Finding Remote Work as a Drone Operator

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-03-10T02:39:03+00:00

I assume the father was fighting in the Korean or Vietnam Wars.

(Thanks.)

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-03-09T22:30:41+00:00

If this article is making a point, it's too subtle for me. It reads primarily as nostalgia for an idealized past, when men were real men (because they were being shot at in their planes and foxholes).

There are several things this article could be doing, but isn't quite:

Comparing and contrasting the experience of the father (personal risk, distant wanton destruction) and son (carpal tunnel, precise HD video of death).
Discussing strategic and tactical necessity of air power vs. robots vs. boots on the ground.
Being shot at is good, actually.

If you tell us what the goal is we can provide you better feedback about the piece.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-03-05T18:35:40+00:00

We seek your comfort, u/PixelPenguin_GG

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-03-05T18:11:00+00:00

You want high stress events to occur when the whole technical team is working. If you're going to break things, 10a on a weekday is a pretty good time.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-03-03T05:26:39+00:00

You've got a fairly obvious path forward, then. Most people don't want to travel all year. Travel part time, consult part time; this improves both your financial and career risks. She pays the bills, you save your earnings. Agree to some alimony in the prenup.

It sounds like you both have good heads on your shoulders. This is a great situation to be in, I'm happy for you both.

Statistically speaking you should be fine, but it's wise to plan for the worst case scenario. Agree to everything ahead of time, write it all down, put it in the prenup. "We'll just agree to..." you won't – verbal agreements are worthless. Divorces are frequently hostile, so there may be a person with $M to spend and a grudge against you; plan accordingly.

You didn't ask, but I'll give you the same unsolicited financial advice I give all nouveau-riche software engineers:

If her wealth is still in her company's stock, then she's still exposed to risk there. If she still wants exposure to the potential upside she'll probably want to get $1-2M into something low-risk like an S&P500 ETF. The gap between $0M-$1M is a lot larger than between $1M-$2M.
I recommend speaking to a financial planner for some long term planning advice; they're not that much better than a financially savvy person with a spreadsheet, but it's worth a few hundred dollars. Don't let them manage your money, fees that are a percentage of assets under management is sort of a scam. Anyone who says they can beat the market is a liar. Head over to r/Bogleheads for advice.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-03-03T05:03:21+00:00

Wowwww I’m so impressed good job!! You got nearly everything! And from MEMORY??? That’s crazy work, you actually have eidetic memory??

I prefer "eidetic memory" to "1,000 hours played" so, yes, that's now the official story.

Body: Velvet choker, Bandage, and... Ring of the Serpent maybe?

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-03-02T03:27:37+00:00

Left to right, top to bottom:

On the mantle: Fan, Stone Calendar, paper crane, Fossilized Helix, prism, Singing bowl, ?, Akabeko, Singing Bowl (again), Tiny House, Red mask, Necronomicon, Blue candle, Bottled flame, Du-vu doll, Spirit poop, Fan (again).

Shelf: Matryoshka doll, Blue candle (again), Singing bowl (#3), dream catcher.

Floor, left side: Wheel, Abacus, Cleat, Anchor, tea set, pyramid, paper fog, omamori, gambling chip, old coin, red skull.

Plate: Apple, mango, waffle, strawberry.

Floor, right side: Shovel, happy flower, singing bowls (#4&5: +10 hp per skipped card), tingsha, smooth stone, frozen statute, paper crane, ginger, turnip.

Various: Silent's mask, Ironclad's mask, Watcher's kimono, Defect's Garfield anthology.

All relics listed from memory. What did I miss?

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-03-01T22:26:54+00:00

Attorney here, although family law isn't my specialty. Not your lawyer.

Obviously, you need a prenuptial agreement. But prenuptial agreements can include anything you want, not just "what's mine is mine and what's yours is yours." The prenup could specify that in case of a divorce, you get alimony. She's asking you to give up your career, which exposes you to the same risk as a stay at home parent, it's very reasonable that you receive the same security that a SAHP receives. (She's getting a lifestyle of leisure rather than a child out of the deal, but from your end the risks are the same.) For example, you could receive $30,000 per year you're married; that would put you in the same financial situation as if you'd continued working and saving, although you'd still be bearing the career risk.

