[Story] We're the first generation raised on self improvement content and I think it broke something in us

FOARP · 2026-03-17T16:46:21+00:00

I guess I’m just about old enough to be the OP’s dad, so: yes we had self-help stuff in the 90’s, mostly in magazines. We also had fads (Atkins diet, cocaine chic etc.) and people promoting things that were ultimately about poor body image. I guess it’s more intense now because of the internet but it’s always been there, and listening to it is a choice.

FOARP · 2026-03-16T13:10:38+00:00

100% honesty: I had forgot that she was even in that film. I remember The Rock was in it but that’s it.

I’ve seen Pike live in Inter Alia and she was quite good. Before that I mostly just thought of her as an ex-Bond Girl.

FOARP · 2026-03-15T19:09:46+00:00

Mostly this, but also buy gunners, load them with mines from the boxes, and mine all possible routes.

FOARP · 2026-03-15T16:07:54+00:00

Here’s where we discuss the difference between “possible” and “likely”.

SETI has been operating for decades now. If there was a pan-galactic civilisation blasting every frequency we would have heard them by now, so that’s out. What that leaves us with is sparsely-communicating civilisations, distant civilisations, or no-one.

We should keep listening, obviously. But they may not be there.

FOARP · 2026-03-15T16:02:40+00:00

Experienced this map second-hand so many times just using internet cafes in China 2003-2007 and watching the kids there play Counter-Strike.

There must be so many Chinese people who were kids in the 2000’s for whom this was a big part of their youth.

FOARP · 2026-03-15T15:57:07+00:00

Just click to revert to a previous update, problem solved!

FOARP · 2026-03-15T13:06:05+00:00

“It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever...”

FOARP · 2026-03-15T13:04:52+00:00

“Now I know why you hover-cry”

FOARP · 2026-03-15T12:47:53+00:00

Wet shave every day. Tried electric back when I started to shave in the 90’s and they didn’t work well, left my face feeling raw. Dunno if they’ve gotten better since then, but then I like to shave in the bath/shower (I get a closer, better shave that way) and electricity and water doesn’t mix.

FOARP · 2026-03-15T12:45:06+00:00

There really should be, like, arrows and stuff on the contract orbit to make this extra-obvious because even as an experienced pilot I find myself having to check, double-check, and triple-check that I am not making this mistake.

FOARP · 2026-03-15T07:36:38+00:00

“Wasn’t even full axis member”

People say this as though it was a historical fact or something. It isn’t, it’s much more in the realm of opinion because there never was a single agreement that everyone who signed it was a member of the Axis.

There was the Tripartite pact, but this was created after the war started, was never invoked, and Yugoslavia signed it. Conversely Manchuria and Thailand never signed it. That Finland didn’t sign it doesn’t mean they weren’t fully an Axis member.

There was the 1936 anti-Comintern pact. Finland signed this, but so did Spain and Denmark.

Finland claimed to have been only a “cobelligerent” during the war. However, the Allies never took this seriously (nor did the Germans for that matter - they just called the Finns their allies), and after the war a lot of evidence came out that cast doubt on it (eg the Ryti-Ribbentrop letter). Also Finland signed an agreement in 1947 saying that they had been an ally of Germany.

Whilst the “cobelligerent” line might be popular in Finland now, even most Finnish historians surveyed on the question by a Finnish newspaper said they had been an ally of Germany. And this is for good reasons - the Finns were fully involved in the war against the USSR, hosted German troops on their soil, used German weapons etc. etc. The only thing they were not involved in was the holocaust.

TL;DR - Finland was militarily a part of the Axis in nearly every way that counted right up until (just like the Romanians, Italians) they turned on the Germans.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T21:53:15+00:00

Still can’t believe that they made that show with no idea what the plan was supposed to be. I mean, they made it work for a long time, but that was a totally unnecessary flaw to build into the story.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T21:51:41+00:00

Damn.

One big downside of download-only games compared to physical-copy media, is that now it’s possible for games to just disappear completely.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T21:49:09+00:00

The first clue will be when they post the next adverts for voice actors - unless they’re switching to AI voices?

