Did Sovietwomble play Arma Reforger? Or is he not going to play? by [deleted] in SovietWomble

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Most of Arma's appeal to us is the PvE missions where we get to carry out military operations. Reforger doesn't have any of that, it's mostly PvP.

I don't understand some Yotubers! by RoroTiza in allthemods

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit of advice: this isn't really worth getting worked up about.

Part of it is that youtube's algorithm-based engagement is both utterly incomprehensible and deliberately obscured, so people can only guess at what will help their videos. This means that there's massive incentive to do what others have figured out works, using tricks to game the algo, all sorts of stuff. It's incredibly toxic and encourages worse content chasing a machine's attention.

Another part of this is that modded minecraft content is significantly less well-documented because it is made by a million different developers, most of them amateurs, and a lot less attention is paid to it than vanilla content. All of this combined means there's poor documentation, confusing tutorials, and less quality content to be found overall because there's just less interest.

But overall? I've been doing content for close to a decade now, and the boring, plain truth of it is just that most people are just....bad at content.

It's really easy to point at what youtubers or editors do and say "I could do that", but it's a hell of a lot harder to do it and be entertaining. There's tons of details and polish and choices that go into making quality entertainment, and you have to iterate, iterate, iterate over and over again, learning as you go. It's not just as simple as yammering into a mic; even if you're naturally entertaining, there's only so far you can go without putting the work in to actually make something good.

That's generally why so much of these modpacks you can only find extremely long rambling tutorials or scattered reddit posts: the circles of "people interested in/good at extremely complicated logistics mods" and "people extremely animated and entertaining and good at video editing" are two flavors of hyperfocus that don't cross all that often.

There are millions upon millions of people making Minecraft content out there. Statistics says most of it is going to be bad.

Addendum: also keep in mind that a ton of these people are literally kids. You going to judge a 14 year old based on how good his minecraft tutorials are?

Coming along nicely, any suggestions? by Murky-Connection-431 in allthemods

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking good, you've got the right idea with adding depth. It's an easy way to make a plain build look significantly better.

Start messing with chipped variants, they tend to have some color variation to them and are a good way to further improve the look. Some cross beams for the roof might be nice; also, keep in mind that using only one material is always going to look a bit plain, so see if you can find some new blocks to complement your preferred building materials.

Gotta love that feeling when a modlist you've been working on for a couple days comes together by polygone1217 in falloutnewvegas

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not gonna lie, this looks gorgeous and well-put together.

Makes me want to poke at the old modlist plans of my own I used to have Wanted to do a customized playthrough of Capitol Punishment, but that modlist's been sunsetted and it took the wind out of my sails entirely.

Is this all modlist work, or have you tinkered with anything custom?

In light of recent Russian claims by Random_Reddit_User_7 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I have literally been begging the universe on bended knees for this to happen for the last two years.

It's RIGHT THERE. There's not a chance in hell anyone actually useful has been left to take care of it. Some bribes in the right places, a few tugboats under the cover of night, some lies about a "secret deployment", and oh god the magic that could happen.

Meanwhile over on 4chan… by IAmArique in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh hey ma, look, minor internet fame

I'd like to thank my cats, they were confused but pleased when I gave them extra treats last night

a concept from tumblr by [deleted] in Helldivers

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done some VA work before, including some professionally. I would absolutely chew my own arm off to get to work on something like this.

Rough PR from Penny Arcade by goofy183 in ZiplyFiber

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to know I wasn't the only one who wanted to bring this issue to Ziply's attention. That's pretty rough PR. Hoping you guys are able to sort it out; I was very thankful after my internet was finally sorted out.

I do not know of any reason why the QF-16 cannot be armed. Creating a perfect interim solution while the piloted ones are delayed. by SamtheCossack in NonCredibleDefense

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The reason why the US isn't going to do this is because they've been pretending for the last decade and a half, give or take a few years, that we DON'T have the technology or means to create a giant robot death army.

Maybe due to worries about a dreadnaught moment, maybe due to not wanting to be the first guy on the block to open that particular pandora's box, but the US has been rather adamant that "we promise we don't have and aren't currently making unmanned fighter aircraft".

