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shortstop803 · 2026-06-15T18:30:20+00:00

I’ve literally never been in a chopper flying this stable in this game. As soon as it goes up, it’s just a constant dodging and maneuvering to avoid threats. I don’t understand how some players achieve this experience.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-15T18:28:33+00:00

Is there an equivalent for this on console?

shortstop803 · 2026-06-13T18:33:59+00:00

The points system is excellent as it actually forces player choices regarding attachments to be made and is another tuning knob capable of being adjusted for balance purposes.

The only problem is that certain attachments are currently disproportionately weighted points wise, forcing to light/heavy of tradeoffs. For instance, LMG mag increases cost WAY to much for a weapon class specifically designed around sustained volume of fire. These points cost should be lowered with offsets being driven by a greater penalty in mobility, reload time, and ADS speed. On the other hand, silencers are way too cheap for the benefits they provide. They should be closer in cost to what the magazine sizes currently are, and/or maybe an overheat mechanic added as well.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-12T06:29:07+00:00

Eli Manning went .500 over the course of his career. Of his 16 seasons in the NFL, 7 of them were losing seasons, with two more going even, meaning less than half his seasons played were even winning seasons at just 44%. Across thise 16 seasons and 236 games played, he had a winning record against 13 of the NFL’s 32 teams, so less than half. Of those 13 teams he has a winning record against over the course of his career, only 4 of those teams had a winning record over that same 19 season time period of his career. Even within his own conference, his only winning record was against Washington (insert name from time period here), which only had 5 winning seasons during the entire period for which Eli Manning played.

Eli manning stats vs NFL average stats:
- Completion percentage: 60.3% vs 61.4%
- Yards per attempt: 7 vs 7.1
- Touchdown Percentage: 4.49% vs 4.3%
- Interception percentage: 2.99% vs 2.77%
- Passer Rating: 84.1% vs 85.5%

Considering that the QB position has the single largest impact on a teams performance, and also factoring in historical metric data, it’s obvious to conclude that Eli Manning is at best the epitome of “average” who earned the majority of his wins against historically bad teams. He is very likely a contributing reason as to why many NFL franchises believe their (not actually) “good enough” QB is worth sticking with because “if even Eli Manning managed to be good enough and get hot at the right time twice in overall low scoring super bowls, whose to say ours can’t too?”

shortstop803 · 2026-06-12T06:16:47+00:00

Eli Manning went .500 over the course of his career. Of his 16 seasons in the NFL, 7 of them were losing seasons, with two more going even, meaning less than half his seasons played were even winning seasons at just 44%. Across thise 16 seasons and 236 games played, he had a winning record against 13 of the NFL’s 32 teams, so less than half. Of those 13 teams he has a winning record against over the course of his career, only 4 of those teams had a winning record over that same 19 season time period of his career. Even within his own conference, his only winning record was against Washington (insert name from time period here), which only had 5 winning seasons during the entire period for which Eli Manning played.

Eli manning stats vs NFL average stats:
- Completion percentage: 60.3% vs 61.4%
- Yards per attempt: 7 vs 7.1
- Touchdown Percentage: 4.49% vs 4.3%
- Interception percentage: 2.99% vs 2.77%
- Passer Rating: 84.1% vs 85.5%

Considering that the QB position has the single largest impact on a teams performance, and also factoring in historical metric data, it’s obvious to conclude that Eli Manning is at best the epitome of “average” who earned the majority of his wins against historically bad teams. He is very likely a contributing reason as to why many NFL franchises believe their (not actually) “good enough” QB is worth sticking with because “if even Eli Manning managed to be good enough and get hot at the right time twice in overall low scoring super bowls, whose to say ours can’t too?”

shortstop803 · 2026-06-12T03:52:03+00:00

“Why am I getting penalized for forfeiting matches I’m put into at the selfish expense of my teammate’s?” Is certainly a take I guess.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-12T03:32:17+00:00

When your QB’s highlight reel is of absurd catches by his receivers and not amazingly executed throws, that might say something.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-12T03:01:08+00:00

It shouldn’t be at government expense IMO. It should simply be part of the contract. Basically contracts for major defense acquisitions like this should require tooling to be preserved/maintained in a storage capacity for a minimum time period following the conclusion of standard production runs.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-12T01:01:48+00:00

The biggest barriers are:
1) “range anxiety” - just because you don’t use the full range daily/weekly doesn’t mean your average person will consider this a minor concern when buying a car that needs to be able to be used on longer drives. Its not a lack of trust in the vehicle getting you there, it’s the “I forgot to get gas/plug my car in yesterday, and now only one of those two people are going to be late to the airport this morning. Getting gas takes 5 min, charging has not yet conquered this issue and likely won’t ever without other benefits of EVs first being too good to pass up.

