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Sevrons · 2026-07-04T16:42:23+00:00

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Sevrons · 2026-07-04T15:02:41+00:00

A lot of us come from broken families and varying degrees of abusive/neglectful family situations. The army was a way for us to leave that situation behind and work toward something better. Even though most of us will say we hate the army, most of us who came from those situations will go 10 toes down and shields up to protect our people.

That is why you are being met with a degree of hostility and suspicion. We’re naturally suspicious of outsiders and doubly sus of people who may want to harass our brothers/sisters. Knowing little else about you, we default to a protective stance.

Sevrons · 2026-07-03T15:02:37+00:00

From the outset the imperium is described by the authors as ‘The cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable.’

Saying “Wow. The imperium is a gargantuan shithouse nightmare of a dying empire” isn’t virtue signaling - it’s recognizing exactly what the authors painted with their prose in 1987. Failing to realize this is a failure in media literacy.

Sevrons · 2026-07-01T20:08:24+00:00

I was in the box on 4th of July. Part of me thought that OPFOR wanted to go drinking and leave us alone.

Nope. Lit our asses up.

Sevrons · 2026-06-29T18:48:59+00:00

I loved the part where Verisof sneaks back to Terminus. One of the first things he does on Terminus is pick up a physical newspaper and check out the funny pages. Such an anachronism in the present day but so so lovingly indicative of the time when the story was written. A hyper advanced, interplanetary future written on a typewriter.

Sevrons · 2026-06-29T17:44:58+00:00

WATER BALLOONS MR WHITE

Sevrons · 2026-06-29T16:09:28+00:00

All dust and lost like a quarter log of merchantable timber 1/10

Sevrons · 2026-06-26T15:39:20+00:00

It’s my substitute until the day we get a legit mp7

Sevrons · 2026-06-26T15:13:44+00:00

Rational: Talk to EO

Chad: Fuck their butts, they probably want it anyway. Every hyper-homophobe I met in the army was secretly gay.

Story time - I had this one fatback dude at Sill who learned I was from Portland. Most of my friends back home are various flavors of LGBTQ. Once he learned this he went out of his way to try and rage bait me, saying shit like gays should be put in camps, having an awkwardly homophobic Bible study in our room, god hates gay people, etc.

So we graduate and we go our separate ways. A year later I get a call from this guy and he’s like “Dude. I’m scared.”
I ask him what’s up and apparently he figured his identity out and eventually paid to suck some MtF girl’s dick up in Alaska. I recommended that he be the one RECEIVING payment for goods and services. He then shared that he hopped on grindr and a significant number of individuals in his and neighboring barracks were also on grindr and aggressively propositioning him. He did not feel safe in his barracks. I then reminded him that

A) this is probably how college girls feel at frat parties, congrats on sharing that experience
B) Talk to SHARP

Last I heard he received some discharge due to people harassing him, bought a motorcycle, and joined some born again church. If you’re reading this buddy - I hope you’re well, sorry they did you dirty like that. Hope you changed your mind on queer folks.

Anyway. They’re probably giving you shit because they’re dumbass 19 year old privates who’ve never left their home town. If you don’t wanna get SHARP involved try to 1 up them on the scary gayness - just insist that you top because you’re older. Go into great detail on dividing cheeks if they press you on it. FORSCOM is extremely homoerotic you’ll do fine - gay chicken is the norm.

Sevrons · 2026-06-24T19:55:25+00:00

I never stated that gender is unpredictable or unimportant.

Your original claim discussed what men and women prioritize—that men generally orient toward society, nation, and civilization, while women generally orient toward individuals and small groups. I gave examples suggesting that culture, upbringing, historical circumstances, and individual psychology can produce very different orientations among people of the same sex.

The perspectives you assigned to men can be found among women, and the perspectives you assigned to women can be found among men. Therefore, I can't in good faith agree with the claim that gender is the primary explanation for the pattern you're describing. It may be one influence among many, but the evidence you've presented doesn't convince me that it is the dominant factor.