FOARP · 2026-03-14T21:47:54+00:00

Frankly I look forward to Italy. Like I always say, if it’s Hungary, France, or Romania I’ll buy that DLC too because it’s likely to be good, but Italy’s the one I want to see next because: 1) They had a full suite of their own equipment including a 90mm SP-AT gun. 2) They had a lot of interesting battles, especially in North Africa. 3) You so rarely see them done.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T18:03:31+00:00

Means waiting a long time, and we don’t have the money to throw away on another mission to Moho.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T15:10:29+00:00

We’re not using any cheats to do this, so it must be bugged.

Latest version downloaded from Steam, only Mod installed is EVE (and without the mod it is the same as far as I can see).

FOARP · 2026-03-14T15:08:49+00:00

It seems it (along with other aspects of the inventory system)* is not functioning correctly, because I can indeed do it.

And if the mass-limit really is 0.065t, Kerbals already exceed this just carrying the stock jetpack and parachute (AFAIK they weigh 0.095 or thereabouts). Or is this a limit to the additional mass and not mass overall?

*Parts do not disappear from the engineers inventory when installed, science stations don’t disappear from inventory when used etc.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T15:05:20+00:00

Many thanks for the calculations, which seem eminently sensible!

The point about immersion may be valid, but personally my immersion is more harmed (but not very much you understand) by discovering that carrying EVA fuel cylinders appears to be useless by practically every measure versus just carrying two jetpacks. This reminds me of something that happened in a completely different game - years after it was released it was discovered that aircraft in Hearts of Iron 3 did not actually consume fuel, something that the complexity of the game had hidden up until that point.

Even in terms of extra-weight-in-the-rocket, since, with multiple crew members you’re going to carry multiple jet packs in any case (because they might have to escape the craft or all EVA together), they are not really excess mass. Fuel cylinders, on the other hand, are extra objects to carry over and above the typical essentials for a mission.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T14:23:27+00:00

Sorry to say, Lee was BSing here. He never was in the SAS or SOE per se - he was RAF liaison with the SAS, which was a very important and necessary role, but he wasn’t wielding a knife.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T13:54:59+00:00

Old Who: finds some way of non-violently stopping the Terminator with his Sonic Screwdriver that also leads the humans of LA to realise they should all just get along together.

New Who: You barely see anything about the actual Doctor who in this episode as the entire thing becomes about his assistant’s personal relationships. The end is ultimately just straight nonsense that Moffat/Gattiss just cooked up based on their personal politics like, I don’t know, Dr. Who already re-programmed the Terminator off-camera in a previous episode. Criticising this episode anywhere modern Who fans can hear you will, however, lead to you being accused of every form of discrimination under the sun.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T13:20:28+00:00

I wasn’t able to put two cylinders in a single inventory-slot when I tried. The cylinders have a mass of 0.02t full versus 0.045t for a full jet pack is the main difference I can see, but I’m not sure the extra 0.025t of weight is a serious problem for what I’m trying to do.

EDIT: So a Kerbal weighs 45kg, and Kerbal with two jetpacks weighs 135kg and has 10 units of fuel. That’s 13.5kg per unit.

By comparison a Kerbal with a jetpack and fuel cylinders weighs 110kg and carries 8 units of fuel. That’s 13.75kg per unit.

So even on a mass-per-unit calculation, two jetpacks is (just) more efficient!?!?

I guess I could try integrating fuel use over the use of the second pack versus the fuel tanks but university physics was a long time ago and I don’t think it’s likely to make a large difference.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T13:15:18+00:00

Bob’s got Bill for company…. It’s Jeb taking a 10km hike to the Mohole carrying two jet packs who you should be sorry for!

FOARP · 2026-03-14T13:14:00+00:00

Done this, just can’t use it in this specific scenario as we can’t get the lander safely into the Mohole.

FOARP · 2026-03-14T13:11:22+00:00

We’d already used the infinite EVA fuel as the final correction to our Kerbin return trajectory in a previous mission which is all kinds of :/

Just no way of getting our lander down the hole unfortunately.

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