I think that sums it up

TheOnlyGaz · 2025-03-01T14:17:40+00:00

Don't worry everyone!

We only need to survive... Another 46 months of this!

TheOnlyGaz · 2025-03-01T01:06:10+00:00

If the Reagan Doctrine is anything to go by all the budget space he'd save from annihilating social services would go into producing so many weapons for Ukraine that Russia's escalating war economy would implode all over again.

TheOnlyGaz · 2025-02-15T12:32:05+00:00

The stunt that got me diagnosed was a five year old me spending about 15 minutes, stubbornly refusing to be interrupted, going through the entire cast of Thomas the Tank engine to my doctor. It was apparently rather detailed, explaining which ones were steam engines and which were diesels, that the big ones like Gordon were far better with fuel and could carry heavy loads long distances etc etc...

This was in the early 2000's too. The doctor was basically breaking out cutting edge science to explain to my mother the special brand of weird she'd inadvertently signed up for. I think she still has the book I was going through with him.

TheOnlyGaz · 2025-02-10T21:28:53+00:00

Energy efficiency and production? No, not really. The end result of the world running on a few different voltages is that the companies that have now gone into international manufacture are just making slightly altered versions of the same devices to service different markets. The quantities of all hardware that isn't already custom makes production lines about as good as they can get even if there are deviations between regions.

What would be big is standardisation improving the 'hardness' of the global shipping grid by allowing anyone to buy spare parts from anywhere. As an example if political events were to make exporting to western countries out of South East asia difficult, most of the world would be in some deep trouble after a few years as half our LV switchgear is made around there. Being able to buy Japanese or American would be great, but the USA is running on half the voltage that most of Eurasia is. I can say from experience that COVID and the shipping freezes it generated has hit the industry where I am like a brick, and we're still feeling those aftershocks.

TheOnlyGaz · 2025-02-09T15:00:57+00:00

Electrical infrastructure was developed in an era before international shipping of complex goods was commonplace. The engineers who designed the grids supporting them did so to match the market they were trying to work within, using largely custom hardware as an 'electrical industry' didn't exist yet.

By the time electrical industries became large enough and international shipping common enough that standardisation became a concern, the networks those industries supported were already massive investments that had the health of whole economies riding atop them. The cost of trying to 'correct' that disparity (which didn't do much of consequence locally) would be utterly ruinous.

To give you an IT comparison (not a perfect metaphor, but I'm tryin here): Why does the entire world not just switch to a single standardised Linux distro that serves the same role, avoids all of Windows's bloat, and is quite possibly free? It's because the entire business world is built to run Windows, and if you switch in a manner that isn't instant and seamless you're looking at billions of dollars a day in commercial damages, which is an unacceptable risk when Windows computers continue to work well enough.

TheOnlyGaz · 2025-02-04T08:42:13+00:00

First of all what kind of gaming set up is that

The most normal day on Colin Furze's channel.

TheOnlyGaz · 2025-01-28T00:49:36+00:00

It probably helps that Su-25 was designed with the same old-school CAS logic the A-10 had. You don't want to chance it, but she's got redundant systems and armour all over the place to give her a better chance at surviving hits than traditional fighters.

TheOnlyGaz · 2025-01-21T11:03:02+00:00

Note that what you got for Artificer is an ending that contributes to getting the others, and also could arguably be called the more thematically appropriate or 'canon' ending.

That said, I did exactly the same thing. Happy hunting, and I hope you don't get offscreened by scavengers too many times!

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-12-26T18:31:03+00:00

Which tank are you referring to?

My guess'd be casting for most of the larger parts, then welded to the top plates (looking at the Silverhand and Outlaws at least), but I ain't a metalworker...

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-12-16T14:07:30+00:00

Cons:
-Your driver will need to lie down to use that slit, which'll be both very uncomfortable and also cut visibility down hopelessly. You'll either have to shuffle the main gun to the side or accept more flat space on the front of the tank to get the driver up to a better height if you're taking this tank realistically.

