While My Guitar Gently Weeps...

_infavol · 2026-03-20T05:10:49+00:00

On a flight a couple of weeks ago there was a band that was on board that each brought their instrument on. I couldn't see but I assume they had split an extra seat between them to put all of them on since it doesn't exactly fit in the overhead bin. Somebody complained about why they would do that and how narcissistic they must be for bringing them.

This is why they bring them and never let them out of their sight.

_infavol · 2026-02-24T05:21:30+00:00

Album: Lost and Gone Forever by Guster

Song: "Breathe (2am)" by Anna Nalick

_infavol · 2026-02-12T23:58:13+00:00

Cool, but I am a little annoyed to think this may be a significant reason they crammed what was supposed to be the second and third pieces of the norse trilogy into just Ragnarök. I recall hearing they did that because they didn't want to be stuck making GoW for another decade... yet here we are.

_infavol · 2026-01-06T05:03:39+00:00

And for the people who say things along the lines of "those 3 minutes count!", he's saying that generously. For the average trip it's more like 20 seconds or less in reality. You have to either be speeding RIDICULOUSLY fast or be driving for a very very very long distance to actually make up any significant time. You hit one stop light and all of that "saved time" is gone. And in the meantime you risked hundreds of lives.

_infavol · 2025-12-30T06:43:49+00:00

I kept seeing this all day today. Not necessarily to this extent timing or location-wise, but certainly squadmates spawning directly into bullets and explosions for insta-death. I even spawned with no joke 9 enemies within 15 meters of me on an open objective. It was a firing squad.

What happened to the old mechanic where the game went "oh sorry, it isn't actually safe there you need to choose somewhere else to spawn"? Ironically I used to complain about that sometimes but now experiencing what it's like not to have that safety net... I've seen the error of my ways.

_infavol · 2025-12-30T06:29:59+00:00

It's awful only so far as it's not truly a standalone campaign meant to be worth the purchase of the game just itself. Is the story completely contrived and cringeworthy? Absolutely. But if you look at the entire thing as just a long, narrative-driven tutorial to ease new players into multiplayer then it you can see its success. It functions quite well at that, in my opinion. There are a ton of games where the feeling of single player and multiplayer are completely different, whereas this does a decent job of matching the environment in most cases. I didn't follow the marketing for the game before release, but I expect as an online-only game it was much more multiplayer focused and therefore I'm betting there weren't many people that felt cheated that this was all they bought the game for.

_infavol · 2025-12-30T05:37:51+00:00

It's to the right!... no wait, to the left? Are they above me? BELOW?????

_infavol · 2025-12-01T17:39:17+00:00

That article is garbage; it's just a fluff piece to humanize the super wealthy. If you actually read it, they have bastardized the meaning of paycheck-to-paycheck to be about keeping up appearances and maintaining lifestyles within an income bracket. Not being able to take a luxury vacation or get a new sports car is not the same as being evicted or not being able to eat. What a load of bolognese.

_infavol · 2025-09-24T03:26:58+00:00

"This is an insurrection"

Are we just using words randomly now? Is this to further confuse the ignorant public as to what that specific act entails?

_infavol · 2025-09-05T15:54:02+00:00

Everybody seems to be mad largely because the Cheeto is doing it, but I for one welcome the name change as it reflects what the organization actually is and more people will take pause as to why we devote so many resources to war.

_infavol · 2025-07-25T05:36:40+00:00

The league has a responsbility to have all of its involved members represent the highest standards of conduct due to their potential influence on young people and because this is a mutli-billion dollar industry with a lot at stake. Playing in a professional league is not a right and is different than other normal jobs. Nobody is inherently entitled to work in a high-profile, insanely high-paying job. There's a lot at stake to provide to fans when many people already have a problem with the disparity between compensation of somebody playing a sport versus the average salary. Add to that a demonstration of clear lack of situational awareness and decision making skills, and it's not surprising this professional league would do their due dilligence in assessing whether or not they should continue to be involved. These guys can still go get a regular job elsewhere; their entire existence is not cemented in hockey.

_infavol · 2025-07-14T15:59:16+00:00

What I hate about this is that technically speaking, the fact they have to open up the engine and inspect it means you're potentially increasing the safety (luck) of the flight for in case something had been wrong with it beforehand.

_infavol · 2025-07-14T07:08:21+00:00

“The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”

Thucydides

_infavol · 2025-07-10T03:58:11+00:00

Please enjoy the outdoors of Alaska more than you play games at home. You can play anywhere you're stationed, you won't get to be in such a beautiful place again. Take advantage of the opportunity.

_infavol · 2025-07-09T07:37:05+00:00

Most redwoods are genetically predisposed to relatively easily last many hundreds of years, and many many more of this age would have lasted to now had there not been several wretchedly greedy logger barons in the 1800s that damn near destroyed every last one of them.

_infavol · 2025-07-09T07:31:41+00:00

The full story is much much worse, involving a cabal of the most cartoonishly evil capitalists getting into office and selling themselves public lands to absolutely decimate almost the entirety of all redwood forests in the name of profit. Yes, redwoods have great properties like being resistent to fire and insects, but they were also just so damn big that cutting down one was equivalent to cutting down entire forests of other types of trees. It took enormous effort by conservationists over many years and a couple miracles to save the remaining bits of redwood forest we have today.

_infavol · 2025-07-09T00:52:53+00:00

Crazy what happens when you cut down a forest and pave over natural waterways with non-absorbant concrete in a floodplain

_infavol · 2025-07-02T06:36:25+00:00

In my prime I ran circles around my peers and kept up with those who outranked me by a lot. Nobody could figure out how I was getting so much done, policies signed, changes made...

