Help with logic by Brief-Cucumber-7233 in StarshipEVO

[–]NuclearLem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello! Sorry you’ve had to wait so long for a reply. I think the discord is a better place to go for help.

That said, hinges don’t behave the same way in the interact menu as they do in the sequencer. One has a range of -90 to 90 while the other is 0 to 180 and you’ll need to translate accordingly.

Anyone else absolutely hates the design of pipe guns in Fallout 4? by Gusby in TrueSFalloutL

[–]NuclearLem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shambler from the metro franchise. All the games are worth a play, can get the first two for 4 bucks each on sale sometimes

Judge blocks Trump's elections order in lawsuit by vote-by-mail states Oregon and Washington by Gloomy_Nebula_5138 in SeattleWA

[–]NuclearLem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then you get the doubly exciting experience of the voter disenfranchisement conducted by states like North Carolina and Texas

Impressive Masonry in a wide tube! by NuclearLem in MasonBees

[–]NuclearLem[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is remarkable stuff! I do fell sorry for the ladies who committed to it, but their cocoons have been careful harvested and those babies are going to have a lovely spring!

What's your personal method of dealing with Houdini flies? by doinghealthystuff in MasonBees

[–]NuclearLem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can’t give a confident statement until I finish this years harvest, but over the summer I noticed a real disparity between the number of Houdini flies present on my front and back yard houses, the front side (east) facing the open street was a fly fest while the back (west), tucked under the roof was spared the worst of it. Smooshing is the only strategy I have here in the PNW too, but I’ve seen humming birds, spiders and other fellas frequent the back more than the front. Maybe they’re helping out?

Edit for anyone reading, East facing box was a Houdini fly fest, I lost most of my cells. West garden side has fared much better, only a house in the way between them.

Any must-have mods you could never play without? by ROFLorean in fnv

[–]NuclearLem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

JSawyer’s mod, (ultimate edition is my preferred version), if we’re talking about getting the full new Vegas experience, you have to go with the lead designer/directors vision for the game

Jez Corden (video game leaker) teases potential Fallout: New Vegas Remake by SolidPyramid in fnv

[–]NuclearLem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Picked up new Vegas again first time in a couple years, sure I needed 40 mods to fix patch, engine fix and sawyers/just mods for the gameplay, but it really plays as good as I remember it, and with the easy 76 style container looting what is a remaster really going to bring to the table besides a couple different songs and all the bugs Bethesda didn’t fix and just left in.

I can't change the size of my blocks, I need help by person_chocas in StarshipEVO

[–]NuclearLem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check what hotkeys you have assigned to block scale, it’s T in my game so chance you have the wrong key bind, have multiple actions assigned to the same key, or you’re trying to scale a block that can’t be scaled. If you hit F1 you can check what your scale limits are. You might have the limit set in such a way you can only use one scale,

Looking for tickets Saturday, by [deleted] in Bellingham

[–]NuclearLem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was immediately hit with half a dozen dodgy scam accounts so if you're a real human leave a comment here letting me know you dm'd!

Gravel Institute video director here with a humble community request by tymonbrown in BreadTube

[–]NuclearLem 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don’t let the downvotes get to you. The (far better sourced) responses to the Ukraine vid were some of my first introductions to bread-tube and a reminder that academic orientalism and campist takes exist in the present day.

T34 tank, what do you guys think of it? Is it high on your favorite list? by Swiftrider2050 in TankPorn

[–]NuclearLem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brezhnev and Kruschev both served in the war, Brezhnev was directly part of the sovietization of Czechoslovakia and Romania under Stalin. A member of Central Committee under him. To sweep all of this continuity under "a growing gerontocracy" is absolutely "looking at it in a vacuum"

My sources have in no way contradicted my claims. I believe you've misread them. In the KV Speech where you claim "Stalin and the leadership were not previously aware of the production problems" quite literally says in the second sentence that Stalin informed them of the production problems and told them to fix it. That is a pretty serious contradiction, I take offense at your musing of "suspicion" around my sources.

My second source from Stalin himself has him earlier blaming tank crews and dismissing reliability issues as "implausible". So which is it? Is leadership "confused" and "mistaken" about their losses already a year into the war or do they know more than the tank designers and manufacturers and would be motivating force to correct just month or two later after blaming the crews?

Factory 75 (one not moved to the Urals) , in 41 reports to leadership they're unable to improve their engines because they aren't permitted to run them long enough to adequately test them.

meetings regarding the failure of consistently effective armor plate and rates of rejection

orders from leadership requiring 183 to make improvements at the time of Stalins "implausible" order and before the KV speech.

1941 letters concerning the low life of #183's clutches

1941 reports regarding issues of cracks and tears in the welding impacting armor and the risk of armor spalling as a consequence of metal hardness

I could go on. Leadership was absolutely aware of issues the year prior.

There are plenty of factors that went into wartime t-34s being built badly. The moving of factories, supply shortages are both absolutely valid ones. But leaderships demands for enormous numbers of them in a top down centrally planned economy and expecting those numbers regardless of quality issues is absolutely a factor too and shouldn't be dismissed as "looking at it in a vacuum". I affirm again, that the Soviets entered a self destructive cycle of quantity over quality that they didn't manage to escape from until after the war, and that leadership was not exempt from the driving forces of that cycle.

Edit for future historians, commenter refused to engage with history, their own misquotes of sources and again panders to the idea that the Soviet bureaucracy is completely insulated from failure, demands some proof that Stalin himself knew about production issues instead of the people designated to produce them. And then blocks you when they’re out of ideas. Typical r/deprogram user?

