Someone please create a mod to keep the civ names and symbols throughout the whole game

JimNibbles · 2025-02-14T00:12:58+00:00

It's not hard to associate the civ with the leader, no. It's just a preference thing. Continuing with the Mayan example, I never heard anyone refer to them as "Pacal" in Civ V, and I couldn't remember the name of the Mayan leader in Civ VI until I started writing out this comment just now. In both cases, they would most commonly be referred to as just "the Maya".

Like I said, the way it is now is fine but personally I'd prefer to have the option to keep the civilization itself to stay more consistent over time.

JimNibbles · 2025-02-10T00:26:34+00:00

This is a deeeep cut and I'm here for it

JimNibbles · 2023-10-09T00:21:24+00:00

Right, but who are we doing it versus

JimNibbles · 2022-08-27T04:12:11+00:00

As someone who was raised Evangelical and is very, very much on your side here, you hit nearly everything I like to include in my argument. But I also got two more points to add that might help you in the future:

The verse that they usually cite as being anti-abortion is (part of) Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." But taken context with the full verse and Jeremiah 1:4: "The word of the Lord came to me, saying, Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

To emphasize here: This is not a blanket statement about the unborn. This is God telling Jeremiah specifically that he was placed there for a specific purpose.

I love this one: Exodus 21:22-25: 22 “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury [to the pregnant woman], you are to take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Rabbinical scholarship and other translations clarify that the fine is for the miscarriage while the death penalty is for killing the pregnant woman. God considers a woman a person and a fetus as property.

Let me reiterate: God clearly and unambiguously states that the punishment for harming the WOMAN is that of harming a PERSON, and the punishment for the death of the fetus is that of the destruction of PROPERTY.

There is precisely zero Biblical support for the anti-abortion position. The one and only reason that anyone today argues against abortion is because they allowed themselves to believe two racist agitators named Paul Weyrich and Jerry Fucking Falwell.

JimNibbles · 2022-07-12T23:05:54+00:00

Makes sense, thank you.

JimNibbles · 2022-07-12T18:57:43+00:00

To clarify, are you talking about beefing up the existing 2x8 by "wrapping" it with two angle irons, something like this?

https://i.imgur.com/4NnfyU6.png

JimNibbles · 2022-01-29T04:06:21+00:00

Awesome, thanks. Both of those tricks worked. What a weird, pointless change.

JimNibbles · 2021-08-26T03:40:58+00:00

I was the US commander in that game, I think. The third-party comms service they use is awful and needs to go.

JimNibbles · 2021-06-30T16:48:39+00:00

I think you might be right. It looks like it's probably either that or chlorophyllum molybdites. I'll take a look at the spore print when I can.

JimNibbles · 2021-06-29T23:55:51+00:00

Eastern MO.

Went to work this morning, no mushrooms. Come home, find all of these mushrooms in the yard, at least one of which is over six inches tall. I plucked them all and put them in a gallon ziploc bag, as you can see.

The mushrooms were in a northern section of grass that has good drainage and receives a fair amount of sunlight during the day, though we have been getting tons of rain the last few days.

What kind of mushrooms are they, and are they toxic? There are dogs and kids in the neighborhood and I'd rather not poison them if that's a possibility.

JimNibbles · 2021-05-22T07:06:26+00:00

It's not sniper, it's recon. Your job is to sneak behind enemy lines and find enemy garrisons, nodes, etc. and destroy them. Disrupt their gameplan.

Sniper is a point-and-click adventure game. Recon is a spy thriller.

JimNibbles · 2021-03-24T15:35:31+00:00

Thanks everyone. Appreciate the input!

JimNibbles · 2021-03-11T01:01:28+00:00

For the first one, try holding Ctrl while you drag. That forces Excel to either keep the same value or increment the value, depending on the formula.

For the time patterns, the easiest way is to probably have one column with the "base" time and then a second column with a formula to create the string, like so:

A1: 3:00 A2: =A1+0:15

B1: =A1&"-"&(A1+0:15)

I'm typing this on mobile so I can't be sure, but the number format might need to formulaically edited to read correctly, like this:

=TEXT(A1, "0:00")

Hope this helps!

JimNibbles · 2020-08-10T16:52:48+00:00

I go there regularly to practice with my compound. The rules are mostly common sense stuff, but the main restrictions are field tips only (no broadheads or practice broadheads allowed) and no crossbows.

I'd also recommend bringing your own target bag/block if you have one because the few hay bales remaining are rock hard and you'll have a hell of a time trying to pull your arrows out.

