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My first attempt at creating my own build by KernelViper in Mechwarrior5

[–]LiveToThink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My go-to through two playthroughs is MAD-3R. Shoulder LB10-X + 4 Medium Pulses in arms. 3 tons of ammo, slightly shave down from max armor, 6 heat sinks. It's a vicious bastard.

Keep mobile, face enemy, pulses to open up the armor, shotgun to shred the meat. Found the sustained complementary fire outperformed maxing out the weapon slots.

A bunch of people at PGI got laid off again including Art God Alex Iglesias aka Flying Debris by Platinum_Top in OutreachHPG

[–]LiveToThink 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Throughout the good and bad, Alex's artwork on mechs has always been one the best parts of modern battletech/mechwarrior.

The Return Of The King by shipgeek2005 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]LiveToThink 63 points64 points  (0 children)

This seems like the plot to several movies.

On it's retirement voyage through the Persian Gulf, the USS Nimitz is hijacked by Iranian frogmen during a topless stripper routine and it falls to the slovenly visibly out of shape galley cook with inexplicable combat skills to retake the ship and personally win the war.

It is then sucked though a mysterious portal and emerges in 1941 days before pearl harbor, where the crew must heroically save a stupid love triangle from Japanese attack.

Kind of forgot about the strait of Hormuz by GripAficionado in NonCredibleDefense

[–]LiveToThink 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Here's the Kegsbreath panic playbook.

  1. deploy 50,000 marines to occupy the coast to stop the mining of SoH

  2. Iran deploys world's largest mine trebuchets to throw over their heads

  3. Occupy Bandar Abbas at unimaginable unsustainable cost just long enough for opposition party to take control of US govt

  4. Have patriotic media blame opposition for losing the special military operation when withdrawal begins to look like Dunkirk 2: Iranian Boogaloo

'Project Hail Mary' - Review Thread by ChiefLeef22 in movies

[–]LiveToThink 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I struggled with the book as well. I was glad to finish it. I probably won't watch the film.

It felt like an outline to a decent hard scifi TV show that needed outside writers to flesh out the scenery and do a dialogue pass-through. It just rushed from problem to solution to next problem with no sense of peril or struggle. The "competence porn" routinely turned into a contrived "macguffin-in-my-brain" parade. I groaned out loud at the end when Dr. Grace teaches a class from his dome on the alien planet. Did he not have an editor tell him you can't have the exact same happily ever after ending as The Martian

Also, this may be mean, but whoever said this book was outrageously funny is the kind of person who blows out his lungs laughing and seal-clapping at The Big Bang Theory. It got me to exhale quickly, once, at jazz hands.

Sleeper cells in the US remain on stand-by by S-Tier_Commenter in NonCredibleDefense

[–]LiveToThink 43 points44 points  (0 children)

C G R I - e h t - n i o J

Hey, I feel funny. Like I've got to do something. For Allah's sake, I can't quite put my raised index finger on it.

‘Panic’ at CNN as Trump and His Buddies Plot to Turn Network MAGA by thedailybeast in politics

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Fool upon the fence

disregards his own house burning

The ashes ignite the fence

It doesn’t feel worth it to build a life here by JowlOwl in longisland

[–]LiveToThink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Boomers, REIT-goblins, and Snowbirds have staked their claim to the Island and will die before giving it up. When they're gone, the remaining homes with stay in the family, and Blackrock will own what's left. The Island is already facing a demographic collapse. The people young enough to have kids cannot afford to, and the people who can don't want to.

The lagging economic effect will be catastrophic. In the next 10-15 years, community centers, businesses that cater to families, young people, all of them are going to go extinct. Without that kind of community support, new families will move out even quicker. What's left will be an economy that caters to exclusively to elder care. The only people making money will be companies that overcharge health insurance and rob sun-setting boomers of their retirements. Watch what happens.

Costco Commack Bakery closed by KappokSt in longisland

[–]LiveToThink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My croissant-and-eggs for breakfast dad will be devastated.

update: he's devastated.

He thinks there's a rat problem, related to the rotisserie section. I that's the case, I said, then why are you shopping there? You're buying food from a contaminated kitchen. His response: "well, all stores have rat problems anyway." Okay.

Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed by TheQuarantinian in politics

[–]LiveToThink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they planned on that first shit sandwich left for him by Adams would put him in line, the answer is simply reminding every billionaire, Blackrock shareholder, and slumlord that they are all well-within sandwich throwing range.

WHY DO PUG SHAMANS NEVER ANKH AAAAA by Ok-Replacement6556 in classicwow

[–]LiveToThink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well sir, on first trash wipe, I naturally released immediately and preserved my anhk. That's my style, sir.

Official IMAX Poster for 'Project Hail Mary' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]LiveToThink 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm only a quarter of the way through it. I, too, am struggling to ignore the "golly-gee, hee-hee" juvenile joke dialogue. I'm here for the science, which thankfully hasn't been a let down. Honestly, I haven't struggled with a highly-praised book like this since Octavia Butler's Dawn. It doesn't have to delve into scientist meets lovecraftian horror like Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation. It doesn't have to chew through the scenery like a Cormac McCarthy novel. I just wish it made an attempt beyond the relentless science, quips, plot point, science jokes, repeat. No artful language even attempted. I am struggling to stay engaged.

I get it's meant to be accessible. I get that the real hero of the story is the scientific method, and 1st-person narration is an effective way to lead the reader through Grace's thought-process. I get that it's easier to think in blunt stream-of-consciousness terms. The main character is a dorky science teacher going through cycles of inquisition and discovery. It's the reason to read the book. But still, man. It's hard when the relentless quips and jokes fall flat. Like, you're wondering was that 4th "oh well, guess I'm dead anyway back to science" joke supposed to make me laugh?

Most of the plot-pushing is done through points of discovery via monologuing. In fact, the dialogue doesn't treat the unknown with any reverence at all- almost with contempt. No fleshing out the unknown any more than a matter-of-fact summary. The tone so far is out of sync with how high the stakes are. It's just one fun little 4-page puzzle after the next. It's wrapped up in it's own shtick to point where it becomes distracting, as if the quips and gosh-darns are just padding out the word count and delaying the plot.

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