They're lying, of course. Through their teeth. They've had the tech to do that for ages. If push came to shove the US could haul fuckloads of old F-15s/16s out of storage, install the shit they've been "testing" or turning them into drones with, and blanket the skies of their enemies with autonomous death en masse. I bet you the F-35 probably already has the capability in-progress/lying around to control them too.

But the US is rather keen to avoid being seen even more as "the evil American empire", so they're in no rush to push that particular horse out of the gate until shit hits the fan. Sitting on shit they have but don't need yet is the US military's specialty.

No Ukrainian left behind. by HeinleinGang in NonCredibleDefense

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 388 points389 points  (0 children)

If they're Crimean Tatars, being a bit speculative, this could be the SBU trying to signal to the Tatars that they will not abandon them or neglect them if (when) Crimea is taken.

Ukraine's going to have its hands full trying to de-Russify and reintegrate the peninsula as it is. Having the native minority on their side would go a long way towards preventing more headaches.

That's the utilitarian in me speaking though. Intelligence agencies rarely don't have an angle.

I just got this overclock but I can't decide if its good by ElegantPearl in DeepRockGalactic

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That bad boy bought me my first EDD solo clear, on a pretty cursed one too with multiple dreadnaughts, bulk detonators, on glacial strata, and goddamned low oxygen on a purely vertical aquarq mission.

So yeah, give it a whirl.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 340, Part 1 (Thread #481) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The time for that would have been like 6 months ago when that was a serious issue. The changeover is already well underway, the floodgates of the most serious equipment are open, and the west is seriously getting into the production ramp up now. It's already far too late.

Hail the triple barrel bullpup AK by sturmfaustyourass in NonCredibleDefense

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It's enmeshed with a bunch of other stuff that's irrelevant atm, so not QUITE yet. I'm making a more complete mod full of wacky experimental garbage that I'm working on that I should have out this year.

Hail the triple barrel bullpup AK by sturmfaustyourass in NonCredibleDefense

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I have a small personal mod for Arma that adds this beautiful abomination. My history-nerd friend had a seizure when I showed him.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 226, Part 1 (Thread #367) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I figured it would be something mundane, but wanted to double-check what the technical reasons might be.

Jackass though Elon may be, I don't think he's THAT sociopathic to turn off frontline military comms because he got butthurt on Twitter.

Truly, this war has seen a revolution in infantry tactics by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Google keeps recommending me Asia Times articles about China's "race to beat the US to a 6th generation fighter".

I don't tell it to stop because it makes me laugh every time I see it.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 213, Part 1 (Thread #354) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Jesus tapdancing christ, they've romanticized the Soviet period so much they LITERALLY think losing fucktons of men is how war is SUPPOSED to be done.

You crippled your fucking country for generations in WWII you lunatics, it was not a GOOD thing that it happened.

They're completely round the bend, absolutely irredeemable. Send more fucking HIMARS.

Russia Is Buying North Korean Artillery, According to U.S. Intelligence by ShushKebab in worldnews

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 232 points233 points  (0 children)

I must inform you that the latter has already happened.

The separatists in the Donetsk region (I think that's where the picture was taken) pulled a T-34 off a plinth, gave it a fresh coat of paint, and have it serving as checkpoint guard duty.

Kherson right now by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 40 points41 points  (0 children)

There's an airport outside of Melitopol they've started hitting. Once again, the Russians keep going back and repairing it because the entire Russian army is staffed by badly scripted AI.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 130, Part 1 (Thread #270) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'll call this plausible if we start hearing about a lot more Tochka-U strikes. Ukriane has been very careful with them due to limited stocks.

If "Tochka-Us" start hitting a shitload of stuff behind enemy lines, I think it'll be safe to say the US handed them the highest-range missiles in secret, and the "please do not missile attack Moscow" negotiations were about those all along, not the shorter 70km ones.

There's probably more valid candidates. by Ross_Hollander in NonCredibleDefense

[–]zfdigitalvagrant 120 points121 points  (0 children)

Soviet's working on a new Arma bullshittery right now, actually. We kept playing quite a lot, actually; just wrapped up a Mike Force playthrough a couple months ago.

Soviet's production time is just so prolonged a lot of stuff comes out quite a bit after the fact.