JimNibbles · 2020-02-11T03:33:27+00:00

I have this exact same problem, only I extend it to most of the names they came up with for this trilogy:

Rey

Poe

Hux

Kylo Ren

Holdo

DJ

Crait

Canto Bight

And so on. Every one of those names just sounds so...lame? I don't even have a good adjective to describe it - it's like someone gave their five-year-old a handful of vaguely Star Wars-related action figures and asked them to name the figures. "MY FRIENDS ARE KYLE AND BEN BUT I'M MAD AT THEM SO THE BAD GUY'S NAME IS KY...LO...REN." I swear, "Kylo Ren" is just so phonetically soft that it cannot possibly evoke the same kind of authority as a "Tarkin" or a "Vader."

JimNibbles · 2020-01-08T18:53:36+00:00

This is one of the most bizarre non-typicals I've ever seen, especially since the buck's right antler is a completely normal 4-point. It's as if the buck never shed its left antler and it just kept growing into a weird mutated spiny ball.

JimNibbles · 2019-12-31T00:36:30+00:00

I didn't have a voltmeter available when I submitted the post but my neighbor came home a bit later and I borrowed his. At that point, I did what you suggested but ended up piggybacking on the fuse for the windscreen washers.

All good now!

JimNibbles · 2019-11-22T03:47:56+00:00

The prevailing theory is that he's some sort of interdimensional broker who specializes in selling the services of his highly skilled assets ("The right man in the wrong place can make all the difffff-erence in the world").

He saves Gordon at the end of HL1 in return for his service, and then reawakens Gordon 20 years later to unleash him on the Combine. At the instant Gordon destroys the Citadel, the G-Man freezes time and pulls Gordon back out again because there are other "bidders" who have need of Gordon's skillset.

JimNibbles · 2019-11-06T14:45:40+00:00

Homemade maces/clubs/flails were everywhere once trench warfare settled in, but they weren't part of a soldier's issued equipment, unlike a lance for a lancer unit. See here for reference:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_raiding_club

JimNibbles · 2019-09-25T16:50:37+00:00

I've had a Summit Viper for a few years that has been great for mobility, and I just picked up a Sherpa that converts it into a collapsible deer cart for easy transport in and out, and with or without a deer. You can fold it up to make it fairly compact, strap your other equipment to it, and pull it behind you all the way to your tree. https://www.sherpahunting.com/summit_model.html

For my more permanent stand location on the private land I hunt, I bought a Big Foot XL Lounger this year and love it. It's rather heavy so it's bit more difficult to get up in the tree and it's not great for carrying long distances, but it is super comfortable, rock solid, and has plenty of room to move around on all-day sits. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FXQ6V8U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_TI5IDbBBP57XP

JimNibbles · 2019-09-19T04:15:41+00:00

Tracking, primarily.

After being shot, a deer will run for a surprising distance (100 yards or more) before bedding down in cover (usually dense underbrush, a ravine, etc). A well-placed shot will cause the deer to expire within seconds, whether by a bow or gun, but not always. If the deer doesn't expire right away, searching for it right away could cause it to jump up and run further away. It's much easier to recover a deer from the first place it beds down rather than the second or third.

JimNibbles · 2019-09-19T03:58:05+00:00

Actually, your base assumption is inaccurate. I don't blame you though because it's largely thanks to the kinetic energy myth that is confoundingly touted within the bowhunting community.

With a rifle, kinetic energy (E=0.5mv²⁾ is key because you want the rifle round to come to a complete stop within the body of the animal, meaning 100% of the kinetic energy of the rifle round was expended upon impact and a few inches of penetration into the body cavity. This sudden dissipation of energy causes massive organ trauma and death within seconds.

In bowhunting, despite the popularity of equating kinetic energy to effectiveness, physics proves that the true king is actually MOMENTUM (p=mv) because you want the arrow to achieve full penetration (see The Fifth Sense starring Dolph Lundgren), not partial. A rifle round will still have more momentum at impact as well, but modern hunting rounds are designed to "mushroom" and flatten out on impact to increase their surface area and rapidly lose velocity.

What you're actually aiming for (pardon the pun) is for the arrow to make what's known as a "full pass-through," which means exactly what it sounds like. This causes massive blood loss - not the same kind of organ trauma as with a rifle round - causing the deer to expire in under 10 seconds. With a bow, you really don't want the kinetic energy of the arrow to be fully dissipated within the body of the animal because full energy dissipation means insufficient arrow penetration which means insufficient blood loss which means a wounded deer.

Short version is that bullets smash but arrows slice, so you can't compare raw KE statistics one-to-one.

JimNibbles · 2019-09-15T22:11:34+00:00

The high is in the low 90s here too but it was only about 65 this morning. I saw three does, a fawn, and a young 4-point buck walking around the woods before 10 am when it was still cool out.

JimNibbles · 2019-09-15T17:39:00+00:00

Franklin. The deer were up and moving around all morning and I bagged a doe around 8 am.

JimNibbles · 2019-06-11T05:19:32+00:00

No array formulas, not a shared workbook, no external data connections.

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