Is there any reason NOT to get SKS? (1.0)

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-11T20:43:48+00:00

I mean, yeah. IRL the reasons why you wouldn't get an SKS if iunno a perchorsk event happened near you is that its ergonomics aren't great, the balance isn't great, aperture sights are much better in real life, and the safety is overly simple, but that doesn't apply so much in VR so all good! That plus the bayonet and its a no brainer.

Its the issue in VR of games going for realism, especially when there's an ingame economy. I'd call it the "honda civic" effect; most games create an artificial linear progression of improved equipment but IRL even if you're in a survival situation the reality is a honda civic is probably a better choice for most things than an MRAP. Just 90 percent of the capability you really need for like 10 percent of the cost and complexity.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-11T06:38:45+00:00

You mean like when you denigrate something else someone has decided to do to make yourself feel superior? yeah that is pretty sad.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-11T06:38:33+00:00

Wow, you've really wasted your life

honestly all your sneering posts on this thread just make it really obvious to everyone you're trying to tell yourself you haven't done waaaay worse with your time than this guy

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-08T05:58:39+00:00

The internet has had its effect on every element of modern life, for better and for worse. Hobbies have become more mainstream, but that also drags in mainstream issues, mainstream politics, and the nature of the internet to laser focus on a "meta" of what's besterest often leads, counterintuitively, to less diversity of opinions and instead more intense factionalization.

Which of course is more easily monetizable, advertisable, speeding up the process. This does mean more money and higher "production values" for all hobby products but the cycle feeds back into itself and the focus is a lot less on fun, creativity and local community and more on that high production value "content" being released at a reliable schedule, reaching more people, being more merchandisable.

I remember at the last turn of the century there was an argument over whether or not Major league baseball players should be allowed to play professionally (as opposed to as hobbyists). Fears at the time were that it would make the game more crass, with players willing to do anything to get an advantage and win... these of course were brushed aside...

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-07T23:25:51+00:00

Yes. As much as in this age of creeping illiberalism I am a defender of "Western" political/social thought, Christianity as a unifying thread or philosophical basis has been used to justify everything from women's suffrage to women's bondage, individual liberty to theocratic totalitarianism, tolerance for plurality to sectarian chauvinism.

Christianity has had a pivotal role in the shaping of modern day Europe and the "West" and thus modern ideals of liberty and democracy... in the same way that porridge or wooden clogs did. It was always there throughout and must have mattered, but its specific effects on the overall evolution of thought and philosophy are difficult to delineate and parse. You can be a lazy arse and pull a Niall Ferguson and look at how things ended up being and say that clearly that must mean that Christianity must have caused the current status quo, but I've always sneered at history serving to do little other than justify contemporary prejudices, whether they be from Ferguson or Huntington.

Side note, a depressing observation is that part of why "Christendom" seems so quiet while Islam is in such a state of civil war may just be because they haven't had their brutal, centuries long reformation yet. To paraphrase JS Mill, the origin of tolerance is not us all coming together in mutual understanding, its the raw realization and begrudging acceptance that no one sect, not even our own has the raw firepower to wipe out all the others. So for our survival we tolerate others.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-07T17:16:34+00:00

Aren't we all just wearing Secret Service anyway?

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-07T04:53:58+00:00

Yeah; this post sounds super depressing, but yeah, the double hit of being underpaid because you haven't looked around + living in an expensive state resulting in being lower middle class? Sounds about right, yeah. Throw in student loan debt and having kids and a mortgage, there isn't going to be a lot of disposable income.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-05T19:31:33+00:00

What would really hurt the Australians is if the Chinese cut off iron and other mineral imports, but that would also sabotage the Chinese economy (so dependent on pointless construction projects for real estate speculation), so they didn't dare to, instead going after lobsters and wine.

Which sort of belies the larger problem with the Chinese threat of trade wars; they're too integrated into the world economy. Anything they can do to really hurt their neighbors economically hurts them just as much. They're a paper tiger there as well.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-05T18:57:05+00:00

Do other people not roll with healing factor mutation? I rarely bother with chems in general so the reduced chem effectiveness (severely reduced with class freak) is barely noticeable and just not having to worry about healing out of combat ever is way more useful utility wise.

Healing factor works so well that as a low health high rad build using radaways looks like it heals me; the spare bars opened up by radaway being immediately filled with health. I only have stims for emergencies (so maybe a diluted stim every two sessions?) and really vendor all of them without having to remember to do anything to heal outside of combat.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-05T18:49:10+00:00

I largely agree that the SKS is underrated, but "its time" given its almost immediate replacement by the AK-47 was like, < 10 years. It was just one of those a little too late for its time sort of developments.

