/tg/Station 13

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Reminded me that there's a person on the other side of the glass. Goodmin.

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Heroes and Generals
I thought it would be a fun (or at least decent) WWII shooter, but although the ground mechanics are ok, the progression is absolutely trash and air units feel stupid.

BFP4F (many years ago)
I didn't 'buy' it, because it was free, but oh god, this game. The ground vehicles and ...

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Currently, it isn't possible to photocopy the station blueprints, but it should be possible to make copies. If an area is bombed, and by some wild chance the shuttle isn't called, the blueprints, while not vital, are still very important for making repairs to the station.
The one caveat I would ...

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If SS13 was a ship, it would probably be the USS William D. Porter.
http://www.historynet.com/uss-william-d-porter-the-us-navy-destroyers-service-in-world-war-ii.htm

Sometimes the things that almost happened are as interesting as the things that did. Nearly every photo history book of World War ...

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Detonation Velocity - For TNT, it's 6,900 m/s. For Ammonium Nitrate (fertilizer) it's 5,270 m/s.
Deflagration - What happens typically when gasses burn. The reaction spreads by heat being conducted through the medium. Detonation Velocities usually far below 100 m/s.
Detonation - Shock wave ...

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A few things.
You never explained what #4 Buckshot is.
I'm pretty sure 46 separate projectiles spawning in at once would cause severe lag.

What is this supposed to mean?
https://i.gyazo.com/89c41e507abdaa7ab95ccfd5abdc3d08.png
Are you trying to say that shotgun spread is like this
http://i1298 ...

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Dear Nanotrasen,
When a syndicate base is found, can we get the nuke out of the vault and hold the syndicate base hostage for... one-hundred, BILLION, dollars.

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So how about the new patch? I think I'll try out a Yak...

OH WAIT. Screw you new thermodynamics modeling.

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Played this with a few friends two days ago and it was pretty sweet. I actually saw the /tg/ ship on the list, but it needed a password.

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[youtube]GIuBpl7k_eU[/youtube]
I should have posted that, dammit! (I've been subscribed to his channel for about a year but I did not think to post it here. Blast!)
Anyway, I had a friend who continuously nagged me to play Undertale since the 3nd week of November. He asked me if I'd bought it ...

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If an area/air tank is filled with Nitrogen, it should not give an oxyloss warning.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation
Physiologically inert gases (those that have no toxic effect, but merely dilute oxygen) are generally free of odor and taste. As such, the human subject detects ...

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Is there any way to negate low pressure damage (ie, from spaaaaaace) other than using a spacesuit/hardsuit or getting a few styptic powder patches before venturing out?
I know that genetics has cold resistance, and virology has self respiration, but how does one get rid of the low pressure damage ...

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Is there any way to negate low pressure damage (ie, from space) other than using a spacesuit/hardsuit or getting a few styptic powder patches before venturing out?
I know that genetics has cold resistance, and virology has self respiration, but how does one get rid of the low pressure damage?

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Despite the fact that this is being removed temporary due to bugs it has caused (burning through burn chamber floor, causing negative % gasses), what do y'all think of the new fusion thing?

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Is it possible that we could get a 'Super T-Ray Scanner' that comes with CE, or is able to be bought from cargo, or from R&D, or whatever? The idea is that rather than only the immediate 3x3 area around you being scanned, all tiles visible to you are scanned. This would be useful in replumbing ...

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~2.5 years old, but I think his point is still valid.

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What is the largest possible size explosion possible from sodium + water? Is it limited by the bomb cap?

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I should probably get this again. I used to be a Boss in any of the YAKKs, and I even successfully dogfought in the titular plane.(though it was an earlier variant without the gunner). This shit was my Jam back in high school.
I should finishing uploading the game onto my google drive in about an ...

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Alright, tomorrow I'll just put up the 4.12.2 file.
But at least get hyperlobby, that's practically an essential.

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Co op missions are also a blast. Nothing like level bombing with a pilot + gunners as friends defending from AI while in formation

http://www.twitch.tv/vmf214_blacksheep/b/679727197
Just flew this mission, wasn't the one recording though

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Here's what I sent to tedward

Firstly, you need to get the game updated to 4.12.2 or 4.13, as that is what almost all servers use. I'd make one unmodded version of each.
4.12.2 Megapatch - http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=38443.0
4.13 update from 4.12.2 - http://forum.1cpublishing.eu ...

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I would if my DCS world would-

Let me log in to online mode.
Not crash every 10 minutes

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Not exacly the F-35, but close enough.
A-10 pilot's coloring book.
http://imgur.com/a/SD8Ew
http://i.imgur.com/GZPhhQH.gif
http://i.imgur.com/mmrEzRM.gif
http://i.imgur.com/BXYLxlk.gif
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It went into open beta today, anyone else play it?

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EDIT: Our only hope for a real lasting solution to this is political and social reform that ostracizes radical Islam and tries to promote a return to the Middle East of the 70's and 80's.

I remember reading an article about the need for an Islamic reformation. http://www.wsj.com/articles/a ...

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The point I failed to state correctly was that to win a guerrilla campaign, you need the support of the civilian population.

