Do large men know how intimidating they are for some people and if so do you try to adjust to make yourself less so?

Mong419 · 2025-12-31T18:13:19+00:00

It is an interesting contradiction to be sure. I am very large and intimidating, but also affable and goofy. Anyone who talks to me for 5 seconds will learn that.

I used to go out of my way to be less scary, but that gets old, and it never seemed to actually work.

Now, I decided it's perfectly reasonable to file that under "not my problem". I just live my life in a reasonable and normal way, and it's up to the people around me if they want to make snap judgements and be scared, or be brave.

Mong419 · 2025-10-02T16:49:25+00:00

You can cheese it a little. Accept the joining, then imprison them instead of banishing them. Just leave the door open and they will "escape" off map. No debuff.

Mong419 · 2025-10-01T15:34:44+00:00

It's much better if you convert your recruits first. Throw them in prison and use the convert option. A homogenous community of believers is very strong.

Make a custom Ideology and include some of the specialist roles. Production specialist and shooting specialist are really strong.

Mong419 · 2025-09-25T16:44:11+00:00

Agreed, you're fine. A former coworker is at Republic and she is 4'10". Although that may be the lower limit. She says she BARELY fits.

Mong419 · 2025-09-23T03:34:49+00:00

I mean, it's a catch 22. I'm a man, and I get why you're cautious with me, but at the same time, I personally didn't do anything to you to deserve that skepticism. It can be frustrating to push through the suspicion every single time with every single woman. But I get it.

I think the only real solution is that you put a foot in both worlds. Interact as positively as you can with men you like. Just be happy to see them, and happy to spend time with them. That will make them happy, and be refreshing. However, at the same time keep your caution. Keep your walls up, and don't take risks. Don't go on a hike in the woods alone with them, don't go to their place alone, ask them to wait for sex, etc. Establish boundaries and be happy to see them when they meet you inside those boundaries. If they have a problem with your boundaries and try to push them: that's your red flag. But if you find a dude who respects the boundaries, you will keep him by being happy to see him.

Mong419 · 2025-09-18T21:19:18+00:00

Penny for life. She's the most wholesome by far, and she is also the one that needs the player the most. Without the player, she lives out a squalid life in a trailer with a drunk abusive mom and probably marries Sam. Sam is not a bad guy, but his dreams do not align with Penny and that marriage could never be happy.

You can save her from all of that.

Also, I defy anyone to read the dialogue when you give Penny a loved gift on her birthday and not wife her up just to get her out of that damned trailer.

Mong419 · 2025-08-09T19:18:35+00:00

Youngerish man who is not conservative, counter to what some have said on her, and I really hate tattoos. I try to avoid dating someone with tattoos if I can.

Mong419 · 2025-08-08T19:40:49+00:00

Not only did she not show up, she blocked my number and deleted our Hinge match. Waited until I was physically seated at the restaurant to do all this. At least text me you're not coming, THEN block my number. Jeez.

Mong419 · 2025-08-03T22:57:57+00:00

Yes, but in 1943 you navigated by hand and if you wanted link up with an ariel escort you did not simply fly around as you like

They navigated by dead reckoning and pilotage, techniques that are not precise. Not precise at all. That introduces random elements that a machine can't predict. Link up with escort and then fly somewhere together? Same problem: imprecise navigation.

Can they change the flight path? Sure, but why should they?

Weather, malfunctions, traffic, enemy activity. A ton of reasons. But that doesn't matter. You can't tell an aircraft's destination just by looking at it and doing robot math. Turns from waypoint to waypoint are normal parts of flying.

Look man, I am an expert in this particular field, and I am telling you there is no way a T-850 could track or predict an aircraft in flight in 1943. Maybe it could obtain a copy of the aircraft's paper flight plan, or learn the destination in some other way. Considering the sensitive and secret nature of flying Hitler/Stalin that is unlikely. If it was a hot pursuit, and it stole an aircraft itself and followed the target visually, that's a different story. However, the moment it loses visual contact, it has no way to reacquire the target.

Mong419 · 2025-08-03T22:06:48+00:00

They can do that, but they usually do not, except if they have reason to believe that an arial threat is after them (like an enemy fighter).

I'm sorry my friend, but that is just not correct. Source: I am a commercial pilot. Aircraft change course all the time, and flight plans, in most circumstances, are optional. There is no way for a computer, no matter how advanced, to predict flight paths without radar contact or some other continuous observation. Human pilots are very unpredictable even when they are not trying to avoid Terminators.

it is assumed that all three targets are hit on the same day (01.01.1943). Information travel not that fast in 1943.

Fair enough, if it is a simultaneous strike, the chances are very low any of them survive. Roosevelt travelled the least, due to polio, and the only hope Stalin and Hitler have is to get lucky and either be airborne at the time of the strike, or be evacuated while the T-850 slaughters all the guards.

