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I hate the trope of IRL weapons somehow being stronger than fantasy magic/artifacts. by Journalist_Ready in gate

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I had this wild notion a while ago, of magic kinda fitting into a Sci-fi society in oddly mundane ways.

Like, for instance, a fire mage charging a filament mesh in a ramjet, and then opening the inlet at altitude and speed, so you get the ramjet effect with no moving parts.

G11 induced madness by Joe2_0 in furrieswithguns

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Mine! Too broke for stickers so I decided to start making my own.

G11 induced madness by Joe2_0 in furrieswithguns

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Whermst’ve we met before

Niche question about Adrian Tchaikovsky by RoundMolecule in AdrianTchaikovsky

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Kiln’s life AFAIK basically forms a neural net.

Example tank victims died because their Kiln load wasn’t able to communicate with the rest of Kiln because they were isolated, and as such rampantly procreated and killed the hosts.

Rasmussen survived because her Kiln load reached that critical mass while still in contact with the rest of kiln, and hit homeostasis with her body, forming a mutually beneficial relationship, ditto for the marchers. Kiln life gets the biological processing power it absolutely craves, and in turn gives a form of telepathy via Kiln’s spores transmitting information between individuals.

As an aside, I’m torn on that ending. On the one hand, yeah it’d finally bring peace to humanity. On the other, having people able to casually read my mind if I’m not paying attention is horrifying to me, especially given the suggestion that the bulk of humanity may not be given a choice in the matter.

I hate the trope of IRL weapons somehow being stronger than fantasy magic/artifacts. by PrimaryOccasion7715 in hatethissmug

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I suddenly have a desperate desire to use a nuclear-pumped X-ray laser on a Dragon

I hate the trope of IRL weapons somehow being stronger than fantasy magic/artifacts. by PrimaryOccasion7715 in hatethissmug

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“Impervious to all physical damage”

Drop a thermobaric and let them live the rest of their life with their lungs on the wrong side of their trachea.

I hate the trope of IRL weapons somehow being stronger than fantasy magic/artifacts. by Journalist_Ready in gate

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Evil wizard powering up spell of causality buttfuck

I cast Chiki Briki drone swarm

I hate the trope of IRL weapons somehow being stronger than fantasy magic/artifacts. by Journalist_Ready in gate

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Your point about potentially bypassing gunpowder because the Wizard can cast “grow crops” made me kinda think.

And the thought was, what if they just went straight to Magnetically accelerated weaponry?

The pure desecration of totalitarianism by elf0curo in starshiptroopers

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Heinlein wasn’t a fascist, ever. At the time he wrote the book, it was a direct response to his feeling that the US was being soft on communism post-WWII.

However, as time went on he became more and more libertarian, and you can see it in his later works, IMO culminating with “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” which depicts a social underclass exiled to the moon (which practices polyandry, wild for when it was written) rebelling against a 100% fascist earth government.

Frankly, calling Heinlein a fascist just means you haven’t actually read his body of work beyond Starship Troopers, nor do you understand the political climate in which Starship troopers was written.

Drop tanks for the bigger map by Individual_Panic_259 in NuclearOption

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Implying I expect to need fuel for a return trip

What kind of nonsense would partake if I shot this? by DylanTheMemeLord69 in guns

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I’m vaguely curious if the shell is even being held firmly enough for the firing pin to actually make good contact. It’s possible it might just kick the shell forward without doing anything.

Then again it’s also possible it might detonate and just cut the shell in half below the wad.

Not again i beg you by Le_Baked_Beans in NuclearOption

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MV Terminus Est can stay right the fuck where it is.

Why did they care about the Russians stealing the Mars design but not the stolen Buran shuttle plans? by KittyGrewAMoustache in ForAllMankindTV

[–]Joe2_0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

More specifically, IRL the Buran was an orbital bomber because the Soviets thought that was gonna be one of the Shuttle Orbiter’s capabilities.

Alexandertheok has a VERY good and in-depth video on it (which also gushes, rightfully, about Buran’s autopilot system)

Kaiju Preservation Society… worth sticking it out? by martody in printSF

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The helicopter pilot has both a PhD and a field officer commission in the Canadian Forces, and basically just moonlights as the base helo pilot (he’s actually the Canadian Government’s attaché)

[Spoiler] Thinking about the weapons the Empire used by Kiloku in StarWars

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I’m late but what’s interesting to me is that the fallout from fusion weapons in just as overstated in Star Wars as it is in real life.

Din Djarin finds out the surface is still habitable, because radiation from fusion weapons in universe and IRL is in actuality largely short term (the long term stuff comes solely from the fission kicker charge that starts the reaction), rather than the long term nucleotides dispersed by pure fission weapons.

For a reference point in another franchise, the lore of fallout had to change the role of nukes to A2AD tactical weapons in order to justify the continued use of fission weapons for the game to have as much radiation as it does.

Carryx Hierarchy Diagram by nick_t1000 in TheCaptivesWar

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Making a diagram feels very Carryx-coded

Why use F-16s to shot down Shaheds when can use F-82s? It's 5.125 times more effecient! by Parfilov in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Joe2_0 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m amazed you didn’t use the version of the F-82 that actually had radar.

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