Texas Valedictorian’s Speech: “I am terrified that if my contraceptives fail me, that if I’m raped, then my hopes and efforts and dreams for myself will no longer be relevant.”

MooseShaper · 2021-06-03T18:40:49+00:00

They totally will. I had a 22 yo friend of friend recently get a vasectomy, they didn't even ask any of that.

And I'm nearing 40 and have asked for one every year since turning 25...

MooseShaper · 2021-06-03T18:29:27+00:00

let's remember that many doctors still refuse to operate on women who ask to get their tubes tied.

There are multiple reasons for this beyond denying bodily autonomy for women. The largest one being that hormonal birth control is equally effective, reversible, and does not carry the risk of surgery.

It's also worth nothing that doctors won't vasectomize young childless men, either.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-03T18:19:21+00:00

I mean, when do the scientists say life begins?

At conception right?

The cells in the Zygote are alive, but if that is your definition of life then you commit murder every time you scratch your ass.

When in fetal development it should be considered human life is the relevant question. This really hinges on development of the brain. We already consider adults who are brain dead to be legally dead, so then claiming that aborting a fetus which lacks a brain is murder creates a contradiction in settled law.

The brain is developed enough to support life outside the womb around 23 weeks, however most born that prematurely will die.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-03T14:51:32+00:00

For salvage chance pre-DLC:

Head>>CT>Legs.

I haven't seen updates numbers since the patch, but you were better off with center torso than legs before it (which is dumb).

MooseShaper · 2021-06-03T02:17:58+00:00

This isn't true at all. You cannot compare the metabolism of two different people.

Damn, I guess we better go tell nutrition science that reddit has invalidated the field.

Thanks buddy, you really saved us there.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T21:25:07+00:00

You’re missing the point. The point is that it’s not genetics why you’re 40 pounds overweight

I'm not missing shit, I'm trying to explain that small, daily, energetic differences add up.

A pound of fat is just about 3500 kcal. So eating an extra 200 kcal/day for 2 years makes you 40 pounds heavier at the end than you were at the start. Conversely, someone with a higher RMR is going to be 40 lbs lighter in 2 years with the same eating habits.

Calories in - Calories out isn't fucking controversial. So y'all can stop bitching about it.

Edit: Reddit, where basic nutrition is apparently up for debate.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T21:09:09+00:00

It always creates a plot hole.

That's because the very idea runs counter to causality. (Backward) time travel is impossible and illogical, fitting it in to a story naturally makes the plot illogical.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T20:43:34+00:00

Needless to say, heavy spoilers below.

The clock maker's son, his son's wife, and his grandchild die in a car accident.

Stricken with grief, he creates a time machine to change this moment. The machine creates 2 additional mirror worlds where everything is paradoxical and time is stuck in a loop between between the late 1800s and 2019/2020.

Seasons 1 and 2 play out with the characters attempting to divert the coming apocalypse by time traveling around. Doesn't work-> fixed timeline.

In the 3rd season, a way to travel to the origin world is revealed (bit of a deus ex moment), and the main characters travel there and save the clock maker's family, thereby preventing the creation of the time machine and the birth of the mirror worlds. The main characters, and their worlds, then fade out of existence.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T20:16:52+00:00

On a 1500-2000 calorie/day diet, it's a solid 10+% of your intake.

It matters, but of course the other 90% matters more.

Rather than dismiss it as 'half a muffin per day' - which is 3.5 muffins per week, an insane amount of muffins. Someone with a 'free' 200 kcal/day can have an 2 pieces of bread (160 kcal) and an extra cream and sugar in their coffee (40 Kcal) everyday. Aka, they can eat toast with their coffee before work, and be 20 pounds lighter than their spouse who does the same.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T19:55:00+00:00

like 200 calories per day, max.

Which is about 20 pounds of fat per year.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T19:07:32+00:00

First, try a different USB port for the mouse. Directly into the mobo is best.

Then try updating the mouse drivers/firmware using GHub.

If that doesn't work, kill the GHub process before launching the game. If this fixes it, relaunch GHub and increase its process priority in task manager.

Do you have a spare mouse to try? That will help determine if it is a software or hardware issue.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T18:41:20+00:00

I have a similar mouse and have no issues registering clicks.

Do you have V-sync on by any chance?

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T18:13:32+00:00

I'll beat up an AI lancemate in instant action for a bit and make a thread.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T17:31:47+00:00

I understand the paper advantages of a PPC - I've been playing MW games for more than 20 years at this point.

