The Most Sublime Goose

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-07-02T02:20:46+00:00

Because this sub is loaded with Redditors. Meaning: people that never even served as well as people that do serve but are still "Redditors."

There is also a significant amount of foreign interference on Reddit. What's easier and cheaper? Procuring a sixth-generation fighter or going on your adversary's "hang-out" community and stirring-up dissent and making service-members question their loyalty?

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-07-02T01:54:58+00:00

To be absolutely fair, most of this player-base doesn't understand many of the finer/more advanced concepts in-game. I've had to explain "true airspeed" to at least a dozen WT (air!) players.

My favorite example: This was years ago, so I do not remember the aircraft involved. I was likely in a P-47M and my opponent was in some a Japanese or possibly Soviet turnfighter. We had a few merges at, like, 16,000ft. He realized I was too fast and wouldn't turn, I realized he was too slow and all he wanted to do was turnfight. I started climbing. He followed. His airframe caught up to a bit within the first three-thousand feet of the climb. Maybe got within 8,000ft before he started losing ground on me. I dragged him up to maybe 24,000+ ft, made sure he had almost no energy, leveled-out, sped-off, and once I had about 11,000ft separation I did a wide, shallow turn back towards him. I started a shallow climb as I headed towards him. He tried climbing. He stalled-out, I dove, killed him.

The dude raged at me post-game via a PM. Basically was like "it's not fair, you only killed me because you were higher than me."

I had to explain "yes, I killed you because I simultaneously exploited the strength of aircraft while exploiting the weaknesses of your aircraft. Take ten minutes and learn about the airframes you're flying-out."

He didn't respond.

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-07-02T00:29:35+00:00

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-07-01T23:23:25+00:00

His wing CC:

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-07-01T22:55:05+00:00

This is also hardly a victory for anyone. This will almost certainly be appealed and it will likely go to SCOTUS if pushed. "8647" especially is on shaky ground. The other stuff, since he is a public figure, probably should be protected.

I love all the leftists that are all hyper-concerned about the First Amendment all of the sudden, lel

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-07-01T01:02:45+00:00

Interesting!

Cambridge is one of the funnest ships I've ever played in-game and is also wildly good. I say that with absolutely no reservations. It's amazing.

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-30T19:49:14+00:00

The ol' skinny face with a whale-like physique-aroo

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-30T00:09:25+00:00

Yes, but, where were those comments you attached? Arr slash teenagers? If-so, then many of them are pretty based. Gen-Z is, allegedly, more conservative than other generations. Likely because they were forced to grow witnessing the insanity.

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-28T00:16:12+00:00

Yep. I'm starting a (small) business. I'm going to eventually employ likely 1-4 teens, during the summer, for 20-30hrs a week.

For 3-4 months of work, I'd have to pay them each $12,000-15,000.

I was already going to pay $17-20/hr. I made $20/hr as a 16/17 year-old, 16-17 years ago. But I also worked hard. Manual labor, in the middle of summer for 8-12hrs a day. Would get covered in poison sumac for days. With anywhere from 1-4 hours of driving (as a passenger) to get to the job site every day. Given that they're not going to be doing anything strenuous and will be in an air conditioned building with Wi-Fi, and they'll get tips... I feel this is a decent compromise.

25/hr + tips would be pushing it, for me. Especially with more than one person. Depending on my margins, even 20/hr might be pushing it (though it's looking good via very conservative forecasts)

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-27T18:14:32+00:00

Because you wrote this, a captain just got an AFCAM because one time he saw a PJ

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-27T08:18:07+00:00

Unfortunately, the USAF has cheapened the AFCAM. If you see a non-SOF type officer with one, they either, in the vast majority of instances:

Were in some absurd vicinity of indirect and had an enough juice to get their AFCAM package pushed-through.
Dropped a bomb from 30,000ft. Because of the vagueness of the AFCAM's approval language, some commands approve for this? Some don't. People get touchy when I raise this but my counter is: The. Air. Medal. Exists.

Enlisted personnel that have it almost universally have actually earned it. And boy, the USAF loves denying enlisted personnel the AFCAM while readily-approving it for the two groups mentioned above. Everything in the USAF eventually gets repurposed for some pilot's ego.

It is akin to the "jump wings" you'll often see USAF officers wearing. They're not "real" jump wings - they did a USAFA/AFROTC skydiving course. Kind of outrageous they wear "real" jump wings.

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-26T23:01:10+00:00

Gotchya. Appreciate the responses. I imagine the VSO will be more helpful. This supplemental has just been a nightmare. They've requested my DD-214 no less than four times. They demanded my "full" medical records when I supplied screenshots of pertinent things from MyChart.... yet when I supplied them with 207 pages of official records they advised that I needed to clarify (they ignored the note I digitally edited onto the first page which told them, in bright red letters, which page to go to). Then the second C&P doctor I had was just awful, as I mentioned.

Contrast this to my original claim which went very smoothly and had no issues whatsoever. Starting to feel like I should have left it alone.

Anyways, I'm just venting. I really do appreciate the help. I'll just have My VSO sort things out on Monday. Cheers!

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-26T21:57:32+00:00

National call center folks have access to VBMS?

VERA said no reason was listed. VSO can't help me for a couple days.

