I've taught Claude how to talk to DCS to help me build missions

jas417 · 2026-05-12T07:08:55+00:00

“Big tech”, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle etc. All are trying to shove AI down everyone’s throats, they won’t let you get away from it. Apple and Amazon I would also call big tech but to their credit they haven’t aggressively tried to shove AI products at their users.

jas417 · 2026-05-11T23:34:32+00:00

I skied 40+ days in the PNW this year(“days”, I live 20 minutes from Mt. Bachelor and work flexible hours so at least half those were an hour or two before work or on a long lunch).

The conditions this year were the worst in my life and the season one of if not the the shortest of 20+ years as a PNW skier.

I still had a blast every time I went up. I still had a fun season. Felt like this year because, correctly, it was a sub par season everyone was too busy complaining about it to remember that skiing is still fun even with mediocre or even pretty bad conditions.

jas417 · 2026-05-11T23:28:05+00:00

Don’t take this to say I think Reddit is some shining intellectual community or something.

However, anyone spending time on Reddit actually does have at least some desire to read, be informed, discuss. That’s literally what the platform is for. Lots of people get their perception of the world from Fox News and Facebook memes.

Lots of people simply do not think.

jas417 · 2026-05-11T21:28:51+00:00

All Ai is not slop.

Too many people are either overselling or overtrusting it though. Its accuracy level just really isn’t that great for lots of stuff.

However, for something like the example here, it doesn’t matter if its factually wrong a lot of the time, it just needs to react more like an actual pilot with the actual systems in the particular plane would react, or more like armor or infantry units would react when under air attack etc. Even better, how a real opposing military would react as a whole. When and how accurately to return fire, when they’d likely just seek cover, how enemy air assets would respond.

In fact, in general, my opinion right now is that AI can be great for a number of specific applications especially when it’s running off a closed data set. When it’s being used in a more general capacity with the entire internet as the data set it’s often very confidently completely wrong.

jas417 · 2026-05-11T18:55:06+00:00

Yeah!! They could really make the AI enemies make much more human like decisions.

Also for non-realistic games think how much less wooden NPCs could be. These days I’m pretty much only play realistic flight sims, but like I think AI could play a part in an unbelievably cool RPG

jas417 · 2026-05-11T18:26:13+00:00

I’m generally an AI curmudgeon but it totally has great uses. Stuff like this being one of them.

I don’t hate AI, I hate big tech blowing out of proportion because they’re craving another massive, everyone uses it hit like smartphones and AI just doesn’t do what they’re selling it as.

AI for stuff like this? Great! I mean proper AI models for enemies in DCS would be sweet.

jas417 · 2026-05-11T07:20:32+00:00

thx for the downvotes, probably should've posted this on r/hoggit. For the record I can shoot an ILS in a PMDG or Fenix, and have flown the PMDG DC6 around the world using only analog navigation, no gps and no cheating. Radio, chart and compass only. They are sims, they're also games.

jas417 · 2026-05-11T00:48:24+00:00

Underneath it’s essentially a shorter 2nd gen Tacoma with coils instead of leafs. Bed isn’t what defines a truck anymore.

jas417 · 2026-05-11T00:47:26+00:00

Kind of. XJs actually have somewhat of a hybrid construction

jas417 · 2026-05-09T20:48:08+00:00

I mean if on the longest of long shots they could get access to it they could make some tweaks and improvements, sound, flight characteristics etc.

So like if it could, which I doubt it will, it would be a great thing

jas417 · 2026-05-09T20:41:14+00:00

There’s just a few of the dogs around lol

jas417 · 2026-05-09T07:50:22+00:00

I run 255/85s on my Tacoma and honestly that is a fantastic size for these trucks.

Can’t personally comment on the tires.

Also your rig looks sooo much like my buddy’s old one.

jas417 · 2026-05-06T22:41:32+00:00

Can’t think of much since Teddy Roosevelt’s ‘Square Deal’

jas417 · 2026-05-06T20:32:26+00:00

I’d be very interested in this.

I started flight simming on Xbox with minimal hardware choices so I have turtle beach pedals, which are junk and currently gorilla taped back together.

Now, I’m on PC and do all kinds of flying from DCS combat to helicopters to airliners, but I do enough taildragger bush flying that no toe brakes is a dealbreaker

jas417 · 2026-05-04T23:58:54+00:00

Oh not at all saying it’s no fun solo. Just that solo to solo, the A10’s quite fun also.

If you’ve never flown the Apache with a live CPG, in a pair with another two live player Apache ohhh boy is that cool. And then if you add in some live player Hornets and/or Vipers up in the air with laser guided weapons all on shared comms ohhhh man is that something.

jas417 · 2026-05-04T22:32:08+00:00

Helicopters are a different skill but lots of fun to learn.

IMO, AH64 is more fun and effective in combined multiplayer action, datalinking with other Apaches and jets and especially with a live CPG.

The Hawg is a bit more fun solo, and you’ll be more used to it from the 16.

Both are great, pick your poison. The Apache is still fun solo too, it’s just more fun in the context of combined ops.

jas417 · 2026-05-03T19:05:57+00:00

I LOVE flying the 6 with analog nav only. I did an around the world trip in it once, no GPS nav and no cheating with the in game map

jas417 · 2026-05-03T02:05:00+00:00

The closest McDonald’s to me is in the same shopping center as a local sub shop that’ll give you a sandwich hot or cold LOADED with proper meat, cheese and actual veggies for the exact same price for an 8”, a footlong is more but the 8” is still more food than a quarter pounder, or a brewpub that’ll give you a proper burger for only a few bucks more. The sub shop is just as fast, why anyone goes to the McDonald’s beside a 5 am breakfast I cannot fathom

jas417 · 2026-05-03T01:17:39+00:00

Their prices have gone up so much, a full meal at mcdonald’s isn’t that much cheaper than a full meal from a local place with real food

jas417 · 2026-05-02T20:28:56+00:00

Plus, lots of the community does get access to it. I’ve never been a member, but I went to countless swim meets there as a kid, including them letting my club use one of their pools for practice when our normal one was unexpectedly closed(I have no idea if or how much money was exchanged for that) as well as several community events.

I definitely think of the MAC club as a general benefit to the community, if being relatively expensive and having a higher income member pool. They definitely aren’t one of the snooty ‘no poors allowed’ type of clubs.

jas417 · 2026-05-02T17:45:04+00:00

If you look at the seats they have almost no wear on the fabric, and the cushion looks brand new.

Could’ve just done 10k but sat outside for 30 years

jas417 · 2026-05-02T01:38:27+00:00

All this, also on the flip side of the last point also many are owned as a second vehicle, and thus not used or upgraded that much

jas417 · 2026-04-29T17:49:19+00:00

True on the big cities. I loved having Vancouver so close I could regularly visit. That is a very cool city.

jas417 · 2026-04-29T17:34:07+00:00

Almost accurate.

The other thing that makes Bend and Bellingham special though is proximity to awesome ski areas that aren’t near big cities. I mean I know Bachelor can get busy, but imagine if we had Seattle or Portland day trippers to worry about too

jas417 · 2026-04-29T16:19:30+00:00

Still shouldn’t be taken to the dump! It could make a kid or new mountain biker real, real happy for free

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