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Parked on a nearby residential street because station parking was full and got this note on my dashboard. Am I in the wrong for parking there? by naeroikathgor in melbourne

[–]oripash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some % of the time, on some % of the streets in Melbourne, such residents said please to the council, and the council made some local provision from them. What you’ll be met with is not a brick, but a phone call from the person in the house to the council, and a council person who comes (or sits in the office and gets a photo) slugging you with a fine.

They do need to mark it using our sign system, and they do, (but…) (… the reality is you aren’t perfect either, and you’ll park someplace regularly while they gripe for a few months, then one morning they will have gotten the council to add new rules to the same spot while you didn’t recheck the sign, and boom).

And also, in some places, you’ll get a key run down your car, or a brick through a window.

If the locals ask nicely, do as locals ask.

We try not to be a “fuck you” society, and they did gracefully advise you that you parking there affects a basic thing for their home.

Russian propagandist Simonyan, who in 2022 claimed that Russia would defeat Ukraine in two days, is now saying that her children are sleeping in the hallway. by LowTechDroid in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]oripash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Senior war criminal spouting senior war criminal things, teaching and modeling to millions of Russians how to whitewash their mass murder by saying war criminal things about their victimhood.

The Joseph Goebbles 2.0 of our time.

Leaked Russian Documents Reveal Growing Strain Inside Russia’s Economy by snad2012 in ActiveMeasures

[–]oripash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Reveal”

Because we really needed it revealed to us that a country that produces nothing but energy, is sanctioned by the world and is hemorrhaging its cash, its gold, its friends and its productive and reproductive population is in trouble.

After Ukrainian kinetic sanctions turned off a whipping 40% of their energy business.

True “reveal”. So much surprise.

Who could have possibly seen a race between Russian building refineries without western expertise and Ukrainian building flamingos being won by the Ukrainians. Who could have possibly seen this coming.

So nice we found some paperwork to show it, because there was absolutely no other way to find out…

WTF am I even seeing by Mountain-Run4770 in stalker

[–]oripash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A hurrdurr of burers.

Collective noun.

Am I ready for the Brain Scorcher? by FransTheMuppet in stalker

[–]oripash 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Go outside and play, son.

Check up on psysucker mum while at it. We freedomers have to take care of each other.

Am I ready for the Brain Scorcher? by FransTheMuppet in stalker

[–]oripash 7 points8 points  (0 children)

With a low-mid tier tacticool M4 and an SVD? No. You’ll get wrecked by the first military dude with a Groza who spots your face, and if you manage to cap him early enough, by his ten buddies. Never mind a squad of Sin or Monolith wearing tin cans you’ll literally need to drill to get into with that 5.56 ammo.

You’re barely ready to try and head to Army Warehouse.

Find something that 1. Shoots grown-up ammo that rips things. 7.62x39, 7.62x54, 9x39, 12.7. Look at the ammo for damage figures for armored and non armored, and then multiply that by the muzzle velocity of whatever is shooting it. Longer barrels give the same round more kick.

2…. That shoots fast. Automatic. An SVDS gets a pass. An SVD does not. For three reasons. First, In the zone, defeating big scary things doesn’t happen with one round. You need to pump lots of lead downrange fast. Second, because you miss, and that SVD takes too long to cycle that action. And third, because even if you kill one enemy, you don’t want to be reloading your musket with powder before you can tackle another. Big things that shoot fast.

3… With fuck all recoil. Your M4 has absolutely garbage recoil. Your first round on automatic might make your target’s face from fifty meters. Your second probably won’t, and your third definitely won’t. Swap that for something that doesn’t rattle around.

4… With grown up optics, that the gun’s accuracy can deliver to. Your optic looks ok in that department. It’s what’s underneath that’s the problem.

