instead of mounting your gun behind the propellers,
attach guns to the ends of the propellers
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
My granddad was machine gunner in the Marines in the Pacific.
Volunteered for it.
Was a mechanic in Korea but that was after they called him up because they found out he was a mechanic as a civilian. Yet it was Korea he went MIA/caught behind enemy lines 2-3 times not WW2 being on the front. Including Iwo Jima.
Since we're family, we got to see the cache of stuff that was on the ship following WWII, including some maps.
They're great. The officer's/ship's map of iwo jima is like this:
With markers for where likely fortifications are and X over the places that were going to be shelled, along with timetables, and a ton of other information not on the map above about specific landing boats, etc.
And then the other maps, for the soldiers on the ground, are basically:
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A truck with a large "save a child, kill a pedophile" sticker complete with silhouette of someone being shot execution style
This car
And overheard, while getting gas, a conversation on speakerphone at full volume about how the person on the phone has a warrant out for their arrest but they aren't going to turn themselves in, while the person with the phone expressed surprised that the person who ratted out the person on the phone to the police wasn't the person they suspected, and the person on the phone concurred saying they thought it would have been someone else, so now they have to get the person who ratted them out.
I've been here one day.
Georgia is amazing.
matt has a problem on
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Is there a reason that the propellers weren't just, like, mounted on the wings and belt fed or something?
That seems so much simpler
I guess you run into parallax problems, but seriously
Is there a reason that the propellers weren't just, like, mounted on the wings and belt fed or something?
That seems so much simpler
I guess you run into parallax problems, but seriously
I meant guns
But really having wing propellers and finding out how to belt feed them is another option if they keep getting blown up
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WTF is up with 2FA number texts and is anyone else thinking about it? I have these things I note:
1. Often the same website/app/program will use different phone numbers they text from and obviously different numbers companies.
2. Previous point is highlighted by totally unrelated companies using the same phone number and formatting in their 2FA texts from time to time. Like I click on a new text to log in to Adobe and the previous text in that chain is from April when I logged into Blizzard. For example.
3. I just got a text that said YOURS in a line above the numbers. How do you even do bold text in a SMS? God knows.
4. My favorite of these 2FA text things says "process the numbers" and without a space between that and the actual numbers. So for example it'll say "1234567process the numbers". It's been like that for months. So you're saying that Adobe and Epic and all of these billion dollar companies A) Use a company that wouldn't put "%20" or whatever before their message string Use a company that hasn't removed an obvious garbage string append in at least half a year?
How do I start a 2FA number company? There's obviously space in the sector for... literally anyone I imagine.
A truck with a large "save a child, kill a pedophile" sticker complete with silhouette of someone being shot execution style
This car
And overheard, while getting gas, a conversation on speakerphone at full volume about how the person on the phone has a warrant out for their arrest but they aren't going to turn themselves in, while the person with the phone expressed surprised that the person who ratted out the person on the phone to the police wasn't the person they suspected, and the person on the phone concurred saying they thought it would have been someone else, so now they have to get the person who ratted them out.
I've been here one day.
Georgia is amazing.
god bless
TTODewback on
Bless your heart.
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SummaryJudgmentGrab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front doorRegistered Userregular
Convergence was a huge issue and is modeled in War Thunder nicely
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
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A truck with a large "save a child, kill a pedophile" sticker complete with silhouette of someone being shot execution style
This car
And overheard, while getting gas, a conversation on speakerphone at full volume about how the person on the phone has a warrant out for their arrest but they aren't going to turn themselves in, while the person with the phone expressed surprised that the person who ratted out the person on the phone to the police wasn't the person they suspected, and the person on the phone concurred saying they thought it would have been someone else, so now they have to get the person who ratted them out.
I've been here one day.
Georgia is amazing.
in a future where crime is legal and cops are criminals
Considering the kind of person that doesn't trust vaccines but nevertheless will consume something they themselves describe as "horse paste"
That's because the horse doctors aren't in on the mind controlling conspiracy, maaannn
*sips bong*
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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SummaryJudgmentGrab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front doorRegistered Userregular
You'd have a single larger cannon center-mounted with the barrel running through the engine so that you've got a nice throughline to engage a ground target
For wing mounted guns, they'd set it so that the convergant point was somewhere between 300 and 1000 meters out, with the idea being that you essentially have a shotgun effect at that range, knowing that everything before it is going to be on that intercepting angle and everything past is going to be deflecting
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
A truck with a large "save a child, kill a pedophile" sticker complete with silhouette of someone being shot execution style
This car
And overheard, while getting gas, a conversation on speakerphone at full volume about how the person on the phone has a warrant out for their arrest but they aren't going to turn themselves in, while the person with the phone expressed surprised that the person who ratted out the person on the phone to the police wasn't the person they suspected, and the person on the phone concurred saying they thought it would have been someone else, so now they have to get the person who ratted them out.
