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InkwellObsidia said:

After school? Is she some kind of teenager leading a double life as a sniper or is it just for the sake of the joke?

Considering Trigger is in the literal military I highly doubt she's still in school.

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    NNescio said:

    Another [Gerund Tact] in the JP original (Mountain-Secluding Tact), 'though not sure how to adapt it into English. Guess we can call this Commando Tact but now it's not longer an -ing word.

    (Hermitizing Tact? Mountaineering Tact?)

    I know it's lost the -ing you want but Survivalist Tact seems fitting from what I've seen. Is she actually this over the top as a nature lover? Or just some good ol fashioned flanderization. It's fun either way.

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    StrikeHeart said:

    I know it's lost the -ing you want but Survivalist Tact seems fitting from what I've seen.

    On second thought people actually use survivalist as a makeshift verb (differentiating it from survive) so just going to tack on -ing there.

    (Note that the Japanese version does actually went out of its way to include a katakana -ring/-ing sound, so I try to preserve it.)

    StrikeHeart said:

    Is she actually this over the top as a nature lover? Or just some good ol fashioned flanderization. It's fun either way.

    On one hand we have people who go camping in the mountains Yurucamp-style like Cafe and Ayabe. Then there's Tact who goes "camping" Naked Snake-style. Living off the land, digging through dirt to forage for edible roots, hunting, trapping, fishing... the whole nine yards. Though I guess unlike Snake she did actually bother to get hunting permits first.

    So yes, Tact is a hardcore wilderness survivalist in canon. Heck, she even thinks it's a good idea to teach "survival skills" to new students because it would be a great method to "nurture their bodies and minds. ”Her idea of a birthday present for Almond Eye is to show her an "excellent waterfall" in the middle of nowhere to bathe under, while promising to guard her from wild animals on the way there since she "has the necessary hunting and trapping permits". Oh and one of the official 1-komas depict her as thinking that bear season is the perfect season to go hiking in the woods because of all the "cute and lively bears" frolicking about.

    ...while the bear is fleeing from her in SHEER TERROR.

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    NNescio said:

    On second thought people actually use survivalist as a makeshift verb (differentiating it from survive) so just going to tack on -ing there.

    (Note that the Japanese version does actually went out of its way to include a katakana -ring/-ing sound, so I try to preserve it.)

    There are people who go camping in the mountains Yurucamp-style like Cafe and Ayabe. Then there's Tact who goes "camping" Naked Snake-style. Living off the land, digging through dirt to forage for edible roots, hunting, trapping, fishing... the whole nine yards. Though I guess unlike Snake she did actually bother to get hunting permits first.

    So yes, Tact is a hardcore wilderness survivalist in canon. Heck, she even thinks it's a good idea to teach "survival skills" to new students because it would be a great method to "nurture their bodies and minds". Her idea of a birthday present for Almond Eye is to show her an "excellent waterfall" in the middle of nowhere to bathe under, while promising to guard her from wild animals on the way there since she "has the necessary hunting and trapping permits". Oh and one of the official 1-komas depict her as thinking that bear season is the perfect season to go hiking in the woods because of all the "cute and lively bears" frolicking about.

    ...while the bear is fleeing from her in SHEER TERROR.

    Tact might be equivalent to a Catachan from W40k

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    ...while the bear is fleeing from her in SHEER TERROR.

    Ah I saw that, it's also apparently a reference of some tabloid or equivalent saying the IRL Tact was training with a bear and other wild animals! Fun way to include the IRL horse lore :BlobWheeze:

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    T34-38 said:

    Tact might be equivalent to a Catachan from W40k

    She's actually Bear Grylls. A Catachan would do neither homework nor paperwork beforehand because the person running the training might be a Greater Daemon in disguise. Grylls on the other hand goes as far as possible to make sure things won't get too out of control.

    A true prepper is always overprepped rather than reckless. The problem is that once Z-Day arrives they see anyone who is less prepped as just part of the horde to be mowed down.

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    For context, the newest raid is based on FFXI and has an encounter with a team of bosses from that game, they're five enemies that are mirrors of player characters. The one holding the scythe will teleport to a corner of the arena and start to cast an ability called Guillotine that covers the entire rest of the arena except a small area behind him. If you miss the audio queue and are on the wrong side he'll catch you for sure.

