Ulric

On 4/23/2018 at 8:57 PM, Meplat said:

If you have not seen it, "Violet Evergarden" is worth a watch.

 

 

Being the still shameful weeb that I am, I've gotten a couple episodes into it. In an absolute sense, it's an OK show so far. Some of the awkwardness just leads to asking more questions about the characters pasts.

In a relative sense, it's an outright phenominal show, considering the pedobait shlock that passes for anime these days. I want to say that the bar has fallen a but we all know that the bar was never very high to begin with. "Congratulations, you don't pander to the deviant filth that it's the lowest common denominator." Isn't exactly high praise, but this show does deserve more than that. So far it is above the level of mediocrity, and that's better than most.

"Everything has gone wrong, the asteroid redirect mission fucked up."

-@RobotMinisterofTrueKorea

10 hours ago, Collimatrix said:

 

Here is a link to the article.

Fuck this guy.

Nineteen percent of the maximum Carnot efficiency of the difference between 100 celsius and room temperature is about two percent.  And that's something engineers have been able to do for nearly two centuries now; Seebeck Effect devices have similar performance and they've been around since 1821.  It's never been cost-effective; the juice is absolutely not worth the squeeze.

If I remember correctly, this cunt was involved with Abound Solar along with Pat Stryker. Not his first time to the green energy scam rodeo.

For those not in Colorado, Abound was basically a scaled down version of the Solyndra pooch screw. They used a solar panel company to launder federal "renewable energy" money to politicians.  The company went bankrupt, and selling everything at auction didn't even make enough money to decontaminate the sight of be the cadmium telluride and cadmium chloride that they were using to make the panel. Typicaltion bullshit.

Sometimes cupola shots do ridiculous things, if you have enough explosive filler and the right fuse. I've completely crew killed a T-54, including the driver, with one shot from my IS-6 to the commanders cupola. Big enough shells can do other interesting things, too. Like in WoT, IS-6 fights in War Thunder are amusing. I was going for a cupola shot, but I missed and skipped the round off of his turret roof. WT has a 7x overmatch rule, so it wasn't going to plow through like in WoT. However, when you have a large shell hitting thinner armor, it can generate spalling on the other side even without penetration. So, the spalling from the ricochet knocked out everyone in his turret, leaving him on a forced respawn.

The downside of this vessel.

14 of my 32 gigs of RAM is going to KSP

The Sovetsky Kerbania, my newest cruiser designed to provide logistical and long range support to Kulako and Kerbinov

Vertical Launch System

One of the two Goliath Class Heavy Mining Landers.

Nose Mounted R-7 escape system.

The 9MN of thrust that will accelerate this 2880 ton vessel.

2 hours ago, Toxn said:

The 75mm shermans are all wonderful, and I'm collecting them like pokemon at this point.

 

The 105, on the other hand...

I've done that with T-34s. I think the only ones I don't have are the T-34-100 and the German captured T-34 that inexplicably has all the best parts of their different T-34-76s in a single tank. It has the STZ hull with a '42 turret, the extra tracks from about 3 other T-34s draped all over it, and the widest selection of ammo possible. Of course the Germans would get a better T-34-76 than the Soviets would, that makes total sense.

Can we did up Janet Reno and prosecute her, Cromwell style?

The problem with the gun issue is that the left projects harder than an Imax. When you read articles from anti-gun people who decided to go the a shooting range and see what the "fully semiautomatic assault rifle fifteen" is all about and the describe how they were imagining bodies piling up in front of them as they fired, you have to wonder what the fuck is wrong with those people. They don't trust other people with weapons because they don't trust themselves with weapons. To top it off, they consider themselves to be paragons of virtue and intellectualism, and thus if this weapon is too dangerous for them, then why in [Obama's] name would we let paint huffing, overall clad, toothless bumpkins have them?

WTF is this even. My sides.

R-7 separates from it's launch vehicle. 450 more delta V on the lift stage would make it single stage to Duna without any gravity turns.

