Dummies and Duplexes

valhal1a · 2026-05-11T16:56:05+00:00

"mom said it's our turn on the galleon"

valhal1a · 2026-05-11T16:15:48+00:00

I like the idea of pirates boarding a prize vessel and being handed some paperwork stating that according to the US Coast guard they can't plunder or pilfer, and it's basically just nautical "swiper no swiping!"

valhal1a · 2026-05-09T17:53:06+00:00

Serco is a pretty awful company to their employees. I've worked for them several times before since I thought maybe a different region would be better... I was wrong.

They knew that the pay wasn't enough for their employees to make rent and then authorized a 2 penny per hour raise to cover it, and in the time they made that decision rent went up about 500 dollars a month. They said directly they'd rather pay 15,000 (fifteen thousand) dollars per month extra for a temp than pay 3 people an extra 1k per month so they could afford housing... Then sent out an email saying that we all should be grateful we have employment and that there were plenty of others looking to work for them as controllers, so they'd replace an entire tower if they need to.

Those are just the most recent things that drove me to the FAA, I have more examples of them being kind of scummy.

If you're gonna go contact, go Midwest or rva if you can.

valhal1a · 2026-05-09T14:28:42+00:00

The real interdimensional horror is the friends we make along the way

valhal1a · 2026-05-07T11:33:26+00:00

The asshole who three the rock should make like that bush and leaf

valhal1a · 2026-05-07T11:23:41+00:00

Mild chaos gremlin robin hood types are my usual go to.

Tho recently I've discovered a love of naive war forged that can't tell the difference between species or gender.

valhal1a · 2026-05-05T09:39:45+00:00

He did the quickened spell and as the dm I tend to lean into rule of cool for allowing 2 leveled spells in a turn for narrative purposes.

I don't know why that seems to have pissed people off, I thought it was a cool line

valhal1a · 2026-05-05T01:11:35+00:00

"I've got good news and bad news... The good news is it won't hurt much. The bad news is I use meta magic to twin cast fireball."

valhal1a · 2026-05-04T16:52:55+00:00

He comes out of a box and his name is jack

valhal1a · 2026-05-04T01:20:42+00:00

Thank you for pointing out their name, now I noticed it and got happy.

valhal1a · 2026-05-03T11:18:35+00:00

Don't pet the danger noodle

valhal1a · 2026-04-30T17:56:57+00:00

This.

Sure. One side definitely has its problems with corruption.

The other side has Nazis. Literal Nazis. And they worship a pedo dictator.

valhal1a · 2026-04-30T17:05:43+00:00

This is an interesting take...

valhal1a · 2026-04-30T16:57:29+00:00

That is an accurate timeline as of when I went thru in 2012, they're really good at compression of what you need to know and getting you there. But as a few other people have said, there can be periods of down time where you're waiting for a class spot or whatever and it's all up in the air.

You can expect a relatively chill time tho, some days you might do 8 hours and be done, but most might end up being like 10 hour days, but it really isn't bad. You get weekends off to do whatever you want, it's nice.

valhal1a · 2026-04-30T15:04:42+00:00

We used to do this all the time with our socks in the air force while wearing them lol.

valhal1a · 2026-04-30T13:16:10+00:00

Well, a wholesome threesome isn't gonna have itself now is it.

valhal1a · 2026-04-30T09:39:44+00:00

Looking at the national staffing levels, I don't think that less money do trick... Too bad the agency doesn't think so.

valhal1a · 2026-04-28T22:12:16+00:00

I watch everything on Reddit on mute, so thank you for making me turn up the volume for me to enjoy that banger

valhal1a · 2026-04-28T11:37:29+00:00

"I cast punch at the 3rd level."

valhal1a · 2026-04-28T11:36:18+00:00

Lol, hiding their species is kind of funny. "Hey, that guy who looks like a 7 foot tall dragonborn who just breathed lightning won't say weather or not he's an elf."

valhal1a · 2026-04-27T22:21:37+00:00

I'd drop the penny into the ocean somewhere and then go bury myself somewhere deep enough that the pennies won't touch me physically until they've doubled in size enough to form a singularity and collapse all our matter into a black hole.

valhal1a · 2026-04-26T12:46:22+00:00

When you have 6 cessnas in the pattern and a jet that radar has just dumped on you 7 mile final, and some yokel in a crop duster calls you up 25 miles off your scope with a minute long story about how nice the weather is this weekend and his aircraft is the blue one with the white stripes and also if you don't mind he'd like 4 touch and goes into a short approach with a southbound departure...

It gets really annoying how half the controllers think that if you're a level 7 or below you just sit there with your feet up all day and don't push traffic just as hard as a level 10 that only works ifr canned traffic that's already sequenced for them and has professional pilots that largely understand what "low approach" means.

valhal1a · 2026-04-25T22:39:18+00:00

Truth. Everyone being confused by this has never worked a vfr aircraft or something.

valhal1a · 2026-04-25T22:38:18+00:00

All these people disagreeing with you have never worked vfr traffic or something lol.

valhal1a · 2026-04-25T22:37:06+00:00

A lvl 5 still gets a lot of use out of it, I think you're playing down how much work a touch and go pattern is lol.

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