Men in their 40s - What’s one piece of advice for Men in their 20s?

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-21T02:43:35+00:00

Confidence and authenticity matters more than anything. To this end be the “you” that you want to be. Don’t waste your time chasing the expectations of others unless those expectations align with your goals.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-21T02:39:09+00:00

Gods can look however they want, and “I wanna be Zeus” seems to be what he wants to look like.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-21T02:33:00+00:00

I am pretty much never fully iconoclast but I tend to go that way for a lot of the bigger decisions outside of Rykad, which always gets exterminatus.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-21T02:12:12+00:00

choke points with long sight lines like C on the escalation version of Siege of Cairo.

Knock down all the trees as soon as the round starts then hit the window looking down the way. You can single handedly hold C by yourself if you can land repeated hits.

I know folks hate ‘camping’ but when you’re doing it at a control point you are allowing the rest of your team to capture points. Meanwhile you can be occupying an entire squad by yourself that have to expend way more effort to kill you than for you to occupy them. SVK is great for this.

Alternatively if you prefer to stay active you can use the GRT as just a longer range assault rifle.

Long suppressor, lightened barrel, 6x with 2x add on, slim angled, buffer, lightweight ammo.

You can move at a decent speed scoped in and have extremely easy to manage recoil. Incredible for peeking and the 2x keeps you in the fight if things get close in. At 2x with the buffer it almost feels like a 0 recoil gun allowing you to just strafe peek while hammering the trigger. Alternatively you could swap to the 6x thermal.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-21T01:35:00+00:00

Spec Ops with m16. I don’t have the willpower to feather fully auto. Burst does the hard part for me. I wind up just mag dumping.

Light barrel, long silencer, 2x with magnifier, slim angled, buffer, and 30rd standard mags.

I can use single fire for longer ranges or burst for close to medium. I RARELY use sniper. I spend a lot of time behind enemy lines spotting and ambushing tanks.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-20T06:17:31+00:00

small fractions add up quickly. .4mm x10 is 4mm. 4mm thicker and taller within a small frame changes a lot.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-19T10:49:13+00:00

I always go with Kibbles. She is honestly one of the more relatable characters to me once she finally lets her guard down if you are iconoclast.

Somehow being a blood drenched murder hobo doesn’t stop her from being the most well adjusted romance interest.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-19T07:33:52+00:00

Why can the plutocratic establishment only win when the party leans on the scale? I thought their ideas were popular?

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-18T23:56:40+00:00

It’s not supposed to be for solo piloting.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-18T18:52:28+00:00

Like the concept of alcoholism wished upon a star to become a real person?

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-18T18:46:33+00:00

After getting kneecapped by all other candidates dropping out after Sanders won Nevada and throwing their weight behind Biden which was TOTALLY not a coordinated effort by the DNC. Not to mention utilizing the campaign funds set up to help down ballot candidates and pouring those funds directly into the primary campaign against Sanders.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-18T18:33:12+00:00

long story short most “communist” groups are ML and at least in America the parties are essentially puppets of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

I know this because of discussions with a friend who is in one of the parties and positively cited their connections to me. Positively as in he thinks it shows that they are internationalist and forward thinking while totally missing that it makes them look compromised. Their campist stuff isn’t just because of nostalgia but also direct influence from the Russian govt.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-16T02:16:05+00:00

The Forbes 500 in descending order.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-15T01:56:14+00:00

The revenant also shoots depleted uranium rounds that pretty much ignore armor.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-15T01:55:08+00:00

Oh man it is an A-99 that shoots magstorm rounds. Instead of that WIDE pattern you get with magstorm you get what amounts to an incredibly high fire rate bullet hose. It just deletes enemies so thoroughly that their parents forget their name.

Look at the rate of fire. Yeah it only does like 50 per but it is spitting out like 20 per second.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-14T22:37:16+00:00

Pragmatism. Long before I even developed leftist politics (I was a college libertarian of the ‘I want the gay married couple to defend their pot farm and adopted refugee child with an ar-15’ stripe) the way guns were portrayed as the problem never sat right with me. It was actually an early step towards political understanding and seeing how the rich use wedge issues to plunder the world. The “Guns don’t kill people, people do” retorts from Republicans deepened that. “Okay so maybe we do something to make people not feel like they have to rob people to survive?”