KSP stock R-7 capable of sending a Kerbal to the surface of Mun and back.

Ok, so the phrase may have been in use with white supremacist organizations for a while, but I still don't get how the phrase "It's OK to be white." is inherently racist or discriminatory. Everyone reacts to that phrase as if it were on the same level as "gas the jews", though.

I guess I must be a racist.

They should all be replaced by AI at this point. 

However, Donward, the solutions that we have to the problems of suicide and mass shooters involves actually addressing the problem instead of feel good measures. And since we don't have the same solution to the problems as the leftists do, then we obviously don't want to solve the problem. This is why there is gridlock on any type of reforms in the firearms world. The left is so self absorbed and has a sense of moral superiority that they are convinced that their answer is the only correct answer, and any deviation from that cannot be tolerated. This is why they resort to ad hominem attacks and straw man arguments when they are confronted with different view points. They cannot defend their ideas on a rational basis, because they didn't arrive at their conclusions on a rational basis. They are convinced that they are so much smarter than the knuckle dragging, gun toting, bible thumping, backwoods yokels that they automatically categorize anything said by such sub human scum that does not align with the divine words of Chomsky is wrong think, and must be mocked and ridiculed to the maximum extent possible.

The long and short of it is, they are learning resistant because they are so convinced of their intellectual superiority. Why is it that the only solution that the left has to this problem is to ban and confiscate inanimate objects? I have yet to hear anything else from that side of the isle, and it is entirely incompatible with my side of the isle. Instead of attempting to find solutions that both sides of the isle can live with, the left continues to try and brow beat dissenters into submission through social stigmas and discrimination. Any solutions that come from the right side of the isle are entirely incompatible with the left side, because the solutions from the right involve people being able to keep and bear arms.

The whiplash from the about face on this story is real. Yesterday was wall to wall coverage, with 75 minutes of live "news" on the radio preempting every commercial break and scheduled programming. Today..... Just another slow news day, ho hum.

That was possibly the worst attachment method that I've seen for a hand guard. It's dumb luck that we got it aligned as quick as we did.

Adjusting the alignment also changes the torque you need to apply to align everything, which changes the final alignment position.

Crazy lefty shoots up YouTube. I'm not entirely sure what to think about that. Also, it will be interesting to see the media spin on this one.

So, was this an ecoterrorist attack? I'm confused.

Possible active shooter at YouTube HQ.

No links yet because of incredibly inaccurate reports.

You will always be able to make yourself a shiv, though.

The UK having already banned pointed language now turns it's eye to banning all things pointy.

Unfortunately for those dipshits, we aren't a democracy. I love how these "news" outlets always talk about "our democracy".

4 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

 

I carry this cheap pile of shit opening assist, (switchblade in England), because having a knife I can open one handed is useful in my line of work, and expensive knives get ruined because Chlorine runs everything. 

 

At 8 bucks, who cares, I can shit can it and get a new one when it gets dull.  I was buying 50 bucks Gerber brand opening assist and Kershaw, but they either didn't last long or I felt were to nice to ruin.  This evil looking weapon of war does not whisper in my ear to kill people, that's my guns job. 

I've been rocking the Böker Automat Kalshinikov 74 for years now, and I cant' say enough good things about them. It's a ~$40 knife that I abuse on a daily basis, and it just keeps coming back for more. The first one I retired after I broke the tip off trying to dig an M61 penetrator core out of a steel plate, but it makes a good flat blade screw driver now.

57 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:

As for the knife thing.....Seems a sensible idea to me, carrying blades will not end well for you as a rule. 

It's a bit of a culture shock and alien concept here in the Midwest and West regions of the US. Out here, a knife is like your wallet or keys; it's part of your every day kit. The joke is that the cops will look at you funny if you tell them that you are NOT carrying a knife. They are not seen so much as weapons as a universal tool. I couldn't even begin to count how many times I use mine every day. Now that I think about it, it would be interesting to track that.