General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Waffle on September 16, 2015, 01:16:50 PM
Title: Waffle the ship builder
Post by: Waffle on September 16, 2015, 01:16:50 PM
So I'm sitting here working on the new battleship......
and I'm thinking to myself......
"You see that airfield out there? I built that myself, hand crafted each piece, and it's the best airfield in Aces High.... But do they call me "Waffle the airfield builder"? No! And you see that town over there? I built that, but do they look at me and say "There goes Waffle the town builder"? No! And did you see that new Ship in the Alpha?, I built that, the best Ship in the Alpha! But do they call me "Waffle the shipbuilder"? No!"
but you steal one sheep............" :headscratch:
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Post by: Wizz on September 16, 2015, 01:29:28 PM
The new battleship... :x There is a storm coming :salute
So I'm sitting here working on the new battleship......
and I'm thinking to myself......
"You see that airfield out there? I built that myself, hand crafted each piece, and it's the best airfield in Aces High.... But do they call me "Waffle the airfield builder"? No! And you see that town over there? I built that, but do they look at me and say "There goes Waffle the town builder"? No! And did you see that new Ship in the Alpha?, I built that, the best Ship in the Alpha! But do they call me "Waffle the shipbuilder"? No!"
but you steal one sheep............" :headscratch:
Waffle irony. ^^^^ :D
Something wrong with a plain Waffle?
"Waffle the Sheep Whisperer" is a lot of typing.
Waffle Wool Gatherer?
Woolffle?
Waffle One Map?
Wee Wooly Waffle?
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Post by: bangsbox on September 16, 2015, 02:48:13 PM
PICS!PICS! PICS! or it didnt happen :banana:
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Post by: DH367th on September 16, 2015, 02:48:43 PM
Yea but it was roc's sheep you stole bud
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Post by: Waffle on September 16, 2015, 02:51:19 PM
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Post by: Zoney on September 16, 2015, 03:20:48 PM
Wafflerific !
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Post by: JimmyC on September 16, 2015, 03:29:37 PM
Well I salute you sir. I don't care what everyone else is saying about you.. I think your ok.. Hell I think you have put the past behind you and are making new roads to the future.. Your building bridges to a new future :salute
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Post by: ROC on September 16, 2015, 03:51:29 PM
Quote
Yea but it was roc's sheep you stole bud
Runs off to do inventory!!
Nope, all sheep are accounted for.
Missing two goats but, hey, I don't judge :angel:
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Post by: MrKrabs on September 16, 2015, 04:31:21 PM
So I'm sitting here working on the new battleship......
and I'm thinking to myself......
"You see that airfield out there? I built that myself, hand crafted each piece, and it's the best airfield in Aces High.... But do they call me "Waffle the airfield builder"? No! And you see that town over there? I built that, but do they look at me and say "There goes Waffle the town builder"? No! And did you see that new Ship in the Alpha?, I built that, the best Ship in the Alpha! But do they call me "Waffle the shipbuilder"? No!"
but you steal one sheep............" :headscratch:
If it's sparkly you get 15 minutes of attention, at most. If it isn't, you're lucky if you get 15 seconds for notice.
:rofl
:cheers:
Title: Re: Waffle the ship builder
Post by: bustr on September 17, 2015, 01:04:55 PM
A new Aces High Squad: Hunerd and First Battle Sheep.
Our wool gets Yas in yur privet parts. Baaaaaaaaa!!!!
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Post by: USRanger on September 18, 2015, 05:50:33 AM
Proud to call you Waffle my old squadmate. :cheers: :salute
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Post by: bangsbox on September 18, 2015, 01:49:10 PM
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Post by: 10thmd on September 22, 2015, 07:01:10 PM
Waffle teases us with talk of a Battleship and still hasn't posted any images. I say we call him Waffle the Tantalizer.
Title: Re: Waffle the ship builder
Post by: Beefcake on September 22, 2015, 07:31:15 PM
I think Waffle is just winding us up for disappointment, knowing him this "great ship" he's building is nothing more than an Civil War Ironclad....because you know....Waffle Iron....clad........
....you know I'll just be over here in the corner if you need me.
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Post by: bustr on September 23, 2015, 03:06:59 PM
I bet we get a screen capture of the bridge with Waffle's had prints smeared all over the windows. Or worse, his baby pictures..... :O
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Post by: Getback on September 24, 2015, 05:30:05 AM
All the sheep are missing.
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Post by: Waffle on September 24, 2015, 10:19:31 AM
just started the mk 38 director....... then on to the turrets, then UV mapping , texturing...... oy vey!
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Post by: Scherf on September 24, 2015, 04:50:16 PM
See rule #4
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Post by: bustr on September 25, 2015, 02:05:04 PM
Dangit!!!
