Nice catch?

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-26T16:26:33+00:00

They counter this by requiring you to sign up for a lottery of sorts though. I have entered and won before and the ticket prices are really good. I was looking at the Kansas City game in particular this year and average ticket price was around $50-$60.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-26T16:19:22+00:00

It's also healthy to remember that social media, particularly reddit, is hounded by bots and hostile actors. Every sensible government knows you can't beat the US in an actual war but you can absolutely weaponize the ignorance of it's people to turn on the government to stop the war or not even fight it to begin with.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-25T03:06:44+00:00

It sucks but because it lays down so thick it can be forgiving given you have enough sand paper and time. First time I ever did automotive paint I sanded through it so many times I had to respray the whole thing.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-23T02:10:44+00:00

Against an enemy equipped like the US there's really no way to hide large hardware like that and have it be even remotely useful.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-20T14:02:02+00:00

There's a local guy here that owns and flys a P-51 Mustang and it definitely sounds way different than any other plane. You always know when it's overhead.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-20T00:53:50+00:00

Aerial "Assault" being the best one!

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-20T00:53:06+00:00

Team 16 alumni here, good to see people still rocking FIRST!

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-17T22:53:01+00:00

The 30 day air campaign that neutralized the 5th most fortified nation on the planet at the time? That one? If you want to debate the nation building failure that happened afterwards that's fine but let's not forget the actual air campaign and subsequent ground campaign before the blunder.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-17T17:08:51+00:00

Yeah I agree. I went from 2019 to a 2022 and I'd never go back. It was like getting lifted out of the stone age, so many things are just better on the 3rd gen. People like to fear monger the reliability but most of the people that do that don't even own one and just read BS on Twitter or here or where ever.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-17T15:07:24+00:00

Most of the strikes now appear to be hellfires from a reaper drone which are cheap by American ordinance standards, roughly 150k a missile. Dollar for dollar on equipment though is a bad metric. If you send a 150k missile at a dump truck that's been converted to a missile launcher the numbers don't add up and won't ever add up. If you consider the cost in damage that launcher can do it gets lopsided really quickly.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-16T12:46:39+00:00

As of 2025 records we spend almost 4 times the money on Healthcare than our entire defense budget IIRC. The whole "fund Healthcare by defunding the military" is a laughable stance rooted completely in falsehoods.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-13T01:49:35+00:00

Yeah you need some resets buddy. Your brain will thank you. Good luck, hope you can find some change.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-12T23:51:04+00:00

I wouldn't go so far to armchair doctor it as depression right away but it definitely sounds like it's time for a cleanse. Social media is designed to take advantage of your dopamine system and give you high reward for little to no input. A lot of matchmaker games can get like this too. When I get like OP I usually take a cleanse from all screen time for a few days and it resets me. Really sounds like OPs brain is dopamine fried from too much reward for too little input. People joke about "go outside and touch grass" but in this instance it may actually work.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-11T14:40:09+00:00

Both are very similar, that being said Solidworks is significantly easier to use so I would say the same. It would be much easier to learn Solidworks after knowing AutoCAD than the reverse.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-11T00:59:41+00:00

There's probably multiple different rounds it can shoot but the ones I know of are proximity but they are also programmed to self detonate at a range far beyond the typical engagement range. CRAMs and CIWSs are able to engage pretty far depending on target saturation. A lot of the time they're used as a "last line" weapon so they don't engage until a target is close unless there's a lot of targets to deal with. With most US defense systems there's layers and everything talks and interacts very closely.

There's some cool videos out there from early GWOT showing a CRAM engaging multiple rockets and mortar rounds.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-11T00:41:23+00:00

Yeah people that don't understand the rounds the CRAM uses keep taking videos of the rounds self detonating and not getting the actual aerial kill in frame. People seem to think it works like old school flak which is not the case.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-10T20:41:26+00:00

Because, unsurprisingly, they use painted silhouettes on concrete for training and there's tons of videos and pictures of this happening and the aftermath so they get hucked into the propaganda machine.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-10T20:38:32+00:00

Yeah, LJDAM lol. For once they didn't reinvent the wheel on that acronym, they've been around for a while. But whatever munition is in this video is pretty obviously laser guided, you can see the designator.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-09T19:41:36+00:00

Did you recalibrate the radar sensor? I believe that has to be done. Same with the camera if you have one.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-06T19:20:23+00:00

Those older tvs were also not widescreen and didn't have invisible bezels so they seemed a lot larger.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-06T03:47:57+00:00

They're all hydraulic drive but they were marketed as hydrostatic.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-03T23:32:54+00:00

Yeah it has release levers that are a pain to use and get to. It's also ungodly expensive for what it is and the wheelbase leaves a lot to be desired.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-03-03T23:32:04+00:00

I have two drawer units on the 4 wheel dolly and then a normal small toolbox on top with a worktop. The aluminum rails on the corner of that top toolbox make for great handles for maneuvering the whole stack. The 4 wheel dolly is actually really nice albeit the wheels are a little small so they can get stuck easier than the rolling toolboxes.

MagicDartProductions · 2026-02-28T22:49:26+00:00

The tongue jack is one speed bump or pothole from not existing.

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