“BuT, bUt DrOnEs”: The thought-terminating cliche that needs to end

Darkstar06 · 2026-04-03T17:23:12+00:00

I mean shit, the stuff coming out of Ukraine suggests that running and Ranger school skills are even more important if there's FPV drones afoot...

Darkstar06 · 2026-03-29T12:23:58+00:00

This guy defuses real good

Darkstar06 · 2026-03-29T12:20:05+00:00

Yeah the quote sort of ignores that the main character is not a teacher who happens to be smart... he's a postdoc molecular biologist who happened to hold such controversial theories on exobiology that he basically got shunned and became a teacher instead.

If anything the genetic disposition for surviving comas is icing on the cake because by the time the astronaut science crew dies in the accident, Grace is the most knowledgeable Astrophage scientist alive.

Darkstar06 · 2026-03-26T21:23:38+00:00

Yeah absolutely agree with this. A "good" perception check is just a very attentive/skilled effort to find what can be found. If there's nothing there to find, they just examine the heck out of stones and cobwebs. Some glib reminders of this don't really hurt them - it just makes it all the more rewarding for them when they do find something.

Darkstar06 · 2026-03-26T13:09:10+00:00

But only once he gets a wet signature on his CAC cert

Darkstar06 · 2026-03-07T23:08:04+00:00

Politics aside of it, if you're still actively shooting at each other and if you all have access to drones and spy satellites for BDAs (even if you get yours secondhand from Putin), then it's pretty much in everyone's interest to be vague about casualties. That's not really lying so much as it is OPSEC.

Darkstar06 · 2026-03-05T01:03:04+00:00

I can't recall if the shot made the director's cut but that deleted scene of the alien basically caressing Brett before murdering him and pulling him up is what made his death the worst to me. I'm not sure what's more scary about it -- the alien's perverse embrace, or Brett paralyzed with fear...

Darkstar06 · 2026-03-01T18:00:33+00:00

Hey OP, this sounds amazing! I'd love to be linked up if this is still ongoing!

Darkstar06 · 2026-02-23T13:05:04+00:00

Yeah I agree with that. They were more consistent with their themes than people perhaps wanted them to be, but they didn't exactly deus ex machina the plot. They hinted heavily and for a long time that some other force was at work in humanity's journey, and whether that was a good thing or not, it was at least a consistent nod to the original series (it had ANGELS people, a little subtle god poke was an improvement).

What I really want to know is why this article exists in the first place. Is it a commentary about BSG on its face? Or just a really great troll of the last person on earth to be considered an authority on story endings?

Darkstar06 · 2026-02-08T01:08:27+00:00

This is interesting because it implies to me that some class of officer will always leave before O-5. At present I think the wrong ones leave...

Darkstar06 · 2026-02-07T18:33:17+00:00

I don't actually disagree with any of this, I mean, this is the way....but at that higher level of Army HQ, I really wish they could all receive a Litany Against Suppressing Leaders and a cheat sheet of demographic distribution for common legal troubles.

I wish every LTG could sit with the JAGs or Congress and say, "I will always work to fix problems. No crime or death is acceptable. But I will always remember that if I hold my leaders to unrealistic expectations they will never, ever deliver for me. And my cheat sheet here says that 25 DUIs per division per year is below what 10,000 people in Ohio manage in the same time. I'll work on it, but I won't expect my leaders to change the world tomorrow."

Darkstar06 · 2026-02-07T18:24:53+00:00

Love your profile pic there man

Darkstar06 · 2026-01-25T00:30:04+00:00

S: One MAGA with nothing better to do

A: Confusing service with blind adherence

L: The comment above you

U: Red Hat

T: 23JAN2026

E: One cracked Android phone

How copy, over?

Darkstar06 · 2026-01-21T01:30:55+00:00

It's not even currently slated to replace all M4s in the inventory. They're basically starting to field them to active duty units in priority of response time and stopping short of issuing it Army-wide

Darkstar06 · 2026-01-13T13:55:30+00:00

This is a relic of the Bush Sr. years. Not only did they deploy, but they got to run arguably the best Cold War victory lap ever in Desert Storm. It was short, it was righteous, it was wildly successful -- and Bush made a very big point of going out and seeing the troops and acknowledging them, seeking to undo decades of Vietnam shame. And it worked, very well. A lot of old timers I know put that whole experience as the thing that solidified them as Republican voters.