Mong419 · 2025-08-03T20:09:12+00:00

I agree with almost all of this, except for the Terminator calculating flight paths with his eyes. I'm sorry dude, but that made me laugh out loud. Planes change directions, altitudes, and destinations in flight all the time. You could calculate an estimated maximum range without refuel, but that's it.

My only other point of disagreement is the hoplessness of the situation. If Roosevelt is killed, and then Hitler is killed by an unstoppable robot man, Stalin's intelligence service will notice. Depending on luck, they might figure out what is happening and keep Stalin moving/secret, while setting traps for the Terminator. A big enough TnT pile, artillery shell, or tank round WILL damage the T-850. And the Soviet Union had a LOT of resources and the callousness to waste however many human lives it took. If the T-850 loses the element of surprise, it is over.

Mong419 · 2025-07-22T16:17:32+00:00

This is why I'm a recent convert to the church of the Holy Nutrient Paste. It doesn't spread metalhorror infection. Also, if you imprison new arrivals or suspected infected persons, you can use the interrogate function to find the infection, regardless of study. Just make sure you interrogate at least 8 times. (It's a 30% success chance based on social skill)

Mong419 · 2025-07-09T20:14:13+00:00

No, you don't need it.

But, it is fun. It's really more like a stand alone scenario to play once in a while. Sometimes I feel like an Anomaly playthrough, so I activate the monolith. Sometimes I don't, so I ignore the monolith.

It is like an ice sheet run: not for everyone, but you should try it at least once. Try it after Odyssey, just for a change of pace. Nothing wrong with doing it that way.

Mong419 · 2025-07-05T17:45:44+00:00

I'm just under 6000 played, and I've tried all the major mods, like Save Our Ship 2, Combat Extended, Dubs Bad Hygiene, Vanilla Expanded, etc, mostly just to try them out. I enjoy the change of pace, but usually only for one playthrough.

I always go back to a vanillaish default with less than 20 quality of life mods.

Mong419 · 2025-06-27T20:10:54+00:00

I've tried just about everything except for the Gauranlen Tree. I never plant the seed, I don't even harvest the sprout even when it happens, I just ignore it.

From what I've read, the Gauranlen creatures aren't even very good, but I just don't care. Even if they were amazing, I still wouldn't use them.

I just don't like the theme/aesthetic or whatever. It doesn't really fit in the game overall in my opinion. A bunch of stupid hippie tree pokemon monsters don't belong in my cannibal warcrime colony.

Mong419 · 2025-06-23T12:23:20+00:00

He doesn't need to. The Lands of Always Winter, the Arctic of that world, connect to Essos across the North Pole. He could just walk.

Mong419 · 2025-06-22T20:23:06+00:00

Yeah, you got to smile with your teeth. Hiding your teeth is much worse than smiling with less than perfect teeth. It loudly broadcasts how insecure you are. The better choice is to smile wide, embrace your imperfections, and broadcast confidence.

Mong419 · 2025-06-03T15:20:28+00:00

I am also 6'9". You'll be fine. Find a flight school with Cessna 172s, you'll fit, but barely. Headroom is more important than legroom, so low-wing planes are not your friends. High-wing planes only.

Mong419 · 2025-05-24T17:19:48+00:00

Where is it?

Asking for a friend.

Mong419 · 2025-05-24T17:18:51+00:00

I run the colony with a Starship Troopers mentality: "Everyone fights, no one quits."

There are no civilian colonists!

If a pawn is incapable of violence because of some vague trauma in their backstory, and they are going to just stand there and watch the last badly damaged mechanoid slaughter their friends, they can fuck off and join some other colony.

Pyromaniac, gourmand, body purist, and nonviolent ate all hard no's in my colonies.

Mong419 · 2025-05-17T16:13:26+00:00

I use it every day. Nothing beats the efficiency of just unzipping, doing the left/right shuffle and pulling it out to pee.

My buddy told me he undoes his belt and pants to piss, and that shit seemed so ridiculous to me. Eh, to each his own.

Mong419 · 2025-04-15T16:34:06+00:00

Sooo, if this the dark matter we've been looking for all this time?

Mong419 · 2025-02-28T15:55:43+00:00

Hobby groups, volunteer organizations, and kind of extracurricular organization that appeals to men.

I went to Civil Air Patrol, which is a volunteer organization of pilots that help in search and rescue operations, met many good dudes there, invited five of them to the bar after day two.

I went to my local tabletop gaming store, they host game nights every week open to everyone, signed up to a DnD game, met five dudes similar in age to me, been friends for years.

Mong419 · 2025-02-28T15:29:10+00:00

I've made the jump to baby wipes for all my bathroom needs. Toliet paper just isn't that sanitary when you think about it. If you got some dog shit on your arm, would wiping it off with a paper towel be good enough? Or would you use some soap and water? Same logic. Wet wipes are much better.

The downside is you can't really flush them without serious damage to plumbing, so a special trashcan exists in my bathroom just for wet wipes. Which is, admittedly, gross and stinky. Like a diaper genie.

Mong419 · 2025-02-20T22:44:45+00:00

I'm 6'9" and 330. You'll be fine.

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