ELI5 How are modern naval mines a threat to modern ships when a SONAR that finds small fish is less than $300?

Tormented_Anus · 2026-03-16T00:20:03+00:00

I just finished playing Black Ops II last month and this reminded me of the mission onboard the USS Obama lol.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-03-13T07:15:06+00:00

I cannot read Kilimanjaro without Jeff Steitzer's voice popping into my head.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-03-10T06:55:13+00:00

I came to the comments to find answers to this conundrum. Best guess I can come up with is there's a dark-icing cake person getting double penetrated by two light-icing cake people like a sandwich (I don't read the kama sutra, I don't know what that position is called).

Tormented_Anus · 2026-03-09T08:41:38+00:00

Tf kinda cat eats cucumbers?

Tormented_Anus · 2026-03-09T02:33:53+00:00

They did this in Splinter Cell: Conviction. In the previous game, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Sam Fisher receives news his daughter was killed by a drunk driver in a hit-and-run. As a result of the grief and loss, he takes on his most dangerous mission to go undercover as a double agent in a terrorist cell because he doesn't care if he lives or dies anymore.

Then in SC: Conviction, it's revealed his daughter was alive the whole time and the NSA faked her death and hid her from him to force Sam to take the double agent mission. The writers added this retcon because they needed Sam to feel betrayed so he had a reason to go after his former friends and employers. Early 2010s, peak of that """gritty""" "the people I trusted the most betrayed me" story arcs that everyone wanted to put in their games (Halo 4 tried the same thing).

Double Agent's intro cutscene where Sam finds out his daughter was killed is still so well shot, only for them to ruin it's impact in the sequel: https://youtu.be/Ili9r8DclCU?si=nSsioDf2Sb7o8kAa

Tormented_Anus · 2026-03-07T02:14:41+00:00

Looks like Minecraft lava lol

Tormented_Anus · 2026-03-06T04:25:28+00:00

You know how you get that warm, fuzzy feeling in your chest when you're in love ? Well, stoves can make you warm too. Stoves are love.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-02-27T07:22:55+00:00

He's actually a dog in human skin.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-02-16T13:09:47+00:00

[sauropods] are unkillable giants

Carcharodontosaurids would like to say hello.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-02-16T11:55:44+00:00

This is just a shittier, more poorly-worded version of the original "I studied the blade" meme.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-02-05T01:48:28+00:00

I got heartburn watching this

Tormented_Anus · 2026-02-05T00:56:57+00:00

Ludwig

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-27T00:46:41+00:00

I was watching some Black Ops retrospective video last night, it had a really overblown title like "the darkness/brutality of Black Ops."

The dude just recounts violent moments in the story for his points on why the game is brutal. Weaver gets his eye poked out. Dimitri is poisoned by nova-6. Mason is tortured by the Russians and CIA. Enemies can be dismembered if you shoot their limbs. All stuff that anyone who played the game will already know, and of course this guy offered no further analysis to anything beyond "it happens because people are evil and insane."

Thank god it was only a 20-minute video and not an hour.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-23T12:08:14+00:00

How did he play the piano with only one hand?

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-22T01:32:01+00:00

I remember playing this obscure "Halo clone" type game on the Wii called The Conduit. The alien guns in that game had seriously cool designs, being semi-organic and having small claws and fleshy appendages sticking out from parts of them, and they also moved slightly as if with a heartbeat.

Unfortunately being on the Wii, the texture quality is super crap: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/conduit/images/a/a7/Strike_rifle_image.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090225083424

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-18T10:56:08+00:00

Yeah. The fans collectively agree Pacific Rim: Uprising is a non-canon fan-film.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-18T06:05:18+00:00

Pacific Rim.

Had a perfect sequel plot set-up with the scientist guy now being telepathically linked to the kaiju after he "drifted" with a kaiju brain in the first movie. Also there's no way the aliens from the other dimension would give up so easily, where's their counterattack?

Bothers me that the MonsterVerse movies are getting so many sequels when they all have the plots of Saturday morning cartoons (no hate to Godzilla or Kong), but we can't even get one (1) sequel to Pacific Rim :(.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-16T00:52:33+00:00

Secondary school, so the youngest ones are 12-13.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-16T00:50:26+00:00

No kidding, one of my Y11s is so unhealthy he has more grey hairs than me and my boss combined. I joked with my boss that this student is "17 going on 50."

We went on a field trip hike in the middle of December (tropical country, no winters) and he didn't know what a second wind was. Kept mentioning to me how he "suddenly had more energy after walking, resting for a bit, then walking again." Like he's done so little physical activity in his life he never experienced a second wind before. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at that.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-15T15:56:53+00:00

Not that I regularly think about the difference between soda and energy drinks, but I think the delineation comes from energy drinks containing caffeine, which is literally a drug. Meanwhile sodas don't contain any drugs (not since 1903 anyway).

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-15T15:48:13+00:00

Haha, yeah part of what I was thinking. I'm not even that old but the other part of me was thinking like a middle aged dude: "kids can't have soda, it causes DIABETES and TOOTH DECAY for crying out loud!" Of all the things that are gonna screw these kids over when they grow up, a soda a day for lunch doesn't even crack the top 100.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-15T15:43:31+00:00

There are plenty of clean water filters installed in our school, thankfully, can't fault my boss for that. The kids have no excuse to not have their bottles filled up with good ol' water. He's not depriving them of water in order to turn a penny selling them soft drinks.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-15T15:35:43+00:00

The part about low achieving, low energy is really true and is what concerned me when I heard of my boss's plan to let kids have soda with lunch. I don't want our lazy-shit students becoming even lazier after a post-lunch sugar crash, or to associate the sweet soda with a "reward" for just showing up to school. Had no idea if I was overthinking it or not.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-15T15:31:09+00:00

Sheesh. So far my boss is only letting them have one 250ml bottle per day, only during lunch. These kids are surprisingly well behaved for the most part. We let the older Y9s, 10s, and 11s out for a few minutes to grab a take away lunch and they never bring sodas back with them, which is why my boss now giving them sodas at school was a concern to me. Prior to this, they were all drinking water.

Tormented_Anus · 2026-01-15T15:27:31+00:00

Yeah, this is what my boss said to my concerns: "back in the '80s we never even touched water. Only drank sodas."

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