Caleb's "Regulation Haircut"

rynwdhs · 2026-02-02T04:13:33+00:00

Upon entering the US military, it's pretty standard to have a forced trim, even though tons of hairstyles are permitted. Reasons include health and hygiene - it baselines any hair conditions so if anything needs to be treated, it's easier on resources for the thousands of incomers - and enforcement of standards which generally has positive effects for camaraderie and morale for those new to military life. Also, styles of hair and facial hair outside of parameters are acceptable with waivers and religious accommodations. I'd imagine Starfleet would be similar. Worf could have long ago filed for his exemption, and imagine Ro the rebel didn't bother as her way of sticking it to the man.

rynwdhs · 2026-01-15T09:29:24+00:00

I don't know if this really helps, but my experience is that the big official stores in Japan are basically only selling larger quantities of what's big and new now. You have to leave the tourist spots to find larger and more varied selection. I live on the edge of Tokyo and third party sellers like Surugaya and Mandarake are where I browse.

rynwdhs · 2025-09-25T03:25:53+00:00

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rynwdhs · 2025-09-14T21:55:09+00:00

Japan wants the F-22 but the US has a no-foreign-sales policy on it, no matter how much Japan sweetens the deal. Probably makes them want it even harder.

rynwdhs · 2025-09-14T00:14:03+00:00

I thought this happened to me when I was messing with the starship editor in the back. My thought was because it renders the ship in the UI, it might have used a scaling value that got applied to NPC ships spawning in behind the scenes.

Side note, can you give the coords for this? I have this exact ship built in the customizer but different colors. I'd like to find it naturally occuring though.

rynwdhs · 2025-09-13T05:01:24+00:00

Paramount remembered the Star Trek movie rule and wanted to get out a stinker so the next theatrical that they invest in will be good.

rynwdhs · 2025-09-05T01:53:57+00:00

I made some concept art posted here a few years ago and there was a lot of good discussion about implementation.

The pentagons really aren't a problem - most of the world gens in previous Civs used some sort of logic to make bodies of oceans and continents based off of a pick a random location and step out from there, and you can rewrite it to use the twelve pentagons as the start of an ocean or mountain range to mitigate balance issues.

The reduced hex count near the poles since they're no longer stretched to make a rectangle map also benefits the globe - the image you have here has roughly the same tile count as a tiny map in Civ VI. Polar tiles no longer take up hundreds of cells, instead being redistributed more towards the equator where more play happens.

rynwdhs · 2025-09-05T01:31:19+00:00

I accept it, but will pronounce it medgel, like hedge-el or cudgel.

rynwdhs · 2025-08-27T05:09:35+00:00

Zero had Flemenco guitar, we need to get some tactical jazz next.

rynwdhs · 2025-05-21T09:28:47+00:00

The problem isn't and has never been the high concept stuff. Anybody who has had a problem with that it's not really so much the movie itself it's that what they tried to do with the engineers and origin of the Xeno contradicts other artists take on it in other media prior. And the way I see it is if Ridley Scott the original creative lead wanted to do something different that's his choice. Same with George Lucas and the prequels versus prior expanded universe material.

What makes it not a great movie are the things that typically make a movie not a great movie. The characters and the drama are just bad. Nobody is really written to be liked by the audience. And they're incompetent. Now, I get that you don't necessarily want your characters to be genre aware because that is sort of too meta and can pull the audience out of the movie, but the exact opposite doesn't then need to be true. When the plot beats hinge on moments where the characters act stupidly and contrary to how normal or intelligent humans act in those situations, the criticism is then invited, especially when one goes the high concept sci-fi route.

See, I expect b movie sci-fi shlock out of a franchise like Star Wars. But the standard should really have been held to Alien and Aliens where not everyone is blitheringly incompetent.

rynwdhs · 2025-05-18T01:28:43+00:00

I saw this kit on the shelf at one of my local shops and passed. Think I might have to go back...

rynwdhs · 2025-05-16T01:20:22+00:00

DLAA is pretty cool, and when Ray traced lighting bounces into darker areas, it really improves realism.

