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I'm very glad you enjoyed what you read! I'll be sure to come up with a sequel in the very near future. Ahah, yes. Despite how loved it is in-game, the crews were rather upset with the tight space they had to work in. xD I'm very happy to hear that you enjoyed it so much to the point of needing a favourite! ^^

Plenty of it! Bovington Tank Museum, being the largest single collection of armour in the world has all sorts of examples from the dawn of the tank to late-Cold War era. My main field of knowledge comes from the German Panzerwaffe, which would be why this entry is the first. I may make an entry focusing on American or British/Commonwealth armour in the near future!

Finally getting around to showing a few photographs from my adventures in the UK. These photos are primarily from Bovington, but there are a few from the Imperial War Museum as well. Each photo will come with a blurb on a little about that particular machine, I'll keep it relatively brief to hopefully ensnare some interest. Jagdpanther - A rather powerful panzerjäger ("Tank-hunter", typically a turret-less tracked vehicle specifically designed to knock out enemy tanks) based on the chassis of the Panther. This late-war machine saw most of its action on the Eastern Front and also when the Western Allies landed upon Normandy. It sported the deadly 88mm PaK 43, a gun that could pierce any Allied armour with ease and at extreme ranges while the Jagdpanther would remain concealed behind foliage and brush. Pzkpfw II - A light tank developed early in the war that was one of the machines involved in the Blitzkrieg of Western Europe. Armed with a 20mm cannon and sporting very little armour, just enough to survive Allied small-arms fire. Its advantage over the superior French armour of the early days were fast-paced and coordinated wolfpack attacks, flanking and encircling the enemy. Pzkpfw VI 'Tiger I' - The legendary machine often known as the 'Tiger' was a heavy tank that was first fielded on the Eastern Front at the Battle of Leningrad, 1941. The morale-crushing machine wielded the famous KwK 36 L/56 88mm gun and was extremely effective against any Allied armour from ranges of over 1 kilometer. There were a large number of tank commanders that wielded this machine and ended the war with kills in excess of 100. (Otto Carius is a good example, with approximately 150 enemy tanks) Pzkpfw V Panther - Mid-war medium tank based off of what the Wehrmacht learned from the Soviet medium tank T-34. Sloped armour at 80mm of thickness, decent mobility and the elongated 75mm cannon allowed for successful hits at extreme ranges. Sturmgeschutz III - Tank destroyer based on the chassis of the Pzkpfw III, carrying a 75mm gun designed for knocking out enemy tanks. It was the most numerous type of vehicle ever fielded by the Panzerwaffe due to the relative ease of configuring the already decently numerous Panzer III medium tank. Pzkpfw IV - Medium tank that formed the backbone of the Panzerwaffe. Very balanced, having good armour, a good 75mm cannon and mobile - the definition of a medium tank. It began the war as an infantry support tank, with a stubby 75mm gun designed to fire HE (High-explosive) shells at enemy emplacements and infantry. As the war developed, so did the Panzer IV and it was given longer and longer 75mm weapons and thus it was transformed into a tank-on-tank fighter. Pzkpfw VI Ausf. B 'Tiger II' - This monster is more commonly known as the "King Tiger" or "Royal Tiger" due to its German nickname "Königstiger". (The English interpretation however is a mistranslation as the German word refers to the Bengal Tiger) The Tiger II weighs in at around 75 tons and carries the same PaK 43 88mm as the Jagdpanther, only due to its immense size, can be mounted on a turret. The armour is legendary and is sloped frontally at 150mm thick. The frontal armour was recorded to have never been penetrated during the war. In fact, the worst enemy of this machine was itself; due to the immense weight and strain on the engine and suspension, break-downs were common and most Tiger IIs were lost because of mechanical failure, rather than defeated by enemy fire. Jagdpanzer 38(t) - A relatively small-sized tank destroyer based on the chassis of the Pzkpfw 38(t), a Czechoslovakian tank. (the (t) standing for "Tschechoslowakei", "Czechoslovakia" in German) Mid-war, it was decided to convert the outdated Panzer 38(t)'s into tank destroyers and putting their chassis to use by mounting a proper weapon on them, the PaK 39 L/48 75mm gun. (The same weapon as the final gun of the Panzer IV) This machine was effective due to its low cost, low-profile making it easy to conceal, and mechanical reliability. Though it had poor gun-traverse and was a very tight fit for the crew inside. Pzkpfw II Ausf. L 'Luchs' - The Luchs (Lynx) was a late variation of the Panzer II, designed specifically for reconnaisance purposes. Having six forward-gears, it could reach speeds of 60km/h and still carried the 20mm cannon and 7.92mm machine guns. Jagdpanzer VI 'Jagdtiger' Ausf. B - The 'Hunting Tiger' was the largest and most powerful tank destroyer in service of the Panzerwaffe. It was based on the Tiger II's chassis and was armed with the PaK 44 L/55 128mm gun, which was originally intended to be mounted on the failed prototype, Maus. It shared the same problems as the Tiger II due to its immense weight and size. Only 85 were ever produced and they were used for defensive roles in 1944-45. I hope you enjoy the descriptions I've written and photographs I've snapped. If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to leave a comment below! Thanks!

, ah, another person to drive Scoots farther down the slope into utter insanity, good. You'd do fine.

As those who have posted have mentioned, implementing such a feature would completely annihilate any meaning behind the words "post count". As your post count is exactly that; how many times you have posted in discussion topics. If one is motivated to write walls of text for the sake of increasing their post-count, I would highly doubt their ability to make consistent coherent posts that are contributing to the discussion at hand. In the end, it would simply be more work and yet another thing to add onto the tecchies' to-do lists, and it would be an entirely superficial feature that we see no benefit in adding. This thread has largely run its course, thus it shall be locked now. Thank you for your suggestion, as all ideas to help improve user experience here is greatly appreciated.

