I think I would have played it more if it wasn’t for that fucking fairy yelling the same things over every single combat sequence.

Like it’s painfully obvious my party member is hurt you don’t need to keep yelling at me until I heal (or often can’t even heal if I wanted to)

Thinking of giving it another go but muted, which is sad tbh. Soundtrack is also fine but very repetitive to the point it was also getting on my nerves

What? The IO is digital inputs and outputs, analog inputs and outputs.

Then there’s power distribution and 24v DC device power (or 120v depending on application and often age), relays, contactors, timers, VFDs, etc. This is what the world runs on. Networking cables like that Ethernet are still part of it but a pretty small part. They just get plugged into all the PLC racks and any other device that needs it. Some of what I described can be replaced with automation and code, but only the very old legacy devices a lot of these old plants and mills still have around because they’re still functional…

Oh this here is my shit. You should see some of the steel mills we’ve worked on. Panels so old they just screwed them right into the stone walls, live busbars bent and snaking around in open air, fuck all for controls. Love it.

Fair enough

And most of the world runs on 240 or 220v, which is a higher voltage and allows for smaller conductors.

Idk, another factor is the US started their electric grid in the 1800s to the 1940s. It was the first in the world. Hard to stop once something is set as a standard like that. It’s like asking why they used lead and asbestos or built foundations out of stacks of sandstone rocks, all of which applies to my house haha. I’m sure in a few decades people will look back and question our use of plastics.

Heat dissipates easier in open air than in conduit, meaning the conductors can be undersized drastically compared to if they’re in conduit. Ever notice how the wires from the weatherhead are 2/0 awg, and on the poles and to your house (even after the transformer so same operating voltage), are way smaller? More like 12 awg on poles? The cost for the larger wire buried underground would be massive.

Also, as others have said, maintenance is significantly easier.

Yeah that was 11 years ago and I did the field service portion of that job for like a year, I was fresh out of trade school and working as a grunt for GE as a 22 year old. Until GE decided they were gonna move the business to Germany and Japan and shut down the whole factory.

It had its perks, I got a $75 per meal allowance and could put beer on it and shit. I let someone take over my room for the year back home and had basically no living expenses, just stayed in nice hotels in vegas and some rink-a-dink ones in the middle of the desert. It let me pay off all my loans in a year (which were only like $10k from a 9 month trade school thing)

Anyway I stuck with doin heavy industry electrical work for a while. Now I have a much cushier job doing testing, QA, a bit of design work when applicable, and field service for some absolutely massive electrical systems for steel mills. These things push 6-10k amps thru busbar systems we fabricate from scratch, and are all custom. I do work a lot of OT still but I have a way better work / life balance now

18 hours on a solar power plant in ~120° F heat replacing burnt up reactors and busbars in the inverters, covered in glycol which is like an antifreeze that is real sticky and somehow smells / tastes sweet (but is still gross af) so all the bugs are attracted to you and crawl all over.

Unless you’re in Pittsburgh lmao. If you don’t speed, you’re not matching the flow of traffic and are a hazard. S2g there’s toads here that have a posted speed limit of 35 mph but everyone goes like 60, cops included.

Is the “one more thing” a natty daddy tall boy because sounds like a great meal to me

Probably only a couple hours per day.

I’m an industrial electrician and it’s all hands on minus some random testing on a laptop sometimes, but I don’t do much of that.

At home I can’t even play vidya games for more than a couple hours. I need to get up and clean or cook or read a book or do something.

I’ll watch some movies or anime if I really wanna go couch potato mode though

Way too hi def graphics backgrounds. It should be a blurry mess

Rbtv77 has been exceptionally stable for me this year. It’s a sideloaded android app, works on TVs too.

There’s the big 4 sports plus soccer, but there’s also a ton of international niche sports. Like I fire it up and catch cricket, handball, rugby, half court basketball, volleyball, table tennis, billiards, days long car races, whatever. Some of the games have an audience of like a few dozen people and aren’t broadcast in English but only if they’re international.

Probably a little different than what you’re describing but I’m reading blood meridian right now and it’s very good. It’s about a 14-year-old runaway in 1850s America where everything is fucked. He gets in increasingly desperate and violent situations to try and survive

It’s all good man, stay safe out there.

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He already replied to you saying his job is dangerous. He said he’s around hot and explosive shit all day. I’ve been in power plants and that’s the example I gave that some of them are not fucking safe. We built panels for this nuke plant and the guy was telling me you can’t touch some of the handrails because you’ll get shocked .

Really don’t care about how you feel about it because I’ve seen it with my eyes.

Weird hill to die on

I agree with your sentiment but it’s absurd to tell OP that his job is “very safe”. Until you’ve seen what heavy industry is really like, I’d refrain from commenting on it. I’m an industrial electrician and I’ve worked in steel mills, foundries, factories, power plants, etc.

It can truly be the wild west out there. Operators have a tough job in often sketchy situations, heavy machinery, around nasty chemicals and fumes and just the dirtiest grime. Mills fucking suck for example. We’ve been working on the Oswego plant in upstate New York which is the largest supplier of aluminum for Ford. It burned down, twice. There was a giant ass hole in the roof from the fire and like 12 feet of water in the basement from all the fire departments spraying where all the electrical equipment is. Then when they were fixing shit, another fire happened from someone welding on the roof.

This is an extreme example, but it is insane how the world works sometimes. I was 22 working on a solar power plant out west and the maintenance guys told me everything was locked out and off. I do a dead check and find 1000v on the busbar from a row of solar panels on some shit I was just about to work on. “Oh yeah that disconnect box is broke, we don’t shut that one off” was the response.

Safety and regulation can only get you so far unfortunately. Safety is always #1 all these places say but you really gotta be on and alert and conscious of what’s going on around you at all times. Injuries can happen in an instant

Yeah I got broken into and I woke up from a nap mid-robbery. I literally just talked to the dude, he was some drifter who said he “wanted to get out of the rain and the door was unlocked”. A few of the houses in my little cut of town are vacants so he probably was telling the truth. I’m tucked away in the woods but still in the city.

Anyway I did ask him to leave and he went “I reorganized some of your stuff into that bag”, which was my bookbag lol. After he left I looked and he was def gonna steal some things but it was like a bunch of mail, some old movies, a couple video games, a set of drill bits I had just gotten and hadn’t opened yet. Just random shit.

There are huge shortages in skilled experienced trades. I’ve seen it all over the US in steel mills. Operators, electricians, welders, etc.

Emphasis on experienced. There’s a fuckton of green apprentices who recently switched careers.

Been doin this work for like 10 years as an electrician so I literally applied to 12 jobs when I finally quit my job of 7 years, got 3 interviews, 2 offers.

Still love my job but I see the labor shortages that can’t be replaced by AI and even automated robotics for production lines

Just look at the multiple fires at the Oswego plant in upstate New York for why the mills are still the wild west sometimes.