Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Guest]

I have boughtened the parts. Now, all that's left to do is wait for something to go horrifically wrong!

Obligatory: What are your specs?

Nothing all that crazy. R9 390, i5 4690k, 2x4 and 1x8 RAMs (DDR3 1600). A mama board, a TB of storage, 120 gig SSD. Probably too much of something and not enough of another, but it's a start. And hey, if it's good enough maybe I can get into 3d modelling again or something, that was always fun.

[Stringtheory]

I have boughtened the parts. Now, all that's left to do is wait for something to go horrifically wrong!

Obligatory: What are your specs?

Nothing all that crazy. R9 390, i5 4690k, 2x4 and 1x8 RAMs (DDR3 1600). A mama board, a TB of storage, 120 gig SSD. Probably too much of something and not enough of another, but it's a start. And hey, if it's good enough maybe I can get into 3d modelling again or something, that was always fun.

That looks pretty close to mine 390 excepted, though I have to ask why 1x8 rather then another 2x4? You'll probably want another HDD soon since 1TB isn't that much anymore (it's amazing), especially if you get into hoarding games and videos (and you will), plus modeling probably eats up a lot of memory too. If you do get seriously into modeling you might want to get an i7 since they're better at things which require many threads.

[Guest]

I have boughtened the parts. Now, all that's left to do is wait for something to go horrifically wrong!

Obligatory: What are your specs?

Nothing all that crazy. R9 390, i5 4690k, 2x4 and 1x8 RAMs (DDR3 1600). A mama board, a TB of storage, 120 gig SSD. Probably too much of something and not enough of another, but it's a start. And hey, if it's good enough maybe I can get into 3d modelling again or something, that was always fun.

That looks pretty close to mine 390 excepted, though I have to ask why 1x8 rather then another 2x4? You'll probably want another HDD soon since 1TB isn't that much anymore (it's amazing), especially if you get into hoarding games and videos (and you will), plus modeling probably eats up a lot of memory too. If you do get seriously into modeling you might want to get an i7 since they're better at things which require many threads.

Remembered reading something a while back about having single portions being better than divided ones, and the cost wasn't that different. /shrug I have an external 500gb or so already for storing comics and backing up documents, and I don't really hoard video, just audio - and though FLACs are nice, I'm fine with good .mp3s, tbh. The modeling stuff was mostly just in high school, with Blender; I've done a little since then, tinkering with Bethesda game mods, but nothing major - just readjusting ironsights to not suck, messing around with models, stuff like that. Things you could do with a tutorial and some determination. The i7 definitely looked nice, but it was a not-insignificant step up in cost, and I figured that since this was the first time I was building a computer I shouldn't go crazy.

[Tytan]

YEEEEEEESSSSSS!

Indivisible passed with three days to go!

[Harmony Ltd.]

@Swicked:

here have this:

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[Harmony Ltd.]

Shadowrun Hong-Kong 50% off on GOG.com right now.

Winter sales have begun. Apologize in advance to your wallets.

[Harmony Ltd.]

@Cobalt, stolen from tumblr:

-The snowbanks are melting, revealing what has been sleeping beneath them all winter. They are hungry.

-Western Mass is a myth, they laugh. Their eyes are wide. Western Mass is a myth, they repeat. You cannot go there. No one can.

-Why is that field red? The children ask. It’s a cranberry bog, the adults repeat. Just a cranberry bog. The eyes in the bog do not blink.

-The screaming at night is the fisher cats, we promise.

-The beaches are rocky. They are pointed, and jagged. They have teeth. Do not go swimming alone.

-”They’re not safe to eat unless you boil them alive.” The old fisherman tells you. You think, you hope, he means the lobster. But he never specifies, and you never ask.

-There is a reason everyone says “wicked.”

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[Frost]

Corn. There's nothing but fake rednecks, fake gangsters, and fucking Corn. The end.

[Guest]

@Harmony
Goooood stuff.

[Tytan]

Hoooooly shit Kombat Pack 2 announced. And if you thought Jason and Predator were awesome then HOLY FUCK.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Corn. There's nothing but fake rednecks, fake gangsters, and fucking Corn. The end.

       - there is a church on every street corner for miles. they promise absolution and salvation. no one ever goes in, and no one ever comes out.
- you get in your car and drive. you will run across a town you have never seen before just as the dashboard clock ticks over to Too Late. the people there will look at you as if you are a freak of nature. you will keep driving. you will never see that town again.
- along the cracking highway are nothing but empty fields. a sign amidst dead grass and melting snow tells you HELL IS REAL. it offers no solace, no solution, no way out. it simply tells you what you already know.
- the cities have names that strangers can never pronounce, but that you were born with on your lips. they are more than letters–they are unpronounceable symbols in some ancient tongue. they fill you with melancholy, and with yearning.
- there is a river that still stinks of ash and soot. the sun sets across it like blood spilling across the floor, and you can imagine that it is still burning.
- the steel mills have been closed since before you were born. keep telling yourself that when you walk by them and hear the clanging of ancient machinery and feel your scalp tingle with unseen eyes. you will dream about white hot sparks and wake up with black grease staining your hands. the steel mills have been closed since before you were born.
- it’s round on the ends, and full of an aching sense of desperation and loss in the middle.
- the sidewalks are crumbling, and the buildings are nothing more than decaying ribs poking out corrugated steel sides. the clock on that building has shown the same time since before your mother was born. you cut yourself and you bleed, rust red.
- we have no accent here. we have every accent here. every word is tinged with a trace of something that you can almost place. you ask us about it and we just smile. we have no accent here.

