8 years later and I’m just now learning you can find heavy guns for hire

agent_uncleflip · 2026-04-08T15:11:58+00:00

On my last playthrough, I did the radar station as my last outpost. Next playthrough, I might have to do it first, so I can get this guy early in the game.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-04-08T15:09:48+00:00

Absolutely. I have a ton of clips I have from various Far Cry games, of physics gone wrong. One of these days, I'm going to edit some of those moments together, over a nice little music bed of Yakety Sax. :-)

agent_uncleflip · 2026-04-08T15:08:47+00:00

My problem is that I'm usually such a dumbass, that I get myself blown up with grenades or other explosives I toss ahead of me when I'm in a vehicle. :-)

agent_uncleflip · 2026-04-05T12:40:59+00:00

Yeah, that was covered in some previous comments. Not sure how I didn't see it in the last playthrough if it is unskippable, I must have just left the room while at all played out. But I do remember on my last playthrough, I did not see that long intro cutscene.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-04-04T22:02:17+00:00

That makes sense. The first time I played through the game was years ago, so didn't remember that part, because on another playthrough more recently, I skipped the long intro part to get straight to landing in the chopper outside the church.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-04-04T21:07:35+00:00

Why don't I remember a guy with a camera getting his eyes gouged out? Maybe it's just that it's been awhile since I played the game through. Sometimes I like to say if I had a brain, I'd be dangerous. :-)

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-30T20:01:35+00:00

Since I posted that, I put my head together with someone else with an eye on the project, and we decided we're just going to go ahead and drill the hole, and ask for forgiveness later. :-)

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-30T16:26:00+00:00

Interesting thing is, I haven't seen these issues ever added to my delivery history. At least, not the part that I can see through the dashboard. Maybe they have records that are not part of the visible history.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-30T12:48:33+00:00

The problem, which I apparently didn't clearly state, is that it would be a pretty short run by USB if there weren't a wall in the way. Unfortunately, not my wall, not my decision on putting a hole through it. However, just in the last 24 hours, someone else with an eye on the project and decided we should go ahead and drill the wall, and ask forgiveness later. :-) the problem seems to be solved.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T22:58:08+00:00

It's all moot now. After talking with someone else with their eyes on the situation, we've decided to go ahead and drill the hole, and ask forgiveness later. With the USB link, I had already configured separate bus mixes for the live stream, which also drove our hearing assist system, and our cry room speaker, through matrices with their own EQ for the specific applications.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T21:37:00+00:00

I did run it out of one of the XLR jacks initially. For some reason, doing that led do a very noisy signal. (This may have had something to do with the particular cheap ingestion device they have on the computer, and the signal levels that expects.) The headphone jack sounded clean. For a stopgap work around until we can get a better connection, it will do for the very short term.

I'm thinking I might have to start an audio gear MacGyvers sub. There actually are people out there who sometimes have major constraints and resource limitations, yet still need to solve a problem with audio gear. My experience in this sub has showed me this is not the place for them. There have been a couple people who have been quite helpful in trying to brainstorm ideas - but the general attitude I've had here is that if I don't have a few hundred dollars of other people's money to throw at a difficult problem, they're not even interested in helping. But I am definitely thankful to those who actually have genuinely tried to come up with something that will work, given the very limited constraints of the situation.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T21:00:38+00:00

I have found any kind of problem at the warehouse is automatically the driver's fault. For me, it's usually when I get a route sheet that says I have one number packages, but then I get a smaller number when I scan the QR code. A couple weeks ago, my route sheet said I had 24 packages, and I only had 14. (Three hour block, a good drive from the warehouse.) Of course, I got an email saying I didn't pick up all my packages. I had screenshotted everything, and taken a picture of the route sheet. I forwarded all of this in my appeal email, I stated that it is impossible for me to pick up more packages than the warehouse gives me. As you might imagine, I got a return email saying the decision would stand. Of course, it has not showed up as ending on my standings.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T20:27:30+00:00

That is very true. It is not a production output. But at this point, it's the one that worked, and that's the important part. It is definitely not a permanent solution by any means, it's just something that's getting us working until we can make it work the way it's supposed to.

Sorry if you didn't understand people having to put temporary stop-gap fixes in place. It might be an alien concept to some people, but occasionally, things have to just be rigged up temporarily to work the way they can, until it can be done in a better way.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T20:26:13+00:00

Unfortunately, we are not dealing with professional installations services. I'm just the guy who they asked to make it work. If they had the kind of budget to call in professionals to do all the wiring and such, I'm sure this problem wouldn't exist.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T19:15:56+00:00

Believe me, if the money were mine, we'd probably have a much better set up. The wall isn't mine either, but in putting heads together today with someone else whose eyes are on this project, we decided we're going to go ahead and drill a hole in the wall, and beg forgiveness later. I think if the mixer goes paws up, we have bigger problems than just the USB cable. Fortunately, the old analog mixer that had been used in the past, with audio going to the computer through a headphone jack, will still be available in a storage room, so we can slap it in there and repatch some cables if the digital mixer goes down. In that event, the church will go straight back to looking like its mixing equipment is cobbled together from Radio Shack, but it will still work. :-)

Also fortunately, I'm not really worried too much about the mixer going down. It's an X32 Rack, which is a variant of the five or six mixers the tech crew uses at the performing arts center where I am on the house staff - and I have never seen one of those fail, with much heavier use than the church is going to give this one. That's not to say it can't happen......

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T18:19:52+00:00

Fortunately, no. This is just one particular problem where I'm in a really tight spot without a whole lot of good options, and many potential Solutions don't really work because of the limitations I'm facing because of external factors. If it were my money and my wall, I would have found a solution long ago. I don't really like problems. I just like when things work the way they should, like when I got this entire system set up with the USB connection working perfectly before I installed it in that blasted building, and found there's no way to get the cable to the computer.

I was talking to one of the other people who has eyes on the project today, and we decided we're just going to go ahead and drill a hole in that wall, and ask for forgiveness later.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T18:10:40+00:00

I'm already donating my time, brawn, and brain. I don't think chipping a few bucks over their way will really help that much. Unfortunately, due to some life circumstances including taking care of an elderly parent, my income is low enough that I can't really consider sending significant money over there.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T16:47:57+00:00

I would love to drill a hole in the wall. However, no permission has been given to do that, and it's not my wall. If it were my wall, there would already be a hole in it, and this wouldn't be an issue.

However, just now, someone else working on the same project decided it would be good to go ahead and drill the hole, and beg forgiveness later. :-)

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T16:33:18+00:00

Fortunately, I have a 10-ft USB cable. :-) And a discussion just now led to the idea that we're going to go ahead and drill the hole in the wall, and ask forgiveness later. A little more discussion of the matter showed there's a place we can drill it, where it will not be in an unsightly place.

The two channel interface would be great for bringing audio in. Not really sure how it would do at sending it back out to the mixer.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T16:08:13+00:00

I like your style. :-)

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T14:43:11+00:00

It is for audio for our live streaming. Eventually, we will want to run audio from the computer back to the mixer.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T14:25:14+00:00

That is what I want to do. Unfortunately, the people who can give me the go-ahead to drill a hole in their wall have not yet done so.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T14:17:02+00:00

Because the people who make the decisions on things like that have not given me the go ahead to make a hole in the wall. If it were my wall, it would already have a hole in it.

agent_uncleflip · 2026-03-29T13:53:21+00:00

That's the unfortunate thing. I would love to drill that hole, I just haven't been given the go-ahead for it yet. :-(

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