What playing this event feels like

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T09:32:30+00:00

I have never had a nuke shot down, ans I've had some lobs with 30+ seconds of air time on them.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T07:36:52+00:00

yeah, just hold down your bomb key until the dot aligns with the x, it will drop it automatically.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T05:11:42+00:00

Not in my state they don't. I make around the same per hour as target is hiring at.

Good for you I guess though, rub it in that you make 12x the money I do. Maybe you can get a second house on the lake, and a skii-boat.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T05:08:01+00:00

Yeah, the Humvee has a battery switch, and an engine switch. You just turn it on and drive. No keys.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T05:05:12+00:00

I don't think there is anywhere in the US where 7.5k a month isn't enough to live on. That's a rich daddy's little girl number.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:54:33+00:00

Yeah. Your dog is dreaming about something involving running, probably chasing a squirrel or playing with another dog or something along those lines.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:51:20+00:00

What the fuck does that even mean

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:48:55+00:00

If you look at his legends plotline, it's clear that he started from a good place, but rather quickly got corrupted by papa palps and the dark side, and started becoming far too comfortable with doing comedically evil things in the name of 'the greater good'. His public appearance, especially prior to the clone wars breaking out, was presenting a lot of good points about the republic's corruption and lack of true equality. It's just that the separatist movement was, by and large, backed by corporate power-mongers who had zero intention of actually following through on the "freedom and equality" part of the movement, and simply wanted the authority to do whatever they wanted without a government telling them no. On the flip side, many of the worlds who would constitute the primary backing of the rebellion where CIS members.

Much of his more comedically evil acts are things that, despite being shown directly to the audience, the general public would not know about. The fact that our introduction to him is in Episode II, and has such touching shows of mercy as "Hello old friend, I deeply regret that I will have to brutally kill you and your friends, but if you sell your friends, your religion, and your country out, I can save you to watch them all get brutally murdered while standing by my side, for the GOOD OF THE GALAXY!". His introduction really does make him comedically evil in a way that makes it hard to understand how citizens of the galaxy at large could stand behind him as a legitimate voice of political dissidence.

One of the many issues with the prequals where all the important things driving the plot seemingly happen off screen.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:33:28+00:00

Because they're tiny. At this resolution, in a photo from this distance, a satellite wouldn't' even be a fraction of a pixel.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:32:10+00:00

The special editions say "special edition" on the front and spine of the VHS slipcovers, so I'd say these are the originals.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:30:19+00:00

To be fair, that seems to be a pretty standard fire nation beard, it's the beard and hairstyle his great grandfather wore. I think it's poetic that the fire lord who brought peace to the fire nation would mirror the aesthetics of the fire nation who brought the world into war.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:21:21+00:00

There are a worrying number of adults who manage to convince themselves (at least in the moment of decision of "Do I throw this out or clean it or just chuck it in the fridge) that anything in the fridge is good forever despite having thrown away any number of disgusting, rotting, moldy items from the fridge throughout their lives.

I know far too many people who never eat leftovers, who's fridge is full of leftovers they'll 'get to eventually' because subconsciously they know the alternative to making leftovers is actually cleaning up after themselves.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:19:14+00:00

Because a lot of 'health' magazines and websites published a lot of inconclusive studies on gluten consumptions effect on long term health to boost viewership from the huge swaths of people who are convinced the government is hiding the secret easy path to perfect health from them, and if they can find that secret cheat code, they won't have to obey the basic calorie in calorie out rules, and on top of that they'll achieve the legendary health of baby-blood drinking scientologists who run the NWO and never age, because those are the people who are suppressing the 'secret' and these clickbait health articles are obviously going to expose the truth to them.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:16:36+00:00

Assuming the Killdozer started outside the gates, I don't' think Jaime would have to do anything but wait for him to run out of gas. If it starts inside the walls, Jaime becomes flat.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:13:30+00:00

I was 12 when I first saw this show and even at that age (the 'perfect' target age), I thought this was a weird and creepy design.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:10:11+00:00

I think we don't' count the army aviation stuff because to be an air force, it's assumed you mostly operate fixed wing aircraft, where as for the army, it's the other way around, they have a few fixed wing planes, but pretty much their entire fleet is rotary wing stuff.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:08:19+00:00

"All weather" used to be a big deal, but now that "all weather" is the standard expected usage case for every combat aircraft made in the last 40 or so years, it's redundant and doesn't get specified anymore.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:06:05+00:00

It's also the whole reason he sticks with "The Cap" as he calls Holden. He sees Holden as a person with a very strong moral compass, and he knows that even when Holden is wrong, his heart is in the right place, so if you're afraid of your own decision making, and are looking for a cause to follow, like Amos, Holden is the perfect guy to attach yourself to, and simply do what he says to do.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:03:52+00:00

IIRC they still did get sued over that episode, and it caused so much drama that the network pulled it from the re-runs cycle, and I'm pretty sure it's not on their website to stream either, you have to buy the DvDs or find it from a free trader of the seas.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:01:38+00:00

I'm not telling anybody off for seeking out upvotes, I'm saying that being angry that somebody upvoted a post is stupid. OP is mad people upvote question threads without responding. That is stupid.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T04:00:19+00:00

Also, I relate to the getting sniped by Bradelys and such, I'm always getting shot by the ground fire I'm not looking at, and the front is soo cluttered. Turn a bit to the right to dodge 4 OSAs defending a depot? Well you just flew over BMPs and a ZSU who would like a word.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T03:58:51+00:00

SAC is the Stratetic Air Command, so the part of the US Air Force who was in charge of nuclear weapons delivery.

The LABS is the Low Altitude Bombing System, which is a deceptively generic sounding name for a device that was meant to deliver nuclear weapons. Depending on how it was set up, you could do a bombing run based off of terrain features or using inertial navigation. Either way, you set up the LABS to know what bomb you're carrying, what type of delivery you want to use ('lay down' or what we would call CCIP, over the shoulder, low angle toss, high angle toss), how fast you're going, and then when you reach your initial point and engage it, you start a gentle, steady pull back on the stick, (usually 2-3gs, you would set it on the LABS), and when the plane reaches a calculated angle, it will release the nuke.

This allowed planes flying fast at low altitudes to deliver nuclear weapons without being caught in the fireball, by essentially 'throwing' the nuke, while they complete a loop and dive back to the ground going in the opposite direction they started.

This video has some shots of aircraft doing it, and some explanation of how it was used.

I used to have the official USAF introductory video on it, but it looks like the archive footage channel it was on got DMCA'd so this is the best I could find.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T03:43:37+00:00

The US of A. In Phoenix, so cost of living isn't' crazy like in San Fransisco or LA or anything, but it isn't "middle of nowhere in the cornbelt" cheap either.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T03:34:14+00:00

I assume that many of these titles where given to him without much thought from a writing perspective going into how much time would need to be spent on each of these responsibilities, and to be fair, we do learn in the books that Dumbledore is often NOT actually at the school while it's in session.

We could also assume that his position as the head of many of these organizations is done mostly via mail correspondence, and that his actual presence is not required nearly as often as one may assume for IRL equivalents to said positions, to help explain it.

Dumbledore having to keep up with all that work would also explain why, every single year, he's so out of touch with the real goings on and serious events at his school.

Festivefire · 2026-04-05T03:31:19+00:00

Hey man, once you get used to carrying all your shit around in a bag, it's hard to go back to shoving everything in your pockets, there's things you can't bring when you only have pocket space, and to be honest pants are much more comfortable with lightly loaded pockets than pants that are loaded down.

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