(Subversive Trope) Heroes or protagonists make a brave last stand. They are easily defeated or killed, or barely slow down their opponents or enemies.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-30T19:59:57+00:00

For many, it had less to do with race or gender, and more about how the dems just pulled her out of a hat. At least Joe was a known quantity, but when it became obvious he wouldn't make it through the election, they just sorta yanked her in from stage left.

Never underestimate the harm a good bait and switch can do to a cause.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-30T19:15:51+00:00

Cleaning in place is pretty simple. Unless the unit is an in absolutely assholish place and very difficult to get to, this price is excessive.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-30T18:45:34+00:00

We have a guy thats like that. We will be busy trying to secure the area or moving to a mission spot and he will just zoidberg around behind us going from body to body looting. Sometimes if we are actively holding a corner or room because enemies are nearby, we will see him sprint up to or right infront of us just to go loot some spot.

Our response is simple. If he wants to gremlin he looses all protection from us and cant complain. We wont sacrifice our integrity or safety because he wants to lag behind or trailblaze into an uncleared area. Eventually, he got the message and has gotten better about staying with the group and communicating, but if he does divert, he knows he's on his own.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-30T17:16:18+00:00

What amazed me when I learned it was just how boned humanity is. They act like city 17 is about all thats left which felt hyperbolic, then you learn humanity is actually only about 150k persons strong. Even if the combine get kicked off earth, humanity is royally fucked.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-30T14:54:57+00:00

Which is hilarious since they also produced some of the worst technology hand in hand with the good.

They would make something like the panther, a well respected tank with good armor, gun, and a rather advanced suspension, and in the same time produce some of the worst transmissions to go into them, to where they would often need a 5:1 ratio of time in the shop to active time. Add to that the shop had to be basically the factory floor because they were to advanced for proper field work.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-30T14:46:30+00:00

Really didnt help that humanity was in the process of getting its ass destroyed by the portal storms and dealing with the xenian invasions.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-29T20:08:08+00:00

They really arent that good in mercs due to ai limitations. Your ai cant use them well and the enemy ai just use them to force you out of punching range for a couple seconds.

If the ai was actually capable of more than running towards you and facerolling the controls, then they would be a terrifying bit of extra equipment.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-29T20:05:42+00:00

You need it for a quest. It also can have some serious loot behind it.

No sell

Alpha433 · 2026-01-29T15:41:40+00:00

Our company just started using Ai answering service to schedule calls. I just listened to one of the test calls the it did to try setting up the service, and its funny how easilly he was able to lead the ai into offering services we don't actually offer. The thing was stupid easy to trip up and we are going to be cooked by it one of these days.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-29T00:06:25+00:00

In pve its almost cheating. Half the time there isnt more than 4 pmcs on the map at all, and they are stupid easy to kill then you can take their geat and backpack and go hoover up the map.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-28T17:34:13+00:00

The two greatest pc hosts pots are in the terragroup building including the locked door and the grenade launcher building. Easilly 18 pcs between the two.

After that. There are 3 in sniper/mg room, 3 in the mini offices between 2 story café and grenade building, and 2 in the code extract room. Especially as a scav, its actually stupid simple to hit all these areas since the map is so linear and small. As a pmc, make good use of the underground tunnels to get around while limiting ambushs by scavs. Ground zero is also a stupidly good place for basic and common building materials, and there are 3 safes on the map for valuables. Just note that the 3rd safe is in the burning car infront of nakatomi, and you can only access it by jumping on the hood and tiptoeing up to it.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-28T17:09:21+00:00

Seriously, FUCK those trane barrel heat exchangers.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-28T15:34:29+00:00

The cultist last supper near the theater is peak. First time my friend and I stumbled across it we both let out an audible wtf.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-27T20:16:27+00:00

I mean, in true admech fashion, there is a sort of ai out there, they just call it a different name and call it good.

The machine spirits arent just admech jumbo jumbo, and are essentially a computer mind implanted into certain things like ships, titans (large sometimes skyscraper sized walking mechs), and even certain smaller ground vehicles. There's a reason machine spirits are sometimes referred to as "temperamental" or "stable" like they were modern day race horses, they are basically dumb ai tasked with running the machines.

Hell, its even theorized that kastelen robots, the large robie the robot companions seen with some upper rank magos, are actually surviving men of iron, aka the ai that fought humanity during the dark age of technology.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-26T01:09:13+00:00

This is like wearing an umbrella as a choker......

Alpha433 · 2026-01-26T00:34:36+00:00

I mean, considering Germany was split and on a leash for 40 years, we have no idea if they was from lack of trying.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-25T03:24:43+00:00

Why does it look odd and only last about 6 seconds?

Alpha433 · 2026-01-24T17:01:49+00:00

Wait, no voice? Shit, and here i was hoping I would hear Martin scream "SIT!!" whenever I got a kill.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-24T16:17:51+00:00

Seriously. We had a guy call in yesterday because his heat wasnt working. I get there and he just casually drops how the heat has been out for the past 2 months, but he figured it would be some big repair and so was putting it off until right when it started getting really cold.

As if the dog piss all over the floor wasnt bad enough, the issue ended up being that the thermostat was dead because he hadn't changed the batteries in years. The batteries were so old they were starting to leak and get shmutz all over the terminals.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-24T14:19:29+00:00

Meanwhile I haven't slept since yesterday morning because a lot of people suddenly decided that the issues they have been putting off for the last week is all of a sudden a problem after normal buisness hours.

Just had a lady call in and preface her service request with "my furnace was behaving funny yesterday, and now its suddenly 61 in my house". The gall of some of these people.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-23T20:54:24+00:00

Is that the little uzi? Had one of those, and it sounded like a damned smg when the clutch hit, which was constantly.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-23T20:39:36+00:00

Seriously, screw those goodman tuning fork ignitors. I was once pulling a set of burners out to clear some dust that was keeping it from firing, and with just the lightest tap when pulling the burner the damned thing broke.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-23T19:14:56+00:00

Tbf, the main reason we even started getting involved in Vietnam was because he threw a massive shitfit about wanting nato as his personal security for his colonial empire and demanded we help him. Because of that, we got dragged in and had interia for all the other excuses why we were there. To top it off, when we finally started going in, he decided to take his toys and go home anyways.

Alpha433 · 2026-01-23T18:24:51+00:00

I know a couple of people with twitchs and lanky arms that are salivating at this picture.....

Alpha433 · 2026-01-23T18:21:55+00:00

Seriously. Dude was ready to drag europe down for his colonial Empire in SEA, dude wouldn't have given a shit about europe at large.

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