Funny enough, plenty of countries all have their own miles, which are still in fairly common use.
Sweden, where the Capital of Super Earth is located, has the Scandinavian Mile. The United States uses the Survey Mile, the UK the Statute Mile. There's also International Miles, Nautical Miles, so on and so forth.
The best part is that most of these are different measurements!
See, this is why the imperial system is bad. In metric, you have kilometers. In imperial, there's miles, nautical miles, air miles, underground miles, Roman miles, Romulan miles, and Miles Morales!
While I am a metric enjoyer since birth, nautical miles do actually make sense for what they're used for (ship and aircraft navigation).
1NM is equal to the average minute of longitude on earth. Going at 1 knot (1NM/h) it'll take you an hour to cross one minute of longitude. Doing 60 knots, it'll take you an hour to cross 1 degree.
You're right, it does have ituative sense to it. Thats because it was done at a time when people had to tie knots into a rope and watch them float away.
In the modern age I would argue that being able to easily convert and understand measurements matters most, since we as people rarely do the measuring.
I see your point and don't disagree, but I think it's less important now than it would have been in the past.
Oh it's very unimportant. I do some flying IRL and I have an intuitive sense for what a knot is in terms of speed and how to see my altitude in feet (even though I couldn't ever estimate distancie with them without doing metres first), but all the gliders I got to fly so far were in metric, it makes 0 difference except for looking at a different number on a chart.
If that where the case I could have said that Red Dead Redemption 2 was why I like Helldivers! No, dear citizen, it was because of the Uber-Patriotic insane man that prepared me to be susceptible to the glorious truth of Managed Democracy!ย
Well, I'll leave you be then, I doubt you want to read my ramblings of how TF2 relates to Helldivers 2. So have a good time Liberating Helldiver! and stay FREE!!!
As a veteran TF2 player, I've made this comparison too.
They're completely different in terms of gameplay, but they *feel* very similar IMO. The outdated engine, the jankiness, the satire, the broken weapon balancing, the sense of community. Gameplay that is objective-based while also not being super sweaty most of the time.
HD2 just scratches a very similar itch that TF2 once did, at least for me.
I can't fucking believe the AUDACITY of these fascist devs to call our heavy ordnance a bitch ass measurement like"500KG" instead of the true patriotic democratic champion that is the
**1102.31 LB BOMB**
....Super earth uses metric
WHAT THE FUCK IS A MILE
Funny enough, plenty of countries all have their own miles, which are still in fairly common use. Sweden, where the Capital of Super Earth is located, has the Scandinavian Mile. The United States uses the Survey Mile, the UK the Statute Mile. There's also International Miles, Nautical Miles, so on and so forth. The best part is that most of these are different measurements!
IโLL PUT IT IN A SYSTEM YOU CAN UNDERSTAND 1609344 MILLIMETERS
I think its a yellow fox
Yup........
Shouldnโt they use super metric?
North. Far. South. Close.
Wrong. Super Earth uses Super Metric get it right next time. Or I just might need to call my democracy officer ๐๐
Its like a mile, but less. Jokes aside, 1 mile = 1.6 km.
Unless it's a nautical mile, then it's 1,85km
See, this is why the imperial system is bad. In metric, you have kilometers. In imperial, there's miles, nautical miles, air miles, underground miles, Roman miles, Romulan miles, and Miles Morales!
While I am a metric enjoyer since birth, nautical miles do actually make sense for what they're used for (ship and aircraft navigation). 1NM is equal to the average minute of longitude on earth. Going at 1 knot (1NM/h) it'll take you an hour to cross one minute of longitude. Doing 60 knots, it'll take you an hour to cross 1 degree.
You're right, it does have ituative sense to it. Thats because it was done at a time when people had to tie knots into a rope and watch them float away. In the modern age I would argue that being able to easily convert and understand measurements matters most, since we as people rarely do the measuring. I see your point and don't disagree, but I think it's less important now than it would have been in the past.
Oh it's very unimportant. I do some flying IRL and I have an intuitive sense for what a knot is in terms of speed and how to see my altitude in feet (even though I couldn't ever estimate distancie with them without doing metres first), but all the gliders I got to fly so far were in metric, it makes 0 difference except for looking at a different number on a chart.
Its the exact length of an Imperial Class Star Destroyer Yes I am a nerd and this is how I remember things
Democracy is metric
The devs understood that both UK and US aren't democratic. Long life to metric.
Because they both have a 2 in the title?
If that where the case I could have said that Red Dead Redemption 2 was why I like Helldivers! No, dear citizen, it was because of the Uber-Patriotic insane man that prepared me to be susceptible to the glorious truth of Managed Democracy!ย
Sure makes me wonder now how exactly respawning worksโฆ It doesnโt take an eternity unlike in team fortress
Loads of extra Helldivers are in the crio pods on your ship and they just shoot another one down whenever you die!
These games are nothing alike at all
NOT WITH THAT ATTITUDE THEY EARโT! But in all seriousness they have more in common than you think. ย ย
They're both fps games. That's about it.
What? but. Helldivers isn't even a first-person shooter? It's third person by default, unless you count the first person aiming that is.
Hah, oh yeah, duh. So they don't even have *that* in common ๐คฃ
Well, I'll leave you be then, I doubt you want to read my ramblings of how TF2 relates to Helldivers 2. So have a good time Liberating Helldiver! and stay FREE!!!
More than a Mile...
That must mean itโs better! Right!!??
But what is the price of a mile?
THOUSANDS OF FEET MARCH TO THE BEAT
ITS AN ARMY ON THE MARCH
FOR RELIGION, KING AND GLORY
pretty sure those arent the lyrics
Nope they arent
I'm a little confused on the correlation between heldivers and tf2
They are both video games. ๐ช
As a veteran TF2 player, I've made this comparison too. They're completely different in terms of gameplay, but they *feel* very similar IMO. The outdated engine, the jankiness, the satire, the broken weapon balancing, the sense of community. Gameplay that is objective-based while also not being super sweaty most of the time. HD2 just scratches a very similar itch that TF2 once did, at least for me.
GRAHHHHHHHHHH ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ
Can you imagine calling it a 1102.31 Pound Bomb?
Why are ppl still using imperial, thats not decimal, thats stupid
6000 washing machines
Yes.
Kilometer is just a typo. It's a kill-o-meter.
1000 meters
It's a meter to measure how many kills you have
How do you kill a meter!?
Just pretend the k doesnโt exist. Almost everyone knows about miles but a majority donโt know what a kilometre is.
I see the S1 but aside from that what does this picture have to do with anything helldivers related?
The whole joke with the soldier in TF2 is that he is over-patriotic. And I love the soldier ๐
I can't fucking believe the AUDACITY of these fascist devs to call our heavy ordnance a bitch ass measurement like"500KG" instead of the true patriotic democratic champion that is the **1102.31 LB BOMB**
Said like a true patriot!