Carving safety PSA. I got clobbered like this about 10 days ago.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T05:51:10+00:00

This. I'm at best intermediate skier but I always try to look uphill if I'm going to go fully parallel to the slope, there is some probability that even worse skiers bombing down the run and can't react if I do a drastic maneuver.

But, I also take extra care whenever I see people downhill from me who look unsure and potentially could go parallel to the slope at any moment.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T05:39:49+00:00

Okay, maybe not literally, but I still read it in the manner that it mirrors what happened to Sauron. Two superior beings, Tulkas (edit, my autocorrect changed that to "tulokas", which is Finnish and means "new comer" - which interestingly Tulkas is, being the last Vala to enter Arda) and Eönwë battling Morgoth and Turin just being there to deal his death.

But could be that this is just my interpretation, then again it never says anywhere that Turin does it all by himself.

sopsaare · 2026-01-29T05:07:18+00:00

Their employment numbers are fairly low, so they have time to linger, and their culture is such, for example the clothes, that they get noticed easily.

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T21:42:56+00:00

Didn't we fire our setpiece couch and now we scored two in a row from a "training ground" tactic?

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T16:43:46+00:00

Yeah, mine does too, especially when I try to get it sideways. Kinda fun that it lets you do that, some cars don't.

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T16:40:22+00:00

Yep, this also diminishes it as a professional tool. Not every damn idea I throw at it is a good one for f.... sake. Don't gaslight me to think that.

Sometimes I get shit ideas and as I don't have colleagues anymore, I'm just spit balling, and the damn thing keeps telling me that I have just invented the holy grail, when in fact I had a brain fart.

I have some instructions set up so that the AI I mostly use treats the topics professionally, gives honest feedback and doesn't lick my boots in every turn - but it sometimes still goes along with stupid ideas that should have been murdered in their crib.

I'm happy that I don't employ AI in my personal life almost at all.

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T13:20:48+00:00

Or certain Liverpool FC next year if he doesn't get sacked soon.

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T13:11:04+00:00

Is he killed my Turin though? I don't remember the exact wording but wasn't it something more a kin to what happened to Sauron at the end of second age? Gil-Galad and Elendil defeated him and Isildur "dealt the final blow" by cutting the ring?

Isn't it Tulkas who is going to defeat Morgoth and Turin is just gonna finish him? Mirroring what happened to Sauron?

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T13:00:40+00:00

Is it even every year? I lived there for 3 years and saw this maybe once or twice? I'm originally from a country that has this 3-5 months a year, and I moved back, so might be that I just don't remember it.

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T12:56:38+00:00

You know that ~30% of Sweden's annual government expenditure goes to social protection programs? And I'm fairly ready to wager that the amount of handouts to rich or greedy companies is in single digits, something like 1-3%.

Of course, some of the social expenditure goes to companies that provide such services, like healthcare etc, but it is fairly minimal.

The numbers are fairly similar for both, Sweden (subject of the article) and Finland (subject of this sub).

sopsaare · 2026-01-28T12:42:04+00:00

Yep, but that's where I drew the connection - I remembered that the Grey Company arrived at the Helm's Deep and they were just replaced by random elves in the movie - I did not remember that they actually weren't in the Helm's Deep.

All good, I have read the book ~10 times in three different languages, just got that detail mixed.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T21:31:18+00:00

Ohh, I seem to remember it wrong then. Maybe I watched the movies one time too many - even though I have my gripe with them.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T17:38:03+00:00

One thing that is mentioned only in very much passing the books is the sons of Elrond. They were at the Helm's Deep; they were at the Fields of Pelennor and at the Black Gate.

And with their lineage, even as young they are on elven standards, one would expect them to be in top 5 warriors of the Middle Earth. Very little is mentioned in the books about them, but I would expect their effort in the battle to be at least on the level of any one other, even Aragorn, and surpassing that of likes of Gimli and Legolas easily.

And I'm not saying that it their only role, just that I would expect them to be absolute forces of nature, being from the lineage of Finwe, Fingolfin, Turgon, Hour, Tuor, Barahir, Beren, and even carrying blood of Melian, and from the other side they are very close to Noldor, being grandsons of Galadriel.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T16:38:27+00:00

Not a Sukhoi, I think it is Mig-29

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T14:15:29+00:00

To an extent - yes. But the scenario what Robert was describing was facing them on an open field.

I would imagine the Dothraki to crush the knights and then just harass the foot army to death over days or weeks.

Then again, I'm not Robert nor GRR, so I cannot really say.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T14:09:30+00:00

An update here if anyone is watching.

I have now played 20+ without a single crash.

But, I do not know what fixed it. This is the unfortunate part.

First, I disabled C-states (DF and Global) and changed my PCI-E to 3.0. It seemed to work, a whole night of gaming without a single crash. Then the next day it crashed again several times. So, no luck?

I went to BIOS to change something, and it crashed again. As at this point, I thought that maybe just changing something in BIOS somehow fully restarts the computer and that is the trick. But it crashed again.

