Festivefire
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Space Engineer

Pro gamer move. i did not see were that was going.

It's pretty bad that you have carpet in the 'bad' room yeah.

The thing is, any time you give your name and email address to some online service or company, that shit ends up in a consumer info database that people can pay to access. This is why there is so much hype about hiding your identity online, not using cookies, using vpns, these days.

The thing is, that the racist boomers on the HOA board are in charge of enforcing the HOA's rules, and often do so unevenly. They ignore infractions from people they like and find anything they can to fine the people they don't. I can imagine very easily a nice black family moving into an HOA neighborhood in the 70's and getting constantly hassled and fined by the board for BS infractions, and unless you're willing to pay the legal fees to take them to court with a lawsuit (and that's not even close to a guarenteed resolution) there is nothing you can do about the abuse of power.

For many HOAs the case is that when the neighborhood was developed, membership in the HOA was a permanent feature in the sales contract of the house. It's the land of the free but if you sign a contract you've agreed to the terms.

It essentially became popular because middle class people wanted their neighborhoods to look nice and to keep the poor people or "bad" people (read: minorities) out of their nice neighborhood and ruining it. Now they exist as relics of an older time that most peoole don't want, but we can't escape them untill the old people on the boards die, and new people willing to vote to dissolve the organizations get elected to their boards.

I think it depends on the specific Jeffries tube. Many of them probably connect to another tube, or multiple tubes via a junction, and some must open into hallways and rooms. I'm sure there are at least some that dead-end, but there's probably not a universal answer. Since "Jeffries tubes" is just a fancy way of saying that crawlspace behind the wall you use to fix the plumbing, and they're all over starships.

Chuck Norris is overkill fir battering rams work. There are plenty of weaker characters who could survive being used as a battering ram.

Tony and the Tonners.

The Very Heavy Metal Group.

Frito Boys

The Rolling Stomachs

The Feasting Pumpkins

The Eaters

pat your potatoes dry before throwing them in the pan.

The entire point of those PDC cannons is a last line close in defense system. What you want is a maximized rate of fire. If you can afford to load your PDCs with proxy fuzed shells, that would definitely be good, but trading rate of fire for a hire probability of kill per shot becomes drasticly less effective as you lower the fire rate. If you're forced to choose between a significantly lower fire rate with proxy fuzes or a much hire fire rate with dumb rounds, it's better to have the dumb rounds.

If you want to use flak for medium or long range defense, you're better off using guided missiles, which have a much better kill rate against both maneuvering and non maneuvering targets, making it both a better option for keeping the ship alive, as well as being a better financial option, in that studies done IRL after various wars on the effectiveness and efficiency of AAA systems have shown that for long range defense, the amount of munitions consumed even in radar guided long range flak systems ends up costing more than the number of missiles you would need to theoretically have a 100% probability of kill on a given target.

Flak is cool, but not very effective as a stand-alone weapon. It was a result of a niche era where aircraft were out of the range of machine guns, but nobody had yet made a guided anti aircraft weapon. You'll note that even America, the largest user of radar proximity fuze AAA shells in ww2, bassicly immediately abandoned proximity fuzed shells as long ranged AAA defense as soon as they got SAMs, both in the army and the navy. These days it's only used to increase the PK of short range direct fire weapons sysyems, and those weapons systems usually have much more HE ammo in the national stockpile than they do proximity fuzed ones, because it's very expensive to fire proxy fuzed shells from a weapon with a high rate of fire.

I am not OP. I am just a dude reading the post and wondering how "refill water twice a day" was too complicated, since that's the part that didn't get done and killed the ducks.

Most people who talk about heirlooms politics read only starship troopers and where astounded by what he proposed as an optimal governmental system in that book. "You can only vote if you join the millitary" is an astounding idea for people who live in countries where being born there is enough for you to be a citizen and have the right to vote. It certainly put me off of him for a while.

The greatest generation was their parents, the people who actually fought in ww2, boomers, the "baby boomers" are all the kids who were born after their parents started fucking after the war when everybody got back from europe/the pacific, and grew up in the economic security of America in the 1950's.

I think it's more about cost than mass, since one of those PDCs can fire thousands of rounds a minute, it would be incredibly expensive to load them with all proxy fuze HE shells. When you're going to go through so much ammo with every ship to ship engagement, it's not logistically and industrially feasible to say "yeah we can fight a war and supply all our ships with tens of thousands of rounds of proxy fuzed flack rounds per engagement" let alone financially feasible. Your high cost point defense would be interceptor missiles with frag sleeves. If you're going to spend the money on that proxy fuze, you might as well put it on something that has range and a better chance to hit.

It's bassicly the exact same logic behind CWIS rotary cannons like the phalanx and VLS cells full of anti-air missiles who's primary job is to shoot down other missiles, and secondary job is to shoot down planes on modern naval vessels IRL bit extrapolated to the greater ranges of space combat with fusion engines.

Range. Birdshot spreads out to cover a wider area and increase your chances of hitting a target, but past a certain point the shot is spread to thin to be effective. Even in actual warships in the modern age, systems meant to shoot down cruise missiles fire solid or HE rounds as opposed to shotgun loads because of range. A phalanx CWIS can engage. A missile at about a mile away and that's already incredibly close, we are talking like a second or less to respond. The ranged in space combat are much greater. So really, you wouldn't want a shotgun, because you could only engage threats that were incredibly close, and you really want to blow the missiles up as far out as possible, especially when they're firing more than one which is often thr case, since the sooner you shoot down the closest missile, the sooner you can move on to the next one. Letting a big salvo of missiles get super close before engaging them drastically increases the chances that one will overwhelm your PDC systems and slip through.

Forgot you had a basement?

A rocket launch. At high altitudes/in vacuum the plume gets incredibly large and retracts a lot of light.