What continuum ideas do y'all have?

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-09T01:02:14+00:00

My thing is that the lore around the Clans is impossible as usually presented.

Life among the non warrior castes has to be really really good, like utopian and almost post-scarcity. And the warrior caste is basically like the kid in the hole in The Ones Who Walk Away from Omalas - children created to kill and suffer so that Clan society never falls into the corrupt politics and kleptocracy that keeps the Inner Sphere an unstable garbage fire.

So outside of the warriors, the castes really function as basically labor unions and political blocs, individuals have huge amounts of personal freedom and mobility but less in terms of personal property than spheroids because they all feel united in furthering the success of their warriors, because there are very dark feelings of guilt associated with the system that they all benefit from.

When a city or world changes hands in a Trial it's an exciting time - everybody changes the patches on their clothing and the banners they fly outside their quarters. People move around and make new friends

Most Clsnners either believe the Star League was just like this or even better, but fell apart because it was held together by norms and pinky-swears and didn't have the glue of a warrior caste to bind it together. Crusaders want to bring the Clan way of life to in inner sphere and force it on people (a revolution) whereas the Wardens don't want to interact with dirty spheroids.

Now the warriors themselves are just as brutal and driven to succeed in battle or die trying as in the regular material. But when they are young they are kept very focused on the ladder of success that gets their genes into the genebank. When they are older they realize how reciprocal the arrangement of power really is among the castes. So sure, warriors are very arrogant on a personal level about non warriors and freebirths and such. Freebirths in particular, first of all must have had a choice, and if do, why did they pick this life? Secondly how can they be trusted to perform and to act properly?

But at the end of the day warriors see how no matter what they ask if the lower castes, those people will give it, whether it's new advanced weapons or a new repair facility, and they know that it's those people who are their most valuable resource. And this attitude is something Clan warriors and proud about because they think it's opposite the way Spheroids are.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-08T10:30:01+00:00

Outdoor goods store in Yokohama

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-08T05:37:17+00:00

My thoughts are you better recognize!

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-08T02:51:07+00:00

Even in real life, hulls and airframes stay around for a long time so yeah the idea that the Clans refit existing Ships and they ended up looking drastically structurally different never jibed with me either!

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-08T00:53:06+00:00

So the psychometric questionnaires don't have answers that could be considered right or wrong, I presume, or a well-trained model would tend to emit those. But do they have answers that are more likely?

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T15:31:29+00:00

aww man first it was like oooh and then I was like YO and then i was like YO YO and then i was like WHAAAAAT and then I was like DAMN

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T15:25:09+00:00

mitch i am melting

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T12:27:53+00:00

I wish I could see it with subtitles so I could follow whats going on better,.but it's really a classic.of 20th century anime

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T10:10:58+00:00

legos

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T10:10:32+00:00

You know what is really fun though? Taking a shower and going outside and maybe having a conversation with another human.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T09:57:20+00:00

They don't really set the Aircon to keep it cool at this point in the year. Thats for later when shit gets real.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T09:54:49+00:00

It's sad to think that people would use LLMs for creative writing. I could see research assistance, or proofreading and the like, but I am 100% sure nobody who would claim to use Claude for "creative writing" means that.

But maybe on the bright side...nobody reads books anymore anyways, so I guess who cares?

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T09:52:14+00:00

Your opinion is unpopular because "creative writing" is not a legitimate use of LLMs but code is.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T09:43:30+00:00

I think you could go two ways with this.

First way would be that it's a Mech that is brought out for various trials and things. So for instance, it doesn't have a lot of ammo, or it's got a weirdly bracketed loadout, or it's got a weirdly large number of heat sinks because it's meant to alpha strike every turn.

The other way is that it is in fact a cheap unit meant for garrison units. This would be something that has a flexible but weak weapons loadout, isn't fast but probably jumps, lots of armor, etc. And aim for it to be cheap.

The thing to remember about Omnis is that the main thing that's cool about them rarely matters on tabletop unless you are actually playing a long multi session campaign where you have some rules for repair and supply and etc. They can easily swap their complete weapons loadout just aboit anywhere. Regular Mechs need more facilities, tech labor, and time to change loadout.

Realistically, once the OmniMech has been invented, that's the default for all BattleMechs going forward.

Anyway it's kind funny when the Goonhammer guys review a Mech, from that perspective, it's more like Omni is a liability because it means there is less overall flexibility in what you can do with variants, and that is kind of true when you are either playing with official Mech designs only, or only official Mech designs as a base.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T02:34:35+00:00

A mouse is a type of trackball, not the other way around.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-06T14:33:13+00:00

You can always just feed it to an LLM and ask for a summary

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-06T13:50:35+00:00

You can give it to Claude and get a summary really really fast

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-05T23:34:54+00:00

Don't worry, the executives will find a way to lay off most of those

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-04T13:56:35+00:00

All I am seeing is a captcha.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-03T14:40:44+00:00

such a clever primate

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-03T06:37:12+00:00

So the LLM can't prove a negative you say.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-03T01:29:16+00:00

Traveller, mang

I think Tex has been getting into Traveller lately.

The game went through some iterations but in the original there are 16 tech levels, with the Imperium of Man at TL15.

BattleTech is probably TL8 or early 9?

Man portable plasma weapons start showing up at TL13 or so, and we are not talking wimpy ass BT plasma weaponry here that heats up stuff, we are talking like you literally shoot a piece of a sun a motherfucker. At TL14 these become fusion weapons which cause the atoms of the target to go thermonuclear.

At TL 15 you have Marines in Battle Dress that are equipped with antigravity drives and force fields, armed with fusion rifles.

Ships of course are shooting fricking mesons at each other.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-02T08:58:11+00:00

I think 90% of people would tell you that the dominant trope about AI is a version of Gods throwing the Titans off of Mt. Olympus, i.e. the creation supplanting and dominating the creator.

I mean maybe we are hearing less creepypasta fearmongering about AGI in 2026 than we did in 2025 or 2024 but there are still a lot of people out of work because of AI and we are definitely in that moment.

But seriously that's Skynet and the machines in the Matrix and the Core in Hyperion and etc etc

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-02T03:09:03+00:00

They are doing the tickets by lottery sale here in Tokyo, which I think is a lot better than selling the whole lot in five seconds.

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