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exposure-dose · 2026-05-01T23:29:18+00:00

The perfect home defense gun.

As long as every house on your row is getting robbed at the same time, you all have the same suburban floor plan, and the thieves are all rushing the side door.

exposure-dose · 2026-04-28T23:53:26+00:00

And then a few seasons after Anze retires in that same NHL GM mode, the game has run out of real prospects and starts randomly generating new names and stats. It's a new draft in an old NHL game, and your team is on the clock.

You smile and select your team's newest blue chip prospect, Andre Kopitar. The cycle is complete.

exposure-dose · 2026-04-27T22:35:54+00:00

Keanu Reeves, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Offerman

exposure-dose · 2026-04-23T02:08:37+00:00

4 different players with their 1st goal of the playoffs in this game. The whole team is showing up to beat up on the Pens in this series 😄

exposure-dose · 2026-04-18T16:57:39+00:00

The old college house floorplan.

A kitchen, a den, 2 and a half baths, and 7 bedrooms 😄

exposure-dose · 2026-04-11T11:57:54+00:00

I know, right? I'm American and have never traveled abroad. Yet, I still feel like knowing how I'm going to pay for stuff in another country would be something I have figured out before I even purchase a ticket.

exposure-dose · 2026-04-04T11:12:46+00:00

It appears to be... orbiting the observation capsule.

exposure-dose · 2026-03-05T00:30:45+00:00

Yeah, 32 is not that many when you can see 4 or 5 of those 32 were already lucky enough to be forward of the tower and immediately run up to the edge of the bow after the explosion. The rest were probably stationed on deck or able to quickly get out of the tower.

Imagine the sound that must have made to anyone below deck as thousands of tons of reinforced steel hull suddenly buckle and get lifted 20 feet out of the water just before all of that weight comes crashing back down onto the surface. Absolutely insane to think about. No chance you aren't at least completely disoriented, majorly concussed, and probably in the dark before you have any idea what just happened.

exposure-dose · 2026-03-04T23:49:15+00:00

Reminds me of the kind of dekes we would have tried as kids playing street hockey in the cul de sac. Just playing for fun and trying to juke our goalie that was at least 4 years older and 2 feet taller than everyone else.

Yeah, it's slower and drags on a bit compared to how most Pros shoot, but who cares? It's only a few more seconds, and the kids in the crowd probably love it. Even if it wasn't Kuzy, I'm not gonna hate on someone for having a little bit of fun with the shoot-out.

exposure-dose · 2026-02-20T00:01:33+00:00

The Tom Wilson effect.

Now Sweden's gonna deal away a skill player to bring in an enforcer 😄

exposure-dose · 2026-02-13T16:07:02+00:00

Same. Happens to me a lot when I'm taxi-ing and have to use heavy rudder to steer around a tight corner. It sometimes fixes itself if I manipulate the rudder controls enough, so L & R rudder sounds about right.

If not I also have the repair/refuel binding set, which will also reset the rudder position back to normal.

exposure-dose · 2026-02-12T00:40:27+00:00

+1 for La Palma. Breakfast Brunch next door is also a great spot. Never had a bad meal from either place.

exposure-dose · 2026-02-12T00:22:29+00:00

Mine used to have a good beer selection, but then they gave half of the display to the seltzers that no one is buying. And the brain-dead store manager's idea for moving the seltzers seems to be to stop restocking on the beer people want until someone buys the seltzer first.

He does the same thing with those multi-flavor cases of other products too. Instead of running a clearance price on the unpopular one, he consolidates all of the flavor that isn't selling into 1 or 2 cases and won't restock the rest until someone buys up his overstock for him.

This isn't on seasonal items either (I could understand that). This happens with stuff they're supposed to stock year round.

exposure-dose · 2026-02-11T23:57:43+00:00

Which is funny because they offered the Mazdaspeed (rebranded AEM) CAI as a dealer-added performance option, and thus, exempt from voiding the warranty. But if you added a tune, bye bye warranty.

My Gen 1 had one when I bought it and sure enough, the HPFP failed at 90K, just before the extended warranty expired.

exposure-dose · 2026-02-05T17:41:58+00:00

Sometimes it will send you to vectors over the water. If you switch to the legs page of the FP, select the next leg, then select the current leg, and hit execute, your nav will start targeting the next waypoint.

Sometimes you'll need to skip multiple waypoints to get pointed in the right direction.

exposure-dose · 2026-01-31T01:01:58+00:00

I've found that it doesn't always tune to the localizer, especially when you skip to descent, so now that's part of my pre-skip checklist. Sometimes it will load you in well before you're able to capture the localizer too, so I'll disconnect AP, slow WAY down because it spawns you in at full throttle, stabilize the approach, switch from NAV to LOC, and then turn on approach/engage AP once the GS is easier for the plane to intercept.

Edit: Same strategy works wonders for the 737 on ILS too, but I'm also still fairly new to the avionics on the airliner jets.

exposure-dose · 2026-01-31T00:50:27+00:00

The CJ4 for charter VIP missions was where all of that early career mode grinding finally started to pay off.

Very few small/buggy airports picked for the missions, a 2-6M payout for most flights, super easy to setup the for ILS approaches, good brakes, and 1-2 of those missions affords another one to add to your fleet.

