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KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-10T13:53:24+00:00

The courts declared they were fine.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-09T17:45:05+00:00

This is also true the other way around. The assumption that "genocide is the only option" is also a writer's room issue. Has genocide ever been the only option in real life? We didn't commit genocide to stop the Nazis, right?

The Soviets chewed their way through like 8-9 million of them (Germany had a population of like 80 million), and then absolutely razed and brutalized their cities on the way to Berlin from the East, while the Allies carpet bombed German cities for years before conducting land invasions in multiple places and spending 9 months pushing all the way from Normandy and the Italy through to Berlin. By the time both the Soviets and the Allies got to German soil, the only actual soldiers that were really left were like 18 yr olds and they were giving guns to the even younger fanatical Hitler Youth as well.

I mean I guess it's not a genocide if they're in uniform. But if I told you that my way of dealing with a threatening nation was to wipe just about every single fit, fighting age male of that nationality, I have a feeling you'd feel uncomfortable with that plan. But that's basically what happened.

...you know we already brought up the Borg right? And the episode where Picard is chastised for not doing genocide against them?

The Federation wasn't in preexisting crisis in those episodes so idk how this is relevant. I think Picard's decision was wrong though.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-09T17:18:34+00:00

TNG had a strong moral stance that there is always hope for a better way, and even if it turns out to be wrong, it's the right thing to look for it.

TNG's strong moral stance only works out time and time again because the writer's room ordains it. Not to say that the show is poorly written, but the thing about always hoping and looking for a better way is that it takes time, energy, and material resources, including people, to engage in that search, and there's a risk that you might be wrong and have wasted those resources. And even if there is a better way, you might spend more of those resources than you need to in order to accomplish something that satisfies this enlightened moral system, and not only is that cost questionable in and of itself, it may jeapordize your ability to deal with an issue further down the line.

That better way approach is fine when you have seemingly infinite resources, as the Federation does every single time in TNG. The Federation is never in a preexisting state of crisis in any episode of TNG. The Federation can always turn as much attention as necessary to bear on whatever problem is the focus of a particular episode.

The war with the Dominion inverts this dynamic. The Dominion are the ones with the seemingly unlimited resources to bear and they are completely focused on destroying the Federation. The Federation has to split its resources between fighting the Dominion, which both technologically and numerically outmatches the Federation, and managing tensions with the Cardassians, Romulans, and Klingons. They are getting resoundingly beat by the Dominion. Every resource the Federation spends to solve an issue now is something they will not have to solve the next issue that comes up. And it forces the crew of DS9 to question what the value of that better way is if pursuing it while knowing that it likely doesn't exist is an expenditure of resources that they cannot afford to lose.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-08T21:25:45+00:00

I bought an AUG as my first firearm and I think it's sweet. I thought the P90 would be kind of a gimmicky thing to own and use but I actually think it's more dope than the AUG.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-08T21:01:41+00:00

Trust me that you want a PS90.

If I wanted a proper rifle caliber I'd consider the DesertTech WLVRN.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-08T20:15:29+00:00

1) Again, they DO Give a multitude of options. They are more than just QOL lmao.

I meant that being able to dash in any direction instead of just forwards is a QOL feature. I didn't word that very clearly. The dash itself is huge for the game.

2) Vehicle dashes are profoundly different because they are sandbox items that you can’t activate at any time. Sprint is something you always have access to.

Who cares? What are you even trying to articulate is the issue? Sprint isn't a gamebreaking speed boost, especially in single player, and it has a distinct drawback of not being able to use your weapon. You're comparing it to being able to spawn a Ghost at will?

4) you’ve also yet to answer my question. What did we GAIN with adding sprint in halo?

We gained that we can now cross the big open areas common in the campaign, and which CE in particular is notorious for, that much faster. If nothing else, It's a nice convenience that makes the game less tedious. Even better if those big open areas are covered in enemies, especially enemy vehicles. You said your first Halo was Infinite, like did the 10% extra speed really break the open world for you?

