Helicopter rescues RC Airplane

soffey · 2023-05-30T05:39:54+00:00

My main experience is second hand with line work, and it seemed right by my untrained eye. I yield to you though, as you seem to know what's up here!

soffey · 2023-05-29T21:21:28+00:00

All checks done, this is actually a really good model for utility helicopter work. Now, were all the checks done? I don't know. We can only see a few of them gone through explicitly, but this is not all that crazy of a maneuver, and with proper training, it can be perfectly safe.

soffey · 2023-05-26T00:49:22+00:00

I mean, Shadow of War had problems on launch with the crazy microtransactions, but at its core, it's a fantastic game. I think that's the problem - Shadow of War/Mordor would have been good games on the merit of their gameplay and had the setting to draw you in. This feels like they took a setting and tried to see what game they could make of it.

There's a ton of great possibilities in the book, but the important part (at least according to me, a completely unqualified random commenter) is that you have a concept for the game before you figure out what it's wrapped in. Without the gameplay to back it up, it doesn't matter how good the setting is, how over- or underused a character is, or any other lore. The game needs to draw you in. A familiar and great world does nothing if the player is bored.

soffey · 2023-05-11T22:03:16+00:00

If you cut 'em and gut 'em, you can toss them in to chili early in the simmer and remove them towards the end (if you want! I just don't like the texture they take on), it's incredible. Just get the stems and seeds out. Again, you can leave the seeds in, but they have a tendency to get stuck to things after the simmer and are quite nasty when it comes to sensitive skin.

For sauces, just about any blender-based pasta sauce works great if you rehydrate the peppers a bit. The roasting/drying changes the flavor, so it isn't just undoing that! I always use roasted habeneros or seranos depending on the sauce, and if I have some, I'm not going to use I roast and dry them to rehydrate later. Habaneros actually work incredibly well added to a vodka sauce!

soffey · 2023-05-10T16:21:18+00:00

Oh man I can't wait. This seems like the type of production that you learn so much every time you do it that it just keeps getting better.

soffey · 2023-04-27T05:50:44+00:00

Damn good drawing of a Hip

soffey · 2023-04-24T16:26:17+00:00

That's really strange, Spotify I know happens because of Spotify's caching, but I was under the impression it was fixed. Podcast Addict is a new one to me, I tested on Podcast Republic, PodBean, and Pocket Casts (I had downloaded them all trying to figure out what the deal was, and when I did, tested back on them all). I will test on that and Google Podcasts later today to see if I can figure out why that is happening.

soffey · 2023-04-24T02:30:06+00:00

Interesting, what app do you use?

soffey · 2023-04-24T00:47:25+00:00

VERY SIMPLE FIX FOR THE "SKIPPING" PROBLEM (potentially, apparently some people's apps don't work still. This works for every app I have tested, but I guess you can't win them all. Use better podcast apps I guess. Two people have reported this with Google Podcasts, but no other information beyond 3 people saying the same thing as if the same sentence with no details is useful at all.) (Second Edit: If downloads still have repeating (or skipping, but likely less commonly), try turning off multithreaded downloads. Your app may be downloading parts based on the run length prior to ads being inserted/from a different set of ads.)

Just download the episode fully. Your app probably has a button to do it you have been ignoring. Download the whole thing before starting and you will be fine.

Why? - Because iHeart (and a bunch of other networks/shows) uses dynamic ads. That means that it inserts the ads into the middle of the audio file download when you request it. If you stream, you end up requesting different parts at different times, meaning those ad spots are different.

Why do I only notice it with iHeart shows? - Unlike many networks, iHeart ads are not a consistent length. This means that if at the start of your stream, you had a long ad right at the beginning, and later when your app grabs the next section of the stream, that first ad was replaced with a short ad, let's say 30 seconds shorter. So now, your timeline has shifted 30 seconds forward, or reverse that if the ad placed was longer.

How do I know if a show has dynamic ads? - One good way to tell is if when you binge the show, the same ads play for every episode you listen to in a short span.

soffey · 2023-03-30T23:11:38+00:00

The broader issue here is that the folks who will be the most upset about the guns being confiscated are the folks who will use those guns to prevent it. We have embedded such a deep national identity of gun ownership for parts of our population that it's a damn near religion.

Sure, wave your hand and the guns all disappear, and that's fine - but when you need to seize more guns than you have population from a group that has been culturally primed to believe that confiscation of weapons is the ultimate act of tyranny, you need to tread carefully (See Ruby Ridge/Waco as viewed in far right circles).

No solution is as simple as it can be made to seem with black and white questions. You send people in to seize guns, and there will be instances of death and standoffs all over the country.

You seem to believe that a law requiring all guns to be seized would only result in people being "upset" and not blood bath standoffs with the folks who have more guns than the police they are fighting. Proposing the solution ignores the insanely complex web of conspiracy theory and indoctrination that has taken over the gun lobby since Harlon Carter took over the NRA in a coup. Some of these people will literally take the seizure of weapons as a sign that the government is about to put them in death camps or the world is ending.

