KhanCipher

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[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sorta, that goes for the guys on the ground, but radar tracks stuff in relation to it. So if there's a plane 30km ahead of you and you're both going the same speed in the same direction, that plane in front is significantly harder to see on radar.

Again, this is how it had been described to me.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

A radar guided missile locks onto the radar signature, which we're right back to needing to know what the stealth fighter looks like on radar so that you're sure you're not firing onto something that isn't a fighter. Now we're also not really getting into the ways to defeat radar without having stealth plane stuff on your plane.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Trick question, stealth fighters were never completely invisible to radar, the point is to trick the guy manning the radar to think the blip showing up isn't a hostile plane. Essentially once someone figures out what your stealth fighter looks like on the radar, you no longer have a stealth fighter.

That's generally how I've heard it described to me.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly with the way Nintendo currently designs games, I wouldn't want them to make another mainline F-Zero game. Mainly because the two best F-Zero games (X and GX) run counter to their current trend of "you will have fun the way we say you will" game design.

Though it is pretty funny that the best F-Zero game wasn't even made by Nintendo, it was made by Sega.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

History is written by the victor

Counterpoint: The Lost Cause of the Confederacy.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@red_stapler@hexbear.net

Damn it, I still laugh at stuff like this.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

"Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems, not problems like what is beauty because that would fall within the purview of your conundrum of philosophy. I solve practical problems."

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Every single time a pre-warp civilization is going through a major crisis, the officers need to have a meeting in the important meeting room to discuss whether or not intervening and breaking the prime directive would do more good than harm while also displaying the worst bits of moral cowardice while debating it.

Yes, I really hate PD episodes from TNG onwards. I know lower decks lampshaded the most egregious one in TNG, where Picard decided to take his ball and fuck off at the end.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah it is, it's good at being used as a Gamecube.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I'm with you on live DC movies being unenjoyable, mainly that a majority of them made after 2000 feels like the director only read three DC books, Dark Knight Returns, Killing Joke, and Watchmen. Conveniently the three books DC seems to ever remember publishing most of the time. Though I will say that I enjoyed the most recent batman movie, though in hindsight it's likely only because its actuallybeing a detective story for most of its runtime rather than bats going around just beating people up the whole film.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

before they enact gun control

And last I checked, gun control in america has historically always been about keeping guns out of the hands of anyone that isn't white.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Now, with that being said, if there's anyone who I wanted to do some legally questionable stuff to in the 5 years i worked at at factory. It'd be the 3rd shift manager, and some of the division managers, each for different reasons.

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