ArxCyberwolf

Exactly! NV is so replayable because there’s so many options and alternatives. No two playthroughs are exactly alike, and I still discover new things despite having played the game for a decade.

The kill animations in Skyrim are the worst. Doesn’t matter how well you’ve done in the fight or how many potions you have, if the enemy manages to get you to a certain level of health you’re killed instantly with no way to stop it. It’s insulting to be killed like that by a random bandit that was lucky enough to drop you low enough before you could heal.

That’s what I like about New Vegas. Get your sneak high enough along with Silent Running and a stealth field, and not even the strongest, most perceptive bosses can notice you. The legendary enemies, the X-42 giant roboscorpion, Lanius, etc all become unable to spot or attack you unless you use a loud weapon, effectively neutralizing them.

The meme isn’t about lemmy.world. World has a shit ton of issues, including shitty admin and moderator behaviour, sure, but that’s not relevant to this meme.

Tankies are authoritarians, they aren’t allies. Historically they’re the ones killing leftists as soon as they gain power.

Authoritarians are not leftists LMAO

They think being against authoritarians means you’re a Reddit-style neoliberal.

You could check the MeanwhileOnGrad community that documents every bit of it, but your instance admins blocked it on your instance to keep you all in the dark and shield themselves from accountability. You’ll have to view it from a different instance.

Yeah, AI has absolutely no clue when it comes to sirens lmao. The Air Raid Sirens Wiki is where you want to go if you want to learn about sirens.

It was a crappy NFT thing for a while, they only brought back the Hotel fairly recently.

Okay, what I mean is the kind of siren that is made of metal and/or fibreglass, contains a mechanical chopper/motor or electronic speaker, and is most often found on wooden poles and rooftops and used for civil defense!

Unfortunately, I’m afraid the sea isn’t too kind to warning sirens lmao

Loud spinny devices that do loud things.

BNCO Mobil Directo (variant with a Wisconsin gas engine), a Federal Signal model 500-SHTT, and a B&M 20-AR-10.

Of course, this being a deserted island and all, the latter two wouldn’t be able to function and I’d probably only have limited fuel for the Directo, but they’re my favourites so it’s better than nothing lmao

Hand crank sirens are pretty fun! I’ve got one from China, an LK-100. It’s especially satisfying hearing the pops at low RPMs.

If there’s one thing I learned from being a siren enthusiast, it’s that if it exists, there’s a community and hobby formed around it. Neurodivergence is a helluva drug.

Siren enthusiast here, it’s a surprisingly large community that’s really started to blow up these past few years. There are so many models and sounds that there’s always something interesting to find and I find them pleasant to listen to. Sirens are very powerful machines that move a ton of air, and they’re capable of shaking the ground and rumbling your chest when you’re near one. We have an annual Sirencon in Wisconsin every year where we bring our privately owned sirens (usually bought for cheap after they’ve been retired from service) and have a good time firing them up.

I personally enjoy learning the history of the sirens themselves and finding surviving units of rare historical models, especially those from between 1910-1950 when they were still trying to figure out what worked and what didn’t. There was a ton of innovation and cool designs. A lot of people associate sirens with air raids, but their original primary purpose was to replace bells, air horns and whistles at fire departments that needed an audible signal to summon volunteer firefighters to the station upon a fire call. Being electric, the siren didn’t need air pressure or steam which could run out, and couldn’t be confused with church bells.