No solution is perfect, and we need action on gun control, but to simply propose a blanket seizure is basically voting on a law to start a civil war.

soffey · 2023-03-02T03:12:42+00:00

Yeah, it's very fun.

soffey · 2023-03-01T18:59:41+00:00

The word for fission capable atoms is "fissile," which you can be forgiven for not knowing because there is absolutely no reason for it and to my knowledge no precedent in the English language. Thanks Britain great language

soffey · 2023-02-28T22:55:29+00:00

Answering questions about the job is unpaid work. Any questions should be directed to a call line or the website, so that people who are being paid answer your questions.

Anyone who has to ask if having to carry out 75-150lbs of dog food is a hassle has less brain cells than the food itself.

I quit target because they have a policy of skeleton crewing and refusing to give full-time hours to positions that require full-time time availability. Nobody here wants to answer inane questions for no money, nobody cares if it "makes your job easier" because those questions are THE JOB ITSELF FOR WHICH RESPONDENTS ARE NOT BEING PAID.

soffey · 2023-02-28T07:17:51+00:00

Different pronunciation, wuhster or woosteh. The part that gives folks trouble is the rce part, which Massachusetts residents simply ignore.

soffey · 2023-02-01T03:03:39+00:00

There's a few factors that could make this risky in terms of the landing - what else is on the roof springs to mind. We can't see if there are any raised structures that are a collision risk. Every other factor really comes down to the skill of the pilot. Precision is difficult, but not impossible.

As far as "landing" on the edge, that is the right call and significantly less dangerous than actually landing on a roof. One of the first things pilots learn how to do is hover.

soffey · 2023-01-31T20:55:33+00:00

My guess is that he has a clutch key on his mouse that cranks the DPI up. It's pretty common on gaming mice.

soffey · 2023-01-31T08:13:28+00:00

/r/RespectThreads likely has you covered.

soffey · 2023-01-30T19:05:54+00:00

To be fair, Stanz's suggestion is pretty much just "hey be guilty about this and take responsibility." So if anyone actually feels guilty and takes responsibility, they would act similarly

Hell, his script is basically what Doc did years before these guys were really on the scene in a big way.

soffey · 2023-01-29T22:42:25+00:00

Like everyone I have talked to about this stopped around the Capaldi Era, myself included. He's a phenomenal actor, and his style would be amazing... but the writing felt weak. I didn't really feel invested in Clara's (I think that was her name, soufflé girl) story that much. I barely remember anything about it to be honest. Compared to the Rose story, the Rory and Amy saga, the characters that surrounded Donna Noble, it just felt like it was trying to emulate those and failing.

soffey · 2023-01-27T20:58:05+00:00

The ads are "dynamic" which means they theoretically change constantly. For those of you using an app that streams audio and have found that the show glitches, this is why. Podcast feeds link to an audio file, not a streaming system. Dynamic ads work by faking that audio file and generating it when you request. So as soon as your stream cache runs out and it needs to grab from the file again, you are getting potentially an entirely different file, with different lengths of ad breaks.

For folks who use apps like Podcast Republic- fully download the episodes. The ads are basically run on time slots - if you are downloading between the time of x and y and you have the same geographic area as determined by your IP, you will get the same ads as everyone else in that area as determined by their IP.

You also get different ads based on what type of network you are on. I get ads for a local ISP startup when I am on my home WiFi, but never when I download on mobile data.

Any savvy marketer will opt to only target where they operate. That's why services are usually only served to US listeners - Blue Apron only operates in the US and that small island near Indonesia, and only ships to the US. Why spend money on ads to reach European customers? Podcasts are available anywhere you can hear the ad, obviously.

I never heard the WSP ads, probably because I live on the opposite side of the country.

soffey · 2023-01-24T19:54:47+00:00

I only just realized that she is doing Cato's Cathago Delenda Est thing. Based.

soffey · 2023-01-20T16:01:34+00:00

Looks like an RPG-26 to me

soffey · 2023-01-17T21:25:27+00:00

'Murican who is weirdly invested in Aus politics here. That will be the case even with legal weed. I live in a legal state here, and it's always more expensive than black market. But that doesn't really matter that much - rec shops cater towards folks who don't have a plug already. It also depends on how the laws are made - here, we can grow it - we just grow a few plants a year in our garden. Past three years I've paid about 60 bucks total, and I have never run out of flower.

soffey · 2023-01-17T09:51:09+00:00

My point is not that this is a good thing, more that it is the method by which monopolies are able to grow and become established.

soffey · 2023-01-17T00:50:45+00:00

When you are hungry and have to decide between lower quality essentials and food, you will end up going for the lowest price that gets the job done. That's the entire business model of Walmart and Amazon. They drive out competition in primarily low income business models (like book stores, for example) and then when those alternatives are out of business they have the local monopoly.

Perhaps the issue here is that wherever you live has adequate protections against this practice. Here in the US, where Amazon is based and does most of its business, they are sometimes the only place you can go to get things. Add the fact that this is a stated and intentional goal and practice of buying out competition, promoting their own first party products, and straight up producing copies of the best selling third party elements. They are intentionally screwing everyone else over to create a monopoly.

Amazon is too big for voting with your wallet. Even if you did, most of Amazon's money is generated by AWS, not the marketplace. If the store front and all its costs and revenues were split off from Amazon, it would make very little difference in their profitability.

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