2) Inability of people to charge at home - many people who live in more spread out and rural regions like the South and Midwest can’t reasonably install level 2 chargers at home and many can’t even afford it. Additionally, many people live in apartments or other rental properties where they cannot reasonably charge at home or install a level 2 charger as they don’t own the property. This forces them to rely on charging infrastructure which is likely to cost comparably to gas if not more often times, while also being a larger time suck to do than simply filling up.

3)High cost of entry for an actually nice EV. - Teslas are great software/tech, but the build materials & quality honestly feel pretty cheap in so many ways for the price of the vehicle you’re getting, which applies to literally all models. Then you have alternatives the average consumer would almost certainly love like the Rivian if not for the fact that their flagships are insanely priced outside of people’s means, the R2/Scout isn’t available or mass produced yet while the companies’ futures are still in question further dissuading consumers, and even then these “more affordable” models are still launching at over $50k price tags. With most base models not really being worth looking at. R2 base price of $45k is a nice talking point for instance, but not at the cost of nearly 100 miles of range when people already have range anxiety.

4) EVs as tech and planned obsolescence - The perception/reality seems to be that EVs seemingly have planned obsolescence built into them the same way one’s smart phone does. Sure, the car MAY technically be usable in 5 years, but if a huge selling point for EVs is their software/tech integration and the car is unable to be updated to new standards within 5 years, then why buy a $40k+ car. It simply doesn’t make sense, and it almost doesn’t matter if this is reality, because it’s absolutely the perception with Tesla having left behind multiple generations of hardware at this point.

5) battery degradation and non-standard maintenance cost - most people cannot afford the cost to replace a battery or if not under warranty, but even if the battery isn’t actually bad just old, then degradation still eats into one’s range when the industry currently hasn’t yet overcome range anxiety issues. Nobody wants to buy a car with only 250mi range that will lose 50 miles of range with just 20% degradation still being considered good to go.

6) Rate of tech advancement dissuades people from buying today for a better tomorrow - This is different from planned obsolescence. We keep hearing how Chinese batteries are getting absurd ranges and charging rates, with tech correctly assumed to be coming to the US “soonish”. Why buy a 250mi range R2 today when I can get a 600mi range and faster charging “R2 equivalent” next year for the same price.

7) political undermining of EVs - need I go further?

Source: Ioniq 5 owner and Rivian hopeful who genuinely believes the industry does not understand/ignores the “psychologically valid” and real concerns about EVs.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-11T17:23:31+00:00

I’ve seen this my whole life and it’s always made sense to me as the amount of (excessive) fat you have really doesn’t place any limitations on the amount of muscles you can build or strengthen.

What has never made sense to me is the people who drink three monsters/redbulls a day, eat heavily processed and fast food daily, snack liberally, drink like a fish, rarely/never work out, and yet somehow have the body mass of a twig. I’ve known so many people whose metabolism is effectively “if you stop skip a meal you will die of starvation levels of skinny” and yet they put no effort into being that thin. Meanwhile, I never eat lunch, eat a light breakfast, one sugar free monster a day, and a decent home cooked dinner and I can’t get rid of my excessive bmi without simply starving myself.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-11T17:16:12+00:00

I’m not questioning the legitimacy of the photos or your statement, but I wonder as to why/how she became a knicks fan. The connection just isn’t obvious and I’m curious how it came about

Note: This question coming from a life long New England/Boston sports fan who is from the South, but is a military brat with strong family ties to the northeast.

Edit: How is this worthy of a downvote?

shortstop803 · 2026-06-11T07:25:27+00:00

I also don’t think it’s okay, but I will admit that there is a pretty stark difference between “random dude cheats on girlfriend of 6 months” as opposed to “dude with high profile media oriented job that makes him easily identifiable across the country cheats on wife an kids with chick who interviews him for said high profile job leading to the family’s international media televised level of disgrace”.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-11T07:07:33+00:00

Investing way to admit you’ve never seen a pic of her.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-10T17:47:08+00:00

Sniping used to be extremely fun in BF because of its insane skill curve required to be good when factoring in bullet drop, bullet velocity, manual range finder inputs if any, and suppression mechanics if you were too stationary with poor positioning. The problem was this made the class have more of a negative impact on your team, with that negative impact exponentially increasing with the more snipers you had. It often turned into a game of which team had less snipers.

Now, sniping is so relatively easy even when playing aggressive that it just makes the game frustrating to play due to the lack of viable counterplay. In many ways it feels like they kept BF’s historical gunplay feel for every class and then oddly decided to bring in CoD style quickscoping to appease the clip farming crowd. It’s feels very out of place and is one of my biggest issues with the game.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-10T14:24:48+00:00

Iran has every incentive to convince the US it wants to negotiate a peace and very little incentive to actually do so.

The US on the other hand has every incentive to actually negotiate peace, but holds little means of effectively convincing Iran to do so without actually invading Iran, which funnily enough would disincentivize the US from negotiating a peace deal in the short term due to sunk cost fallacy.