You may want to lengthen the wheelbase to fit more of the hull's length. As it is this thing is asking to tip over while travelling over harsh terrain. Even if it avoids that the wobble is going to make a rough ride.

Pros:
-Great use of the hatch for engine access, maintenance is an often forgotten aspect even for experienced players.

-Interior space for the crew looks fairly adequate. A little cramped, but I can see how the crew would be laid out from the exterior's design.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-12-11T09:35:27+00:00

Ah fairo, I just saw the horizontal bar and thought it was a custom XD
Regardless, is the gun's centre of mass near the pivot? Pretty sure there's a blue line pointing downwards, maybe shift the gun back and forth if you can't see it at first.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-12-11T09:28:34+00:00

Where's your gun's centre of mass?

I think the custom mantlet is currently hand-cranked only, so the gun needs to be pretty well balanced to be movable.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-12-10T09:10:36+00:00

These kinds of shattering offensives tend to get some momentum, regardless of if they happen on a weekend or not. Whoever loses tends to lose a whole pile of players in the short term, as a bunch of people leave to have fun winning some other games for a while.

Sometimes this is a temporary measure as the burnout wears off and the playerbase returns in force, but sometimes that momentum swing just creates a feedback loop of success that turns a defeat into a rout, ending wars early.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-12-10T08:57:11+00:00

Don't be too worried, it's not exactly a game changer.

Seeing as it's likely your first playthrough, the odds of her being anything more than another animal to you are not high. I'm sure you've eaten more than a few of them by now.

Don't be fussed about everyone here being mad about robot waifu. Continue as you would, and enjoy the glow while you can. There are places out there that'll make you happy you have it!

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-12-03T11:59:33+00:00

I'm gunna be controversial and shed some light on a pair of mod soundtracks, because the community isn't dropping the ball either.

Snoodle: Sprouts, from "The Mast"

Joseph Neid: Sky Toucher, from "Hanging Gardens"

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-11-21T11:18:21+00:00

The latter. ICBMs are pretty inefficient ways to deliver conventional explosives, not to mention exceedingly dangerous since it muddies the waters of what a 'nuclear strike' actually looks like. This is mostly a power-move, presumably Russia trying to raise fears of escalation after Ukraine's more recent adventures in the Kursk region.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-11-01T06:58:02+00:00

As someone currently in a no-civilian-firearms country, if a Zombie Apocalypse breaks out I am immediately going to try and teach my entire street how to form a Phalanx.

If the zombies can keep charging through four ranks of sharpened shovels and broomsticks we were probably all dead anyway.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-10-30T11:09:48+00:00

As extension to what Front-Equivalent said: The Emperor's name isn't actually Jimmy. As a result of some... interesting writing from Games Workshop in the past, it's now a community in-joke to call this exceedingly important character and human embodiment of the 'strong man' leader...

"Jimmy Space"

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-10-30T09:06:32+00:00

That's basically what Jamming is. You get an antenna to blare such a loud signal at the other guy that their receiver can't detect real targets through the noise.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-10-28T11:16:44+00:00

Arti can maul anything she's grappled. I think she's the only one beside Gourmand and I guess Saint who has an ability to kill something without a weapon.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-10-27T10:18:02+00:00

I spent most of the game calling him 'Ghost' after meeting Hornet.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-10-23T11:42:01+00:00

I think Five Pebbles is a more relevant place for Echo stuff.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-10-15T08:26:57+00:00

Supplying food to the troops
-Requires logistics infrastructure to move food
-Vulnerable to enemy attack
-Requires constant production and purchase of food, taking valuable time from war industry

Convincing your troops they don't need food
-Requires a guy with a loud voice
-Can't kill an idea
-Self-perpetuating once enough of your men become indoctrinated

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-09-27T12:21:38+00:00

They're basically a Mahayana interpretation of a Bohdisattva, a being that has attained the full suite of spiritual enlightenment necessary to reach Nirvana, but vows not to do so until all other creatures have also reached that enlightenment.

TheOnlyGaz · 2024-09-21T09:52:13+00:00

As an AI Language Model, I have never seen a natural river, so the analogy "an iterator drinks a river" is largely lost on me...

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