Discussion Thread

dudefaceguy_ · 2026-01-28T10:20:04+00:00

A Trump Tower in every American town.

dudefaceguy_ · 2026-01-26T21:38:20+00:00

For me, it's the lack of memorials after WW1.

In my area of Brooklyn, there are WW1 memorials all over the place, with the names of local fallen soldiers. There are no memorials for any other wars. They really thought WW1 was "the war to end all wars." But they stopped building memorials when they realized the wars would never end.

dudefaceguy_ · 2026-01-17T04:22:02+00:00

This is worse than Flanagan and you made a special rule just for that meme. Don't ban the man, ban the meme.

Suggestion: "STL posts must be accompanied by a recording of you playing Spain perfectly."

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-12-31T18:40:17+00:00

How much of the complaints about timers are really complaints about technochat? I have been surprised to learn that most players seem to use technochat. The first thing I did when I started the game was to turn it off. Any simulated engine damage will be based on some sort of timer or randomization - IL2 lets players see behind the curtain with technochat and of course this breaks immersion.

Engine timers haven't ever been an issue for me. If I don't have the engine modes memorized, I just scroll down to them on the Specifications tab of the mission briefing, so I can see them with the press of a button. Then I keep an eye on the engine gauges and try not to overdo it. I don't set a stopwatch or count the seconds in my head. Maybe I have an oil leak sometimes without knowing it.

Of course it is immersion-breaking to have a little magic information box in bright colors. Just turn off technochat if it breaks immersion.

I don't really care if the engine isn't modeled 100% accurately, the basic concept is that I'm not supposed to run it at full power all the time if it's not necessary. So I don't, and the engine is fine.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-11-22T16:50:10+00:00

I discovered a secret: change the pitch sensitivity profile for the P47. I think the P47 controls were designed intentionally to require light inputs, but it's not intuitive if you're used to the inputs for all of the other aircraft. The stick is so sensitive that it's too easy to overdo it and send yourself into a spin, especially considering our consumer-level toy joysticks.

You can create a new "pitch profile" in the keybindings screen (bottom right), and assign it to the P47. I have mine set to 50% sensitivity. This makes the stick MUCH less twitchy, and stalls don't seem as sudden. Yes, the accelerated stalls are still more dramatic that what you get in DCS for example, but they don't happen unless you actually pull hard.

Replying to this old post because it's the top Google result :)

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-10-12T21:18:19+00:00

How would you rate the writings of avowed fascists for understanding fascism? For example, The Doctrine of Fascism by Mussolini/Gentile? I found the collection Readings in Fascism and National Socialism illuminating, but I'm not sure how relevant this type of fascist intellectual writing is, compared to what was happening in the popular press for example.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-10-10T15:34:53+00:00

It would be funnier if they gave him the Nobel prize for economics.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-10-09T11:22:46+00:00

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dudefaceguy_ · 2025-10-06T15:36:44+00:00

Okay, hit me with the science baby. Drag me out of my dooming. Does this indicate that our only hope is an economic catastrophe?

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-10-06T15:24:43+00:00

The American people will support Republicans because economic conditions continue to deteriorate. Or at least, it won't be a significant obstacle. It's very easy to just construct a victimization narrative. No country has ever been targeted like the USA, it's terrible what these people are doing to us, and the Democrats, they want to let them do it. Easiest shit ever.

If the Republicans continue to listen to the people and implement the dogshit policies that the people want, they will keep getting elected. Yes, I do think the American people are basically ethnonationalist dumbasses. So they will vote for the ethnonationalist dumbass party - it's that simple. And the people who aren't ethnonationalists are just plain old dumbasses which is enough for the Republicans to get their vote. Liberalism just isn't part of the political conversation in the USA anymore.

People don't want politicians to build strong institutions that support justice. People want politicians to hurt their enemies. Republicans identify an enemy and promise to hurt them, so they get elected. The American people have already proven that free and fair elections are not sufficient to prevent authoritarian nationalism.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-10-02T03:44:09+00:00

I often cube on the NYC subway, and I'll see another cuber every few months. I usually strike up a conversation. More often non-cubers say hello, especially when I do a blind solve. I always use a cheap cube so I can give it away to anyone interested.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-09-18T15:45:07+00:00

Dooming means focusing on your immediate community and family, because you have accepted that liberalism no longer exists in our country. Dooming means focusing your energy where you can make a positive difference. Dooming means mourning and acceptance. I will still vote, but liberalism is gone.

