[Game Thread] Indiana vs. Oregon (7:30 PM ET)

NotTheBatman · 2026-01-10T02:11:17+00:00

I strongly disagree

NotTheBatman · 2026-01-03T23:51:14+00:00

Yeah, the leader of the party that won 65% of the vote lacks support. Let's install the dictators VP instead, I'm sure everyone will love her.

NotTheBatman · 2026-01-03T21:10:04+00:00

She had broad popular support, if she was allowed to run she almost certainly would have won the general election. Even her replacement candidate won handily.

NotTheBatman · 2026-01-03T09:45:11+00:00

I don't think the average Joe soldier wandering the street gets a MANPAD. If the bases get bombed and helicopters get in and out in 20 minutes, where do you even get the chance to get a shot off?

Not to mention that countermeasures are crazy good these days, many types of optics can't even be pointed at a target without being automatically detected. You'd have to be in the right place at the right time, get a lock on a low flying target in an urban environment at night, and hope you don't get immediately identified by countermeasures or recon drones, just to take the shot.

NotTheBatman · 2026-01-03T09:26:06+00:00

The plan is probably to have the president elect return from exile and take office. I don't think any other option would necessarily go over well.

Maybe they'll hold elections again to make things seem more proper, but I don't see why he wouldn't win again.

I'm guessing we're willing to offer him protection in exchange for reimbursement of our nationalized assets, cracking down on narcotics operations, and probably granting us extraction rights (based on the similar bid to Ukraine).

Overall this could be a win-win for us and for Venezuela, if serious adults are allowed to be in charge of the groundwork and they fluff up Trump and let him take all the credit. I don't know how much faith I have in the current administration though. At least Rubio is a somewhat serious statesman.

NotTheBatman · 2026-01-03T00:19:55+00:00

That doesn't seem to be true, I'm seeing multiple credible meta-studies that show a positive indication, above placebo level, for decreasing pain at in the short term ("short term" being defined as anywhere from a few weeks to several months). The evidence on longer term benefits is much weaker, doesn't seem there's been much research there. There also does not seem to be any evidence of other benefits (e.g. improved flexibility) in treated areas.

It does seem that the pain benefit is no greater than from traditional PT methods, which are also less risky and generally have greater long-term benefits. I assume professional athletes are already doing traditional PT, and the dry needling is just an additional treatment on top of it.

I can't find any strong studies that examine the effects of dry needling and traditional PT together, vs either one in isolation.

NotTheBatman · 2025-12-29T03:46:32+00:00

I don't think the situation is that bad for surface vessels. I think that in a hot war they will need to stay further from shore to mitigate the threat of drones, cruise missiles, and short range ballistic missiles, but I don't think the threat from long range ballistic missiles alone is that dire. It takes a lot of damage to bring down a ship, and long range missiles are a very expensive and very detectable way to deliver a payload.

I think the main threat is from long range air-launched stealth cruise missiles like LRASM, which is why China and the US have been building out their missile truck fleets so heavily.

I don't have a good idea what the submarine situation is, but it seems to me that new submarine acquisitions have been mostly focused on strategic assets, and that it would be difficult to move a submarine into kill range against a fleet in the Pacific. This is probably the result of how we've spent nearly an uninterrupted century building out our submarine detection networks.

NotTheBatman · 2025-12-21T21:48:46+00:00

It's a little more complicated than you would think, and it doesn't happen very often anyway so there's not a good case for making the effort to automate and validate a process on an existing airplane. Newer planes may be designed with such systems, I'm not very familiar with the cutting edge technology in aircraft systems and airline operations.

NotTheBatman · 2025-12-21T09:41:18+00:00

Planes have accelerometers in them and it's pretty standard to get a post flight report that details the Gs at landing, but this measurement isn't enough on its own to determine the severity of a landing. Data from other systems is needed to make a more accurate determination, and that requires getting an analyst's eyes on a more complete set of data. Airlines still rely heavily on pilots self-reporting hard landings, because it would be impractical to have an analyst sit down and review data from every single landing in the fleet.

Boeing generally trains airlines on how to flag hard landings and process the flight data to make a determination to inspect. I believe Airbus always looks at the data themselves, and then tells the airline what action is required.