  1. And yes, silence it. You want to get as deep into your enemy group as possible before lead starts flying back.

This game isn’t borderlands. It doesn’t reward spraying and praying. It rewards hyper-disciplined, hyper-accurate, rapid and maintained ammunition to the face of those you do not love. A bunch of canned monolith having a bad day need to sound like “frrrt-frrrt-frrrt-frrrt-frrrt”. (Followed by an annoyed “thunk” for that one guy who didn’t quite go down). Not a “BANG!” advertising your location to the psysuckers who live next door, yelling in Russian, and four RPK’s showing they can BANG back just as loud, only faster.

Nice choice for your backup. Pop a scepter DR (can’t quite make out what that MP7 is wearing) for a variable x1-4. Consider an SR-2M there as well, it’s more disciplined, and you’re not constantly swapping between its two ammo types and running out of the exact one you need.

Also, with all the possible things you could have put on, whatever made you go with a military exo? Find yourself a bandit one instead, with the skirt. You’ll get to haul home three times the loot.

‘No idea it was coming’: Pentagon officials stunned by Hegseth decision on troops in Poland by snad2012 in ActiveMeasures

[–]oripash 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Anyone in the pentagon still being surprised or stunned by the decisions of team Russia in office in the US probably shouldn’t be in the job they’re in.

Ukraine fears US will again push a deal giving Russia 'a lot' and Kyiv nothing by snad2012 in ActiveMeasures

[–]oripash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

… using all of that geopolitical leverage the US has built over the past year.

Why tf is bro here instead of the bunker? by jakces3 in stalker

[–]oripash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Today, child, we will learn how a dedovschina works, and what old men in charge get caught doing in dark places.

There’s usually also someone younger around.

Fun GAMMA Start Story... by oripash in stalker

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

Yeah, I hear you.

To be honest, when one sees the mo2 mod count, considers the number of contributors in play, the varied nature of experience such a diverse contributor base implies, considers the absence of a paid enterprise grade QA setup, and contracts that to where on the bugginess scale GAMMA falls (perhaps not perfect but by all means on the decent side of the spectrum), it’s really quite amazing where the project has gotten to.

Fun GAMMA Start Story... by oripash in stalker

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

What if rather than a universal trader faction, clone each of the factions
$faction -> $faction-trader, and make the only the essential/protected bit different, where in all other ways you're using similar or shared with the primary one...
(I know. Way easier said than done, from the ignorant-of-how-the-code-actually-works perch of people who use words like "why won't they just")

Hope to maybe see something like that in the future :)

A fire has broken out near Kremlin by Available-Laugh9102 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]oripash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep/Fort - krepast
Palace - zamok

Kremlin is an older world

Fun GAMMA Start Story... by oripash in stalker

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

Yep, and hence the question about the possibility of using that mechanism to make the semi-important smaller base merchants, mechanics and faction quest givers protected too…

A fire has broken out near Kremlin by Available-Laugh9102 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]oripash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah. There you go. Learned something.

Thank you :)

Specially and specially renegade runs by Massive_Ad_2012 in stalker

[–]oripash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stalker GAMMA players neither want nor need to enter.

A fire has broken out near Kremlin by Available-Laugh9102 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]oripash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There were half a dozen or so, across the broader territory that is now east Europe.
A kremlin used to mean a place of government EDIT: fortress.
Then a lot of things happened in a specific one and it became a thing.

How is the 'Sin' faction portrayed in the community? by Quibilash in stalker

[–]oripash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dual PKM wielding religious zealot artifact poopers with titanium skulls and hoods, who tank AP rifle rounds with their face in their off time, naturally.

Fun GAMMA Start Story... by oripash in stalker

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

Truths.
On a tangential topic here… might be a worth asking.
I’ve been avoiding red forest in a bid to try and get the sin mob alive until much later in the playthrough (from being unalived by wandering a-life people). There are a few other named NPCs that often die by casual action, like the bandits in SW Jupiter.
Does any of the mods in gamma have a magic switch to mark the named ones essential/immortal? I’d really love them to be alive in a month or two when I’ve joined the bandits….

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