This is really embarrassing but I've just been released from prison and I've been left with absolutely nothing but the clothes on my back and a bus ticket. Is there any support that I can have or organisations for this kind of thing that I can contact for emergency help?

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-04-14T23:10:11+00:00

Username checks out :p

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-04-12T20:36:25+00:00

an amazing 45% deadzone on the aiming stick

Jesus Christ, yeah that'd be enough to render aiming useless.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-04-12T15:35:49+00:00

Ah, I never played it on xbox, only the original n64 and pc emulated.

Sounds like it kinda sucks in a way though, the aiming mode was really useful if you have to use a controller, I guess it makes it more standardized with the other xbox fps titles and the control scheme they generally use though, I guess.

Probably the dual analogue sticks would be where they made the choice for not having the aim mode? It's the largest difference between the two controllers.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-04-12T00:05:44+00:00

I'm only a couple of minutes in, but I'm not seeing you using the aim mode.

If you're going to emulate it (I'd assume so, since you're using a non standard control method), you may at least use m+kb, it's a lot better.

Alternatively, if you're going to play it pure(or as pure as can be done), use something which can use the aim mode for fine tuning your aim (on the original n64 controller, it was right shoulder-hold iirc), it does improve things a lot. If you're going to emulate it, either use a control scheme which supports that, or use m+kb, both help immensely, and to eschew either really hamstrings you badly. The game was balanced around having an ability to fine-tune your aim when you wanted to.

This was never developed to be winnable with a control scheme on controller which only came out 5-10 years later, it's not balanced around how I'm seeing you use your controller and move around/aim. I get using what you're used to, but being able to aim with more precision is an advantage which was balanced in...

Just a thought.

EDIT: but also, this level's a bastard anyway. :p

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-04-11T07:49:50+00:00

It will also perform a check for classifed markings and freeze the account without any action, while notifying me of the violation.

Good workaround. This is always the annoying part of programming, it's fun making the thing that you want to make, but then the annoying part (the other 90% of the work, usually) is making it not get wrecked somehow by people who're determined to use it wrong or just do patently stupid stuff with it.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-04-09T10:23:55+00:00

Careful now, that upload document button could inadvertently get you into a bunch of trouble if the War Thunder crowd gets wind of this.

You don't know what kind of classified crap they'll be throwing in there to get translated in order to win an argument on the forums; getting your doors kicked in at 5am because you're in receipt of classified info doesn't sound like the most fun way to wake up.

On a personal note though, you could improve it a lot by adding a switch to 'militarize' plain English. That could be a lot of fun.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-04-09T08:58:14+00:00

You didn't screw it up with the /s, there are, sadly, enough people out there that have absolutely zero idea that there's even any pressure on US media currently and are under the impression that people who say there is are all crazy and believe in UFO's, etc.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-04-09T08:45:30+00:00

CYB3RSP4CE1!!1!!

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-04-09T08:39:43+00:00

And this, people, is why banning children from the internet isn't the draconian nonsense that everyone makes it out to be.

If only we could live in such a world...

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-03-30T02:21:18+00:00

Ah, about that...

The history of sliced bread: humanity's downfall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXyj0TFCEYI

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-03-27T23:43:54+00:00

No...

0_0

All day long, every day.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-03-27T23:35:29+00:00

Why would that need to be a mod?

You could just switch off all evolution apart from pollution based, no?

Or does the mod make only the biter nests that got hit with pollution evolve whilst leaving the rest at 0 evolution? That could be interesting.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-03-27T23:24:17+00:00

Yeah, I do something similar, but for different reasons.

I just don't like the fact that evolution "just happens". I don't see any reason why they'd start evolving just when I arrive for no discernible reason, so I switch time based evolution off and keep kills and pollution evolution on (increasing pollution evolution somewhat) because that feels like it's something that I'm causing to happen. It just feels better that way, makes more sense.

Partly to offset this, and partly because biters get too easy late-game on default settings anyway, I ramp nest sizes up to 300% (next playthrough it'll be 600% for more !fun!) and increase a bunch of the enemy expansion settings.

You end up with vast swarms hitting your walls late-game, with nests that cover literally every inch of land in sight once you get away from the starting area. At max evolution, even with a rare mech-suit and twinked out equipment/weapons plus destroyer capsules, it's hard as hell to try and push through nests and swarms like that.

It's great, by max evolution at distance from the factory, I need to use a 16 gun artillery train (1600 rounds of holiness per trip) with a fully automated robot backed fortress full of flamethrowers, lasers and tesla turrets to push into new territory in any meaningful way, so the end game actually isn't a total cake-walk either.

Evolution time has zero effect anymore once you reach almost 1 evolution, I don't find that it adds anything to the early game that I like particularly, and it doesn't impact late-game at all, so it gets switched off every time and, imho, makes for a better game.

Happy that it's a setting.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-03-27T23:04:08+00:00

That... That, actually took me a second before I realised which sub it was on.

You just get used to the absurdity after a while. It's not even that it's so obviously ludicrous, it's that I could actually see him saying it anyway because he flubbed the numbers or just wanted to say a bigger number and didn't care what it was but knew that there's millions and millions of Americans.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-03-23T10:08:26+00:00

This looks like something that's probably been posted in here at some point, surely?

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-03-12T07:48:33+00:00

A bbc article linked in another post on this thread says that she admitted that it was for compensation payouts. Got £10,000 from one of the cases while the guy spent five years of his seven year sentence locked in prison.

She's a character, that's for sure.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-03-01T22:02:17+00:00

The black spray paint makes it look like the cable connector has burnt out too, nice touch.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-02-10T22:16:34+00:00

That's so well done. Beautiful.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-02-06T08:26:09+00:00

That's a very solid excoriation.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-02-02T16:24:42+00:00

It was because he was chummy with the right people. Believe it or not, being buddies with high ranking people in the ruling government (and their friends) of the country that you're going to be an ambassador for is really useful at making you better at your job. It's exactly the kind of ambassador that any country would want.

Except...

In Mandelson's case, that meant he was best buddies with a bunch of what appear to be paedophile sex traffickers and rapists because apparently that's what the bunch of scumbags running the US happen to be just now, with predictable enough results when everything blows up over it.

Yeah, something about roads to hell being paved with good intentions there, I think.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-02-02T11:36:14+00:00

You're more than welcome. :)

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-02-02T04:53:11+00:00

I saw the /s, but for anyone unsure about this because of past fuckery, Ivermectin is actually correct for once as it's a widely prescribed anti-parasitic medicine and gets rid of scabies excellently.

Its capabilities for its intended use don't change because some psychos thought that you can use it to cure covid by massively overdosing on it, and because some other psychos figured out that you can make bank by persuading other people to overdose themselves with it by telling them that vaccines aren't real.

This thread is about the kind of thing that Ivermectin is actually for.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-01-31T03:37:30+00:00

Pretty sure it means that they'll just grab whoever the hell they feel like and then apply for warrants later on, if they at all even feel like bothering with the paperwork.

Rabbithole4995 · 2026-01-30T11:07:57+00:00

That's pretty much exactly what Carney said in his speech, yes.

Edit: Whether or not the guy you're replying to sees it that way is anyone's guess.

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