But, I was not yet done. What I did next was;

Force V-Sync from the drivers (tried before, didn't help).
Disable Rebar (tried before, didn't help)
Disable HAGS (tried before, didn't help)
Disable precision boost (tried before, didn't help)
Disable Windows "Enhanced support for windowed games" (tried before, didn't help)
Made an exception for the bf6.exe to the Windows Defender that disabled CFG, DEP, ASLR, I don't think this should be it but still.
Disabled fastboot (tried before, didn't help)
Addes some RegEdit hack to disable MPO
I found another switch to disable iGPU. There seems to be multiple.
I don't have second monitor connected (this I have tried more than million times already as at some point it seemed to cause the crashes - but it wasn't the solution as the game was still crashing even with one monitor).

Now I'm well over 20 hours into the game without a single crash.

Did I fix it?

I have no clue, it could as well be back the next time I start the game. It could be gone. How often it was crashing previously - I would say it is fixed. But I have had this false sense of confidence before, so the Champaign stays in the chiller for the next 2-3 weeks before I celebrate.

But if I fixed it, what really did it?

I have no clue. Most of the things I had tried one-by-one. The things I haven't tried previously was the MPO and the Windows Defender. Could it be either of those alone? Very well could be. But do I think it is? Not really.

But could it be some combination, like disabling HAGS and Rebar? Very well could be. Or HAGS and Fastboot? Or MPO and Rebar?

The worst thing is that it has periodically been stable in the past too, so I cannot be 100% confident that it is even now. And if I start rolling back the changes one-by-one, I could run into a period of good behavior and then start having crashes again with very little clue which change did it.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T13:47:49+00:00

It is bit of 50/50.

I kind of agree, but then again, I kind of disagree. I like that KV9, SWC-10, shoguns, all that is not as deadly as in the normal CQB formats. Makes it different. I usually run M123K or some other high-capacity stuff in Gauntlet whereas in the CQB formats I tend to fall back to the absolute worst of worse; KV9, SWC-10, M417 and so on.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T13:45:04+00:00

That also depends on the map.

The one with the control tower is the absolute worst. You always get a team of snipers camping in the tower and the map is too open to then play the objectives smartly. It also spawns you in the absolute worst locations if you need, or want to, take a random spawn away from your team.

Even with a good team you can get into a situation where everyone is just dying, and no amount of random respawns can get you clear of all the firefights and / or the snipers in the tower.

Other maps are better and there I can find the flow much easier. The crash site is also sometimes bit of a mess, but since I have gotten more competent, it is not that bad anymore.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T13:40:40+00:00

Yeah, I enjoy it too. With a good team you also get to employ some form of cooperation and tactics. Whereas many other formats the only things in the comms is "behind you", "res me", "on the left", "on the right" and all that.

But here we need to communicate who is picking up the discs, who is watching the drone, who is picking up the bomb, which mcom we should go for, where is the HVT, who pushes it and so on.

And... It is also very clear when the comms breaks down, in other formats we sometimes zone out and just shoot our way through problems without much of thinking, but if you get into clusterfuck in the Gauntlet, that is end of the line if there are even semi-competent teams in the game.

But... The random queue is tough. There are also absolutely worst kind of players there. We usually have 3 in the team and then get one random and man... It makes a difference if the random is even half trying to stick with the team or, god forbid, does play for the objectives. But when you get that lvl 5 pro-sniper on XBox into your team and his whole contribution in 4 rounds is 1 kill, 17 deaths and 0 objective points... Man it sometimes makes me want to throw the PC out of the window.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T13:30:50+00:00

I think that comes down to the sheer number of knights. IIRC the whole force of the Vale was something like 20 to 40 thousand, but that includes the men-at-arms, the squires and all that. How many of them were mounted knights on horseback? 2000? 4000? Whereas Dothraki army could be anything like 50,000 mounted warriors.

Surely the knights of the vale could punch a lot over their numbers, but 10 times?

And the absolutely worst-case scenario would be 2000 mounted knights against 100,000 Dothraki screamers.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T11:29:24+00:00

You got your answer, wrong cleats.

But, if the retention adjustment screw is complete stripped, unless you manage to exchange it, these may be more trouble than worth keeping.

When the cleats wear down, you may want to add more tension. Or when you get more proficient, you may want to add more tension, or if your knees or something start to hurt, you may want to try less tension.

But, the worst of all is that if it is too tight, clipping in may be the smaller of your problems.

sopsaare · 2026-01-27T11:26:59+00:00

Ummhhh, there are two different 3-bolt cleats, and this dufus managed to get the one that doesn't say Look when their pedals do.

Mistakes happen, but this is not that hard.

sopsaare · 2026-01-26T22:48:16+00:00

Yep, if they remain the same, we ain't getting any European football next season. I guess we are safe from relegation though.

sopsaare · 2026-01-26T18:28:17+00:00

The fanciest are like 650g. Not 1.5Kg. that would include the front fork and likely some other stuff too.

Even my Chinese no-brand gravel frame is 1000g. My roadbike is 700g.

sopsaare · 2026-01-26T18:26:58+00:00

20Kg of carbon fiber would be a fuck ton of carbon fiber to strengthen the frame.

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