u/KomturAdrian

For Predator: Badlands and the recent Mortal Kombat 2 movie I see people mention the "2.5x" rule. Basically, a movie needs to make 2.5x its budget to be considered successful. Anything below that is a "bomb".

I'm assuming the total budget for a film includes the actors' pay, the CGI, the costume designers, set designers, etc. For Predator: Badlands, for example, this was apparently $105 million. So I guess that movie needed to make roughly $262 million+ to be "successful", because they have to consider stuff like advertising and other things?

I also know that box office isn't the only factor. There's also the whole streaming thing: how many viewers it brings in on streaming services. So ultimately it depends on final box office gains, and gains in other areas like streaming.

So first, the people who make the movie, do they get money from the business/corporation, like Disney? So Disney gave the Predator people $105 million to make the movie. This pays everyone involved in advance in making that movie. Does that include the marketing and advertising too? Then final sales of box office, streaming, etc are considered. "Do those profits outweigh the budget?" If not, then Disney might have paid everything, but they gained no profit/return from the film? They essentially didn't regain anything they invested in?

Integrated artillery is when your cannons are spread throughout the main line, with line infantry in between each battery. Grand batteries, which Napoleon Bonaparte used, are when your cannons (or most of them anyway) are grouped into one and the full force of their might is directed to a specific unit/area (but not always, sometimes you target different groups).

I feel like integrated artillery is great if you plan to use canister shot; line infantry on both flanks also protect it. But grand batteries are great too because a full barrage from a grand battery has a better chance of damaging specific areas/units. But integrated artillery often feels like my line is more static and less maneuverable.

Which battery type is your favorite? Which seems to be most efficient? I always felt cannons were fairly ineffective at long range unless you were firing at cavalry. Canister shot is massively efficient at short range, so integrated artillery sounds best. However, I typically have two batteries, one on each flank, which aims for enemy cav at long distance. They can't be flanked because I have cavalry in reserve to intercept any would-be flankers.

I'm no modder, even though I dabbled in it many years ago. But I always see modded Skyrim either here or on other subs and Youtube videos. Some of it is pretty normal, like new armors and weapons. Some is a little more advanced.

But then I see some mods where the game looks almost entirely different. Like, the whole aesthetic, the animations, etc - it's like it's not even Skyrim anymore. Then you see some outrageous stuff like giant chickens, or helll people with machine guns and WWII-era airplanes. Someone even turned Alduin into the shape of a state, like Illinois or something.

I'm just curious, for modders, is this game just really easy for you guys to mod? What are some of the most impressive mods you've seen, and what are the most outrageous or hilarious ones you've seen?

So sometime last week or the week before FFTMs lost the ability to edit floor counts. Our fulfillment team will occasionally help push truck or pull priorities whenever it gets slow. I will always update the floor count when I am stocking the shelves. So if 5 fit, and there's 5 there, but myDay says "4 on the floor" I will always update that number to say "5 on the floor". If you don't do this then myDay will think the location isn't fully stocked and will just tell you to pull more of that item from the back.

So yesterday I was helping pull priorities. Several of the items I pulled were already fully stocked, but myDay didn't know that. So after I re-backstocked those items it just went right back into a priority batch. So I just... pulled them again. I decided to just pull them and sit them to the side; whenever I was getting ready to leave I re-backstocked them, but another TM probably had to pull them again.

I would basically have to pull, re-backstock, pull, re-backstock, etc over and over until the floor count finally caught up.

An example were some small boxes of dog treats. It was like 30 fit, 10 on the floor, but the location was already full. So I had to pull 5 (15 on the floor), backstock it, pull those 5 again (20 on the floor), backstock it, pull those 5 again (25 on the floor), backstock it, pull those 5 again (30 on the floor), and finally backstock them for the final time. Ofc I didn't do that, I just sit them to the side until it was time to go.

This is so stupid.

Everyone loves Balgruuf. A lot of people dislike Ulfric and the Stormcloaks and see them as the 'wrong side' (although I think the intention is that both sides are right in their own ways). No matter who you are, going against Balgruuf just feels... wrong. That's why, in spite of preferring Ulfric and the Stormcloaks, I just can't do the Civil War quests because I can't go against Balgruuf.

Throughout the war both sides will replace the jarls of liberated holds with ones loyal to them. Balgruuf, however, seems hesitant to really commit to either side, and Whiterun's central location, resources, and manpower is a boon for whoever controls it. Balgruuf does seem to lean more towards the Imperials before the attack on Whiterun, but I'd say he prefers to try and stay neutral; this is pretty evident when Ulfric sends him an ultimatum (implying it's a "hey, time for your to pick a side").

I always thought it would be pretty interesting if he heeded the decision of the Dragonborn, who he respects. So if you join Tullius, then Balgruuf goes with the Imperials. If you choose Ulfric, he goes with the Stormcloaks.

Everybody hates that Imperial Captain and I feel like the intro almost convinces first-time players to go with Ralof. You feel like the Empire is wrong for executing you and you're not even involved in the war; you were just crossing the border. And that Empire Captain is a bitch.

So, go back to 2011 or whenever, and let's say you're playing for your first time. You do the Civil War quest. Balgruuf is okay with joining Ulfric if you go with the Stormcloaks.

Would you be more likely to go with Ulfric, Balgruuf, and the Stormcloaks? Or would you still side with General Tullius?

Even further - what if Balgruuf joined Ulfric no matter what - would you be more pro-Imperial or pro-Stormcloak?