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[misko27]

It's not like political discourse is a protected category on a forum about the trials of alcoholic midgets and their neurotic overseers, so the point is moot.

[Egan_BW]

The sound of someone's brains being blown out is not exactly the most attractive thing in the game.

I beg to differ! Those be some of the most satisfying headshots in videogames, they be!
Crunchsplat!

[Eric Blank]

there's a bird outside flying in circles screaming its fool head off. there's gotta be a predator in its nest or some shit. holy shit is it obnoxious.

[Akura]

The sound of someone's brains being blown out is not exactly the most attractive thing in the game.

I beg to differ! Those be some of the most satisfying headshots in videogames, they be!
Crunchsplat!

Spoiler: Ground Zeroes(TPP's prequel) spoiler (click to show/hide)

That crunchsplat happens to one of YOUR men, as Big Boss is trying to pull him onto the chopper as Mother Base burns.

Then again, this is not the most horrific thing that happens in Ground Zeroes.

[Yoink]

It's not like political discourse is a protected category on a forum about the trials of alcoholic midgets and their neurotic overseers, so the point is moot.

Wait, what point are you referring to here?
I originally said "political discourse" in response to someone asking what happened in the Brexit thread, somebody claimed that it was not so, and I maintained that it was, in fact, political discussion that had led to the thread being locked, no matter how abhorrent the opinions involved may have been to all or most members of the forum.

Call me pedantic if you will. I had planned on making some longer, generic statement about the perils and pointlessness of political discussions to begin with and how it is best to avoid shitting up our otherwise affable community here, but it is difficult to condense any such lengthy sentiment down to fit the 120-character limit on my $15 phone's web browser.

[Felissan]

Speaking of bans, some guy got banned on another forum I'm on. I had never paid attention to the threads they were the most active in, but looking at a mod's post in the ban thread about it... I think that's definitely one of the most messed up persons I've ever heard of.

[Yoink]

To be honest, from the brief look around I had, that entire community seems "messed up" in the extreme.   
I guess that shouldn't surprise, considering said community is devoted to the playing of Mafia... I imagine the level of stress and frayed nerves resulting from playing such a game regularly could lead to some interesting neuroses.   

[AzyWng]

Incidentally? I'm starting to feel bad just for dismissing staff. I mean, they all seem to love Big Boss (yes, I know the spoilers. They're not relevant to my WTF) on an almost fanatical level.

What happens to them when you tell them they're fired? What do they do then? They can't exactly return to the army/private force. And working for a different private force would be out of the question after seeing that there's only one Big Boss (sort of if you count spoilers and the whole FOB game mechanic) - it just wouldn't be the same. How do they pay the bills? How do they explain what happened to their friends and family? How do they find a purpose in life if they're denied the chance to work for the legend?

The volunteers are even worse. If they wind up being B or lower grade, they're often just sent to the Waiting Room (whatever the hell that is) before they're ultimately told to get out. Just because they're not good enough.

The fact that I don't wanna wind up adding unneeded staff has, again, made me try going lethal, but as I put in my previous post, that feels wrong somehow.

[hops]

I mean, real military organizations also screen people based on things beyond their control.

[SOLDIER First]

I mean, there's no guarantee the "Waiting Room" is a literal room on MB that people exist inside of physically. It could be an abstraction of a unit's state of waiting, i.e. for acceptance and assignment to a platform. You can always think of volunteers as applying (and the ones that autojoin to a platform were just automatically accepted), if it makes you feel less bad.

[Grim Portent]

I've been raising some tadpoles indoors while trying to fix up the garden pond, and over the past week and a bit I've been getting the odd toadlet ready to go back outside. No biggy, I can just scoop up the little things and put them outside on the pond plants and let them get on with it.

Today one of them escaped before I could put it outside. Despite being about 4 milimetres long it managed to make it's way down a 3 foot set of shelves, upon which the tadpole tank is housed, then crawl four or five feet over a carpet, past or over a ton of boxes and books and wargaming minis, towards my lizard's terrarium. This took it only about 5 minutes, possibly less. It then sat perfectly happy on my bank card as I carried it outside, then wandered cheerfully onto a leaf and sat down.

I'm boggling at how far it managed to get so quickly with such tiny legs. Thing must have been able to scuttle like a spider or something, but I guess I should just be happy I didn't step on the little speed racer.

[Sergarr]

After some more consideration, I guess despite all the dirt I've heaped on it, I'll be getting into this Reelya's "language / predicate calculus style machine learning", after all. Studying normal machine learning just no longer really feels to me like I'm doing something useful, even a little bit.

[Lord Shonus]

Went to trim my yard, and I was halfway through the job when the feed spool on the trimmer exploded. Apparently 15 years of bump feeding (when the line wears away, you tap the spool on the ground to advance the line on most cheaper models, it is how they are designed) had weakened it so much that it couldn't take the centrifugal force anymore, as the parts I was able to locate were in several pieces.

I could buy a replacement spool for this model for about $20, or a much nicer model for around $40.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

I would get a new machine, when one part has expired from standard use others won't be far behind. For instance my local council has spent more repairing my mother's boiler than it would have cost them to replace the whole thing because of how old it is.

[Lord Shonus]

That's probably what I'm going to do, particularly since on further research I can get one for $30 instead of $40. That was part of the WTF, as you would expect to pay more than 10 extra dollars for a motor, frame, and other extra parts compared to two lumps of plastic and a spring.