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Back when I was in the military, 24 hour coverage usually meant something like 5 pilots on standby, depending on the time of year and base health. you always had to account for someone coming down with something or getting stuck in the snow. Another thing that gets an amazingly small amount of attention, is just how much maintenance aircraft go through. I cannot imagine passenger planes being properly safe to fly, given how much of their fleet is regularly in the air.
 
jjosua said:
Back when I was in the military, 24 hour coverage usually meant something like 5 pilots on standby, depending on the time of year and base health. you always had to account for someone coming down with something or getting stuck in the snow. Another thing that gets an amazingly small amount of attention, is just how much maintenance aircraft go through. I cannot imagine passenger planes being properly safe to fly, given how much of their fleet is regularly in the air.
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I have both my fixed wing and rotary wing ratings and I have worked at a regional airline before this (think the small 50-70 seat aircraft) and airline mechanics are the "we don't see the sun brigade" since 0000-0600 is the time where the airframes don't move at all, usually.
 
ScissorSlipper said:
Unless the patient is immobilized they'll be wiggling around too much and make surgery less effective. I'd only see Taylor doing that if there are no anaesthetics or its some terrible Scav-level person with a bounty on their head. I guess she can just gently (?) knock someone out so they don't feel the pain (???).
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No they've got things like pain editor implants and such. I don't mean screaming in pain I mean screaming in panic as someone with super speed is doing full body surgery on you and you're watching the entire thing.
 
I'm honestly expecting some of Taylor's share of the "salvage" loot to be Scav brains for her spider bots. Another portion of her share would be the weirded-out looks the others would give her if they noticed her getting a five-finger discount on gray matter.
 
jjosua said:
Back when I was in the military, 24 hour coverage usually meant something like 5 pilots on standby, depending on the time of year and base health. you always had to account for someone coming down with something or getting stuck in the snow. Another thing that gets an amazingly small amount of attention, is just how much maintenance aircraft go through. I cannot imagine passenger planes being properly safe to fly, given how much of their fleet is regularly in the air.
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SpiraSpira said:
I have both my fixed wing and rotary wing ratings and I have worked at a regional airline before this (think the small 50-70 seat aircraft) and airline mechanics are the "we don't see the sun brigade" since 0000-0600 is the time where the airframes don't move at all, usually.
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4.5 years support equipment mechanic in the Marines, plus a few months on the civ side, (got the place i was working back up to spec and lined out so that a geriatric monkey could do the maintenance, then they let me go.) and yeah. six hour turn around overnight is about right, you get two hours of prep to pull the birds in, work through the PM checklist, and then shove it back out the hanger doors. Gods forbid something goes wrong or you need a part that you don't have on hand, then heads roll
 
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4.5 years support equipment mechanic in the Marines, plus a few months on the civ side, (got the place i was working back up to spec and lined out so that a geriatric monkey could do the maintenance, then they let me go.) and yeah. six hour turn around overnight is about right, you get two hours of prep to pull the birds in, work through the PM checklist, and then shove it back out the hanger doors. Gods forbid something goes wrong or you need a part that you don't have on hand, then heads roll
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At the airline I worked for we had "the can" which both pilots and mechanics are probably familiar with. It's that aluminum clipboard where you keep the current aircraft logbook. Well, it was our custom to put a sticker on top of the can every time we MELd something, that way we'd know there were deferred items on the aircraft just by glancing at the can. The sticker would have the item deferred and date the MEL expired written on it. It wasn't uncommon at this airline to "run out of can" to put stickers on because you had like 7 or 8 deferred maintenance items. Hahah.
 
At least the Military squadrons i worked with had a hanger queen they could rip parts from, (mostly) can't really do that with an airline, they dont usually have the space and the smaller ones can't spare the birds. After i got out i was at a Fleet Basing Operation just north of Fort Worth Texas and the only thing i didn't rebuild in approx 8 weeks was the two Mobile Electric Power Plants, one of which was about to burn its rings completely out. I warned them, but they "Couldn't afford to have it down" while they rebuilt an MD-80 interior. They may have finished the bird, but i bet that the damn MEPP didn't make it through the conversion.
 
Blaflaix said:
I have this hilarious image of a Night City version of an Ambulance Chaser.

