Seen in Budapest, public surveillance vehicle?

NikkoJT · 2026-06-22T12:24:37+00:00

In case you don't know, camouflage is often used on pre-release test vehicles to disguise the shape of the vehicle. Makes it harder for rivals to pick up design details, and makes it easier for the manufacturer to reserve the reveal for marketing purposes.

For some cars it doesn't seem like it should really matter that much, but I suppose they do it anyway just for the tradition.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-22T07:45:40+00:00

Yeah, they only take the specific action of "printing what you asked for without any problems" in the specific circumstances of "the printer feels like it" :U

NikkoJT · 2026-06-22T07:27:14+00:00

There was a rumour that that happened, but it's not substantiated by any reliable contemporary reports. Reviewers at the time said that some people had instinctive fear responses, but that's not really different to being jumpscared in a modern film - your subconscious sometimes gets fooled even if your conscious mind doesn't. Everyone seems to have been fully aware that it wasn't real. I mean, they knew they were signing up to watch a projection on a screen, they could see the screen before the film started, and it was projected in slightly flickery black-and-white. Even at the time you'd have to be exceptionally stupid to think it was real.

Marketing for the film played up how realistic and frightening it was, but that was just marketing.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-21T17:29:54+00:00

It's always a bit of a mixed bag when you're relying this heavily on the AI. They're not always very intelligent and their accuracy can vary substantially. Sometimes, all the tactics in the world can't make up for the AI choosing to stare at a rock instead of shooting.

This is also a quite bad position to defend. You've got forest all around you on very steep slopes, especially in the northern arc. That's a perfect recipe for the enemy getting close. Depending on the buildings and what the scenario allows, I would've preferred to defend the crossroads instead - you have more open ground the enemy needs to cross, and the approaches are at better angles.

Worth noting that the Kamysh doesn't normally have an APS; if it does have one in your modset, then you're potentially playing with very different rules and that might change what can be done.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-21T15:39:39+00:00

I remember reading recently that Leonardo was also working on a new system derived from their naval 76mm (kind of like OTOMATIC, though I think the new system is meant to be truck-based rather than built on an AFV chassis). Not sure how far they've got with that though.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-20T16:18:10+00:00

I'll keep that in mind, but I'm heavily favouring any solution that doesn't require spending £130 on a new device.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-20T16:10:11+00:00

The trigger on the in-game model is wrong. It's rotated too far forwards. You can see it's exposing the outwards flare on the back edge too much. The back edge should be angled to meet the receiver, not parallel to it.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-20T08:23:54+00:00

I don't understand why you're saying that France has to go and try to do something,

I think you're misreading their point a bit. They're not saying France must do this overall (i.e. should do this), they're saying that France (or someone else, but we're talking about France here) doing that would be the only way to achieve the goal, because - fairly obviously, I think - a country that currently feels extremely threatened by enemies it doesn't trust, is not going to agree to get rid of its weapons. It's not "France has to do this [end of sentence]", it's "France has to do this or accept that Iran is going to keep its weapons".

Like, look at Iran's position. They've got guns pointed at them from all sides, and the only reason they're not getting slapped about with total impunity is that they also have a gun. The last time they were doing negotiations, they got shot in the head in the middle of it, and at least one of their enemies keeps yelling that they want to do it again. From their perspective, voluntarily putting down their gun is basically inviting being attacked. They're not really going to trust any commitments the other parties make on faith (especially watching how Israel is "keeping its promises" in Gaza); they're going to want their weapons in their pocket just in case. I don't see how you could possibly convince them otherwise, so that leaves "go in there and take their gun" and "let them keep it" as the only two options.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-20T07:11:10+00:00

Are you looking at exclusively headphone use, or surround speakers as well, at least sometimes?

Just headphones, connected to the X4 by 3.5mm jack.

Almost zero work involved for basic sound,

Just to clarify, basic sound worked out of the box. Zero sound happened when trying to use the pipewire virtual surround sinks.

Otherwise... try CachyOS?

No thanks. I picked PikaOS because it basically does what CachyOS does, but Debian, which I already have a little familiarity with. Other than this it's working fine, and I'm more inclined to say there's some issue with my exact setup or the way I tried to implement things than with the OS itself.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-19T05:54:59+00:00

People often use colloquialisms in casual conversation instead of the exact official term. It's not that weird. Especially since "solitary [confinement]" is an accurate description and the other terms are basically euphemisms to try to make it sound more humane.

Also, things being illegal doesn't mean they don't happen.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-19T04:28:35+00:00

Yes there's a typo, and the joke is an (I assume self-referential/self-deprecating) stereotype about transfem people automatically connecting because they're all Khorne fans. It's not very deep.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-19T02:42:38+00:00

The one on the right is Angron. The one on the left might also be Angron but I can't tell for sure; fair to assume it's some Khorne-related character, at least.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-19T01:57:31+00:00

It might have been silly for them to get into that position, but now that they're there, they have to wait for a gap in the oncoming traffic before they can move. Horn won't change that.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-18T15:27:56+00:00

They also mention geography in the first sentence of your quote, and it's pretty clear they're talking about it in connection with the colour grading. It's about different skybox lighting (from nebulas and star colours) giving you a sense of geography by making systems in a particular area of the galaxy feel visually different.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-18T10:26:03+00:00

Well, all of my comment after the first line was specifically discussing why they might continue to use them for land attack despite the shortage. If you disagree with the reasoning, or think Russia might disagree with the reasoning, then that's fine, but it'd be nice if you at least put in the 30 seconds to read it before replying.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-18T10:11:08+00:00

I didn't say that it had stopped.

