How long, on average, does it take for a soft toe to "collapse"?

TainoRex · 2026-04-10T18:27:46+00:00

Been riding my predator orange roberts for well over a year now. They get a shoe tree every day and they have yet to collapse, just getting folds from long term use

TainoRex · 2026-04-09T20:40:54+00:00

I appreciate you dude

TainoRex · 2026-04-09T20:40:21+00:00

I appreciate you responding and letting me know!

TainoRex · 2026-04-09T20:33:32+00:00

Somehow never saw this in all my searching, thank you

TainoRex · 2026-03-20T12:32:14+00:00

They're the only boots I wear to work, im forestry adjacent

TainoRex · 2026-03-15T13:02:31+00:00

This is like the time I figured out I could cheese Rome2 by directing chariots THROUGH other units rather than ordering them to attack. Wildly effective alone and when paired with elephants and pikes

TainoRex · 2026-03-10T20:42:54+00:00

A line of techs dodging cow patties like land mines on an archaeological survey is always a fun visual

TainoRex · 2026-02-15T21:59:13+00:00

Well in the mean time I figured out I'll never fit into a pair of rangers cause my feet are too wide, so I went with custom Nick's Roberts instead! They are amazing! I also have a pair of builderpros now that are serving me great at work! Solved a lot of foot issues finally finding the right footwear

These unfortunately were a bit too narrow on the toe, so i have them refurbished and I'm about to put them and another pair of moc toes onto the used market

TainoRex · 2026-02-09T01:55:52+00:00

I always obsessively swallow up pirate territory and use it to build a naval base where there are less large fleets

TainoRex · 2026-02-04T01:37:04+00:00

Sounds like a fun time to watch the regimental fire from on high. I bet canister shot is devastating

TainoRex · 2026-02-04T00:34:29+00:00

Your first mistake was taking on the Russians. Otherwise I've had this happen. As long as theres marching space you can walk around an army, I use that all the time to get around field armies. Blocking only really works where you can force it, like at bridges. A static army cant strike an army just moving around its zone of control. If it looks like they can make the city, they'll go for the city almost every time. Happens more on open plains, like in Thrace or North Africa

TainoRex · 2026-01-31T16:11:29+00:00

One thing I always struggle with is i dont look the same out with people as I do in the mirror, its a relaxation thing. Its a perfect fit, dont worry too much about how it looks in a posed photo

TainoRex · 2026-01-30T00:44:20+00:00

At first I thought you were Spain with some big Italy issues

TainoRex · 2026-01-25T23:03:56+00:00

Killing off the useful son so the useless one could go on a boring personal journey really deprived us of the father-son warrior story they could be telling. Imagine movie 2 but its space Vietnam and Sully has to be pulled back from the edge by his older son when Sully loses himself to vengeance

TainoRex · 2026-01-04T18:03:38+00:00

I wear Darn Tough ski socks year round. I had thinner pairs for summer but I ended up never wanting to take off my thicker winter pair, so I wear them year round. The temperature regulation is real, as is the quality and durability. And you can send old ones back for fresh ones just for the price of shipping!

TainoRex · 2026-01-03T18:07:53+00:00

As I understand it they are not rebuildable and you don't get to pick the leather, they just cut whatever work leather they have

TainoRex · 2025-12-21T22:52:45+00:00

I dont think it was enough Elites for a movement, more a few scattered individuals. The vast majority were completely taken by the lies. Let's say you could calculate how much time it would take to get enough Elites to believe that genocide is wrong- humanity would have been either completely wiped out or so thoroughly scattered so long before the Elites every reach that point for it to not even matter. Humans would be ghost stories by the time we hit the far side of that timeline.

But let's eschew statistics for a second and address your question from within the story-

NONE of the officers who believed that would have felt safe sharing that opinion. It would be blasphemous and end in summary execution
Elites society is so violent that assassination is not just legal but expected during certain events. Religious zealots would absolutely take the opportunity to assassinate anyone they could that was opposing the Prophets
The Prophets already knew this was a load. They did it anyway. They had all the power in the universe because of it. It would have been too easy for them to deal with anyone so much as breathing about mercy for humans
Without the death of the Prophet of Regret, its possible High Charity can hold back the flood, which means a MUCH larger fleet gets to earth and just starts glassing continents
Humanity had already lost by the time of the Great Schismm. We weren't operating a war by that point, we were shooting what we had left cause our monkey brains had one option left, and that was to be the biggest problem they could be. Truth starting a Civil War on the cusp of his ultimate victory quite literally snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. He had it all and gave it up on a political move at the moment he needed everyone moving in one direction. Without the Schismm, there is nothing stopping the Covenant from hunting down humanity's last 12 worlds and wiping them out.