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[Icy Shake]

I hate job interviews so muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch...

It's gonna take me a bit to burn off this funk a bad interview put me in...

1. That sucks, and I'm right there with you in hating interviews and similar.
2. But I'm loving the contrast between the post and your current avatar.

[Frost]

I've now reached the level of E4, which means I'm certifiably Not Shit

[Stringtheory]

I've now reached the level of E4, which means I'm certifiably Not Shit

So what level is considered Hot Shit?

[Frost]

I've now reached the level of E4, which means I'm certifiably Not Shit

So what level is considered Hot Shit?

E6, at least

[Harmony Ltd.]

I swear to god if you get to E6 before me I'm going to blow a fuse.

[Frost]

Unlikely, as "6 in 6", E6 in 6 years, is somewhere between "career on track" and "wow, you're moving fast."

Unrelated:

[Frost]

Also also, court cases are apparently in motion (and looking favorable) to repeal the Hughes Amendment. If passed, this would re-open the NFA registry for (legal definition) machine guns. Then, as now, a 200 tax stamp and a background check would be all that's required to buy a machine gun. Then, unlike now, you could buy a newly-manufactured one rather than one of the increasingly rare and worn ones that were on the registry before it closed in 1986

[Harmony Ltd.]

@Frost: Well, you have to be a Sergent (nato OR-5) for between 5 to 10 years (after which you automatically move up in rank due to your seniority) to become a Sergent-Chef (nato OR-6).

I've been a Sergent for a little over a year now, and the average is 6 to 8 years of Sergent to move up in ranks.

So, yeah. It's possible that might happen.

Unless I become a flight engineer. Then I'm going to go up in ranks like crazy.

[Harmony Ltd.]

I love living in the Future

[Frost]

@Frost: Well, you have to be a Sergent (nato OR-5) for between 5 to 10 years (after which you automatically move up in rank due to your seniority) to become a Sergent-Chef (nato OR-6).

I've been a Sergent for a little over a year now, and the average is 6 to 8 years of Sergent to move up in ranks.

So, yeah. It's possible that might happen.

Unless I become a flight engineer. Then I'm going to go up in ranks like crazy.

I still have to wonder what the point of your low-level NCO ranks is. All of our NCO's are leadership positions. Using it as a glorified Private/Specialist rank just strikes me as kinda dumb.

[Harmony Ltd.]

I love living in the Future

...what is it projecting against?
Is that box releasing some sort of gas? Or small amounts of water vapor that aren't clearly evident in video?

Nope. Apparently it manages to locally alter the albedo of air so that it reflects laser. It's all explained in the kickstarter.

As for how exactly they do that... If I had to guess, I would hypothesize that they are using an array of ultrasonic emitters kind of like in the same way as a phased array radar, in order to achieve that change in albedo.


@Frost: Like I said earlier, among other reasons (one of which being that we don't function the same way) it's because we have far less people in our armed forces. Considering the number of people who leave the armed forces after only one contract, if we didn't recruit people directly at the NCO level, we would be suffering a chronic and dramatic shortage of NCOs

[Frost]

@Frost: Like I said earlier, among other reasons (one of which being that we don't function the same way) it's because we have far less people in our armed forces. Considering the number of people who leave the armed forces after only one contract, if we didn't recruit people directly at the NCO level, we would be suffering a chronic and dramatic shortage of NCOs

What's the point of having that many NCO's if there's no one for them to be leading, then? If they're functionally privates, why pay and rank them as NCO's?

[Frost]

Fucking life-changing

[Harmony Ltd.]

@Frost: Like I said earlier, among other reasons (one of which being that we don't function the same way) it's because we have far less people in our armed forces. Considering the number of people who leave the armed forces after only one contract, if we didn't recruit people directly at the NCO level, we would be suffering a chronic and dramatic shortage of NCOs

What's the point of having that many NCO's if there's no one for them to be leading, then? If they're functionally privates, why pay and rank them as NCO's?

Qualification level.

We're already paid less than civilian with similar qualifications, by a good margin. If were paid even less, we wouldn't even be able to recruit enough people to keep our numbers.

[Frost]

My point is that if you're essentially just privates, why not just get called privates? You can pay your privates as much as you want. Having NCOs for the sake of having NCOs, even if they're not in charge of anything and doing no actual NCO duties, seems really dumb.

[Frost]

Newscaster is told to stop

[Katarn]

I'd say it was a sign from weather itself.

[Harmony Ltd.]

"sorry but this content is unavailable at this time"

[Katarn]

Huh, works like a charm for me.

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