It’s not rare but it’s a pain in the ass to purify and transport. Semiconductor place I used to work had a gigantic 1000 gallon tank of the stuff they had to get refilled every month. Had to have some specialty chemical tanker truck it out. Then there’s problems with icing your whole setup once you actually have the stuff and try to use it. It’s less of an immediate fiscal strain and more of an expensive infrastructure problem.
Because it’s cheap and effective. Why splurge on a bottle of compressed nitrogen or argon when all it does is forgo suffering and cost more? Think of the bottom line.
Bro the last 2 “books” are so unbearably horny I barely finished them. I couldn’t finish the newest Cinder Spires book he put out for exactly the same reason. Jim was on such a good run doing awesome shit between Changes and Skin Game, but I guess losing his dog and then his marriage really pushed him into a return to horny.
Hasn’t been anything “recent” for me. Check out the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. My favorite depiction of “fae” in a modern setting. Yeah, you still have dew drop fairies and gnomes and shit but you also have giant fuckass murder ogres and insane kelpies and war unicorns.
The second Hellboy movie also did a great job bringing that sort of grimdark feel to the fae lore imo.
Goblins ain’t got shit on Nuckelavee. Or redcap for that matter. Little bastards murder lone travelers and dye their eponymous hats in the blood of their victims.
I always like the analogy of man’s relationship with an ant is how it would be with a fae or elder species and man.
Like if an ant managed to attract the attention of a human and requested it kill a specific ant, the human would respond by simply killing the entire colony as they can’t distinguish one individual ant from another.
That’s what the fae do.
Except there’s about ~200 years between plagues being introduced to the America’s and the big westward settling pushes. Again, don’t conflate one genocide with another.
Welder here. Aluminum oxide inhalation is correlated with an increased risk for alzheimers, not cancer. Hexavalent chromium is a carcinogen, and that comes from heating up stainless steels. So you are actively replacing a relatively non toxic oxide with the potential for an actually toxic carcinogenic gaseous metal, assuming your pocket knife is some sort of stainless steel (statistically very likely).
Considering ~95% of the native population died of disease within 50 years of the settlers landing? Yeah you can say it was pretty empty. I’m always fascinated by the willful ignorance of “settlers” in the context of the old west. Journals talk of “miraculous” groves of fruiting bushes and trees or other edible vegetation and how it’s clearly a gift from their white god while studiously avoiding any mention of the signs of previous habitation in the area. We’re still discovering massive irrigation networks in AZ and NM with satellite LiDAR that no “settler” ever mentioned.
Don’t overlook the first genocide of my people by focusing too hard on the second. The Europeans struggled to quell the survivors. I honestly don’t think settlers had much of a chance otherwise, even with the difference in technology.
So you’re telling me shooting a space gun at the sun will miss?
This has always struck me as a dumb argument. Before “intellectual property” innovation was just technological advancement. Patenting is just enabling punishment against actual innovators. I am a welder. I make things. If I set out to make a stove, I don’t give a shit who patented what fuel distribution system or air intake methodology, I’m gonna make a damn stove. The entire concept of being able to exclusively “own” a design or concept is reductive to human learning as a whole.
They have read the concept of polling data
See I disagree. Every problem in DRG can be independently accomplished by any class on their own. You can even solve it with an overapplication of any role. Nothing is quite as chaotic as 4 drillers turning a map into 3d rat labyrinth and trying to find the drop pod in that mess. Or make a 4 engineer superfortress with a whole mess of turrets. Or go full American style shock and awe with gunners and obliterate everything that has the misfortune of spawning. Or do whatever nonsense scouts do. Or anything in between. That’s missing from Helldivers. Everything boils down to “what gun are you using and why isn’t it the optimal choice?”. My buddy left drg over the guns being boring and I’m trying to claw him back by showing him how wacky some of the overclocks can be
Compare Helldivers 2 with Deep Rock Galactic.
First of all, Helldivers leans into the satire of Starship Troopers, which for some people isn’t a satire. That’s automatically problematic in a team oriented game. Then, you have Helldivers forcing players into team oriented activities. Deeprock is built around a multi-player experience, but can be enjoyed “solo” with your trusty boscobot. There is no equivalent for Helldivers. Either you find a team or you get smashed on higher difficulties (baring “meta” builds). Therein lies the problem.
It’s not so much that they can’t understand teamwork, it’s that they don’t have any proper outlet in game for their frustrations. You get a couple crap teams in a row, and you decide you will become the crap team player “to show them how it feels”. It’s a cycle of negativity that builds upon itself because there is nowhere for that frustration to go. You want to fix chaos divers? Make a solo hero mode. Scale down maps to elimination sized and sprinkle in some objectives and such. Bam. Now they have an outlet.
Take those same chaos divers and let them go solo for a few games. Next time they decide to play with a team, I’m willing to bet the majority of them will be much more receptive to cooperation.
YouTube premium comes for free with my Google music subscription. Or the other way around. Idk
They were the “still cheap but not horrendous trash” option compared to husky at the local home despot last time I looked, which admittedly was a few years back.
It depends on what you’re doing. Metabo makes the best angle grinders. DeWalt makes the most reliable hand drills. Milwaukee is affordable. Imo best bang for your buck is good used tools. S&K made the best rachet set in the world for a time. Starrett and Mitutoyo stuff used to be practically bulletproof. Most modern brands don’t hold a candle to the quality of tools made 40-50 years ago
Idk he’ll probably end up hanging out with all the disenfranchised khaleesi and tyrion kids lmao
The Final Gambit - The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Basically the most perfect metal song from the most perfect metal album
As a welder, much of my work straddles the line between art and mass production. I’ve made many, many beautiful welds that will never been seen by another person for at least the next 20 years, if ever. Some of the best that come to mind are stainless steel welds on industrial equipment that get buried under paint or insulation. I spent 3 years welding parts for US battleships and Navy cruisers as well as the occasional weird airforce part. Most of those welds will never been seen by living people after leaving my old shop.