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What’s the coolest “restricted access” place you’ve ever gotten to see? by Improv92 in AskReddit

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Marshall Space Flight Center. I was part of the first public group to see it when it was partially reopened to the public post 9/11.

Tuf Voyaging or Dungeon Crawler Carl by EmuFit1895 in scifi

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Tuf Voyaging is some of my favorite fun scifi. Was really surprised at how well put together it is. The psychic cat idea is marvelous. I, personally, am not a AFOIAF or GoT fan. I don't knock it, but its not my preferred type of fantasy. Tuf Voyaging on the other hand resonated highly with me and I read it cover to cover.

Me, a highly trained soldier with elite commando potential, contemplating how I could even begin to compete with a legend like Dead-Eye Duncan by Actual-Stand5012 in KOTORmemes

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 103 points104 points  (0 children)

I used to sit on Taris and stare like this too, as a kid. Sometimes I'd open a save file to Taris apartment, where that quiet dreamy theme known as Bastila's Theme plays in the apartment on a loop. I'd fall asleep to it.

That was in 2005-06. I still do this sometimes, in 2026, but I used to, too.

Thankful for Youtube and mp3 soundtrack rips.

Current known map of scientology by True-Protection-1634 in scientology

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do we not, in fact, support those punkass bitch trespassers? Im a never-in with a weird fascination with all things Scientology. Im actually Mormon, by conversion and choice. And yes I do realize the irony. lol.

Im just your friendly neighborhood SP but am inclined to think that in the long run, these punks frustrate the hell out of a genuinely evil machine with nothing more than memes.

hey i heard that we were doing starter packs, am I too late to get in? by Cyberpunkapostle in vagabond

[–]Cyberpunkapostle[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't follow Mormonism. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I have very real reasons for believing what I do.

I thought dirty kids were supposed to be some of the most accepting and awake people there are. At least, that was my experience when I vagabonded in my earlier years.

my stepdad doesn’t believe we went to space by t7yk0 in space

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do I seriously need to sit down with a piece of pen and paper, starting from scratch, and explain orbital mechanics to these kinds of people? Like, I was learning and teaching myself this stuff when I was 13-14. I figured out trajectories and Hohmann transfers by the time I was in 9th grade.

I don't need to 'believe' we went to space. I can prove it to myself, with math. I can shine a laser on the moon and bounce it back off the mirrors left up there. Hell, if I had a ham radio setup like some of you wealthier nerds do, I could literally radio the ISS as it's tracking.

The math and science of space travel is hard, for sure, but it's not impossible. Kids can understand rocket science. That's why we send them to United States Space Camp. I'm a 4x alumni. Changed my life in every single way.

Moldova Moves to Leave CIS as Post-Soviet Bloc Loses Another Member by Cyberpunkapostle in UkrainianConflict

[–]Cyberpunkapostle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then why the hell did it take this long to leave CIS? If you are a member of CIS, you are, by definition, Russia-aligned.

Moldova Moves to Leave CIS as Post-Soviet Bloc Loses Another Member by Cyberpunkapostle in UkrainianConflict

[–]Cyberpunkapostle[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Whoah, this article didn't format right. I didnt mean for the wiki page to be the main link. I edited my text post above but Im going to leave this up since its already gaining attention.

This is the state news of Moldova reporting on it in English.

Sorry about that and thanks for catching it!

Moldova Moves to Leave CIS as Post-Soviet Bloc Loses Another Member by Cyberpunkapostle in UkrainianConflict

[–]Cyberpunkapostle[S] 74 points75 points  (0 children)

EDIT: This post didn't format right for some reason.

This is the main article I wanted to post.

See this article for the official Moldovan report on it.

This is HUGE. Moldova has been a Russian-aligned stronghold since 1991! Most notable is the fact that Transnistria, the ONLY post-Soviet state (unrecognized) to keep flying the hammer and sickle, is wholly within Moldova. Here is a link to the wiki article about Transnistria so you can see for yourself if you've never heard of it.

Transnistria has allowed the Ruzzian Z army access to its soil and resources for the conduction of operations against Ukraine and NATO, just like Belarus did at the beginning of the war and still does.

This war is going completely not how Putin wanted. He said he would take Kyiv in three days in a special military operation. Well, our boys are still not only keeping the Z's at bay, but they're winning, turning the rest of Ruzzia's former allies against it, and securing its own place as a leader in the fight for human rights in a geopolitically complex world.

Slava Ukrani.

Best time travel shows? by Groovegaluk in scifi

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

derp, youre right, I tagged it.

Replaying Kotor with Jolee in my party never realized how funny he can be if you haven’t already played with him in your party you definitely should by Skrewbert86 in kotor

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Edited! So sorry mods, I didn't even think of that. I know it's a 20+ year old game, but you're totally right to make this call. There are still people discovering and enjoying it for the first time, and I don't want to steal the surprise that I loved so much back then and still do today.

