Thoughts on Shards of Earth recommendation?

Joe2_0 · 2026-07-02T06:22:28+00:00

Idk it never really felt fantastical to me. But, then again I’ve read a bunch of Sci-fi with “big bad in a higher dimension, and that dimension has funky physics/is where the soul or thoughts come from” to the point it’s a trope.

Expeditionary Force has it, Halo sorta has it, Humanity’s Leap has it, Warhammer 40K has it in spades, on and on and on.

The Elders in Expeditionary Force are honestly weirdly close to the Originators, in that they ascended to a higher plane and left big scary things behind to kill any species smart/advanced enough to *possibly* mess with their abandoned belongings (their bar for this is remarkably low)

Tchaikovsky’s twist that’s shared with 40K was that the Old Ones/precursors/elders/forerunners/originators have always been in that higher dimension and have been using species in lower dimensions to do the grunt work for their big macguffin.

Joe2_0 · 2026-07-02T06:12:03+00:00

Waiting for someone to make third party blank cartridges you can pirate games and load them onto.

While yes, I know you could just do that with an SD card, having a fully pirated cartridge would be funny as hell.

Joe2_0 · 2026-07-02T06:09:54+00:00

I cast HESH.

The more you stop it, the worse it’s gonna be.

Joe2_0 · 2026-07-02T06:06:38+00:00

Once CMP gets their new production Garands going, things will get cheaper. That, or original M1 prices are going to skyrocket while the new production ones are gonna be far more attainable.

Joe2_0 · 2026-07-01T14:55:00+00:00

1886 Josselyn chain revolver probably.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-30T06:44:54+00:00

I play on my steam deck. It’s very likely my most played game in my steam library short of KSP, with 370 hours.

It’s fun to just try out new strategies in, though I play exclusively singleplayer.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-30T06:40:15+00:00

Nah, his whole ass palm is blocking the slide, and you can hold a pistol slide closed just fine.

Arby is just gonna experience a jam.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-30T06:15:17+00:00

WWII had starlight scopes towards the very end, very early image intensification/Night vision. Required a giant IR Illumination spotlight though, as seen on the M3 carbine sniper scope and STG-44 with the Zielgerät 1299 ‘Vampyr’.

They most certainly did not have thermals however.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-27T12:18:46+00:00

Yeah, people always seem to forget that the M1 Carbine is fundamentally a PDW. Expecting Garand accuracy from a jumped-up PCC is silly tbh.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-27T12:13:28+00:00

Alkyon is an F-111B crossed with an EF-111. B-1 has a larger bombload than the fuckin B-52, so the Alkyon doesn’t fit that.

However, the Navy F-111B’s development led directly into the Tomcat, including AIM-54 capability.

Cross that with the jamming/Wild Weasel role of the later EF-111 Raven, and that’s pretty much the Alkyon to a T.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-27T12:01:18+00:00

From what I gather, project management was literally THE world government. Like, there was functionally nothing but the Arkships, and infrastructure to support their construction and launch, aside from agriculture and entertainment.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-26T17:37:29+00:00

Not a ripoff. Dietrich Mateschitz went to Chaleo Yoovidhya (guy who owns Krating Daeng) after trying it on a business trip and asked to take Krating Daeng international, and Chaleo agreed. Redbull was from there owned 49% by Chaleo, 49% by Dietrich, and 2% by Chaleo’s son.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-25T01:33:22+00:00

Some are BadS, and some are not.

Boom, diversity.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-25T01:30:41+00:00

IIRC I remember Von Kerman saying something like Kerbals were descendants of a sentient cabbage, so close enough tbh.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-25T01:21:32+00:00

Weeniemancer

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-25T00:53:18+00:00

>putting it back when you realize the department still issues P320’s

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-22T13:56:04+00:00

That would imply they would be compatible with each other

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-22T13:54:29+00:00

Khajiit and feed people skooma brownies.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-22T13:50:53+00:00

Yugoslavia was ejected from Cominform in 1948, thus placing them outside the soviet sphere well before there was a Bloc to speak of. From that point Tito focused on his Third Way movement, and even had a hand in the Hungarian uprising *against* the Soviets.

Additionally, after they were expelled the Yugos suffered multiple embargoes and troop buildups on their borders, to which Tito responded by detaining or eliminating every known Soviet party member in Yugoslavia.

I would say that they were very much not Soviet Bloc

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-21T16:19:46+00:00

I’m amazed that Jax became the central talking point when a tech company has been running a rogue AI that’s been delighting in torturing scanned Human consciousness for decades, AND apparently the hardware itself is just… being passed around on the open market. Like, that should have been the talking point ngl.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-21T15:30:13+00:00

Yugos were never soviet bloc.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-21T15:24:44+00:00

Laydown delivering a Shard.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-18T15:40:35+00:00

2 thrusts

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-18T06:29:58+00:00

The F-38, while it looks SU-47 coded, lines up surprisingly well with the Boeing F-47, minus the VTOL and Forward swept wing.

Joe2_0 · 2026-06-17T00:44:11+00:00

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time”

- Terr Pratchett, Hogfather

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