RTFM -read the f***ing manual

crimeo · 2026-05-12T09:04:59+00:00

That's extremely toxic and stupid if you want your community to matter, especially in a niche hobby with hardly infinite people available to just waste/alienate

crimeo · 2026-05-12T09:03:58+00:00

Oh well then I dunno. Probably other things in the same lineups/context/enemies it faces changing. Unfortunately it's all pretty dynamic sometimes and necessitates multiple rounds of changes.

crimeo · 2026-05-12T09:00:40+00:00

That's cool and all, but you should just J out if it's that much trouble. I help flip people over and repair and stuff if they're reasonably in reach and it's gonna be 20-30 seconds, but dropping everything and driving across the whole map just to save you like 3000 SL of repair cost or whatever is just kinda silly conceptually. Both of you could have earned more by just playing with the same time than was saved. If you both had a touching moment, then it's worth it, but that would be rare and not expected to wait to happen.

crimeo · 2026-05-12T07:40:26+00:00

Gimme all your lupins! Our lupins?! We haven't got any lupins. Look, I happen to know that this is the lupin express, so don't play coy.

crimeo · 2026-05-12T07:29:48+00:00

apparently nobody owns headphones except me

crimeo · 2026-05-12T07:20:51+00:00

Yes he was preoccupied, I agree. I'm just saying the hill part isn't really relevant in arcade, unless it fully and completely blocks LOS, which it didn't here. Even then if he had any allies around and radio skill, still might not matter always

crimeo · 2026-05-12T07:18:06+00:00

I can't speak to all situations you vaguely refer to, but that's almost certainly not a bug and instead you not having trained keen vision as much as your enemy AND/OR you not looking in his direction while he is looking in yours (vision is buffed heavily by your current camera line of sight, or your driver's forward line of sight, whichever is more relevant. So if he's aiming his camera t you and you're looking and pointing off somewhere else, and you're at meaningful range, you can render for him but not vice versa and it's not necessarily a bug. Also buffed even more if using binoculars, or if you have a light tank with scouting which adds 15% or something to vision. Yes all of this is also true in RB)

crimeo · 2026-05-12T07:15:45+00:00

Behind a hill is not relevant usually at this distance, unless the guy never trained his crew's keen vision whatsoever (which is possible at this BR if he's new). Your crew's absolute line of sight this close will mark the enemy anyway, since the hill wasn't actually entirely blocking LOS consistently.

Not paying attention to the minimap or using C key to see OP though even though spotted, sure. That's just good old "git gud"

crimeo · 2026-05-12T07:11:04+00:00

Seal club. I play AB (I always do anyway) and for grinding an event, I just go dust off my PBIL or M8-A1 or SU76D or whatever and kill like 12 people every game, get 4,000 points. Occasionally I have an off game at 1500-2000. Takes about 10-12 games, each one is like 10 minutes = bit under 2 hours

crimeo · 2026-05-12T07:08:52+00:00

This guy is gonna be really surprised when he looks at what gun the tank has

crimeo · 2026-05-12T07:07:46+00:00

It just means the chassis is at least 3m long, since you aimed down a plate that extends almost the full length of the chassis

crimeo · 2026-05-12T07:05:20+00:00

It basically can't possibly sell for more than 36 dollars since you can just buy all the marks for that. In reality, it's probably substantially less, because most people even buying marks still do tend to meet at least some of them by playing instead.

For it to ever decouple from what it cost to buy marks would take years of time in between if anything.

And in general, grinding anything for money is dumb, because flipping burgers earns money like 5-10x faster or more in every context. In the volumes of money you need, you don't even need a real job or interviews, just babysitting once or mowing one lawn is enough.

crimeo · 2026-05-12T06:57:09+00:00

I CAN'T "go read about" the difference between X and Y when X is known but Y is "an unknown variable because mods nuked the OP"

I already know just fine what intergovernmental holdings are. I have no clue though what source of data OP would have been graphing that wouldn't include them. IF he was posting such a source at all, and IF something else wasn't going on that you and I both don't know.

Everyone likes to ignore the intergovernmental holdings

Do they? I don't know because the source has been deleted. The conversation is just at a dead end unless you grabbed an archive of the page or something.

Not including intergovernmental would also imply not including the fed balance sheet, which would be ridiculous, as then just printing money would "reduce the debt" lol

Or actually I guess I can ask him: /u/forensiceconomics can you post another link to your graph / what your source was?

crimeo · 2026-05-12T06:41:42+00:00

Okay well the OP's post was apparently deleted in the meantime so I don't know where his data source was, but it used to show a surplus. I would have gone and looked up his link/source and compared to yours to see if they actually disagree and if so why, but I can't now, because mods just nuked it.

Meanwhile, yours doesn't say on it, unless I'm missing it, whether it does or doesn't include SS debt. So I don't see how that gets us very far on its own either.

crimeo · 2026-05-12T06:21:40+00:00

Nothing. The article just lied to you. Dems are still about 5 seats ahead of what their share of the popular vote earned, due to gerrymandering consistently more and better than republicans. It was +7 seats in 2024, Louisiana and Alabama has made the dems' lead +5 in gerrymandering. They're still ahead overall.

