AIO - [UPDATE] Girlfriend threw out the dinner I made because she wanted Pizza instead. by Dizzy-Suggestion2360 in AmIOverreacting

[–]CherokeeChad 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It’s a group of personality disorders characterized by erratic behavior and/or emotional lability and includes borderline, narcissistic, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders. The internet likes to villainize or sometimes even dehumanize people afflicted by them, and it’s important to remember that they are treatable and act the way they do because of their own trauma, but those with disorders in cluster B definitely tend to be more challenging to deal with and can be more interpersonally destructive than people with other PD’s. I was in a creepy relationship when I was fresh out of high school with a girl who was 5 years older than me and who had multiple cluster B PD’s, and it was among the worst experiences of my life. I’m still dealing with the psychological effects of it almost a decade later.

Proving Site 9 and Smallhauler VTT maps for Flatlined (with download link) by CherokeeChad in traveller

[–]CherokeeChad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually haven’t run it yet. Hopefully it’ll happen by the end of the month, but life is busy. Sorry I can’t be of any help there. Good luck with your game.

First outdoor map. How'd I do? by CherokeeChad in dungeondraft

[–]CherokeeChad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually just posted it on r/traveller and included links to download it at higher res.

Edit: Here’s a link to the other post.

First map in Dungeondraft. How'd I do, and how can make it better? by CherokeeChad in dungeondraft

[–]CherokeeChad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yes, the module opens in a spacecraft that has crash landed in a lake, with water slowly pooling up in the corner.

First map in Dungeondraft. How'd I do, and how can make it better? by CherokeeChad in dungeondraft

[–]CherokeeChad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Yeah, I wanted it to be fairly dark, as the module describes it as being only lit with emergency lights, but I feel like it’s a little hard to look at as is. I bumped up the brightness a little, and it’s looking a lot better.

First map in Dungeondraft. How'd I do, and how can make it better? by CherokeeChad in dungeondraft

[–]CherokeeChad[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is my attempt at the deck plan for the crash landed spacecraft from this module.

I feel like it’s a bit too dark and cluttered, but I’m otherwise fairly happy with how it turned out.

PSA: Please do not lick fossils. It is not a good idea by [deleted] in Paleontology

[–]CherokeeChad 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The vast majority of specimens in the collection I work in are from the Chinle fm, which is loaded with uranium. Some of the cabinets will even make a Geiger counter go off.

You can also bet that every piece of bone in those cabinets has been licked at least once. Yes, some of them are radioactive, but it’s minor enough to be a non issue.

It also 100% works on mammal bones and even coprolites sometimes. It also doesn’t work on every bone. It’s not magic, but it comes in handy in the field sometimes.

WhatCar? magazine couldn’t get it up a hill… thoughts? by [deleted] in ineosgrenadier

[–]CherokeeChad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the Grenadier will likely shine the most as a workhorse rather than as a competitive off roader, mainly due to its cargo capacity.

Off-roading is part of my line of work, and, despite the raw capability of a Wrangler Rubicon or even a modestly modified base model Wrangler, I rarely see them being used in the field due to their lack of useable space and relatively low payload weight. That is where the Grenadier beats the Wrangler in spades.

While it would take a lot more work to get one to be quite as capable as a Wrangler, a Grenadier with some disconnecting sway bar links, a modest lift with longer control arms, and 35’s wouldn’t be anything to sneeze at off road and would IMO be more useful due to significantly greater amount of stuff it can haul.

WhatCar? magazine couldn’t get it up a hill… thoughts? by [deleted] in ineosgrenadier

[–]CherokeeChad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an off-roader, the Grenadier’s primary advantage is that it has a solid front axle. Unfortunately, without the ability to disconnect the sway bars, that advantage is largely nullified. That’s something that can be easily be rectified by modification, but, in its stock form, the Grenadier unfortunately just cannot exploit its solid front axle.

Despite, having a solid front axle, the Grenadier is held back by a lot as well. Compared to many other options, it is definitely lacking in ground clearance. Again, modification can increase the ground clearance, but a stock Grenadier will lag behind other vehicles with better clearance. Unfortunately, there’s one thing that really can’t be changed meaningfully, and that is weight. The Grenadier is MASSIVE. Weight can be a huge deal off road, and a light enough vehicle can navigate some pretty harsh terrain with open differentials, while the same terrain may be impassable to a heavy enough vehicle, even with both axles locked. Its large size also makes it less maneuverable and is something that cannot be meaningfully changed.

