[–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

At first glance, I thought he was golfing on the moon. I don't golf, but if I were to be on the moon, I totally would want to try golfing on the moon.

Now you know some random dude on the net wants to golf on the moon, enjoy that information I guess.

Also parodied Futurama reference for fun:

We're golfers on the moon, I'm gonna sink a hole soon, but there ain't no balls so we tell tall tales and sing this golfing tune.

Thanks for coming to my adhd Ted talk.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago

    The 1911 uses .45 and .45 is a subsonic ammunition, which means its muzzle velocity is below the speed to break the sound barrier, and doesn't produce a supersonic crack. The delisle carbine was a bolt action integrally suppressed rifle made from the Lee Enfield, re-chambered for .45 from .303 due to its subsonic nature and is known to be one of the quietest firearms to exist, and the round doesn't produce a loud crack.

    Where 9mm isn't subsonic, it has a higher muzzle velocity and therefore would generate more atmospheric pressure, and a supersonic crack. This is why the world famous MP5SD, known for its total silence, was revolutionary. people say the only thing you hear is the bolt cycling. It has a perforated barrel that leaks enough of the gases out of the barrel into the suppressor. Infact, it leaks enough to actually prevent the 9mm from achieving supersonic speeds. They designed it this way so it doesn't have to use ammunition that is specifically filled to be subsonic, or to use a round that is inherently subsonic like .45.

    So that is two examples of gun design history around trying to be quiet with ammunition, one designed around the ammo, and one around the gun.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Two other podcasts really worth listening to in my opinion are

    Behind the bastards - they write a script telling about the worst people in history, their stories, what they did, how bad the shit they did was. Usually with some dark humor tones.

    99 percent invisible - they cover all of the mundane stuff in life and put a spotlight on it. Again, it's scripted, written, information. Not just blindly talking about x thing, and they usually do interviews with relevant people, too. Its like actual reporting, but on the things you would never have thought should have reporting coverage.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    As someone who worked in fast food in quite a few different places it is very common in my experience that orders are marked complete before they really are.

    The stats matter to the heads, so the managers keep up the stats to look good. That is why when you go through a drive through and they ask you to pull up? They are wiping that order so it looks as if it was done faster and bringing it to you when it's really ready.

    It's a classic thing of stats being focused on to the point that the stat is essentially made useless since it gets cheated.

    I haven't worked FF in roughly 10-15 years though, and this was my experience, so grain of salt and all that.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    To be honest I don't remember the exact details about the situation, just the huge amount that was spent on it. If I remember rightly they scrapped the engine at some point and started over or something along those lines but take that with a grain of salt because it's been so long since I looked into it at all.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Piggybacking on your comments towards new world, Amazon spent 1b developing their own engine for the game before they started the game. MMOs being what they are, not being the best profit generators in the industry, it was doomed to fail with that kind of price tag before even releasing the game.

    I can't speak to the scam stuff, but watching the dumpster fire that was that game was some excellent schadenfreude. Expecting to be able to compete with the MMO heavy weights that have been developing for 20 years and the type of rabid content eating gamers that play them, is just an insanely market deaf thing to do, in my opinion.

    As a disclaimer, I didn't play it, just watched it burn from the outside.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    As a mechanical game sts(1+2) is superior to inscryption, however do not expect any kind of narrative driven gameplay, gameplay element changes, or real interaction with the opposite side other than fighting.

    I really really enjoyed inscryption, but I only played it through once. I currently have around 20 hours in sts2 and I have no idea how much in 1.

    All of that being said, I do think that you can get the feel of a puzzler from slay the spire, at least in its most intense moments. Trying to find the right solution to survive. If you enjoyed the card based elements of inscryption, you will enjoy slay the spire.

    Also, just skip to 2 instead of playing one. If you have any friends that like the series, try the coop too! It's really fun and well done.

    Edit: I seen you asked for other recommendations, and I would suggest monster train 2. Again, no real story so it doesn't matter that you're picking it up at 2.

    Unfortunately inscryption is pretty unique in the genre, which is what made it so great.

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