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Yeah, I've had zero luck on any AT's so far. Shit is just a whole nother level of hard.

Not that I needed the motivation for it, but it does give a good reason to do all the events right now. KT weapons still worthwhile for another 5 months. Been playing the shit out of this still. Up to HR72 now. Got my full Drachen set, and working on all the optionals now. KT only really for...

It's also looking like the last ~30 years or so were a bond bubble and the returns we saw on them were way above normal. They'll still be a decent hedge, but expecting 2-3% return might be the new norm.

I don't understand why this movie exists when the documentary does. How could this possibly be a worthwhile endeavor when it's someone pretending to do what we have footage of?

This is really just a brag at this point, but I got to fly a real F/A-18 simulator. It's an actual cockpit (all the real avionics), surrounded by a giant projector screen. You can legit get airsick in it (the first time I went in it, it was a demo and we were just standing in the room while...

I mean, the legacy F/A-18's have been around since the mid 80's, and the E/F's are about 20 years old. US airframes are all kind of old as shit.

No, they don't fly F-14's anymore. For the Navy it's F/A-18's or nothing at the moment (as far as fighter attack that is). F-35's are still kind of on the horizon but not quite there yet, although they're expected in the fleet any minute now. And no, there are no F-19's or F-20's. Air Force's...

I agree on international. I go with the JL Collins theory that it's 2019, and "American companies" are essentially global already. You don't need more international exposure. If the time comes that it starts looking like the US won't be the dominant economy for the next century maybe I'll...

Yeah, figure I'll just work on getting into tempered monsters and maybe eventually I'll have enough augments to roll him.

Had the same question, and it seems the answer is no. Since I don't know that I'll ever get a shot at beating him (fucker is hard), it sounds like I'm stuck with it forever.

The big thing about market timing is you have to be right twice. You have to call the top and the bottom. I've also heard that "this is finally the top" every single year since about 2011. So good luck.

From what I can tell, none of it is CGI. Like the low fly over the desert in the first scene is a Blue Angels jet. They CGI'd out the desert plants and recolored the jet, but otherwise that happened.

Finally picked this one up in the Steam summer sale, as I had been waiting for a price drop for forever. Already 50 hours in, and now I'm starting to prep for Behemoth. Seems kind of intimidating though because from the sounds of it, it's a bring your own group kind of affair. I'm working on...

Why can't we, as a society, admit that sometimes we're just better off without certain people? This girl was never going to be valuable to society. Just like the junkie who's been arrested two dozen times. Or the pedophile who molests kids. Let's off them and move on without taxpayers having to...

I don't think in the history of ommon law that that argument has worked. "Oh, I didn't know that tubby bitch has a heart problem when I hit her with my car." Tough shit, still manslaughter (or murder in that case). "The random rounds I shot off into the air killed a kid? My bad!"

This seems like a weird example to use. If I'm put in a situation where I feel the need to shoot someone, I'm shooting until they're dead. There is no such thing as "shoot to wound." Similarly, in this circumstance, how do you know the guy isn't a threat anymore? Are you just going to assume...

Getting shaky again. I'm thinking the big one will likely hit today. Possibly in the next hour or two.

Neat That Big California Earthquake Left a Scar That's Visible From Space

I just don't think the USGS has any clue. This Dr. Lucy Jones talks a good game, but she seems to just use probabilities a lot and not actually analyzing anything. For instance, the USGS put out their statement of "what they think will happen next."...

I do want to point out that he predicted a 4.5 this morning between New Zealand and Indonesia, and they got a 4.6 a few hours later.

That's cool and all, but man she's brave. Same reason I don't trust pitbulls. It just takes one slip up and you're fucked.

One of my coworkers sent me a link to this DutchSinse guy (he's on YouTube and Twitch under that name). He's been saying the USGS is full of shit and that earthquakes on the other side of the planet absolutely flow to other areas (basically force on a plate in one area will transfer to other...

Yeah. I told my wife it's probably the same with why they told us not to turn our gas back on if we turn it off ourselves. Someone will screw it up and blow up their house. I plan on running outside if there's another big one.

Yeah, I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore and DC. Every time I've visited since joining the military I've hated it.

I had a hard time finding a job. After 6 months, I had two offers; one in DC and one out here. I picked here and she followed me out. We've both got good jobs and were just hoping to last another 1-2 years before we're done. This will likely expedite it. We lived in a very conservative area of...

They say not to run outside during an earthquake, but all of the big ones we have (5.5+ or so). I don't know how to describe being right on top of an earthquake that big, but being inside just doesn't feel safe. Shit, being outside feels pretty bizarre too. I also wanted to point out, we've...

Fuck no. I'm originally from the east coast, and wife's family is from Illinois. I was planning on looking for a short-term transfer to the Florida panhandle around next summer. We really like the Gulf, we need no state income taxes for retirement, and there are a few bases there. We just need...

"Quiet" But that's just in comparison. Probably every 30 minutes we get a decent sized rumble. We're really just kind of over it. Been getting the van ready (posted originally in the Grape Vanning thread), which I never thought we'd need as a "go bag" because there are no natural disasters...

Got maybe 4 hours of sleep last night. There was a stretch around 2am where it just kept rumbling for like 10 or 15 minutes. Shit is whack. My wife is too scared to be in the house anymore. She's planning on just hanging out in the backyard, but it's going to be around 102 today. Luckily this...

My wife was talking to her friend earlier in Illinois (today is her birthday) and I think at that point we had had 250ish 2.5+ quakes, and like 1200+ measured in the last 24 hours. We've probably doubled that by now. So far anything above about 3.2 to 3.5 or so we can feel pretty well.

Honestly the big quake itself isn't the worst. This one lasted maybe 15 seconds. It's the anticipation of worse, and/or the fact that we keep getting smaller aftershocks that we never know if they're going to be big. Because even the big ones feel like a small one at first until it really...

Oh, nice. Didn't know we had an earthquake thread. So yeah, 4.5? I think yesterday morning, followed by the 6.4 (knocked out power for about 5 hours, only a picture frame fell off wall). Had probably 100+ aftershocks we could feel yesterday. Today was pretty quiet, maybe one an hour. Then a 5.0...

I said earlier in the thread I've lived here 7 years and yesterday was the first time I'd felt one.

I've tried to maintain some anonymity around here, but we're in Ridgecrest. Probably 13-15 miles from the fault. Have had hundreds of aftershocks you could feel in the last 36 hours. At 4am we had a 5.4. And now with this one it's just like...is this just another foreshock to something bigger?

Fuuuuuuck. That was a big one. We're going to sleep in our van tonight. Still, oddly, not much damage. More shit fell off walls and whatnot.

So what was your point? You said the holiday has been nothing special since you were 10. If you can't find meaning outside of fireworks and hotdogs, that's on you. I don't know how else to take what you said. Are you instead saying you were super patriotic as a child and now you're just an...

On its own, you're right. It's not a big deal. But it's part of a trend. Ghostbusters, the Oceans movie, BBC casting tons of blacks as nobles in period pieces, or making Greeks and Romans black. I always point back to how blacks are 13% of the population but seem to have an outsized...