Disgruntled Cuttlefish
Arizona, United States
 
 
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Stop having kids.
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The Tartarian Empire is a collection of pseudoscientific conspiracy theories that originated in Russia and are based on the idea of a "hidden past" and "mud floods".

^ How about this, read actual history? ^



"Uh oh, it's all a lie though. History be fake. I'm solipsistic, respect my dumb ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ views or else."
 
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Why are some moderator and administrator "gods" on forums rude and/or abusive?

Moderators are rude and abusive for the same reason police are rude and abusive. They have power over others. The saying “power corrupts” isn’t just for show.

To be more nuanced, people in situations like that get used to using their power, and when there is no substantial oversight, they can easily resolve their cognitive dissonance (caused by them being jerks) by justifying their behavior to themselves. Over time, these small justifications grow into a corrupt mindset that easily wields abuse without a second thought.

In addition, these kinds of people prioritize their own time over others. Even if it took you 30 minutes to create a post or question or content of some kind on a moderated site, the moderator only sees that it's taking their 60 seconds to look at it. And because there’s literally infinite amount of busy-body moderating they could do, they always feel rushed and take shortcuts to “get more done”. They don’t realize that it isn’t a moderators job to “get everything done”, it's simply to utilize what little time they have to help out with the forum/wiki/etc. Getting to every complaint should not be the goal. And yet mods seem to make it their goal.

Thirdly, the types of people [sic] become mods (or police) are often the types of people that enjoy those kinds of power and enjoy holding them over others. They’re exactly the types of people ripe for abuse of powers like that.

Without a concerted and sustained effort to only accept moderators that are committed to fair treatment of the users they moderate, and without practical oversight over moderators, moderators tend to become toxic parts of their community who only destroy the work of others and oppress the users they moderate. Moderators can’t be the oversight for other moderators, because they’re too similar. Too often moderators band together and support each other in their perverse actions, just as cops do. There must be a way for users to count their complaints about moderators. But very few sites think about these issues. That’s why reddit, stack exchange, wikipedia, and so many others are cesspools of busy body jerks that have no check on their power.

-Quora user
 
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:puke:Folks with a snotty admin/mod God/Goddess attitude
:puke:Folks with a similar community elitist attitude (often, sleeve-tugging bootlickers and enablers of the above)
:puke:Valve
:puke:Former moderation staff on here (and probably also, the current overpaid moderation staff)
:puke:Racists (oh sorry, "not racists", I forgot they don't exist)
:puke:Homophobes (oh sorry, "not that either", I forgot they don't exist either)
:puke:Sexists
:puke:Your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ romance manga
:puke:Taylor "CO2 spewer" Swift
:puke:Travis Kelce
:puke:Harrison Butker (who?)
:puke:Andy Fatass Reid (organized pro-sports mansion robbers, go hit his place next for us)
:puke:Anderson Cooper
:puke:David Muir
:puke:Lester Holt
:puke:Piers Morgan
:puke:Tony Dokoupil
:puke:Dan Abrams
:puke:At least 99% of the rest of the US national mainstream media
:puke:At least 95% of the US local mainstream media
:puke:Your "pretending to be on the sidelines" bothsidesism/false balance fantasy
:puke:Joy Behar
:puke:The rest of the View panel
:puke:Cops
:puke:General Curtis LeMay
:puke:Contrarian Putin cheerleaders
:puke:Glenn Greenwald
:puke:Max Blumenthal
:puke:Jimmy Dore
:puke:RFK Jr.
:puke:Joe Rogan
:puke:Ben Shapiro
:puke:Ted Nugent (who?)
:puke:Everyone else at Fox, OAN, News Nation, the New York Post, etc. etc. (see "mainstream media" above -- this other ♥♥♥♥ all qualifies)
:puke:97-99% of US congress voting members (depending on what happens)
:puke:Most humans (especially male), the ultimate "invasive species"
:puke:Most Americans
:puke:The British royal family
:puke:Batman
:puke:Spider Man
:puke:Wonder Woman
:puke:Captain America
:puke:Every other copaganda and military propaganda superhero that's trash
:puke:The global warming denying, big oil prostitute South Park creators (I used to watch South Park also and talked to the other cool edgy kids on the playground about it, it's revealing when adults revere the political messaging in it -- with what little substance in it can even be described that way after it's boiled down)
:puke:Hunters and similar hick types who lie about being "conservationists" or caring about conservation who are only looking out for the interests of, get this, other humans.
:puke:Chuck Norris and every ♥♥♥♥♥♥ copaganda film and show he's ever starred in
:puke:John Cena, sellout for China
:puke:Contrarians on the left/whatever, who think I'm not allowed to say "sellout for China"
:puke:Jim Carrey
:puke:Kanye West
:puke:Roseanne Barr
:puke:Tom Selleck
:puke:Maria Butina
:puke:CHUDs
:puke:Most dedicated "Youtubers"
:puke:Most influencers
:puke:Zionists
:puke:Jingoists
:puke:J.D. Vance (who?)
:puke:Elon Musk
:puke:Mark Zuckerberg
:puke:Bill Maher
:puke:Neil DeGrasse Tyson (nice ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ "species bias" argument)
:puke:Noah Schnapp
:puke:Julie Bindel
:puke:Mick West (who?)
:puke:Other UAP "debunkers" who have confirmation bias (ironically enough, just like the most outspoken Ancient Aliens and ET-optimistic enthusiasts, etc)
:puke:Avi Loeb
:puke:Aaron "Immunized" Rodgers
:puke:Phil McGraw
:puke:Anyone who has God in their name/stage name (Is that a joke "Tha God"?)
:puke:Bald eagles
:puke:Tom Cruise
:puke:Andrew Tate
:puke:Eve Barlow (who?)
:puke:Jerry Seinfeld
:puke:UN Security Council (not the other organs of the UN)
:puke:Michael Vick (nice whitewash, sports media and NFL)
:puke:Amber Heard
:puke:Holier-than-thou types who call others "lost souls" and make similar remarks (wow)
:puke:Holier-than-thou soccer mommy and daddy types (e.g. pissing and moaning about "swearing")
:puke:Kansas City Chiefs fans (nice racist themed chant you have, huh?)
:puke:Conspiracy theorists who label themselves skeptics (skeptical of being media literate?)
:puke:Anti-vaxxers
:puke:Similarly, folks who think that pasteurized milk is evil
:puke:Steven Segal (who?)
:puke:Robert Kraft
:puke:Oliver Stone
:puke:Idiots who complain about "wokeness"/DEI/etc (right-wing dog whistling defending racism & homophobia) -- although this item is redundant with the "racists" and "homophobes" items near the top of the list
:puke:Dave Rubin
:puke:Tulsi Gabbard
:puke:Daniel Penny
 
