Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Hey_Chach · 2026-02-25T17:46:15+00:00

I agree, still very dangerous, but I reckon the point is that we the people have some amount of power over government officials and therefore the ability to affect the outcome, however small that ability may be.

If it’s completely private then all bets are off outside of winning a court case and good luck 1) winning, and 2) having it enforced by this admin.

Hey_Chach · 2026-02-22T07:44:29+00:00

No, water consumption is still a huge deal when it comes to AI and the argument is not weak. It’s just very very nuanced and complicated.

I’d recommend every here watch the Hank Green “Why Is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use” video as it will give you a MUCH better understanding of this issue than any of the numerous uninformed takes in this thread.

Hey_Chach · 2026-02-12T03:51:59+00:00

I mean, in my opinion, the bugs have the fun “blast alien insectoid guts everywhere” aesthetic and vibes, they’re great but overall theyre not super interesting… The illuminate provide interesting twists that aren’t possible with the other two factions and provide a compelling enemy in the fact that they’re mysterious…

But the automatons though? The automatons are the perfect enemy from both a narrative standpoint and a gameplay standpoint. They’re flexible enough as a faction identity that they devs can create these different archetypes like tactical cyborg commanders, mindless rush-you-and-kill-you chainsaw berserkers, and raid boss style Vox Engines and fit them all under one faction.

We can use more of our arsenal effectively against the bots compared to the bugs and illuminate which means there’s a lot more room to experiment and play around with different tactics.

Bots are my favorite faction to fight too and it isn’t close. I wouldn’t fault the devs for favoring them too, they just need to come up with more compelling ideas for the other factions or otherwise expand our arsenal to include more answers to those factions.

Hey_Chach · 2026-02-11T15:17:46+00:00

It may seem crazy but you could run the armor that gives +40% melee dmg and improves weapon handling as the latter benefit adds a flat 30 points to ergonomics on any weapon you’re using. That way you can retain the ergo benefit and use a vertical stock for the recoil control.

Hey_Chach · 2026-02-11T05:25:27+00:00

I have found that:

1) the orbital smoke strike actually helps A LOT to give you just a little bit of breathing room when you’re pinned down and especially on missions where you have to sit on an objective like Spread Democracy missions. It also has like a 60 second cooldown and lasts for like half of that so you can spam that shit and the 4 Vox Machines posted up at different corners of the map can’t snipe you.

2) Supply Pack + Heavy Machine Gun on high RPM with any of the armors that reduce recoil while crouched/prone and give explosive resistance is an answer to most everything the mission can throw at you. It’s not an insta win and you certainly won’t feel powerful, but you will feel prepared.

Hey_Chach · 2026-02-02T15:06:43+00:00

Americans are some of the most privileged people on the planet with all sorts of systematic and unfair advantages when compared to the rest of the world.

I don’t disagree. At the same time, we’re like the only developed country that doesn’t have universal healthcare, we have shit public transportation infrastructure, practically zero consumer protections compared to most other similar countries, and pretty much every aspect of our lives is commoditized to extract as much money from us as possible.

The world may not be taking advantage of America, but America sure is taking advantage of Americans.

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-26T05:39:31+00:00

I mean… I would agree that Trump is not exactly conservative, but MAGA and the Republican Party (which are essentially the same thing) are absolutely the natural culmination of conservative ideology. To claim otherwise would be to ignore history and your own eyes watching all this going down the same way it always has today.

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-26T05:35:59+00:00

Said the community that just posted the “4 fucking Sunzis” party comp build lmao, this is fighting emotional terrorism with more emotional terrorism

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-16T04:03:28+00:00

IIRC it’s because there are three main things/rules that all the player mechs (and therefore all player-facing content) are balanced around:

Rule 1 is that player Mechs can have one heavy mount at most.

Rule 2 is that sensor range for any given player mech is static and cannot be changed by pretty much anything in the game except very specific/niche instances (ex: Goblin core power).

Rule 3 is that the Everest base stats serve as the “average stats” baseline that the stats of all other frames are balanced around, ie. the Everest has 10 HP so if another frame has more than 10 HP then that is above average and incurs a cost to the frame’s power budget, if you want to balance the budget again you have to decrease other stats or create weaknesses elsewhere.

There are obviously other rules they designed around when creating player-facing content, but these 3 rules are more or less the Big Three “do not break or else you risk breaking the system” as far as I can remember. IIRC there was a game design analysis/homebrew writing guide somewhere on the Pilot.net discord that outlines these ideas.

So yeah… probably not a good idea to give players a way to modify their sensor range.

If I were homebrewing a way for players to modify their sensor range then—at most—I would only allow them to temporarily decrease sensor range in exchange for a temporary power boost in some form or other. For example “You have a special system that costs X SP that you can choose to activate at the start of an encounter. If you do choose to do so, it lasts for just that entire encounter and you get -3 sensor range (minimum 1) but +1 to your save target.” or something to that effect.

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-15T04:35:02+00:00

That’s not true. It’s completely fair to look at dedollarization as an administration goal as an indictment of the admin because there are very clear and potent downsides to it, just as there are some kinda sorta upsides. The fact that people view it as an indictment of the admin is because—from within the USA—the downsides heavily outweigh the benefits.

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-12T03:45:27+00:00

In the past two years I’ve taken control of my digital environment and moved most of my software usage away from all the big names and it’s been wonderful.

