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MadBurgerMaker

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  1. I was buzzing around San Antonio after I took that DKR pic, and they've got stuff like high school fields (flew over Central Catholic and Alamo Stadium) and small colleges (Incarnate Word) modeled.  There are also business signs that are readable on some buildings, like Alamo Cycleplex on 410 and a nearby Whataburger.  It's the 3D photogrammetry stuff.  In places where that doesn't exist, they still have at least some of the field markings, but the stadiums are flat, like the AI didn't know what to do with them.

  2. Went out to the range today and finally put some through the "new" (I got it just before the lockdowns and such started) G43x.  I think I like my Sig better, but it's fine.  The Sig is full size though, so it's probably just a matter of getting comfortable, and 25 rounds just isn't enough.  The range was only allowing 50 rounds of 9mm per customer, so the wife and I only had 100 between us.  Scorpion still works, 22 is still fun to blaze away with.

    Masks + ear pro + eye pro = fucking shitty hot

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

     

    Criminals are downtown... Suburbs are safe...

    UNTILL THE CRIMINALS COME FOR YOU!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

    Now where have I heard of having to move to the suburbs because of the DANGEROUS inner city? Hmmmmmm just can't put my finger on it....

    Well yeah.  The criminals are currently downtown looting shit.  He didn't say anything about them living there, or whatever..

  4. 6 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    Ah shit, so still a ways off until a version is out on Xbox. Of course, PC with a full setup would be optimal but I need to get a rig together for that and was hoping I'd be able to still play.

    Check first to verify (I got the Steam version), but I believe if you get it from the Microsoft store, it has the play anywhere thing.  You can get your flying fix in even on a potato-ish PC, then fire up the Xbox version when it's available.  The PC spec requirements aren't particularly crazy:

    https://www.flightsimwebshop.com/en/blogs/content/system-specs-flight-simulator-2020-published/

    The differences between low and ultra aren't too bad, with the settings being independently adjustable (so bump up the clouds so they don't totally suck and compromise somewhere else):

     

    Also, Austin:

     

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  5. 9 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    I've seen that figure too - but I believe it's arising from a straight conversion of 2.7kt of ammonium nitrate to TNT - which may or may not be accurate for various reasons. 

    I'm trusting the damage-based estimate more - as it seems to align very well with the magnitude quake reported. A 1.3kT TNT explosion should have produced greater than a 3.3 reading on the richter.

    For some 'Rona lockdown style entertainment, go to the table/article of large non-nuke explosions on Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions#Rank_order_of_largest_conventional_explosions/detonations_by_magnitude) and F5 it to watch the neckbeards fight over whether it should be on there or not.  

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  6. 17 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    Gotcha, missed your tweet. thanks for the info

    You weren't wrong.  Hiroshima is a pretty small nuke by todays standards as well.  This one would just be considered tiny, and probably not worth it to use because it's still a nuke, but it's in the range.  This isn't like the dipshits at USA Today talking about the MOAB with a 20 ton yield like we nuked Afghanistan with it.  

    E:  Not worth it for a nation, I should say.  The big thing about that W54, which is what was in the Davy Crockett mentioned above, is that it's small.  While this was a warehouse full of shit going off, that thing weighed like 50lbs and could be backpacked around by some poor fucker engineer for demo, or attached to a launcher like a fat RPG.

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    1 minute ago, ztejas said:

    No. I shared a tweet a page or two back where some rough calculations based on damage were pegging it in the 150-300 ton of TNT range. Hiroshima was 15,000. A bomb like that would have basically evaporated every building in the videos.

    Quickdraw Wiki types are saying 1.3kT at the moment for the big explosion.  W54 size.  

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  8. 8 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    Marine office mate swears the building blown up is a Hezbollah munitions depot. 

    Maybe so.  I don't know who that DannyNis dude is, just posted it for the video.  

  9. 27 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

    This point in Sino-US Relations  - the issues:

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    If China policy since . . . Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama and Trump got some things wrong with China, what wrongs should we avoid as we uncouple from China? Was the plan to make China a competent military threat and make it long for more territory?

    If EMP hits America, then China's currency is worthless. No need for nuke retaliation. China would screech to a halt - slowly at screeching levels of pain, misery and unrest. The Party would collapse. 

    It's not really about the future of the Chinese economy at that point.

  10. 7 minutes ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    We're so vulnerable as a people now, I'm not sure if we respond in the same way y'all think. Something like losing the power grid would be the start of the end times. 

    Taking out the US power grid with an EMP is a huge strategic attack that can potentially destroy the country (as we know it at the very least).  That's definitely a nuclear response.  

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