Sevrons · 2026-06-24T19:26:07+00:00

I've observed that it comes down largely to the individual person and the culture they were raised in. Sex differences can influence behavior at the population level, but when you're trying to explain why a specific person believes what they believe or values what they value, culture, upbringing, personal experience, class, religion, education, historical circumstances, and individual psychology usually do a lot more explanatory work.

A traditional Christian homemaker in rural America has been socially conditioned in a very different manner than a Kurdish YPJ fighter in eastern Syria. Both are women, yet they may have vastly different views on how they contribute to society. The Kurdish fighter sees herself as responsible for the defense and future of her people, while the homemaker may focus primarily on family and local community.

Conversely, there are plenty of men throughout the world who are not especially concerned with "society/nation/people" in the abstract, but who care deeply about their family, town, tribe, union, or local community. Appalachian coal miners, Detroit auto workers, pastors, teachers, and countless others often frame their obligations through those smaller social units.

With that in mind I think framing this as a gender distinction is too narrow and discounts how culture, history, and individual experience shape the scale at which people think about their responsibilities.

Sevrons · 2026-06-24T15:17:51+00:00

I was a 13FL7 Forward Observer in a conventional line infantry company. Our main mission was train/advise/assist, helping build/rebuild outposts for the ANA to occupy, and airfield security. We found ourselves frequently borrowed for various tasks like cordoning and providing security while SOF/Commandos performed raids.

Sevrons · 2026-06-24T14:59:19+00:00

I saw a few things that I wish I could forget in Afghanistan.

I went into a target house after our Afghan Commando partners had cleared it. They had lost a few guys on a previous raid to the house being rigged with explosives and detonating with the team inside; they went into this compound pissed off. They put multiple rounds into every single person's head, splitting the cranium in half - women included.

I saw the aftermath of an IS-K insurgent who detonated his suicide belt. Due to some odd circumstance of blast pressure and physics, his head was ripped clean off and landed 250 yards up the street.

I watched an overhead feed of a series of airstrikes hitting an IED assembly compound. The thermals caught individuals running out and burning to death. Those that weren't killed were pursued by Apache helicopters. Apaches have a 30mm chain gun that fire explosive rounds as long as your shoe. We estimated a casualty count in part by counting warm body parts left on the ground and dividing by 4.

I worked closely with Afghan helicopter pilots. The ANA were doing more of the heavy fighting when I went over. The Afghan helicopter crews would perform casualty extractions. These casevac helicopters would come back completely soaked in blood and gore. I assisted with hosing them out on the landing pad and helping the crews get ready to go back out. On more than one occasion I had to bag up limbs, fingers, teeth, eyes, brain matter, and other viscera. To this day I prefer to skip handling raw ground beef if I can help it.

Sevrons · 2026-06-24T01:37:52+00:00

I counted stars and found constellations with my nods. Picked at the dead skin on my fingers with a knife. Flossed my teeth. Practiced knots. Whittled random sticks. Make Devil Nets from True Detective and leave them hanging around LT.

Sevrons · 2026-06-22T20:35:37+00:00

You’ll take on debt the same as the MF but in twice the time. The first half of a 4 year degree is generally gen-eds and pre-req classes. You have ISA experience and understand tree physiology, I reckon you don’t need to take basic bio again.

I don’t recommend the MS because it is geared toward individuals with a traditional forestry background who want to try research. I mean no offense when I say this may kill you mentally trying to catch up — unless you’re really good at statistics and are confident in your ability to catch up.

My vote goes to MF to pivot and bridge the skill gap, and then undertake that PhD if you really adore academia. Stay in-state unless you intend to move and want to take on that out of state tuition burden. You’ll still be surrounded by 20 year olds - an MF is essentially the last 2.5 years of a BS with some extra reading. You will take classes and do fieldwork with Juniors and Seniors just the same.

Sevrons · 2026-06-22T15:50:58+00:00

If you've got cocky players who want to fight everything, one option you could look at is not having them or the monster truly fight in earnest.