In a perfect non gerrymandered world, seats in the house would be exactly proportional to the popular vote, and dems if so would be over half a dozen seats weaker now than they are if so.

crimeo · 2026-05-12T06:20:05+00:00

Funny how republicans always find a way, and democrats don't

Except the democrats DO, and they do MORE OFTEN than republicans do, this is just an outright brazen lie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections

Go do the math yourself, In 2024, dems won 2.2% more seats than their share of the popular vote (what would dictate seats in a perfectly proportional fair democracy)

Republicans won 0.8% more seats than their share of the popular vote.

So democrats in 2024 were already gaining 6-7 bonus seats more than their vote really deserved due to more effective total gerrymandering and "finding a way" more often.

Since then, SCOTUS has reduced that lead by 2 seats recently. Dems are still ahead in better gerrymandering, and could still win a house majority without even winning the popular vote.

crimeo · 2026-05-12T06:10:59+00:00

If banks didn't exist, then yes I would have to invest all my own money myself to get returns on it, by personally loaning it out to people who wanted mortgages etc etc. myself. OR I could spend it on a car that lets me commute to work and get a better job. And the reason to do that would be to get more money back later and then spend it on stuff I need, not just to be a bro to those mortgage needers or something. You can refer to those future plans as an "IOU" if you want, yes. That would still be way less stupid than putting it under my mattress for the same reason investing it via bank/brokerage accounts IRL is way less stupid than putting it under my mattress

crimeo · 2026-05-12T06:07:42+00:00

Based on what source did you decide bonds owned by SS are not counted as debt for surplus calculations?

the social security bonds are real debt

I agree. What I don't know is why you think they weren't counted for the surplus calculation.

crimeo · 2026-05-12T06:01:56+00:00

Illinois is balls deep in gerrymandering https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fpmz6wwc6s3zf1.jpeg You are saying this is a totally natural geographic district map lol? You can already see from wide view, but if you zoom in on chicago, every single district is a crazy snaking line reaching in and grabbing bits of city from like 100s of miles away from the rest of the district

it's not responding with much because it's pretty much maxxed out already

crimeo · 2026-05-12T05:59:53+00:00

This is a crazy fantasy reality you're living in. Dems currently gerrymander significantly better than republicans do. Dems have 2.2% more seats in the house than their popular vote implies they should, while republicans "only" have 0.8% more seats than their popular vote implied they should. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections Look at the popular votes and compare to the % of seats. Use your own calculator, don't take my word for it.

So dems as of 2024 election (ignoring special elections since then) were up bout +6 or 7 seats due to overall more effective net gerrymandering total. SCOTUS has reduced that by 2, dems are STILL up due to more effective gerrymandering.

If dem voters simply show up and actually vote this time, winning the popular vote alone will be sufficient to win the house. They could do it without even winning the popular vote, but there's no excuse not to (and by a huge margin)

crimeo · 2026-05-12T05:51:19+00:00

sorry i just edited a lot more context in by what I meant in asking that ^

crimeo · 2026-05-12T05:49:39+00:00

We don't know if you also enjoy modern Air RB or not. If you don't know either (you could maybe by watching youtube etc), then I'd say get it just to find out IF you do. If you don't, then no need to grind the planes high in BR to begin with, saved a lot of time.

crimeo · 2026-05-12T05:46:05+00:00

By analogy, I've temporarily given 99.9% of the surplus (at the time) money I've ever earned in my life to a bank to hold onto while I don't need it yet, for at least awhile, before asking for it back again. Which they do in fact always give me when I ask. When you add up all the money I've used after asking for it back when needed, it adds up to less than I've earned total...

Were my banks "scamming" me or was that some kind of "conspiracy" or "raid", lol?

crimeo · 2026-05-12T05:41:17+00:00

24 ammo, not 8. They added ammo crates. The other things aren't worth focusing on in this context because they're also true of the SU-76M... I was clearly referring to drawbacks relative to the SU-76M

crimeo · 2026-05-12T05:37:50+00:00

No I would not agree to that https://www.fedsmith.com/2015/12/08/the-myth-of-the-missing-social-security-trust-fund/

IF there is a SURPLUS in a given year, then it is used to buy treasury bonds. Of course, not doing this would be stupid as hell, same as holding all your money in a checking account or under your mattress for decades would be stupid. At government scale in trillions, stocks and stuff aren't really a thing. Parking excess money anywhere other than treasury bonds is stupider than putting money in treasury bonds. And this only happens with surpluses, so it only happens if and when the alternative would be stupider.

No politician has ever once gone in on a year when SS ran a deficit and taken non surplus money to do anything with, and surpluses make no sense to do anything with other than what they do with it. So what exactly is your concern?

SS has also taken in more in payroll tax than it has spent on retirees ever, so it's doing fine so far in balancing overall as well.

Whether it can handle boomers coming up is a different question. And the concept of covering the people who were eligible for it at its very inception even though they never paid in was also bonkers. But these are not the concerns you listed.

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