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16 minutes ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:
Warehouse function is an auto spawn building in a general industrial zone - not 'plopped'. I actually liked that feature from Industries: different building styles and customization, etc.
Oh, that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
16 minutes ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:But aside from customized land area - its autospawn again. Haven't seen much more than the farm slice, but it's weird. You draw the boundaries and later discover buildings popping up in weird places in the middle of fields. Very haphazard. Don't like.
That's precisely I hated vanilla farms and was hyped for Industries
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8 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:
Actually most Soviet tanks since the T-55A mod. 1970 have had a liner built within the armor to stop neutron radiation.
There's actually two liners. The neutron protection liner is external (надбой) and often quite visible, whereas the combined gamma-ray and spall liner is under the armor (подбой).
The turret is actually just one solid cast slab underneath, and what you see attached on this "bald" (pre-ERA) T-72A is its doomsday armor specific to domestic and Warsaw Pact models.
7 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:Military training just said to dig a small trench and lay down in it.
As cooler heads on the Z-telegram keep incessantly repeating, a single nuke can only really take out a bunched-up company of troops. Everyone to their right and left will be largely untouched.
Simple earthworks shelters are amazingly effective, as proven in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
15 hours ago, kerbiloid said:That said, Soviet SOP was to shut the doors immediately. The major cities would be evacuated into the countryside ahead of The Big One, and so shelters were allotted only to what we in the COVID age call "critical workers".
The subway system was more of a bonus.
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On 9/21/2023 at 6:53 AM, AlamoVampire said:
the marine corps scout sniper school
I feel it's a misplaced ad ice because the pressure points for this job are entirely different.
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6 hours ago, Kerbalsaurus said:
I have continued the Soviet conquest of space, and today I set myself a goal: Humans on Mars before the end of the 20th Century. Quite the ambitous goal, but at the rate we're going at, it's definitely feasible. So we go through the standard stuff. Launching the first space station and such. But at one point I entered a race I thought was impossible: a race against China. Yes, as it turns out we were launching an unmanned Mars Lander the same month they were. It seemed like it was very close, as Mars 3 lifted off of the launchpad. But as it turns out, the Chinese failed to launch their Mars lander! The Soviet Union gains a huge lead in the Space Race, and for the rest of the race the Chinese will fall far behind us. The U.S. takes China's place in the race for space (I love alliteration), a position still far behind us. In mid 1983, the launch of Spektr completes Mir, the newest marvel in Earth's skies.
The USSR continues is expansion into space, but somehow, despite the fact that we've built a whole space empire, the Soviet Union collapses on December 25th, 1991. However, we've completed many missions in preparation for Mars. We set up more martian infrastructure and...
We'd done it! The first humans on Mars!
And as you can see from this, we succeeded in our goal of landing humans on Mars before the end of century! With only 3 months to spare! Just 42 years after Sputnik 1 became Earth's first artificial satellite, we land a man on Mars.
Oh yeah, and we landed on a comet a few years later too. Cool, I guess.
"Russians on Mars by 1999"
Ah, so you're the guy who draws all the Roscosmos powerpoints...
On 9/20/2023 at 1:55 AM, JoeSchmuckatelli said:C:S2 looks fantastic. Great pre-release comms and Dev hype.
I was tempted to pre order Cities Skylines 2...but then KSP2 has made me wary. Also - the CC pre release videos call it 'a pretty rough beta build'.
Yeek.
C:S and KSP are the very two games I feel I haven't played enough and therefore look to avoid getting on with the sequels.
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Anti-air blackouts.
They were only somewhat effective by WWII as more elaborate means of aerial navigation than the Mk 1 Eyeball were being developed.
However, if we turn the question away from navigation and towards manually-targeted ground-to-air fire... did it help or not? I recall several instances where the backlighting of the clouds made matters far, far worse for the bombers, and for that, you'd want more light pollution, not less.
I'm asking because history is apparently fond of circling back, with low-speed, low-altitude drone targets:
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Oh, look, we have a thread here...
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OTB 55 years ago, Zond-5 splashdown
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Comparison of various Russian chronicles revealed a pervasive discrepancy between some dates of exactly one year. This was reconciled by reverse-engineering two different dating styles. The basis was the Byzantine count from the creation of the world (a belated happy 7532, BTW), and whereas the Byzantines used September 1 as New Year's Eve, Russia, Northern Italian city states and England all used March 1... but there was no alignment on whether this meant 6 months earlier or 6 months later! This results in two coexisting approaches - the March chronology (calculus Pisanus) and the Ultramarch chronology (calculus Florentinus). Further, the date could also be fudged to fit with a new moon, so you also get the Circamarch chronology and the Circaultramarch chronology.
Ivan III as part of his general aping off of the Byzantines just fixed everything at September 1 in 7000/1492.
SpoilerOne part of Ivan III's newly-introduced sequence was celebration was the first public speech once the heir apparent came of age. Also, when Ivan III's great-grandson left no heirs, September 1 1598 saw the coronation of the regent Boris Godunov. The later "emergency monarchs" were crowned in decidedly more do-or-die circumstances and did not get too picky about the date.
Skip forward some centuries, and on midday of December 31 1999 Boris Yeltsin addresses the nation to tell everyone he's quitting in favor of a certain prime minister of his, and the subsequent midnight address became a passing of the torch between a former president and an acting president...
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TFW your bow is below crush depth and your aft is sticking out of the water...