Praise the sun! o/ Ouch, hate those. He's doing well I suppose. Well considering I've not yet gotten off my ass and write out his story :z and thank you x) A very nice high quality gif I found of the trailer.

Good morning and such! *finishes morning tea* How is everyone lately?

This setup will be around for the forseeably future, for sure. Damn, you're right! Back to the drawing board, we can't do without rainbows. The badges will indeed be remaining as they were. Moderators possess the Royal Guard emblem, whereas Administrators possess the Alicorn emblem.

Staff Title Updates As you all may or may not have noticed, the staff groups’ names and colours have been changed, and some classifications have disappeared entirely. This is to make way for the future, and to let the staff’s titles accurately represent their intended focuses and jobs. Here is a list of all of the changes made to the way the staff groups are now classified: Poniverse Staff: The former “community stewards” now have a new name to more encompass their position and job as a staff member dealing with non-moderation issues such as EqTV and the Q&A board. Moderator: One who moderates the forum. “Global moderator” and “Sectional moderator” are no longer discernible titles, to dispel the illusion that Global moderators were of “higher rank” than their Sectional counterparts. Administrator: A merging of the titles “Community admin” and “Tech admin”, both of the merges serve to make things more simple for the userbase as well as make it look much cleaner and less cluttered. After all, if a user was to look for tech support, they would not contact the admin directly, but instead create a support ticket dedicated to their issue. No jobs have changed, however and everyone is still comfortably milling about attending to their duties. As these changes have been made to reflect what the future has in store for our fine community!

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Nighty night, Bari. My my, that tournament is getting rather heated lately, isn't it? hoho

Lately I've been in an absolute spree of Zelda games. Namely, I've been replaying Twilight Princess and Wind Waker, playing Skyward Sword for my first playthrough, and trudging through Ocarina of Time: Master Quest on the 3DS. Progress in Wind Waker, I've just gotten past the Earth Temple once again, no real difficulties thus far other than getting ahead of myself and perhaps forgetting one or two things when my mind gets ahead of itself. Fiddling with the controls quite often when trying to get Medli to cooperate with me was a bit of a task though. Nevertheless, next stop; Wind Temple, a temple I recall having a couple difficulties in navigation with during my first playthrough many years ago. After the Wind Temple is likely when I will begin collecting every item and sidequest and such, something of a tradition I have for Zelda games are to make sure I complete everything before moving on to finish the story. In Twilight Princess, things are also going smoothly with minimal delays in completing temples, I've just completed Arbiter's Grounds once again, having got lost for a good 10 minutes because I overlooked something very simple. Next stop; Snowpeak Temple which I recall being the more difficult of all the Twilight Princess dungeons. Mainly due to the gauntlet of enemies and confusing layout, easy for me to get lost in. My progress in sidequests for Twilight Princess this time is rather lagged to be honest, been too excited about the juicy temples and such to bother with pieces of heart and sidequests. I picked up my 3DS and have been giving Master Quest another go, this being my first time attempting the Master Quest version of Ocarina of Time. It's definitely been pretty tricky, but as I've progressed I've begun to get used to all the curve-balls MQ throws at you and recognizing its patterns. Its most common tactic seems to be clipping switches and torches into walls, ceilings and floors so that they're nigh impossible to see. The Fire Temple, Bottom of the Well, and the Shadow Temple have so far been my biggest headaches. I'm still currently on the Shadow Temple and more recently turned around and went to get the Ice Arrows from the Gerudo Fortress to take a break from failing miserably in the shadows. Then I notice they made the Gerudo trials for the Ice Arrows infinitely more difficult in MQ so I've taken a break there too For Skyward Sword, I'm at the endgame, I'm at the period in which I run about, collecting everything before completing the story, 19 hearts so far and only 2-3 more pieces of heart left. It's been a lot of fun and I can safely call the Ancient Cistern one of my favourites along with the Lanayru Mining Facility. I won't go into too much detail because of how spoiler-ific the story is for the lore of LoZ. What I can say, is that SS has been a blast. I lent my copy of Majora's Mask to a friend a little while ago and ever since I've regretted it because I of course have been having the strongest of urges to play it. I'm very very hyped to play it again because I barely used it when I was younger due to the time constraint of three days, darker themes, higher difficulty and simply me not being interested at the time. Suddenly I'm extremely excited to get started with it after I get it back tomorrow when I go out for lunch~ I also would like to give Minish Cap another playthrough, but I can't seem to find it for the life of me. It'll turn up eventually.

Ah, the "tank man", rather bold as he stops in front of the tank column and climbs atop of one of China's numerous Type 59s with his groceries and speaks with the crew inside in a protest to the Chinese governing power of the time. Pretty amusing incident. x) It starts.

None, promise! For some reason it's just when I get in the mood to clean things up and renovate things I get all happy inside. It's scary, help. Yes, I thought that initially as well, hahah! I still can't get over the strange feeling that the Apple family print is a reference to something, just can't figure out what. @_@ Your sister doesn't believe in the gift of giving? D: This was tonight's purchase! ^^ From the wonderful Sophiecabra!

A reaction of shock when hearing I'm cheery means I've been doing something right. :3 I too, am well. Made a bunch of fun progress in Skyward Sword, did some cleaning around the place, sister gifted me a pair of prints she bought from a convention that was in Toronto, planned to make things prettier and even Ijust finished purchasing yet another pony item online! ^^ these are the prints I was gifted:

Forgive me. Just rather chipper tonight is all. How are you faring yourself, hm?