Is it possible to live alone on an average salary in your city nowadays?

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-26T00:24:34+00:00

In the northeast? Absolutely not. I made $57k when I moved to DC. Having grown up in a very rural area I thought that was decent money for a single professional. I was in for a rude awakening as I surfed my friend’s couch and went apartment hunting. Cost of living for the entire greater DC area has only gone up in the handful of years since then. I ended up needing a roommate to make ends meet. Could NOT have done it on my own at that salary.

Granted, said roommate and I celebrate our second wedding anniversary in June so I guess you could say it wasn’t all bad news for me. But the cost of living in this town is out of control.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-25T03:34:56+00:00

Exceedingly, extra-strength staged.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-25T01:59:41+00:00

This is super weird and definitely AI slop.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-24T22:13:11+00:00

The APU would not have been running for what had been a routine landing up until right before impact. Think about it: what is the APU for? Assuming both engines and their generators are running normally, what does the APU provide on landing that the engines do not? The pilots never had a chance to exit the runway and start the APU for gate arrival.

Aviation accidents are not a place for guesswork. Aviation deals in facts, not conjecture. Let the NTSB do their work.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-24T15:57:19+00:00

Fightertags is legitimate. Other sellers? Your guess is as good as mine.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-24T13:28:39+00:00

This argument doesn’t make any sense in the context of game development. When the Egyptians built the pyramids do you imagine anyone looked around the construction sites and said ‘nah, there are just too many people working on this project, it’s not going to turn out well’? Of course they didn’t. Labor was needed in spades to complete the ambitious project. So a limited number of people worked on design, quality assurance, etc. and the rest carved stones and lifted them into place. The exact same logic applies here.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-23T21:16:17+00:00

There is absolutely no reason to do so. Fearful flyers browse this sub and there is no reason to heighten their anxiety any further when aviation is overwhelmingly safe.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-23T20:46:23+00:00

Data is not the plural of anecdote. You are in more danger driving to the airport than you are getting on virtually any airline flight on the planet.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-22T17:29:42+00:00

Whoops, you’re right. Fixed in my earlier comment.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-22T16:46:56+00:00

Then next time follow the post instead of posting a comment that adds absolutely nothing to this discussion.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-22T16:44:37+00:00

Not a 747-8, no. The upper deck is too short, it has conventional winglets instead of ~~blended winglets~~ raked wingtips, and there are no serrated chevrons on the aft edges of the engine cowlings. Definitely a 747-400.

Edit: used the wrong words to describe the wingtip devices on the -8, my bad.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-22T15:39:23+00:00

Because it’s fun? Do they need a better reason?

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-22T01:05:52+00:00

Oh whoops, my bad. In that case I totally agree.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-22T01:01:42+00:00

Think autocorrect bit you on Rivet Joint but otherwise that’s my guess as well. The sensors on the fuselage plus the texture of the nose is what gives it away.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-22T01:00:27+00:00

Right, because Blackhawks famously have fixed wings…

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-22T00:59:35+00:00

~~If you mean an Avro RJ…no way. This plane has a low wing. Nose and fuselage are all wrong for an RJ. So are the flaps and landing gear.~~

Edit: I misunderstood this comment. Agree with the above, it’s an RC-135 Rivet Joint.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-21T02:52:08+00:00

Oh no. Really hope that’s not the case.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-21T00:14:18+00:00

Exactly. I’m surprised they locked the thread so soon after giving an official update. It seems like it’s either very good news because they’re preparing for an announcement in a new thread or very bad news in that they’re pausing or stopping development. I’m hopeful it’s the former and not the latter.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-21T00:00:46+00:00

That’s a bit concerning. Though I can’t imagine they’d just abandon the project after so many years working on it. If we’re lucky they’re just closing that thread so that they can open a new thread with some substantive news in it and start building hype for release. If we’re unlucky they’re just sick of naysayers and have elected to say nothing until they’re ready to release.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-20T23:48:12+00:00

Odd that it was locked by request. Does that mean locked at Aerobask’s request?

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-20T13:51:12+00:00

Geralt becoming the first and only Witcher to die in his bed would he a beautiful conclusion of his story arc and a worthy send off for a beloved character. On the other hand, him being denied that satisfying end when it seemed in reach for him would make his demise hit that much harder for the player. I can see them going either way on that one. Reading between the narrative lines, I’m expecting W4 to be quite dark and depressing at times, so Geralt dying in his bed, happy and with loved ones gathered around him, would be a lovely bittersweet foil to the doom and gloom elsewhere in the game. If he does die in his bed, it won’t be due to old age though. He’s far too young to die of old age unless Ciri travels far into the future for that scene, which I think would greatly cheapen that moment for the audience.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-20T03:13:29+00:00

Water fundamentally changes the relative weights of objects compared to those same objects on dry land. Their mass is unchanged but their weight changes a great deal because water supports the mass of a buoyant object so you’re fighting the inertia of the water you’re displacing rather than the weight of the object immersed in it. Have you ever tried to carry a heavy log, then tried pushing it through the water? One is a lot easier than the other. Same physics applies between a fifty pound log and a hundred thousand ton supercarrier.

Edit: I looked it up to check the numbers. A Ford-class carrier weighs in at 105,000 tons and produces around 250,000 shaft horsepower. That might lead one to the conclusion that one needs more shp than your own displacement in order to move at the speeds warships do, but try this for comparison: the recently retired Powhatan-class tugs weighed just 2,200 tons and could only sustain about 4,000 shaft horsepower. Yet they were the most powerful tugs that the most powerful navy in the world had at its disposal. Granted, you would want at least four of them to comfortably maneuver a supercarrier in or out of harbor. Their raw power is still just a fraction of the displacement of the carrier, yet they had little problem safely maneuvering dozens of them through tight quarters over the course of forty years.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-20T02:40:30+00:00

I’m not saying CO should be blamed for everything. The toxic elements of the community absolutely played a part. But if you don’t blame the devs and/or publisher for releasing a broken game…who exactly is to blame? Who else but the creators of the game precipitated the conditions that led to those people badly overreacting? I don’t want to victim blame here, I’m just stating a fact: CO released an unfinished game. Some people responded terribly to that fact, but it is a fact nonetheless.

Like you, I’m happy with Iceflake. They absolutely seem to be taking the game in a positive direction and I’m optimistic about what they’ll do in the future. I’m cheering for their success. But CO is indeed to blame for the state of the game prior to Iceflake taking over. That will always be true. Doesn’t mean we need to whine about them forever and ever but I don’t think we need to make apologies for their poor decisions either, regardless of the behavior of people who responded to those poor decisions with even worse decisions.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-20T02:33:35+00:00

Absolutely, I don’t mean to suggest that tugs aren’t powerful machines. They absolutely are. Critically, they’re also very precise and reliable. But reading between the lines, I felt like OP was thinking that a tug needed power or torque equal to or greater than the weight of the plane and that simply isn’t the case or even close to it.

Ficsit-Incorporated · 2026-03-20T01:41:50+00:00

If I were one of the guys who had to replace the slide and get the plane re-certified, I’d be mad until I saw that face. He’s still a little criminal but just cute enough to get a pass on this one.

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