculture and just further drives certain segments of the local population towards the side of religious and ideological extremists and anti-government forces. The fact of the matter is, cultivation of the poppy plant and the sale of products derived from it has been an ingrained part of the economy and the herbal medicine practices of the region for at least 3000 years. It's no more innocuous or dangerous to the average Afghan-on-the-street as tobacco is to your typical North American. If Western and Karzai government forces take the stance that poppy cultivation is "wrong" or "evil," is it any wonder that a lot of local Afghan farmers feel alienated and marginalised and end up supporting anti-West and anti-government sentiment?
The thing is, legal poppy cultivation is a thriving industry in Turkey, Australia, and India, where opium and its derivatives are used to make analgesics for medicinal and surgical purposes. For some reason, it's only recently that the talking heads overseeing Afghanistan have come to consider establishing a government-backed legal poppy cultivation industry in Afghanistan (the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that Big Pharma companies like Bayer have a hand in the UN and NATO's anti-poppy policy, because government-subsidized analgesics made from the poppy plant will often be cheaper than the synthetic opioids peddled by Bayer and its ilk). I can actually see Cobra doing something like that, fomenting terrorist activity in areas where poppy cultivation is part of the indigenous agriculture and encouraging local growers to affiliate themselves with religious extremists, to discourage the establishment of a legal (not to mention cheaper) alternative to the synthetic factory-produced painkillers Cobra's pharmaceutical division makes. Still Cobra would deal with these warlords and may even send in the Headhunters to purchase the Opium or set up hidden labs to process it. Which brings me to another question. Do you use Headman as a Drug-Lord or Cobra's smuggling arm? Maybe both? Although I don't agree with legal poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. The place is too backwards for anything good to come out of it. I think something like 93% of all opiates in the world come from Afghanistan. And I bet none makes it into Bayer aspirin. And since there is no medicine in Afghanistan some people smoke opium sometimes. It's highly addictive then they're hooked. From my understanding most of the Opium production is under the watchful eye of a local warlord. He may even provide assistance to encourage it. But what can you do? They don't have the infrastructure to bring real crops to market. Poppy is highly portable. Pomagrante? Takes 4 years to bear fruit. There are two harvests a year with Poppy. I bet Monsanto can't wait to bring Corn to Afghanistan. Monstanto sounds like an anagram for Tomax and Xamot |
01-19-2010, 07:56 AM | #11110 |
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I was just reading a few pages back about the possibility of Cobra getting involved with the Drug trade. I recently watched my favorite episode, "Let's Play Soldier". That's a really amazing episode about Cobra's operations throughout the world. Obviously, it's a cartoon aimed at children, but it deals with some very serious issues. I think Cobra would certainly be involved with the Drug trade in some form or another.
Does anyone know when City Strike Beach-Head is being released? I can't wait either. and then I have the problem of is he Beachhead and what about Sabretooth or even Wreckage? I'm looking forward to that Recondo as well. Even that Ripcord looks great. Not sure who I'll make him to be. Maybe Static Line? |
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