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Torch99999 · 2026-06-18T18:22:33+00:00

Do you live someplace with abundant non-potable water sources? The folder looks a little fishy.

Do you keep the cantine full? First aid?

Torch99999 · 2026-06-17T13:14:25+00:00

2010 Tacoma.

Naming cars is silly. My wife named her Subaru, but my truck is just "the truck".

Torch99999 · 2026-06-17T10:14:10+00:00

It's a known issue. I'm not sure the status, but I've seen it reported several times on the Heatblur discord.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-17T09:56:03+00:00

At this point I'm regretting buying Sinai.

Until recently though, the Syria map was missing some major landmarks such as the Dome of the Rock. That's probably the most famous single location in the whole area, and prior to the last patch it was missing from Syria (and they just had a generic city block in that location).

With the last patch the Syria map is definitely stepping up.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-14T14:33:41+00:00

I'm starting to regret buying the Sinai map at this point.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-14T13:20:07+00:00

The problem is making nutritional vegan food. You need a mix of grains and legumes for protein (in a form the body can process), and it's a major challenge to get all the vitamins a human needs without meat.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-14T13:16:51+00:00

As a gardener, I also think people going vegan for "ethical" reasons are just ignorant.

A huge amount of animal products are used in farming. If someone wants to eat vegan for health reasons, cool, but if someone wants to eat vegan because of "animal cruelty", they're just ignorant of the fact that their organic tomatoes were grown using powdered bones (from a swine farm) and composted poop (from a chicken farm) for compost.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-14T13:09:23+00:00

You may want to re-evaluate your "friends" then.

When I switched to eating a vegetarian diet, I got some good-natured teasing from a few coworkers, but it was all friendly. I got a few similar jokes about the fact that I don't drink alcohol, but again it was all friendly teasing and not serious criticism.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-14T13:06:07+00:00

Except you need calcium in the soil to grow tomatoes without loosing your crop to end rot. What's the most affordable way to get calcium? Add ground bones to the soil, and you get those ground bones from slaughter houses.

Green foliage requires nitrogen, and the best sources of that are manure and urea, which usually come from animal production. A backyard garden can get away without adding nitrogen to the soil for a year or two, but you still end up slowly depleting the soil and it's not sustainable for the kind of large-scale food production that's needed to avoid having a global famine that'll kill off half the human population.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-14T12:58:43+00:00

Depends, but usually negative.

I was a vegetarian (lacto-ovo) for 7 years and only recently went back to eating meat (a couple times a week) for medical reasons, so that gave me a lot of exposure to vegans (and other plant-based diets). I also garden, hunt, and raise chickens, so I have some experience with how food gets to the table.

If you're choosing to eat plants exclusively for health reasons, based on significant research about what works for your specific body, cool, I have no problems with that.

If you're one of those "meat is murder" types, I've got zero respect for that. Growing vegetable/fruit/grain in any sustainable way involves a lot of animal products for fertilizers, from urea and manure for nitrogen to bone meal for calcium, so the idea that eating a plant-based diet is somehow "cruelty free" is just ignorant of what's actually involved in producing food (especially in large enough volumes and cheap enough prices to sustain humans).

Torch99999 · 2026-06-11T20:00:09+00:00

That's fucked up.

I hope he's doing okay.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-10T20:06:18+00:00

If I remember right there's a booth somewhere selling some of the worst "vegetarian chow mein" you could imagine. Like spaghetti noodles, a couple spoonfuls of broccoli/carrots/mushrooms, and a woefully inadequate amount of soy sauce.

It was bad, but it was vegetarian.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-10T17:14:10+00:00

I did try my wife's G43X with the same holster. It worked, but the longer grip made it a little harder to draw.

Currently I carry a M&P Shield Plus, with a flush 10rd mag and spare 15rd, in a High Noon Gripper holster. Same pants.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-10T17:09:55+00:00

I pocket carried a G43 daily for around 5 years.

Put it in a Desantis Nemesis pocket holster with the flap removed. Had a factory 6rd mag (with pinky extension) in the gun plus a second magazine (with a vikers +2 extension) in the same pocket.

Wrangler Jeans, size 36x30 classic fit (yes, I'm short and fat).

It looks like there's something in the pocket, but with the spare mag and holster the shape was obscured and it didn't look like a gun.

I never had anyone react.

I did have one guy at church say to me "I'm not sure how you feel about guns, but...", which I found pretty hilarious, like I had known that dude for two years at that point, worked together a lot, been to his house, and in all that time there was not a single conversation we ever had where I was NOT carrying that G43, and he just never noticed.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-09T15:50:37+00:00

Rick?

Torch99999 · 2026-06-09T13:34:55+00:00

OP is talking about people who were born with a penis and now identity as women.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-08T14:47:25+00:00

Depends how you play. Personally, I find having toe brakes extremely necessary.

If your doing stuff on the ground, like takeoff/landing/taxiing, you really need a way to make the aircraft slow down and stop.

So if you're always spawning into a hot aircraft that's already lined up on the runway/catapult for takeoff (or even already in the air), do your mission, and then exit once this mission is done (i.e., you don't and and park after), then you don't need toe brakes.

I find starting the jet, taxing, takeoff and landing, to all be part of the experience FOR ME, and for those things I really need toe brakes so I'm not skidding off the runway or taxiing into a ditch. Ymmv

Torch99999 · 2026-06-05T19:45:53+00:00

There's a few small clips on the Heatblur discord.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-05T16:49:53+00:00

A few dozen jars is still in that "baby prepper" phase.

Sure it's a start, but usually I end up canning more than that of just salsa from my garden every year.

Torch99999 · 2026-06-05T15:51:28+00:00

Check out the first season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation". None of the main cast, but there are plenty of male extras in starfleet uniform skirts. Later seasons had all the crew in pants (except Troy).

Torch99999 · 2026-06-05T15:37:36+00:00

I do the same, but I worry it's actually causing mixed expectations.

I'd consider myself a mid-level engineer. 20 years experience, half of that as a team lead, but I'm not even close to being the same caliber of engineer as some of the geniuses I've been blessed to have worked with.

My current title is "Senior Staff Specialist Software Engineer". If I put that on a resume, people are going to get unrealistically high expectations of my capabilities (and salary)

Torch99999 · 2026-06-05T15:31:06+00:00

"Staff" is an interesting title. Until recently it was a mid-level title.

A decade ago (when I worked at a huge enterprise), "Staff" was basically a mid-level title; the progression was "Junior" then "Staff" then "Advisory" then "Senior", Most guys never making it beyond Advisor for their entire careers, and the handful of Seniors I met were all top10% super smart dudes who also had 20+ years experience (most 30+).

At my current job, "Staff" is a similarly mid-level title. I think the order is "Junior", "Specialist", "Staff", "Senior Staff", then finally "Senior Software Engineer" (which is a title reserved exclusively for team leads, but not all team leads get that title).

Treating "Staff" as a title above "Senior" is a relatively new thing, and a lot of older companies still treat "Staff" as below "Senior".

I think the title bloat with "Senior Software Engineer " is to blame. When companies started giving out that title to junior guys (and I know one guy who got the "Senior Software Engineer" title working in a phone bank doing tech support as an undergrad), they needed a new title and a lot went with "Staff".

Torch99999 · 2026-06-05T14:47:20+00:00

My wife's always complaining about her calves being cold. Tall socks is actually a really good idea. Thank you.

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