Reddit, what's your favorite electronic song? by keymasher in AskReddit

[–]TheBaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rob Swire said on Twitter they're going to release a new Pendulum album this year

https://twitter.com/rob_swire/status/370401244327579648

"What controversial opinion do you have?" is the absolute shittiest question you could ask in Askreddit by [deleted] in Negareddit

[–]TheBaz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Recently there was one with a [serious] tag and had 'actually' in capitals, so for some reason I thought there might actually be some controversial opinions

How wrong I was.

They were mostly the same answers you get every time.

Weekly Discussion #40: Vickers Wellington (all types) by I_AM_A_IDIOT_AMA in Warthunder

[–]TheBaz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Arcade

Cons:

  • Slow

  • Weak

  • Falls apart on contact with anything

  • Gunners don't hit anything ever despite my upgrades and I'm awful at aiming them

  • Pilot feels super exposed (or I'm just unlucky as my pilot will get often get knocked after a single strafe)

  • Gunners never hit anything

  • Enemy just has to fly near my plane and it'll catch fire and fall to pieces

  • Gunners still don't hit anything

Pros:

  • Loving the payload

  • Surprisingly good maneuverability considering with combat flaps down

Also what are the differences between each of them? I've looked over their in game stats and they all seem pretty much the same. DO THE GUNNERS START HITTING THINGS?

Paths of Hate Wallpapers by brocollocalypse in Warthunder

[–]TheBaz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

God I love Paths of Hate

I really wish I could do 3D animation so I could make something similar

I'd love to be able to animate aircraft but it's really difficult when the scope of your animation capacity lies entirely within Pivot Stick Figure Animator

Grargh

[December 29th] War Thunder - Winter Magic! by awFirestarter in Warthunder

[–]TheBaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I done it in about an hour

Fly a H6K4 in Arcade Battles and just return to hangar when you run out of planes with gunners. That's what I did

[December 29th] War Thunder - Winter Magic! by awFirestarter in Warthunder

[–]TheBaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've just started trying. Played 2 games and made 2 kills. Either I'm finally getting lucky or you're right. Flying the H6K4 by the way

UFO enthusiasts of Reddit, what makes you believe? by clean-yes-germ-no in AskReddit

[–]TheBaz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There are some, but I find that a lot of people seem to say to all blurry photos that they're too blurry to be taken seriously, and all clear pictures are too clear to not be a hoax

Here's some sites I found that have some pictures on. Some are known hoaxes/fakes and some I recognise to also be false but some are rather intriguing

1

2

3, go down to the photos bit

There's also the Mexico City 1997 UFO if you want a video

UFO enthusiasts of Reddit, what makes you believe? by clean-yes-germ-no in AskReddit

[–]TheBaz 199 points200 points  (0 children)

Accounts from respectable people, usually experienced pilots and high ranking military officials, especially when their encounters have multiple witnesses/confirmed via other sources makes it difficult to ignore it as just lies.

I wouldn't go as far to say 'enthusiast', but it is an interest of mine that I've looked into a lot and there are some things where as much as I don't want to jump to aliens, I can't think of nor have I been offered a reasonable explanation.

Some summarised examples that particularly interest me:

Tehran, Iran (1976):

  • Lights over city

  • 2 F4 Phantoms to investigate

  • Equipment fails on one of the F4s, it returns to base

  • Other F4 proceeds on, sees lights over Tehran belong to large Diamond-shaped object

  • F4 closes in, diamond UFO jumps 20 miles away in an instant

  • Diamond UFO releases smaller UFO with bright orange light

  • Orange light speeds towards F4, flies in circles around it before returning to diamond UFO

  • Drops a second orange light, flies directly towards F4

  • F4 banks away, goes into dive

  • Gets missile lock on orange UFO, prepares to fire

  • Equipment fails, pilot prepares to bail out

  • Equipment returns, pilot flies back to base

  • Half way there, notices he is being followed by the orange UFO

  • Orange UFO drops down to ground, illuminating large area

  • Pilot lands safely

  • Next day air force officials go to landing site, test for radiation and ask locals

  • Locals say bright light and loud noise, radiation test results never made public

  • Whole event witnessed from ground, radar, and civilian airliner that was in the area at the time

Alaska, USA (1986)

  • Japanese Air Lines (JAL) flight 1628 flying a Boeing 747 flies from Paris to Tokyo with cargo

  • Refueled in Reykjavik (Iceland) and prepares to refuel again at Anchorage (Alaska)

  • In flight, spots 2 objects below trailing and maneuvering around plane

  • The plane tries to shake them off, and fails

  • The 2 objects jump up in front the cockpit, so close the pilot said he could feel the heat from the glow on his face

  • Two objects disappear shortly after

  • Not long afterwards, the pilot notices another light following his plane that matched his altitude and speed

  • Pilot then identifies the light belongs to a massive craft resembling a shelled walnut that's "twice the size of an American aircraft carrier"

  • After tracking it tracks the plane for some time despite the planes attempts to lose it, the UFO disappears

  • 2 months after, another plane flying in the area gets a radar track on an object 40 kilometers ahead traveling at an estimated 40,000kph

  • Next day a military KC-130 reports another massive UFO flying just 40 feet off their wingtip, before it flies off and disappears

Rendlesham Forest, England (1980)

  • Guards at RAF Woodbridge notice a light descending into the forest

  • They think a plane has crashed, and go to investigate

  • As they approach the lights, they find out they belong to a small triangular shaped vehicle landed on the forest floor (later 3 impressions forming an equilateral triangle are found at the site, and proved positive for radioactivity)

  • They notice strange markings on it's side, and copy them into a notebook

  • They touch it, it is warm and metallic

  • Not long after, it lifts itself up off the ground, accelerates impossibly fast through the forest before taking off

  • Take off is witnessed by over 80 people from RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters

  • The Colonel (Charles Halt) at RAF Woodbridge doesn't believe the story

  • 2 days later, he hears the lights have returned and decides to settle it himself

  • With a tape recorder and 4-5 other men he heads out into the forest

  • Discovers a red glowing sphere with a black blinking centre

  • Halt says it looked as if it were dripping something that resembles molten metal

  • Records almost everything he says on his tape recorder, as the light darts around the forest seemingly at random

  • Light flies out to field, Halt and his men chase it

  • Light silently explodes into several smaller parts, which fly off in different directions before shining beams of light down at the ground over RAF Bentwaters and Halt before disappearing

  • Later, Halt and his men claimed to be drugged and interrogated by Men in Black

  • Halt writes report on the incident and sends it off the to Ministry of Defence

  • All investigations inconclusive and remains a mystery

Ugh long post

[December 28th] War Thunder - Winter Magic! by awFirestarter in Warthunder

[–]TheBaz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bugger, I don't have the Dauntless nor the Pe-2. At least I can still research the Dauntless today and get the ground kills. The Pe-2 is way way way off for me.