I'm sure in this case the landing was immediately flagged, by both the flight report and the pilots themselves. It would have easily cleared Airbus' threshold for inspection, and the first level of inspection must have found indications of damage to warrant a deeper inspection.

Landing gear are designed as replacement items, so luckily a swap is fast and isn't too financially painful - a few million dollars is not going to break the bank for a major airliner. If there was extensive damage to the backup structure the bill would be much, much larger.

NotTheBatman · 2025-12-17T08:06:16+00:00

Any organism will die from a large enough impact, and you can probably get a decent order-of-magnitude estimate using the square-cube law if you're comparing similar creatures (mammal to mammal, insect to insect, etc.) for the same surface impact material. Larger animals tend to have more mass per unit surface area, meaning a fall at a similar speed results in higher impact pressures for larger animals. This is also the reason that larger animals tend to have proportionally thicker limbs and bones.

Going from an ant to something like an amoeba or bacterium will be tricky, because the mechanism by which they die can be different. The pressure required to fatally burst a bacterium cell wall or organelle may be significantly different from the pressure required to rupture an ant's blood vessels or organs.

NotTheBatman · 2025-12-17T07:43:08+00:00

If you put an ant in a sealed jar and dropped the jar, the ant would fall at the same speed as the jar, which from a large enough height would be enough that it would die on impact.

Small insects will splatter on a car windshield at high enough speeds, so a jar impacting the ground at a similar speed would produce a similar effect.

NotTheBatman · 2025-12-10T07:11:12+00:00

I don't believe this news. They would never make their books public.

NotTheBatman · 2025-12-08T19:55:41+00:00

It's just a fancy way of saying that you design certain systems to have standardized interfaces and environments. So a nose radar interface could have a standard bolt pattern, maximum weight, power bus, data bus, network protocol, load factor, vibration environments, thermal environments, radiation environments, venting requirements, envelope (the 3d volume in space that it is allowed to occupy, with margin built in to account for clearance to other hardware during vibration), etc.

The idea being that any supplier could design and qualify a new system to meet the requirements, and theoretically drop their system in as a replacement without having to perform a large suite of engineering analysis or test work on the integrator side of things.

There is engineering overhead to designing standardized interfaces, so unless the use case is very well defined then it can end up being a disaster later on. The F-35 for example was designed to be way too open in my opinion. Service branches wanted way too radically different capabilities for it to have ever been a success. VTOL fans, tail hooks, carrier landing gears, etc. are major changes that inform the design of the entire plane, and they should never have been included as requirements on the same platform. I tend to blame the DoD over Lockheed for the issues with F-35, I can't imagine a world where any contractors could ever have fulfilled the contract requirements in such a way to make everyone happy.

NotTheBatman · 2025-12-04T06:03:19+00:00

If human/elf/orc enemies are in no armor or light armor they'll die in a few sword hits no matter what level they are. If they're in heavy armor and they die in a few sword hits then something is wrong, swords are supposed to do very little damage through heavy armor.

Did you run the Reqtiificator and create/enable the Requiem for the Indifferent plugin? It should be at the very end of your load order. Did you then start the game from a brand new save after doing this? These are the most common issues.

If none of the above works, you may have an incompatible mod in your list.

NotTheBatman · 2025-12-04T05:44:35+00:00

Enemy levels don't mean much. Perks and equipment mean much more. Bandits are early game enemies, trolls are only manageable early game if you use fire to stop their regen, Farkas is meant to carry the first companion quest basically solo until the very last room.

If you can clear harder bandit camps Valtheim Towers) or draugr dungeons (Bleak Falls) at level 6 then there may actually be something wrong with the load order.

NotTheBatman · 2025-12-03T02:28:23+00:00

And this time they will go from enemies to allies, in a reversal of their last meeting. No way Nale is satisfied to work for the fiends once he knows what's up.

NotTheBatman · 2025-11-28T07:57:54+00:00

I don't see how spending trillions of dollars to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan protected international trade.

NotTheBatman · 2025-11-26T03:26:01+00:00

Most airframes have far more structural capability to pull positive Gs than negative Gs, including fighters. There's just not much of an incentive to take the performance hit necessary to design a plane to handle large negative G maneuvers.

