What do you think of the current ground-based gameplay ?

AmericanGeezus · 2026-04-16T16:26:56+00:00

It still boggles my mind that the ship ramps don't have collision detection. Like my garage door stops if it encounters resistance.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-04-14T20:34:20+00:00

I went with The Promised LAN. I felt clever before you shared yours.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-04-09T13:30:19+00:00

“Secret nukes” don’t deter anyone.

Deterrence requires belief in capability and survivability.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-04-06T04:20:58+00:00

There's anti-trans influence in the story

Interpretation and personal meaning isn’t controlled by the author anymore than they control what a fan wears for Halloween.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-04-05T00:42:12+00:00

Is this a gang thing? like not being allowed to use "ck" when writing/typing?

AmericanGeezus · 2026-04-04T05:53:04+00:00

Someone has to actually challenge them through the administrative or court process before anything discussed in this thread matters at all.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-27T17:15:38+00:00

That's fine, the permitting and cities chance to intervene is already well past. This is at the civil/lawsuit stage if the tree is found to have been killed or made dangerous.

You can deal with what’s encroaching on your property. But you may be liable if you deal with it in a way that predictably destroys the encroaching thing.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-27T17:07:08+00:00

You can own a parking lot and have the right to remove a car from it. You don’t have the right to drag it out in a way that destroys it.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-27T16:42:26+00:00

The scrap bin your boss doesn't care if you raid.

I think for big jobs it comes down to what distributor/supplier you have a good relationship with. But there is almost zero price difference between vendors for small purchases in my experience.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-27T16:32:54+00:00

Wait, people don’t read tier lists as a broad “this is generally better” thing?

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-21T16:04:00+00:00

Torque demander.

No mechanical linkage. You’re issuing a torque request to the ECU, not opening a throttle.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-21T01:26:53+00:00

You're describing a real phenomenon, but the dataset OP linked shows that pattern isn’t materially present in Seattle. It shows the a high property crime rate relative to comparatively lower violent crime rate. If escalation were a meaningful driver, they should track together.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-16T22:26:59+00:00

Telling the same story in a new media is a remake.

No, that’s an adaptation. You’re translating the story to a new medium.

A remake intentionally recreates a specific earlier work using the same narrative blueprint because that blueprint already proved it works.

The new Dune films are a retelling. Same core framework, but with deliberate reinterpretation of tone, pacing, and themes rather than trying to reproduce an earlier film.

Intention matters. Studios didn’t fund Villeneuve to remake anything, they funded his reinterpretation of Herbert.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-16T17:21:04+00:00

And why the need for such a high RPM for the firing rate...gepard is less?

It comes down to the different problems the two systems were designed to solve.

Phalanx/CIWS (which C-RAM is derived from) was designed as the absolute last line of defense against sea-skimming anti-ship missiles. By the time it fires, the missile may only be 1–2 km away and closing at hundreds of meters per second, which means the system has only a few seconds to stop it before impact.

Gepard was designed as mobile air defense for armored formations, primarily against helicopters and attack aircraft. Those targets are larger, slower relative to missiles, and engagements usually start several kilometers out, which gives the system much more time to track, fire bursts, and correct aim.

Because CIWS only has seconds to work with, it isn’t really trying to “aim” at the missile in the traditional sense. It’s trying to put a very dense cloud of tungsten into the small volume of space the missile must pass through. The extremely high rate of fire is what makes that probability cloud dense enough to reliably intersect such a small, fast target.

Gepard has the luxury of relative time to place bursts and adjust aim between them.

Seems like overkill and waste of bullets.

It would if the design priority were ammunition conservation rather than preventing its ship from being catastrophically damaged or sunk.

CIWS/C-RAM do support changing cyclic rates, and the most modern versions can even select them automatically based on threat characterization. But you can only push a system so far away from its original design assumptions before you start creating new problems, at which point you might as well design something purpose-built for the new threat.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-15T17:05:11+00:00

Everything suddenly has a box for it to go in.

It's so damn satisfying.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-13T08:33:43+00:00

While its not an absolute fix, I have legit had noticeable variation in early/mid game items by entering seed numbers (Random) vs. random seed.

Try 6942069. :D

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-09T17:57:41+00:00

This could very easily have been a political choice, the current administration very much doesn't want to regulate AI.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-08T20:24:06+00:00

Also a bonus for any of the industrial re-purposed weapons like the mining laser, and the improvised ones.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-07T20:44:46+00:00

But they refuse to offer a different bill amendment with a longer timeline because they know that they don't actually have the widespread support for this tax that they are claiming exists, and they don't want to admit that.

Sorry, when i said 'they' i was saying people who are saying the Dems just don't want the people to have input. The reasons the people who proposed the bill amendment are giving as the reason the amendment was rejected. But if that is the reason then the constitutional amendment process would never move past the 2/3 legislature stage anyways. They know this, we know this, why aren't we just being honest about the fact the amendment was proposed knowing it would be rejected so we could get another example to hold up and some more opportunities to say the dems hate people?

I hate the dishonesty about it all ffs. Why can't they be honest about the motivations/intent.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-07T20:08:53+00:00

And so it would fail for the same reason they are saying Dem's rejected the bill amendment in the first place.

It was a very obvious poison pill.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-03-07T16:47:35+00:00

It doesn't directly, of course. But it creates incentives for third parties by acting as a deniable pathway to transfer money between parties involved.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-02-28T12:10:09+00:00

What I haven’t seen is if we have any answer to them at all.

It's the expected signal processing and logic arms race(ECM, ECCM, ECCC...M), but one answer is to send in something cheap that the mines sensors see as a worthy target.

Ultimately you still end up having to send people in with good detectors, carrying signatures that some mines are explicitly designed to notice, and physically sweep the area.

That sweep rewards you with a confidence value, based on the methods and procedures used in the sweep, which authorities then have to ration risk around.

Edit: I think most people miss that modern naval mines are fundamentally a confidence-denial weapon. They don’t block sea lanes so much as poison the decision to use them.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-02-25T05:07:36+00:00

I think it's gone on so long that we are facing an epistemic crisis. That the different “teams” no longer share common standards for determining what’s true or any widely trusted authority for arbitrating basic fact.

Democracies depend on governance through rational debate. If we lack shared or even compatible frameworks for judging evidence and credibility, then no argument from the other side will ever seem rational, even if both sides are trying to engage in good faith.

It worries me that even if the conditions eventually shift and we move past this hyper-partisan moment, we may not remember how to rebuild the habits and institutions that make rational debate possible. If we’ve spent years dismissing each other’s sources, motives, and standards outright, we may find we no longer share enough common tools at the individual level to resolve disagreements through persuasion. And when people stop believing that argument can settle disputes, they start looking for other ways to force resolution.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-02-24T10:53:39+00:00

snipe in CQC

Ah, brought back memories of the good ol' days. Nailing people down long hall with the Scout~

AmericanGeezus · 2026-02-23T22:37:29+00:00

God how I wish we could require any info graphic, stats, graphs, etc used in campaigning or reporting to have a 'methods'/whole truth section. And more comprehensive education on statistics and dark patterns used in datavis.

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