#Scouting Strategies

[adam-scott]

The cast of Severance (Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower) took over a glass-walled replica of the Lumon Industries office at the Grand Central Terminal in New York, USA. For over two hours, they stayed in character as their "innies," working at their desks, doing yoga, and engaging in other office activities, just like on the show

[fogaminghub]

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[ninjathrowingstork]

Work was boring last night so I made a thing

Love Mark, but I repeatedly want to smack him upside the head with Way of Kings. Having the memory removed to forget about *static sounds* and function as a person without being a full-time alcoholic isn't processing grief!

Ngl the whole Severance procedure is also a very Sharran thing. I'm mentally rotating various AUs for it now. Like, giving up your memories for work security? He and Shadowheart could also have some fun conversations about finding their not-dead family trapped underground.

Bonus:

[verchielmarch]

Fish & Kritz is a viable TF2 strategy I swear

[ecto-hazard]

Chase doodles inspired by my discovery at how good and how bad I am at playing scout

[avvocarlo]

frostpunk is hard as hell

[pit-crew-chronicles]

Alright, since we have so many people on our team, I’m going to start to make a post of who is who on our team so I can short hand names. Prioritizing those who I interact with/post about the most:

RETURNING:

Me: former pit crew and former back up technician (one or two matches/don’t really know the job well), current mechanical engineering lead/mechanical subteam lead, Pit Boss

Technician: former Pit Crew 1 and former backup technician, programmer

Safety Captain: former Pit Crew 2

Driver: former operator

Operator: former human player, current mechanical design lead/mechanical subteam lead, still thinks Tumblr is Tindr

Business Lead: former scout

Media 1: former impact presenter and (not positive) programmer

__________________________________________

NEW:

Pit Crew 1: friend of mine from school, only other girl on Pit

Pit Crew 2: most progression since pre-season

Pit Crew 3: Last member of the original pit from Hartford, backup human player

Pit Crew 4: brother of Pit Crew 3. De facto Pit Crew after Hartford. Mostly shows up to Day 2 of comps

Human Player: programmer

Strategy Lead: also media co-lead, thank her for the insta, backup human player, drive coach’s sister

MarComm Lead: May become a scouting lead, operator’s sister

Programmer 1: backup technician, sometimes

Programmer 2: also scouts

Media 2: doesn’t come to all comps, always with Media 1.

Photographer: has the media pass at comps, sister to Pit Crew 3 and 4

Bonus: using a nickname because no set job, Main Mechanical and Electrical Mentor’s middle child, sister to former driver, helps out a lot behind the scenes, at most meetings, rarely attends comps

__________________________________________

MENTORS:

Main Mechanical: founding Mentor, lives in the pits, married to Electrical Mentor, dad of former driver and Bonus

Electrical Mentor: founding mentor, married to Main Mechanical, mom to former driver and Bonus, also does a lot of programming

Scouting Mentor: FIRST Alum, non-binary, lives and breathes scouting, loves data

Other Mechanical: switched to our team mid-season last year, pun monster, high tolerance for burns

3rd Mechanical: Married to Programming Mentor, comes to about half of meetings and comps

Programming Mentor: Married to 3rd Mech. Sillier than she first seems. Old friend of Electrical Mentor

Occasional Electrical: FIRST Alum, was more active last year, comes to a few meeting when on break (college student), formerly in charge of impact subteam

Drive Coach: brother of Strategy Lead, FIRST Alum

__________________________________________

MOJO ALUMS (that I’ve worked with):

Safetytech: graduated last year, also was programmer, planning to attend off-seasons

Driver: Main Mech and Electrical’s son, napper extraordinaire.

[sturionic]

Activism is not cold-calling.

Activism is not cold-calling, and this is critically important to understand.

I'm seeing a lot of posts on here about 'building bridges' and 'finding community,' and then (extremely valid) response posts saying "BUT HOW??" And I'm going to explain something that can be very counter-intuitive: there is strategy involved in community.

