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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Naming schemes that aren’t clear are absolute garbage.

    What if you’re new to it, and there are 6 different recent versions of something all named with a description instead of version number? Is Jumbo newer than Mega?

    Fuck it, I’m ranting about this because it still upsets me.

    I wanted to buy a 3DS to play Shovel Knight and Binding of Issac. Reading up on them, BoI would only play on a New 3DS XL. Cool.

    Went to the store and bought a new 3DS XL only to find out I got the wrong one. What I wanted was a NEW 3DS XL, and what I got was a 3DS XL that was new. There is a difference, and it took me 4 days to notice, and I was working out of town for the next month. So I can’t return it. FUN!

    So screw naming new versions of things with names instead of numbers. But somehow, Microsoft screwed that one up.

    KISS: Keep it simple, stupid.










  • This was a war game between allies to find potential gaps in their stragety. Everyone learned something from two years of experience. So everyone involved wins.

    During war games against the US, they handicap pretty heavily. If you read about the F-35 being intercepted by 70’s/80’s era jets, it’s because they HEAVILY handicapped themselves. Done for two reasons. Improve improvisation during actual combat and not show exactly what the equipment can do.

    Doing reading outside your source, the USS Regan wasn’t ‘sunk’ During the games. If the real torpedoes had hit, somehow getting past the torpedo defenses, it would have still been afloat and towed/escorted for repairs.