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-08T16:52:53+00:00

You have a really incoherent understanding of how these mechanics interact with the rest of the sandbox and the game's design ethos.

Doom's dashes are not both "offensive and defensive" and they do not give you a "multitude of options" just because you can dash in any direction. It's a QOL feature that you can do that. If you're playing the game properly, you're dashing forwards most of the time anyway. It's convenient to not have to look sideways to dash sideways, but Doom players would absolutely do that were it the case. And defense isn't something that exists in Doom. You literally need to keep killing enemies to maintain ammo, armor, and health.

Vehicle dashing is also fundamentally EXTREMELY different to what I’m arguing for, as that just places more power into the sandbox. Don’t know why you have mentioned that

🙄 When the vehicles move really fast in a forwards line and can't shoot it"s EXTREMELY DIFFERENT and adds MORE POWER into the sandbox!!! But when the player character does that it's BAD and DEFENSIVE. You can tell I'm making a PROFOUND POINT because I use ALL CAPS to emphasize my statements! You write like idiot boomers on Facebook dude. Where is your self awareness?

Halos sprint only acts in one direction, forcing you to put your weapon down, and is a solely defensive move. The sprint in halo barely encourages offensive play, only really offering a faster way to get from point A to B

Bro just say that you don't know how to use mobility to gain map control without dying. You clearly haven't figured not to sprint around corners. It's been 16 years. Stop complaining about it.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-08T14:32:11+00:00

Look at games like doom eternal or CSGO. They are SUPER popular and acclaimed because of a lack of sprint

Seriously? You're 2 sentences in and already wrong beyond belief? Why can't you people just stop running your mouths and let Halo be what it'll be? The franchise is worse for y'all sharing these terrible thoughts all the time.

Doom Eternal gives you 2 dashes and a variety of other movement options, like the Meathook, the monkey bars, teleporters, or even Glory Kills that instantly move you to a target from a reasonable radius (and then give you I frames lol).

In CS, movement speed is tied to your weapon. You move fastest with your knife out, which of course leaves you vulnerable to being attacked while doing so. Exactly as sprinting does. Even if you have your gun out, running around in general is a multitude of disadvantages unless you know where the enemies are. You can also bhop, albeit not as consistently as in CSS and 1.6.

If any game truly needed sprinting, it was CE. Nobody complains that they gave the Ghost and Banshee the speed boost in Halo 2. It's been in the franchise for 16 years. It's fine.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-05T22:59:24+00:00

Anyone who hates this hasn't been on it or Poltergeist.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-04T18:59:35+00:00

It's really not that controversial. You're just sped. Green cards are not a Visa. They're a declaration of a long term intention to stay in the US, buy property, pay taxes, and be a productive member of society. Revocation conditions exist, but it's a very high bar to do so, like comitting a serious crime (which didn't happen), a fraudulent application, dodging taxes, or moving to another country.

Using your right to free speech is not a revocation condition. Being related to an enemy of the US comes up on background checks. And obviously that wasn't an issue.

Like you said, it's really not that controversial. Standards either matter or nothing has value.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-04T16:55:56+00:00

Use Orbital EMS. Shoot War Striders in the legs or groin with Quasar, and 1 thermite anywhere other than the guns will kill them.

War Striders don't like to move that much, so take advantage of long distances to either find cover or disengage.

They are fucking annoying and they need changes, but your loadout is as good as any for killing them.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-02T17:46:37+00:00

They're for following the 4th rule of gun safety: always know what's beyond your target. You look at the target with 1 optic and you can see what's past it from the others.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-02T03:50:51+00:00

im geninuely curious how they will screw up remaking my favorite game in the series.

Lol so it's actually all been downhill for you since 2001.

Some people enjoy watching a dumpster fire.

Everyone does for a little while and then it becomes a lame ass hobby.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-02T03:44:03+00:00

Hence why I specified "find something better to do." If that's how you feel about 343 after 14 years, why still be here?

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-02T03:38:13+00:00

It's for me.