As a longtime volunteer labour organizer, I’ve taken and taught many trainings on the strategy of talking. Something that surprises a lot of people is the very first thing you do in a union campaign. You sit down with your organizing committee, take out pen and paper, and literally map it out. You draw a physical map of the workplace: where are the entrances, exits, break rooms, supervisor offices. Essentially, ‘where is it safe to have a union conversation.’ Then you draw another physical chart of your coworkers. You sort out who is union-friendly, openly hostile to unions, or somewhere in the middle, and then you plan out very deliberately and carefully who talks to whom and in what order.

Consider: If Vocally Leftist Jane walks up to Conservative David and says "hey what do you think about unions," David is going to shut down immediately. He's not inclined to listen to Jane. But if Jane talks to Moderate Jason and brings him into the fold, then Jason is a far more effective strategic choice to talk to David, and David may actually hear him out without an instant reaction.

IMPORTANT CAVEAT: If Conservative David turns out to be Alt-Right David, and could be dangerous to follow organizers, we write him off. We are not trying to reach Alt-Right David. We are trying to reach Conservative David, who may actually be persuaded to find solidarity with other employees as fellow workers. Jason is a safe scout to find out which one he is. It does no one any good if Leftist Jane (or even Moderate Jane who is a visible minority) talks to Alt-Right David and puts herself on his radar. Not only has she done nothing to convince Alt-Right David to join a union - she's probably actively turned him against the idea - but now she's also in danger and the entire campaign is at risk. NOBODY WANTS THIS. Jane was NOT a hero for doing this. The organizing committee was foolish and enacted a terrible strategy to everyone's detriment.

Where you can make a difference is with people who will listen to you. You having a conversation with your well-meaning but clueless Centrist Democrat Auntie, and maybe gently helping her understand some things the media has been glossing over, is way more strategically useful than you marching up to MAGA Neighbour You've Met Once and trying to "build community" or "understand" them. They don't care. They're impervious, dangerous, and cruel. But maybe your beloved auntie will think about what you said, and then talk to her friend Anna who IDs as "fiscally conservative" but didn't vote because she can't bring herself to get on board with Trump. Then perhaps Anna talks to her brother Nic who has MAGA leanings but isn't all the way there yet. Proto-MAGA Nic would not have listened to you, nor would he have listened to Centrist Democrat Auntie, but he might absorb some of what his sister is saying.

This is not a cop-out or an echo chamber. This is you spending your time and energy strategically and safely. You are not a useful activist to anyone if you’re dead. Anyone who is telling you to hurl yourself directly at MAGA assholes like cannon fodder has no understanding of the strategy behind community building, and you should feel comfortable writing them off.

Last point: If you are tired, emotionally devastated, and/or in danger: take a break. This post is for people who would feel better jumping into action, not for people who are too overwhelmed to even think about it right now. You are worth so much even if you’re not actively Doing Activism, and your rest is worth more than “a break period so you can recharge and Do More Activism.” We all deserve the individual dignity of being worthy of comfort, rest & safety just on the basis of being human, outside of whatever we're doing for others' benefit. To deny ourselves that dignity is to devalue ourselves, and that’s the absolute last thing any of us should be doing right now.

[garvescope]

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[gremlinshatephilosophers]

How am I supposed to be funny after the Astros traded Tucker

[fogaminghub]

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[foldingfittedsheets]

There was this park near where I grew up. I remember we’d just moved to the area so I was around six and we drove past and saw this waterfront area. My parents decided to check it out so we went for a walk. It was a lovely park, there’s a lazy slough, lots of trees, extremely picturesque. My parents ambled along the trail enjoying the nature while my siblings and I ranged around in their orbit like excitable moons.

Then I saw something odd. Something vibrantly alive down by the water that was entirely the wrong color. I called back my vital scouting info and my family gathered around me. We looked down the steep verge toward the slough, screened by underbrush. We couldn’t quite make out what it was. The only thing we could agree was that it certainly wasn’t a duck. However it was about duck sized and roughly duck shaped. It just wasn’t a duck.