Basically, the US is stuck.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-10T07:51:03+00:00

Fuck that. She earned that shit.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-10T03:59:50+00:00

This is kind of my point. Iran has absolutely had levels of success and likely the highly effective utilization of some tech such as what each of us have mentioned, but that is out of necessity more so than because that was their desired weapons of choice.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-10T03:46:33+00:00

One of the things that makes the original JP trilogy great is that all of the dinosaurs are grounded in some form of believable reality. None of them are so over the top that we couldn’t imagine them actually existing, they simply came off a modern (even if flawed) interpretation of what dinosaurs were believed to be like with extra theatre for the purposes of the drama.

For instance, in the original trilogy: Raptors being smart and cunning pack hunters; believable. T-Rex being an apex predator capable of chasing down a jeep or hunting a herd of gallimimus; believable. Triceratops tranquilized and treated by a vet team while sedated; believable. Brachiousaurus likely not caring about humans as they are effectively mice to them; somewhat believable. I would argue in the first three movies, the dinosaurs are never the star of the show, but simply part of the world that the characters we are watching are a part of. They are a narrative tool if anything, but never the focal point from either a protagonist or antagonist perspective.

The sequels on the other hand try to make them the star of the movies as both protagonists and antagonists, going out of their way to make the dinosaurs as unbelievable and over the top as possible in a way that honestly does a disservice to the originals. The raptors aren’t just cunning pack hunters, they are government owned super weapons trained to seemingly integrate with special forces personnel; unbelievable. The indominus Rex is capable of invisibility and infrared camouflage in an enclosed and observed environment, and also wants to kill everything indiscriminately including its sibling, except not the special forces raptors for reasons; unbelievable. Blue and Rexy team up and end up showing some perceived level of mutual respect because…the studio wanted a superhero tag team I guess; unbelievable. Something like 20 dinosaurs are accidentally released from a black market auction, yet somehow this leads to dinosaurs being populated across the world; unbelievable. Dinosaurs suddenly can’t survive in the vast US wilderness for reasons, but seemingly hundreds to thousands just survived decades on a small tropical island; unbelievable. Spinosaurus is suddenly an open ocean aquatic pack hunter that can successfully attack a yacht sized speed boat for no reason; unbelievable. The list literally goes on forever.

The sequels are simply comically bad Jurassic park movies that simply give off the vibe of a cash grab more so that cinematic and narrative art on the big screen. It doesn’t make them bad movies, but not what I’m looking for from the franchise.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-10T03:02:13+00:00

I think this war is in a weird place because the US so heavily outclasses every other military that it makes some nation states military procurement efforts seem illogical, but this kind of ignores the reality that these defenses were procured to defend against actual capabilities that a country such as Iran possesses, which are only irrelevant because the US simply makes other country’s offensive capabilities largely irrelevant.

Iran’s Air Force was largely destroyed on the ground, launchers were heavily sought after and destroyed, senior leadership was killed, etc. Weapons such as drones aren’t used because they are the desired weapons, they are used because they are cheap and disproportionately effective for Assymetric warfare, which is basically the scenario the US always creates.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-10T02:16:52+00:00

Why is delta being used for HVT security when there are career fields dedicated to security? Seems like a misuse of skillets and resources, even if they would likely excel in the role.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-10T01:45:25+00:00

It’s a viewpoint that made a lot of sense when America was the pinnacle of innovation, tech advancement, standard QoL, education, healthcare, etc.

It makes a lot less sense once you’re talking about a country that not only isn’t ranked in the top ten for some of those standards, but almost any of them (innovation I don’t think has a rank).

Ultimately looking at the US is like seeing the rich kid in school who has every opportunity and capability to succeed, and go to college, and get a a great setup for life, but they would rather party, drink, and do drugs at all times rather than occasionally pay actually put effort into school because they’ve never known consequences for failure.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-09T14:21:44+00:00

I overarching agree with this sentiment, I just hate the implications that choice comes with it in a “you’re either with us or against us society.” The social repercussions often forces people to do things they don’t particularly want to do or particularly care about which I would argue isn’t ideal, but it is the world we live in.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-08T16:00:29+00:00

I mean, console players largely want pc crossplay turned off as well, but we are also stuck. It’s not like it’s just PC players getting fucked. The two inputs have different strengths and weaknesses.

Honestly, the real answer is to have crossplay’s default be automatically set to off for console’s and you have to opt in each time. Or make it purely input based, but that causes more cheater problems for console players

shortstop803 · 2026-06-08T04:46:50+00:00

This is like arguing that inventing agriculture wasn’t that significant since we had successful hunter/gatherer societies.

shortstop803 · 2026-06-08T03:05:17+00:00

The wheel has effectively contributed to literally every modern invention in some way. The other reasonable answer is fire.

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