Scherf scared the Waffle away and we won't get anymore peeks at the ship goodies.
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Post by: Scherf on September 25, 2015, 05:31:09 PM
Apologies - didn't realise I was treading in forbidden waters, was half in jest.
Apologies again.
Title: Re: Waffle the ship builder
Post by: Waffle on September 29, 2015, 09:53:41 AM
one of the turrets for that battleship.......... :evil: (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/waffle/1650turret.jpg)
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Post by: Greebo on September 29, 2015, 10:16:14 AM
Very nice work Waffle. South Dakota class?
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Post by: Waffle on September 29, 2015, 10:22:02 AM
Iowa Class
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Post by: Mister Fork on September 29, 2015, 04:54:26 PM
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Post by: bustr on September 30, 2015, 03:40:13 PM
Is this thing gonna be perked, or is Hitech just setting them loose in the AH3 MA?
Mission tonight like every other night. Find the battleships and carpet bomb them with 6 boxes of lancs. 8inch batteries are simply gonna bounce off that monster. Will torpedo's have any effect?
I Christen this monster USS "Waffle's Revenge".
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Post by: 49Dallas on September 30, 2015, 06:14:25 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/t1jjymw.png)
Waffle the ship builder.... USS Waffle....
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Post by: Meatwad on September 30, 2015, 06:19:22 PM
Is this thing gonna be perked, or is Hitech just setting them loose in the AH3 MA?
Mission tonight like every other night. Find the battleships and carpet bomb them with 6 boxes of lancs. 8inch batteries are simply gonna bounce off that monster. Will torpedo's have any effect?
I Christen this monster USS "Waffle's Revenge".
It will specifically target certain unnamed players that like to bomb everything with a phalanx
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Post by: JVboob on October 01, 2015, 04:54:41 AM
stop.............................waffle time
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Post by: bangsbox on October 01, 2015, 01:05:43 PM
Looks great Waffle!!!!
Any idea what kind of LB of damage she will take to destroy a turret and to sink?
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Post by: captain1ma on October 01, 2015, 03:13:18 PM
Dear Waffle the Town/airfield builder.... we of the AVA love your work, well even those not of the AVA love your work. do not fret!! instead, I suggest you finish the Battle ship and then make a even better town/airfield, so that no one notices the battleship.
in the future I will refer to you as Waffle the Town/Airfield/Battleship Builder..... or Waffle the TABB!!!
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Post by: Puck on October 01, 2015, 03:41:06 PM
Those are 16" guns, not cannons. Scary thing is those battleships were pretty much defenseless targets when I wore a uniform; needed all kinds of support to be survivable in a hot environment. Intimidating maybe, but not much behind it for the manpower they needed to operate.
I just have to assume these are going to be in addition to our 80' PT boat. Something else to use VPerks on, perhaps. Lemme see...PT boat or 58,000 ton marauding monster? Can you imagine spawn-camping battleships? So much potential here...
Title: Re: Waffle the ship builder
Post by: Waffle on October 02, 2015, 04:10:46 PM
Yeah - texture mapping is wrapped, need to finish up a few minor things, which I can steal from the cv - Radars, ect...then start working on normal maps / textures. :t
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Post by: Copprhed on October 02, 2015, 04:51:53 PM
oh my god.... that is beautiful, Waffle!
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Post by: Greebo on October 02, 2015, 04:56:57 PM
Incredible how fast you got so much of it done. It already looks fantastic even without the textures.
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Post by: Mister Fork on October 02, 2015, 05:14:06 PM
So Waffle - is this going to be player controllable? Kind of like a single ship? With a bridge, helm controls, and then guns your squadmates could fill? :x
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Post by: Greebo on October 02, 2015, 05:33:42 PM
Should the front turret have an AA gun on top? Seems like it would block the mid turret from firing forward.
Title: Re: Waffle the ship builder
Post by: Waffle on October 02, 2015, 05:41:12 PM
No - I haven't modded the turrets yet
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Title: Re: Waffle the ship builder
Post by: Waffle on October 02, 2015, 05:42:57 PM
Should the front turret have an AA gun on top? Seems like it would block the mid turret from firing forward.
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Post by: Easyscor on October 03, 2015, 01:57:25 AM
The amount of detail you put into that is crazy cool.
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Post by: Airsharks on October 03, 2015, 03:12:01 PM
lol
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Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on October 04, 2015, 10:23:00 AM
Looks beautiful, cant wait to see it sailing the seas.
I highly doubt it will be playable. We would still need destroyers and the likes long before we need people running around in monsters like these. But..time tells all things. :salute
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Post by: darkrider400 on October 04, 2015, 11:43:32 AM
Will it just use the current system? Like the fleet commander decides where the fleet goes, and people can just individually man the turrets?