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Interesting take: replicating Luna-25 is more difficult than building another Luna-27 due to all foreign equipment, so that's the option being considered (source: trust me bro)
Given that they haven't started cutting metal for Luna-27, it's a very useful way to pass the buck
Edit: ...on the other hand, we're back to Luna-Resurs-1 and Luna-Resurs-2, as the program was before one of the innumerable budget cuts.
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1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said:
Heheh oh yeah, just didn’t know much much cussing there might be.
I'm not exactly a master of Ukrainian but I haven't heard a single swear word in there.
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5 hours ago, FleshJeb said:
Oh yeah, I'm saving the idea for a future build. That said, a coal-powered airliner that looks like a goose may indicate that I'm not deeply attached to realism:
CoL is behind CoM. Looks realistic to me.
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They've made it too stealthy for their own good...
* Marines
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6 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said:
There's a longer bit of... battle footage.
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Back to my high horse, phone scammers.
Apparently, there's a really huge cybercrime industry in Myanmar and Cambodia, naturally mostly targeting China. Its peculiar aspect is that people are forced into criminal activity.
We're talking up to a quarter million slaves.
As well as at least one Chinese and one Korean feature film covering the phenomenon.
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On 9/15/2023 at 11:20 PM, kerbiloid said:
https://www.interfax.ru/russia/921098
The cause of the Luna-25 fall will be published at the end of September.
Nevertheless, Borisov is already blaming the accelerometer: https://t.me/space78125/2027
KazSat-3, a Reshetnev-made TV satellite, almost bought the farm after ending up in a combination of Earth's and Moon's shadows.
A lot of my KSP sats went the same way...
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Dropped by a park today, only to find myself chasing mice. One if them cared so little for me that it waited for me to stick my nose into my phone and ran between my feet.
And now I'm stuck wondering if the brown rodent with a black stripe along its back is a field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) or a birch mouse (Sicista betulina, so technically not a mouse). Because originally I thought it was one of the voles, which is a hamster.
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"...but you have heard of me"
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1 hour ago, tajwo said:
Hearts of Iron IV
today i played czechoslovakia and formed czechoslovak bloc
That's a very thick Berlin wall...
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During WWII, the Australians were among the nations that rushed to develop a tank industry ex nihilo, and unlike many, the Australian Cruiser series didn't turn out too bad, just a bit underarmed - and completely overshadowed by industrial powerhouses, relegating it to training use. However, the Aussies keep at it for most of the war, and that included cramming the 17-pounder gun into one of the later ACs.
However, they did not immediately have the 17-pounder on hand, so for recoil testing they created a surrogate using 25-pounder gun-howitzers... plural.
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The poor guy must've paid for this cover
Spoiler
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17 hours ago, cubinator said:
I've just found out that my 3D printer prints everything about 1.5% too tall, which is pretty amusing.
"Houston, we have a problem"
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On 9/14/2023 at 12:52 AM, Lisias said:
I'm going to side with Squad, it's their pockets being picked.
Assuming this krapness sticks (apparently they are backpaddling on this - hopefully), first we need to know what happens if "bootleg" copies of KSP are detected by Unity. Are Squad liable to pay for pirated copies installed?
If no, so damn Unity - KSP¹ at least is extremely friendly for modding and we have authorisation to tinker with the API as long we don't touch private entities. I paid Squad, and so my legal obligations is to them. They had authorised us to have multiple installations as long we run only one at once, and we have the right to use firewalls. Linux and Mac users have already user configurable firewalls, a simple external Mono executable can be made to download a list of IPs to be blocked from somewhere and automatically configure the machine. Some of us already do it, anyway.
Windows, on the other hand, will be a problem (as usual).
We will have an issue if somehow Squad would be fined by these actions. We, users, may not have signed any contract with Unity, but Squad did - and, as we can see, Game Publishers and Developers are now suffering the same abuses some of them inflicted on us, end users: licensing terms can be turned against them as easily as it can be done with us.
Problem is that this will prompt Squad to remove all previous releases from the Stores and publish a 1.12.6 with DRM as a measure to cut losses, what will shut down modding on KSP¹ for good unless creative (and probably illegal) measures are taken by us.
It's absolutely hilarious that I just took notice of this:
Well, if RockStar can do it, perhaps Squad can do it too? Releasing "cracked" copies of their own products, with all possible telemetry turned off?
P.S: Yeah, I know Unity Tech said that only new installations counting from 2024 will be taxed - but they didn't said that only new games will be affected, so you can bet your mouse KSP¹ would be affected too.
In a way or another, we have 4 months to "crack"
this nut. (pun really intended)
Sorry…
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Just found this one:
Suddenly the several vanilla versions of KSP I've kept on a detachable drive look very prudent.
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3 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:
Kinda sad considering one of the goals of the ISS was to prevent the proliferation of Russian missile technology.
Well, it was supposed to keep the missile technology and scientists in Russia. It did that.
Who they - and the whole of Russia - would be palling around with was another question, of a different pay grade.
7 hours ago, Codraroll said:"Look, TV viewers back home! From up here, I can see the cities of the world at night! See, here comes East Asia into view. That big web of lights is Bangkok. And there we see Hanoi, and Hong Kong, and Shanghai ... see how they shine! And now, the motherland! Behold the glory of ... er, oh. Never mind. Pay no attention to that big blotch of lights to the south, please."
"...but hey, it's because the Southerners all work 24/7. You see, malign American influence..."
this nut. (pun really intended)
Places to hide if there's a nuclear blast?
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...through potentially high-rad zones, including areas of deliberately intensified fallout. The US Army Chemical Corps even had a dirty bomb program at some point.
With hand-held radioactive fallout projectors.
Yeah, that wasn't a good idea.