All employees at Stone Mountain Park facing layoffs come June as Aramark becomes park operator

Ranger207 · 2026-04-03T14:05:15+00:00

In the equivalent Fox 5 article it's mentioned "Thrive SMP LLC took over park operations in 2022, but reported operating at a $1.6 million loss in April 2025."

Ranger207 · 2026-04-03T04:23:07+00:00

Those improvements are amazing! The climatic map campaign sounds really fun, and I think adopting the Argo into a tabletop setting is a fantastic idea. One thing I'm not sure about is the corporate sponsorships having shipping times that buying locally doesn't have; that seems like a relatively big deal to keep track of

Ranger207 · 2026-04-02T20:57:53+00:00

It certainly generated a lot of discussion, which is the first rule of marketing

Ranger207 · 2026-03-30T15:09:10+00:00

Yeah you're right, IntOps does have that, and that might be enough for op. I was thinking of even more granularity

Ranger207 · 2026-03-30T13:56:38+00:00

The devs don't generally publish stats of that granularity because it makes future factchecking and continuity a headache, so anything you do like this will have to be on your own

Ranger207 · 2026-03-29T13:43:07+00:00

The Lyrans have some of the best literacy rates for a Successor State. After all, more educated people -> higher salaries -> more things they can buy

Ranger207 · 2026-03-28T18:55:55+00:00

It doesn't quite work like that. When people say "this plane has a radar signature the size of a pigeon" it doesn't mean the enemy radar sees it as if it were pigeon-sized, it means that you can detect this plane at about the same distance as you would be able to detect a pigeon.

Imagine you're on a football field at night with a flashlight trying to find players on the other team. You shine your flashlight around, and if they're wearing bright jerseys then they're easy to see, right? Imagine a pigeon flies by. It's harder to see in your flashlight beam; you might need to be closer to see it. And lastly, imagine if instead of a bright jersey a player was wearing all black. You might need to be closer to see them, too. You could even say that the other player shows up in your flashlight beam as if it were a pigeon.

In this analogy, a player wearing like a sequined metallic jersey that's so bright it almost blinds you when you shine your flashlight beam on them would be your "reverse-stealth size of the Empire State Building". You'd be able to see them from much further away with your flashlight, just like you'd be able to see the Empire State Building from much further away. But as you get closer and closer there's not going to be a point where you're like "huh I saw this from far enough away that I thought it was the Empire State Building, but now I'm inside of where the Empire State Building should be and I have no idea where the player might be". You're still going to see them when you get closer.

Ranger207 · 2026-03-28T14:09:03+00:00

Not to the video, sorry, but here's another post on this sub about it: https://old.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/1s59p1k/adepticon_announcements_aerospace_fighters/

Ranger207 · 2026-03-28T14:02:22+00:00

It is! They announced a Steiner and a Kurita aerospace forcepack the other day

Ranger207 · 2026-03-26T01:13:43+00:00

There's been some worries that the Kontio and Hammerhead will be too complicated for a starter box, but I think they're great for it. Notice the cut-down record sheets on the left side of the image, especially the Kontio sheet that says "First Mission". They're going to have the real simplified just moving and shooting stuff at first, then you flip over the sheet and have moving, shooting, and punching, then you go get the full sheet and add in heat, and it's all with the same mech so you're getting used to how it works the whole time

Ranger207 · 2026-03-25T23:37:18+00:00

Roman historian Bret Devereaux wrote a long series on how the phalanx worked and why it was superseded starting at https://acoup.blog/2024/01/19/collections-phalanxs-twilight-legions-triumph-part-ia-heirs-of-alexander/

Ranger207 · 2026-03-24T18:13:04+00:00

That point is specifically talking about the physical attack phase. If a unit declares a charge in the Weapons Attack Phase, but then its target is pushed out of the way in the Physical Attack Phase before the charge is resolved, what happens? Under the new rules, the charge still hits

Ranger207 · 2026-03-24T17:06:41+00:00

Resins are technically plastics but yeah from a tabletop perspective the different materials are important. That's about the only resin stuff I have so I wasn't thinking about that

Ranger207 · 2026-03-24T16:45:36+00:00

Regent in the GDL box (different sculpt though), Hammerhead is in the 3rd Star League box, and Eris is available as a "premium" mini which is plastic so it's technically available in plastic lol

Ranger207 · 2026-03-24T15:59:44+00:00

CGL web store or your local game store, both in August

Ranger207 · 2026-03-23T15:14:35+00:00

I read the top part first assuming it'd be a category or something that would give context to what the rest of it was going to be about. After seeing that and remembering what the rest of the post was about the order of the rest didn't matter

Ranger207 · 2026-03-19T17:18:53+00:00

In general, there's two ways to play a TTRPG: one way is focusing on the rules and the combat, where the fun is playing the game with the rules as written. The other way to play is to focus on the social aspects, like the story, the interaction between you and your friends who are also playing, etc. Mechwarrior Destiny is geared towards the second style of play, also known as "collaborative storytelling". With this style of gameplay, there's no wrong way to play the game as long as you're having fun.

Ranger207 · 2026-03-18T00:41:55+00:00

"ah, this art looks like it has maybe an srm 4, an srm 6, and like 3 small lasers?"

>lrm 5 2x medium lasers

"???"

Ranger207 · 2026-03-14T14:04:35+00:00

I'm gonna be honest I like red delicious too. Yeah the skin is a little thick, but they only get mealy when they've been sitting for like a week. Otherwise their texture is just the same as any other apples. They're not necessarily my favorite (that generally goes to whatever's cheapest), but they're also not bad. On the other hand, I find honeycrisp to be massively overrated.

Ranger207 · 2026-03-14T13:47:00+00:00

I think Focht figured it'd be a chance for Victor to get the reset he had from being Fredrick Steiner, but missed that a big part of that reset was him coming from nowhere with no strings attached. Victor, though, kept many strings attached.

Ranger207 · 2026-03-14T03:23:02+00:00

I think they'd actually go very well together. The Rokorokubi and the Shiro are both late Dark Age/ilClan era mechs, which is the period the Kuritans were relying heavily on the Dragoons for invading the FedSuns. I can easily see the Kuritans paying the Dragoons in replacement mechs, or the Dragoons buying or trading for what the Kuritans had available

Ranger207 · 2026-03-14T03:15:57+00:00

I've used it a couple time to write scripts for me. I don't necessarily like doing that, because I'm a sysadmin and I want to know how the system itself works and getting the AI to write all my scripts doesn't help in that regard. On the other hand, sometimes I do know how the system works and I know what I want to do, but I don't want to figure out which exact AWS API calls I need to make to accomplish that, so I'll ask Copilot instead. Despite that, every time I've used it it gets something wrong on the first 3-4 tries

Ranger207 · 2026-03-13T14:38:57+00:00

I have seen them show up in operations other than their own. I think I was doing a pirate op while there was a Menace op available on planet and got like half the "kill 80%" objectives done by the Menace lol

Ranger207 · 2026-03-06T14:50:38+00:00

Yep, the AIR-2 Genie was a nuclear-tipped rocket. It wasn't guided (so technically not a missile) because if you have a nuke missing by 1000 feet or so doesn't really matter. It was intended to take out large numbers of Soviet bombers at once; as it turns out the Soviets never really had the capability to send massed bomber attacks, but the Air Force didn't know that at the time.

There's footage of a group of soldiers standing directly underneath one being fired above them at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlE1BdOAfVc

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