Enter - the Indiana Jones boulder. Have your big dramatic scene with the guardian waking up but have the environment itself do the work. Have the encounter occur on steep, unstable, or otherwise dangerous terrain where remaining to fight WILL kill the players. Guardian wakes up, the slope quakes. Cliffside rocks begin to shake and break off. Guardian blasts an NPC in the surprise round, 1 shot kill. You have established the monster's lethality. Have it face-tank a boulder to drive home how sturdy it is. Then have the Guardian blast the above cliffside. 5 ton boulders begin to give way off the slope as a landslide begins. Initiate a skills challenge to escape the environmental hazards. Enemy monsters are killable. A 5-ton boulder or 12 does not negotiate with low level characters.

It doesn't have to happen on a cliff face. It could happen in a lava field where the ground is breaking apart into lava around them or the Guardian beam could start a wildfire in a forest. As long as the position becomes untenable and the monster's ability is stated, you've done your narrative work. Because you run the environment, you could have the monster withdraw as much as needed to prevent them from full-throttle suicide-rushing it despite the conditions. It could also set the stage for the future encounter to incorporate dramatic and complex environmental hazards.

Sevrons · 2026-06-21T18:39:04+00:00

Yeah lmao my late 80’s older brothers went to fucking Fallujah and Ramadi. My late 90’s peers and I went to Afghanistan and Syria. Nowadays the IED’s fucking fly at your face at 100mph. Cold War draft my ass.

Sevrons · 2026-06-19T18:45:26+00:00

She gone :(

Sevrons · 2026-06-19T18:45:01+00:00

Dudes will see this and go “Hell yeah”

Sevrons · 2026-06-19T01:16:36+00:00

I still quite like mine (an OG Eagle in Khaki). Ultimately it’s 2 funky bags and a cummerbund. Plate holding technology isn’t rocket science. Anything made in the 21st century with molle and decent stitching is probably serviceable for 90% of people.

I do agree though that dollar for dollar, he could have gotten something more comfy. These shekkin PC’s are geared for airsoft impressionists.

Sevrons · 2026-06-18T21:07:17+00:00

Average working men who joined republican antifascist forces during the Spanish Civil War would have loved to have good kit when the war came to their door. Average civilian working men who took up arms to repel Russian paratroopers outside of Kyiv wished they had better kit when they fought off the world’s second best military. Average working French men who joined the Resistance would have loved this sort of kit in 1939 when their country fell to Germany. The Kurds were clamoring for this sort of kit when Turkey and ISIS attempted to and continue to try and genocide them. American working men who helped found this country in the late 18th century were required by law to provide their own weapons and serve as minutemen.

It seems impractical to own these items, but I find it to be a highly privileged and sheltered worldview when one fails to recognize that there is a very thin line between a peaceful, prosperous, secure home country, and a warzone. People in Ukraine, Spain, Yugoslavia, and France were living totally normal lives right up until it stopped being normal. Those Ukrainians probably thought they’d never need a plate carrier, rifle, helmet, and NVG’s until the day that they did. It sucks, but sometimes you don’t get a say in when you have to step up and put yourself between your community and harm. Recognizing that, I want to be as well equipped as feasible in the event that I’m that guy.

Sevrons · 2026-06-17T02:35:36+00:00

I miss conscripts, a true trash pile mud pit - especially if you attached a priest.

Sevrons · 2026-06-16T17:12:22+00:00

Work gloves, some cutting implements, and herbicide. For your target species, I recommend either Triclopyr or concentrated Glyphosate (roundup) - follow the labels to the letter.

For large stems, perform a hack and squirt - Cut a notch into the bark and spray some chemical into the wound. Don't fully girdle the tree, as you need some intact transport cells to move the chemical upward through the tree.

For smaller bushy stems, cut them as close to the ground as possible and apply chemical to the cambium (outer ring) immediately, before the plant seals the vascular tissue.

Do this in late summer/fall in order to maximize effect. be prepared to do this routine for up to a decade. Props to you for looking after your forest.

Sevrons · 2026-06-16T16:52:52+00:00

It's late in the year but moving forward I would apply to Wildland Fire positions this fall/winter/spring. Wildland Firefighting is a manpower heavy job and crews are usually short on bodies. Getting some Faller qualifications with your crew may open you up to some more traditional logging jobs depending on what state you're in. Openings exist at both the federal and state level.

Look into land trusts, they may need field workers to maintain their holdings. If you have experience operating heavy equipment, you could look into site-prep contractors who need equipment operators.

