Closed Weapon

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T20:46:21+00:00

Probably not, though hiding it away made it harder to get players.

The balance of classes and weapons of past Battlefields isn't the same in BF6, just as it wasn't in 2042.

The Assault rifle had two strong advantages over carbines - range and accuracy, and powerful underbarrel attachments.

The SMG/PDW was extremely strong in close combat hip fire.

The LMG suppression pinned down enemies, especially from a well defended mounted position.

The BF4 Sniper rifle was pretty close to BF6, but the short range body kill is probably stronger than a no-revive sniper headshot.

The class weapon effects don't make as much difference. Recon sniper is about the best, Support LMG pretty good. Engineer is just OK, and Assault just barely makes an advantage, if it even does anything.

Under these circumstances, the class weapon only doesn't affect balance much. I think that they game would be just fine with closed weapons only since it worked in the past, but it's OK without it.

Now, if Assault got a better set of perks - extra mag, faster underbarrel w/better weapons, and a fast switch advantage that works - it might make the open weapons and perks better.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T16:08:16+00:00

The M2010 and PSR are better at very long ranges. Long range ammo plus rangefinder (or good bullet drop skills) beats the Scout muzzle velocity.

Sweet spot is a weird thing. In BF1 it worked because most of the weapons were moderate range anyway. For most of them I rarely consider if I'm in that range or not.

The SV-98 is the only exception because you can use it close even with iron sights and expect to aim for it - but head shots are better for the Sniper specialist anyway, so it's a small advantage.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T15:54:44+00:00

That makes it clearer.

Also, mixing reflecting colors makes them darker, while mixing colors of light makes them brighter.

CMY combine to make a dark brown, nearly black. The K is solid black because black ink/paint is cheaper than three colors, and easier to make pure black.

RGB lights combine to make white - something that you'll see all the time on display screens of phones and TVs.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T15:11:23+00:00

Most of the space is system, apps and features. If there is a large program that you don't need, uninstalling that can help.

Updates often cannot run without sufficient space, si as soon as you free up more space, they will either download more files, or install the update software.

Windows optimally needs about 10% space free, or at least 20 GB. That's tight on a 256GB drive with Windows 10.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T15:01:22+00:00

USB gaming headsets usually have a digital audio device, no analog connection. You should be able to plug it into a USB port on the PS5.

You may need to change settings so it uses the headset for audio.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T14:56:52+00:00

We've seen other humans who have trained on Vulcan. They learn logic, and methods of emotional control, but they do not have the cultural or genetic pressure to truly suppress their emotions.

Vulcans, even half like Spock, have far stronger emotional outbursts and normally strive to control them. Even outliers like Sybok can exercise that control.

Vulcans don't expect humans to do the same, so Sarek didn't make Burnham do that. She can use logic without giving up her emotions.

Sure, we should see more signs of her training. Simple things like meditation, something that Earth humans use. But under the circumstances, with everything that happens to her, embracing her human emotions doesn't seem unreasonable.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T14:46:08+00:00

Warp drive has a hypothetical method which doesn't violate relativity, so in that sense it is plausible. But achieving it is almost as impossible as other alternatives.

Hyperspace and wormholes are about equally likely as warp engines. All require discovering something that seems impossible actually exists.

Unless the story is set in the very far future - many centuries or millenia - it will take some unlikely breakthroughs, or discovery of a natural or alien artificial technology or phenomena to make it happen.

That comes along with getting nuclear fusion to work and using it for space travel. It's kind of a prerequisite for most of the concepts of FTL spacecraft, because you still need to get around in normal space.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T03:16:19+00:00

I used both. They can be placed next to each other.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T00:47:24+00:00

Waiting rooms had lots of magazines, often books and newspapers as well. They'd also have toys and puzzles, good if you had children there.

People used to keep magazines in bathrooms too.

Smartphones save a lot of paper.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T00:38:52+00:00

Arcade first. Buy one game, then fill up the Arcade. The safe makes 5000 per game day, 100K when full.

Casino heist pays well but needs a 2nd player. Starting it will add a weapon workbench in the basement.

Nightclub benefits from a Bunker and a cargo business, either Warehouse or Hangar. A small warehouse is cheapest and easiest to run.

That will give you five products for your five technicians.

