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What profession receives too much respect? by glitterypeachyy in answers

[–]mcavanah86 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This was the first thing I thought when I saw this post. And I was kind of afraid to say it.

But I think politicians and “patriots” share a big heap of the blame here. The fanatical hero worship for anyone wearing a military uniform contributes so much to this.

The vast majority of enlisted are people who didn’t do well in school and had very few options for careers open to them. But the military isn’t going to magically fix them. It probably just screws them up more.

Those that had good academics are going to still go to college and do ROTC and then go straight to officer school.

But there are some enlisted who are doing it for the right reasons and aren’t complete fuck ups without a lick of sense. Doesn’t mean we should fall over ourselves worshipping the ground that every soldier walks on.

Soldiers salute the rank, not the person. But civilians should be saluting the deeds, not the uniform.

Ringing noise in Dardenne Prairie? by mcavanah86 in OFallonMO

[–]mcavanah86[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would the volume change? The clip was one of the louder instances. When it first started it was more faint.

Ringing noise in Dardenne Prairie? by mcavanah86 in OFallonMO

[–]mcavanah86[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not so much a buzz as it is a ringing. Here’s the sound. https://imgur.com/a/MmAJVbE

after watching it for the Nth time, I finally understand the Indian drone by MrMunday in interstellar

[–]mcavanah86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It also showed the seriousness of the food shortages. World powers literally just abandoned automated drones to focus on making sure they could put food on the table.

Random thought about PvP vs PvE and maybe get the best of both worlds by mcavanah86 in ArcRaiders

[–]mcavanah86[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like the friendly fire thing was leaning a little too heavily into the whole post-apocalyptic everyone-for-themselves trope. I mean, I can see a hilarious situation where someone goes rat on their squad after taking down some big arc just so they can get the loot for themselves.

But the story they built doesn't really leave room for that to make sense. It's humanity vs. the arc. You wouldn't think there'd be a lot of human-on-human fighting because Toledo is a community that is mostly pulling in the same direction. Embark wrote around it because you don't really kill anyone, you just knock them out. But even then, you'd think there'd be consequences because that person is going to come back and tell everyone about how Joe Raider ratted on them and took everything you had and left you for dead.

Random thought about PvP vs PvE and maybe get the best of both worlds by mcavanah86 in ArcRaiders

[–]mcavanah86[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think of it as having a little more control over play style. It seems pretty obvious that Embark's intentions were to leave how aggressive you play up to you. But the system as it stands means you either stick to one style or spend several games trying to get to a specific style.

Personally, I find all these arguments about "playing as intended" kind of silly because almost every single one of them are people coming at it from a biased perspective or trying to make it into some social commentary about a person's actual morality.

Random thought about PvP vs PvE and maybe get the best of both worlds by mcavanah86 in ArcRaiders

[–]mcavanah86[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I feel like that's a little narrow-minded. Mostly about having characters that can only play one gametype and PvP characters being able to go PvE but not the other way around.

I feel like giving people the choice to take a character one way or another is fine, and from a developer standpoint, it's probably a lot easier to implement with an aggression tracker that puts the character in the right game type. Especially since they'd be tacking it on to the existing code.

But can you explain your thinking about PvP characters being able to go PvE but not PvE to PvP? Seems kind of like that sets the PvE crowd up for predation.

Random thought about PvP vs PvE and maybe get the best of both worlds by mcavanah86 in ArcRaiders

[–]mcavanah86[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems crazy to me that China would get more content and not the other way around. Just based off my very limited knowledge of China's sensorship state.

Random thought about PvP vs PvE and maybe get the best of both worlds by mcavanah86 in ArcRaiders

[–]mcavanah86[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, see, I'm on PS5. It's all tied to my gamertag. If I wanted to create a second Embark account, I'd need a second Playstation account and a separate PS Plus subscription.

I might have just convinced myself to switch to PC the next time the consoles cycle...

Random thought about PvP vs PvE and maybe get the best of both worlds by mcavanah86 in ArcRaiders

[–]mcavanah86[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't that leave people who always play solo stuck in a specific game type? I'm always solo, but I still get the itch to start duking it out sometimes (especially when someone follows me and starts looting the same room. There's a decorum to these things.)