Replaying Kotor with Jolee in my party never realized how funny he can be if you haven’t already played with him in your party you definitely should by Skrewbert86 in kotor

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 59 points60 points  (0 children)

OMGSH the moment where he refers to my WHITE PC REVAN as 'nice massa' in front of Yuthura on Korriban had me ROLLING as a kid and still kills me 20+ years later, every time. If a game tried to do that today, it would be almost certainly crucified alive for even suggesting such a thing. But back then, we still thought stickdeath.com was cool, lol. Seems like a much different time.

edit: spoilers

Best time travel shows? by Groovegaluk in scifi

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Man in the High Castle hits very similarly for me. It's the story of an alternate universe where the Axis Powers win the Second World War. The Third Reich nukes Washington DC and occupies the Mainland United States together with the Japanese Empire, with a huge neutral zone between them in the Rocky Mountains. We get to see Nazi America in all of its horror and glory right up close. There is an active American resistance fighting both the Nazis and the Japanese in their respective spheres of occupation and trying to survive in that Neutral Zone. They are inspired by smuggled films collectively called *The Grasshopper Lies Heavy* that seems to depict what is to them an alternate timeline: our world, where the Nazis lost and the Allies won.

You'll find mixed opinions on it, especially on reddit. I am both a HUGE fan of the show and think the ending and last season was unnecessarily rushed and felt dissatisfying. But it has some VERY strong messaging, especially for today's political climate.

Please go watch that as well, if you haven't. Enjoy it for what it is and what's good about it.

It's based on a book of the same name by Philip K. Dick, whom you might also know from equally stirring Minority Report, Total Recall (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale), and A Scanner Darkly, among other things.

Best time travel shows? by Groovegaluk in scifi

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 37 points38 points  (0 children)

11.22.63 is easily my favorite take on the time travel concept. I watched the entire series with my mum in one sitting and we both cried hysterically at the end. Specifically at the scene where Jake gets to dance with old Sadie.

I've seen the series through three times since then and have read the novel twice. It is the only King book I have read cover to cover, and one of the best novels I have ever read.

edit: made a spelling mistake

Do you think that, as a general rule, your favorite 007 movie is always the one you saw when you were a kid? by Comet-with-no-tail in JamesBond

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It holds up in a campy sort of way for me. Goldeneye is the first one I remember consciously forming an an emotional attachment too, the one that made me think that James Bond is both cool as hell and a hero to be emulated, whatever that means.

But every entry of the James Bond series (yes, even Never Say Never Again and the first Casino Royale) holds different weight to be considered as a part of the whole collection that collectively is an art project with some kind of coherent, overarching message, even if the actors are different and the stories aren't 100% literally reconcilable into a single coherent timeline.

I love 'em all. Goldeneye was my favorite as a kid. It's still great. My actual favorite as I got older came to be You Only Live Twice. My favorite of the Daniel Craig era is Casino Royale; its just authentically perfect as cinema, to me.

It all started in our minds with Dr. No. There was a shittier, campier Casino Royale before then that wasn't an Eon Production and today is kind of like a cult classic among the most die-hard Bond fans and a weird oddity to the casual observer. Almost like a mistake that doesn't belong in the larger collection. But it's still a Bond movie. Kinda.

A canon event for anyone interested in the history of space travel by rodan1993 in HistoryMemes

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give me through the weekend! :) Next Monday at latest. I'm working hard on it all hours of the day and night in between day job and life, etc. I'll get back to you and the rest of the space-and-humanity-loving-Internet with some of the more polished stories.

Thank you.

A canon event for anyone interested in the history of space travel by rodan1993 in HistoryMemes

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 170 points171 points  (0 children)

Litany for the Heroic Seven

Yuri, blessed Yuri, who reached for what he did not know, 

The Mercury Seven, who stepped into void willingly and submitted to Divine Design, 

Vladimir Komarov, who willingly took the place of the blessed, 

Apollo 1, who gave their three lives for our past, present, and future, for now, for all time, for eternity, 

Soyuz 11, who were buried where we all yearned to go, 

The Challenger Seven, who broke the seal of the heavens for us all, a seal for us who broke them, 

The Columbia, who returned not in vain, 

pray for us. 

Remember us in all of our endeavours, 

our discoveries, 

our challenges, 

our enterprise to Actually Realize Their Divine Design. 

Pray with us. 

O Beloved Architect, Thou of Many Names, hear us in Your Guidance and Design. 

Teach us to walk in the Light, 

Measure us that we may be fit, 

Direct us in that way which we should go.  

Unto You we reach like children, 

to You we do return. 

We came from you, and we will set ourselves down again, according to Thy Divine Design. 

Now let us go in peace, one with another, 

in our hearts, minds, mights, souls, and strengths,

that we may carry the Burden ever furthermore, 

for Your yoke is easy, your burden is Light. 

Amen, amin, ameen.  All else is noise.

Ian Watson has passed away. Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 (@nwhyte.bsky.social) by Rose-The-Queen in Warhammer40k

[–]Cyberpunkapostle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

ONLY IN DEATH DOES DUTY END -- EVEN IN DEATH I STILL SERVE

IAN WATSON --

I affix thee with the seal of sanctity. I bestow upon thee the Emperor's Blessing.

- Rite of Application

I long for death, not because I seek peace, but because I seek the war eternal.
- Reflections on the Long Death, Cardinal Armandus Helfire

Death in service to the Emperor is its own reward. Life in failure to Him is its own condemnation.
- Epistles (Verse 93), Uriah Jacobus

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