"Were you sideswiped by a drunk? Hit in a drive-by? Trauma Team will fix you, but they may not fix them, if you know what I mean. Call Joe Kesh, he'll get your pound of flesh!"
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There's a Gig from El Capitan (I think) where you do exactly that.

ScissorSlipper said:
Can't people just look at her with fancy eyes to search a database and see her true identity? What's stopping them from seeing that Taylor is Madison? Do they just politely not do so when on a Wakako-assigned job? How does Taylor look into their backgrounds but not know their true names?
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Didn't Taylor got some high end Kiroshis? According to Victor those come with a pixel face generator against video surveillance and since cybernetic eyes are just cameras, it should work against them too.
And it would provide a nice explanation as to why the cops loose interest in you as soon as you leave the crime scene. They simply can't differentiate you from all the other Kiroshi users.
 
Slaggedfire said:
Yeah. In 2077 I kept walking past tons of things that looked like they'd be worth a lot, but just walking by not taking it because I couldn't actually interact with anything.

If I had the ability to loot everything not nailed down... I would. 100%. Nothing left behind. I actually have a really hard time in survival games due to my loot goblin behavior.
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How dare you demean Your hight of Goblin Nobility the Loot Goblin.
 
Slaggedfire said:
Also. I really wish I could stir my hot chocolate in without the big spoon hitting every every inch of that damn mug.
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When I lived in a tiny apartment with a roommate that woke up long after I did I got into the habit of touching the stirring spoon to the inside of the cup and stirring until liquid is mostly moving in that direction and then moving the opposite way. Each time I change direction it creates some vortices and helps to mix, and while it isn't silent it is a lot more quiet than hitting the sides with traditional stirring. Kind of a white noise instead of ringing, if that makes sense.
 
cb_urk said:
When I lived in a tiny apartment with a roommate that woke up long after I did I got into the habit of touching the stirring spoon to the inside of the cup and stirring until liquid is mostly moving in that direction and then moving the opposite way. Each time I change direction it creates some vortices and helps to mix, and while it isn't silent it is a lot more quiet than hitting the sides with traditional stirring. Kind of a white noise instead of ringing, if that makes sense.
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Really? I do that just because it's fun.

Take that current!
 
twitcheycrow said:
How dare you demean Your hight of Goblin Nobility the Loot Goblin.
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I demean nothing, sir! I am a respectful loot goblin who hauls his 50kg of loot through 4 maps in The Long Dark just like everyone else.

cb_urk said:
When I lived in a tiny apartment with a roommate that woke up long after I did I got into the habit of touching the stirring spoon to the inside of the cup and stirring until liquid is mostly moving in that direction and then moving the opposite way. Each time I change direction it creates some vortices and helps to mix, and while it isn't silent it is a lot more quiet than hitting the sides with traditional stirring. Kind of a white noise instead of ringing, if that makes sense.
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That is fun, but my problem isn't waking people up or noise really. I got 5 chihuahua's. I just wish I wasn't beating the hell out of my expensive mug trying to dissolve the hot chocolate mix.

I like that mug. It enhances the flavor through visual gratification.
 
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Aaaand... I'm dropping this!

Sadly, I hoped that it would be difficult to get on the mundane rails of "acceptable goals", but the author went even further.... GJ
 
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M0rtimer said:
Sadly, I hoped that it would be difficult to get on the mundane rails of "acceptable goals", but the author also managed to cram modern politics in. GJ
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What? Where? Hmm... Well uh to each his own. I didn't see it and I'm usually pretty turned off by stuff like that.

MDK said:
50kgs of loot?! Why are you slacking off?!
Do you at least bring a grinder and blowtorch to take the stuff that's nailed/bolted down?
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No, sir. There is no such thing in The Long Dark. The default carry limit is 30kg with an extra 5kg if you're eating well.
 
M0rtimer said:
Aaaand... I'm dropping this!

Sadly, I hoped that it would be difficult to get on the mundane rails of "acceptable goals", but the author went even further.... GJ
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Modern politics?

If you're talking about the Slav humour, that's because I was born in Eastern Europe myself in a Soviet Republic before immigrating to the USA as a child. The fact that Russians, Belarusian, Ukrainians, etc all hate each other despite basically being indistinguishable to outsiders is kind of an inside joke that has been running for 100 years or more.

I believe you're reading too much into things, sir.
 
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