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Post by: Greebo on October 04, 2015, 01:29:40 PM
The battleship could simply be added to the existing CV group and used in addition to the cruiser. Or maybe it could be made the flagship of a new BB group with some extra fire power, AA defence and toughness to compensate for the lack of air power. I can't see it being employed independently like a PT boat though. From the POV of realism I'd prefer it if one player sat in a gunnery director and fired the whole primary armament but that seems unlikely.
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Post by: Spikes on October 04, 2015, 01:41:33 PM
The battleship could simply be added to the existing CV group and used in addition to the cruiser. Or maybe it could be made the flagship of a new BB group with some extra fire power, AA defence and toughness to compensate for the lack of air power. I can't see it being employed independently like a PT boat though. From the POV of realism I'd prefer it if one player sat in a gunnery director and fired the whole primary armament but that seems unlikely.
It would be very cool to have a non-CV group as a separate fleet.
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Post by: DmonSlyr on October 04, 2015, 06:27:35 PM
More ships and more random towns scattered throughout the map
One of the better features of the new version is that there is a village texture built into the terrain set. On CraterMA I have used it to make little villages in the middle of farmland and across spawn routes as well as for fishing villages in coastal bays and for urban sprawl around factories and cities. It helps break up the "endless wilderness with occasional little square object groups" the current version suffers from.
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Post by: captain1ma on October 05, 2015, 10:07:50 AM
that looks really cool!! maybe you could make a bismark style battleship for the axis after you're done?
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Post by: DmonSlyr on October 05, 2015, 10:08:42 AM
One of the better features of the new version is that there is a village texture built into the terrain set. On CraterMA I have used it to make little villages in the middle of farmland and across spawn routes as well as for fishing villages in coastal bays and for urban sprawl around factories and cities. It helps break up the "endless wilderness with occasional little square object groups" the current version suffers from.
Awesome Greebo!!! Stuff like that has a great impact!
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Post by: Waffle on October 06, 2015, 08:30:08 AM
drawing rivets on a ship is a very time consuming task...... :t
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Post by: JimmyC on October 06, 2015, 02:11:22 PM
but riveting none the less I bet
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Post by: bustr on October 06, 2015, 03:01:17 PM
Just watch, Hitech will give you binoculars with a range ladder as the captain of this ship, and you will stand on a vantage point to scan the horizon. Waffle will put his finger prints all over the lenses to see if anyone is using the feature during the beta.
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Post by: Greebo on October 06, 2015, 03:29:19 PM
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Post by: bustr on October 09, 2015, 05:08:09 PM
Now I have to go out and find the theme music for Star Blazers and make that my game intro music...... :O
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Post by: Wizz on October 09, 2015, 05:16:29 PM
Gorgeous!!!
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Post by: Zacherof on October 10, 2015, 04:36:26 PM
......Very well done. Quite beautiful
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Post by: Greebo on October 10, 2015, 06:09:40 PM
That's looking fantastic Waffle.
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Post by: Mister Fork on October 11, 2015, 12:04:20 PM
You also know what would be really cool? If you had a launchable float plane that when upped it would expand the radar for the ship firing control map to include enemy ship positions and put them on the map so the battleship gunners could target them like they did in real life before radar got good enough to plot them individually.
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Post by: FLS on October 11, 2015, 12:12:06 PM
Looks good. :aok
I see you included the orange caps on the gun barrels as required by New York and California. :bolt:
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Post by: USRanger on October 11, 2015, 02:14:35 PM
I have a wish my griddled friend. Because of the range of the guns, could bases/towns start flashing now when shells from a ship land on the terrain tile they sit on? It is already easy with the cruiser, but with the battleship guns, you can level everything and the field would never flash, like now. That's not realistic. If big ol' shells were landing on the field/town, I think the base would stop picking daisies and go on alert. If this isn't implemented, players are going to do this continuously. Hell, I've done it many times with the cruiser. You can level a base/town without the other side having any idea it's happening. :salute
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Post by: Greebo on October 11, 2015, 03:09:43 PM
How about if the base flashes for say a minute after any object on it or associated with it (town building, sb etc.) is destroyed?
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Post by: USRanger on October 11, 2015, 03:25:35 PM
Sounds good. :aok
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Post by: Devil 505 on October 11, 2015, 04:16:51 PM
I agree, no more stealth bombardments.
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Post by: Volron on October 11, 2015, 04:20:10 PM
So long as the base flashes to indicate it being shelled in general. I thought it weird that it didn't do this when being shelled. :headscratch:
To add on to Greebo's idea: If the town is hit, regardless if an object is destroyed, it flashes after 1 minute has passed. If the field itself is hit, it flashes 30 seconds later, if not immediately.
