Ensign Cthulhu Posted January 6 Posted January 6 (edited) Little Miss Cthulhu turned 14. Plugged away at my five grinds (Takahashi, Split, Donskoi, Sovetsky Soyuz, Johann de Witt). It would of course happen that a sudden urge to play Randoms in these ships coincided with me being on call. Therefore, Randoms went on hold. Otherwise I would probably have loaded up the blue boosters and finished off the Split, or maybe got the Soyuz her B hull. Mined the last of the Santa crates in the Battle Pass. No more ships, but after some very lucky pulls I think my luck is used up. I think I will be able to farm enough festive tokens from the paid and free BP's for one more mega and one more small. We'll find out Tuesday night how good my math is. Young Master Cthulhu's five-pin bowling restarted for the new year. My responsibility in this regard is to take him there and activate stealth mode while he bowls and chats with his friends. This almost always involves taking a book, and in this case it was Sheldon Leemon's Mapping the 64, a memory-location by memory-location expose of what's stored where and how to work it. Given information on how a particular routine worked, I decided to try to write it from first principles but found I was coming up two bytes short. Fortunately, I also own Dan Heeb's Compute's VIC-20 and Commodore 64 Tool Kit: Kernal, which goes into much more precise detail on exactly how this routine is structured. Thus it was that I learned i had misremembered what a particular machine language command did, and exactly how the hardware functions under certain conditions particular to that routine. And I was left saying "Ooh, so that's how they did it!" Just two nights of play till the end of the patch... Slight edit to title; @Frostbow caught that I finally got around to making the mistake everyone eventually makes in the new year! Edited January 6 by Ensign Cthulhu 3
Aethervox Posted January 6 Posted January 6 I was afmd (away from my desktop) for most of this weekend, hence, I did nothing on WoWS. Considering WoWS Goose is sickening just like WoT Goose has sickened by both being forced to lay too many golden eggs, is it any wonder one plays less? 1
Gnirf Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Mid level activity 4-5 hours/daily. Asym and Operations. Grinding some captains. The Italian Colombo captain + The LA special captain are now on 20 and 19 and hopefully reach 21 by the end of the month. I grind others too but those two are closest. 2
Frostbow Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Revise your title. The year is already 2025, unless this is all about what happened last year. 2
Tread_Head57 Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Played CBs Saturday and Sunday night, finished out all the steel/supply rewards for Squall and Gale. Not sure if I’ll be able to finish out Storm before the season ends. Researched/purchased Amagi, Baltimore, Helena. 2
Ensign Cthulhu Posted January 6 Author Posted January 6 1 hour ago, Frostbow said: Revise your title. The year is already 2025, unless this is all about what happened last year. Oops! Good catch. Fixed. 1
Asym Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Was weathered in. So, a lot of Asymmetrical Battles and, I am not grinding anything...... Ever again. Gosh, to what end since I have the resources to "buy with in game value" virtually anything anymore..... I really didn't "spend" very much until last year so........that was 4 entire years of not spending that is saved and it shows, in the insane amount of value I now have to play with.... I only have 471 ships last I looked and have all of the "ones I wanted" in port.... Other than that, I am still snowed in and a SIL just reported that the roads are simply terrible.... OK, that's a lot of Fallout 4 and some WOWS...... BTW, reading programming essence 1970's is..........quaint. Other words come to mind; but, I must behave since I run around and compete with a Flintlock Rifle, dressed in 100% wool and animal skins.... 1
Ensign Cthulhu Posted January 6 Author Posted January 6 13 minutes ago, Asym said: I must behave since I run around and compete with a Flintlock Rifle, dressed in 100% wool and animal skins.... 1
Wolfswetpaws Posted January 6 Posted January 6 20 minutes ago, Ensign Cthulhu said: Needs some music to go with it.
Reymu Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Just got the P. Rupp and Lutjens captaining her. Also grinded an alternate US captain to 21 points for Ohio if want FP over the heal buff skill. Still glaring at WG for not giving option to convert grey boosters into green. Tried out some more banter. Got entertaining responses to ones such as," Lolibotes on the enemy team have spanked you and stolen your ice cream!" In response to my trolling about red BBs stealing your chickens, one player replied back," I didn't even know I had chickens!" Think maybe above 50% win rate, but tended to charge in and die. Couple carries, and did have an entertaining match where a Yueyang player got tilted our FDR stayed at map border and made quite the fuss in global chat; believe the complainer finished 3rd from bottom. Still a bit irksome how many players don't seem to acknowledge chat, but oh well. Also discovered the Regen Assistant mod has a settings icon, so enlarged font and set the flash to 1. 1
Wolfswetpaws Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Skipped Naval Battles. Completed enough in-game missions to reach Dockyard phase 14. Posted in various topics. Finished the latest in a series of books authored by Michelle Sagara, namely "Cast in Atonement". Am about to start reading "Shards of Glass", also authored by her. https://michellesagara.com/ Added the Encounter and the Marco Polo to my Fleet. Installation of hull modules and the selection of Captains for other recently welcomed ships to my Port remains a slow processs, dependent on accumulation of credits and personnel decisions by me. I'm slowly recovering from a cold/flu which stuffs my nasal passages. Mucinex (or generic equivalent) is helping me cope. Symptoms are mild, but annoying. Welcome to the New Year, 2025.