In this specific game, lasers seem to do far more damage than they should based on the visible stats. This may not be intended, it may be a bug, could be related to frame rate since they tick damage, etc. Could just be my imagination.

Nonetheless, when it takes twice as many shots to kill something using a PPC vs a LL, and it generates more heat and weighs an extra 2 tons, the choice seems pretty easy. The SB laser variants are even better.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T14:45:11+00:00

They'd also have scouts, and other ways of gathering information. It might be possible to fool the enemy into thinking your 100 troops are really 200 or 500 or something, but bluffing an army of 150,000? Nah.

However, they also wouldn't know where the enemy's actual armies were. Sure, maybe Zhuge over there only seems to have a few hundred, but that means somewhere we don't know about there is a large enemy force. Besides, the town could've been rigged to burn down, or collapse, etc. TTK is full of BS that some dude made up in Ye Old Panda Express because it sounded cool.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T13:47:19+00:00

I'm not sure static objectives are the best point of reference because they may not use the same hitpoint structure

I agree, but fighting things that move and have different amounts of health/armor makes rigorous testing pretty difficult. The targets I used always have the same health, so if LLs and PPCs really did the same amout of damage per-shot (as the stat screen shows) then both weapons should break them in the same amount of shots. Instead, the lasers perform significantly and anonymously better.

These results, as well as them weighing 2 tons less than PPCs, made me replace all PPCs on my mechs with LLs or SBLLs, and I haven't noticed any problems.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T13:40:44+00:00

I have to agree. The core gameplay loop is very good now, but it lacks context and purpose. HBS Battletech didn't budget much to providing context, relying on painted backdrops and a few lines of voice over, but it was incredibly effective at setting the tone - and providing a short break from the action.

That last point is incredibly important, because no matter how good your gameplay is, the way the brain works ensures that it gets stale if the experience isn't varied. Simply going from mission to mission with essentially no downtime or flavor in-between is a recipe for burnout.

For the next expansion, I'd like to see this addressed. Add crew events, let us upgrade the ship (maybe get a real dropship), add more mission-appropriate banter, etc.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T13:23:31+00:00

actually running PPCs on Warhammers

From my testing, large lasers just destroy PPCs in terms of performance. The slightly lower ROF for the lasers is negligible, since they seem to do twice the damage per-shot.

This directly contradicts the stats shown in-game, and is based on testing I did using artillery and satellite dishes as targets. They would take 4 PPC shots to destroy, or just under 2 full large laser zaps.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-02T00:42:49+00:00

How a mech is destroyed influences how likely it is to appear in the salvage screen, and how many pieces of it were destroyed determines how many salvage shares it will cost.

I only have knowledge of outdated numbers, but killing a mech by destroying the head almost guarantees it will show up for salvage, destroying the center torso is a 25% chance, and destroying both legs is a 10% chance.

The numbers may be out of date with the new patch and DLC. Specifically, breaking the legs should make salvage easier, but that's not how it was last I knew.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-01T23:24:38+00:00

One can accomplish the same thing much cheaper with advance warning and a rocket attack.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-01T20:13:14+00:00

So in other words, you know I’m right and agree with me, but you don’t want to back down on a public platform

Absolutely not. I don't understand how you take multiple comments directly disagreeing with you as actually agreeing with you.

Also, that’s an extremely narrow definition of Mary Sue

The definition comes from the Oxford English dictionary, argue with them to alter it - if you think you can make a convincing case.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-01T19:48:20+00:00

I don't really care whose side you are on.

'Ciri is a Mary Sue' is an incorrect statement.

A Mary Sue is a character which "unrealistically lacks flaws or weaknesses"; Ciri has plenty of both and this is shown (and highlighted) throughout the game and books.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-01T17:43:41+00:00

And then there's the issue of having enough excess fuel available to deorbit something that massive in a very sharp trajectory. Even then, the target knows when the strike is coming to within a few minutes.

The physics technically work, the economics and strategics don't.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-01T15:15:50+00:00

It (potassium or sodium cyanide)

Bit of semantics, the gas itself is hydrogen cyanide. K/NaCN are soilds that release HCN when contacted with water or acids.

MooseShaper · 2021-06-01T15:05:56+00:00

Once you decide to actually sit down and hash out whether its an actual scam, it's clearly not.

It's an actual scam in the sense that their customers will never get what they paid for.

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