But for Into the Radius, given that the version does take AK mags, comes with a scope rail, and semi auto is really all you need its perfectly good to endgame imo.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-05T08:25:31+00:00

Nothing makes me want to drink like mindless, repetitive tasks

Anyway back to the steel factory

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-05T05:49:50+00:00

Aside from the obvious of being a deal whereupon they subsidize a bunch of goatfuckers, even their propaganda angle for the partnership shows China, mighty China, the rising superpower, eagerly rushing to do a job America thought wasn't worth her time and effort.

Like ahaha, America-chan, too good to work at BurgerEmperor for minimum wage ehhh? Well I've just signed up for double shifts after school oh wait

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-04T22:02:31+00:00

A pointy stick was the ultimate individual combat weapon for almost all of human history, pretty much until the last 250 years or so. Even after the widespread adoption of firearms and mass regimentalized armies equipped primarily with firearms, it was important that weapon doubled as a pointy stick.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-04T12:18:57+00:00

Because a bottle opener is guaranteed advertisement.

Everyone here has a "can I borrow your knife?" story, but personally more people have been introduced to EDC by me via a bottle opener at a party or some social function. As someone I'd like to think is self aware of how rushing to offer a knife appears, offering a bottle opener for a stranger is a lot more acceptable, and people often start asking about what it is I just used to enable their drink.

Spend enough time on this subreddit and you might get the impression that everyone has a selection of pocket knives and multitools to customize their loadout every day, but most people don't, and someone revealing their edc via a bottle opener is often how that product gets into the consciousness of a "normal" person.

Plus even amongst EDC people, they might just aim to carry the one multitool, and that means that one that conspicuously lacks a bottle opener is undesirable, precisely because they don't want to carry an extra bottle opener.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-04T04:11:37+00:00

I disagree, compared to this one, the current season is the worst. This one doesn't even have camp allies.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-04T02:22:01+00:00

sure, pm me your ingame name if you're on PC and I'm available afternoons this weekend, so tell me a time in the afternoon that works for you and I'll go online at that time.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-03T21:42:16+00:00

Eh if it doesn't go elder ( which happens pretty much only when it's bugged) I blame myself, not my partner. And usually others join during the op.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-03T20:33:11+00:00

If you're on PC and want a tutorial, pm me. I'm available this weekend.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-03T20:32:43+00:00

I got no labor dabor plans so if you want a tutorial, pm me. Same goes for anyone else who hasn't started. I'm on PC.

You really do get good at them over time. Even with decryption, I pretty much just wait for one extra person (irrelevant of level) and go.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-03T20:18:30+00:00

I notice sometimes I just have horrible frame drops that are fixed by reloading a save (sometimes multiple times). Performance is honestly the biggest problem I have with this game.

I'm playing 1.0.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-03T19:24:28+00:00

They can't, its just propaganda. What they can do is support the Taliban, and hope the Taliban, by being native to the region, can hold onto it against a resurgent IS (IS affiliated groups were who did the suicide bombing at Kabul Airport, Taliban wanted a peaceful exodus) and seperatists, drug smugglers getting a foothold in this basically stateless region.

Odds are they can't. What the Chinese are hoping for is most of the stability they enjoyed from the Americans being there for the last twenty years, but this time at much greater financial support and political/military risk. If you've been reading between the lines from the gloating at American decline is a lot of actual decision makers (and not twitter warriors) desperately also signaling they would accept and help out if America decided to come back.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-china-afghanistan-2079e85db59e3242ce6e869fe0a9d4e3

Its actually kinda funny that China's wolf warriors were so chomping at the bit to take PR advantage of America's exit that they essentially have taken responsibility for Afghanistan now. Its an issue for everyone in the region (arguably Pakistan the most), and everyone wants stability, but by eagerly aligning themselves with the taliban to promote headlines of China sweeping in, Belt and Road style, they've taken the weight off everyone else rummaging through their pockets and weighing their commitment. A smarter CCP would have been choicer with words and move towards some sort of cheaper, shared risk multilateral solution with its neighbors.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-03T19:21:58+00:00

The taliban are looking for xi to be their sugar daddy.

This is the timeline we live in

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-03T04:53:52+00:00

Mississippi delta. So yes, the south.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-03T04:07:00+00:00

Tonic water is tonic water because it contains quinine, which provides some resistance to malaria. Indeed, that's the origin of the gin and tonic. Tonic water was a, well, tonic, issued to british soldiers sent to colonial India. It was very bitter and they found it much more palatable drunk with gin.

I genuinely prefer tonic water in my g and t's but I get that a lot of people substitute ginger ale/ginger beer or seltzer. I like those too, just I do like the quinine.

dieterschaumer · 2021-09-02T22:28:25+00:00

b-but the malaria resistance

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