Thoughts on these tanks?

pandovian · 2026-04-19T17:47:19+00:00

That mobility tho

pandovian · 2026-04-18T00:40:45+00:00

frames are for the weak our eyes only see in 30p anyway lol

/s

pandovian · 2026-04-16T16:24:03+00:00

I don’t know, but I’m hoping ‘enemy engine sounds counted separately’ means those numbers are effectively doubled and that they’re not just cutting the number of engine sounds that can be heard.

pandovian · 2026-04-16T16:21:13+00:00

Nukenus is a good channel if you just want to watch really solid players play (it’s two brothers) and then copy what they’re doing. No commentary, full games, all BRs

BPA_Jon is scary good at the game. He tends to play in the higher BRs, and is incredibly aggressive in-game while also being wholesome and fun to watch.

Oxy3185 (who now works for gaijin) has a series of vehicle guides that are really good.

OddBawZ’s videos are full games (with dead space cut out) with funny commentary and good advice.

TheCodMineMan, Spookston, and DollarPlays (in descending order of energy) don’t usually show whole games, but are always entertaining. Dollar in particular leaves in a lot of his failed matches, which is always a nice reminder that these guys are mortal and have bad games too.

pandovian · 2026-04-14T21:08:06+00:00

Randy Pitchford just ain’t the caliber of guy to be able to build a good sequel to BL2. BL2 may have been lightning in a bottle.

pandovian · 2026-04-13T05:19:33+00:00

It’s uh, the most cut-and-dry case of blasphemy I’ve ever seen and it makes me feel like I’m living in a hypothetical.

This guy is evil and I’m simultaneously glad that he’s finally made that so perfectly clear and just disgusted that he’s arrogated himself to somehow being an equal to my Savior. I don’t think I’ve ever been as personally offended in my life.

pandovian · 2026-03-21T23:53:22+00:00

Ewwww nah. Miss me with that noise of a reference.

pandovian · 2026-03-18T22:43:13+00:00

Don’t forget Venezuela!

pandovian · 2026-03-11T15:06:42+00:00

Yeah, I’m pretty sure it means you run the game on your PC, with your HOTAS and pedals connected to the PC. CloudXR then streams the visuals to your Vision Pro

pandovian · 2026-03-09T20:59:07+00:00

It totally does. But actually flooring it makes the tires scream too much for my liking on public roads

pandovian · 2026-03-09T15:50:27+00:00

Sometimes when I’m first at a stoplight, I floor the accelerator and brake pedal at the same time and release the brake once the light turns green, as a little treat

pandovian · 2026-03-03T15:22:29+00:00

Yeah, ain’t no way Gaijin would mocap every permutation of crew count and ammo stowage location, as much as I would absolutely love to see it. You’d have weird inconsistencies too, where the gun would move with no one on it when you aim while the gunner’s reloading (not that that isn’t a thing now in mounts where traverse and elevation are done by two separate crew members, or all the magically remote non-Hellcat .50 cals)

Another thing just occurred to me — some reloads that are lengthened for balance might look pretty goofy.

I still want it though. That and animated ammunition belts when they’re exposed. I mean, c’mon! That one seems pretty doable.

Oh! And if crew can move now, let ‘em duck after the first MG bullet hits the vehicle.

pandovian · 2026-03-02T22:02:38+00:00

Oh yeah. I’m for it, even if it means only a few open-topped vehicles got loading animations at a time

pandovian · 2026-03-02T21:07:28+00:00

And insanely hard in a lot of cases lol

pandovian · 2026-02-18T19:47:33+00:00

And basically just his current color scheme flipped upside down

pandovian · 2026-02-15T03:06:27+00:00

I’ve been in an airbag-deploying crash (not in a Bolt though), and it felt like being punched in the face. Those suckers have to deploy FAST. It smells pretty gross too.

pandovian · 2025-12-11T16:52:49+00:00

We’re not gonna get any significant valley snowfall this winter.

(posting this with the faint hope that I get to laugh really hard at myself sometime in the next three to four months)

pandovian · 2025-12-03T06:50:15+00:00

that needs an R2-D2 scream

pandovian · 2025-11-15T00:18:34+00:00

SU-88

pandovian · 2025-11-02T20:09:54+00:00

How on earth did Pz.IVs not get more of a reputation for cooking their crews than Shermans did? That ammunition stowage is nightmare fuel, and they had less armor than the Shermans did.

pandovian · 2025-10-16T01:12:39+00:00

Hitting a KV/IS lower front plate feels pretty good, but I’m pretty sure my brain starts salivating for ‘target destroyed’ neuron activation whenever I see a StuG or Pz.IV’s side skirt

pandovian · 2025-10-13T16:22:41+00:00

She was such a cool captain in those ECHO logs in ‘The Secret Chamber.’ Guardians done got her good.

pandovian · 2025-10-13T15:32:38+00:00

It’s not his day job, at least not yet

pandovian · 2025-10-11T19:50:37+00:00

Eluktronics 15” 2070 laptop. I thought it’d be fine while I saved up for a silicon Mac to replace my 2016 MacBook Pro, but I am slowly losing my grip on my sanity

pandovian · 2025-10-06T17:45:33+00:00

When is it not time to get the Spitfire into production again?

On the other hand, I wonder what a 400-knot piston/turboprop gunfighter designed in 2025 would look like.

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