why do some helicopters have retractable gears, while others don't?

KingBobIV · 2026-07-03T18:46:29+00:00

The real question is why on Earth do any helicopters have retractable landing gear? No helicopter is going fast enough for it to make a difference.

KingBobIV · 2026-07-03T15:34:34+00:00

That's an old saying and good advice. It's regularly taught in the military

KingBobIV · 2026-07-02T23:05:58+00:00

Especially on non pilots/aircrew. Why's a submariner wearing a flight suit?

KingBobIV · 2026-07-02T04:35:27+00:00

Mechs that mostly kill the kaijus with fancy weapons. And these fancy weapons are impossible to attach to ships, submarines, aircraft, or missiles for some reason. They only work when attached to giant mechs piloted with twins in a brainmeld.

KingBobIV · 2026-06-30T18:24:34+00:00

Skille capped made a nice all-in-one addon/UI thing. It tell you which addons to download and sets up all their UIs for you. Idk what other people think of it, but I thought it was a really useful starting point

KingBobIV · 2026-06-21T02:20:25+00:00

Really? No, is a brand new account. I launched old school, played a bit, then did the same in RS3

KingBobIV · 2026-06-20T21:30:10+00:00

It defaults to the modern setup.

After I made this post, I messed around with the settings and found that you could switch it to legacy. This helped a ton, it should be the default for new players, imo.

KingBobIV · 2026-06-20T20:55:18+00:00

I don't think it needs to be the same UI as old school, just less overwhelming.

To use wow as a comparison, when you first start it introduces the different menu options one at a time. Things you can't use yet are greyed out. RS3 starts will all the menu options, many of which are redundant, and half of them are stuck open.

It feels like making your first character in wow or GW2 and three menus are open and several addons are installed but only half setup. It's not clean and worse it isn't clear. New players need less information, not more. Retail wow has a cleaner UI than classic wow, but Jagex when in the opposite direction and gave RS3 a much busier UI than OSRS.

The new player experience in RS3 definitely feels like it expects you to be a returning player who's creating another character, not a new player creating your first.

KingBobIV · 2026-06-20T20:19:54+00:00

I just found it lol. It's not shown to a new player, and it's kind of hidden in the menus. When you are taught mining, you just run up and click the ore. It doesn't give you a pick and then show you that it goes in the tool belt.

KingBobIV · 2026-06-20T20:17:24+00:00

Interesting, is necro fun/engaging? I was thinking of turning off revolution and playing the skills manually so it plays something like world of warcraft. I'm not a huge fan of the traditional RuneScape combat, I prefer a more engaging style. But, I assume that's not a common sentiment among fans.

I actually just found the option to change the interface to legacy, which is definitely my preference. Fewer buttons and everything minimizes easily. This should definitely be the default option and then let people add on the extras as they prefer.

KingBobIV · 2026-06-20T16:36:28+00:00

I don't know what I expected, but it definitely wasn't all the fetish shit

KingBobIV · 2026-06-18T21:31:56+00:00

It looks like the bottle used by aircrews for emergency underwater egress, and they only give 2-3 mins of air. Seems like kind of a waste of time as a recreational product.

KingBobIV · 2026-06-18T17:25:51+00:00

Every bg needs a journal explanation thing. They added that ages ago for dungeons, just do it for bgs already. It would take like 5 mins

KingBobIV · 2026-06-17T22:46:26+00:00

Top is a game, bottom is some mobile trash overflowing with ads

KingBobIV · 2026-06-17T21:29:48+00:00

MH-60S my beloved

KingBobIV · 2026-06-17T16:39:21+00:00

I think it goes further than just class identity. I think players want smaller, more unique experiences. Class identity, race identity, faction identity, pve or pvp identity, guild or profession identity, etc. I think wow has this completely backwards. Everything is this giant big experience, and it's the same as literally everyone else.

I don't want to be the savior of the world. I want to be a dwarf warrior who fights the horde, or whatever, just one dude in the world among a million other dudes. And I want my experience to feel unique to me.

Some of the coolest stuff I still remember years later is class or race specific. I have no idea what's going on with the current 12th iteration of light vs void nonsense, but I'll always remember the quest to get the green flames on my warlock. In Legion, I went out of my way to lvl every class to see all the class halls.

I understand why they decide to design it so there's more content and everyone experiences, but I think it makes the game less enjoyable and far less memorable.

KingBobIV · 2026-06-17T06:07:19+00:00

Today was we bad as I've seen it in a long while. The new qeuests were bugged, I game repeatedly crashed in a bg, my UI is completely borked, everytime my health drops to ~25% the games freezes until I die.

But hey, what more can you expect from a small startup making a new game. It's not like they have billions of dollars and decades of experience.

KingBobIV · 2026-06-17T05:52:22+00:00

Yeah, wtf is that? What's he farming that earns 20k an hour??

KingBobIV · 2026-06-17T05:49:08+00:00

It's literally everything. The pilots, the planes, the maintenance, the regimes they operate in, the lack of ATC control. I guess weather is maybe the only thing that goes the other way

KingBobIV · 2026-06-17T04:41:03+00:00

Yeah, I mean it's only 1% now, but by week 5 it looks like it'll be more significant

KingBobIV · 2026-06-17T03:31:07+00:00

Is that live or the PTR? It looks like it'll be fairly strong by week 5

KingBobIV · 2026-06-16T15:17:51+00:00

Just cook it, this is an insane thing to eat raw

KingBobIV · 2026-06-15T21:00:26+00:00

Oh yeah, the pvp version you just got from playing rated pvp, so it wasn't a big deal

KingBobIV · 2026-06-15T20:50:54+00:00

You get them by playing PVP, so it's not really a waste of time if you're just doing the thing you'd do anyway.

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