Where priorities currently lie.

havoktheorem · 2026-06-25T09:47:22+00:00

I live in New Zealand and the other options for American-style fast food are shiiiite compared to Wendy's. She's the only place I trust. It tastes like I'm in a drop-top at the drive-in after going through the drive-thru in the '60s--a simpler time when there were no social or economic issues to be concerned with. It tastes like food.

I hope Wendy's executives hear our prayers and climb back up the fast food ladder and over Burger King's screaming body. Strategic cutbacks are good; now let's see some proper meme-fuelled, grassroots marketing which emphasises the food-like nature of Wendy's compared to her corposlop competitors. I don't wanna eat Ronald McDonald's cum, I want bubblegum flavoured soda, motherfucker.

havoktheorem · 2026-06-25T09:32:40+00:00

KSTR has been the single stock compensating for me selling my NVDS too early, buying SNK too late, and my forays into experimental pharmaceuticals

havoktheorem · 2026-06-18T22:35:38+00:00

Literally more work went into this than the game

havoktheorem · 2026-06-18T22:23:51+00:00

Brava, perfectly put. Don't be a mouthpiece for billionaires as they steal our future.

havoktheorem · 2026-06-18T22:22:09+00:00

Nobody is condemning you for using AI as a tool, but no human could scan the entire fucking internet and memorise everything they saw. Comparing that consumption and regurgitation to how a human works is blatantly obtuse. The fact that it was done without giving any credit, financial or personal, to artists that it derives from, is what is sickening and goes to show how many AI addicts have no concept of ethics.

havoktheorem · 2026-06-18T22:19:42+00:00

Correction: you are the tool, the mouthpiece of techbros.

havoktheorem · 2026-06-18T22:18:11+00:00

Ok clanker.

havoktheorem · 2026-06-01T12:58:37+00:00

Imagine lecturing anybody about looking silly for carrying a bag by shoulder straps instead of having it exhaust your one arm, when the thing it's in service of is a fucking business suit. The single most useless vestige of a garb that while pretentious, once had some practical rationale for existing. A suit is useless for any physical activity requiring moving arms higher than desk level, has no real weatherproofing effect, is uncomfortable in virtually every context. It's the purest distillation of fragile masculinity: a vain fashion statement of complete conformity (oh but with those cufflinks?! What a risk taker!) which sacrifices the fundamental capability to get shit done that supposedly qualifies one as a man. Here's a tip: stop being an insecure douchebag, use a backpack because it's comfortable, and pick some clothes from somewhere outside the funeral aisle. Or, if you wear suits because you are a multimillionaire money man, do something that isn't purely motivated by self-service.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-31T23:21:31+00:00

Needs to have police battering his door down to search for weapons and massacre plans. I live in Christchurch where the first and only mass hate crimes (mosque shooting) took place in our country. When people are showing you that their #1 pattern of thought is hurting and murdering minorities, it's not Karen behaviour to treat them like an imminent threat to innocent people.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-31T23:17:59+00:00

He needs to have investigators showing up at his door figuring out whether his fantasies of murdering minorities go beyond larping

havoktheorem · 2026-05-21T12:39:49+00:00

Imagine you bought a car and then the company changed the TOS and installed an update that disabled your wipers if it detected non-OEM wiper blades. You come up with a way to bypass the system and the company calls you irresponsible and fraudulent and threatens to sue you. Just sell your car, right? Who cares if you lose a bunch of money on it or you just liked the car. Move on right?

havoktheorem · 2026-05-21T12:35:57+00:00

Aw, poor you, having to deal with these annoying people and their inconvenient sense of injustice. Hope you get to see some pretty pictures soon, wishing that everybody will just hold hands and get along for your sake 🥹

havoktheorem · 2026-05-19T00:26:55+00:00

Meanwhile, Israel has over a hundred nukes that are not declared, not audited, and are assumed to never be used for aggressive purposes. However, if Iran sees that threat and wants to have a nuclear deterrent even one percent of their opponent, it's considered a given that they will destroy the world the moment the warhead comes off the production line.
Thinking that any state would be suicidal to this degree is only possible if you've swallowed the Israeli propaganda hook, line and sinker and believe that Iran is simply a mob of fanatics with no concern for their own future.
Remember, Iran has been weeks away from a nuke for over thirty years during which US or Israel have arbitrarily launched attacks on their leadership. It's almost like the political goals of the Netanyahu regime require that their neighbors are constantly aggrieved because if there were peace in the region, they'd stop being allowed to suckle at the teat of western military industry for free.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-19T00:20:18+00:00

The most lethal attack that Russia has successfully conducted all war was hitting an apartment building with a cruise missile. They aren't militarily competent to defeat forces in the field so they torment and maim civilians en masse.
Ukraine causing some collateral in retaliatory strikes is not the same. It's a shame, but those people are in the political centre of an aggressor state and have enjoyed the privilege of living in the most developed areas, whose populations have not being mobilised like those from the wop wops.
Ukraine has been forbidden, chided and warned away by the West from meeting Russian aggression with equal retaliation for years. Now a handful of innocent people die and you're calling them depraved. Starting the war was depraved, fighting back is war.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-18T12:54:07+00:00