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    I really just dislike how much of a 180 it’s been. We barely lost anything sending over older equipment and now Ukraine gets slapped in the face after sacrificing so much. Then you have people arguing this will save us all some money, but taxes have never been kind to me no matter who was in charge the past decade or so.

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    Cyrus_the_Acceptable said:

    Half the time I see Zelensky's name written with two y's. Which is it supposed to be, Zelensky or Zelenskyy?

    There's no consistent Latin alphabet transliteration but "yy" is what's on his passport and been used officially since he assumed presidency. "Zelenskyi" might be closer to how it's actually said, but one y or two are both acceptable. Really the most correct spelling is Зеленський.

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    kongurous said:

    There's no consistent Latin alphabet transliteration but "yy" is what's on his passport and been used officially since he assumed presidency. "Zelenskyi" might be closer to how it's actually said, but one y or two are both acceptable. Really the most correct spelling is Зеленський.

    I see, thank you

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    Plenty_of_Poi said:

    I really just dislike how much of a 180 it’s been. We barely lost anything sending over older equipment and now Ukraine gets slapped in the face after sacrificing so much. Then you have people arguing this will save us all some money, but taxes have never been kind to me no matter who was in charge the past decade or so.

    Most of that old equipment was designed to fight the Soviets. Might as well let it fulfill its design purpose. It was already paid for. Better to stop an imperialist with a willing army than with an unwilling army.

    Also better to actually fulfill one's treaties and agreements. The US agreed to protect Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons. Russia also agreed to this. Russia reneged on that promise (twice) by invading the country. While outright war with Russia is a very bad thing (nuclear threats and all that), appeasement is so much worse. A line must be drawn and to the EU and the US (until like a month ago), that line was crossed three years ago in Ukraine. That "Three Day" Special Operation with something like 75% of the active Russian Army on the Ukrainian border. Naw man. It has been well over 1,000 days now. NATO has expanded with Sweden and Finland joining. Even with the US going all chickenshit because its President acts like a Russian asset, Putin has lost his stated goals against NATO that he was using as an excuse in 2022. His idea for a ceasefire is "surrender your lands and disarm". He can stick a Neptune missile his orifices.

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    The main issue is the lack of endgame strategies. No one wants to engage in the military pressure necessary to exorcise Russia from Ukraine, by force, but at the same time what support for Ukraine being allocated has been in a constant flux of being slow-walked. That's before the current US administration. That feeling stymied a proper response back at the start of the fighting, leading to sentiments like how Ukraine would probably just fold under the attack, to staring for about a week at a column of disabled tanks that no one wanted to completely eliminate. Maybe if this was a week one or week two response, a smaller show of arms would have been more persuasive. Four or so years down the line is not the time where you write angry letters about the incident in an effort to look stronger. Regardless of how much Ukraine deserves their victory, telling them to fight (in our place) under conditions where they have little chance of achieving the victory they want is pointless cruelty.

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    There are several cameos among the food. On the left I see Ojama Yellow, and on the right, I see Marshmallon, Yuma's hair, and what appears to be a carrot with a face, not to mention that I'm pretty sure Ryouga's skewer has one of his own monsters on it.

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    I can excuse being Filipino, but I draw the line at plagiarism.

    Edit: Because I'm getting downvoted now, I'll provide context for this:

    • The post I linked was from the creator of Filian's model (hereafter Studio Jingo), who did not make it specifically for Filian. Filian's model was made as a generic model for VRChat users.
    • Filian did not reach out to Studio Jingo for permission to use that model for any of her previous merch deals. She also never gave Studio Jingo any credit for the model.

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    Myony said:

    I can excuse being Filipino, but I draw the line at plagiarism.

    Edit: Because I'm getting downvoted now, I'll provide context for this:

    • The post I linked was from the creator of Filian's model (hereafter Studio Jingo), who did not make it specifically for Filian. Filian's model was made as a generic model for VRChat users.
    • Filian did not reach out to Studio Jingo for permission to use that model for any of her previous merch deals. She also never gave Studio Jingo any credit for the model.

    Update: It looks like the situation with Filian passing off Jingo's premade model as her own is being resolved.

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