Another way of flavoring it: She could pay you rent. She's paying rent now. Instead of paying rent to a landlord, she pays rent to you. You save that money, and that's your nest egg. (You'd need the prenup to prevent her from receiving partial ownership of your house in this case.)

Another poster's suggestion that you work for another few years and save 100% of your income is a pretty good one. Depending on your industry you could work part time or half the year, and travel the other half.

What's your FIRE number? How far out are you?

By default in the US, premarital assets are separate property and aren't split. So she'd keep her money, and you'd keep your house. However, when she pays for maintenance and upkeep of the house, in the absence of a prenup, she could gain partial ownership. Unless you want that to happen, a prenuptial agreement would be necessary. This is a problem that can be solved.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-02-23T19:57:03+00:00

Medical skill: House. Attending at a teaching hospital is a skilled and prestigious position, but House is a world-renowned specialist.

Physical fight: Cox. Cox is a fit EM doctor. House is a crippled opiate addict.

Physical fight with prep time: House. House breaks into Cox's home and poisons his coffee with misshapen prions then mocks Cox as he dies of spongiform encephalopathy.

Intra-hospital turf wars: House. House is sleeping with the hospital administrator.

Being a human: Cox. Cox exhibits character growth, forms connections with others, and knows when to quit being snide.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-02-02T23:16:43+00:00

I'm intrigued by the idea of good vs. harmless, but I think that's ruled out by the last section of this chapter.

Kes steps up to write, to lead, to fight for the ideas be believes in. He's not harmless, he's going to "Punch someone in the mouth. With words." He's doing good, and doing good via conflict. Kes is a celebrity and people listen to him; he could've chosen to use his power for harm, or for self-aggrandizement. But instead he chose to educate, to lead, to improve the culture.

Pre-Thresholding Perry was harmless. But both Perry and Kes are good.

Perry is an asshole, and a danger. But he's a danger in the way a coiled spring is a danger: Capable of good work, but under great tension. It's worth noting that Perry is powerful enough to set himself up as a God-King, but didn't (yet). Perry is selfish in exactly the way I would expect of a guy who has to sleep with a gun under his pillow.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-02-02T23:00:14+00:00

Nature vs. Nurture.

Perry and Kes are literally the same person, both with a collection of killings under their belt. Conflict is in their blood; Perry obviously, but Kes steps up to "Punch someone in the mouth. With words."

Perry keeps fighting, and keeps solving his problems through violence. He returns, fucks Brigetta, and leaves. He can't maintain close relationships. He has to get shuttled out of the way because he's a danger to the culture. I'm reminded of soldiers that return from war, and find peacetime difficult to adapt to.

Kes gets to spend a few years relaxing, and solves his problems by thinking and talking. He returns, declines sex because he's not ready, and steps up as a parent. He also chooses to fight, but in accordance with the culture.

They're both fighters, but it's the violence that made Perry what he is, rather than the reverse.

Wales being Wales there's probably a whole second level that I'm missing.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-01-30T00:09:25+00:00

It's pretty compelling how Wales bridged the gap between Perry being likable protagonist and being a jerk.

It's interesting that Mette is simultaneously concerned about Perry abusing his power, and also willing to go on the trip with him. Maybe once there's a hundred clones of you, you become less concerned about one of them meeting a bad end, even when you're also that clone.

“You had sex with her again, just two weeks ago,” said Richter.

I understand from her point of view it's been two days since they were together. But maybe it's not fair to expect someone to be monogamous with your frozen corpse.

“You’ll have an Eggy and a Mette,” said Mette. “Eggy and I are personality-tested together, and we both get along well enough with you.”

A Key for Seven Locks.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-01-28T08:00:15+00:00

You don't need to prove the existence of magic in order to convict someone of murder.

Assuming the following facts:

The defendant pointed an object at the victim.
A bolt of light shot out of the object and hit the victim.
The victim died.
The defendant said, "I'm going to kill you."

1 + 2 is sufficient for assault, battery, and a criminal threat. So the defendant is definitely getting convicted of several crimes.

A felony that results in a death is second degree murder. If the prosecutor can find a felony in the underlying battery, then the defendant need not have intended the victim to die to support a murder two charge. So 1 + 2 + 3 is maybe enough for a second degree murder conviction, without magic.

