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I_Abibde posted...

Congratulations, and please enjoy your non-humanities degree (and the money the 'non-humanities' part hopefully implies).

Yup, looking for a job now, and it seems like I'm looking at a 70k salary for starting out. Which, yes please.

Zeus posted...

Oh, right, I always assume you're older because of that 87 in your username but you explained that wasn't the year you were born >_<

That's because I was, like, 12 when I made this account and I wanted to look older.

Zeus posted...

Honestly, if you have a great offer in hand, it's probably worth moving rather than waiting on the off-chance you might find something better unless you're really attached to your current area. But I don't know all of your circumstances so it's hard to really judge, although I'm assuming you're still young and you aren't a chronic hoarder so moving is less of an issue now what it might be down the road.

I don't have anything direct, it's just wide open, and I'm just curious what other people have done.

Oh, I graduated a few days ago with a bachelors in electrical engineering.

Now is the fun part of figuring out if my fiancee and I want to move to the job, or get one that's closer to home. Any advice or experience anyone has with getting out of college would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, I've started reading A Canticle for Leibowitz.
This shit's a pretty good book, I'm surprised people don't talk about it more.

It was A Game of Armored Combat that came out in 2019. It came with an Awesome, BattleMaster, Catapult, Commando, Locus, Shadow Hawk, Thunderbolt, and Wolverine figures. It does mean eventually I'll need to figure out how to paint figurines, but for now, I'm happy just with a sweet Catapult figure. Plus the rulebook, and a splattering of fluff. The rulebook is actually super well laid out for mechanics this old.

I'm thinking of painting my boys in the color of house steiner, because they seem one part incompetent, and one part way too much money. Like the italians in the world wars.

I_Abibde posted...

Old Battletech fan here, believe it or not, but I have not acquired anything related to it since the days of the Fedcom Civil War, and I have not played it at length in years. Used to belong to a group for it, but the lead player was a complete a****** (and, later, a rapist), so, once he was gone, no one else wanted to play any more, so I was stuck reading novels and sourcebooks to reminisce. Doubt anything will top good ol' pre-Clan Invasion 3026 for me. (I loathe Clantech.)

Oh shit, yeah I've just been getting into it from some youtube videos explaining the lore and the history, and I just picked up a boxset for my early-birthday.
So I've just played over online and also one pretty simple game with my SO.

Things have gotten.... not going to lie they've gotten worse since the clan invasion, but they've also apparently balanced the game better around the clan mechs so they're not so overpowered anymore.

I mean, if you want, I can talk about my own stuff I'm getting into, it's just that I don't expect anyone to be into BattleTech.

Nah Wave, there's no wresting topics.

I don't think there's any megatopics anymore except for the geek topic.

Y'all post about stuff I'm not interested in, sorry.
Wrestling isn't my jam.

I'd be extremely cautious about it first, and find some way to do testing.

It's a 4 hour movie, I ain't for that life.

:o

Oh, PO, I'm curious on your opinion on BattleTech and all of their stuff. I've been slowly getting more and more into it.

Do people actually care about funko pops? I thought it was just a waste of plastic.

Zeus posted...

TIL: MtG "super drops" are a thing

https://secretlair.wizards.com/us/smittensuperdrop

I think I've ever seen these kinds of cards before or something similar to it (which may not have been actual license product and instead a fan thing), and wondered what was up with it.

At any rate, they seem to be weird as hell limited collectibles with variant art and a different style. While the concept is interesting, the prices are outrageous (probably so as to not to mess with the secondary market?). At first I thought it was a bit much for a collection of cards, but then I learned that each thing was only a few cards which became a definite "NOPE!"

Some of the previous ones are kinda neat:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-secret-lairs-secretversary-superdrop-2020-11-25

WotC is seeing if they can very subtly and slowely cut out the gamestore, they're selling cards directly to the consumer while giving product away to big box stores, like amazon at gamestore-prices, not consumer prices.
All of the secret layers have been "conveniently" a few dollars below the current market value, because WotC can't acknowledge the secondary market, because then they have to admit they're selling gambling to children.

For me it's a mix of two things:

1. The AAA market is deeply creative, and, I need a super creative setting/mechanics/story to get me interested in it. Something looking photorealistic isn't interesting to me anymore. It's why I just sorta dropped cyberpunk 2077 when I realized that it was just GTA with neon lights, all of the creative parts of punk seemed to be pulled out.
2. I don't really pay that much attention to the Greater Gaming Sphere, so I don't hear about cool indie games, or weird nuggets that someone's super invested in. I just sorta dropped off of it, and nothing, aside from, like Hades, has pulled me in, and even that was Pretty Good, Not The Best.

Without the reason why I like games, I just sorta got ignored.

