halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on So guess what boss 6 hours ago:
Meanwhile it would have cost $$ for both the downtime and repair cost to fix the issue before failure. Now that it failed it will cost $$$$$ to fix it as an emergency.
- Comment on I have questions 8 hours ago:
Reminds me of a place on Atlanta. Chinese restaurant on one side, and a wing place on the other. They even had a door between them. All the unused wings from breaking down those chickens just ending up next door.
- Comment on Is Ace Combat 8 (Deluxe) worth getting for ¥11,990? 10 hours ago:
This preorder includes the new PC remake for Ace Combat Zero for free.
The only scenario where I would consider it a positive value. A free game I would normally purchase anyway.
- Comment on Is Ace Combat 8 (Deluxe) worth getting for ¥11,990? 10 hours ago:
It’s $89.99 in the US for the Deluxe Edition.
Also keep in mind the preorder comes with the PC remake of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War. One of the three best AC games, only playable on PS2 or emulators, with mixed results. So basically you get two Ace Combat games for the price of one by preordering. It does not need to be the Deluxe version, just a preorder in general.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 10 hours ago:
As terrible as much of that movie is… It is a great movie overall and a recommended watch.
- Comment on Israel, Stunned by Trump’s Iran Deal, Sees It as a ‘Catastrophic Capitulation’ 2 days ago:
A reminder that we were instrumental in that regime in the first place. Iran had a democratically elected leadership in place and were very similar to Western democracies before the US and UK helped topple that government in 1953 because we didn’t like it.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says "YouTube monetizes Xbox better than we do", ahead of expected layoffs | Satya Nadella bemoans performance of Xbox 4 days ago:
You’re describing the entire AAA gaming industry. It was like that before Xbox, and it will be like that after.
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 5 days ago:
I can understand someone drawing a line between the playground and sewage facility when it comes to putting things in their mouth… But that’s not really the same on the receiving end.
- Comment on Browser? I barely knew her! 5 days ago:
They did a shittier version of the same episode on the Orville after finding some woman’s “ancient recording device” aka a basic ass iPhone, and I do not understand why people claim that’s a good show.
Ah yes… Because a device from 400 years in the past could never be considered “ancient” by anyone.
- Comment on Why even try? The peak of humor has already been reached 1 week ago:
Had a neighbor in the area that had a flagpole with a US Flag and Trump flag for years. After the Epstein files came out and Charlie Kirk was killed… That became a US flag and Turning Point USA flag. At some point for a bit there was a don’t tread on me flag sprinkled in there.
We’ve been considering getting an even taller pole just to fly a US flag, Don’t Tread On Me flag, and the LGBTQ rainbow flag. Because it will 100% confuse the fuck out of them.
All of a sudden last week, the neighbor’s entire flag pole is gone. Oh and this neighbor’s address is on the sex offender registry for sexual crimes with a minor. Of course.
Still not sure why the entire pole is missing, can’t even tell where it used to be in the ground.
- Comment on 'We Are Well Above Our Forecasts' — 007 First Light Sales Are Now at 3 Million, IO Interactive 'Very Confident' It Will Be Profitable 2 weeks ago:
Layoffs after a launch are normal. Studios don’t need the same set of employees to support a game after launch, or to start on a new one as they do to finish a release. There is a lot of turnover in the industry because of it. Not every position is needed from beginning to end over several years.
Not everyone working on games are direct employees either, some will be contract. And bonuses can still be paid out after people are no longer actively needed if that was part of the pay structure they had. We don’t know exactly how all of that was setup at IOI.
- Comment on What do they put in this stuff? 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, let me just drop on by to the store around the corner in [insert basically anywhere other than the EU] that regularly stocks a specific German soda.
GTFO
- Comment on Aerosol 2 weeks ago:
That’s because the root of both is to converse. To keep things the way they are.
Politics gets in the way of that reality since they don’t actively want to keep it the same, they actually want to regress back to previous times they can exploit personally.
- Comment on Im pretty sure Charlie Kirk would have called for your execution 2 weeks ago:
Public personas are often the opposite of reality.
How many vocally anti-gay Republicans are just closeted? Enough to nearly crash Grindr every time they have an event anywhere.
- Comment on Damn straight! 2 weeks ago:
And the union would have more justification for negotiating a new even higher wage then they currently have.
- Comment on How to Stop the Affluent from Rigging the Housing Market 3 weeks ago:
Second part is limiting companies to just a handful of single family homes. Applying to all related parent companies and subsidiaries. Only exception for homes used by employees more than 50% of the year. To accommodate businesses that pay for housing as part of compensation, long term travel, relocation assistance, etc.