As for our Iowa, I sure hope those fire control towers will be usable, both for the main batteries and the secondaries. :D
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Post by: pipz on October 11, 2015, 05:32:28 PM
Just what we need yet another "late war" addition..... :old: :D
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Post by: Greebo on October 12, 2015, 05:40:19 AM
The Iowa was operational in early 1943 so in AH terms its a "mid war" addition....... :old: :D
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Post by: bustr on October 12, 2015, 12:22:27 PM
From our MA perspective, does anyone have ideas on how effective this addition will be to how we use CV groups? Waffle is showing it to us but, we have no information on how it will be enabled in the MA. So hopping over the enabling mechanism, when it is, will it destabilize our form of CV warfare or become the largest ocean going bomber target in the history of the game?
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Post by: Chilli on October 12, 2015, 01:02:21 PM
Waffle you ole Dry Dock Magician! Welders must have been working day and night! :aok
Over concerns of task group warfare, Would Admiral HTC give us separate groups with Battleships and destroyers only, not capable of landing troops or launching planes? and more than one task group per port...... :banana:
Title: Re: Waffle the ship builder
Post by: Greebo on October 12, 2015, 01:20:09 PM
In some respects durability is going to depend on how HTC choose to model it but for what its worth the Iowa class had 12 inches of deck armour to our current Baltimore class cruiser's three inches. Currently the cruiser takes 2K of bombs to sink and the CV 8K but that is likely based as much on game play considerations as any statistical analysis of armour and damage control. From both a game play and realism POV I'd expect the AH battleship to take a lot more punishment than the CV, 16K or more would be reasonable IMO.
The Iowa's 16 inch AP shells each weighed 2700 lb as opposed to 335 lb for the Baltimore class cruiser's 8 inch ones. Muzzle velocity was similar and both ships had nine guns so the Iowa ought to be about eight times more effective per salvo. I'd expect the cruiser to have a higher rate of fire though. The 16 inch guns had a maximum range of over 23 miles as opposed to 17 for the eight inch.
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Post by: pipz on October 12, 2015, 07:50:08 PM
1943 ??? pffffffffff The war was all but won by then! :neener:
The HMS Warpsite would have been a much more palatable choice old man. :aok
Warpsite wow, did the thing do warp jumps then?
HMS Warspite
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Hey this thing was introduced with 4 torpedo tubes..........
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Post by: pipz on October 13, 2015, 04:59:43 PM
Just for that I am having an extra helping of Bacon this weekend! :old: :neener:
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Post by: ebfd11 on October 13, 2015, 07:57:43 PM
And I am having a large Moose Steak on the BBQ..
LawnDart
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Post by: Mister Fork on October 14, 2015, 04:04:42 PM
So, what kind of radar are you modelling on this beast?
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Post by: Waffle on October 14, 2015, 05:30:54 PM
The 17x17 "matress" SK radar, the SG radar, and The Mk3. Plus the radar on the mk38 fire director. MK37 directors were already done from the carrier. :)
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Post by: Mister Fork on October 15, 2015, 11:54:00 AM
So this Mk38 radar unit correct? (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bb/Mk38_Director.jpg/220px-Mk38_Director.jpg)
This Mk 3 with optical range finder? (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/dracster/mk3fcr.jpg)
And the SG (S Band) search radar (30 miles?)
And the SK aircraft radar with a 100 mile radius?
(Sorry all, I'm a comms & electronics military veteran - I find this stuff interesting as it 'was' my job years ago).
What it means is that a Battleship could detect an aircraft from 100 miles away from the SK radar, and the SG could pin-point it (I may be wrong). The Mk3 and the Mk38 were pretty neat surface-to-surface battle radars.
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Post by: Chilli on October 15, 2015, 04:16:39 PM
shhhh........ :cool: Don't let the 49th know .........
Carry on Waffle!!!! :rock
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Post by: Waffle on October 16, 2015, 08:59:47 AM
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Post by: bustr on October 16, 2015, 04:44:57 PM
I'm speechless...... :O
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Post by: WWhiskey on October 16, 2015, 04:47:02 PM
That's Purdy !
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Post by: Zoney on October 16, 2015, 05:17:46 PM
That is very purdy. Don't jump over board. There is a white tip shark off the port side waiting for an easy meal.
No, really. there is a shark there, I can see it. I want to be able to sit on the side of that ship dangling my feet while holding a fishing rod with reel. Can we can we can we pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze?
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Post by: ebfd11 on October 16, 2015, 05:42:34 PM