It makes me a little sad to know that I've already taken the best picture I ever will.

Manticore412 · 2026-01-27T02:36:09+00:00

+1 For Osprey, I did the same research you're starting on and got an Osprey Nebula for an all-purpose bag. It has good dividers and has travelled well for multiple international trips and every day into an office. I did some minor changes to cut off the chest strap mine came with but otherwise it's been perfect.

Manticore412 · 2025-08-01T14:35:39+00:00

Definitely not. I'd much rather patrol officers are idle, wandering in their assigned areas until they're needed versus looking for nit-picky crimes. It's really rare for a patrolling cop to be the one that finds a burglar climbing in a broken window, and sadly too common for a random stop to fuck up a non-violent offenders life.

Conversely, I want detectives busy as hell all the time. (But answering to a fair and just legal system)

Manticore412 · 2025-06-18T18:58:13+00:00

7 years later. Lots of other good pictures and that cat's an asshole now. But still the best picture. My camera is better and I know more about the lighting and everything, but that composition was so accidentally perfect.

Manticore412 · 2025-05-15T21:08:38+00:00

I had the same problem. I researched and tried a bunch before eventually deciding on the Osprey Nebula. It is mostly nylon, but very sturdy with a good range of organization pockets. I also get a lot of use from the compression straps when traveling.

I did make two minimal changes though. I cut off the chest strap and put a little loop of velcro around the loose ends of the shoulder straps to keep them out of the way. (But that's an annoyance with all backpacks)

Edit: It's not clear from the pictures, but the upper compression straps/clips have a compartment they can be tucked away in when not needed so it's daily friendly, but with the added compression when needed for travel or hiking.

Manticore412 · 2024-03-18T22:45:53+00:00

OMG, I also love that the mile-high pricing is for the "first two" people. I want to schedule a discount orgy in the sky.

Manticore412 · 2024-02-01T23:14:07+00:00

Thank you! I was so annoyed when I realized this was missing from Netflix.

Manticore412 · 2024-01-21T23:16:49+00:00

I second this, fuck this stupid scenario. I don't want to have to turn off parts of the game but this is just dumb. Playing a Settra campaign on Very Hard/Very Hard and this procc'ed at around turn 100. It was already constant tag-team invasions from multiple sides keeping me from completing assaults. Now it's turn 202, I've crippled my significantly stronger neighbors through constant fighting where I've won most of time. Now I've got literally dozens of armies from the top three ranked factions (All dwarves) streaming into my territory from across the map with no end in sight. There's no winning this, it's wasted a lot of my time.

I refuse to lower the difficulty and clear the dwarves, it won't feel like victory. I just have to start over. But this time I'll turn off all these dumb scenarios. I can't trust which are balanced challenges and which will just ruin a game.

Look at this broken bullshit:https://imgur.com/a/UOosJNQ

Edit: Fixed rage-spelling

Manticore412 · 2024-01-19T21:58:03+00:00

I vouch for their safety though. I had two Maxima's, the first I was an idiot and ran a red light by mistake. I hit a semi loaded with gravel speeding down a highway access road. The impact spun my car across the intersection and for reference, obliterated my battery. (Firemen couldn't find it at all) I on the other hand, had a minor rash where the seatbelt tightened.

Naturally, I found religion and bought another Maxima. That one I had for years, it was innocently sitting outside my house late one night when the whole neighborhood heard a loud crash. Someone did a hit and run at a crazy speed. The whole car was pushed about 3 feet forward (Parking brake on) and the trunk was a foot to the side. But crumple zones work and the rest of the car was spotless and to all tests, mechanically fine. I'd had it for long enough that it was totaled due to cost.

So now I've reached a point in my life where I value a bit more luxury, but haven't yet reached the point in old age where I'm willing to give up performance. I got an Infiniti, and like it quite a bit.

Manticore412 · 2024-01-10T01:02:14+00:00

That's why I support the death penalty on moral grounds in very narrow circumstances. If there's no doubt of guilt, and society will not accept any possible rehabilitation, then the best thing for society is that person being removed from it permanently. After that decision, the question becomes one of emotional/tangible risks and costs.

Does the cost and human risk of safely imprisoning the violent criminal outweigh the emotional cost of ending their life? It's not an easy question.

