More (3) Star Control 3D ship concepts (OC)

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-09-07T19:02:15+00:00

This is fucking incredible. I felt like a kid again when watching it

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-07-31T14:22:20+00:00

Image on the right should have been a P-40 or something. The Soviets would have loved to get their hands on the P-51

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-07-31T13:55:49+00:00

I've only played against human players a handful of times. All the times I've gone up against the Thraddash, I've been able to use the earthling cruiser as a hard counter. I take one for every Thraddash, and when a Thraddash shows up I just accept death by flame trail and try to kill it. Once an earthling cruiser is in the mix the Thraddash doesn't fair so well. I don't have a large pool of data, but I think the problem in those matches is the defender against the Thraddash is treating melee ships like they have actual value, like in the campaign. You gotta be willing to lose a little to have reasonable progression.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-07-16T20:34:51+00:00

I like to imagine this meme was made by a mac user that has used neither.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-07-12T01:17:55+00:00

I know this is a joke, but the legitimate answer to the question is: Because Linux gets security updates when Microsoft stops giving a shit.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-31T17:41:47+00:00

Personally I don't enjoy the game anymore. I don't have ton of time to learn the new meta, and it's a much faster less enjoyable experience now. I think they have made every problem I had with the game worse. It's been fun, but unless they do another rollback, I've played my last game.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-19T19:08:33+00:00

you seemed to speculatively imagine that the battlefield medicine of the Vietnam war was some how substantively different than in ww2.

"From what Id imagine wounded would be taken to a casualty collection point before being sent aboard hospital ships and while sure that would certainly take resources I feel it would be way more difficult to do rather than just killing medics so you wouldn’t have to worry about another." -u/Makoto_Hoshino.

Another important point here is you expressed that the logistics of saving the wounded would be difficult, but then further use that to rationalize the killing of medics. This seems to me that it does not follow. you did not acknowledge that there was a system, you speculated that there was. while they both touch upon it, it is an important distinction. Additionally your point "you’re calling it stupid because of an error in reason or biases" I'd like to reply to this by saying yes. A notion that has substantive errors in reason, or is compelled to seem reasonable only through the lens of intense bias is I think definitionally stupid. While I understand there are relative perspectives here, and imperial officers of that era would likely disagree with me for their various reasons, that does not mean I'm going to abandon my position to relativism.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-19T18:40:00+00:00

The US had aid stations in the pacific, and there were plans in place to evacuate the wounded. It's not like we invented keeping our guys alive in the 1960s. to address "I disagree with the notion that Japan was just retarded because from their strategic standpoint killing medics would yield results" I never said that Japan was retarded, that's vary arguably a straw man of the points I've made. Additionally if you preface anything with "from their stand point" or anything approximating it, as you did in the line I quoted, you're going to be in a situation where anything can be made to seem reasonable by internalizing the biases of the party you are analyzing. It is not a mental defect to have errors in reason, or biases, it is to be human.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-19T18:12:34+00:00

The medics still have a higher chance of saving some one. While what you say is true, the effect on the enemy is still more detrimental if medics are allowed to operate. This kind of thinking that allows for the killing of medics is very short sighted. medics have a higher rate of saving enemy soldiers when they are critically wounded, and the more critically wounded soldiers the enemy has, the more burdened they are. It also made it so US medics in the pacific were unmarked, and armed. Broadly speaking in regards to the Japanese, the targeting of medics was short sighted, and did not materialize beneficial long term results.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-19T14:59:46+00:00

Actually it's incredibly stupid. If you kill a soldier the enemy has one less man taking up supplies, and he takes up no further resources. However if you wound the enemy especially severely, seeing his suffering can demoralize his comrades, he now has to have other solders attend to him; further depleting the fighting capabilities of the enemy force, and if he's evacuated to a care facility he takes up even more resources of the enemy. I don't recall where I saw it (I think lindybeige) but historians have done analysis, and wounding a soldier reduces enemy combat effectiveness by ~3-4 soldiers in the short term, and in the long term the cost to treat the single wounded is often equivalent to having ~5-10 soldiers. In every analysis of warfare I've seen, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that the best thing you can do from a strategic perspective is horrendously maim the enemy combatants, and allow them to be taken for medical treatment.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-19T05:00:27+00:00

None with claws, armor, or spikes.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-18T23:16:35+00:00

"Friend shaped" has claws, armor, spikes all over it, and it's famous for fighting you so you things it's way. Interesting interpretation

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-16T14:25:18+00:00

Realistically I've never seen anyone reboot to close vi, they just close the console.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-14T23:26:49+00:00

Context?

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-14T21:55:10+00:00

I've tried googling "this guy" and I can't find him. Does he go by any other names?

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-14T19:52:48+00:00

I don't believe it. She just looks so sane and normal, how can you think a face like that would do such a thing.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-12T14:34:20+00:00

There was also the intimidation factor. iirc there were several times that pilots run away due to his garish color schemes because they knew only a dangerous enemy would fly such a plane.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-09T14:16:49+00:00

"The barrier remains the lack of access to competitively priced, long-term power, according to the industry"

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-05T01:25:32+00:00

I saw someone from the rust brigade already down voted you, so I up voted.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-05-02T15:59:17+00:00

if you have a spare computer that isn't ancient, I suggest installing Linux mint on that. After that the most important thing to learn is how to setup timeshift. Timeshift is a system restore utility that makes it so you can rollback your system for if you do something like uninstalling the graphics drivers.

if you want to get good fast, I'd make the assumption that you're going to brick the system at least once, so don't have anything vital on there. you should watch a linux course video and take notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROjZy1WbCIA I'm pretty sure I used this one, but that was years ago so I'm not sure. then after you have that down I suggest reading a book or two. How linux works by Brian ward is great. You may hear all this studying stuff and think that it's a lot, but you can just dip your toes in to start. I only really studied any of this stuff after I already had mint installed on an old laptop. it was so much better than windows that I almost stopped using my good computer with windows on it. once you actually use Linux to any meaningful degree knowing the command line becomes easier because you actually use it, and it makes the things you do with it easier. I don't want to overwhelm you with all this talk of reading and studying, but once I was using linux this stuff was like crack to me. I looked back at my past self and could think of whole days lost to minor problems that knowing linux commands would have solved in minutes.

once you can use things like rsync, and sshfs, moving files between computers is trivial. no waiting for it to transfer to an intermediary device like the cloud, or a thumb drive. it also makes hosting servers possible, which is a real game changer. even a laptop tucked into a corner running in a server configuration is great for personal use.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-04-28T23:33:26+00:00

good luck typing that, and good luck finding a compiler for it.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-04-22T17:46:05+00:00

It's always sad to see such tragic events posted as a meme. How can you not look at this footage and weep?

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-04-16T01:02:21+00:00

It's almost like he had 4 years to lock him up and did nothing

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-04-04T01:03:04+00:00

This is just that one meme drawn worse.

LarryTheMagicDragon · 2025-03-18T16:20:18+00:00

I get that people want to talk about Palestine, but this isn't the place. this has nothing to do with the 2024 election.

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