c0mbatbag3l

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Pound-seconds, I believe. Good ol’ LM giving imperial numbers to NASA.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

It’s almost like a few other games that are hugely popular got released and initial launch numbers never stay that high regardless as the novelty wears off and only the really committed players come back regularly.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

withhold information just to manufacture negative interaction.

Where did he say this? Lol

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Northern Europe, Finland or Sweden I believe, but yeah that’s the general thing they do for lost children.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Oh I’m not European, just a well travelled American.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Whatever his goals are, creating more media worthy events helps obfuscation and that’s just basic art of war.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

They had some weird moments where Tina reverted back to a flanderized version of herself depicted from the POV of someone who doesn’t understand nuance in character, then she was just the typical pissed off modern Hollywood teen archetype.

Claptrap should just be the BL2 VA if possible, no need to keep casting screen actors in VA roles.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

No, they’re saying that as a person they don’t really care about it when relating to characters. We experience things as human beings, not by sexual orientation or sexual identification.

Unless the specific human experience is related to sex/gender in some way, we feel what others feel and relate to them based on the character work and related narrative elements. Not just “is man/woman, please relate.”

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

quietly ignores Rebel Moon and her abysmal performance, and not just the writing either.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

I mean idk about Jinx, she’s more or less just a traumatized wreck with huge guns than anything, but Vi absolutely. Caitlin will get there but her upper crust naivete that’s never been challenged until she goes to Zahn kinda stifles that. Hoping she gets a bigger dose of reality and it changes her character more significantly (just not enough screentime in the last part, really) in season 2.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Cate Blanchett for Lilith, but no lines spoken to showcase her personality. Tina except she’s a Zoomer girl boss that occasionally lapses into the actual Tina in the most superficial ways, Roland but comedy, and the psycho as a main character when you have gunzerker and commando.

This just feels like another quick cash in on an IP that they believed they could turn into pulp action content.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

And start being a good actor.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Maybe people just don’t find the same meme posted 309 times to be that interesting of content.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Literally every US mishap makes the news, are you high?

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Snowden wasn’t leaking military mishaps last I checked.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Everytime a plane skids off the runway you hear about it in the news, sorry your congressman didn’t personally send you a letter about it.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

What’s your favorite place to vacation to?

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

For some reason FOSS bros don’t have any issues with capitalism or security when it comes to Steam, they think Gaben shits gold or something idk. It’s weird. Steam is virtually a monopoly and has had security vulnerabilities in the past but they just plug their ears and ignore it.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

I know that to be true, but if someone is claiming all enlisted personnel are window lickers the best way to prove them wrong immediately is to focus on the technical skill of the average servicemen.

Yeah infantry tactics aren’t for the stupid, not in modern wars at least. Advanced weapon systems and battlefield strategy require someone of reasonable intellect.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

We had literally thousands of people going to school for electronics and various maintenance fields at any given time, it’s not even close to 0.1%. More like 20-30%.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Thousands in training at any one time, there’s tens of thousands actually in the fleet.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Yes, absolutely. Who do you think is fixing all the tanks, ships and planes? You think we outsource that shit?

For every person who fights there are ten who fix their various equipment. Go look up AFSCs and Navy rates and at least half are directly maintenance related.

Every branch has fixed wing aircraft and helicopters, Army and Marines have ground vehicles that need repaired, and the Navy has ships and submarines jam packed with warfare and fire control electronics. It’s crazy you think otherwise and it’s obvious you have no actual knowledge.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

I didn’t say 200,000 people were trained every year, you did. What’s the total volume of the military at any point in time per capital that are in maintenance roles? Whether that’s the FC’s who fix CIWS or the AS’s who repair electrical issues on support equipment, everyone who uses tools to fix something.

Our squadron had almost 100 people in maintenance for 7-10 aircraft depending on mission requirement, that’s not even counting I level who fixed the circuit boards and did soldering which we never even saw. If you saw maintenance to flight hours depicted on a spreadsheet you’d realize it’s not remotely unrealistic for that many people to be in maintenance. Plus, planes and tanks make up less than half of the equipment that needs fixed, what about all the other vehicles infantry uses? The hundreds of ships the Navy uses? How many airman work on nuclear missiles and satellites?

You’re blindspots in how many things need repaired are huge, and your assessment of how many people it takes to fix one plane or one tank is totally off.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

Correct, however I never said that was the amount trained per year which is the only data you’ve shown. I’m not arguing your math, you’re just misrepresenting the problem.

That depends heavily on branch, in the Air Force one guy takes a tire off and another installs it. In the Navy the guy running Quality Assurance checks on your engine swapout might be the guy fueling your plane or launching you out. Same with the Marines.

It’s true that the job of removal and installation is fairly dummy proof given you can read and follow instructions, but actually being able to lay out a schematic/circuit diagram and troubleshoot? Absolutely not lol get the fuck out of here.

c0mbatbag3l, 3 months ago

You gave me numbers that show how many new people are trained in maintenance, you gave zero information about how many people in the military TOTAL are maintenance personnel. I’ve explained why your numbers are meaningless already.

We don’t train people to mop the boat, everyone does that. That’s my point, every skilled technician also does the menial shit, we just take turns doing it. You don’t know that because you aren’t in the military, or you’d be aware of things like duty section and watch rotation, and how cross trained people are.

Imagine having the money and space to have someone who’s only job is swabbing a deck, ridiculous. I’ll take my experience and just fuck off I guess because someone looked up the incorrect statistic for the argument and thinks it proves their point.