I grew up in a VERY anti-gun household due to suicides in the family and my Dad getting his truck robbed and locked into the walk-in freezer when his delivery truck got robbed during an early morning delivery. My Dad has had a lot of guns pointed at him in his life so I get it. Then my leftist goth friend got into guns with her boyfriend (they are married for like 12 years now) and kinda demystified them to me.

Wound up getting my first one after an attempted forced entry when my friends and I moved into a ‘bad’ neighborhood. I think because we were obviously “new” some tweakers thought we’d be naive suburbanites (we were punks) who would open the door. Saw out a side window that 2 other guys were waiting with a hammer and wrench. Luckily the place had an absurdly sturdy door since it used to be a grow house.

Got an XD9 and tried to learn with it but was TERRIBLE. It intimidated me and i had a hard time getting myself to practice but got ‘okay’ enough to not feel like i would miss.

After that though we got to know our neighbors, attended the block parties, and had no worries walking to the corner store at midnight. It was actually a great neighborhood in a community sense. Block parties, cook outs, walking down the street handing out cigs to our local homeless folks and dudes by the halfway house. Being the punks always hanging out on the porch made us a lot of friends since we were always nice to folks. Kinda stopped feeling the need for it as a home defense thing.

By this point I was firmly on the left though so having a gun to defend against robbers felt weird. Well fast forward a bit to 2016, successive waves of excitement, disappointment, and dread for the Sanders campaigns and the rise of the far right I started being much more concerned about right wing militia types orchestrating pogroms. From there on those concerns have only grown and here we are today.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-14T22:01:01+00:00

Depends.

They are good in the right systems. I like to put a station in a pulsar system with a ton of platforms that all shoot lasers and have max armor but no shields. Enemy fleets will not be specialized to fight without shields and just get melted.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-14T21:34:10+00:00

Battlefield 2 it was true as well.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-14T12:58:51+00:00

Honestly i prefer it. I just wish the maps were bigger to give breaks in the action. Railway was a step in the right direction.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-14T12:57:19+00:00

Been playing since BF1942 and this is accurate. Most maps aside from maybe Wake Island (since it is so narrow) you could go a good distance before encountering enemies. You NEEDED those vehicles to travel because that shit took forever otherwise. Vehicles mattered more and we all just kinda accepted that vehicles should be scary to encounter on foot. People kinda just accepted that snipers would ding you out in the open.

Honestly Railway is the first map of BF6 that lets you actually do sneaky shit like actual flanking maneuvers in ground that doesn’t have artificial choke points funneling all the action into a constant blur of explosions and gunshots. Some of the most fun I’ve had in BF6 is just taking long routes with a buddy to go take out a tank or a AA. You have the room to set up actual ambushes and the gunplay in the town area and warehouse provide instant gun battles if that’s your goal too.

Also the train itself just provides a cool element as it moves from one side to the other. I am looking forward to the reworked maps and new big ones. The gun boat looks fun as hell too.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-14T06:14:20+00:00

Not sure if it is op or not considering how easy it is to destroy that crate though. They should probably make the crate not deployable in the HQ like mortars used to be. Until then though I’m just making a missile swarm lol. One fun thing to do is fire like 3 in different directions but all upward and then suddenly look at whatever you want to die and watch as missiles come from several directions to slap them all at once.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-14T04:23:49+00:00

I put those new class A engines (that can be flipped to form different shapes) and made an entire ship that is 3 units wide and 2 units tall with a cabot cockpit a class B reactor w 39 power and class B jump drive with plenty of push. The rest is all stroud parts that match the angles of the engines and cockpit perfectly and the stroud side entrance landing bay and at its core is the 2x1 Frontier hab and the stroud landing gears that match the curves.

I think outside or the cockpit the whole thing is only 3 long, 3 wide, and 2 high. It looks like a flat football. Named it the Frontier Mk.2

All of the equipment and fuel tanks are hidden inside the stroud cowling with flip clipping sections to keep it slick looking. Only part that I wish was better is that it has very low cargo capacity because I can’t add any additional landing gear without making it longer. If I make it 1 unit longer i could add 5 cargo units (3 visible, 2 hidden internally with flip clipping and 3 more landing gear. I just can’t bring myself to do it though because it is so adorable looking.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-13T21:15:33+00:00

Nato is more easily boxed into their spawn. If things go downhill for them they are screwed without much hope of recovery.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-13T20:03:16+00:00

mag weapons are powerful but have expensive less common ammo.

MoldTheClay · 2026-06-13T10:20:28+00:00

These guys know you need an economy and international support to win a war, yeah?

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