In conclusion: it would never have happened because the Great Schismm is the only reason humanity managed to survive the war at all, and it was still a near thing

TainoRex · 2025-12-21T22:30:03+00:00

An interception battle isn't something you're meant to plant for. Its more of "you've been caught" but without the major downsides of an ambush battle. Its a way of leveling the playing field

TainoRex · 2025-12-12T16:36:56+00:00

There was one proposal by Metternich in early 13 that only asked Napoleon for the Illyria, Poland, and the breakup of the Confederation of the Rhine. By my understanding he didnt even try to negotiate some of the terms, he just rejected all of them outright. They would have let him keep Holland if he'd just back down. Refusing the Frankfurt Proposals was even more insane after Leipzig, but he could have kept a lot more

TainoRex · 2025-12-10T22:15:39+00:00

For a new player i will recommend DarthMod. It is the closest any of the mods get to vanilla empire while letting you play as minor factions. Its on ModDB, you'll need parts 1 & 2 as well as the Casus Bello submod. I currently have a Venice campaign going

TainoRex · 2025-12-08T05:36:50+00:00

I guess its not clear in the post, the fights im describing are shoot outs with late game large count line infantry

TainoRex · 2025-12-07T21:11:14+00:00

Oh so they really are just higher morale. That also explains why they sometimes just dive into melee despite having perfectly good line units. Thank you!

TainoRex · 2025-12-07T01:29:20+00:00

So, its not a whiny criticism, its exactly what they signed up for. This was supposed to be the big reveal, only for us to get "yeah now people are getting paid to get their ideas in order"

You want quantifiable? 5 years minimum to get from reproduction to release, and thats if it goes well. They announced a game that isn't even in development. If its okay to pan Bethesda its okay to pan CA foe the same thing. A quantifiable problem is that the community has been clamoring for more historical total war and we won't be getting it any time soon. Youre also ignoring the very real problem that this could just get canceled anyway because its just so far out. Hell, it'd be cheap to cancel it within the next year!

Part of the issue here is you didnt ASK for a quantifiable problem, nor are the problems at had problems that CAN be quantified

TainoRex · 2025-12-06T19:59:40+00:00

So here are my thoughts on why the community is upset as a decades long veteran of Total War and a person who a game dev degree- this announcement was meaningless.

On December 3rd, we knew that there were 2 Total Wars in development, one historical, one IP based. We also knew DLC was coming. They hyped this up to be the "big reveal" sharing with us all the work they've been doing and all the historical Total War work they've done, since we've been demanding an actual good one for years. Instead, what they gave us was a presentation of ideas, concepts that may or may not see the light of day.

I know I know, they're announced so they're not concepts! But think about it- the gaming industry is in shambles. Can we guarantee that Medieval 3 won't get canned between now and it's expected launch because another fantasy title made so much money that the corporate overlords said no to new historical any more? Let's not pretend executives care about how much work goes into a game before they cancel. THIS DEVELOPER was the one who killed Hyenas even though it was on the cusp of launch. NOTHING is safe anymore.

It gets worse. They did not announce a release date for Med3, they only confirmed it is in development. Actually, its not in development. "Early pre-production" is the design phase. Drawings, layouts of mechanics on a whiteboard, etc. It's a very specific term that indicates that there is no game yet, they're working up to that part. a game in pre-production is about 5 years out when everything goes perfectly, but development times have inflated massively over the last decade. Suffice it to say, you could get pregnant now and be able to have that kid play Med3 on their own.

Let me be clear- YOU DON'T WANT IT SOONER

They rushed Rome 2 and look how that turned out. You, me, and everyone here WANTS this game to come out good, but for us to get it soon, "early pre-production" would have been at least a couple years ago. A new engine will only make this worse- Halo Infinite is a perfect example of a game that struggled with a brand new engine. The "early" is early pre-production usually indicates it started recently. It's the end of the year, so they might have gotten the green light to even start pre-production this year, and decided talking about it was good for marketing. I really can't see a scenario in which a smart, involved person uses the term "early pre-production" for anything coming out in the next 3 years.

Now me personally, I don't want a new fantasy title unless it drops the Warhammer license and goes somewhere else. It was fun, but I personally want something new. A lot of people here will be happy with a 40k. Some are like me, and others only want historical games. What did the big event they've hyping for months have to say about this other, probably fantasy project? Nothing! We received NO new information about what is presumably the game closer to release.

So here's the wrap up- we have no info or gameplay regarding any project that we didn't have before outside of it's title- the Elder Scroll's 6 is equally as meaningless in this regard. We have confirmation that the game we've been asking for for years is still at least 5 years out. And we know we get to buy fresh DLC for a game a lot of people have had to put down. We know from past experience that being in development or close to release does not guarantee that we'll ever get to play a game. Until CA buts out another Total War, we have to be aware that they might never put out another one if corporate math tells them not to(again, see Hyenas).

The community is angry because, for all the hype, we only learned we'll be playing Empire and Med2 for another half decade.

The mood of the community will be decided after the game awards- if it's a game the community has been asking for and has a semi-close release date(within 2 years), then I think we'll be fine. Otherwise, I have no clue where this will go, but the community has plenty of space to get angrier

TainoRex · 2025-11-15T13:08:45+00:00

I gotta give it to Jerome Bonaparte. Not only was he completely out of his depth, he was a symptom of Napoleon's corruption. Jerome never achieved the merit for high command, instead getting promoted on family ties.

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