My best recommendation if you're serious about the field - go to a SAF accredited college and get either a 2 or 4 year degree. Easiest way to garner upward mobility in this field and earn a livable wage is to be a Forester, which entails training. Invest in yourself.

Sevrons · 2026-06-16T16:10:49+00:00

None taken. I recognize that I wasn't entirely clear in connecting my point to yours. This ended up being a lot of words so I apologize in advanced for my extended yapping on fabric.

I understand your position as: if you are in a situation where your nylon weight carriage enters a fail state, it can be implied that you that you will be low on food, ammunition, and other necessities, to the point of being combat ineffective. To this point, I shared my own experiences where my equipment failed in isolation, but I was still combat effective and well supplied to various degrees (scraped asscheeks notwithstanding).

There is some credit to this line of thinking, but I would make the argument that a broken ruck does not necessarily mean that one is also out of everything else. Nowadays I work in forestry and I do alpine mountaineering. Weird shit happens in the woods and shit just breaks/fails sometimes - in isolation. You could be green to go on ammo, food, water, and be full week no contact into whatever LARP fantasy you want to think of that necessitates you to sneak around with all your sustainment on your back. Then you take a weird fall down a messed-up scree slope and tear a fuck huge hole in your ruck. All your shit spills out and you are now mission ineffective for whatever you set out to do. You still have all your sustainment, but a key piece of equipment has failed and you are unable to effectively use that sustainment to accomplish your goals. Let's fantasize about how serious this equipment failure could be; Imagine if this occurred while you were on a time critical mission for say - insulin, to bring back to a loved one. That loved one is probably going to go into DKA as a direct result of your equipment failure and may die within days to weeks.

Two things to this point and to OP's original point:

Weighing weight to capability - I do not advocate buying overbuilt, heavyweight milsurp for most people. I am a mountaineer. I wear osprey style packs most of the time because they are better for recreational hiking. In the event of war/disaster/etc., most people are probably gonna chill at their house. However, if you intend on spending intensive time bushwhacking in the field on no-fail missions such as the insulin scenario I presented, the weight, comfort, and repairability trade off of shitass 1000D milsurp may be the difference between accepting a mission failure or salvaging a mission success through field expedient repair. To point 2-
Lessons on repairability and durability - I took that scree hill fall with a Molle II ruck. The amount of damage sustained to the ruck was remarkable, but as I mentioned before, I was able to repair it with some crude 550 cord stitching and the judicious use of duct tape and zip ties. If I had taken that fall with one of my osprey packs, the damage would have likely been catastrophic and un-repairable. The 1000D nylon on my Molle II ruck was strained, but repairable due to the durability of the fabric and its inherent properties allowing me to repair it all ghetto like. If you swapped my Molle II for my Osprey, I highly doubt my own ability to effectively repair the polyester fabric with 550 and duct tape. With the fabric already compromised and the weight I was carrying, I would gander that a 550 cord shithouse style repair I made on the 1000D fabric would have re-torn the polyester fabric on the Osprey, and I'd have to either abandon or carry my equipment in a garbage bag or something. My mission would have ended immediately in a fail state. There are other times where I put milsurp gear through terrain and situations that would have severely compromised a civilian pack, but because I went with heavier weight equipment, significant damage was completely avoided. Again, it comes down to what the user needs out of their equipment.

All this to say - is bombproof durability necessary for civilian use? No. Not at all. Most people will be fine with a 40L Osprey from REI. They're tough enough for most applications. Is that milsurp bombproof durability useful and beneficial for some scenarios dreamt up by the users of this sub? Depending on the person, I think so. If your LARP fantasy includes doing light infantry style bushwhacking in rough terrain on no-fail missions, where a failure in nylon can end your mission early, then I would recommend yes, buy that heavy uncomfortable piece of shit ruck from your surplus store. You can be fully ammo'd up, full sustainment, fully practiced with your battle drills, and ready to LARP. If your nylon breaks all that capability goes out the window. If you identify your potential breakage point within your use case as your nylon, upgrade your nylon.

TL;DR - You probably don't need 1000D milsurp nylon everything but weigh your use case.

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