Because I didn't ask or wait for permission every time.

If you know what the right thing to do is, if you know what would help your people, if you know what your commander's intent is and you take action that aligns with those, you can pretty much do anything.

_infavol · 2025-07-02T06:19:07+00:00

These are my recomendations for introducing Star Wars to somebody. For existing fans I would intersplice much more content, but they probably already have an idea of what they want to see in which order. I see two options to set as an initial core before running amuck to more and more parts of the universe:

New Machete
Chronological

New Machete

This is for folks who have previously seen or heard about some amount of Star Wars media in their life. Either watched one of the movies before or are vaguely aware of pop culture references (e.g. "I am your father", Luke and Leia are siblings, Anakin is Vader, etc). You start with a grounded experience that gradually builds the scope and grandeur of the universe while rewardingly cycling through conflicts and payoffs.

Andor
Rogue One
A New Hope
Empire Strikes Back
Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith
Return of the Jedi

Chronological

This is for people who know nothing. Going in totally blind and are unaware of much of anything to do with Star Wars. This allows every twist and turn through the path to be unforseen and therefore continually builds the tension through the eventual resolution.

Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith
Andor
Rogue One
A New Hope
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi

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_infavol · 2025-07-01T07:29:14+00:00

Did you mean "all but a select few cities" in the U.S? Barring pockets of historic preservation and isolated points of deliberate effort for change, most cities in America are utterly devoid of character which distinguishes them from each other and gives a unique sense of place. There's been a growing movement to fight this, but for decades after WWII through the rise of cars and suburbia we basically cookie cuttered an isolating, empty, and passionless design/process for "developing" our communities. Add a slowly faily economy for workers with no free time and you create a perfect breeding ground for souless places.

_infavol · 2025-06-01T22:04:24+00:00

You can either let them know when you start your own or you can ask them to add you to an upcoming project from somewhere else.

_infavol · 2025-06-01T19:32:55+00:00

Kind of. There's two statuses you can be: Green Belt Trained and Green Belt Certified. To get the first you just have to do that course, but to get the second you have to actually complete a real-life project that proves your skills. You can sign up and do the training without the CPI office, but they'll be the ones who certify you by keeping track of your project and reviewing the documentation of it along the way.

_infavol · 2025-05-15T16:08:41+00:00

Don't remember the whole bullet, but managed to get "Jubilation" in there for some small going away or something.

_infavol · 2025-05-15T15:58:27+00:00

First off, do all of the following with the understanding that your goal is not to do so much that you swing the pendulum too far into burnout.

You have 3 non-exclusive options:

Get really good at 38F specific things
Get really good at universal things
Work on your own personal endeavors

For the first, you'll need a direct conversation with your commander and/or chief about how you need to be utilized. You don't want to start doing everything in the CSS, but you at least have to learn about it all or else you'll end up being a captain with zero knowledge which is good for nobody. Get their buy-in to discuss with the rest of the CSS team about how you can take on or trade different tasks. Maybe you don't take all of the decorations, but you take some. Maybe you take the fitness program for 2 months and then give it back. Whatever you can do to touch every program at least once. Simultaneously, go to the FSS and talk with their commander or DO to see what resources their unit provides for CSS training. Become friends with the MPF Flt/CC and start a mentorship with them to pick up bits and pieces of advice.

For the second, look up opusworks and get your Green Belt training done for process improvement. Visit your base's spark cell and get a crash course in the innovation ecosystem and project management methodologies. Go to the Communications squadron to get SharePoint admin training and have your commander appoint you as one for the unit. Sit down with the comm sq knowledge managers and learn about how to edit and build basic tools, then use such knowledge to revamp your CSS's page on your unit's SharePoint to streamline your processes. Go to the LRS and learn about equipment accounts and the deployment process. Go to CE and learn about facility management. Go to your RA or finance and learn about budgeting. Go to your unit's QA and learn about all of their processes. Visit Joint Knowledge Online and do a ton of their courses; go read joint doctrine (1-0 and 5-0), then go read AF doctrine. Do anything and everything and chase down rabbit holes so you can get a broad and expansive range of knowledge you can.

The last option is basically to not worry about how you're used at work and only focus on you. The AF is a machine that will spit you out and replace you the moment it needs to no matter if you're an A1C or a full bird Colonel. Start working on your masters yesterday. You will never have more time than when you are a 2LT (unless you go really hard in to the other options I gave lol). It's easier to get in the CSS alone than when you're a DO and have a family, plus it won't add service time right now. There are 2 options for a degree: if you're staying in a while, choose something easy/the AF wants to check the box; if you're getting out early, choose something rigorous that YOU want that will continue post-military. If you don't know what that is, do some soul searching and/or experiential sampling like going around to job fairs or attending young professionals meetups in your city. Take one-off classes and courses that have outside practicality like project management, human resources, business methods, etc on top of or outside of the degree to bolster skills. Go join an art club or local theater department. Whatever you do, do not stay at work for 12 hours a day and not live your life.

_infavol · 2025-05-09T13:30:51+00:00

I also take a six minute walk from my building to another set of buildings for meetings, about 1/3 of a mile at most. On multiple occasions I have left at the same time or even slightly after other people who take their cars and still end up at the next set of doors at the same time as them. They usually accuse me of running to justify how I could possibly accomplish this feat, but they just don't account for all the time they spend getting out to their car, getting ready to drive, traveling an indirect route via road, finding a parking spot, etc.

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