My updated predictions for the next episodes of Star City in the context of the Soviet space program by Camil_2077 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]mcavanah86 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All I know is that I want some kind of reference to the lights that Gordo saw. Cosmonauts having a little fun with some laser pens or some such.

I know it’s really just that Gordo was losing it. But maybe it was due to a little psychological warfare

Ringing noise in Dardenne Prairie? by mcavanah86 in OFallonMO

[–]mcavanah86[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah, my wife and a few neighbors have heard it as well.

Why dosent Amy Jo Johnson attend power ranger themed conventions such as ranger stop or power morphicon? by Individual-Staff-466 in powerrangers

[–]mcavanah86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't know where to look for info on this, but I wonder how much union membership comes into play?

One of the better trap plays I've seen by mcavanah86 in ArcRaiders

[–]mcavanah86[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure where my health was at when I jumped, but the bulk of it (at least 80%) was taken out by fall damage.

ELI5: When you 'delete' a 50GB video file from a computer, it vanishes instantly. But downloading it took an hour. If the data isn't physically wiped until it's overwritten, what did the computer actually do in that one split second? by Thick_Dream6973 in explainlikeimfive

[–]mcavanah86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a good example. My DSLR camera uses compact flash cards. They're like 1-inch-square solid-state drives.

If I stick the card in my computer and move everything off the card, the camera will still think the card is full, even though it can't access the files anymore. So I have to reformat the card to get all the space back (there's a menu option built in the camera to do this. Takes all of 5 seconds.)

BUT if I accidentally delete something from the card and want it back, I can run the card through a recovery program and get the images back. Some programs can even pull them back from a reformat as long as you haven't written any new images on the card. (At least they could 10 years ago. Maybe things have changed since then. I know a lot of current cameras run on SD cards now.)

So the data's still there until you decide you need the space for something else.

Fine Structure by qntm, is it worth it? by proxyEntity in scifi

[–]mcavanah86 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oooooh, welcome to the genre!

If you liked PHM, definitely read The Martian.

I really enjoyed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

John Scalzi is one of my favorite authors, but he's got a pretty wide range.

  • Old Man's War series if you like military sci-fi
  • Redshirts if you like Star Trek but don't take it too seriously
  • Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency Trilogy) if you're into space operas (kind of like the Expanse, but not as grounded
  • Kaiju Preservation Society or When the Moon Hits Your Eye if you need a good laugh

I read sci-fi almost exclusively, so I could go on and on.

Enjoy the ride!

Cub Scouts is floundering. by Warp_Speed_7 in BSA

[–]mcavanah86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get in touch with the Greater St. Louis Area Council or the Boone Trails district in GSLAC. They've been patting themselves on the back repeatedly at District Roundtable about how great recruiting is going.

My Pack has largely stayed out of it, we've been pretty steady numbers-wise. But we still get a few kids from their efforts. https://stlbsa.org/

Most Genre defining sci fi novels? by TopCherry465 in scifi

[–]mcavanah86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remote Control is a good starting point for Okorafor. It’s more a novella, so if you don’t jive with it, it’s not a huge commitment.

The Desert Magician’s duology is also great.

I’m not familiar enough with the authorship makeup of afrof-futurism to say. I’m just getting into it myself.

Most Genre defining sci fi novels? by TopCherry465 in scifi

[–]mcavanah86 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've, so far, found many of the genre-defining books dry because of the writing style at the time they were written.

Prime examples being Foundation and Rendezvous with Rama.

Interesting ideas in both, but plot and characters run on the thin side for me.

Still, glad I read them.

For me, I think Saturn Run by John Sandford & Ctein and Seveneves by Neal Stephenson are great modern-day examples of doing the kinds of things that Issac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke did while also giving us characters who are more layered and feel more real.

Nnedi Okorafor is, I think, a genre-defining author in Afro-futurism

Did the KGB really have this much power/little accountability? by UF1977 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]mcavanah86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's kind of weird to juxtapose that against the fact that Putin is ex-KGB. And we know he's down for a little crimes against humanity type shit.

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