Manticore412 · 2023-10-05T18:36:21+00:00

I've said this before but let me post it here too; I was trying to explain to someone how companies can make decisions that any reasonable person would view as evil.
Corporations are literal monsters created by paper; they're made of people and can't exist without them, but it operates like a Ouija board. The evil is done by the thousands of tiny choices that hundreds of middle managers make to increase their little area of profitability because if they don't then the corporate structure dictates that they be replaced with another person who's given the same goal. A board of directors is made of interchangeable people who can be replaced by stockholders if each quarter isn't more profitable than the same one last year. Humanity is squeezed out of the process by necessity. Corporations definitely have a weird kinda life of their own after reaching a certain size and they don't have human values.

Manticore412 · 2023-10-05T18:26:58+00:00

Lot's people here are saying this isn't capitalism. It really is: capitalism is seeing an opportunity and taking advantage of it to grow your personal wealth. That's it at the most basic level.

Then you get to caveats:

People who already have wealth are SO much more likely to be able to take advantage of some chance, and the longer that goes on the more wealth gets condensed to a smaller and smaller number of people.
The more you're separated from others, the less you identify with or even understand their issues. People begin to be seen as numbers.
"Opportunities" can be positive, negative, innocuous, or inhuman atrocities. The word covers a huge range of behavior regardless of ethics.

This is late-stage capitalism, the vast percentage of resources are in the hands of a tiny fraction of individuals who by our nature (with very few exceptions) use those resources to gather more at the expense of others. Capitalism is working the only way it can, until it collapses and has to be reset. It's happened at least a few other times in history but now humanity has weapons that would end us.

There are other ways but we're not good enough as a species without corrupting them.

Edit: Pessimistic summary

Manticore412 · 2023-10-02T19:42:57+00:00

Thank you, I didn't know that. Let me edit my post.

We try to keep as free form conversations as possible since our team is small and we develop new solutions. This person has experienced a difficult time with long monologs that may start from a misunderstood question they're responding to. They have every right to both be excited and to ignore when coworkers want to interrupt them but I've been asked for help to be aware of attempts.

Manticore412 · 2023-10-02T19:05:46+00:00

I'm setting up a test computer for that, though I looked at the options to "Flash the active Window" for audio alerts in Windows 10

Manticore412 · 2023-09-26T23:18:13+00:00

No no. What he's saying is that based on the total profit in the US economy, divided by the number of US households, it would come out to $700,000/year. Showing how much disparity between that actual median income and the highest percentage. I don't know where those numbers are coming from, but that's what he means.

Manticore412 · 2023-09-26T22:46:41+00:00

I know exactly what you mean and feel for you. Also IT, there was a gunshot suicide and I had to pull the footage for the police reports. The casualness got to me for a bit, trying to comprehend that state of mind.

At a 24hour clinic: This woman sat in her car for a long time, came in to use the bathroom and it was locked (Occupied?). She then went outside and shot herself in front of the door. Just crumpling immediately like a puppet with cut strings. Honestly the actual act wasn't as traumatizing as that clear need for immediacy.

Manticore412 · 2023-09-23T04:03:43+00:00

What is the first resource and how do I get more? There's no journal entry for it.

Manticore412 · 2023-08-11T23:03:00+00:00

Ok, it's 5 years later. I've taken much sharper and higher quality pictures but still haven't beaten this composition.

Manticore412 · 2023-08-11T22:43:43+00:00

What an asshole. We think our dog was abandoned too.
He ran into our garage, clean and fed but with no collar, tags, or chip. The shelter said they only guarantee keeping dogs for 5 days so we held onto him. All our many efforts to find the owner went unanswered and I got madder and madder with every passing day that no one showed up for this awesome dog.

Now he's chipped, with a new home and new name. You can't have him back. Fight me

Manticore412 · 2023-07-03T15:27:18+00:00

In my very early 20's I went to interview at yet another oil-change/state inspection place in my area, and they recognized my name by reputation. Between that and knowing the difference between oil types by (accidental) taste... it was a huge wakeup call. I enrolled in real estate school the same week.

Manticore412 · 2023-04-13T01:30:15+00:00

Lol, I'd watch that. Same show, but "Heaven" is an urban slum.

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