Asym Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Yeah, I have done that era. But, I focus on the 1830's and early 1840's on the Plains. And, the rifle in this picture is "Dink", my 70 Caliber Buffalo rifle.... And, as you can see, the plains fashion was a combination of skins and wool. It's mighty cold on the plains in January. Knife and Hawk and field rod are in my belt behind the Hunting Smock, that isn't "belted;" because, the last thing you want to be in that very cold wind is sweaty.... That belt is attached to the bag strap in the back. You can see several "layers" of cotton and wool. The leggings are brain tanned deer and are not Pants.... Mocks are not seen. The glove is modern cause what's left of that right hand can't be allowed to get too cold. And, Dink is a might heavy for a rifle; but, with a 1-1/8th inch hand rifled barrel, that can handle the hunting charge with no or very little recoil, it's still over 9+ pounds (I've never weighed it....lol) It's freaking heavy and incredibly accurate !!! The Buff I took this day was at 135 yards, running full out and the pure lead ball traversed the entire animal and stopped in the fat of the skin on the other side (135 grains of Swiss 2F powder)... The ball was 4x larger than when it left the rifle... One shot. I have chemical warmer's taped to the inside of the Smock's left sleeve to keep my trigger finger warn. Warmed stones in fluffed wool and a leather pouch were what were used in the old days. That hat is felt. You can see the butt of my "Field Rod" I use to load and clean Dink right behind my right elbow.... The shooting bag has all of my "spiff" hanging from the bottom and it is to let others know "what I am made of (bragging rights with scalp locks and do-dad's that meant something to those of this era..." And yes, there is real human hair there; because, we "bet hair" shooting ! You win that bet and you get to cut a chunk of hair from the person whom lost the bet, with your patch knife... Which, is on the front strap, next to the wooden starter rod and percussion cap brass holder... The "Living History" thing is a real eye opener ! They were some really tough people in the Fur Trade Era.... And no, Jeremiah Johnson was about a decade + earlier and further west. Where I live is a lot closer to Civilization ! Better stuff was available more often. 2
Ensign Cthulhu Posted January 6 Author Posted January 6 1 hour ago, Asym said: (135 grains of Swiss 2F powder) So basically it would be almost the same as a hypothetical 70-135 cartridge, except the cartridge's projectile would probably be significantly heavier and the velocity somewhat lower as a result for the same energy. Have you ever chrono'ed the slug?
Snargfargle Posted January 6 Posted January 6 4 hours ago, Wolfswetpaws said: Needs some music to go with it. Poor girl must be hot -- she can barely stand to wear any clothes! My nephew-in-law married my "hottie" niece and had a couple of girls who, if their mom, grandma, and great-grandma are any indication are going to be "hotties" themselves. I can already tell that he's just now realizing what he's got in store for him when they get into high school. 2
Asym Posted January 6 Posted January 6 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ensign Cthulhu said: So basically it would be almost the same as a hypothetical 70-135 cartridge, except the cartridge's projectile would probably be significantly heavier and the velocity somewhat lower as a result for the same energy. Have you ever chrono'ed the slug? Actually, a tad short of a 50-140 Sharps my friend hunted with. And no, I've never chrono'd Dink nor, any other BP rifle; because, the fireball and residue effect damage on the chronograph...! I would imagine between 1,000 and 1,400 FPS. Dink's plumber's lead .695 round ball weighs 597.0 grains and the 50-140 shoots a 705 grain bullet... An interesting thing about black powder, muzzle loading shooting is "figuring out how much" is optimal for accuracy.... We have slow twist rates (with round balls) that run from 1:48 for small calibers - up to 1:66 that Dink has. 130 grains of 2F is what "works the best at 200" but, other rifles of other calibers, barrel lengths and twist rates shoot more than 135 ! For what I required to Hunt feral buff, I needed accuracy over noise, smoke and catching the prairie on fire depending on the shooting position..... Energy wise, the sharps is wicked bad between 200 and 500 yards and DInk, is a nasty customer between 50 and 250 yards... Both carry an awful lot of energy....at much slower speeds than modern, smokeless bullets. Edited January 6 by Asym
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