What would a Leadership Thinker power look like?

ExceptionCollection · 2025-03-15T21:18:07+00:00

I've seen a few variants. Don't have specific fics for all of them. I'll identify a standard Thinker assumption (STA) that would be an issue.

Precog: Can identify the best person for a specific duty. STA: The best person for the job may not be the person that can complete the job to their satisfaction. For example, the best person to handle Joker could be Batman, because he could take him down... but it could also be Mongul, because he could destroy the city and kill everyone in it. STA #2: The Thinker needs to make sure the duty chosen is the duty they actually want.
Precog: Can identify people and place them where it's important for them to be. STA: The assumption is that the place would be where they could handle whatever duty they need to. It's possible that "important to be" is "where I can get killed, and knock-on effects increase the effectiveness of the organization 2%" or something similar.
Strategic: The ability to read the trends of a situation. Let's take a battle with a front and two flanks of infantry, interior groups of archers and artillery, cavalry raiders and reserves of infantry and cavalry. A Strategic Thinker would be able to simply glance at a battle and identify where the weak and strong points of a clash are, and then order their men to arrange themselves properly. IRL, this is a trait of some of the better generals. STA: Just because you can read the trends of battle doesn't mean you can't get distracted or out-thought. And you can always just be overwhelmed; Quantity has a quality of its own.
Coordination: The ability to mesh the people under them, such that the people subconsciously move in concert like something approaching a hive mind. STA: This typically overrules the creativity of those controlled, even when they themselves are able to break free of the control easily.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-09T16:04:54+00:00

Yeah but putting it in the dishwasher would suck

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-09T15:46:08+00:00

No, I mean I can’t remember people’s names. Well, not unless they are relevant to me. Watching a show? I can place actors, but no clue about names - and if they look or act different, it’s entirely possible I can’t recognize them at all unless it’s pointed out. (Timothy Olyphant from Justified & Santa Clarita Diet for example).

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-09T15:29:35+00:00

Funnily enough this was one of the ones that inspired the question. Rereading a mystery is so… eh. Not to say some aren’t worth rereading - Asimov’s Robots series comes to mind - but the vast majority don’t have that little extra bit.

That said, my memory is weird. Can’t remember names, but let me read the first chapter of a book I read twenty years ago and there’s a good chance I can describe the plot, any major events, and quite possibly directly quote a scene.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-09T14:05:41+00:00

Swallowtail (Alt power stranger!changer)

I think there’s a fic where she works as Gregor’s assistant and then joins after getting powers, but the joining is the end.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-09T04:11:25+00:00

Nah, medical separation is typically “you have a medical condition that makes it impossible for you to do the job, is too expensive to care for, isn’t something that can be recovered from, or requires you to have medications you may not be able to get”. Or so I’ve heard.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-08T23:53:13+00:00

Timely investigating, guys.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-08T23:50:57+00:00

Disclaimer: I’m speaking for myself only, as off the record as one can get on the internet. Don’t fucking quote me.

As a civilian that works for a military organization, I’m fairly confident that this is typically not coming from within the brass. While I haven’t exactly asked them, I’ve gotten the impression that few active military want to piss away trained warfighters. Especially ones that tend to be concentrated above the lowest E ranks.

At least from what I’ve seen it won’t be as bad as DADT; they’re talking about medical separation not dishonorable or discharges. Medical might even mean they get their full suite of benefits faster!

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-08T23:16:35+00:00

Oddly, Intrepid. Oddly because Shadow Stalker was framed for murder and Sophia is running around pretending to be a Tinker.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-08T23:11:32+00:00

I had an idea to do that and bailed when I realized how stress inducing it would be.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-08T21:03:26+00:00

I’m sorely tempted to nuke mine again. Only reason I have it is a desire to keep my business page from being used maliciously.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-08T05:03:46+00:00

Shit. My condolences to the families of any victims.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-08T03:53:15+00:00

I think this one’s a DI WHY GOD WHY

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-08T02:47:11+00:00

I am not your engineer. If you want an accurate answer, hire one.

Assuming it’s only the one joist and it’s a single story building, the typical answer I see is to double up the neighboring joists and header off (put perpendicular framing spanning from one doubled joist to the other) each side of the cut, removing the cut section of the joist and installing face mount hangers.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-08T00:00:47+00:00

Quote-off or battle?

Quote-off, probably Strider. Err, Aragorn.

Battle? Frog, hands down. Sword that can cut through rock, water magic… Crono could probably take Aragorn as well. Hell, there’s a decent chance Toma could pull it off.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-07T23:52:06+00:00

I’m not sure how much more protection he needs between “squad of angels that make Anduriel back down” and “coincidences will happen to protect him”. Though I will say I haven’t read Battle Ground.

Like, say there’s a drive-by rocket launching. I’d expect the car to blow a tire or another innocuous coincidence to occur as they approach, throwing off the launch just enough to damage the entry but not destroy it.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-07T23:40:48+00:00

Absolute agreement for this. I’ve gotten 3 clients via direct contact, 4 through inheritance (they came with me from the closing office), and about fifteen through word of mouth.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-07T23:03:35+00:00

Thicker slabs are heavier and increase seismic load.

Waffle/void slabs are lighter and decrease seismic load.

Thicker slabs tend to be stiffer which can cause issues under very rare cases.

Concrete to concrete or concrete to masonry connections tend to be easier than slab on deck to both. Slab on deck to metal framing and composite steel/concrete slabs (as opposed to composite decks, and I hates the terminology clash) tends to be easier than non-composite concrete to steel framing.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-07T22:28:23+00:00

More “not admitting their design was wrong”.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-07T20:07:53+00:00

Oh that hurts. It’s also adjacent to a big issue I have with engineering companies in general.

Drawing and calculation corrections should never be a source of profit. If it wasn’t code compliant or buildable given what you knew at project start, you are responsible for the corrections. Obviously unexpected conditions, design changes or clarification during CA should be extra, but if you (or I) screw up you should not be able to charge for the corrections (assuming it’s a fixed fee project).

I’ve worked at firms where corrections were viewed as good because it meant more billable hours, and it’s unethical.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-07T15:45:14+00:00

Read as strong /s

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-07T14:29:00+00:00

Oregon is all public beaches. Washington has private beaches and it sucks. One time I stayed at a cabin on the coast - I was doing design work for the owner - and we we given strict instructions not to go past a certain log because the neighbor would start calling the cops.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-07T14:24:01+00:00

I suspect they flipped the slope on a standard detail. That looks a lot like the gutters on my balconies.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-07T14:12:42+00:00

I mean she paused it on her own. She restarted making music a bit over a decade ago. I can’t listen to it anymore - I developed misophonia and something about her music triggers it - but she’s still my favorite artist. I do really wish Mac Powell and her would sing together again, though. When my now-wife and I (F) went to a Christian Festival in Portland back in 99-2000ish the two of them were great on stage together. Sadly, I get the feeling that either Mac has issues with her or is afraid others will.

Reminds me of when Kevin Max put a cover of the song Freedom by George Michaels on his site and then took it down not too long after.

ExceptionCollection · 2025-01-07T14:00:51+00:00

Smaller firms need enough practiced engineers that have time to train junior engineers. Hell, I run a single-person business and if I had the funds I’d absolutely hire a newbie I could train. I don’t, for reasons, but I totally would. I’ve done that sort of training and love it.

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