OT: Hrricanes Lounge XLVII: The return to obeying Rhules

[Derailed75]

My phone says 70% chance of snow next Wednesday. Not just the one snowflake picture either but like the cloud with lots of snowflakes coming out.

Meteorological

That's the hard hitting in-deapth weather guessing we need!

 

[hangman005]

I predict a 37% chance of hot snow falling up next Wednesday.

 

[Borsig]

I dunno. 45 predators (well, not the buffalo, but they're aggressive prey) in an enclosed arena, all (presumably) bent on attacking you specifically, I don't think the hunter can kill fast enough to fend off that amount, even with the rats acting as distraction

have you ever used a semi automatic rifle (FA is useless by the way, mostly, unless youre suppressing something) with a decent fast acquisition optic like an ACOG TA01? Are you trained in that? Granted the large animals, would be problematic for 5.56, but that's why they make creedmor. Or 7.62 NATO, etc. It never specified the caliber or rifle type.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

have you ever used a semi automatic rifle (FA is useless by the way, mostly, unless youre suppressing something) with a decent fast acquisition optic like an ACOG TA01? Are you trained in that? Granted the large animals, would be problematic for 5.56, but that's why they make creedmor. Or 7.62 NATO, etc. It never specified the caliber or rifle type.

I have not. Have you ever faced 15 wolves, 5 gorillas, etc, attacking simultaneously, focused on killing you specifically? Presumably not. That's why this is a hypothetical situation. You can believe that the rats will distract the animals long enough for the hunter to kill them. I can believe otherwise.

 

[Borsig]

I have not. Have you ever faced 15 wolves, 5 gorillas, etc, attacking simultaneously, focused on killing you specifically? Presumably not. That's why this is a hypothetical situation. You can believe that the rats will distract the animals long enough for the hunter to kill them. I can believe otherwise.

Does a couple hundred Skinnies hopped up on whacky chew and armed with AK's count? I mean they were pretty intent on killing us.
Also the bears are going to haul ass at the first shot. Cats probably too. Buffalo are dumb, and gorillas DGAF about the shots from what I've seen on videos. Wolves probably haul ass at the first supersonic crack as well. Birds tend to scatter when you shoot. Unless of course you've gun dog trained everything.

 

[hblueridgegal]

This rings true to me. College hoops brings out the noise even in neutral sites.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Does a couple hundred Skinnies hopped up on whacky chew and armed with AK's count? I mean they were pretty intent on killing us.
Also the bears are going to haul ass at the first shot. Cats probably too. Buffalo are dumb, and gorillas DGAF about the shots from what I've seen on videos. Wolves probably haul ass at the first supersonic crack as well. Birds tend to scatter when you shoot. Unless of course you've gun dog trained everything.

Again, we're under the assumption that they've been trained to attack you. If we're expecting them to act like normal animals, then they're going to attack each other before they even think about focusing on you. And 10,000 rats wouldn't even think about approaching the larger creatures, but would likely flee than attempt to defend you.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Again, we're under the assumption that they've been trained to attack you. If we're expecting them to act like normal animals, then they're going to attack each other before they even think about focusing on you. And 10,000 rats wouldn't even think about approaching the larger creatures, but would likely flee than attempt to defend you.

Woah woah woah, they've been trained to attack you but the 10,000 rats haven't been trained to defend you??? What kind of double standard is that?

 

[Stickpucker]

One very important variable has not been brought up.

Can we feed our choice of defenders cocaine prior to the battle?

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Woah woah woah, they've been trained to attack you but the 10,000 rats haven't been trained to defend you??? What kind of double standard is that?

Nah, you misunderstood. If we're expecting them to act like normal animals, THEN the 10,000 rats would flee and not defend you.

 

[To Be Determined]

This rings true to me. College hoops brings out the noise even in neutral sites.

I'd say it has more to do with college hoops having a large number of non-conference games and the "power conference" teams always padding their home schedules with a couple hundred available cupcakes that use those self-sacrifice games to fund their programs. And those cupcakes pad their home non-conference schedules with even lower tiered teams. Enough schedule padding skews the numbers. Harder to do in football, with less available cupcakes to go around.

 

[Derailed75]

I'll jump in on this. Been reading you guys takes and following along. I think you are selling the Gorillas short. As the most intelligent animal on that list beside the humans I think they could come up with a strategy or at least be trained with one where they could do a pretty damn good job of protecting you. Also the Eastern Lowland Gorillas are pretty damn strong.

 

[Porvari]

I'll jump in on this. Been reading you guys takes and following along. I think you are selling the Gorillas short. As the most intelligent animal on that list beside the humans I think they could come up with a strategy or at least be trained with one where they could do a pretty damn good job of protecting you. Also the Eastern Lowland Gorillas are pretty damn strong.

