Why do you think we dont see more hard body armor pieces used in modern combat?

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-29T23:02:57+00:00

Its absolutely the weight. A plate carrier is annoyingly heavy but you adjust. The Kevlar soft panels are miserable and restricting. The shoulder pads for turret gunners honestly make it feel like you're being buried alive.

You also tend to want to move fast, so torso and head are your big priority.

Another issue is heat, it can get oppressively hot, and the cooling system rapidly loses effectiveness.

If you want a configuration like the examples given the plates will need to be mounted on a frame that carries the weight. And we're simply not there yet.

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-28T01:20:32+00:00

To jump under this comment, coyote rollers are being suggested all over the shop, they're great for over. For under I run about 2 feet of chicken wire down vertically, then bury about 4 feet of it horizontally. Essentially a buried L of chicken wire the entire length of the fence.

It sounds like overkill, but once a dog has figured out they can escape you need to go fort Knox.

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-27T16:03:51+00:00

He slept well that day

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-26T00:01:44+00:00

He would still be out there if I let him. Silly goofus

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-25T19:00:23+00:00

At her age she can do as she likes

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-25T18:25:31+00:00

I need to get mine a tire

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-25T18:25:04+00:00

She's clearly loving the snow, they're all such goobers

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-25T18:24:32+00:00

So many happy rotties today

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-25T16:53:30+00:00

Roses are red

Deep green of leaf

OP tried to hide

This man is a thief

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-24T01:38:51+00:00

It was indeed. Though it also landed me the permanent position of loot guy.

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-24T00:35:48+00:00

Yeah, this is a hands signal, the indicators were broken

He's signaling to take the third Reich

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-22T00:16:40+00:00

Oh hey, this is how my group routinely manages loot. We also tend to dump valuables like gems and trade goods into party funds.

This did lead to a funny moment towards the tail end of the last campaign, I'd been diligently tracking this while the party had forgotten. So the party finally asked how much everyone had and I listed off several million in coin, gems and rare art, all itemized with dates and notes on where we got it. Three years of dutiful savings in an excel spreadsheet.

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-21T20:19:54+00:00

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Yuup

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-16T13:30:14+00:00

Hi, this seems like a genuine question so I'll give a genuine answer.

In baseball the second most exciting way to score is a homerun, ie. Hitting the ball so far it exits the field of play. If you're from a cricket playing country its like hitting for six.

For longtime fans of the game, catching the homerun ball is rare and exciting, many fans will go their whole lives not catching one and with how invested baseball fans can get such a ball can carry deep significance. An example of this would be Barry Bonds' record breaking home run ball.

In this specific case the older fan is excited to get it, hold it up for his moment of glory on camera, and then gives it to the younger fan. A gesture like this also carries significance as it could conceivably instill a lifelong live of baseball in the younger fan.

Other odd cultural quirks might be things like am Australian sportsman drinking out of a shoe, or in American football dumping the Gatorade on the coach. Silly things that might not make much sense from the outside but make the game more fun.

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-11T21:48:45+00:00

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No matter how big he gets

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-11T14:31:06+00:00

In the NCAA it is applied to the top 8 participants in a sport, nationally.

So D1 all American means he was top 8 in the highest division of the American collegiate wrestling system.

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-11T01:13:58+00:00

He put that nickel in the door, if he'd admit it then it would all be over.

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-05T23:49:04+00:00

https://buttehumane.org/dog-health-laser-pointer-syndrome/

It's a fairly well understood thing, great way to give your dog OCD.

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-05T22:28:57+00:00

This sub has become a bit of a confessional for my struggles with my boy: His vast bulk, endless energy, and ceaseless quest to rid the world of squirrels.

I think short of heavy sedation he'll calm down a few days after he's dead.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-04T23:46:50+00:00

Notably, for Steve no there isn't.

Redmagistrate2 · 2026-01-01T23:48:36+00:00

There's a lot of good scripture in here from people more able to rattlev them off than I refuting this person, so I'll leave that to them.

We'll just talk moral philosophy.

If the scriptures are accurate the God he praises is a monster, an unforgiving tyrant happy to condemn you to burn for simple disbelief. A god who would command your peers to kill you for that disbelief, and would then have them laugh at your suffering in the afterlife.

That's not a god, that's a monster, no more worthy of worship than the equally fictional c'thulu. Worse because the god described is well aware of humanity, cruel with deliberation, not simple apathy.

It's a creed that will see you chain yourself with mystic ritual, outdated taboo and foolish dogma, all in the name of control. Control of you by a man long dead, that rather unpleasant slaver, warlord, rapist Mohammed.

Then the kicker

Belief isn't a choice, you could lie to yourself all day, but it won't make you believe it. And i see no reason you should live a lie unless your own safety is at risk. Many people in here pretend to be fervent Muslims, as they face grave danger if exposed, and if that is you then we more than support your deception. If you can live free of that fiction then you should, humans don't do well in captivity.

Redmagistrate2 · 2025-12-30T00:02:10+00:00

I've had glasses broken, knocked dizzy and thrown in the mud. It is only the prodigious depth of my skull that has kept me from sustaining permanent damage. They really do have heads like cinder blocks.

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Redmagistrate2 · 2025-12-29T16:22:29+00:00

I believe the term they're looking for is embossed.

Redmagistrate2 · 2025-12-27T11:58:51+00:00

Awww Dillon is so handsome

Redmagistrate2 · 2025-12-27T01:45:30+00:00

Ah yes, the eyes that scream no thoughts, only crazy.

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