People aren't making RTS games, the strategy games are factory building games, and the story games are interpersonal explorations. The games that were just people hanging out and playing something mindless, aren't super obvious anymore, like, that fucking pirate game everyone was into is awful. People playing Fall Guys, and Among Us, to play with their friends are awful games. I'm seeing people play uno more and more on twitch, there's something wrong with what's being provided.

To me it's less design and more the fact that I just... don't care for the majority of games. I still need to play Bloodborne at some point, but, I'm totally fine waiting.

Revelation34 posted...

No it isn't. They should all be installed with one for emergency situations.

I live in Michigan.
A hurrican is an "emergency situation", should I prepare my eventual house to handle hurricanes? It's quite rare for one to reach all the way over to me, I just get some bad rainstorms when they do go near me.

Or, should I tailor my "emergency situation" preparedness to my local environment (tornadoes and floods), and have minor preparations for an overall emergency?

Entity13 posted...

Considering how many of Denmark's wind turbines are out in the ocean, and they have far less in the way of issues? I'm sure the math exists, and countries that are not the US have access to said math.

The difference is maintenance I'm positive. The thing is, the ocean is actually just the fucking worst when dealing with in terms of design. The mixture of water, which is way more devastating than you imagine, and salt, which corrodes stupid fast, plus any lifeforms that want to poke around. Ocean windmills are kinda the worst of both worlds, it's hard to get to, and you need to apply maintenance more during it.

According to this random website, they expect them to only last 20 years, and you're looking at between 1.5% and 2% of maintenance of the initial cost, per year. The only reason why it's a good investment is because of the economy of scale that they put into it, you can dabble in solar power pretty easily (that's why we have consumer grade solar panels you can install for your house), and ground wind turbines just require space and someone to drive out to it.
http://xn--drmstrre-64ad.dk/wp-content/wind/miller/windpower%20web/en/tour/econ/oandm.htm

Entity13 posted...

That said, I do recall, but fail to have a resource on hand, that properly made and lubricated turbines can stand temps between -4 and -100 degrees (depending on pressure from air and wind in addition to frequency of maintenance).

Yeah, and I'm sure some chemical engineer found a temporary additive to add to the lube to make it handle things better. I assume that's what they did, because, we don't hear about the gears gumming up at all. Chemical additives can do some wild things.

Entity13 posted...

A year-round system? Sure. But precautionary packets in readily accessible storage--think boxes of Christmas lights and decorations in a garage, but orderly due to regulations--to set up whenever the signs are pointing to time to put up such measures? Come on. That is always something to prepare for, even if you don't think you need it 97% of the time.

The precaution is to shut it down temporarily. That's what they did. They need to be safely de-iced, and you can't safely run them while they have ice on them.

The logic I'm struggling with is "well just by the more expensive ones 4head", when that isn't always the best solution. I can't find a price difference in them, but, I imagine it's pretty significant. To heat it up, you need to have wiring along the outer edge of the wings, and then pump a bunch of energy in it. Wind turbines are much larger than people expect, so the entire surface area being wired up isn't something to scoff at. If you expect to do that every month, or so, in the winter, that's a totally reasonable precaution to buy. If you expect to use it once every 20 years? Well, that's not immediately clear, and I think it's reasonable to say that that additional element isn't needed.

Entity13 posted...

Back to this, well, Texas is only so warm or hot most of the time, and yet it does have its bursts of cold, its occasional snow. Proper equipment and measures exist, with all of the math and procedures tied to them after so many years of colder regions testing them, so the answer should have been to invest in those packets and maintain them, because chances are that such cost would have been lower than what Texas now faces in trying to help its own people.

There are a billion better ways of going about this, yeah.

Entity13 posted...

Seriously, and I will repeat this take for a while:

A reasonable human being would have looked at the storm and the needs of other people, and either canceled the first flight altogether, or use whatever connections necessary to send one lucky family somewhere warm for the weekend while said reasonable person helped take care of everyone affected by the storm.

However, if reasonable people were in charge of Texas, it would have better precautions to keep its infrastructure running, rather than cutting corners on proper materials (lubrication, turbine heating, or cold-appropriate metals) just because "lol Texas so hot" and avarice combined. The people of Texas deserve better than this nonsense, and Cruz's flight highlights this utterly.

The annoying thing, right now, is that I'm trying to look up exactly what the failure points are in a wind turbine with the cold weather with it, and I can think of a few things, but, not that much.

The metal shrinking could cause issues with the wings, but, that's a design issue that should be standard across all wind turbines, not just cold ones and not-cold ones.
The grease and oil could gunk up, not fully freeze, but, slow things down. Oil freezes at a much lower temperature than water, and you can get some super simple stuff to inject in the oil to prepare them for temps lowering. Mass-buying and applying new lubricant is kinda stupid.

