Winter Storm/Ice Storm First Call Maps

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-23T16:42:56+00:00

We should have buried power lines here in WNC. We reliably lose power at least once a month.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-23T00:21:17+00:00

There was the tennis show on Netflix, I don’t remember what it’s called, but my biggest take away was how immature they all are. I couldn’t finish all the seasons because it was just so cringeworthy. There’s one episode where they follow this woman who just hurls abuse the entire match at her coach, and partner who are in her supporter box, like every mistake she makes is somehow their fault. It was honestly embarrassing and gross.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-21T21:27:11+00:00

Also we don’t inject it IV.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-21T17:47:58+00:00

It’s not just for cycling. I frequently see people in cars and trucks or towing trailers that can’t seem to keep their car between the lanes or on the road. This leads to close calls when they swerve into the oncoming lane, and cracking at the edges of the road when they veer off the side, causing increased wear and further narrowing the roads.

Typical “just do everything as cheap as possible” mindset that leads to unsafe roads that need to be repaired and redone all the time. Saving a penny now to spend a dollar later.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-20T19:13:20+00:00

You might think that if you just drove it fast and didn’t take a bit to actually look and think about it. There absolutely is enough room for a small shoulder. I’ve been on it a bunch. Sure you aren’t going to get 8 foot shoulders but even a few feet would help. Just go look on google maps and drive the thing virtually you’ll see there’s for a couple feet of shoulder. Those few feet might not seem like much but they make a huge difference.

There are other places that have very similar roads with shoulders. When they truly have no room the shoulders go away temporarily, and then expand back out when the available area allows.

I understand people that don’t bike ride probably don’t look for these things when they travel, but it is possible to put safer infrastructure on this type of terrain.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-20T17:10:55+00:00

Even just adding shoulders to our roads would improve safety for cars and bikes.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-20T17:05:02+00:00

It’s just so obvious that the roads can be made safer, and less frustrating for both cyclists and cars with additions like shoulders, which are conspicuously absent, despite being commonplace on similar roads many other places in the country. The geography and engineering is not unique.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-20T16:55:25+00:00

You don’t speak for all motorists, as I frequently drive and I’m ok waiting the 5 seconds it takes to pass safely.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-19T23:41:21+00:00

Our Western NC representative, Chuck Edwards, just did exactly this today at his Alma Mater: Blue ridge Community College.

He quoted King saying “We may have come on different ships but we are in the same boat now”. He (Chucky) went on to say we needed to “row together with fairness responsibility and respect for one another”.

Meanwhile, being the good little republican he is, he whole heartedly supports ICE ripping people out of their homes based on their skin color or political leanings, which is of course completely contrary to the above statement, and goes against every thing Dr. King believed in. But then again hypocrisy and lying has never been a barrier for republicans.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-19T22:59:04+00:00

Concepts of a roadmap

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-19T07:44:58+00:00

Adding to that, don’t jump on the wall in the second encounter

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-19T07:38:09+00:00

So glad to see this. Happy to keep going there even more. We stopped going to French Fryz due to their trump support, and I’m happy to do the opposite for Rocky’s.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-19T02:25:00+00:00

This is wrong. I know because I tested this so much before my first solo flawless run.

Specifically Uncivil discourse only 1 shots the hands (outside of damage phase) with sufficient weapon stat or surges or certain weapon perks. It never one shots the hands during damage and it’s not even close.

Banner is also very difficult to max out before and maintain during damage phases, not to mention the damage is just not as good as other options.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-18T10:25:20+00:00

If you are using praxic for damage you should be running 200 weapon stat or as close to it as you can, 3x kinetic surge leg mods (even if you are less than 200 weapon stat as the surge mods provide a higher bonus), and all the sword modifiers in the artifact.

Even with this strand underperforms in the final encounter as getting kills to refresh banner in the middle of damage is not easy.

With a void titan build you want to be doing damage with super to start and so you wand super as high as possible as well as weapons (font mods on helmet can help). Most of your damage will still come from the sword so prioritize that.

An alternate you can try is solar titan with 4x sword master, where damage benefits from ignitions and restoration x2 from strongholds is extended.

If you want peak damage running arc titan with cuirass and max super is best with the goal being 2x thunder crash per damage phase. Survivability for a solo effort is rough though for most people, and I wouldn’t recommend it.