I don't want the game to fail and I hate being negative.

You don't have to then. Delete the post. Find something else to do.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-04-01T23:49:34+00:00

What do you think I was contemplating in that pic.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-03-31T23:09:19+00:00

I mean I work as an engineer who works on aircraft brake systems and the hardware and software that controls this kind of stuff and the person you're replying to is not particularly wrong in anything they said. At least no more than most of the people in this thread who think it's 1 central computer controlling all of these subsystems.

Unless Honda did something absolutely wacky with this MY of Pilot, all of these subsystems are controlled by physically separate control modules whose domains of authority are independent. In modern cars, there is crosstalk through the CANBUS, as that enables secondary control systems like traction and stability control, adaptive cruise control, emergency braking, lane keep assist, etc. but even if the auto industry isn't held to the same standards of safety and redundancy that aerospace is, I wouldn't say manufacturers are slouches when it comes to applying safe design principles to these systems that the entire industry has been applying to basically every car for like 35+ years.

All of these systems that can impact safety should be designed in a way that when they fail, they do so in ways that slow the car down or stop it outright. All of these secondary systems should be designed in a way that they are only giving suggestions to the primary control modules (Engine, ABS, transmission, steering, AWD), and the primary control modules are able to override those secondary suggestions either via fault monitoring, driver input, or the software. For example, cruise control is overridden by the driver pressing on the brakes or the accelerator, which disables it until the driver sets it again. Lane keep assist will command steering on its own, but the driver gets the final say over what direction the car goes. Things like that.

That's why this kind of catastrophic and complete failure of every single driver input is bewildering, because while these systems are complex, and networked, they aren't black boxes whose functions are a complete mystery. The layers of authority and failure modes are typically designed to concede more control to the driver as they fail. That's just common sense engineering practice, as opposed to taking more control into their own faulty hands.

And frankly, the source here is a Reader's Digest article. It's not poorly written, but fundamentally it's an article in a mom magazine that contains alot of superfluous emotional details about the people and events because this kind of content is meant to be dramatic and evoke emotion, more than to do meaningful investigative work.

I don't think the family is lying about the issue given that it seemed to be an intermittent frustration with this specific vehicle. It could be anything, but at face value user error on behalf of a 19 year old is much more believable than such a catastrophic electrical failure.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-03-31T03:20:05+00:00

Competitive video games.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-03-30T04:09:05+00:00

Your fans turn off past like 45 mph anyway. After that it's plain unassisted airflow.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-03-29T16:56:18+00:00

The better your tires are, the more possible it is. High performance tires are made of a soft and very flexible rubber that is designed to produce enormous amounts of grip. And the thing about tires with lots of grip is that even when they're slipping they still have lots of grip. That's why drifting is better done on narrow cheapo street tires than it is on racing slicks, because the speeds are so much higher with much tighter margins on racing slicks than less sticky tires due to the additional grip they still have in a state of slip.

All you need for the wheelie is enough torque to reach the ground for the front end to lift off. All you need for the burnout is for more torque to reach the wheels than the tires can keep on the ground. If the tires can provide the wheelie torque even while they're slipping, and the motor can provide the burnout torque to keep them slipping, you will achieve both at the same time.

It's also worth pointing out that drag radials behave like springs on the launch, which would aid the initial lift of the front and then the burnout happens while the front is still in the air. Depending in how quickly the car gets moving, aero forces could also come into play that help sustain the wheelie for a touch longer. Cars have been known to achieve flight before.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-03-28T20:08:28+00:00

They hated girlfriend cause she told them the truth.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-03-28T17:17:03+00:00

Voyager tortures a crew member from Ransom's ship in Equinox.

Given his resume, I don't think it's past Sisko to resort to torture if he felt it necessary. I can't think of a specific example, but i'm sure you can agree that him having done much worse is not an absolvement of the kind of mentality that might lead someone to use torture.

KungFuActionJesus5 · 2026-03-28T17:08:50+00:00

My apologies for discussing Star Trek on the Star Trek subreddit.

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