I am a welder / machinist and have done work at various shipyards over the years. I’ve worked on many different US Navy and Coast Guard vessels over the last decade and was even in the Navy for 4 years from 2001 - 2005. In my experience, most shipyards take safety first. I’ve never seen anything like the incident in…

The US is not going to give the Ukraine military aid. Trump belongs to Putin.

This is really two categories. There is “Cheating” and then there is “Cheating Yourself”. Take Skyrim and Fallout 4 for example. They are single player only. Have high difficulty settings available. And have various console commands available. Now using the console commands is definitely cheating. Turning on god mode,…

I don’t think that is an extra finger. I think that is just the crease of his pinky finger and the side of his hand.

This reminds me so much of the time I was in Okinawa back in 2005 and some Marines took out this brand new Oshkosh M-ATV for testing only to promptly get it stuck in the sand on the beach. Hilarious.

No Man’s Sky was a fun game. It got very repetitive and boring fairly quickly but was not a bad game. So these planned updates do sound interesting to me as well. Base Building is really something I wanted in the game on release day. I’m willing to give it another shot if they keep adding features.

Ghost in the Shell was good. That scene where the main character was trying to rip the top off that tank bot so hard that her arms shredded was pretty epic.

I would happily trade him straight across for the fleet of Mack Granites I have to work on every single week. Every day it’s leaking coolant lines, leaking oil pans, electrical error codes, bad sensors, shredded belts, trouble with the ignition, or some other nonsense. Followed by a heap of problems with the…

“Confused and Looking for Love” seems to have a pretty big problem. Not that he is a virgin. But that he lacks confidence because of it. I’m not trying to brag but when I was on the dating scene, it was pretty common for me to hook up on the first date. I’m nothing special. Just a pretty normal guy. But I knew what I…

Princess Mononoke is so freaking good. I wish there were more anime that could compare to it. It was beautifully drawn with a great soundtrack as well as an interesting story with unique characters. Everything a good anime should be.

I remember about 10 years ago when I bought this 1974 Dodge Charger for $800. The body was a bit rough and it had been sitting in a field for many years. But I thought it had potential. So I drove 3 hours to get it. Got it running. All seemed well. So I started the long drive home. When I only had 30 more minutes to…

We would usually only do this when we were in a hurry. We would have one team pulling pallets of supplies across the tethers while the SH-60s were dropping pallets on the flight deck. But sometimes the pallets getting pulled across the tethers would get stuck. halfway across. So it wasn’t used often if avoidable.

When I was in, we used a Springfield M14 with a ball launcher attachment and blanks. You basically have a monkey fist stuffed into a cup that attaches to the end of the barrel and hundreds of feet of line laid out next to the shooter in an “S” pattern.

I remember once we were waiting to resupply on the USS Fort McHenry behind the USS Essex. Just hanging out on the flight deck for our turn. And suddenly we see these two pallets full of junk food slowly floating by. Doritos, Mountain Dew and all sorts of other stuff most likely destined for the ship’s store on the…

The thing about No Man’s Sky is that everybody seemed to have this idea in their minds about what kind of game it was going to be. I thought it was going to have more of a survival aspect in terms of hunger, thirst, sleep needs, etc. And kind of hoped it would have some kind of base building so I could find a planet I…

Fear not, Mike Fahey. I tried the “Smoke Mountain” sandwich last weekend. It was good. But too much sandwich. I was stuffed. The pork belly tasted amazing. The sliced brisket was amazing. The onion rings had a good flavor and a nice little crunch. But the turkey on mine was a bit dry. And the barbecue sauce is a bit…

Planetes was WAY better as a manga. The anime was almost completely different.

An M1 Abrams tank is a bit different to drive. It is an automatic and uses a control similar to a motorcycle. You hold on to two handles and crank one handle to increase speed. Turn both handles to turn left or right.

This was a great article. There are only a handful of games that I genuinely enjoyed playing through more than once. The biggest being the Mass Effect trilogy, which I’ve played through start to finish 3 times. The first time I went full paragon through all 3 games, got in a relationship with Tali, and tragically…

Dear Universal,