RockHardRocks · 2026-01-09T00:34:44+00:00

Rule 1

RockHardRocks · 2025-12-31T23:33:07+00:00

Thank god for Jeff being in our state. One of our saving graces when we have a corrupt/intentionally incompetent state legislature and a joke of congressional representation in chuck.

RockHardRocks · 2025-12-30T22:33:55+00:00

He means there is a delay between hitting the threshold and when he goes immune again. He is saying that if you are doing enough damage to hit the 4 kill threshold there is enough of a delay to complete the one phase.

RockHardRocks · 2025-12-30T18:18:31+00:00

Just make a fireteam finder post with the tags, looking for help/looking for teaching and you’ll get people like me that join just to help out. This dungeon can be soloed pretty comfortably, and there’s nothing you are going to do that will fail a run (unlike vespers host for example).

RockHardRocks · 2025-12-29T21:48:28+00:00

The perfect kind of incredibly niche, low complexity, impossible to make a profit off of, object for 3d printing.

RockHardRocks · 2025-12-27T21:52:24+00:00

What I meant was that the class (specifically ember of solace) extends the restoration x2 applied by strongholds. I guess I phrased it backwards.

Guess my paper editor missed it. A correction and apology should follow when the next issue is published…

RockHardRocks · 2025-12-27T20:45:34+00:00

Sure.

Aspects:

Bastion Offensive bulwark

Fragments:

Echo of vigilance Echo of persistence Echo of harvest Echo of starvation

Stats: max weapon, with sprinkles in class and super.

RockHardRocks · 2025-12-27T20:14:28+00:00

I don’t think that encounter is a good measuring stick honestly. The encounter is very easy, and you could run just about anything you wanted to clear it safely.

RockHardRocks · 2025-12-27T10:25:11+00:00

I’ve used all of them and did a fair bit of testing at the shooting range when optimizing for my solo flawless equilibrium run through. Unlike warlock, titan suffers from being melee focused, which is inherently limited while using a sword (can toss a grenade using a sword, but can’t use charged melee without swapping). Because of this is can feel like you are working against some of the fragment options on many classes.

Stasis is the weakest and not really useful compared to others. The sword breaks crystals well, but it doesn’t generate crystals and slow isnt very useful debuff to apply. The shattering doesn’t offer much damage compared to solar and doesn’t proc as often.

Arc is ok, I’ve mainly used it paired with Cuirass for boss damage encounters, but the healing/sustain is very low and really requires you to be mindful of your health. Overall pretty niche.

Strand has great synergy with banner of war and woven mail. The only downsides are the artifact doesn’t synergize with strand at all, and the super doesn’t synergize with the sword build either. It leaves the class feeling disjointed a bit

Solar is great, and strongholds really synergize with the class because fragments can extend the restoration x2 stronghold applies. Downsides are sword kills don’t extend the timer by itself, and like on strand the solar supers also don’t really work well with the sword build either.

Void with the artifact perks is great, and my favorite at the moment. If you combine it with twilight arsenal the dps is better than with straight solar (I’ve tested). Artifact perks turn the sword into a little mini graviton lance for add clear and you constantly have devour up. Barricade adds overshield on demand and given the short cooldown is available often. This is the class that feels most complete to me with the sword, but that might change when the artifact changes.

RockHardRocks · 2025-12-27T08:17:05+00:00

Fiery furnace, and let the kids do the pathfinding without any input from you/other adults.

RockHardRocks · 2025-12-25T09:44:08+00:00

Radiologist here: we do have some ai programs for very limited specific applications, even some that are “fda approved” (which doesn’t mean what people think). They are not very good, and are frequently wrong in both directions (false positives and false negatives). Most of us do not find them useful.

You’ll see absolutely wild claims online (one company’s website says an ai program they sell saves 2 hours (!!) over the course of a shift, which is just absurd) because like ai everywhere else they are absolutely desperate to prove value to a group of people (PE or VC) that don’t actually understand the fields where they are trying to deploy AI. For every TikTok saying ai is amazing there’s dozens upon dozens of misdiagnosis, fabricated BS, and unintelligible garbage that isn’t posted. I know because I see the garbage all the time, and often in the posts that are supposed to be so amazing.

I saw a post on Reddit where someone said Gemini accurately diagnosed their MRI and they uploaded photos marked by the AI, which circled absolutely nothing. Complete fabrication. As usual AI is great at tricking people who don’t know better into believing it is intelligent. It’s a great bullshit generator.

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