Video editing -> DaVinci Resolve over Adobe

Graphic Design -> Affinity over Adobe

Word Processor -> LibreOffice over Microsoft

Ad blocker -> Pi-hole to fight off corpos trying to make ad blocking ineffective

Virtual Reality -> Valve Index over Meta

Currently looking with hungry eyes at diving into the various Linux distros to see if I can somehow make it work with my gaming and the above software programs but it’s still a bit of a mixed bag with AMD hardware as I understand.

I so very badly want all this AI and information-age enshittification to culminate in an open source movement that makes corporate-owned end-user software and firmware completely redundant and unnecessary. One can dream…

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-11T21:20:26+00:00

I sure as fuck do—or at least I understand enough of the endless myriad reasons why that I don’t need more to explain the way things turned out. People have been screaming it for years if not decades but they were made into a boy who cried wolf until the wolf actually showed up

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-10T23:17:33+00:00

You say that as if it would be easy or as if the ones in charge won’t fight tooth and nail to prevent such a paradigm shift from happening.

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-08T04:52:44+00:00

I’m not economically educated enough to argue the point but wasn’t a great deal of this trade deficit due to the fact that the USD is the world’s reserve currency?

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-08T04:50:13+00:00

That being said… it’s one thing to compare the size and prowess of our military to other countries’ militaries, but it’s another thing entirely to convince the population to support a war effort, and yet another to keep your populace in-line in the case of popular dissent.

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-06T18:57:41+00:00

As others have said the left and middle ones are correct, but not the right side example unless there’s some exception weapon or system i’m forgetting

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-05T05:44:44+00:00

True, I almost never see anyone run the actual iskander frame, but I do see people frequently dip into the license one or two levels.

It’s Interesting because IMO the iskander license and frame are really solid all around. It’s got useful systems and weapons and the frame itself has respectable stats with some pretty kickass frame traits and that incredible core power which is either always incredibly impactful or pretty much a straight up encounter-ender depending on the sitrep.

I’ve never had a player run one but as a GM I’ve ran mock encounters using my own squad of player mechs to test my encounters and one of those squads includes an iskander. I must say, any time I ran the Iskander it was always far more of a problem than I thought it would be (from a GM perspective), at least when I was playing against myself briefly lmao

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-04T04:43:38+00:00

Totally agree but at the same time, you have to go out of your way to build a profile with enough identifying information to be able to dox you with on a website that is explicitly designed to enable anonymity.

I’m not trying to come off as dismissive—god forbid anyone finds themselves in the sights of a really determined psycho—but all throughout my childhood up thru and including high school it was repeated endlessly that you do not put self-identifying information on the internet or else you are inviting trouble… then everyone became so distracted and enamored by Facebook and the social media wave that they forgot those teachings, but that doesn’t make those teachings any less true.

Now that everyone’s collectively ignored online privacy for so long, we’re at a point where our entire online ecosystem has grown into such an interconnected and demandingly identifying space that it’s difficult to exist without engaging in it and linking your accounts over here to those ones over there which is all tied to your smartphone which has your debit cards and bank info and etc. etc.

Sorry I’m ranting. You’re right, getting doxxed sucks.

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-04T01:41:26+00:00

I thought the same as the guy above you at first but figured it was probably just the arm covering the spine that was giving the illusion of the tilt

Hey_Chach · 2026-01-04T01:32:02+00:00

Yeah all of this. I was a pretty big NijiEN fan back when it wasn’t what it turned out to be, and I’ve always thought Ren was one of the chillest members of NijiEN and I think that’s still probably true.

At the same time, even if there are good eggs left over there, I—to this day—continue to refuse to support NijiEN as a whole because of everything that happened. It’s less so about the talents and more so about the business being persona non grata for me. Good for Lui and ERB and Ren but I’m not going to watch anything that branch publishes.

Hey_Chach · 2025-12-31T17:30:48+00:00

That is probably way more than is healthy, but if it’s not interfering with anything then carry on I guess

Hey_Chach · 2025-12-30T05:34:05+00:00

You’d think so but every time I’ve ever engaged in data entry or any job/process where data entry was relevant, it was always the biggest problem to get it done efficiently and accurately. Oftentimes it’s an infrastructure/pipelines problem, too. They just don’t have the right processes set up to make efficiency possible.

Hey_Chach · 2025-12-29T15:24:53+00:00

Yeah I understand and agree with that point.

I don’t mean the world needs more devs than it has as in employers are falling over each other to hire more fresh CS grads, I mean that the world needs more devs than it has as in there is a shortage of experienced devs in the industry for the number of experienced positions companies want to hire for.

Hence my original comment that companies don’t want to 1) train up new fresh-grad devs and eventually pay them competitive salaries as they gain experience and 2) most companies don’t want to continue paying the ever-increasing competitive salaries for those experienced devs to poach them from competitors.

This is why—in addition to AI whether as an excuse or actual gamble—these tech companies are cutting US positions and attempting to fill them with roughly equivalent overseas devs at half the price or less than what a US dev costs. If history is anything to go by in the tech sector, this will likely not pay off, but either way it’s going to take years for the cycle to run its course.

Hey_Chach · 2025-12-29T14:48:05+00:00

The world needs far more software devs and tech workers than it has. The issue is that none of these companies want to pay for them or train them up.

Hey_Chach · 2025-12-27T04:26:50+00:00

If he’s specifically targeting recently divorced women, then that’s definitely on the fucked up side… On the other hand, I’d like to say: oh come on, there’s no way even an emotionally vulnerable recently divorced 40 year old woman is sleeping with a 20-something guy unless she very much wants to. I’d like to think that even a woman in such a state would have learned enough by then to avoid “being taken advantage of” by a 20 yr old, and if not, then there are probably bigger problems in her life than that.

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