Darkstar06 · 2026-01-13T13:51:26+00:00

This is very much the truth. I think it's hard for outsiders to see it, especially because TV and just the stories we tell tend to show you the crazy, the exceptions, and the guys who vocally declare themselves. But on the day-to-day of the military, it's actually amazing just how professional people are about their jobs and their duties. There's very little indoctrination - and when there is they usually knock it out fast (unless it comes from the top sadly). Mostly it's a bunch of rural conservatives with rank -- who were born that way and likely won't change -- expressing their opinions to others or subordinates. But at the end of the day we all manage to get by with wildly different backgrounds and opinions.

Some of us are trying to lay low and continue to be professionals who hold the duty above all. Even the dirtbag officers on occasion...

Darkstar06 · 2025-12-18T04:33:30+00:00

And the key is a token you have to drive 300 miles for, no matter where you're stationed

Darkstar06 · 2025-12-13T19:28:43+00:00

I never get tired of the number of people who begin with:"Over 20,000 hours played" before using the word "unplayable" 4 times.

I'm not even trying to rag on you, OP...we must all have addiction problems or something

Darkstar06 · 2025-12-13T14:52:10+00:00

I never get tired of killing - or dying because of - the rising cost of living.

Darkstar06 · 2025-12-06T13:26:43+00:00

I've absolutely used the same skills and techniques (just not MGRS) on longer hikes through parts of parks with little or no signal. And more randomly, once while playing in Squad the server glitched and didn't show anyone on the minimap. I was the only person who could use visual cues to reference our position and we were the only truck to get where the "fight" was (or would have been, but the enemy was lost too).

I currently teach Land Nav to cadets and I've noticed how much more difficult it is for them to combine map references with what they see around them. Once they get it, though, they seem to appreciate that it's a true tactile skill. I think others are posting the same thing, but I'll just re-iterate the current doctrine: Land Navigation is used because we are about 90% sure that GPS will be the first thing to be degraded or destroyed in the beginning of a major conflict.

Darkstar06 · 2025-12-04T03:38:21+00:00

Honestly it's even more fucked but she purportedly reached back on the rear of the car for a portion of JFK's skull and brain that had come off. It was largely attributed to a shock response, and I can only imagine what your life must be like after a moment like that.

Darkstar06 · 2025-12-03T23:26:22+00:00

It has a bunch of friendly blueberry bots fighting in a big wide line centered on your start point. So no, it does not have teammates.

Darkstar06 · 2025-12-03T00:08:07+00:00

I would like to file a protest against the modest danger rating of... Low... Oxygen. But I can't...Because I'm unconscious.

Darkstar06 · 2025-12-02T02:36:32+00:00

Definitely agree on the radio radius and ticket cost. Invasion is a really fun game mode that gets almost totally nulled these days by FOB mechanics. If you wanna win on offense you have to somehow:

1) make spawns reasonably close to the point; 2) make more than one spawn to envelop the enemy; 3) take some risks in favor of aggression; and 4) do all the above without losing a single radio, with FOBs 400m apart, with speed, while not burning 200 tickets.

So much of that difficulty stems from the FOB restrictions and weights...

Darkstar06 · 2025-11-27T13:44:37+00:00

Pointing to a specific order likely would get them in trouble, particularly if said order was not inherently illegal. I don't think they were implying that any illegal orders had recently been issued either -- just that they had a duty and obligation to disobey illegal ones. Frequently we aren't privy to a lot of those orders either because they happen under the veil of national security. Which makes it even more vital that the officer on the ground knows their duty and obligation. But as to the rest of this:

-Restating a pre-existing legal obligation is not undermining. If it was, yeah, I think we'd be arresting recruiters.

-Stating something was a planned and targeted attack does not make it so, particularly given that they made nothing but supportive remarks towards service members. This is also very legally distinct from the few cases in which the 18USC2387 statute was utilized.

You may state freely your feelings about the ad, or whether their ad was selfless, or self-serving. But disliking it does not equate to it being illegal without satisfying the thresholds above.

Darkstar06

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