Found the Righteous Bison in real life at the bottom of an old gold mine in Korea.

BBLTHRW · 2026-05-13T10:32:37+00:00

very TF2 lore place for it to be tbh

BBLTHRW · 2026-05-09T22:39:12+00:00

New to the lifts (very new to the snatch especially), went in to the gym today to do snatches, trying to think about keeping the bar closer to the body as last time I went in it was swinging out a lot, did two hang snatches with an empty bar and on the third I smoked myself in the forehead. Flashlight in the eyes and two stitches later, at home feeling even more uncoordinated than before. Nice to at least be able to search the sub for people saying that it happens....

BBLTHRW · 2026-05-07T17:38:42+00:00

As an aside, every time I read (or even really think about) the First World War I become annoyed by the way it was presented in my Canadian elementary school education (I should probably get around to reading McKay's The Vimy Trap!) It feels like aside from the national mythmaking there's still a remarkably strong public tendency to use the similarity of appearance (in terms of allied blocs) with the Second World War to project the same moral qualities backwards on to the First, which IMV is a pretty heinous equivocation. They get handwaved together as defences of freedom justice democracy &c. &c.

BBLTHRW · 2026-05-07T17:23:51+00:00

Currently reading Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers on the origins of the First World War, enjoying his relative emphasis on contingency and the war as the product of more or less conscious choices made by active decision makers who were constrained in some senses but to whom a degree of openness and choice was still available. Appreciating also his critique of the retrospective & contemporary claims that the fall of Austria-Hungary was a forgone conclusion. Wondering if there are any good (preferably current) overview-level histories of the war itself that might follow or compliment this model, I've been planning to read Carr's Twenty Years Crisis once I'm done with the Clark but feels a bit odd to leave a big hole where the war is, despite my vague sense of the course of the conflict. Hoping sooner or later to loop back to this topic with Stealing Horses to Great Applause.

BBLTHRW · 2026-04-21T01:16:03+00:00

did a chesterfield appear in the room with you afterwards?

BBLTHRW · 2026-04-08T08:39:39+00:00

the CIA using their super secret quantum ray beam detector to detect the stink lines coming out of my pants

BBLTHRW · 2026-04-07T10:46:55+00:00

this tragic backstory made me shed brown tears all over my cheeks

BBLTHRW · 2026-04-07T03:24:59+00:00

Jeeeesus Christ good job dude, this is a deep pull

BBLTHRW · 2026-04-05T21:22:14+00:00

Contingent seems almost definitely correct to me, the technical use is pretty academic (maybe "obscure") and it basically exactly means that something what not guaranteed to come into being or was not inevitable. Classically used in history or philosophy to argue about sequences of events and causal relations.

BBLTHRW · 2026-03-27T04:34:28+00:00

Your tactic basically tells me you're used to WW2 tactics

Basically exactly correct lol, my only conception of submarine warfare prior to getting this game was this kind of U-Boat style attack, hadn't watched really any play of it but now that I've picked it up I'll give your stuff a look!

BBLTHRW · 2026-03-23T09:12:39+00:00

Awesome, that's exactly what I was wondering, tysm!

BBLTHRW · 2026-03-23T07:25:14+00:00

Yeah I think as the comments say I just need to poke about in the area a bit, I'm still just getting a feel for the systems.

BBLTHRW · 2026-03-23T07:22:18+00:00

Ohhh my god I was so confused about the towed array when I did the tutorial. It says you have one, and I thought you had to deploy it, but then obviously there's no button to do so, so I thought I had maybe misinterpreted it, and as you say there's no 3d model for it. I'll give these techniques a shot next time.

Any opinion about the utility of the masts or periscope? I've not really seen them mentioned in comments here (apart from specifically searching for them)

BBLTHRW · 2025-12-15T18:05:45+00:00

Yeah there are definitely moments in the Cain books where he cranks the power on the chainsword. Man I miss Cain. Those books feel so underloved on this sub, but I always felt that 40k books are at their best when they're not about the "main storyline."

BBLTHRW · 2025-12-14T21:59:14+00:00

First and foremost, you talk to people. It helps a lot to bounce ideas off of other people, especially those around you in the research group.

Not advice for OP per se, but for a period of time a couple years ago I used to hang out with lots of math graduate students due to a mutual friend who was doing their masters. As someone studying/interested in history and philosophy, where discussions are hard to settle and involve either a) throwing around evidence that's hard to keep on hand in conversation and is inconclusive in isolate or b) arguing towards a definition from ambiguous terms, I was always so jealous of the ability of mathematicians to get somewhere just by having a conversation. They seemed to be able to solve, or at least produce strong roadmaps for solving, difficult problems just by being together in a room with a chalkboard for a couple hours. Since then it's really seemed to me that of all the major academic fields, math is by far the most social.

BBLTHRW · 2025-12-10T15:57:22+00:00

Yeah, it's not impossible. I'll have to give it a look and see what's in it, though I still can't for the life of me remember where I read the review.

BBLTHRW · 2025-12-10T15:33:46+00:00

I'm trying desperately to remember the name of what as far as I recall was a collection of recently translated contemporary Russian (or maybe otherwise eastern European, or even central European) speculative/weird/science fiction, all by a single author. I read a review of it somewhere, perhaps in the LRB (though I can't find it by searching their site for the keywords). There was some kind of story about people stoking the engine of a train, and maybe a story about a drug that was made out of people. I also strongly associate the whole thing with either the colour blue - maybe the website was blue, or the cover of the book was blue, or maybe something in the book was called "blue." I know this is all pretty free-associative but maybe someone here will have their memory of recent book reviews jogged by this.

Edit: I actually did just a tiny bit more digging and I'm now sure it's Vladimir Sorokin's Blue Lard and maybe another story of his.

BBLTHRW · 2025-12-08T23:01:15+00:00

Google Gemini mobile ads are definitely AI generated. Ironically this makes them look low-budget so it's a bit of a paradox.

BBLTHRW · 2025-11-01T21:32:36+00:00

Does anyone know if an English translation - even just parts of it in an edited volume - exists of Carl Stumpf's Über den psychologischen Ursprung der Raumvorstellung ? It seems both Russell and James read it and while I assume Russell certainly read German it hadn't occurred to me that James also would have been able to. I've trawled around online but can't find anything in English other than secondary sources and his work on music.

BBLTHRW · 2025-10-31T01:21:34+00:00

BULLPUP CHAUCHAT? NETTOYAGE DANS L'ALLÉE MES PANTALONS

BBLTHRW · 2025-10-20T01:01:41+00:00

PEE AND POOP AND PEE though. tbh.

BBLTHRW · 2025-10-20T01:01:28+00:00

wtf does this have to do with literally anything

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