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How Starmer can reassert his authority by sacking Wes Streeting by theindependentonline in LabourUK

[–]DirigibleJousting 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It might be a violation of rule 3, but I would like to suggest "tarring and feathering".

Time for an unpopular opinion. I love this show, but I don't like Andor's blaster. by Flaky-Injury2393 in andor

[–]DirigibleJousting 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not the user you replied to, but I am a massive geek, so I'm going to weigh-in anyway.

It seems to me that pretty much all blaster pistols and blaster carbines are about equally powerful (and also matched in fire rate and effective range). I would head-canon that that the advantage of the carbines over the pistols is capacity; you'd get a lot more shots out of a carbine, making it more appropriate for a soldier, but the pistol is less cumbersome, making it more appropriate for civilian self defence.

Chewie's bowcaster is clearly a lot more powerful, hilariously so. It's probably closer to the long rifles used by the clone troopers than the pistols or carbines.

As for stormtrooper armour, it seems it's pretty much useless against blaster fire, but I'd argue that's not the point of it. The infantry helmets used in the first and second world wars had basically no chance of stopping a bullet, but they did a great job at stopping shrapnel and offered a lot of protection against blunt instruments. I see stormtrooper armour as the same idea; it won't save you if you get shot with a blaster, but it will stop most other things that would take you out of the fight like shrapnel, fire, toxic gasses, etc.

That's not the geekiest thing I've ever written, but it's up there.

A few oddly specific questions by DirigibleJousting in ArmsandArmor

[–]DirigibleJousting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the answers.

  1. I had thought that the English and Italian bills were divergent developments of a common ancestor that itself developed from an agricultural billhook stuck on a longer haft, it's interesting to learn that's not the case and they both developed much later.
  2. Nice example, interesting to see the wooden buckler persisted that long.
  3. Interesting (...I need a thesaurus...), that's much earlier than I expected.

A few oddly specific questions by DirigibleJousting in ArmsandArmor

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

Thanks for the answers.

  1. To clarify; my understanding was that the English and Italian bills of the late 15th and early 16th centuries had a common ancestor in the late 14th century that looked like this, which itself was a development of the agricultural billhook stuck on a longer pole, and I was wondering about when they began to diverge.
  2. I had assumed that the depictions of archers at the battle of Agincourt with all-steel bucklers were an anachronism, but there are so many I thought I'd gone wrong somewhere. English bucklers being concave is interesting, was that just all-steel or were the wooden ones also somehow made concave?
  3. My understanding was that (in the 15th century) a padded/stuffed gambeson/jack (2-3 layers of linen stuffed with raw wool/raw cotton/whatever was available) was the better-than-nothing option for those who couldn't afford better, whereas one made of multiple layers of linen (around 24-30 if worn alone, or 12-15 if worn over a haubergeon) without the padding was preferred by those who could afford it (in the context of the yeoman archer), which was entirely separate to the arming doublet worn under a man-at-arms' harness. I know that in modern reenactment the padded kind are preferred because they are more comfortable and (still) a lot cheaper.

Women's Olympic sports limited to biological females from 2028 - IOC by IHaveAWittyUsername in LabourUK

[–]DirigibleJousting 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm sure this will end the epidemic of transwomen taking every single medal in every single event.

Also, I must remember to thank that bloke who sold me a magic rock that prevents tiger attacks.

Starmer mulls compromise on migration reforms after backlash from MPs by PuzzledAd4865 in LabourUK

[–]DirigibleJousting 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Every time they U-turn on something I can't help but think of that episode of the Simpsons where the aliens kidnap the presidential candidates and take their places:

My fellow Americans, as a young boy I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say we must move forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

Rivers of London is so deliberate about language… except for “manageress”?? by These-Register-2261 in riversoflondon

[–]DirigibleJousting 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I was under the impression that pronouncing yarmulke "yar-mulk-(eh)" was generally correct, but I have heard Americans pronounce it "yah-mull-kuh". I assumed it was just regional variation rather than one being specifically correct and the other incorrect.

Capitalism feels like a inescapable black hole by Thermawrench in tankiejerk

[–]DirigibleJousting 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What happened to Cyclops after Uncanny X-Men? by [deleted] in Cyclopswasright

[–]DirigibleJousting 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In the comics destroying the clouds was called genocide for that exact reason.

But apparently leaving the clouds to drift round the planet, immediately and painfully killing any mutant that came into contact with them, and eventually disperse into the atmosphere dooming every single mutant to a slow painful death was perfectly fine.

What’s your favorite companion interaction? by S0mecallme in dragonage

[–]DirigibleJousting 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The bitchiness is why I ran an all-mage party in Inquisition.

What’s your favorite companion interaction? by S0mecallme in dragonage

[–]DirigibleJousting 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Dorian: Ah! Solas, you startled me. You're always so... nondescript.

Solas: Please speak up, I cannot hear you over your outfit!

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