User:CABAL
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This user is currently is a trainee Leopard 2A4 tank crewman.
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[edit] Scale models
[edit] Land
[edit] Tanks
All entries in 1/72 scale.
[edit] Air
[edit] Fixed-wing aircraft
[edit] Civil
- Concorde (1/350)
[edit] Close air support
[edit] Sea
All entries in 1/700 scale unless otherwise noted.
[edit] Surface ships
- Agano class light Japanese cruiser Yahagi
- Kongō class destroyer DDG-175 Myōkō
- A-150 Super Yamato class battleship
- 2 catapult-launched Aichi E16A seaplanes
[edit] Submarines
- Akula class submarine
- Blue 6 (1/1000, fictional)
- Grayback class submarine USS Grayback (SSG-574)
- Seawolf class submarine USS Seawolf (SSN-21)
- Seawolf class submarine USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23)
- Surcouf (N N 3) (1941)
- MB.411 observation monoplane
[edit] Wing-In-Ground effect vehicle
- Ekranoplan (Over-cockpit front engine design)
[edit] Quotations
[edit] BioShock
[edit] Andrew Ryan
[edit] Guiding principle
- I am Andrew Ryan and I am here to ask you a question:
- Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
- No, says the man in Washington. It belongs to the poor.
- No, says the man in the Vatican. It belongs to God.
- No, says the man in Moscow. It belongs to everyone.
- I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...
- Rapture.
- A city where the artist would not fear the censor.
- Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality.
- Where the great would not be constrained by the small.
- And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.
[edit] One-liners
- No gods or kings. Only Man.
- A man chooses. A slave obeys.
- Altruism is the root of all wickedness.
- A man has a choice. I chose... the impossible.
- In what country is there a place for people like me?
- Anyone who says any different has his hand in your pocket... or a pistol to your neck.
- Why should we worship a flag or a god when we can worship that which is best: our will to be great.
- It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.
[edit] Exposition
- A man has a choice. I chose the impossible.
- I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor.
- Where the great would not be constrained by the small.
- Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality.
- I chose to build... Rapture!
- But, my city... was betrayed by the weak.
- So I ask you, my friend... if your life was prized...
- Would you kill the innocent? Would you sacrifice... your humanity?
- We all make choices...
- But in the end...
- Our choices... make US.
- In the end what separates a man from a slave?
- Money?
- Power?
- No, a man chooses, a slave obeys.
- On the surface, the Parasite expects the doctor to heal them for free, the farmer to feed them out of charity.
- How little they differ from the pervert who prowls the streets, looking for a victim he can ravish for his grotesque amusement.
- What is the difference between a man and a parasite?
- A man builds. A parasite asks 'Where is my share?'
- A man creates. A parasite asks, 'What will the neighbors think?'
- A man invents. A parasite says, 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God...'
- I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky.
- But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us.
- But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction.
- The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide.
- Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck.
- To build a city at the bottom of the sea! Insanity.
- But where else could we be free from the clutching hand of the Parasites?
- Where else could we build an economy that they would not try to control, a society that they would not try to destroy?
- It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.
- On the surface, I once bought a forest. The Parasites claimed that the land belonged to God, and that I establish a public park there.
- Why? So that the rabble could stand slack-jawed under the canopy, and pretend that it was Paradise earned.
- When Congress moved to nationalize my forest, I burnt it to the ground. God did not plant the seeds of this Arcadia. I did.
- What is the greatest lie ever created?
- What is the most vicious obscenity ever perpetrated on mankind?
- Slavery?
- The Holocaust?
- Dictatorship?
- NO! It's the tool with which all wickedness is built.
- Altruism.
- Whenever anyone wants others to do their work, they call upon their altruism.
- "Never mind your own needs," they say, "think of the needs of..."
- Of...
- ...whoever.
- Of the state.
- Of the poor.
- Of the army.
- Of the king.
- Of god.
- The list goes on and on.
- How many catastrophes were launched with the words "think of yourself"?
- It's the "king and country" crowd who light the torch of destruction.
- It is this great inversion, this ancient lie, which has chained humanity to an endless cycle of guilt and failure.
- My journey to Rapture was my second exodus.
- In 1919 I fled a country that had traded in despotism for insanity.
- The Marxist Revolution simply traded one lie for another.
- Instead of one man, the Tsar, owning the work of all the people, ALL the people owned the work of all of the people.
- And so, I came to America, where a man could own his own work...
- ...where a man could benefit from the brilliance of his own mind, the strength of his own muscles, the MIGHT of his own will.
- I had THOUGHT I had left the parasites of Moscow behind me.
- I had THOUGHT I had left the Marxist altruists to their collective farms and their five-year plans.
- But, as the German fools threw themselves on Hitler's sword for the good of the Reich,
- the Americans drank deeper and deeper of the bolshevik poison, spoon-fed to them by Roosevelt and his New Dealers.
- And so, I asked myself, in what country was there a place for men like me?
- Men who refused to say yes to the parasites and the doubters.
- Men who believed that work was sacred and property rights inviolate.
- And then one day the happy answer came to me, my friends: there was NO country for people like me.
- And THAT was the moment I decided... to build one.