If the guerrillas have civilian support, the guerrillas have established implicit connections or bonds with people and countryside. In other words, guerrillas must be able to ...

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I think this post sums up the problem with our drone mentality.
http://i1298.shit image host.com/albums/ag47/Silavite/Drone%20Problem_zpsgrwbwwvr.png
From the comment section of this article
https://defenseissues.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/notes-on-war/

About the F-35, I was having a ...

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One of the more interesting ideas I've heard for maintaining sky awareness is by using tethered high-altitude balloon stations.
There would be a shitton of teething problems, but the concept sounds cool at least.

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S-400's kinetic ceiling is 100,000 feet, so they should be safe from most ...

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Orbiter is a pretty realistic (and free) space simulator, and I was wondering if any of y'all played it.
Get it here: http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
Important Addons: http://orbiter.dansteph.com/forum/index.php?page=download
Other Addons: http://www.orbithangar.com/
XR Spaceplanes: http://www ...

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>said to cost $3000 per hour to operate

Nope. Not possible. They must be fudging some numbers to come up with a figure so low.

A predator drone costs supposedly $1500 per hour and that doesn't even have a pilot in it. There's no fucking way something of this size (with two crew members) is going ...

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Moving (not very swiftly) onward, I've just discovered the marvel that is the Textron AirLand Scorpion.

It is said to cost $3,000 per hour to operate and is also claimed to cost less than $20 million per unit.
http://www.scorpionjet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/TAL-HERO-Media3.jpg
The website ...

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Not yet I think, but I just discovered the guy.

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to be fair even the eagle became a bomb truck after awhile just because america never had to deal with the cold war air war over germany that it was building all these fighters for, anyway.

though the >muh eagle was strongly against boyd i'm sure

anyway falcon still very acceptable as a ...

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>I post rant about F-16 becoming a bomb truck
>Anon posts picture as F-16 posing as a bomb truck

Y u do dis to me?

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I cri everytiem.

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William Henry Harrison.
Welp, time to stand in the rain and die.

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Single engine planes aren't as much of a liability as people fear them to be. While it's true they do fail and we do lose birds because of them not having redundancy, the overall savings on each individual craft should be enough to absorb having to replace the odd one that does experience a failure ...

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186 million a pop?

Well, I guess that solves the whole "terrorists buying old millitary gear" problem. Even fifty years depreciation, they'll have to sell their kalashkinovs, RPGs and bombmaking equipment to buy half a wing. And it still won't work.

Even then, Planes are a different level of ...

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So was flyin' an interdiction mission, just took off, and looked off of my right side for my wingman and see this
http://i1298.shit image host.com/albums/ag47/Silavite/2015-06-04_182040_zpsiljsh0q0.jpg
It's on my left wing as well, so I go to chase view and see this
http://i1298.shit image host ...

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Okay yeah that really took me by surprise.

200m of crying bald eagle bucks is a waste.
Yup, and if history is anything to go by, the price is only going to increase from these. Lockheed claims that the F-35A will cost $75m by 2019 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-unitedtechnologies ...

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Wait seriously only $200k?

Even if the plane is a total piece of dogshit at that price who gives a fuck. No wonder the bomb bays are internal, those bombs are worth more than the fucking airframe you better hold on to them shits.
200m (181m~), not 200k because I'm an idiot. (I thought the doc ...

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The claim that the F-35 is cheap seems not to be holding up so well when you scrutinize it.
Lockheed likes to claim that the planes will cost <$100,000,000 ( https://www.f35.com/about/fast-facts/cost not to mention that they are conveniently leaving out unimportant things, like, you know, the engine ...

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That sounds like a much better idea really. Unmanned planes don't black out.
The problem is that without the pilot in the plane, you're going to have ping delays. Even a quarter of a second in air combat is vital, not to mention the risk of jamming the pilot-plane control datalink.
Unless you are ...

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From Picard

“FLX can get a targeting solution off of its RWR? ”

It is about precision. Old RWRs couldn’t target anything because they were not accurate enough – 10* accuracy of classical radar warners was not enough for anything but a “look there, missile’s gonna come from there” warning. FLX ...

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FLX can get a targeting solution off of its RWR? What?

I think he is talking about the use of an air to air anti radiation missile, like the R-27P or EP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-27_(air-to-air_missile)#Variants

Also, I suspect the reason he chose IRST as the singular sensor is three ...

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Anon, Picard578 (the guy who proposed FLX) made this in reply after I posted your comments about radar on the page.
(The page here: https://defenseissues.wordpress.com/2014/08/02/air-superiority-fighter-proposal-6/ )
Here is a full reply, I’d like you to post it there and say it’s from me since I ...

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Those statistics still suck.

Can track incoming at 90km and outgoing at 145km? Identify at 40km? Cool.
Radar equipped fighters can track and identify both at ~300km with altitude, bearing, and speed.

IRST can use the doppler effect to estimate closure speed. Neat. You could prrrrrobably get a ...

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MUH-REEEEEEEENS

HOO AHH

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/29/article-2009603-0CC9B05500000578-197_634x474.jpg
Well, there is a certain saying... ("The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle.") :x

Also, I screwed up with the FLX thing. That was v2, it is at v6 right now ...

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