Rusty303

Amateur tinkerer, mediocre author, disabled veteran.

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@HoffmanTactical Argh. If they’re back up on payday I’m picking up a couple.

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@EricEstepp17 There’s no way they don’t ban that sort of thing going forward, but man that was cool.

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@DanielleTrotta His aggression level isn’t the problem, it’s judging when to use it. If gap, car has worked well for him, except when the gap never materialized. If he gets better at judging those low probability moves, he’ll be the right sort of menace.

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@timmckay52 On the one hand, readers absolutely do judge books by their covers. On the other hand, expecting authors to pay hundreds for a cover with no reasonable chance of ROI is just dumb. There’s something wrong if the cover artists are the only ones making money in the indie pub space.

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@EricEstepp17 Translation: the nepo baby ran him off and were afraid he’ll make Spire better than us.

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@RealUCBfosho Went on my last deployment w/ gimpy knees and ankles because no one else could do my job. PL and PSG covered for me in premob. Blew knee out the week we rotated out of Syria, got called a liar until an O6 at the TMC chewed out PSG. Still need a cane on rainy days 8 years later.

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@Knightly_Hist I definitely appreciate the halfswording. Also the fact that the armor actually acted like armor.

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@mnmcsofgp @Knightly_Hist Depends on the armor and where you grab, but if you do find solid purchase, it’s pretty easy to ragdoll someone smaller and weaker.

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@fallingflxwer It’s cyclical. Every few years there’s some New Thing that sets off witch hunts, the loudest voices lose interest because they were only in it for clout, and it dies down until the next New Thing. The damage is real, but all we can do is dust ourselves off and keep writing.

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@SDDonovan Shit. At least a couple dozen with more than 10k words. If we’re counting various stubs of a few chapters in length, plus first drafts that I never got around to revising? Somewhere in the triple digits.

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@kayyybearxo As a wise man once said: “If violence isn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.”

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@MrJmezz THIS IS A REALLY REAL THING HOLY SHIT

Ahem. Sorry. Lost myself for a second.

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@SDDonovan Show don’t tell is a tool. Like every tool, it has a purpose. You can use a wrench as a hammer in a pinch, but it’s still a shitty hammer. Sometimes, you need exposition, or to state the obvious. Sometimes, you don’t. Learning to tell the difference is the hard part.

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@ryanhallyall 72 hour bag:
-trauma kit+ light first aid kit
-camping fuel pellets w/matches
-camp mess kit
-3 MREs
-water bottles/purification
-1 pk each unopened socks/underwear
-3 changes of clothes
-flashlight w/ batteries
-power bank
-emergency blanket
-Glock 48+ 100 rounds
-$300 cash

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@Hoplite_Ind This is why I use an Olight.

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@MiaMiette_ It wasn’t until post WWII that those distinctions went away, and only then because of growing pushback against Jim Crow era policies. The whole thing was a psyop designed to protect the wealthy and preserve the status quo.

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@MiaMiette_ Those same tactics were also used in response to a wave of Asian migrants, particularly from China. All the while, Poles, Slavs, Irish, Italians, etc were still treated as ethnically distinct and undesirable until eugenics theory fell out of favor.

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@Slatzism Between my redneck dad and my Filipino mother in law, it’s a toss up. The first time they held my son, he thought the boy was jaundiced. She thought he was anemic. They get along oddly well, despite not understanding a word the other says.