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Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time.

Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown,
And the fruitful fields of England
Shall be trod by beasts alone.

Rings shall vanish from our noses,
And the harness from our back,
Bit and spur shall rust forever,
Cruel whips no more shall crack.

Riches more than mind can picture,
Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
Shall be ours upon that day.

Bright will shine the fields of England,
Purer shall its waters be,
Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes
On the day that sets us free.

For that day we all must labour,
Though we die before it break;
Cows and horses, geese and turkeys,
All must toil for freedom's sake.

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken well and spread my tidings
Of the golden future time.
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Where are the Iranian, Brazilian, and Taiwanese skins?

They've since added some Iranian ones (with missing textures for the engine covers), along with many more American ones, because yay America.

They initially decided to only include a few countries for the liveries (only Euro and American liveries also).

Perhaps it's because they want to appeal to their main base who want to primarily use American and Euro liveries. Considering how many different nations used the F-5E, and considering some of the default liveries are semi-fictional (e.g. Norway only used the earlier A or similar variants which are significantly different), there was a clear bias there. Also keeping in mind that the US mainly only used it for training purposes and it was mostly intended to be exported, but alrighty then.

Hmmm, I wonder why they'd make that artistic choice?

So, are the first-person and third-person textures markedly better than before? Of course, it looks great (I used cockpit reskin mods anyway though, ditto about that).

The model? Not so fast though. I have to mention that a user has accused Eagle Dynamics of lying about it being built from scratch: https://www.reddit.com/r/DCSExposed/comments/1hiullo/fyi_for_those_not_on_hoggit_heres_the_proof_about/

Go figure, Eagle Dynamics.

If you want to charge us more for something, how about do a two-seat version and give owners of the single seater a mild discount?

There are many other realistic (not semi-fictional unless you nitpick about specific lots or batches or whatever else similar enough) "exotic" paint schemes for this aircraft that I would rather use than any of the default skins they included. Yes, I'm aware about custom liveries, but others can't view it in multiplayer unless they also have them installed. It sort of defeats a purpose about it.

The F-5E is mostly known for the Iran-Iraq war and being a cheaper aircraft primarily meant for export.
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