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    Pimp My Gun: Show your Creations [Image Posting tips in the First post]

    Here be another creation of mine..... Used to launch gas/smoke/chemical/explosive shells from a short to medium range, as support, from the cover of trees/small hill/rooftop ect. Powered by gas.
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    Pimp My Gun: Show your Creations [Image Posting tips in the First post]

    Cheers. Just the F2000 chamber lid for all curvy bits, bullets & generic barrels and grips. Damn those first two are nice. I'll take some for my airship.
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    Help: Disk failure

    Hurry!! Erect a temple to the almighty Gates!! Burn the Broken and Fractured to appease these gods of the game! Sorry to hear your disc died, I feel the pain. Good luck.
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    Is there any activity you rate above video games?

    I am going to start doing that soon aswell, just gotta buy myself a plane & controller. On a related activity, I like rocketry and enjoy an afternoon making and launching them. Also a good nights lovin and jammin.
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    Poll: Text Speak: Spoken?

    Only to annoy those it will. Not as a valid grammatical progression in true sentences. I was tempted to put some text-speak in a communications assignment just to see the teachers response, but a laugh is not worth losing x% of my marks.
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    Help: Disk failure

    Check for any damage. I had a 360 put a hairline fracture at the centre of the dvd, enough to make the game fail to read 9/10 times. I use isopropyl alcohol myself, but toothpaste might work.
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    Edge Games "Completely Certain" of Legal Victory

    Surely this tim "fucktard" langdell (That's right, you don't even deserve capital letters you tosspot) is reaching the "EDGE" of credibility??? I think his about to get "EDGUCATED" by EA and the LAW for fraudulant conduct and intent to subvert justice by perjury. He claims to be developing...
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    Star Trek: Captains Log

    Tomorrow: I turned the oven off yesterday, after finding it on today.
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    Pimp My Gun: Show your Creations [Image Posting tips in the First post]

    A goa'uld inspired staff weapon
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    Create An Achievement For A Game

    Halo 3 150G You crazy bastard!!! Kill at least two enemies by sticking your teammate driving a mongoose into a crowd of enemies
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    Pimp My Gun: Show your Creations [Image Posting tips in the First post]

    coilguns are quite inefficient. That's why they are not in common use. Compare petrol to electric cars, no? You can put multiple stages in, but timing is critical and complex. They are not coils, just structure to keep the projectile straight, show operation and be aesthetically...
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    Pimp My Gun: Show your Creations [Image Posting tips in the First post]

    So here's a coil and rail gun. Notice the common bits, blue capacitors at the top. This is where the energy is stored. In the coilgun, the capacitors create a magnetic field which pulls the projectile through. Note the coil with projectile in firing position. In the railgun the...
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    Pimp My Gun: Show your Creations [Image Posting tips in the First post]

    Sorry, but railgun and coilgun are two different technologies. coilguns use coils to accelerate a projectile, whereas a railgun uses two parallel metal rods or walls on either side of the projectile to accelerate through conductance creating a magnetic field. In other words, a coilgun is...
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    Pimp My Gun: Show your Creations [Image Posting tips in the First post]

    I like the cartridges. After 66 pages I think I should put an impractical weapon up, top & side view: Use it kinda like handlebar mounted binoculars.