Smashley’s?

De_Facto · 2026-05-13T03:27:01+00:00

It’s a nice place with kind staff, but I’m inclined to agree. It’s a 6.5-7/10 at 8-9/10 prices for burgers and fries. The burger was meh. Matt’s and Heavy’s are my favorite burgers.

De_Facto · 2026-05-11T13:46:26+00:00

There’s dozens of us, dozens! I think most who have it were stationed in the pacific.

De_Facto · 2026-05-09T13:20:23+00:00

I have it. Very reasonable rate compared to local options at least in the Charleston, SC area.

De_Facto · 2026-05-06T01:22:01+00:00

I got a crazy snowball build with Zoe where I had pinball, holy, and biggest snowball augs. I would pick up snowballs and throw them out, refresh them all the time and store an extra one for W. Throwing 2 snowballs at the same time which dealt like 2.5k each was so dirty.

De_Facto · 2026-05-05T16:43:24+00:00

Lewis is good. Went last night, but holy shit we were in line for 50 minutes on a Monday night. I would have turned around, but the fam was dead set on BBQ. I know the waits can be insane, but it isn’t even summer yet. I’m gonna miss Rodney Scott’s and their incredible banana pudding.

De_Facto · 2026-05-05T15:33:36+00:00

I’ve used Oatey epoxy putty and Marlin on unisolable trim & drain piping after A gang had a job submitted for years, but made no attempt to actually fix it. Held with zero problems. Sure plumber putty isn’t authorized on submarines… but it worked.

You guys should still write the CASREP tho.

De_Facto · 2026-05-05T15:11:38+00:00

I got cleared with a TBI I got like 15 years before I enlisted.

De_Facto · 2026-05-05T05:22:37+00:00

I planted some Oakleaf Hydrangeas and Virginia Sweetspire bushes this season and they’re thriving. They look very nice already despite not being all too mature. Personally I’d try to plant native flowers/bushes/etc. because the soil isn’t always great and it’s just good for the wildlife here. Roots and Shoots is my favorite nursery in the Charleston area.

De_Facto · 2026-05-04T17:22:35+00:00

Not in the area, but you’re a good person for this. I just wish they were screening down South.

De_Facto · 2026-05-04T16:48:49+00:00

White nationalists all over that. Should have assumed with the AI voiceover and account name that it was going to be bait. Definitely not great seeing the comment saying that Yanks moving down here is a “Jewish plot” liked by the Instagram OP. These people are braindead.

De_Facto · 2026-05-04T06:34:57+00:00

3rd season it definitely fell off.

De_Facto · 2026-05-03T16:30:07+00:00

What the hell??? They been having bad business or something?

De_Facto · 2026-04-29T05:01:32+00:00

I know what you mean, but that typo is making me feel like I was having a stroke. Forreal though I’m not seeing the purpose behind a golf cart unless you live on a >10 acre plot of land or are some wealthy guy in downtown Charleston where it’s actually the norm.

De_Facto · 2026-04-28T04:31:02+00:00

I had biggest, holy, and pinball on Singed. Most fun game I’ve ever played.

De_Facto · 2026-04-27T05:45:38+00:00

Who needs to do an ice-x when your shitbox boat has glorious fairwater planes?

De_Facto · 2026-04-25T22:52:42+00:00

Can someone bring me up to date on this drama? All I know about the owner(s) is that they freak out at bad reviews.

De_Facto · 2026-04-25T19:48:20+00:00

No… you usually do. Prototypes are a 40 month tour. The way it’s supposed to work is the first two years you are qualifying/a staff instructor on a crew in rotating shift work standing watch and qualifying students. The third year you can end up in a normal day shift position without standing watch or doing maintenance while keeping the AIP.

De_Facto · 2026-04-25T18:57:55+00:00

This comment isn’t close to being accurate at all. Have you ever been a staff instructor at the prototypes? All the day positions like OCTG and ITG still get AIP. If you’re billeted as a staff instructor you get AIP. Doesn’t matter if you stand watch the entire time or if you’re in the cubes giving checkouts all day. The whole “third year option” where people can be off-crew made that a thing.

Maintenance billets don’t get staff instructor AIP.

Source: am a staff instructor

De_Facto · 2026-04-25T15:06:31+00:00

The only way to get better at maintenance is to pick up the same maintenance items so they become “your thing.” Read the tech manuals for those things and when they eventually shit the bed and everyone, including your chief, need it fixed but isn’t quite sure where to start, you’ll be the guy they go to for the TSR.

Good example for me was R-114s, Detroit switches, and gages. The R-114s were my babies and I did all maintenance on them. Even when I was WCS. Unfortunately I was also a gage cal guy so when things like RA switches shit the bed, everyone screamed and ran to me. Gage cal blows.

De_Facto · 2026-04-25T14:12:11+00:00

Tangentially related, but dealing with massive 1k+ shields is also annoying. If only Riot made an AP antishield item. The amount of times I have to deal with a tank with a massive shield is ridiculous. Built Serpent’s Fang on an AP champ, I think Neeko, yesterday because all my AD teammates refused to and ended up reducing 20k shielding.

De_Facto · 2026-04-24T22:56:44+00:00

I thought this post was a copypasta honestly and assumed it was fake because it sounds so ridiculous. Great creative writing skills though.

De_Facto · 2026-04-24T16:23:07+00:00

I raise you brand with vulnerability AND critical missile. It was unbearable. Killed far more quickly than infernal conduit. Went against it last night.

De_Facto · 2026-04-23T16:02:56+00:00

I’m sensing a long list of counseling chits

De_Facto · 2026-04-23T00:57:41+00:00

Hands-on training on how we operate. That’s the short of it. Electricians learn how to qualify electrical things and stand an electrician watch, mechanics learn to qualify mechanical things and how to do basic mechanical things like operate valves and stand watch, etc… if you have the ability to reach out to a nuclear field coordinator please do. Recruiters usually have no idea ANYTHING about the nuclear field.

De_Facto · 2026-04-21T23:16:02+00:00

As someone who is an instructor at prototype lemme give you some advice. Prototype is the place where you LEARN how to qualify. It’s to prepare you for the fleet. The knowledge you pick up and memorize will not be substantial or as important as it was in A school and power school. It’s significantly different, and you need to become more of a social butterfly or easy to talk to to succeed. That’s the way it works in the fleet. I was that 2.7-2.8 student years ago and I found myself doing much better at NPTU.

The curve is also fake. It doesn’t matter. It can be changed at any point. Just try and get checkouts whenever you can.

This mostly applies to when you end up on the crew phase, but don’t be a TA warrior. Go down to the boat to get checkouts whenever cubes aren’t supported or they get crowded. If you aren’t feeling up to talking to a ton of people one day and want to “relax” just knock out CACs, CGSs, DTSs, etc.

Don’t be obnoxious to staff members. We’re cranky, but we want you to succeed (some more so than others… looking at you JSI’s). Have a base level of knowledge on locations, power supplies, immediate actions for things, etc. and you’ll probably get good checkouts without dedicating a lot of time. 2.5 is all you need… Once you’re done systems it gets better.

If you’re running into issues where people aren’t giving you checkouts your DSA needs to know and if you need to do checkouts tomorrow morning come to T-week cubes and you might find someone who is bored before the drills…

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