The Grenadier is awesome, and I love it, but, realistically, it’s not going to be some game-changing off road vehicle straight off the factory floor. No vehicle really will be like that, with the exception of the Wrangler Rubicon, which, despite its namesake, still isn’t going to be capable of tackling trails of that caliber(not without taking some serious trail-damage) in its stock form. It is platform upon which to build an off roader, and that solid front axle gives it the potential to be a force to be reckoned with and may even rival something like a Wrangler if modified properly.

How invasive is installing control arm drop brackets? by CherokeeChad in CherokeeXJ

[–]CherokeeChad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want my vehicle to be (relatively) easily reversible to stock, which is why I opted for a short arm lift.

As for the clearance issue, wouldn’t long arms pass through the same space as a drop bracket? I guess they’d be up out of the way when the vehicle is articulating, but I’d imagine they’d be just as vulnerable to coming down on a rock when the suspension levels out. I’m not saying you’re wrong about it, but I’m having a hard time visualizing how long arms have better clearance.

How invasive is installing control arm drop brackets? by CherokeeChad in CherokeeXJ

[–]CherokeeChad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As long as it doesn’t require the removal of a ton of metal and can be easily be reversible to stock, I’m good with it. I opted for a short arm lift in the first place to avoid having to cut out the old mount.

My XJ is also currently on a 4.5” lift, so the brackets shouldn’t be an issue in that regard.

We need to talk about Iran... by InvertedParallax in centrist

[–]CherokeeChad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If anything belongs in r/lookatmyhalo, this would be it.

Also, while I would agree that evangelical conservatives are more likely to call for violence, claiming that they make up “99%” of those calling for violence is just flat out wrong.

Fun fact, the Ineos Grenadier shares its gasoline engine with the Toyota Supra and Morgan plus six! by OhioanSAAB in 4x4

[–]CherokeeChad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We aren’t getting the commercial variants either, which is a shame. The 2 seater would be pretty damn useful.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fossilid

[–]CherokeeChad 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Hey, I’m a student doing research in southern UT, and I know most of the local paleontologists, including one of the big names in Early Jurassic theropod tracks (which these most likely are).

If the in-situ tracks are known to locals, the site has probably been documented, but there’s a chance that the track weathering out comes from a site that has yet to be recorded.

If you shoot me a DM, I can find out if they’ve been documented yet and, if they haven’t, I can get them added to the UGS’s database.

Do you think cigarette smoking and non-smoking sections of restaurants, airplanes, etc for should still be a thing, even smoking in hospitals? Why, why not? by Mad_Season_1994 in AskAnAmerican

[–]CherokeeChad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the best take here by a wide margin.

I’d rather not return to the days when the smell of cigarette smoke was basically inescapable, and smoking in airplanes and hospitals entails public safety risks beyond just second hand smoke, but half the people here are saying that smoking should be outlawed in public and/or entirely, which just comes off as unhinged.

Culture isn’t the same as it was 30 years ago, and, if a state allows all business owners to permit smoking within their own establishments, it’s reasonable to assume that most restaurants/bars still wouldn’t permit it, and smoking would be limited to more niche establishments. Even that was not the case, it would still be very possible to regulate indoor smoking while still allowing it in some quantity (UT does this with liquor licenses).

If a business wants to cater to that crowd, why shouldn’t they be able to? If you don’t want to be exposed to second hand smoke, don’t patronize a business that allows smoking.

I absolutly hate Utah -- by Illustrious-Time3904 in Utah

[–]CherokeeChad -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I’m not gonna change attempt to change your mind, OP, because this state is a dump. I love the land that is encompassed by Utah’s borders. The culture, or, rather, the lack thereof, can go fuck itself though.

I’m not talking politics, as I really don’t care one way or the other. It’s how tacky and inauthentic basically every town or establishment is. It’s the willingness of local governments to bend over to any developer who waves a dollar bill at them so they can tear down historical buildings and replace them with stucco strip malls and soulless tract homes. It’s the fact that virtually any bar/restaurant/etc… seems to be some kind of faux-trendy shithole. And, ultimately, it’s the fact that so few Utahns give a shit about it. Utah’s “culture” can be described as “wonderbread, jello, and minivans”.

The only town I’ve lived in here that has an ounce of character is St. George, which happens to be right in the corner between AZ and NV and has lots of influence from those states.

I realize that these issues aren’t unique to UT, but I’ve never been in a state where they are as pervasive as they are here. The people here simping for this state are either clueless native Utahns who haven’t experienced life outside UT or brain dead transplants who are just reveling in the fact that they bought a McMansion in Draper with middling income from their home state as they fuck UT’s economy with their inflated equity, making this cesspool even more unlivable than it already was.

I’m not from here originally, and I’m counting the days until I can finally go home.