u/Jesterfish

39 year old from Silicon Valley checking in. From ages 14 to 20 I worked for Blockbuster, Hollywood Video/GameCrazy, Radio Shack, Circuit City, Tower Records, Camelot Music, Sharper Image, Sam Goody, and CompUSA.

Yes. But my 1942 boxes are made of cardboard.

It's me. I posted in the other thread but no one saw my reply. I am not kidding, lol. I deleted my Facebook 15 years ago and have no intention of reaching out. He can, if he wants though.

Holy shit that's me. Like, it's actually me. I was from San Francisco and was visiting my uncle with my mother and grandmother and my uncle took us to the game. I just turned 39.

"Consult" an attorney does not mean "pay" for an attorney. These cases are usually so slam dunk that any competent attorney would jump at the opportunity for the free win. ESPECIALLY being fired shortly after notifying an employer they need ADA accommodations. They may charge a nominal retainer after discussing with you how they intend to win because they know they will get their purse from the discriminatory employer. I am one of those attorneys.

The other scenario, which is pretty likely, is that people on reddit lie.

This was me. I was completely rudderless throughout high school with zero interest in anything besides video games. I was a C- student that failed a couple classes. I went on to basically fail out of community college and my only option left was the military. I joined the Army during wartime and after 6 months suddenly had this newfound realization that I should have studied and worked hard in school. After my service I went back to community college at age 25, held a 4.0 GPA, went on to get my bachelors, then law school, and now I'm an attorney at a well respected firm passionately practicing property law.

Some kids just don't have the discipline for school and need something to realize its importance. Some end up finding it, and, unfortunately, some don't.

Hey! I also casually talk about the Phalanx CIWS and it's land based version, the LPWS. There's gotta be.. several of us.

Showing my age here, but it's apparent how many Redditors missed out on 4 player Goldeneye.

The "locks dont stop crime, but they deter it" theory.

The headphone jack removal is more for IP rating than thinness. But still, I'm not sure why its extremely important.

While I don't support microtransactions, Diablo 4 DOES have a plethora of horse armor and skins you can acquire through drops and achievements.

I literally just reorganized my storage unit for the umpteenth time and was like "yep theres my full sets of N64, Sega Genesis, SNES, NES, and Gameboy games in boxes". Maybe one day I'll have to see how easy it is to reap the karma.

They can tell you not to, and they will. What they CAN'T do is actively prohibit it or retalliate against you for it.

Be careful, Discord will ban without warning or explanation, and will not value your privacy.

Highly recommend Mors Principium Est and Children of Bodom if you're not also familiar. Seeing all three of them live in the early 2000s was a treat.

This is the first time in my entire life that I have seen Kalmah mentioned in the wild, let alone played in a video, and it makes me so happy.

I'll agree that nearly every Blizzard game is a mess on launch day, especially the hilarious saga of D3. That being said though, there have so far been zero issues with Diablo 4's launch.

Hot take as an American, but seeing for the first time how this league has been dominated by 2-3 clubs for the last two decades seems incredibly boring?

They did not miss the boat... They fought it multiple times in the last century and won, multiple times. They are just trying again now, becsuse they do it like clockwork.

I moved to New York from San Francisco, but have kept my SF number and easily weed out my daily spam call. The only company I foolishly gave my phone number and address to in the last few years was Dick's Sporting Goods. When I get calls from my now local NY area code, I know it was from Dick's selling my info. Screw you, Dick's.

The land based version (LPWS) runs off of a 15kW diesel generator, The weapon is mounted on a trailer flatbed with the generator, so it can be moved easily. I'm not sure if the CIWS is wired directly into the ship's power.

The weapon is in no way a precision weapon, its crude and violent but it is very accurate because it essentially sprays a line of MK149 rounds in the trajectory of a projectile, which is calculated by a C2 or C4 system (command, control, communications, computers). Engagement operators see this information on a FAAD and/or AMDWS computer.

Because it shoots based on calculations, it would be ineffective against something like a guided missile. You would need a heat seeking air defense system for that, i.e. the Patriot.

Edit: I didn't even answer your question. The golf balls were completely obliterated.

You're right, and the radar systems which track the rockets mortars or torpedos the Phalanx CIWS/LPWS also rely on that radiation detection. The FLIR simply tracks what the radars lock on to and provides a visual to human operators.

I'm not an expert in that department so I agree that you're very correct. My experience was confirmation from helo's knowing when we were looking at them, and it being a result of multiple radar locks makes way more sense. The FLIRs activity just coincided with how hot our radars were.

The most notable stories to me are having an over eager lieutenant release fire from the Phalanx onto a Nerf football in the Baghdad Green Zone, and buzzing a Blackhawk helicopter after telling him to clear the airspace and him responding "I fly where I want". He grounded so fast he probably broke the skids.

I got out of the Army when I was 26, and went to school to become an air traffic controller (ATC), as there was no real civillian equivalent for my 14J MOS. I became a certified ATC but could only work at smaller city airports, as working federally required going to the only official ATC academy in Oklahoma City. The requirement for admittance to the academy is passing the CTO exam, which I did, at which point you sit in a lottery system. The maximum age for acceptance they allow is 31, and after sitting in the lottery for almost four years, I aged out of it.

The pay at smaller airports was dismal for the hours worked, so I went back to school for business technology, and then law school. I'm now an attorney and mostly work alongside the Small Business Administration by representing lenders in the SBA 504 program.

So you're correct, what I do now, which is mostly arguing with town clerks over commercial land use requirements is vastly different from sitting behind eight cameras attached to gatling guns and shooting down katyusha rockets.