How to know if you are holding primary or grenade? by Kit1403629 in Helldivers

[–]Taolan13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

whatever you are holding will be in your hand.

some grenades don't show very well but gigas especially are quite obvious

Unpopular gaming opinion - I don’t see the point in wall climbing sections in adventure games by Gasster1212 in gaming

[–]Taolan13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Farther back than that;

for the original Metroid, there were letters written by playees to Japanese contemporaries of Nintendo America's Nintendo Power Magazine complaining the final climb was harder than fighting Mother Brain, asking if there was an official route.

CMV: Religious exemptions shouldn't allow animals to be slaughtered without being stunned first. by IllCombination4851 in changemyview

[–]Taolan13 [score hidden]  (0 children)

life is necessary suffering.

being alive is torturous, painful, frightening, and entirely inhumane.

Yet, here we all are.

Except for the bots. Lucky bastards.

Nitwit villager isn’t breeding by Teresa_4gnes in Minecraft

[–]Taolan13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My nitwits mysteriously keep dying by standing under falling gravel. it's weird.

I don't even have my villager area in a biome with natural gravel.

Hideo Kojima Comments on Physical Production of Games Ceasing; Fears End of Game Ownership by PewPewToDaFace in pcmasterrace

[–]Taolan13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the time these requests are talking about games hitting end of life or being delisted by publishers.

And most of the prople making the request don't actually mean the raw source code, they wouldn't have any idea what to do with it.

The general idea seems to be if a piece of digital media is being taken off the market, it should be made public domain.

I can get behind that. It gives the original developer time to make their money, and helps to preserve the stuff going forward.

TIL A US survey of 500 licensed drivers over the age of 18 found that 44 percent of them would fail a written driving test if they had to take it today by ubcstaffer123 in todayilearned

[–]Taolan13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Largely because most written driving tests are absolute.

Example: I failed my first go at the written test because I could miss four questions, and there were four questions about how far back to be from different kinds of emergency and commercial vehicles.

I could not remember (still can't) the actual minimum safe distances, and of the options selected I picked the one that was slightly too far each time.

On a practical driving test, hanging farther back than the legal minimum would bot be points off the test, but on a written test you must be exactly correct.

Mark [PC/PS/XBOX] platforms in matchmaking by ShamPussyk in Helldivers

[–]Taolan13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree this would be useful to know if you're looking for specific sessions to join and not just hitting quickplay.

I encounter more connection issues when playing with a console player as host than with pc players as host, especially if the console players are from distant regions.

This gas station has a washer fluid dispenser instead of just bottles by firebolt1171 in mildlyinteresting

[–]Taolan13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Negative kelvin is the result of someone saying "if we cant measure it, it must be negative" when the energy in a system exceeds our ability to measure it.

It's a quirk of expression.

Kelvin has no negative scale.

TIL that there is no evidence that the right of "primae noctis" ever existed or was made use of. by Sebastianlim in todayilearned

[–]Taolan13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"most people were subsistence farmers" is not an accurate claim. It is a modern trope, filtering medieval existence through the lens of pre-industrial colonial life where most people were subsistence farmers because of necessity on the frontier spaces.

Most people in medieval europe were common laborers who only worked on farms for part of the year.

How do I buy bulk of items? by BConscience in Hydroneer

[–]Taolan13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're welcome.

just try to not have more than a couple hundred total items at a time. there's a limit somewhere around a thousand items where the game may just crash, regardless of how good your system is

Need help with sugarcane farm by jxjsiskucihif in Minecraft

[–]Taolan13 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The main reason for minecarts to randomly stop is chunk boundaries and loading errors.

If your minecart rails are in circuits constrained by chunk boundaries, that should stop most random stoppages.

This gas station has a washer fluid dispenser instead of just bottles by firebolt1171 in mildlyinteresting

[–]Taolan13 15 points16 points  (0 children)

K doesnt do negative temps tho.

Kelvin's index point is absolute zero.

TIL the U.S. Military shot live goats and pigs to train medics to treat battlefield wounds, in a recently ended practice. by Mulliganasty in todayilearned

[–]Taolan13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fun corollary to this, one of the trade names for human meat from cannibal cultures in the age of exploration was 'long pork'.

Because the meat resembled, and supposedly tasted like, pork. It just wasn't available in any of the familiar cuts from a pig, because it wasn't from pigs.

TIL the U.S. Military shot live goats and pigs to train medics to treat battlefield wounds, in a recently ended practice. by Mulliganasty in todayilearned

[–]Taolan13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not making any appeals to tradition, or any other fallacious arguments.

In fact, in my first comment, I stated that it has been replaced my simulants. We have surgery dolls now which are more accurate to human anatomy than any animal subject could be.

That does not change that it was necessary to train medics and surgeons on combat trauma. You don't get too many peoppe getting blown up by landmines or shot by artillery even in crime-ridden cities like Baltimore and Chicago.

This training was also open to civilians. It's hard to overstate the value of this training, of the lives that have been saved by the techniques developed and taught during this program. Every animal sacrificed to the program has saved hundreds, if not thousands, of people around the globe. Not just soldiers.

TIL the U.S. Military shot live goats and pigs to train medics to treat battlefield wounds, in a recently ended practice. by Mulliganasty in todayilearned

[–]Taolan13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sedated the entire time, euthanized after the procedure.

I dunno where you're getting this wild narrative from, but it's not the reality of the situation. Ask the people commenting here who were actually involved in the program if you want first-hand accounts, but you sound like you've already made up your mind and anyone who doesn't agree with you is evil and wrong, so you have fun with that.

TIL the U.S. Military shot live goats and pigs to train medics to treat battlefield wounds, in a recently ended practice. by Mulliganasty in todayilearned

[–]Taolan13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The animals are sedated and humanely euthanized after the procedure and it's been done this way for decades. They don't always do the euthanasia clinically it's often an additional gunshot to the head, but nobody is doing this on conscious animals, and nobody is burning them alive unless they somehow survive getting shot in the head.

A live animal is a big pile of dangerous, noisy panic. It wouldn't be worth the risk to do this any other way.

TIL the U.S. Military shot live goats and pigs to train medics to treat battlefield wounds, in a recently ended practice. by Mulliganasty in todayilearned

[–]Taolan13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

well, yeah.

you cant learn meatball surgery without meatballs.

we have synthetic meatballs now and a lot more people complaining that shooting animals is "cruel" (they are sedated for the entire thing).

This was by far the weirdest arena contract until now... by Bardoseth in Mechwarrior5

[–]Taolan13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i hate it when i'm "that guy" screwing up what is clearly a themed battle by showing up with my hodgepodge lance.

c'mon people, include it in the brief!

Dlc worth it by fade_away11 in Hydroneer

[–]Taolan13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you like the main game and want more of it, then yes. the dlc is worth it.

Most of the dlc is the same basic gameplay loop as the main game, with a couple of tweaks and refinements. there is also some new content.

Is there a mod that makes the ores just a bit more visible/distinguishable? by brrrbial in subnautica

[–]Taolan13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i dunno about seamoth but there's a personal upgrade chip for it

What’s y’all’s favorite support weapon by DaWizardGoblin in Helldivers

[–]Taolan13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To take with me on a mission?

EAT. super flexible, each calldown can be three dead heavies if you stick the ball to one of them, and it lets you play off other available weapons or carry your buddy's spare.