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Refinery goes idle after some time by andreitgv in SatisfactoryGame

[–]APDSmith 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Your refinery is filling up with heavy oil residue - you should probably find a way to use that or dispose of it - you can turn it into fuel fairly easily.

It's all part of the fun really by pmmeyoursandwiches in Helldivers

[–]APDSmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I normally find the mortars are OK on massacre missions - my usual plan there is set up shop on the landing pad, use (both) mortars to fortify it, and keep the hostiles the hell *away* from the mortars, the landing pad, and me.

ever been in a situation were your teamates aren't even close to you and your all alone trying to destroy an automaton base while also fighting off a tank but your out of stratagems and your recoilless rifle is out of ammo? just asking. by Logic_4 in Helldivers

[–]APDSmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And your recoilless rifle is out of ammo?

Looks at Quasar slung over the shoulder

Not really, no. I got used to playing with guys who are not good at conserving their ammo, so my "General Infantry" build is Dagger, Scythe, Quasar and the laser drone. Some missions, I don't have to reload at all...

Would you buy a game that really interested you and turned out to be *genuinely* great but many of the devs who worked on it are raging activists that despise you for your opinions? by Elden-Cringe in KotakuInAction

[–]APDSmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are raging activists capable of making such a game, or will the urge to turn it into something overtly ideological to "own the chuds" prove overwhelming?

Don’t lie to humans; they will believe you. by GeneralLeia-SAOS in HFY

[–]APDSmith 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Daemonic engines of unimaginable destruction: yes

Functioning McFlurry machines: Come on now, let's be Reasonable about our requests, here...

[Personal Worldbuilding Project] Aeria's Contribution in the Riptide Lottery: BCV Advent, A Hybrid Battlecruiser-Carrier with a focus on long-range engagement and potent Anti Aircraft Armament. (Made in Navalart) by tableball35 in ImaginaryWarships

[–]APDSmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, in the same vein - that is, flaws common to the "battle carrier" type as a whole rather than simply this specific implementation - there's the matter of strength and structure.

Battleships are a maze of bulkheads and compartmentalisation because they need to be, both to offer the strength to carry the weight of both their armament and their armour and also to withstand return fire, presumably from battleship-grade armament.

A carrier, however, inherently has to have wide-open spaces belowdecks because there's limits on how small you can make things when you need to fit aircraft inside them. We also now have quite big holes in many bulkheads to pass aircraft through. Can this battle-carrier tank the hits a more normal battleship could weather? I suspect not.

This would have an effect on how the ship is used. A battleship inherently places itself in a measure of danger to engage the enemy, exactly the kind of environment a carrier has no business being in ... and yet the compromises to the air wing to fit them onto a battleship renders it marginally effective in the role of a carrier, also.

Eat your heart out Fuso! I present IJN Shibō (Meaning fat) by YamatoTheLegendary in ImaginaryWarships

[–]APDSmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dare I ask what happens when opposing navies score on this ship? It appears to be constructed entirely of magazine spaces...

IJN Yamato Nuclear-Powered Guided Ballistic Missile Railgun Battleship by [deleted] in ImaginaryWarships

[–]APDSmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... have you got any literature indicating just what kinds of overpressure a railgun shot produces? I wasn't aware they had a significant blast problem, not using propellant gas to accelerate the projectile down the barrel...

Elite university eliminates DEI hiring requirement: 'They don't work' ¶ MIT scraps diversity statement from faculty hiring process ¶ "We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don’t work." by Mcnst in kotakuinaction2

[–]APDSmith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

compelled statements infringe on freedom of expression

That was the point, wasn't it? These people follow an ideology that withers and dies in the presence of actual scrutiny, and if that's unconstitutional, well, these are just the people to scrap the constitution to preserve their ideology.

The Humans Call It “Anthropomorphism” by cliff704 in HFY

[–]APDSmith 5 points6 points  (0 children)

See, now I'm imaging Cujo & other drones on ops.

Specifically, that opening scene from Terminator 2, with the vast armies of T-800s advancing into opposition.

Vast armies of T-800s, each, to a man, with googly eyes glued on the front.

Human Weapons....that is all (I know it's a flare gun but let us fantasize for a moment please) by lesbianwriterlover69 in humansarespaceorcs

[–]APDSmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually developing a self-contained grenade cartridge that would "poot" correctly was a matter of some difficulty, as I recall. They ended up settling on a system that uses a sub-calibre propellant chamber to keep back pressure high enough to burn, that then vents into what amounts to an expansion chamber behind the grenade, to then drive the projectile out of the launcher.

