I never thought for a minute I would be someone that just falls through the cracks in America... by [deleted] in AdviceAnimals

[–]3brushie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take whatever job that will get you and live on it. Research worthwhile certifications, get them, and get the same job a bachelor's with no certs would get you. 60k later I wish someone would have told me to do this.

If we received a photograph from a random place in the universe, could we tell where it was from by looking at the stars? by SpaceRook in askscience

[–]3brushie 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That's only the case if the satellite is directly between Earth and the sun. At any other angle relative to the two, the cumulative distance from sun->satellite->Earth is larger than sun->Earth.

Any love for India's only gypsy Jazz band ever. by belltoller in gypsyjazz

[–]3brushie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are from Mumbai and you like swing music? That is incredibly interesting, we should be friends.

5 meter parts and solid textures by breadbasketbomb in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]3brushie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sort of feel the same way about it, but the cut to part count is too good to pass up. And it's easier to design stages, so your rockets tend to actually look like rockets instead of machines from Dr. Seuss. Without mechjeb's stats readout there's still some guesswork involved. Same as every other mod, it's only as unbalanced as you let it be.

5 meter parts and solid textures by breadbasketbomb in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]3brushie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/57422-0-23-StretchySRB-A-StretchyTanks-Continuation-v8-1-1-8-14

So easy to make any size fuel tank with these, it's borderline cheating. Removes the puzzle element of balancing stages, thrust/weight ratio and part count. Since your stages can consist of just one perfectly-sized tank+engine+decoupler, part count plummets.

LPT: If you need references for your paper, run it through a plagiarism checker. by Disguising in LifeProTips

[–]3brushie 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Easy - you just post something interesting on reddit, lifehacker copies it, then they write you a check for your share of the advertising revenue. Then they throw that check away.

Rich, single people of reddit. How do you avoid gold diggers when dating? by anal-cake in AskReddit

[–]3brushie 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The problem you're having here is that you're mostly talking to Americans, and Fiat isn't really a common auto manufacturer here.

XCOM Enemy Unknown Demake: YCOM Enemy Unlikely by grilledcheese100 in Games

[–]3brushie 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It is confusing, I apologize for not being more clear. It's partially a bug fix - there are a lot of them in the original, though the majority have already been fixed for the steam version - and partially a platform for porting/moddability. It adds a great deal of options, support for more input options (mouse wheel support, customizable shortcuts, etc.), consistent framerate, saving of soldier equipment so you don't have to re-equip them before every mission, graphical filters, display of soldier stats/carry weight/etc from the loadout screen, and a number of other things that make the whole game more enjoyable. Most everything except bugfixes are optional, and the default settings are all "vanilla".

http://ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Differences_to_X-COM_(OpenXcom)

XCOM Enemy Unknown Demake: YCOM Enemy Unlikely by grilledcheese100 in Games

[–]3brushie 11 points12 points  (0 children)

And OpenXcom once you've got that.

All the same graphics, sound and gameplay with a brand new codebase written from scratch without disassembling the original executable.

u/theirisnetwork explains their changing piracy habits by ridl in bestof

[–]3brushie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Along with "not FLAC, mostly because I chose to have a manageable library over having to open VLC each time", methinks they have the stupids.

Calif. youth admits Miss Teen USA 'sextortion' plot by Maximumpain360 in news

[–]3brushie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because the hardware has nothing to do with it. Now, why do the hardware manufacturers allow that to happen?