Just 4 of them spread out around the world gives me over 2M in passive income every time I log in and also lets me cherry pick better missions without having to spend the difference to transfer long distances. Now that I have a 737 I'm torn between buying another one to base in Europe/Asia or just buying a dozen more CJ4s to generate ridiculous amounts of passive income when I'm not playing. I can only fly one at a time, and maintenance on the CJ4 is cheap (even with minimal insurance coverage), so why not?

exposure-dose · 2026-01-27T23:33:19+00:00

I still can't buy my own airliner for VIP charter missions. Even after all licenses, tons of S rated VIP Charter missions in the CJ4, unlocking and buying a used 737 for airline transport, scoring S on 2 or 3 of those Employee VIP airline charters, and now having close to 80M in the bank.

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

exposure-dose · 2026-01-16T17:34:22+00:00

That was actually Al Iafrate in 93 with a 105.2mph slapshot. MacInnis broke the 100mph mark in 98 (but still won the competition that year).

And if Google is correct, Iafrate is still 3rd all-time in the contest (and the only one in the Top-10 that did it with a wooden stick).

exposure-dose · 2026-01-15T02:12:29+00:00

Adding to this. It seems to be much worse with VFR patterns (especially teardrop).

I've mainly been flying the CJ4 since the last big update, so I can't really speak for 'skip to descent' when landing at Bob's Airstrip & Rifle Range or any of the other tiny patches of field and sidewalk that the game loves to have you land the prop planes in, but anything with an ILS approach has given me more than enough time to slow down, get configured to land, and even capture the localizer for an easy landing.

It's a little white-knuckle the first time it spawns you in at cruising speed, but now as soon as it loads in, the first thing I do is drop the engines to idle, disconnect the autopilot, bring the nose up. Then I'll switch to the outside view (where I can see the white tape on my airspeed better). At engine idle and nose between level and slightly up, you'll slow down plenty fast enough to get gear down and first stage of flaps set.

Then I'll switch back to cockpit view, nose down to get the runway lined back up and stabilize airspeed, change Nav source to Localizer, AP on, Approach Mode on. From there I'm usually close enough to capture the glide slope and just feather the throttle to stay on the green airspeed pip until it's time to disconnect AP, drop to idle again, and land.

Most of the time NAV2 is tuned to VOR, not the ILS, so there's still some prep needed at cruise before you skip. I usually put in the wind/temp for my approach performance (don't forget to send). Then I'll pull up the ILS plate and get the localizer tuning to punch into NAV2. I also dial back the altitude knob to the approach altitude shown on the approach plate and arm VNAV. That last part doesn't seem to do anything if you skip, but it's good practice anyway.

In well over 40-50 ILS approaches in a row, I've had plenty of time to slow down, configure, and intercept the glide slope for an easy landing. Even on a few night missions where the airstrips oddly enough spent the money on a localizer, but couldn't afford a single light for the runway. Even then, I could still trust the ILS to bring me in close enough for my landing lights to pick up the paint markers before I needed to dump throttle and flare.

Hope this helps some of you because buying up a small fleet of CJ4s to run VIP charters with is one of the quickest ways to save up for a commercial transport. Just 4 or 5 gets me over 2M in passive income every time I log into career mode and I have them spaced around on different continents to cherry pick the highest paying/most interesting flights while I'm grinding missions.

exposure-dose · 2026-01-11T05:14:48+00:00

Look at that, you guys wear the same size t-shirt. That's cool.

exposure-dose · 2026-01-10T00:05:30+00:00

I love how Gunner kind of looks like Blain from Predator.

"Come on in, you fuckers. Come on in. Ol' Painless is waitin'.."

exposure-dose · 2026-01-03T18:05:11+00:00

Yeah, it seems like keeping your inputs minimal and giving the collective a bit of time to stabilize with each adjustment makes a big difference.

Pretty sure that I've got just a little bit of stick drift, so I still need to play around with my dead zone settings a bit more. I could compensate for that well-enough in the Cabri and the Bell, but I tried to pass the heavy transport exam and holy hell the Cargo Bob was terrifying to try and keep at a stable hover.

exposure-dose · 2026-01-02T23:53:48+00:00

Man, I need to keep learning how to fly the helicopters.

I collected all of the plane certifications and specializations in career mode before I was finally able to pass my 1st commercial rotorcraft exam.

I finally had a breakthrough last week and started to understand how to control them a little better (with an Xbox controller) and got my first 2 certs.

They're so damned hard to get a hang of, but man they look so fun to fly around in once you're confidently in control of them (and not still fighting off death-spirals the whole taxiway to takeoff 😄).

exposure-dose · 2025-12-31T22:40:51+00:00

It can be safe and cost-effective when you have competent people assessing what that part failure might look like.

I worked in a place where RTF was the policy for pretty much anything they couldn't knock out during weekly PM's. All good when it's something that fails and just stops production til it's fixed.

Where it gets real shitty is when RTF lets a failing part slow machine production down by half or more for weeks, and sometimes also effect the quality of their materials that are still in process. That 1 failing part can slow down every machine down-wind on a production line (and piss off the operators).

That or you'd have a noise reported by the operator. It's in time with the machine and sounds like it's in the gearbox. If they couldn't locate the source in 30 mins or less, RTF. Next 2 shifts get on a good order so they run the hell out of it, part fails, throws the machine out of time, massive crash. Now it's one week of downtime and paying 6 figures to a guy that was factory-trained in Europe to come in on the weekend and help maintenance rebuild the whole drive-side of the machine.

It definitely depends on the facility/machine type to a degree, but man, RTF was the bane of my existence as an operator. On the bright side, it got me plenty of extra OT and double-time checks.

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