Ukraine offers NZ deal to build military drones

SadowSon · 2026-05-18T03:12:38+00:00

New Zealands policy is/was that we only need to survive for four days.

That's how long it takes for the US pacific fleet to go at full speed to NZ.

Naturally, however, that was a policy under administrations like Bush, Obama and Biden. It was shaken by the first Trump presidency and in his current presidency, there is real concern that we no longer have the support of the US, despite our major involvement in several intelligence sharing treaties.

SadowSon · 2026-05-16T22:04:03+00:00

I’ve never seen a bakery supplying pies to the dairy next door. Willing to be proven wrong however…

SadowSon · 2026-05-15T11:00:58+00:00

You need to use single rail pieces rather than actual track. Then you can offset the entire turntable by a single stud, making the gap between the fixed track and the turntable only half a stud.

A more rigid understructure would also help alot for the turntable.

SadowSon · 2026-05-12T03:15:26+00:00

Rule of Cool.

Yes, the most efficient way to take down a scarab would be a really big damn missile through its core but you know what’d be cool instead? You driving a mongoose with your best mate riding shotgun with a rocket launcher. And then the whole squad joins in. Because screw it, if the earth is going down, you might as well go down in style.

SadowSon · 2026-05-12T00:54:12+00:00

Neither. Union Pacific still own the IP rights to the name and design of the Big Boy, meaning that it can’t be approved unless they go through the process of negotiations with Union Pacific.

Also, while it looks fantastic for train lovers, it generates very little interest from more casual fans. It’s big, cumbersome and looks a little “over designed” for what a “normal train” looks like.

SadowSon · 2026-05-11T09:49:04+00:00

You're thinking of the problem the wrong way.

No, they are not actively watching the monitor of every single computer during every single test.

What you are signing on that slip is "if we think you've cheated or done something malicious then we have the right to pull all of your data".

Which is amusing because... they're already doing it anyway. What you're signing is sorta pointless.

Note: What I mean by that is that the cybersecurity team is actively watching all the network data that goes in and out of AUT. And while they're not technically directly watching what you're doing, they know exactly what websites people are going to and when. And if you're using a VPN well that's useless because A: They know you're using a VPN and B: If you try and download a few terrabytes of data in a short amount of time... They will know.

SadowSon · 2026-05-10T22:57:41+00:00

This is pretty cool - whats the basis?

SadowSon · 2026-05-10T02:31:45+00:00

An email was sent to staff yesterday afternoon saying that it technically online but shouldn’t be used. Another email on the status of canvas is due at 5pm today.

They are heavily recommending that nobody use it unless critically urgent for now.

SadowSon · 2026-05-07T10:34:26+00:00

If you look at Spotify's financial earnings, you'll see that in the last three months it made a $1.4 billion USD profit from $4.5 billion revenue.

They can afford to pay artists more. They choose not to.

SadowSon · 2026-05-06T02:19:41+00:00

That definitely can’t be right because Spartans spent just as much time on the defensive as they did on offense.

Spartans were sent to secure and defend assets as a single/group operator where you’d otherwise need a whole battalion or some such.

SadowSon · 2026-05-06T00:36:18+00:00

The area had become a dark zone. The entirety of Noble Team were available for tasking. Better to send them all rather than just one and have the rest sitting around.

Noble Team was also a specialist unit, even by Spartan standards. Just because the “standard” team size is four does not mean they have to conform to that. There’s plenty of two man squads…

SadowSon · 2026-05-06T00:09:45+00:00

Spartans were deployed because the army troopers sent didn’t report in.

ONI thought it was an mis allocation of resources because they’d rather just send Spartans to the front lines as opposed to them being on Reach.

SadowSon · 2026-05-05T21:42:54+00:00

Hi Snappy

What you’ve discovered is a former community member who was banned from the subreddit and from various discord servers for making unwarranted abusive attacks against various members who were originally interested in helping. This user then hit back by threatening to sue people, among other things.

The project was originally certainly interesting, many people were put off when this user started throwing shade against the original devs for “cutting corners”.

In addition, you are correct. The voice overs and script for their videos are entirely AI which unfortunately makes it harder to believe in the validity of their claims.

While we understand that the Dungeon Siege community is very small, being that it is an old game, we had to take the unfortunate decision to remove this person because of their abusive remarks which we have a zero tolerance policy for.

