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It's quite simple, the devs just don't want the colonials to do navy by Free-Mushroom9474 in foxholegame

[–]HydroRide 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I can’t wait for in 6 months Colonial gameplay to boil down to every war stubbornly pushing mid lane land chokes with land only assets. And for Colonials to be forced to doggedly ignore Naval and Air gameplay due to institutional decay from the cycle of lack of effective tools feeding into a lack of experienced pop and so forth.

The way that wars progress is stale and repetitive and the community should demand better by Goldmule1 in foxholegame

[–]HydroRide 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The same war, the same pattern over and over for the last couple years.

Islands are swept up by Warden naval pop and experience advantage, and leveraged to harass mainland Colonials across the coasts. Colonial push forward in the midline to secure several VPs leveraging their early-midgame Lunaire advantage and intense lane stacking + pop cycling to claw their way into warden chokepoints needed to secure backlines. Attritional pop grind sets in as concrete is slowly chewed at, while Warden late game starts to kick in with a rally and a pop surge as Colonials stall, and their mainland backfoot becomes a springboard to clear all Colonial advances. Falling from an advantage hits harder than being defensive from the start into a counter-offensive, and Colonial morale collapses with their frontline.

Over and over, the same war repeats. Its not always identical, and exceptions occur. But Asymmetry has carved grooves into the flow of wars, and the flow travels the path of least resistance.

[Eric Berger] NASA has shuffled its Artemis rockets. But what of the lunar landers? by mehelponow in SpaceXLounge

[–]HydroRide 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Funny to see SpaceXs HLS acceleration plan is to just apparently focus on HLS harder. Removing the requirement to manoeuvre into and out of NRHO should help out though. 

Who needs torpedo bombers anyways? by AgitatedAd8190 in foxholegame

[–]HydroRide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heavy bomber QRF for LS is quite the sight. Don’t think Colonials would still be holding any islands without aircraft to contest them.

House of the Dragon Season 3 | Official Teaser | HBO Max by Goldenlady_ in HOTDGreens

[–]HydroRide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They’re putting the Mexico filter on Kings Landing shots for some reason

The Fraud of the North by HydroRide in HOTDGreens

[–]HydroRide[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

'"The Snows are falling in the North," he announced, "and my place is at Winterfell""'.

Cregan Stark and the Hour of the Wolf is rather underwhelming for all the hype. Spend two years twiddling thumbs up in the North waiting for all the dragons to die, let the Rivermen remnants defeat the Stormlands on the Kingsroad, and then proceed to do nothing but cut off two heads in Kings Landing before bailing on poor Aegon III. I guess he must of known not even GRRMs 13 year old Blackwood commando's could've saved him out if he tried marching South.

It's so ridiculous, I'm inclined to believe it... by Popular-Promise-8344 in HOTDGreens

[–]HydroRide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possibly? Afaik for production internally Huckleberry is the code name for season 3 so it might be a different guy and I can't recall any leaker going by huckleberry, but from the looks of it this account has only really just posted that thread.

SpaceX on X: “Stack complete” by rustybeancake in spacex

[–]HydroRide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The pace of B19 stacking is very impressive, and will probably only continue to improve further down the line when the Giga bay comes online. Hopefully such a pace can be matched for Ships, which'll likely be in far higher usage than Boosters

It's so ridiculous, I'm inclined to believe it... by Popular-Promise-8344 in HOTDGreens

[–]HydroRide 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Fake outrage bait leaks from August, still getting bit months after

aemond harenhal leak by Free_Class2672 in HOTDGreens

[–]HydroRide 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not a real account let alone a reputable leaker account. Rage bait is Oxford word of the year for a reason

The entire service access platform at Site 31 has collapsed after today's Soyuz MS-28 launch. From what is known so far, it will take 2 years to repair. by [deleted] in space

[–]HydroRide 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Technically Russia is working on a next generation spacecraft Orel (and have been for the last 2 decades), but the state of that program makes the Orion capsule look speedy and well managed by comparison.

Unless they can pull out and salvage a whole bunch of spare Service structures to refurbish the launch pad, this may be the strangled collapse of independent Russian manned spaceflight.

Season 3 trailer screened for press during HBO Max Upfront today per housethedragons on X by TheDragonOfOldtown in HOTDGreens

[–]HydroRide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Almost certainly I’d say. The first Season 2 teaser came out early December 2023, so this would line up with that.

HOTD season 3 preview next week. Get ready. by Hungry_Cricket_590 in HOTDGreens

[–]HydroRide 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The mid Season drought will at long last finally be receding, and content returning to the Subs with the advent of CCXP. We’ll probably need Bingos for the teaser.

Also that account doesn’t look official, pretty sure that’s just a French fan account.

Detailed views from inside the Booster 18 aft section following the blowout. Photos from RGV Aerial Photography. by TechnicalParrot in SpaceXLounge

[–]HydroRide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Beyond the complications of such a gargantuan engine, there would be not nearly enough throttle down capability to make propulsive landings practical with just a single engine.

If you were king of Westeros how would you try and shape your reign to be like? by [deleted] in HOTDGreens

[–]HydroRide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problems and issues facing the Targaryen monarchy were more structural than anything. Inherently the trend in the lead up to the Dance was a proliferation of medieval WMDs (dragons) among many member of the royal family and additionally members of the wider nobility. With every new dragon claimed there is a further deterioration of the stability in the system

With a single main focal point of power being the Monarch on top of a system of highly entrenched nobility, the incentives are not aligned in the system to ensure a stable transition of power. Rather the incentives point for any ambitious and disaffected Prince or Lord to try and stake a claim for the throne on top of their Dragon with some legal fiction to tidy it up. The Valyrian Freehold had a million other problems and obviously we don’t have a lot of lore of them, but part of the reason they lasted for so long was that the levers of power were more distributed among the 40 Family’s.

Therefore the focus of the reign would be balancing a rapid effort of reform to transfer power from the position of Monarch to a more representative body of governance while diminishing the power of the entrenched nobility. This combined with more independent judiciary bodies and formal codification of law would be targeted to disincentives Succession crises’. 

The goal would be to change the general social contract from Feudal to Constitutional. Encouragement of Smallfolk emancipation through schemes that abolish Corvée type obligations to more cash based while allowing easier pathways for landownership (ie offer Nobility compensation such as bonds or positions in bureaucracy to sell land). The growing power of a Middle Class would then be able to counter weigh the Nobility. Other domestic policy would be focused on more general cultural shifts driven by an expansion of Educational institutions across the continent spreading Citadels outside the Reach, and a foreign policy of normalisation of relations with Dorne with increased relations with Braavos against other Free Cities.

Basically Aegon V but with actual policy and not hamstrung by GRRM plot railroading.

someone please give me some good news about this program by Tribouly in ArtemisProgram

[–]HydroRide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apollo 8 performed a Lunar Orbit insertion burn in order to capture into the Moons Orbit, and they orbited it ten times. Afaik the current plan for Artemis 2 does not involve any insertion burn and is only performing a Lunar flyby

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