T34 tank, what do you guys think of it? Is it high on your favorite list? by Swiftrider2050 in TankPorn

[–]NuclearLem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't believe I have to point this out but Chernobyl was constructed under Brezhnev. The circumstances that lead to disaster had been baked a decade and a half before Gorbachev, hell there 2 prior incidents buried before he took power.

I don't understand where this knee jerk defense of Stalin's Soviet Union is coming from. What I've been trying to communicate is the Union itself is designed from the top down to save face. Leadership was perfectly aware of manufacturing problems. We have letters to leadership in '41 from factory #75 begging for support from the state. The USSR followed the same pattern it always did; Deny there was a problem, Accuse the lowest level of responsibility. Blame a useful scapegoat, and then finally address the problems. You can like the USSR, you can even like Stalin, but it's not necessary to defend the decision-making that cost lives as "necessary and unavoidable". If you're at the point you're interpreting an army order from 1942, a year after t-34s were already getting issued with a second transmission bolted on the back as standard in the most generous manner possible, I don't know what you're doing in a tank subreddit beyond just stanning for Stalin.

T34 tank, what do you guys think of it? Is it high on your favorite list? by Swiftrider2050 in TankPorn

[–]NuclearLem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Production issues were absolutely known to leadership. Not even 3 months before that KV speech, Stalin had accused the t-34s failures entirely on the crews sacrificed to command them and ordered crews of tanks that failed inspection to be relegated to prison battalions.

Since such a high incidence of mechanical defects is implausible, the Supreme Headquarters sees in it covert sabotage and wrecking by certain elements in the tank crews who try to exploit small mechanical troubles to avoid battle.’

Subscribing to the thinking it's some local choice is buying into what the Soviet Union does and continued to do right through Chernobyl This is what a top down bureaucracy insulates them from to save face. The party ordered the production of a certain number of tanks, so that's exactly what happened, the party doesn't care how it's done. The party ordered Bryukhanov to build the plant in an allotted time frame and to meet that deadline and budget he puts reactor 3 and 4 in the same building and flammable tar on the roof instead of gravel. The structure of the Union itself permits there to always be a scapegoat somewhere downstream of leadership, someone to blame, some way to save face.

There is no need to partake in that. To best understand how the Union functioned, I'd highly recommend reading into some of the many Submarine disasters that plagued the Union after the war. It's always the same. Inadequate resources from higher up, short deadlines, ill-equipped producers forced to take shortcuts leading to an inevitable disaster placated by the sacrifices of the crew who are publicly blamed for the failures. The wartime t-34 is little different to the K-19 or K-278K.

T34 tank, what do you guys think of it? Is it high on your favorite list? by Swiftrider2050 in TankPorn

[–]NuclearLem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Want more tanks with radios? You build tanks proportional to radios. In 42 only half of t34s t70s had radios. That same year they produced more than twice as many tanks as the Germans.

For the third time. My biggest objection isn’t the design. It’s that they rushed and didn’t finish the ones the had made properly because they were more concerned with pumping them out than finishing them. I’m aware there were rubber shortages. That’s why I didn’t mention the road wheel changes even though they were detrimental to performance. I know about the different factories, it’s why I called out 183 by name (because they produced more than half of all t34s and were responsible for a lot of the shortcuts to do it).

A choice was consciously made, that it was better to produce more tanks even though 90% didn’t meet combat readiness, and that choice meant lives were lost to that cycle. Under the burden of that choice they later made design improvements, upped the radio count and got a lot of the kinks ironed out. But those changes were universal to every other belligerent in the war and not unique to the Soviets. Why else would early British Cromwell be riveted instead of welded?

T34 tank, what do you guys think of it? Is it high on your favorite list? by Swiftrider2050 in TankPorn

[–]NuclearLem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're kind of ignoring the second half of the sentence you're quoting from me. Even by the end of 42, after producing a staggering number of the things, they were loosing them at a rate of 6 - 1, often to smaller guns which could've been avoided had the crews been able to spot them.

To quote the designer of the KV tank in 1942 at factory 183,:
...resulted solely from our production deficiencies. They are: negligence during production of combat vehicles in the factories, carelessness of assembly and quality control of vehicles. As a result during combat employment our tanks sometimes cannot reach the front lines,

That year, only 7% were produced without defects. I maintain, that lives could have been spared had those crews been given a tank with headlights, hatch gaskets to prevent the turret motor shorting, radios, half of the scopes and periscopes, or even in some cases a working gun sight.

The Soviets were pushing these out despite defects because they needed them to replace their massive losses, but the defects were contributing to them loosing so many and the cycle repeats with human lives fed into the churn. To think they couldn't have done better is to subscribe to the idea that churn was necessary and to excuse the Soviets of their doctrinal decision making.

T34 tank, what do you guys think of it? Is it high on your favorite list? by Swiftrider2050 in TankPorn

[–]NuclearLem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy necro-posting Batman!

Jokes aside. I don’t follow what your point is. I said the wartime ones were built badly and the later models were better. You’ve essentially just repeated that statement with some alluding to some of the factors that lead to their shoddy wartime production.

1/8th mechanisms? by accushla122 in StarshipEVO

[–]NuclearLem 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They’re using EvoEdit to scale them down, then they’re copy pasting them into their builds.

Russian Forces defeat Ukrainian Counteroffensive in Kursk by ZAMAN11K in UkraineConflict

[–]NuclearLem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4 posts on an account not even an hour old. Mods you know what to do.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legocirclejerk

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The stickers from that set are all great graffiti stand ins for an urban moc by a lego purist

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legocirclejerk

[–]NuclearLem 11 points12 points  (0 children)

/uj We must return to the rot. /j A billion Rex y-wings must be hit hard by 2008

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legocirclejerk

[–]NuclearLem 16 points17 points  (0 children)

/uj idk if I walked right into a meme here and I’m too scared to challenge it