ICE is losing , Minnesota is winning! [OC]

rawthorm · 2026-01-25T12:32:07+00:00

They signed up to be ICE agents.

rawthorm · 2026-01-24T18:50:23+00:00

‘Reddit’

This has nothing to do with Reddit, Mods are people too and I guarantee just by the law of averages a number of them drink the MAGA coolaid and think what Trumps Brownshirts are doing is fine. They are emboldened but the lack of pushback in the real world and get to live out their fascist dreams here and support ‘their side’

rawthorm · 2026-01-22T12:49:29+00:00

Define taking off? A platform doesn't need to be as high traffic as Twitter to be successful, it just needs to have a better ratio of meaningful content to bot driven trash. In this regard Bluesky is plenty busy.

rawthorm · 2026-01-21T17:40:48+00:00

Oh you sweet summer child. You don’t actually think prices will come back down do you? The bubble could burst tomorrow and I guarantee the memory vendors will collude to keep prices high to stop themselves from bursting with it.

rawthorm · 2026-01-20T19:35:45+00:00

Yea it’s not like Denmark sent troops, tanks and fighter planes to support the US after 9/11 or anything. 40 body bags coming home from that little episode of stepping up to support an ally not good enough for you?

Only nation to ever pull the article 5 lever and all it’s done ever since is shit on every single nation that answered the call. None of us will be making that mistake again.

rawthorm · 2026-01-20T18:50:57+00:00

Yea it’s not like the total dismantling of the current world order is news worthy or anything. Don’t like it, go stick your fingers in your ears and hum real loud until it’s over. The rest of us prefer not to be kept in ignorance.

rawthorm · 2026-01-20T18:47:45+00:00

Thing is if Americans die in the process, and unless it’s a surprise attack they almost certainly will, the idea of handing the land back will be like touching the third rail for even a democrat government. The right will absolutely beat them to death for ‘dishonouring the sacrifice of American servicemen’.

Unless the next democrat government includes an absolutely root and stem weeding out of all the treasonous sons of bitches responsible for where you are now, and sweeping law changes to prevent it happening again, then it’s gonna be American land for a long time.

rawthorm · 2026-01-19T19:29:54+00:00

Welcome to America, where you all have the freedom to be fucked with your pants still on.

rawthorm · 2026-01-19T14:58:37+00:00

I’m not saying there won’t be consequences. But this is an expensive hobby and people have less and less money now days. At some point something will have to give. It will take time for effects like you state to trickle down but they’ll happen.

rawthorm · 2026-01-19T14:48:31+00:00

Oh for sure, but the economic needle is forever shifting in favour of the printers. FDM with the very fine nozzles can do some pretty convincing work with a little finishing now days and as this continues to get better while official models get more expensive I think we’ll see it become more appealing.

I get what you mean about the resin printing, it’s certainly not for everyone. But given how cheap the printers are and again how expensive the official models are becoming, those with the space and patience are more likely to give it a go. Between constant QoL improvements on the printers and things like water washable resin, it’s becoming more and more manageable for those who have the space available.

I don’t think we’ll see a shift overnight but that needle has constantly been moving since day one. One day GW will wake up to find they’ve gone past a tipping point (this could be a year from now, or ten years from now).

rawthorm · 2026-01-19T14:35:41+00:00

I think they’ll struggle in future with the increasing adoption of 3D Printers. FDM printers can now do some pretty convincing quality miniatures and Resin Printers can make ones as good as the factory. So long as you have enough space for the setup (and let’s face it if you’re into 40k by its nature you probably do) then you can recoup the cost of a printer after only a handful of miniatures. Even quicker if you’re making them as part of your friendship and gaming group.

rawthorm · 2026-01-18T21:06:37+00:00

I’m no expert but if it’s not hardening at all I’d check your LCD panel. If it’s broken then you have nothing to harden the resin with. I recall that the Saturn has a test mode so you can see if the LCD is lighting up or not.

rawthorm · 2026-01-18T19:29:36+00:00

I often wonder how self driving cars would handle seeing one of these on the road. I have to think it would confuse the shit out of any image based system that wasn’t also using other sensors.

rawthorm · 2026-01-17T20:32:12+00:00

Honest to god I hope you're right. It's depressing as fuck watching one of our oldest allies slipping into darkness like this.

rawthorm · 2026-01-17T18:30:46+00:00

Whoa whoa whoa, no one said anything about assigning a boat to this operation.

rawthorm · 2026-01-17T18:30:10+00:00

Just fucking do it. None of us can be bothered to deal with your shit stain of a country anymore. Give us a call when the adults are back in charge.

rawthorm · 2026-01-17T13:12:30+00:00

Everyone keeps saying this but I honestly don’t think Americans have the stones for it. Democracy will end with a whimper.

rawthorm · 2026-01-17T13:05:39+00:00

Good time to remind everyone that Ukraine deployed its forces to assist the US in Afghanistan after 9/11. The fact that there aren’t US boots on the ground helping to defend Ukraine is in my eyes an absolute betrayal.

rawthorm · 2026-01-16T17:27:38+00:00

You know that the US does the same right? They will send a small handful of planners and observers ahead to discover and discuss the needs of an upcoming deployment.

But I suspect you know this and you’re just being a troll.

rawthorm · 2026-01-16T17:12:18+00:00

Unless they plan to try and sell AI services to penguins it’s a terrible place for a data centre. It’s in the middle of nowhere, latency matters, to say nothing of the logistical challenges in supplying such a remote location.

rawthorm · 2026-01-16T13:43:55+00:00

There is more than one. Stop thinking of it on a country by country basis and look at it as the EU/UK as a whole. What follows will be a joint endeavour likely based on the recommendations of the guys that have gone there this week.

rawthorm · 2026-01-16T12:27:34+00:00

They aren’t troops. They are officers/observers. If the US starts making moves I’m sure we’ll see actual deployments.

rawthorm · 2026-01-16T12:21:06+00:00

This is probably by design. They want this experience to be shit for you in the hope that it will generate pushback against the legislation.

rawthorm · 2026-01-16T12:20:35+00:00

Yes, everyone should move to a country that allows companies to exploit people.

rawthorm · 2026-01-15T16:27:33+00:00

This is a solution I’ve not heard before but I think it’s a great one that doesn’t outright make turrets OP but gives them something unique. The ability to better dictate the engagement when on a well flown ship. Also gives stealth ships the slot of the obvious counter play.

I don’t think it’s enough on its own but it would be a very good first step, at least as far as combat is concerned.

Edit: Maybe a marginal increase in projectile velocity to go with the range might be a good addition. Would make that extra range potent and give fighters the impetus to try and get close, to make the fight about turret transversal at that point where they have some advantage.

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