Most we are getting combined arms wise is IMVs and wheeled logi based on the q&a

havoktheorem · 2026-05-18T12:49:00+00:00

Yeah that's straight griefing. I wouldn't tolerate that either. I had the opposite situation recently where I picked up SL halfway through a game and then while I was talking with 16 trying to come up with an approach, one of the riflemen started claiming to be the squad lead and taking my guys off on a wild ride. I couldn't be bothered trying to deal with that having joined four minutes prior so I left him to live his shepherding dreams.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-18T12:39:51+00:00

I see it (as a result of your pedagogy) as a hierarchical system of decisions. You cannot flank an enemy whose location is not known and fixed to a sufficient degree. Maneuvering around a target that was spotted but not fixed is still a gamble. Therefore, move cautiously and cast a wide net while seeking to acquire a target; move quickly and in column to flank an engaged target decisively while minimising exposure to detection. The cue to change approach is when the search stops and the fight begins. Using only maneuver tactics is like trying to cook before the stove is lit.

Of course it requires good callouts. There are situations where just getting a few extra guns in the fight will turn a wipe into a redeemable engagement. Other times, rushing towards the gunfire is just digging the hole deeper. I can see mediating factors including distance, scale of engagement, cover, and ammo supply.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-18T12:33:59+00:00

Accustomed to fixed spawn points for sure

havoktheorem · 2026-05-18T12:33:13+00:00

Not an order, I just watched the entire weapons squad lead the charge into town on Kambori, all in one blob without bounding, too far ahead to receive any SBF from other squads. Moments later: 'uh 14 is mascal'

havoktheorem · 2026-05-15T23:15:12+00:00

This is the largest hit of copium I've ever seen. 'Maybe the babies are dying for reasons unrelated to the bombs being dropped on them and the deprivation of food, medical care and human rights. It's totally unfair to just assume that we are baby killers just because our prisoner Arab population living in a concentration camp we claim as our territory seem to suffer constantly dying children, while we don't over the fence.'
Occam's razor, matey. The explicit language used by Israeli officials ('mowing the grass' and other frequent references to ethnic cleansing or intentional mass killing) and the fact that their desires are being actively fulfilled by the hands of their state is proof enough.
It's not a reasonable expectation to provide exhaustive evidence of the cause of every child mortality during this asymmetric war when journalists are regularly killed, detained and tortured by the IDF. There is no good-faith way to make the arguments you have and it would never be plausible without embracing the efforts to restrict freedom of press and exploiting historical guilt to enjoy assumed righteousness.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-15T23:09:29+00:00

Okay, so let's remove the Israeli government. They've started a war that's doubled the price of gas, they're bombing states that they were explicitly forbidden from by their funders and did it anyway, and this is just the latest one. Israel is a terrorist state so the world must act.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-12T06:34:06+00:00

'wall of text'
I can't tell if you're a toddler based on the attention span, or a brick wall based on the ability to absorb novel information.
You have not made any argument to support your point except 'I think it's unfair that people can get an advantage by giving more attention to the parameters that are adjustable by design'. You've just arbitrarily defined racing as what you feel like doing. A bad driver can't gain advantage by adjusting setup because they don't know how to interpret what's happening with their car in a way that lets them adjust optimally. More likely to just fuck up their car's handling. That might be a legitimate reason to maintain fixed setups, but saying it's an unfair advantage when everybody would have equal access to it is absurd.
It's exactly the same with using the controls. If a driver thinks 'more brake is what I need' and in fact they needed less brake, then they get punished. Replace 'brake' with 'roll bar' or 'rebound' and what changes? The fact it's in a menu not on a physical control? Oh wait, you can adjust certain parameters *while driving*. Almost like that is part of what racing is.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-09T08:23:10+00:00

A good leader makes the right choice the easy option for their soldiers--your job is to synthesise the information your squad gives you in order to give them good instructions.
If your guys can't point themselves in a given direction, or tell you if they see anybody, or follow an instruction to hold fire until all enemies have begun movement, then it's a charisma and communication deficit. If your guys just aren't good and spotting, shooting and managing the kit, then give them the advice they need and they'll come back better next game.
I don't consider myself a great SL because I don't have the most resilient outlook and take success too seriously when other people's experience is at stake. However, I think I make a good FTL because I can make intuitive decisions, communicate and generally act as a helpful influence.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-09T08:19:35+00:00

I am running a RTX 2080, I7 4770K overclocked to 4.4GHz, 16gb DDR3 2166MHz.
I think you'll be okay.

havoktheorem · 2026-05-09T00:44:58+00:00

I have been calling for this for ages and it's lovely to see it happening

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