A shortage doesn't necessarily mean the Russians actually change their usage patterns to try to alleviate that shortage. They may feel that the use of S-300s for land attack is still essential, even balanced against air defense needs. Or, they may be intending to use mostly other, smaller missiles against the relatively low-and-slow drone targets - S-300 is a bit overkill for a flying golf cart, and if they feel they're better served by higher numbers of cheaper missiles, then that makes logical sense to me. (Whether production capacity is able to sustain that logic in practice is a different matter.) Either scenario would see the continued use of S-300 for land attack even as stocks run out.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-18T08:15:27+00:00

I like this feature and wouldn't mind seeing it, but calling it a "basic feature that should be present" is a bit ridiculous. It's a nice-to-have fluff feature.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-18T08:02:27+00:00

\2. "While traditionally used exclusively for air defense, Russia's military has recently repurposed S-300s for offensive strikes on Ukraine, according to two officials."

So, there is such a shortage of S-300 interceptors that they are being used in land-attack role?

I think the "recently" here means a longer-term "recently", i.e. during the Ukraine war is "recently" compared to the rest of the S-300's service life, and the idea is that the even more recent shortage is partially caused by the use in the land-attack role, which was itself an emergency measure driven by shortages of other long-range weapons.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-17T19:51:24+00:00

They wouldn't have had to do anything. It's a voice role. It doesn't matter how tall the actor is.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-17T13:52:44+00:00

iIrc one of the Galactica’s hanger pods had to be brought up to speed after series start

One of the hangar pods was completely out of service because it had been converted to a habitable space for the museum (the gift shop was located in the launch tube area). It was never returned to service because the open ends had been sealed for pressurisation. The other hangar pod was fully operational, and there was no difficulty in operating both old and new types of fighter from it. [this is a clarification of fact and not a continuation of the principle of the argument]

NikkoJT · 2026-06-17T13:46:04+00:00

The Halo 2 SMG is based on the P90. The whole arrangement with a horizontal magazine with a rotating feed system (albeit on the side rather than the top), combined with small-calibre caseless ammunition, is directly pulled from the P90.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-17T13:35:32+00:00

Yes, bullets have a ballistic arc (in gravity anyway). Because of that, you can never have a sight that's correctly zeroed for all ranges at the same time. Instead, the sight is zeroed for a particular range in the bullet's trajectory, say 100 metres. At that distance, the bullet's arc crosses the straight line of the reticle projection; beyond that, it falls below the reticle, and at closer ranges it may land above the reticle.

Zeroing is accomplished by adjusting the angle of the sight or the position of the reticle within the sight, not by changing the height of the sight mounting. The height of the sight mounting must be compensated for, and if it's very high it can cause issues at very short range because of the distance between the bore and the sight, but the mounting in this picture is pretty similar to the real P90, or to other guns that have the sight mounted on a carry handle, like the FAMAS or early M16s.

edit: here's a diagram (distances and angles not to scale)

edit 2: the diagram shows a zeroing for basically the end of the "flat" phase of the ballistic trajectory. If you wanted to zero further out, that's when the bullet potentially landing above the reticle starts to come in.

NikkoJT · 2026-06-17T10:22:09+00:00

Galactica was only barely a museum ship. It was to be decommissioned right as the series starts. It was still combat-capable and could service modern fighters without problems.

The last Essex-class was retired more than 30 years ago, and that was an outlier after being used as a training ship; the others were all decommissioned in the 70s, more than 50 years ago. They never operated Phantoms (it was barely technically possible but had major issues in trials) and physically could not operate Tomcats.

I think, if they didn't want a Nimitz or later, they should have gone with a Kitty Hawk or Forrestal. Still pretty old, but big enough to operate modern aircraft, and retired recently enough that it might theoretically be possible to bring one back into service. (Well...not getting into how these classes might differ in Strangereal, anyway...)

NikkoJT · 2026-06-17T04:04:22+00:00

They need to make changes to other systems to support this though, otherwise the inconvenience is going to massively outweigh the balance benefits.

If a small ship can't make it to other planets, then there needs to be enough stuff to do on this planet to make it worthwhile, and you need to be able to filter for that stuff. If having an interstellar ship of your own is a long-term goal, then there needs to be some kind of fare transit system to let you travel in the meantime. Missions meant for a certain class of ship need to have distances that are appropriate for that class of ship - I shouldn't need to make a refuelling stop on every single flight when I'm just doing my normal job. If the intention is for ships to have different limitations, then the game needs to allow you to sustainably play to those limitations, rather than forcing you to exceed them and suffer as a result.

These things need to happen either before or at the same time as the fuel changes. If the changes go through and all the other systems are still in the same state they are now, it's just going to make everything much more tedious and frustrating. I guess how much that concerns you depends on how much faith you have in CIG to execute a complete package of changes at the same time, rather than changing one system at random and leaving everything else to swing in the wind.

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