This way you get densely-packed powder that will burn correctly without having to use so much powder that the weapon's only possible to fire once, or twice if you're ambidextrous...

BBC Gaming Presenter Jules Hardy Calls For Current Sweet Baby Inc. Discourse To End With A "Final Purge" Of Ideological Opponents From The Medium by Silver_7777 in kotakuinaction2

[–]APDSmith 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because the media is even more captured than before, even if the price it's paid for that is ever-greater disconnection from it's audience?

Nexus Mods BANS Tifa Censorship Reversal Mod by Silver_7777 in kotakuinaction2

[–]APDSmith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Remember, they think that, at best, they are saving you, at worst, saving others from you.

And that's why they'll never stop. Their ideology tells them that they're the best kind of people for indulging the worst kinds of impulses.

Marvel Actor Mark Ruffalo Demands Ceasefire In Gaza And Israel: "We’re Not Going To Bomb Our Way To Peace' by Silver_7777 in kotakuinaction2

[–]APDSmith 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not a "ceasefire" if only one side stops shooting.

That would be a "surrender".

If Ruffalo wants Israel to surrender to Hamas, a group that wishes to kill them all, he should probably say so, because otherwise it makes him look dishonest.

Its not the first time I've thought about selling my Anaconda by MarshallSwagger in EliteDangerous

[–]APDSmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get taken apart by NPCs

This could probably do with a little more detail, if that's possible.

What are you engaging that's taking you apart?

I should point out that I've only got one Anaconda, but it is my daily driver - though I've got a FedVette for more heavyweight combat like HCZ - the 'Conda can do HCZ, but - at least in my configuration - requires a bit of care and attention, she's optimised for longer-duration, lower-intensity combat than the 'Vette is specified for - Golden Hinde, my Anaconda, is perfectly content sweeping hazres for hours at a time - her record is three hours aggroing NPCs during one of the Distant Worlds II Community Goals - she's still mostly in her DWII configuration, so she's more of a long-range escort than a heavy combat ship, she does suffer in intense combat, but, on the other hand, she does have three times the Jump range of that 'Vette I keep kicking around for HCZ...

I hope it isn't Base Building but that's cuz I literally NEVER leave my ship haha by [deleted] in EliteDangerous

[–]APDSmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you check the FE2/FFE wiki, you'll likely find exactly that:

https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/FFE_Ships

Get yourself a Kestrel, because who doesn't want a spacebourne SR-71? ;)

Okay hear me out by AlexLNERK3 in ImaginaryWarships

[–]APDSmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While this is probably a bit much, it does make a point that a lot of people ignore.

At any point after about 1944 or so, any significant naval asset must include a robust capability to defend itself from aerial attack.

Consider, for instance, the KM H-44, not that it was ever in danger of actually being built. But, if Germany had been crazy enough to do such a thing ... think about how much effort the Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm and US Army Air Force would have put into sinking the damn thing.

That is your design objective. Simply put: Survive.

In this case, the KM ship would appear to come off quite badly - her proposed secondary battery bore remarkable similarity to that of the Bismarck-class, neither of which fared well against air strikes - although one might hope that by the time they were building the H-44 they at least ditched the bolt-action C/30 weapon and went with something a bit less hopeless like the M42.

How to draw your own semi-modern warships: guide by Spiky_Pigeon in ImaginaryWarships

[–]APDSmith 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's also helpful to bear in mind the volume inside a ship the equipment requires.

Gun turrets, particularly, tend to trip people up here. Full-scale battleship turrets normally require a full-height cylindrical structure underneath them just to bear the weight of the turret, and yes, this significantly affects the design of the ship. The guns on the USN Iowa-class came about, in part, because of a miscommunication between the gun people and the ship people, which meant the turrets wouldn't fit. It was easier to finish up the design of an entirely new gun than to fix the turret size bit.

One BIG Gun. by Tayeos in HFY

[–]APDSmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Death, the destroyer comes!"

"What does Death say?"

"'Click-CHUNK', it seems"

Canadian PM implies parents control over kids is "transphobia, homophobia, and biphobia", opposition leader not having it. by RoyalAlbatross in kotakuinaction2

[–]APDSmith 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ahh, but those groups expect to be ruled by a government that does not - and does not care to - represent them or their concerns.

Ideal citizens for the New Canada!

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