Give them the 7.62 you've taken from the dead hunter and you've got a thing going.

 

[hockeynjune]

yall are missing the point. The rats are there to cause chaos while the rifleman snipes off threats in order.

Perhaps the rats and something like a Rock Island VR80 with slugs and OO buckshot . Gonna have to deal with the crocs and the birds.

I'll jump in on this. Been reading you guys takes and following along. I think you are selling the Gorillas short. As the most intelligent animal on that list beside the humans I think they could come up with a strategy or at least be trained with one where they could do a pretty damn good job of protecting you. Also the Eastern Lowland Gorillas are pretty damn strong.

Those guys would be tough to deal with but full grown crocs are nasty too. Rats might have an easier time with the big monkeys.

 

[hockeynjune]

When?

The 10 day forecast doesn't look like it's going to get cold enough, nor have any precipitation

We have a chance at seeing something Sun/mon but Wed/Fri timeframe has had a strong signal for several days. The point and click forecasts have started to hint at it today.

 

[Derailed75]

Perhaps the rats and something like a Rock Island VR80 with slugs and OO buckshot . Gonna have to deal with the gators and the birds.


Those guys would be tough to deal with but full grown gators are nasty too. Rats might have an easier time with the big monkeys.

Gators have pea brains and are only concerned with eating so it would be pretty easy for an intelligent animal to overcome them. Also if you could control the temp being cold-blooded reptiles you could slow them down pretty easily.

 

[hockeynjune]

Gators have pea brains and are only concerned with eating so it would be pretty easy for an intelligent animal to overcome them. Also if you could control the temp being cold-blooded reptiles you could slow them down pretty easily.

But eating is what they are best at . They are also very hard to kill with bare hands or paws.

 

[To Be Determined]

Twist - the theoretical just says the hunter has a rifle, nothing about ammo. You learn he has none (or a very limited amount) after picking him for defense. D'oh.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Gators have pea brains and are only concerned with eating so it would be pretty easy for an intelligent animal to overcome them. Also if you could control the temp being cold-blooded reptiles you could slow them down pretty easily.

They're also probably the slowest one on land out of the choices.

 

[Derailed75]

They're also probably the slowest one on land out of the choices.

Also true. In the water they are much more formidable.

 

[raynman]

We have a chance at seeing something Sun/mon but Wed/Fri timeframe has had a strong signal for several days. The point and click forecasts have started to hint at it today.

In eastern NC it’s shifted from Tuesday night into Wednesday to now overnight Thursday. Was hoping to get a day or two of telework in next week so I’ve been checking every couple of hours. I’m not informed on how to read weather indicators though so I just use the weather channel

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Personally, I think the hawks are being underrated. I don't think they'd help much in terms of defending you, but in terms of attacking you/your allies?

50 hawks is a lot of hawks. Obviously, it depends on what species of hawk it is, but we're still talking about 50 2-4 pound birds with nasty talons. We're talking about a grip strength of 200-300 psi. Only about 1/10 of a gator's bite, but still enough to tear into flesh and/or eyes.

 

[hockeynjune]

In eastern NC it’s shifted from Tuesday night into Wednesday to now overnight Thursday. Was hoping to get a day or two of telework in next week so I’ve been checking every couple of hours. I’m not informed on how to read weather indicators though so I just use the weather channel

The timing is always the thing. It does look like it’s moving a bit more to the weekend. ENC / coastal areas esp are almost a lock to see significant frozen stuff of some kind at this point unless the very high pressure sends it OTS.

 

[hockeynjune]

Personally, I think the hawks are being underrated. I don't think they'd help much in terms of defending you, but in terms of attacking you/your allies?

50 hawks is a lot of hawks. Obviously, it depends on what species of hawk it is, but we're still talking about 50 2-4 pound birds with nasty talons. We're talking about a grip strength of 200-300 psi. Only about 1/10 of a gator's bite, but still enough to tear into flesh and/or eyes.

Birds are the wildcard for sure. As Borsig said , hard to shoot with that kind of coordinated air assault.

We should write rules for this and designate a place say Carter Finley .

 

[Derailed75]

Here are my thoughts on each option

1. Hunter. You have to pick him for defense. Thats the only option with a ranged attack and while he would not defeat most of the others he can take you down before any of them can stop him. So you pick him as a defense against him.

Gorillas and wolves with those numbers and intelligence/pack hunting have to be next

Rats would be good for attacking but I don't think they could defend against that many other creatures

Buffalo would be great for defense you could basically hide behind them against pretty much everything expert the hawks

Hawks would be hard to stop but I think there attacks would be too few and far between to kill you with any of the defense options other than the rats

Lions and Bear have too few numbers and are not intelligent enough to over come that

Gators again slow on land and very dumb I think getting around them would be pretty easy.

So I think you have to take the hunter and either the gorillas or wolves and hope for the best.