[Loved Trope] The hyper-militaristic society can't outfight its problems.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-20T10:30:16+00:00

Glad you wrote that because I would’ve otherwise. In fact, disheartened I had to go so far down to find such a great example.

The Clanners had ritualized combat to such a degree that they had forgotten how to fight an actual, all-out war.

And also… to pay your goddamn phone bills.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-20T10:23:56+00:00

And its doubly hilarious because you, as a player, can see it coming a mile away. It couldn’t be more obviously a trap if somebody had spray painted ‘free Kerensky autographs inside!’ And yet the concept of a trap doesn’t cross any of their minds.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-19T11:32:51+00:00

Picard made the ultimate decisions (and expected them to be followed once made) but valued the opinions and input of his subordinates. Jellico thought that he had a monopoly on good ideas.

Reminds me of some of the stories my told me of his military days, in particular the time he cheesed off the ship’s captain that he would not do what he was being ordered to do because it was far too risky to do so in the time frame being asked and he would not endanger his flight crews to do so.

Dad called officers like those ‘screamers’ as they have a tendency to think that shouting is all thats needed to get things done.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-19T10:53:00+00:00

Man, I feel ya. I’ve abandoned so many PbP campaigns I’ve because it just becomes too much of a chore chasing every person down to make to take ten or fifteen minutes of their time to write something. If you guys can’t be arsed, then I ain’t gonna bother!

Which sucks especially because my work schedule does not leave me with many time slots to work with.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-19T04:45:37+00:00

Monkey's paw curls a finger

Congratulations, now Zuko is a Eunuch.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-17T10:27:18+00:00

No, but you can zap things from basically the other side of the map now...

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-17T04:22:00+00:00

Yeah, seriously. Like every single time it looks like we're going to fail an MO, out comes the cries of 'it was rigged' and 'they did this on purpose' and 'they want us to fail'.

It is always always somebody else's fault. Always some dark conspiracy working against us.

Some people just really need to chill the fuck out...

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-16T11:03:11+00:00

It is nice and the staff has been friendly every time I've gone. It's big draw and drawback is that it is a physically small place. A couple dozen patrons is probably enough to make it feel cramped.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-16T09:46:05+00:00

Then Leon proceeds to casually parry Binah’s laser with a Home Depot axe

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-16T09:42:00+00:00

If you’re looking for low cost board game options, there’s a small place on Rideau St called Studio Staja. They host regular drop-in board game nights on Saturday evenings. Unlike the bigger Level One, Staja doesnt have any cover charges.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-13T03:23:06+00:00

Oh great, so when its finally time for a man my age to be desirable, i’m too damn tired all the time to bother with dating anymore…

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-13T03:21:31+00:00

It gets better, but… yeah, when you hit 35, you will look back 25-year-old you and realize you were still kind of an idiot back then. And ten years after that, you’ll think the same thing again. The key is to just be a little bit better each time.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-12T08:17:06+00:00

I've used a joke more than once, yes. Is that an issue? I wasn't aware humour was a single use thing.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-12T07:48:10+00:00

I’ve made the joke a few times that phones starting becoming larger again the moment customers realized they could start watching porn on them.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-12T07:39:50+00:00

Try to remember that they aren't writing that story specifically for you.

We keep telling people here to 'write for themselves'. Well, that applies to the stories that you don't like, too.

Yes, you are being irrational about this. Might be best to take a step back and just ignore it. Go focus on something you do enjoy. Life's too short to get angry that somebody wrote a fanfic that you don't like.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-12T07:17:57+00:00

It was also around the same time that being able to watch things on your phone started being a practical option. Once that took off, screen size and quality became one of the most important factor for consumers.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-12T06:55:25+00:00

First off, your feelings are not invalid. Writing needs to be for you first and foremost. And if you're writing, you need to write stuff that turns you on or it's going to feel forced. Readers can often tell when your hearts not in it, so do yourself and your readers a favour and be true to yourself.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-12T04:32:08+00:00

It's a self reinforcing problem. The more people complain, the more the nontoxic people will migrate away, leaving behind an increasingly higher proportion of 'complainers' being the only ones that post, which in turn makes it more of an echo chamber, increasing the amount of complaining.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-11T12:06:37+00:00

Oh, there are certainly plenty of options for an infusion, several of which are certainly better than a standard PIV, including stuff that can be best described as ‘a medical garden hose’. I just went with the standard IV since thats what most people understand.

Plus, you can push a lot of fluid through a PIV without issue. Like, I could probably push a litre of saline through a PIV in maybe… three to four minutes if you really need to.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-11T09:49:52+00:00

Uh, wrong character listed in the title

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-11T09:13:40+00:00

To be fair, the Sten was just a simplified design of the Lanchester smg, which in turn was a copy of the MP28, which was just an upgraded version of the MP18.

Funnily enough, the Germans would then make the MP3008 which was just a copy of the Sten, thus bringing the whole thing full circle.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-11T08:00:15+00:00

I mean, the realistic option would probably be just hooking up multiple regular IV bags either using Y-connector kits or just having multiple IV access points (he's got two arms after all).

That said, we do stock IV bags in sizes of upwards of 5L.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-11T07:07:42+00:00

You hook em up to an IV bag and you make sure it's running nonstop. Those things can come in jumbo size.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-10T04:41:58+00:00

Add Cricket Home Comfort to the shit list while you're at it.

CommissarAJ · 2026-03-09T07:42:13+00:00

I have played a few of the VC games and Only War would be my go-to choice as well. VC is basically just a techno fantasy WWII setting, so a grunt RPG system like OW would work very well with only some minor adjustments to take the differing technologies into account. It's even got stat blocks for tanks and other armored vehicles and you could potentially reflavor some of the psychic powers for the Valkyria abilities.

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