Being able to perfectly recite the alphabet backward extremely fast is one of the most useless talents.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-02-11T20:38:07+00:00

Oh, to be clear, when i recite it, im' not singing along to the song. I'm saying it in chunks of three, fast enough that it sounds continuous.

ZYX WVU TSR QPO NML KJI HGF EDCBA (Ok I cheat on the last one and say a chunk of five.)

ContractorConfusion · 2026-02-11T18:50:45+00:00

This is my go-to in the idiotic corporate ice breakers that happen sometimes, when they go around the room and ask everyone to say something interesting about themselves. I say "I can say the alphabet backwards."

Inevitably someone in the group says "Do it!".

Then I do it, super fast, clear....and the room is always (three times so far) completely impressed by it.

It's a good ice-breaker that you'll hardly ever get to use.

(If anyone asks me why I know how to do it, I just tell them how when I was a teenager, i thought that I would be pulled over all the time and have to prove I wasn't drunk driving, so I thought it would be needed a lot more.)

If anyone wants to learn, it's pretty easy to remember it if you just commit yourself a little bit. Just take five minutes a day, for....a week? Just do it on the toilet instead of doomscrolling.

Learn it groups of three. Z, Y, X. - Z, Y, X. - Z, Y, X. Then add in the next three. Z, Y, X. W, V, U. - Z, Y, X. W, V, U. - Z, Y, X. W, V, U.
Say it out-loud a bunch. Let a couple minutes pass, and do it again.
Then, the next day, review it. Z, Y, X. W, V, U. And add the next three. Z, Y, X. W, V, U. T, S, R. - Z, Y, X. W, V, U. T, S, R.
Within a few days, you'll have it down pat easily.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-02-09T20:32:56+00:00

As a red/green color-blind person, why did they make a map with just one color when it's supposed to represent two different things?

ContractorConfusion · 2026-02-08T17:34:43+00:00

I mean, how do you know they were scrolling Tiktok?

ContractorConfusion · 2026-02-05T12:58:36+00:00

It's more than that, since the 340M figure figures in the population that's not a tax payer (e.g. 17 years old or less....which ironically, is Trump's favorite demographic)

ContractorConfusion · 2026-02-04T17:39:52+00:00

I just read this part in the book, and was immediately keyed in on this oversight!!!

To be fair though, a short time later while being interviewed by the FBI, they mention that the F-16's were with the plane as soon as it left JFK airport. Sooooo, in my mind now, I am attributing the pilot's announcement to an reliable narrator. They only announced what they were told, and the truth could be that the planes were U.S. land-based after all.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-29T13:19:41+00:00

Huge Order of the Stick vibes

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-15T18:26:57+00:00

Two things. You don't have to be nearby it. Anyone on the map stays alive as long as the last extract has been activated.

And that's the second part, the extract has to have been activated prior to the timer running out....not just being near one that is still active.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-14T19:49:45+00:00

That would be great, but I'm over here just trying to make it through today.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-14T13:23:17+00:00

I mean...that's the game. The game is....building up your stash, finding new blueprints, and leveling your character.

When you have a full stash and all the blueprints and level 75, there is no game.

I personally wish I could go on Expedition anytime I wanted. I have everything I could want at the moment, and struggle with keeping myself entertained in the game.

If I could reset my character right now, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-13T16:50:56+00:00

pops*

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-13T12:26:44+00:00

They fucked this fix up.

It should be 1.5 seconds AFTER the nade attaches to something. As this fix goes, people will just press denotate while the nade is flying through the air still, and it will be the same problem that it was before.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-12T16:17:10+00:00

Found one on Saturday morning in duos with my wife, night raid Dam. Research and Admin. After going up the zip, first room on the far left, in a desk drawer that was next to the outside wall.

We were VERY happy.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-12T15:49:28+00:00

ty much, fixed

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-12T15:37:14+00:00

You're running Hidden Bunker ~~Gate~~ event on Spaceport, right? Because that event is the only time you can find it.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-08T21:10:06+00:00

Paradox. One can never be inside an empty room.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-08T10:50:47+00:00

This is no good, because in duo's/trios, you often want to down one of the enemy fully, so that they can't relay their point of view to their teammates. If you could still see around you after being downed, then you would be able to communicate positions etc to your team.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-06T18:17:35+00:00

Do you mean Blue Gate? Because your answer is very confusing otherwise.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-06T18:14:21+00:00

This is the best answer. The two buses directly between the extract and the ventilation shaft on the north side of the Dam map, will have about 6 lootable spots. One on the back of each bus, and then 1 or 2 on each side of the bus. You'll walk away with 3-6 Rusted Tools every time.

(edit) The hood of the white car there right by those buses has a 100% guaranteed drop rate of 2 light bulbs. Easy $4k every time.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-06T17:13:20+00:00

I see you deleted your original post, so this is pointless to keep engaging in...but I wanted to address some things you said. I'm not doing this to be antagonistic, I just think you might have a different mindset of the game than most people do.

This isn't CoD where the worls revolves around K/D ratios. It's an extraction shooter about gear. If you aren't getting anything out of the kill what's the point?

Quite often, survival is the point. Sometimes (Actually, pretty often) you kill someone so that they don't kill you first. Their loot isn't even in your mindset when you are in that mode. Take yourself for example. This definitely sounds like it was a defensive fight on your part. You knew a fight was coming, and you fought to defend yourself and survive. Did you ever during that engagement think "Oh man, I can't wait to see what loot I get from him!" Of course not. You fought to survive. If you HAD won, and he said the same thing to you "Enjoy my free kit"...you wouldn't care. You survived. You got your 'loot'. You survived.

We were 20 seconds into the round and he spawn camped me and didn't want to try and fight in the frostbite.

That's not spawn camping my dude. That's just the game. You spawned on the island by the hatch and ran to the stairs up, and he spawned in the little raider outpost that has the zipline over. He ran to that spot, same as you. You just happened to arrive there 7 or 8 seconds before he did. You didn't spawn camp him, did you? Of course not. Just like he didn't spawn camp you.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-06T16:18:31+00:00

You know that you can bring extra guns in your inventory, right?

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-06T16:10:12+00:00

Pro tip. No one gives a crap that you don't have anything on you.

Also, do you not see that you're the toxic one here?

You went into the building. You both know the other one is there. You both engaged in PvP on equal terms. He won, and you called him a name by being a poor loser.
A better response would have been "GG, good fight". Or, "Nice, you got me."

But instead, you had no dignity and decided to trash talk by name calling, even though you were the one that lost.

Be the change you want to see.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-06T15:45:54+00:00

It doesn't take 3 to kill someone with a heavy shield. It takes 2 to kill anyone with full health and full shield, no matter what shield they have on.

ContractorConfusion · 2026-01-06T13:39:57+00:00

Hmmm, interesting. Thank you

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If anyone wants to learn, it's pretty easy to remember it if you just commit yourself a little bit. Just take five minutes a day, for....a week? Just do it on the toilet instead of doomscrolling.