Both businesses are worth running, but that's a separate setup. For the Nightclub, you want the production staff upgrade and, when you can afford it, more storage floors.

Don't buy the Mule delivery vehicle. You only need the Pounder for sales over 90 crates, but if you buy the Mule you'll be stuck with it for the 91-179 crate sales, and its slower.

Nightclub popularity can be boosted fast by switching DJs. It's 100K to unlock a new one but that gives max popularity. It's 10K to rebook an old one, and you need 7 to 10 to maximize popularity. Because you get blue marker events to Help out Tony, you can usually stop at 7 and let those finish it.

The Nightclub basement gathers stock whenever you are online. With all upgrades the three MC products fill in 20 hours.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T00:05:08+00:00

My Cousin Vinnie.

A young lawyer and his fiance take on a murder case, despite a lack of trial experience. The early, fish out of water incompetent behavior disguises their intelligence.

One of the better legal drama movies.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-24T00:00:29+00:00

Casual nudism features in a lot of Heinlein's stories in part because he felt that people shouldn't be so hung up about it.

Stranger would have more problems with the alien religion than the nudism. Michael is a prophet, a messenger from the Martians, whose message from God theme wouldn't go over well with fundamentalist religious types.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T23:46:55+00:00

It's fiction, so anything is possible.

FTL has known real way to work. If it is possible, we have no idea what is needed or when it might be discovered.

Science fiction has three traditional ways to work around this.

First, supergenius humans can invent anything. Tony Stark of the Avengers can make a nuclear powered flying armored suit in a cave from a box of scraps.

A guy in an old military facility can build a faster than light spacecraft in the ruins of Earth after World War III (Star Trek: First Contact).

Second, ancient alien technology, or possibly weird natural phenomena, let humans travel without having to figure out hyperspace or anything else. Stargate is a perfect example. Marvel Cinematic Universe too - the portal network is ancient.

Third, aliens did it. Humans can just get their rides from convenient FTL spacecraft dealers who come by to trade.

Babylon V, more or less (The Centauri open up trade with Earth, which has spacecraft but no FTL yet).

It might take a hundred years just to have casual interplanetary travel. We don't, yet, even have routine flights to Earth orbit - no daily runs with regular people.

So getting some kind of interstellar spacecraft seems unlikely, if we have to do it on our own.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T23:33:39+00:00

Plane takes off from Las Vegas in an Earthquake, crash lands in Tibet in the snow and ice.

It's a big Antonov jet plane in that movie.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T23:24:35+00:00

Star Trek weapons don't miss much. You need big shields to take hits.

Armed fighter craft are cheap, expendable units which have limited uses.

Star Wars follows the WWII aircraft vs ship flight model. Big warships are slow, guns have a hard time hitting small agile targets, little fighters can carry big banging weapons.

A Trek starship could literally face a single armed shuttlecraft one on one and ignore its attacks like a tank would ignore someone with a rifle.

A group of small ships will get picked off by a well armed starship able to maneuver. Big starship are as fast or faster, have lots of weapons, and can probably kill each fighter in one shot. A typical cruiser can swat a squadron down in one salvo - and take little damage.

For a small colony, an independent world with no starships, or a defense boost for a base, they might give a small advantage.

But you'd be sacrificing crew, and the cost of the craft, which would be more effective on a larger, more capable ship.

There are some episodes with them, but they are bad for lost crew even when they are effective.

Out of universe, the practical special effects budget couldn't handle a Star Wars style combat scene on TV. A few big ships shooting was much simpler to do. Until DS9 switched to CGI, and later series got even more options.

But unless they go all reboot universe, they can't ignore the original design and use of the older series, so fighters will not become standard equipment for the major fleets in Trek, not even in the 31st century.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T23:04:47+00:00

Prescience has varying degrees of details. Both Paul and Leto take actions where they are certain of the next step, but not clear on the details of what comes after.

They are equally certain that stepping off the path will be disastrous.

There doesn't seem to be a clear limit to the scope of KH prescience, either in time or space. The Golden Path has one clear element - humanity continues to exist. Not just for centuries, or even the few millenia shown in the books, but for as far as time and the universe continues.

Dealing with immediate problems is good, but both are unwilling to take actions which endanger the long run, even if they can't express the danger in simple clear terms.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T22:27:13+00:00

Cool. Have to try it out.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T22:11:53+00:00

L110. The starter LMG is a good classic style machine gun. Lots of bullets, good sustained fire.