I've been here one day.
Georgia is amazing.
in a future where crime is legal and cops are criminals
TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
a car just drove past playing Welcome To The Internet and it was weird hearing "would you like to see the news or any famous women's feet" doppler past me
I didn't know what bocce is, but having looked it up it seems to allow throwing, which feels like a pretty significant difference
Fascinating, since I've never heard of lawn bowling.
Of course my grandfather is Italian and despite not speaking it (though his parents didn't really speak English???) he identifies as it enough that we did things like Bocce relatively frequently. Though I didn't know you could throw the ball >.>
Are you ready, chess grandmaster, to play my AI, which I trained by punishing it when it lost pieces? Ready, set, GO
*AI furiously mashes the forfeit button*
Incidentally this is the correct way to survive a war
My grandpa joined the Navy during WWII and everyone since then has been "thank you for your service hero," and he is always like "actually I joined the Navy because I didn't want to get shot at and then picked a battleship because it was the least likely thing to sink, so brave, such hero, wow."
I just finished reading an autobiography of a journalist and comic who volunteered during WW2 as soon as he was old enough because you got to pick your role rather than getting called up and not having a choice
He was hoping for the Signal Corps because he knew Morse Code and shorthand, but all of the non-combat roles were taken so he chose the Armoured Corps based on his dad's experiences as an infantryman
His last day of training was 8 May 1945
Yeah, my grandpa volunteered because his choices were basically: volunteer and spend the entire time on a boat where no one's shooting at you specifically and the boat is, on the whole, likely to make it out alive, or get drafted into the army and get murdered in some ditch in France.
My grandfather volunteered specifically to join the 101st Airborne, because they were supposed to be "the best" and he figured it was better than being forced to be there with some guy who didn't want to be.
Probably would have been smarter to join the navy or something, but he jumped out if the plane and landed on a tank trap anyway, breaking his hip socket straight through and getting him sent home immediately.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
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They've got a simulation mode and then an arcade mode
Playing arcade and walking shells from a huge 37mm or 45mm center mount cannon into the engine or tail of a bomber is deeply satisfying
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
Oh and my other grandpa worked for the phone company which I guess got him out of the draft because he was considered to be working on critical infrastructure or something
A truck with a large "save a child, kill a pedophile" sticker complete with silhouette of someone being shot execution style
This car
And overheard, while getting gas, a conversation on speakerphone at full volume about how the person on the phone has a warrant out for their arrest but they aren't going to turn themselves in, while the person with the phone expressed surprised that the person who ratted out the person on the phone to the police wasn't the person they suspected, and the person on the phone concurred saying they thought it would have been someone else, so now they have to get the person who ratted them out.
I've been here one day.
Georgia is amazing.
in a future where crime is legal and cops are criminals
i'd key dat no doubt
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SummaryJudgmentGrab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front doorRegistered Userregular
I got three quotes for ceiling and trim painting in an 1800 soft house:
1800, 2800, 5000
?
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
Is there a reason that the propellers weren't just, like, mounted on the wings and belt fed or something?
That seems so much simpler
I guess you run into parallax problems, but seriously
guns are heavy
it's also nice to be able to aim
A series of ropes and pulleys to turn the guns left and right
It's just one more thing for the pilot to think about - might distract them from the thought that they're flying about in the middle of a war in a tent with wings
My Grandpa was told to stay home and grow food during WWII
Basically the same. My grandpa was in his mid-30's and had terrible joints from rheumatoid arthritis as a kid so I he worked in one of the bomber plants. My other grandpa was like...12?
Also I love seeing some of the mechanical engineering solutions for WW1 and WW2 problems. WW2 fire control computers are especially amazing.
And pusher props seem like a much easier solution than either gears or belts. But what do I know, the planes were freaking balsa and highly flammible cloth.
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The one spice that the guy thought all Indian food contained was apparently "curry"
attach guns to the ends of the propellers
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
my grandpa was busy being a chemist that worked with wool in some capacity
Since we're family, we got to see the cache of stuff that was on the ship following WWII, including some maps.
