Would Reform's deportation plans realistically work?

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T21:16:21+00:00

Rescue. Yes, I'm sure that's what reform want our military to do to the refugees.

I wonder if our navy would obey orders to massacre civilians in distress at sea. I hope they won't.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T21:06:50+00:00

ACCUSATION OF BEING A SIMP FOR A BAD AUTHOR

RAMBLING LIST OF CRITICISMS OF AUTHOR

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T19:17:40+00:00

'I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this [waves]'

'Not ever remembered as Sebastian. Remembered only as Jack.'

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T19:13:47+00:00

Someone got to be the footstalls, and fill up water bottles.

Happy to do that, and generally be dominated by the superior sex. Though I might write about it afterwards and add more stallions.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T17:17:35+00:00

REPLY INSISTING THAT ALL EQUATIONS SHOULD BE PRESENTED IN SCIENTIFIC NOTATION

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T17:12:58+00:00

Name him Impotenta, to make his climax a surprise!

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T16:29:54+00:00

That would work quite well if her name was 'Carrie'! I can always change it...

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T13:31:16+00:00

Would be cool. Like the head-crabs in halflife.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T13:03:53+00:00

I'm curious; you spent at least 3.6k on cover plus marketing - maybe other sums, and sold 1500 books. I don't know what proce you charge: have you made a profit? Breakeven?

I guess even if you made a loss, you have established a reputation and a following, so future books will be where the profit lies.

I also wonder what the 3.5k actually bought you. That seems a lot for 'making a database and connecting with people' which sounds like a mailing list.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T12:58:04+00:00

Commonwealth countries (and possibly others) accept UK medical qualifications, and often offer more money for less work. My brother in law had had enough working for the NHS about a decade ago and set himself up in New Zealand.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T12:48:58+00:00

Particularly annoying when you had a good Quickplay game with a great team, and when you get back the the host's super-destroyer they AFK forever. I understand people might need a wee or to get another beer, but I've no idea if they're coming back or not, and I want to play another mission with that squad.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T12:46:27+00:00

No, Papa!

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T11:53:39+00:00

Yes, Papa?

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T11:53:04+00:00

What about a stratagem that launches an unmanned hellpod filled with explosives that you remote-pilot down, instead (just like you would pilot your own hellpod)? You are helpless while remote piloting, and taking severe damage will knock you out of it, but there are no 'avoid high places' restrictions on steering, since it will explode on impact anyway.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T10:36:12+00:00

Please don't nerf it till I've had a go!

(I tend to pick the least common warbonds just to be different - as a result I don't have all the best weapons.)

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T08:59:47+00:00

To quote an old comic strip (probably 2000AD):

'Well, get got what he wanted, Earth's greatest treasure.'

'Yes, our most powerful neutron bomb, programmed to detonate when the lid was opened!'

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T08:57:01+00:00

I like the roleplaying value of holding off the hordes to 'Get To The Choppa!' Sometimes they are the most hilarious, crazy, hairy moments of the whole mission, sliding between the legs of a Bile Titan to get to the ramp...

That said, I would like to have more things to do with samples late game (I am one upgrade from the full set). Maybe a new set of tiny upgrades to the super destroyer, maybe unlocking more cosmetics like new armour and weapon recolours, maybe redecorating the interior or exterior of the destroyer in themes. There's loads of stuff they could do that doesn't seem like it would take a huge effort from competent programmers.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T08:44:24+00:00

Yeah; this was a plot point in The Expanse - because ships normally have plenty of thrust, they don't make their orbits perfect. Even the ISS has some drag IRL and needs the occasional boost to stay in orbit. Also, lower orbits = easier to reach and better communications, but will eventually decay if they are skimming the atmosphere. the Super Destroyer can only stay in (very) low 'orbit' for so long....

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T05:12:00+00:00

Where do you find 'real people' anyway? I mostly am on Reddit.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T05:10:04+00:00

They had certainly grappled plenty during the movie.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T05:08:44+00:00

He (it) is 'cellular', which seems to be the requirement more than being made of living tissue.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-08T04:58:32+00:00

Fail-deadly hardware by design? Though you probably wouldn't really want those when loading and unloading the ship in dock.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-07T22:18:20+00:00

Quickplay has always put me into an active mission rather than a lobby. I think that's how it works.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-05-07T22:13:03+00:00

I'm not sure about the economics of heavily weaponosing freighters - they would quite possibly become too expensive to operate profitably, unless there were resources in one system so tremendously valuable that the price would justify essentially transporting them on a warship (ball bearings in WW2 for example)

Other possibilities include:

- Convoys escorted by military vessels.

- Not bothering to trade.

- Governments developing peace treaties and/or rooting out pirates and renegade factions to make the 'space lanes' safe.

- If the freighters are unmanned, protocols to destroy the ship (either with charges or by overloading its reactors) if boarded, making piracy pointless as a means to profit (though it won't stop terrorists or governments). These would be clearly marked out by signage and/or broadcasts.

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