This led to some heated debate amongst my siblings and I but we were forbidden to scramble down the muddy hill to harass the mystery animal. Reluctantly we continued down the trail, speculating wildly when a chicken popped out of a bush in front of us with a train of several chicks.

We froze. The chicken did not. She placidly herded her little puffs across the trail, pecking happily for seeds, unbothered by our proximity. My family had not yet delved into farming and this was the first time any of us kids had seen a chicken up close. It was like a fairytale thing, a creature we had seen over and over in books was suddenly here in the wilderness of the park. We all realized the mystery creature had likewise been a chicken.

Another couple came up the trail and saw us staring.

“Is this your first time at the park?” They asked?

We nodded.

They informed us that this park had become a dumping ground for unwanted chickens. Once the chickens were dumped they were park property and the locals didn’t mind the eccentric additions at all. No one looked after the chickens, but they got on surprisingly well.

As the years went by we visited the park regularly. Signs were added to warn people not to dump off chickens or they’d be fined. They were also excluded from snatching the existing chickens. The hope was that the chickens would eventually run their course and the park would go back to normal.

It did not.

Instead the menagerie grew. Peacocks cropped up occasionally, turkeys; and one visit we saw guinea fowl. But there were always chickens. Eventually feed dispenser were installed so park goers could pay a quarter to enjoy the motley flocks.

Because we’d moved into a house with land my mom started up a chicken coop and we got our very own chickens at the feed store like proper folks. The first rooster we had was a gentleman, politely clucking at us when came into the coop, but the second proved troublesome a year later. He either adored or hated me. Every time I entered the coop he’d dance and flounce and brandish his spurs.

My mom didn’t want to off him frankly she didn’t know how at that point but his fascination ended with him flying at me and the rooster was sentenced to banishment.

We drove to the park.

We saw him there for years afterward, clucking dutifully around a small flock of hens. He did pretty well in exile.

Anyone who’s kept chickens knows that eventually there’s always a tragedy. Ours happened when a neighbors dog broke into our coop and slaughtered the flock. I was absolutely distraught, my lovingly hand reared chicks all decimated in a flurry of senseless bloodlust. I have not loved a chicken since. They are too fragile to bear it.

After a few days of mourning my mom offered that she knew where to find some more chickens. To make up for the massacre she planned a night raid with us. We stayed up past our bedtime and drove to the park with tarp covered kennels in the back of the truck.

We crept down along the gravel parking lot, looking up into the trees, spotting the telltale lumps of shadows that meant chickens. We quickly developed a strategy. We picked a chicken branch, creeping close underneath. Then we reached the end of the branch and gave it a good shake until the roosting chicken glided down to the ground in confusion. It was easy to scoop them up and we went home the proud new owner of a handsome flock of chickens.

The Take a Chicken Leave a Chicken park is still a beloved feature of its neighborhood to this day.

[toyoumyloves]

It was Valentine's day yesterday. I only thought of you once.

I thought about what you'd be doing, it was Wednesday so I know you spent the night with your girlfriend.

I thought about how you'd probably spend it with her and her other partner.

I thought about how it'll have been 4 weeks as of tomorrow.

I thought about how hurt mad I am you never messaged me back in all that time.

And then I picked up my phone and found a new responsibility in the hope that it can crowd you out of my head

I know it won't work, but if I don't keep going, I'll look back and see that there's no one behind me anymore and I know I won't survive that.

- 🌙

[bloodcrownedking]

I need to write a tidalwave fic so bad i feel fucking ill

[thealchemyofgamecreation]

Inside Hakan’s War Manager: Game Design Log – 17

Continuing the journey of designing Hakan's War Manager, I'm here with another design log. This time, I talk about the scout system. Check it out and let me know your thoughts! #gamedesign #HakansWarManager #GameDev #ObaGames

Greetings, Esteemed Khans! This week, we have some exciting news to share. The demo for Hakan’s War Manager is now available on Steam. If you’ve been curious to try it out, this is the perfect opportunity to jump into the action. Now, let’s talk about the creation of the scout system and how it came to be. The Art of Scouting Many of you have probably encountered scouting systems in various…