- Comment on How to Stop the Affluent from Rigging the Housing Market 3 weeks ago:
One fix that works everywhere would be increasing property taxes on any housing that isn’t occupied for more than 50% of the year. This is primarily aimed at landlords setting insane prices and allowing places to sit vacant for years at a time.
Place isn’t renting out at your price? It’s overpriced. Regardless of what you want to believe.
Taxes increase for every 6 months it’s unoccupied. Force the market pricing back down to what the market can actually bear. Invest the increased taxes into public housing and infrastructure.
Hell, do the same for commercial real estate. Deflate the real estate bubble slowly instead of waiting for it to explode like we always do historically.
- Comment on GTA 6 Developers Announce Rockstar Games Union 3 weeks ago:
GTA Online has made more than $5 Billion from shark cards alone. Printing money for them is a massive understatement.
- Comment on ‘Hundreds of job applications’: young people on their struggle to find work 3 weeks ago:
They already know who they want in the position. Leaving it open is just to give some coverage that they considered other candidates even when they have no intention to do so.
- Comment on It's only illegal if you don't film it 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t appear so… But It’s a meme not a trope, and there is a knowyourmeme page.
- Comment on Samsung faces strike from nearly 48,000 union workers 4 weeks ago:
“But the union will take $50 from every paycheck! That’s money I need!”
- Comment on DNAddy 5 weeks ago:
Pervitin was an early form of methamphetamine, in large use by the Nazi military. Kept soldiers awake and alert and minimized appetite to stretch rations. Research around it and similar things helped further addiction and psychological distress.
Elektroboot was the first electric submarine able to stay submerged for large lengths of time without needing to vent things like diesel exhaust. Even being able to charge while submerged.
The Intramedullary Rod, an essential part of modern orthopedic surgery to heal broken bones.
The Horton Ho 229 was an early attempt at stealth and flying wing aircraft. While never fully produced, the development led to further research after resulting in modern stealth aircraft and overall aircraft efficiency, and by extension detection and tracking.
The Enigma Machine was a marvel of cryptographic security. Pretty sure this stands on its own.
Messerschmitt Me 262 was the first mass produced fighter jet. Much of even modern jet propulsion technology stemmed from this research.
3D Films were used to enhance their propaganda well before Hollywood considered it.
The Z4 Computer was one of the earliest commercial digital computers.
Of course the V2 rocket. And by extension every Project Paperclip scientist brought back to the US to develop space technology at NASA, up to and including the Saturn V rocket and Apollo missions.
The jerrycan, for fuel transport. Literally named after the British slang for German soldiers. So useful the Allies adopted it during the war.
Chloroquine, an anti-Malaria drug developed by the Nazis, initially toxic but further refined after the war.
Night vision technology also had massive developments made by their military scientists.
- Comment on 4 layers is minimum 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure it’s stealing that’s a primary concern. It’s probably more that single ply doesn’t clog very often, even when using a ton of paper. It’s easier to flush, especially in a commercial type environment with high pressure flushing toilets. Which means less need for EVS to clean up issues, either intentional or not.
- Comment on DNAddy 5 weeks ago:
Yup. Many Nazi scientists only cared about the research. A lot of medical and physics breakthroughs last century directly resulted from those experiments.
- Comment on dont do it 1 month ago:
Basically, but man traps are not usually airtight or even have a pressure differential. Usually just a room that can only be opened externally and only one exit can be opened at a time.
- Comment on When will gas stations start selling rotisserie chicken? 1 month ago:
Nothing prevents US businesses from doing the same. Just greed (in the interest of squeezing every penny of shareholder value) by instead stocking as little as possible that can go bad quickly. Which means minimal fresh foods. So shareholders get a couple extra pennies in exchange for the entire business being seen as a piece of shit with crappy products.
Other businesses do just fine with fresh food, look at something like QT for a direct example. They even have made to order products, not just product delivered daily.
- Comment on When will gas stations start selling rotisserie chicken? 1 month ago:
If only whoever runs 7-11 internationally would take over the US stuff to bring that state side.
- Comment on Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys 1 month ago:
I’m interested in joining this Torment Nexus. It sounds like a great opportunity and a perfect match for my extensive skill set. Where can I apply?
- Comment on NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space 2 months ago:
The chances of a solar particle hitting your RAM and causing a bit to flip are tremendously unlikely as well, but there’s hardware made to prevent that from happening (I realize ECC does more than that).
- Comment on I guess it's better than XP 2 months ago:
I mean, by definition, an ATM cannot be airgapped. It needs a network connection of some sort to verify your account info.
And that doesn’t even take into account the various banking networks allowing you to use ATMs from other banks.