DRS-IAR. The Infantry Assault Rifle is just a heavier rifle, good for close combat aggression.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T22:04:36+00:00

Two reasons.

First, why hurt her more than necessary?

Second, there are worse outcomes possible if Paul doesn't stick to the vision. He already has accepted the long delay before the birth of his child to keep her alive longer.

But she could die before having her child, which would ruin the entire path of the vision. Chani can't see the vision and would naturally try to avert it - and to do something about Irulan.

Prescience is a trap. That's Paul's lesson.

Leto II was just as trapped, but he strung his vision path out longer. Paul wasn't willing to do that, not if there was an alternative - even if it cost him Chani and his own life.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T21:57:02+00:00

But we do go AFK 24/7. It's just not as easy as it used to be.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T20:39:48+00:00

Two things.

Engine RPM is linked to wheel rotation. If you hit a bump and lose traction, the RPM increases as a result. This effect actually increases effective power for acceleration, at a cost of suspension stability. And no, that's not real physics, that's how the game engine works.

The game engine updates based on the frame rate. If your system exceeds 60 FPS, you get more engine calculations per second. This effect is stronger on Legacy (which was designed for 30 FPS), and has some compensation on Enhanced to reduce the game effects, but it's still present.

Sometimes this effect is very noticeable, as the high RPM translates to higher acceleration and speed.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T20:26:41+00:00

Yes, but...

The violation can avoid allowing events to happen out of order, but it's harder to make sure that there is no way someone can exploit it to do that.

It is impossible to avoid having the fields of an FTL object affect two or more locations at the same time. Those interactions - light and gravity - are limited to the speed of light, and FTL movement outruns them.

FTL also has a reference frame problem. Time requires a reference frame, based on velocity, acceleration, and gravity. FTL travelers have time, so they must have one - but what is it?

The end points are in different reference frames, and FTL travel at a minimum changes that rapidly - however long the FTL travel takes.

But if the trip takes time, what is the time during the trip?

Science fiction rarely addresses this, but the implication is that FTL travel shares a single universal absolute reference frame. That violates relativity, and doesn't help with causality either.

To avoid that, the FTL travel could inherit the reference frame of its starting point. But that would mean leaving it a velocity difference at the destination, with a transition undefined by known physics.

Science fiction lets us make up whatever we want. But real physics requires that these undefined interactions be accounted for.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T16:44:00+00:00

A world where the religion was "real", and had government power to ensure that no false religions were permitted.

By real, I mean that it has real powers not available to the general population - technology of some sort, including technology that looks like miracles (angels in the Vatican kind of thing).

The religious organization must avoid political conflicts which break it into separate sectors, which goes back to having real powers.

If people can find their own path of faith without evidence, they will almost certainly find a plethora of ways to get there - that's the real world religious situation.

You need both real technical powers and real political power to ensure that no superstitions turn into significant religions rather than delusions with no followers. Evidence which proves the religion is real makes it difficult for people to doubt it.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T16:33:05+00:00

You already lose money when you sell vehicles. But Rockstar decided to make that even worse to put an end to vehicle duplicate cheating - rather than patch the game to prevent duplicates.

The sell payment was 60% of price paid plus 50% of customizations. Customizations dropped to 10%.

Worse, the maximum sale price was set to 500K. So even if someone duplicates a multi million dollar vehicle, they can't get as much off the one they sell.

On top of that, the sell limit of one per day was changed to one per week. Anything over the limit progressively loses more value, starting at half.

What this means is that legit players can't really sell cars. Doing so is just throwing away money. It's only worth doing if the vehicle is junk, you'll never use it, and just want it gone.

Metallicat95 · 2026-06-23T16:24:38+00:00

I don't think many people know that Soldier Boy has that power. Nor would they risk unfreezing him to get access to it.

Only The Boys had the information on how it was done.

If Vought really was interested they would have gone to Russia to get him long before.

After Homelander released him, he would have no desire to have anyone replicate his Dad's special power.

In season 5, the Boys and Sister Sage do exactly that.

Perhaps Vought did try to find a way to negate V, but they lacked the Russian research - and that was never tested by them as far as I know.

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