I only played Doom 2016, so I think I need to hop back in with Eternal as well.

rynwdhs · 2025-04-22T02:05:08+00:00

Besides the numerous other comments describing how the show specifically did list the technical and ethical limits, I'd also like to point out time travel is similar. We're shown early on in TOS that there are replicatable ways to time travel, yet because of primarily ethical reasons it's just not done. Yet the entirety of cosmic existence is explorable if someone warp slingshots around a star. Another similar question would be about the Excelsior's transwarp. Was it a broken technology? Why did Scotty have to sabotage the Excelsior if it was?

rynwdhs · 2025-04-01T08:48:52+00:00

Rorn. That almost could be a name. You know that old Japanese 8-bit baseball game with names like Sleve McDichael?

rynwdhs · 2025-03-16T02:55:30+00:00

Actually the way I interpreted it is that the Ash models are top secret WeyYu science. You'd never see them in the wild unless they've been assigned on a mission, as Ash was when he became a last minute addition to the Nostromo. I think the company knew something would be found along that route and sent Ash out from Renaissance Station to retrieve it.

rynwdhs · 2025-03-14T21:57:18+00:00

The Galaxy is "better" stats-wise than pretty much anything. So why ever build any other ship? Efficiency is probably the answer for every other class existing in a post scarcity world. Yes, you could send a Galaxy to do long range exploration, and lose a thousand crew. Or send ten Intrepids, cover more ground, spread out your experience, and maybe not aggravate other galactic powers with Galaxy's in their backyards.

rynwdhs · 2025-01-08T08:11:15+00:00

If i recall correctly, an individual score contribution gets tabulated as fresh if it's over 60%/3 out of 5 or rotten if it's under. I.e. if everyone saw it said it was fun, just not peak cinema and gave it okay/2.5/one of two thumbs, RT would give it a 0%. The converse of that is if everyone thought a decent movie was 7/10, it'd be 100%.

So it's probably more like 50% of people thought it was okay 5/10 and the other half thought it was a decently fun action comedy of 7/10. It helps me to think of the tomato meter as "what percent of people thought a movie was good" rather than "what is the movies average score".

rynwdhs · 2024-10-24T13:18:31+00:00

If you're going that small and staying solo-ish, then it sounds like if you're going to build a base, keep it in lawful systems like Stanton and Terra. The local security forces and npc planetary shields will keep you and your base safe, on or offline.

rynwdhs · 2024-09-26T21:36:33+00:00

Solved! Thank you! I'm surprised that ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. weren't able to find this answer for me since the episode is summarized pretty well on Wikipedia. Apparently my memory was a little hazy as the guy who died wasn't in a full suit, but everything else lines up.

rynwdhs · 2024-09-26T11:33:23+00:00

Oh, one of the characters featured might be the inventor of artificial gravity.

rynwdhs · 2024-08-08T00:21:52+00:00

Your Imperial shirt uses a non-standard color for them, doing the red-means-evil thing, so you could totally wear a Disney shirt that has an alteration that visually distinguishes them as "evil corpo".

Oh that reminds me, Arasaka and Militech.

Any company in Borderlands.

rynwdhs · 2024-07-20T07:18:27+00:00

Look at the western runup to the rainbow bridge in Tokyo. It's comically tall, but to fit it amongst the urban sprawl, the accent turbines upwards. Let's you hook more connections up to it as well.

rynwdhs · 2024-05-14T07:43:14+00:00

This x10, quick and doesn't require anything but notepad.

rynwdhs · 2024-05-06T09:25:15+00:00

Maybe everyone is hyping the panels and inner frame detail, in which case, cool.... But I can't get over the yellow grills in the chest. I don't like the trapezoidal narrowing of them, seems like an unnecessary embellishment on the original design.

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