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Cake day: June 21st, 2023
  • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•how it feels to read The Art of War
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    12 days ago

    “Feed the troops”

    “If youre gonna go on a long march, give them shoes”

    “If the terrain is shitty for you and not the opponent, your soldiers are not gods chosen like you are and will lose”

    “If the terrain is shitty for the opponent, but not you, they are not gods chosen like their general, and you should attack”

    “Maybe making nobility your military leadership isn’t always a smart idea - give them advisors and then tell them to listen to the advisors.”

    Truly revolutionary literature

  • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•The creator of Fortnite has laid off more than 1,000 staff – despite billions in revenueEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Something pointed out via a friend is that, while we like to shit on corpos for these layoffs, sometimes in the art/story field they (the employees) really are not needed or not desired anymore. Some places eant to hire a new storyboard person/team, or art directors to make changes to the existing items . The first guy made his impact, now the company wants changes that, as an artist, they just don’t see from their artstyle (of any medium like story, characters, environment etc) perspective. Think the botched Ecce Homo fresco as it was originally painted, and then the restoration - the original artist could not concieve of what it became and therefore is legitimately no longer needed. Paying him his dues and letting him go is the nature of it, if done honestly.

    That doesn’t excuse hoarding wealth and trying to get out of paying severance, retirements, royalties for their work, and insurances, but while we often praise that one time Nintendos kept people on at the expense of the CEO, the question is “for what though” if it was a legitimate direction pivot.

    But in general fuck epic because thats not what this is. This is almost always"line must go up" behavior. Just wanted to mention it so I can say “ah, there it is” when fortnite skin quality/story direction/landscape changes invariably catches up with and shows the result of these missing staff in a season or 2, as a direct result of these people’s layoffs.

  • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford Has Crossed Into The MediterraneanEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I wrote my comment in the assumption that there is no immediately obvious cause of damage.

    The assumption a carrier- with more bulkheads/damage control teams/position at the heart of a formation suddenly taking critical damage and/or sinking without any warning of incoming enemy planes/missiles would generate the exact amount of panic it sounds like it should. I suppose I kind of missed that in the original comment.

    A nuclear device detonating underneath would generate a great amount of concern from the international community, especially if Iran immediately says “yo that wasn’t us”

  • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford Has Crossed Into The MediterraneanEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Without reading an article, but I will assume you mean a magical macguffin weapon just…sinks it and no one knows what happened. The response depends on a few things.

    Without its strike group

    Threat assessment will show its defenses were overwelmed by the macguffin weapon. Maybe even conventional missiles - these things aren’t invincible.

    With Strike Group

    The normal Carrier travels with 12-15 destroyers and other auxiliary vessels to provide screening and defense overlapping. If the carrier is struck and damaged/sunk in the center or back of this strike group, without loss of other vessels, an immediate retreat and Threat assessment will be done to see how the macguffin weapon got past everything else. This would be the concern - again Carriers aren’t invincible, but how your macguffin got past so much radar would be important and the MAIN focus, if the macguffin did not do it in an immediately obvious way.

    Strike Group disabled/sunk

    If the entire strike group is damaged/sunk, the entire fleet will pull back to begin assessing risk of the macguffin. Damaging a fair number of ships run by the United States in a short order should be beyond poor nations capabilities, so the macguffiin weapon would necessitate reevaluation. Delay of at least a week to assess where/what the macguffin weapon is, (Assuming its a singular object) and then if the target, say Iran, is able to be struck within a specific loss ratio of troops.

    A macguffin weapon like a Deathstar type where it can fire at single target position would give most Threat analysis away and the immediate questions to answer would be 1. How much energy/fuel/ammunition does it cost to fire. (If a broke country can afford a mega laser - how don’t I have one?) 2. How does it target (radar can be blocked, is it manually aimed as direct fire/ parabolic like artillery) 3. How can it be avoided (like blocking radar to aim, or like can a physical obstruction block the firing angle. 4. Can it be destroyed (is it susceptible to a strike team on land to sabotage?) 5 Is there more than one.