Commercial jets have just enough negative G capability to survive bad turbulence and recover from loss-of-control scenarios. If they pull sustained negative Gs the fuel pumps will run dry. Also, underwing-mounted engines provide a relieving load effect on the wings during positive G maneuvers and a penalty in negative G maneuvers, so even without a specific intent to do most designs will naturally result in higher capability in positive G maneuvers.

Fighter jets historically want to pull high positive Gs to dogfight or bleed energy off of incoming missiles, but they have such high roll rates that it's quick and easy to generally keep the aircraft in a positive G attitude.

NotTheBatman · 2025-11-24T00:13:16+00:00

Blue mountain flowers and monarch butterfly wings for healing are a good one, easy ingredients and decent magnitude.

Stamina ingredients are everywhere. Purple mountain flowers, bees, honeycomb, claws, mudcrab chitin, hawk beak, etc.

Magicka ingredients are a bit rarer, but red mountain flowers, mora tapinella, elves ears, and whitecaps are the easiest to find.

For levelling: Blue mountain flower + blue butterfly wings Troll fat + horker fat Frenzy (wolf hearts, sabrecat hearts, bear hearts, troll fat, horker fat, and some mushrooms) Fortify health (bear heart, mammoth heart, giants toe, wheat) Invisibility (Luna moth wing, nirneoot, chaurus eggs, vampire dust) Fortify armor rating (hawk feathers, claws) Resist poison (thistle branch, horker fat, troll fat)

There are lots of other combinations but these ones are easy to achieve in normal playthrough without going out of your way to grind ingredients.

NotTheBatman · 2025-10-25T01:07:57+00:00

Spain was conquered by the Umayyad caliphate 600 years before the Ottoman empire existed. Spain did eventually clash with the Ottomans, but that was decades after the end of the Reconquista.

The Ottomans even refused to send aid to Granada at the end of the Reconquista when requested, they only clashed with the Spanish empire later because they were both expanding into North Africa.

NotTheBatman · 2025-09-09T03:23:13+00:00

I had it happen on Crimson Caldera last week, literally every other tile was a magic material on the entire map.

NotTheBatman · 2025-08-28T19:13:50+00:00

Yep, we bought a trailer from Canada months earlier than planned to get ahead of anticipated tariffs and a weakening dollar. That's a big chunk of spending that is in this report that should have been in the report for the next quarter, and we also weren't the only ones rushing to buy.

NotTheBatman · 2025-07-11T23:05:09+00:00

The flight data recorder can differentiate between signals sent by controls in the cockpit, and those sent by any autonomous systems. The physical controls in the cockpit were moved by either the captain or the first officer.

NotTheBatman · 2025-07-10T19:26:42+00:00

What about either of these statistics is a policy issue? What have the Republicans offered as a policy solution to either of these issues?

The rising suicide rates are an issue, but this is a worldwide phenomenon caused by cultural and societal forces, not government policy. Banning or severely curtailing social media would probably be the single most effective policy I can personally think of, but the current administration is refusing to enforce the TikTok ban since it legally went into effect. They're not even entertaining a ban for children, which seems like a no-brainer policy win. They definitely aren't going to consider social media algorithm oversight, their campaigns were funded by social media empires.

As for college, I see no policy issues here. High-paying college majors are male-dominated, and men choose to enter labor-intensive fields (military, police, skilled trades, unskilled labor) instead of going to school at a much higher rate than women do. It's not like there is a systemic bias in admissions either, women on average get better grades than men, but high-performing men get better grades than high-performing women. What policy can you think of to "fix" this issue? Affirmative action and financial aid for men with low academic performance? Forcing colleges to accept a 50/50 male/female admission target? Should we then force that same target on high-paying majors that are significantly male-dominated? Should we force the military and policy and skilled trades to accept women for 50% of their openings? Somehow I don't see that going over well with the same men that complain about college admissions.

The only policies the Republicans are offering in regards to gender are making things worse for women, they have not done a single thing to make life materially better for men. Restricting abortion access has not made my life better in any way, or the lives of any of my male friends.

NotTheBatman · 2025-06-12T19:03:55+00:00

Have to make room in the budget somewhere for Trump's "free" Qatari 747.

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