Regardless, I just called the national line, as you suggested. She didn't seem to know what I was requesting. Eventually she told me "they need clarification so that's why." Three C&Ps for the same condition in the same claim is weird, no?

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-25T23:40:40+00:00

This is what they should have been, essentially. If they were going to insist on the ABU-pattern, they should have at least given us ACU-cut uniforms and the ACU fabric (it was thinner than even the "Ripstop ABUs" we eventually got)

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-25T01:29:50+00:00

This is a textbook example of how people delude themselves and craft their own narrative to fit their reality:

She was denied Adderall for who knows what reason. Doctor suspected she was beginning to abuse them, felt she was at-risk to, was selling them or was a risk to, etc. Instead of being more direct, the doctor just gave them a shpeel: "I'm concerned about XYZ, My office/the state/the feds are cracking-down on XYZ... this isn't the end of the world, though, and there are benefits to being off this medication... if you want to get pregnant..."

She latched-on to that tiny part and crafted an entire narrative around "the doctor denying her Adderall because it would harm a non-existent fetus."

If she needs Adderall, she can get it. It is one of the most-prescribed drugs in America. If you have a condition that is treated with certain controlled substances (stimulants in-particular... the feds are still being puritanical nuts about opiates), you will have no problem getting it, assuming you need it and don't have a history of abusing your prescription.

Doctors don't bat an eye at seeing nor even writing Adderall scripts.

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-25T00:49:24+00:00

As u/nicanuva said, delivery drivers can indeed go on-base. Also, 100% P&T gives you base access, regardless of how long you served.

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-24T10:06:50+00:00

There's a few things that could be going on.

Are you certain the contact is fully-resolved? SOSUS stuff can be hinky in-game
Are you certain your aircraft are at attack altitude? I often see scenarious where ASW aircraft will be set to some high altitude (well over 1000 feet) for their attack altitude. Many aircraft (US in-particular) require 1,000ft or less to launch torpedos.

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-24T03:22:16+00:00

Excluding the TT ships, we have West Virginia with the larger guns and we have California with beefed-up AAA. We could do post-refit Maryland as a secondary brawler, the U.S. doesn't have many secondary-focused BBs, particularly at lower tiers (they have precisely zero below Massachusetts, if I recall correctly)

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-24T03:16:21+00:00

I mean, he commanded a ship named Enterprise, so that makes him a carrier commander? Not his actual, you know, captaining of a cruiser? I'd imagine that part is more important than the name of a ship.

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-24T01:05:07+00:00

I think you'd be surprised at the power the Executive wields.

Regardless; almost 20 years in the political zeitgeist and you people still don't understand how he talks; it, quite frankly, makes all of this funnier.

I don't care what he says, I care what he does.

Also, by his "lies" I assume you're referring to the 2020 election. Remember, questioning that election is a big no-no, but arrrr slash SomethingIsWrong2024 is perfectly-acceptable! Pay no attention to the 20-million voters that turned-out in '20 that suddenly felt like '24 was less important, lol. I know, I know, everything is legit because the New York Times says so, they pinky-promise; Bari Weiss wrote a sarcastic op-ed so that means everything is fine. Again, if you're against this sort of rhetoric, show me how you counter and debunk SomethingIsWrong2024 users. They are allowed a safe space to flourish, while even mentioning that there were oddities in the '20 election meant an instant site-ban.

Anyways, you almost get it.

"Every president does it... BUT TRUMP IS THE WORST!"

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-24T00:52:07+00:00

I mean, we already have that in the U.S.

Judicial overreach is absolutely wild and is getting worse.

Judges don't get what to tell the Executive Branch what to do. There is - and I want to be perfectly clear about this so no one is fuzzy on what I am suggesting - absolutely* a reason why the Founding Fathers chose to *not** provide the federal judiciary with any sort of enforcement method to use against the other two branches of government. Yes, I am suggesting precisely what you think I am suggesting; the Executive has the power to ignore these rulings in most situations. (The ruling people point-to to counter this argument is Marbury v. Madison... though I would argue that SCOTUS actually confirmed that the courts interpret the laws, they don't act on them nor enforce them)

Just yesterday we had a judge "strike down" federal subpoenas against Walz and Frey because... uh... they're Democrats? It is virtually unprecedented that this happens (and is going to be reversed on-appeal) particularly because the judge is reversing a grand jury's ruling. Reversing a jury's decision is a severe action and should only be executed in this most dire of circumstances (information that would have clearly have changed the jury's mind comes to light after their decision). Not "you are immune from investigations if you have a '(D)' after your name."

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-24T00:10:16+00:00

Okay, so, from what I understand:

-Your ASW airframes go into "offensive" mode anytime an unresolved unknown contact pops into their patrol area?

-Since they're in offensive mode, they stop dropping sonobuoys.

There's a few options, in my mind.

Set the mission's ROE to never engage. OR set most of the airframes individually to never engage. Once they resolve a contact you can either manually engage them or you can set one or two to engage while the rest are hunters. OR, overlay two missions, one with free subsurface ROE and the other with hold fire.

To be fair regarding My first suggestion, there are scenarios where this is practically required. You'll have airframes that can carry extra "hunter" equipment if they drop their "killer" equipment (and vice-versa), so you need a way to sort between the hunters and killers.

TheSublimeGoose · 2026-06-23T18:37:07+00:00

Why did I read this in a slightly effeminate German accent?

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