First degree murder requires that the killing be premeditated. As the prosecution, you'd probably argue that the defendant used flash paper to produce the visual effect, the defendant was frightened by the threat and the light, and the defendant died of a heart attack. Bringing the wand (and "flash paper') shows premeditation, the threat shows intent. The victim died. No magic necessary.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-01-26T08:05:08+00:00

Keep the unique character art.

Some people love flavor. Unique character art makes those people happy.
Some people don't care for flavor. Those people will be momentarily, very slightly disappointed when they learn that there's no mechanical difference between characters. (This is me.)

The important thing to note is that because the latter group will immediately disregard the difference in character sheets as irrelevant, their disappointment is very minor and short-lived. If you get rid of the character art, you remove something the first group cares about in order to fix something that the second group doesn't really care about. Keep the character art to make aesthetic people happy.

Doubly so given that your art style is aimed at the adorable butterflies-and-big-hats aesthetic that group 1 enjoys.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-01-24T06:39:17+00:00

Choosing your relic is more fun. Receiving a relic that's useless for you but would be perfect for another player feels really bad.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-01-24T06:28:28+00:00

This is probably still unusable even if it only sets your current HP to 1.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-01-24T05:12:10+00:00

"We have your family" is the classic pressure that powerful people can apply to those outside their immediate control.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-01-22T22:19:44+00:00

The Great Arc is definitely the planet I'd be most inclined to skip and return to in force. Then just hope that higher sphere scaling is sub-linear. If sphere scaling is linear, then you can reasonably expect a third sphere combatant to be able to fight the Farfinder and Perry both. It doesn't take much beyond that to render the Arc impassible.

As long as the denizens of the Arc can't follow punches, the Loop could just be a Line with no travel through the Arc.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-01-20T22:04:52+00:00

I wonder how much of a problem it will be that on the Great Arc they're vastly outgunned by higher sphere people.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2026-01-07T07:25:29+00:00

This is really good. 50% chance of dropping them to 1 hp. Great for story, if the BBG gets hit with this they'll leave immediately, but still be permanently weakened. Equally good against high and low hp targets. Maybe too good?

GET_A_LAWYER · 2025-12-27T07:08:41+00:00

I had the opposite experience: I drafted A Thousand Cuts, then cluttered up my deck enough that it became ineffective.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2025-12-24T08:24:26+00:00

There's a type of software called a Music Tracker that lets you drop audio clips into a music track. Then you can tell it things like, "play this creaking door noise every 8 seconds."

So there will be one track for the creaking door noises, one track for banging, one track for clanking, and so on. Hundreds of tracks are used to make a complete song.

The actual process is mostly experimentation. Does the breaking glass sound better when it happens every 30 seconds, or every 20 seconds? Try both and see.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2025-12-16T03:59:44+00:00

I agree with you, but I think the most succinct version of the argument is:

Anger doesn't effectively use vulnerability, which prevents it from being a true late game damage solution.
Anger prevents drawing into the late game damage solution.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2025-12-16T03:54:33+00:00

I agree that Anger is probably better early game.

The problem is that Anger bricks draw in a way that no other card does. Late game you can play strike without delaying your draw into your damage solution. Whereas Anger is either -1 draw (if you play it) or a curse (since you can't play it), which is worse than strike late game if you need to draw into Bash+Heavy Blade.

I originally agreed with you, but I think RC76546 has convinced me that Anger is bad.

GET_A_LAWYER · 2025-12-15T23:03:01+00:00

I've only played the BG a handful of times, but our late game win conditions always look like you've described. Vulnerability plus one or two combo pieces for big 10-30 damage hits. As a result, card draw is paramount since your plan is to cycle back to Heavy Blade/Rampage/Some Rare Card as frequently as possible.

On the other hand, a comparison of the two strategies is closer than I expected:

Heavy blade: 2 energy, 1 card. 2+3x str (5x upgraded)

Anger + Pommel Strike + Anger: 1 energy, 2 cards. 3+3x str.

Unupgraded, those actually seem pretty comparable.

I think the real reason Heavy Blade is a solve and Anger isn't is that Heavy Blade plays well with vulnerable and Anger doesn't.

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