They're great. The officer's/ship's map of iwo jima is like this:
With markers for where likely fortifications are and X over the places that were going to be shelled, along with timetables, and a ton of other information not on the map above about specific landing boats, etc.
And then the other maps, for the soldiers on the ground, are basically:
Instead of propellers, just use guns as propulsion
Nobody dare follow you
Stick to pistols, bricks, and lawn darts
Fake edit: turns out Ranken Darts were actually explosive - we weren't just throwing darts at zeppelins and hoping they'd deflate like comedy balloons
that is somehow even worse
The people who figured how how to get the bullets to not shoot the propellers was a fucking genius
A truck with a large "save a child, kill a pedophile" sticker complete with silhouette of someone being shot execution style
This car
And overheard, while getting gas, a conversation on speakerphone at full volume about how the person on the phone has a warrant out for their arrest but they aren't going to turn themselves in, while the person with the phone expressed surprised that the person who ratted out the person on the phone to the police wasn't the person they suspected, and the person on the phone concurred saying they thought it would have been someone else, so now they have to get the person who ratted them out.
I've been here one day.
Georgia is amazing.
That seems so much simpler
I guess you run into parallax problems, but seriously
I meant guns
But really having wing propellers and finding out how to belt feed them is another option if they keep getting blown up
1. Often the same website/app/program will use different phone numbers they text from and obviously different numbers companies.
2. Previous point is highlighted by totally unrelated companies using the same phone number and formatting in their 2FA texts from time to time. Like I click on a new text to log in to Adobe and the previous text in that chain is from April when I logged into Blizzard. For example.
3. I just got a text that said YOURS in a line above the numbers. How do you even do bold text in a SMS? God knows.
4. My favorite of these 2FA text things says "process the numbers" and without a space between that and the actual numbers. So for example it'll say "1234567process the numbers". It's been like that for months. So you're saying that Adobe and Epic and all of these billion dollar companies A) Use a company that wouldn't put "%20" or whatever before their message string
How do I start a 2FA number company? There's obviously space in the sector for... literally anyone I imagine.
I'm pretty sure guns couldn't go on the wings till later because of power to weight ratio and building materials of the planes at the time.
Didn't you see that graphic with all the wings shot up? Terrible place for propellers
curious
oh
i imagine having to deal with gun jams would be way more difficult to fix if it was on the wings
My first thought regarding guns on the wings is that they'd fuck up the manoeuvrability
Also getting the angles right to shoot what's in front of the plane and then having a narrow window of distance from the other plane
One volley and your fuselage is going forward without your wings
god bless
in a future where crime is legal and cops are criminals
It's not even made from real horse.
That's because the horse doctors aren't in on the mind controlling conspiracy, maaannn
*sips bong*
For wing mounted guns, they'd set it so that the convergant point was somewhere between 300 and 1000 meters out, with the idea being that you essentially have a shotgun effect at that range, knowing that everything before it is going to be on that intercepting angle and everything past is going to be deflecting
When I got called for military service my parents sent them a copy of my medical journal and they were all "oh, sorry to bother".
I didn't find out until years later when I wondered where all my friends had gone for a year.
future?
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
My grandfather volunteered specifically to join the 101st Airborne, because they were supposed to be "the best" and he figured it was better than being forced to be there with some guy who didn't want to be.
Probably would have been smarter to join the navy or something, but he jumped out if the plane and landed on a tank trap anyway, breaking his hip socket straight through and getting him sent home immediately.
but they're listening to every word I say
Playing arcade and walking shells from a huge 37mm or 45mm center mount cannon into the engine or tail of a bomber is deeply satisfying
i'd key dat no doubt
1800, 2800, 5000
?
guns are heavy
it's also nice to be able to aim
Problem is I get blown to shit if I try to push up to that range at the start of the game.
A series of ropes and pulleys to turn the guns left and right
It's just one more thing for the pilot to think about - might distract them from the thought that they're flying about in the middle of a war in a tent with wings
Basically the same. My grandpa was in his mid-30's and had terrible joints from rheumatoid arthritis as a kid so I he worked in one of the bomber plants. My other grandpa was like...12?
Also I love seeing some of the mechanical engineering solutions for WW1 and WW2 problems. WW2 fire control computers are especially amazing.
And pusher props seem like a much easier solution than either gears or belts. But what do I know, the planes were freaking balsa and highly flammible cloth.