Ice buildup is the biggest issue, you can cause serious damage if you apply weight to a windfoil at the wrong position. The mathematics is actually unknown how much ice is acceptable, vs how much isn't, fluid dynamics is horrifically complicated and the failure condition of a windmill snapping off a wing, or an airplane snapping off a wing, is more or less unacceptable to just shrug and move on. It's actually a big issue because planes wings are sprayed off with chemicals that are awful for the environment any time they get ice.

Installing a heating system in a wind turbine in texas is... kinda stupid. Not going to lie. When this happens, they just need to be de-iced, and it takes a bit. If the other systems on the grid are robust enough, it should be able to handle the additional strain. But, it looks like the propane has gone down from the temperature, and, a nuclear power plant had to go offline for saftey reasons as well.

When you'e skirting the edge of what's acceptable, and something bad happens, yeah, this is what you expect to happen. I'm not sure what they thought would happen, maybe they were out of office when it was going to hit, or something?

What if you sent the peirogi recipe to someone you super trusted: me?

I'm so sorry man.

helIy posted...

wind and solar energy is actually up in texas, they're working just fine.

it's the natural gas and coal equipment that's the actual issue there.

the officials peddling that it's the wind and solar have ties to the fossil fuel industry, big surprise.

Zang was making one of those there them joaks that I heard so much about.

RCtheWSBC posted...

Yeah but we could still be active while inside! I got Nintendo Ring Fit for this very reason.

That implies I have space in my $625/month apartment with two people in it.
The footspace in front of my bed has enough space for one person to lay down and do pushups 'n stuff, there's nothing else.

It's cold out and there's a pandemic.
I'm doing my part by staying inside.

TheOkHornedRat posted...

i have no idea, but given his weight i would say heart problems are the most likely culprit

Lung cancer.

I've played a bit of Nethack, but moved to more modern iterations of roguelikes because I need a more straightforward hotkeys. Even when they just highlight the letter is enough for me.

I have a similar feel of combat from Hades, despite the 2d vs 3d thing.

No comment on gamefaqs.

IronBornCorps posted...

That first one might be a bit much for gamefaqs friend.

You are aware snow plows are just cars with scoops on them, and they don't pick up to snow and fling it, like a snowblower, right?

JigsawTDC posted...

Are there any good artists here on PotD? I want to commission a high quality photorealistic piece: a busty Jen, with maximum cleavage on display, giving a shirtless Sunny a belly rub.

I'd like to pay money for this not to happen.

What, why would it be "sjw propaganda"?

GM produces the first full scale fusion reactor, likely in secret, but, by the summer of next year hopefully it's patented.

It feels like a good bit of honky.

I can't actually tell if you have, or will, fuck your ex's dad.

sodium-chloride posted...

If it would help make electricity cheaper then sure. Energy costs in Texas are absurd.

Generally yeah because there's cheaper sources of power out here.

Maybe y'all would be doing better if you connected to the federal grid, we don't need to deal with this shit.

Ogurisama posted...

Pregnant emoji? Jens having a baby!?!?

babynames.com

sodium-chloride posted...

Realistically it'll be food and water.

Nah, you don't want your money to be perishable goods, but, it will likely be barter, yes.

Money requires an overall government structure in order to be worth anything, generally.

sodium-chloride posted...

Texas is shit at preparing for any sort of extreme weather. We all knew it'd be single digit weather (which happens never in Texas) since last Wednesday and yet we are still somehow in this mess. Rolling blackouts to conserve electricity is understandable because everyone wants their power right now but it's ridiculous that millions of people have had zero power for over 12 hours now.

What sort of home heating elements do you guys have? I could understand natural gas, or propane, or some other flammable being used to heat your home, that's what's standard up north.
Is using electric heating standard issue? We just use it for temporary heating, not long term (months I mean).

What's their reason for power outages?

Ahaha, I'm happy they have built in protections then and it was just your system being upset.

rjsilverthorn posted...

That shouldn't have damaged anything. You basically told the PSU to expect a 230V input and you were only giving it 115V, so you were under-volting it.

It's also AC which means you could have different amperage running through things that weren't expecting it, and there's an unexpected frequency on it.

It's not as simple as a DC voltage.

Sounds like it's fucked, yup.

Potentially there's a fuse in there that's blown, but, unless you know what you're looking for, I don't recommend opening a PSU, there's stuff in there that can kill you.

Try to turn it on, see what happens.

I don't think it will blow anything, but, who knows.

It's a split of the pot.

I got 3.
I guess there's worse.

Unbridled9 posted...

Wine.

Well, not all wine ages well. Some just rots from the bacteria leftover. It's generally created to be aged.

Uncured bacon is just pork belly, you may be able to find it.