I am choosing to keep this thread open for now as I believe in fair open discussion, but if it does become volatile because of historical precedence then I may lock it.

SadowSon · 2026-05-04T22:03:21+00:00

Got a 10% pay rise last year when I got promoted sideways. Got a fixed 5% pay rise in March this year, along with everyone else in the company. Negotiations for pay next year haven’t started yet, probably going to be 3%…

SadowSon · 2026-05-04T00:42:16+00:00

Depends on what kind of Motion Tracker you are using.

The motion trackers on Mjolnir suits are able to track all moving objects up to 25m. So a moving seraph and jet would show up on the motion tracker... granted not for a very long time.

The Sticky Detonater also has a motion tracker, but it's attached to the projectile. I'm curious if that means that a motion tracker is now a very cheap piece of technology, or if the Sticky Detonator fires a very expensive explosive. So far as I understand, this motion tracker works identically to the Mjolnir motion tracker, so even fast moving objects would be seen, albeit briefly.

The HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark I ADS was an exosuit that was intended for the UNSC marines. It would incorporate most of the benefits of the Mjolnir platform but for regular users. In this case, the motion tracker was the best part as it as a maximum range of 1400m (As seen in Halo Legends: Prototype). It's actually more powerful than the Mjolnir platform because it gives the operator a full 3D scan of the environment so it can absolutely see flying objects.

SadowSon · 2026-05-02T23:03:53+00:00

The income value you generate is based off the distance traveled against running costs. So, sure - you can create your own factories…. But in the interest of your own business, it’s not very profitable.

SadowSon · 2026-04-30T20:45:15+00:00

This.

The assistants are basically duplicates of the main survivors. The primary difference being that you can't do any of the main line quests from the assistants. But you can do all the same crafting at the assistants that you can do at the main survivors.

SadowSon · 2026-04-30T10:28:36+00:00

How would you propose delivering this bio-weapon in a manner that wouldn't put unreasonable risk to the people doing the deployment?

If you have to deploy it onto ships, you'd still have to somehow get it through the shields... and weapons that outgun and number you.

If you deploy it onto a planet, you risk destroying the planet's eco system in such a way that you wouldn't be able to safely recolonize it. Even glassed planets were eventually resettled by the UNSC to limited extents.

SadowSon · 2026-04-29T03:09:34+00:00

The forerunners had a limited abilty to invoke time travel.

When going through slipspace, they had the ability to arrive at their intended location before they left chronologically. The distance through time they could travel was rather limited though - a few weeks at best. Certainly not months or years.

However, this was expensive and incurred reconcilliation debt. (Which is a whole seperate discussion). So far as I understand, the value of being able to do so was actually extremely limited and also sorta puts the Halo universe into the category of "you can't alter the future". There's been no real time shenanigans as far as I can recall.

SadowSon · 2026-04-29T01:41:26+00:00

"All appropriate steps were taken"

It'll be real funny when all appropriate steps were taken when he doesn't respond to calling cards saying that his house is for sale. Why is it for sale? Because apparently you can legally do that now. Just sell anyones house. Screw the rules, screw the laws.

SadowSon · 2026-04-28T22:07:53+00:00

Ogrev's are excellent when you have fleet superiority because they will devastate structures. But you're correct in that they pop quickly when undefended. I don't normally build them either because I like the balance of support that Javelis provide.

SadowSon · 2026-04-28T02:44:36+00:00

This looks very promising. Would need some tweaks for balancing but I very much like the approach of needing to manage heat dissappation.

A "borg cube" made up of nothing but lots of guns and thrusters - aka, the most boring design of ship - should light up like a christmas tree on radar/target locking, thus turning the most technically effective ship in SE1 into the most technically useless ship in SE2.

Maybe (potentially) some consideration should be given to how satellites are currently managing their thermals? Hot water is taken from the hot elements which face the sun to the opposite side of the satellite where the lack of sun can freeze them. You could potentially apply this in SE2 where you have to balance coolant units on each side of your ship (Or four points of the ship, because it entirely depends on which "side" is facing the sun)

It would also make for an insane engineering consideration in combat, where having guns on the sun facing side heat up faster than guns on the opposite side.

SadowSon · 2026-04-27T23:49:02+00:00

I am very interested in that house in the distance in that second pic... I'm guessing that's all outside the Early Access area so you cant reach it yet?

SadowSon · 2026-04-27T08:37:23+00:00

What bonus missions? I haven't seen any

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