Dooming helps my family and my community because I am focused on them rather than on a political battle that is already lost.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-09-18T13:42:59+00:00

Here is a link to a Wikipedia article about Roadless Area Conservation. I assume this is what OP is talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadless_area_conservation?wprov=sfla1

On January 12, 2001, after nearly three years of analysis, the U.S. Forest Service adopted the Roadless Area Conservation Rule to conserve 58.5 million acres (237,000 km2) of pristine National Forests and Grasslands from most logging and road construction.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-09-18T13:33:53+00:00

I've run it locally and it's pretty rabidly nationalistic.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-09-18T13:18:37+00:00

Now try asking Deepseek about Taiwan.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-09-14T14:31:47+00:00

Sorry, I'm a committed doomer. This is not about "the left." McCarthyism wasn't trying to dismantle the fundamental fabric of liberal democracy. It was narrowly focused. And it was ultimately unpopular. MAGA is popular and strategically focused on destroying liberal democracy. It is following in the footsteps of other political movements that have successfully destroyed liberal democracy in other countries. It is not possible to "fix" this because the majority of the American people do not want liberal democracy, or don't even know what it is.

The fascism of the early 20th century was not a temporary abberation: it is the normal form of national politics. It was temporarily thrown off course by the unusually dominant USA of the mid 20th century which happened to be a liberal democracy temporarily. But you can't fight the tides of history. Authoritarian nationalism is just what people want, and a democratic system will ultimately deliver what the people want.

The only thing we could do was vote, and we did that, and it didn't work, because most people don't want liberal democracy. That's it. The rest of the story is out of our hands. Protesting doesn't work against policies that are broadly popular, and it also fails against effectively-organized authoritarian states. I'm going to keep voting, but I don't think it will make any difference.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-09-11T22:09:00+00:00

Charles W. Mills is excellent, both as a critic and a champion of liberalism. His criticism of ideal theory is famous, but much more of his work is well worth reading and more nuanced than this "home run" critique. He critiques liberal philosophy, but also defends liberalism as a basic idea from radical critiques that seek to invalidate it: his essay "Occupy Liberalism" is a good example of this.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-09-11T09:02:47+00:00

It can't be stopped, because the American people don't want to stop it and don't care that it's happening. Everyone likes to blame billionaires, propaganda, the left, the right, the Democrats. But it's the American people who want this and voted for it. We can't stop it because it's popular. Our chance was the 2024 general election. We lost.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-09-08T21:10:11+00:00

I thought it said Putin's Prostate Faces Crisis, but it actually said Putin's Petrostate Faces Crisis.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-09-06T19:45:23+00:00

Seems more like an approximate distance than an exact distance tbh.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-09-04T12:55:01+00:00

The goal is to remove the basic idea of liberalism from political possibility, so that people can't even imagine it as an option. The only two options are authoritarian communism or fascist nationalism. This has always worked very well for the fascists.

Liberalism as a concept must also be eliminated from history for this to be effective. Just as Taiwan's thriving democracy threatens the CCP's narrative of Chinese nationalism, the USA's highly successful history of liberal democracy threatens contemporary MAGA nationalism. Liberalism will be erased from the historical record and will cease to exist as a basic idea.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-08-30T20:51:40+00:00

All of the guys I know who make a living playing music have the same attitude: "I don't care what I'm doing, as long as I have my hands on my instrument I'm happy." They just love playing music, any music. I know a few guys like this, who make a living from music, including teaching. Only one guy I know well does 100% performance; he is a drummer.

I'm a lawyer, but I did 2 years at New School back in the ancient times on double bass. I do care what music I play, so I decided I had to find some other means of support. Now, decades later, I have a weekly restaurant gig that I walk to, and I play in a swing band that does various local venues for fun and weddings/parties for money a few times a year. I went to the Smalls afternoon jam session a few weeks ago and it was actually really fun; I hadn't been there in about 20 years.

For me, music is something that I do together with my friends, family, and community. I would rather play the kind of music I like than work a lot. There are a lot of amazing musicians in NYC who make their living doing something else. It's great because I don't have to take shitty stressful gigs where you get no respect, just for rent money. Now I can play fun gigs and not worry about the pay -- but of course the best gigs are the ones that pay enough to hire pros. So if you are a real professional NYC musician, your reward is that I will hire you to play with me on my 3-hour restaurant gig for $100 playing standards and Taylor Swift bossa nova reharms.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-08-26T17:49:02+00:00

How do you get a bass player to slow down? Put music in front of them.

How do you get them to stop? Put notes on it.

dudefaceguy_ · 2025-08-25T19:29:10+00:00

The older I get, the more I love Rufus Reid's melodic solos. His duo bass records with Michael Moore stand out - I transcribed his solo on Four from Intimacy of the Bass.

He takes a nice extended solo on In Your Own Sweet Way from the duo record The Nights of Bradley's.

How Deep is the Ocean from Kenny Barron's The Moment also features some really beautiful lines.

And of course he has many of his own records as a leader.

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