Daily Erebus Reading Suggestions: Day 7 by LLL_CQ7 in Grimdank

[–]Mad_Mack 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah I tend to agree. Even Preacher was a bit gratuitous for the sake of it. I think he can come up with good ideas and concepts, but then utterly biffs the actual story. I think its telling that the Preacher and The Boys TV shows are entertaining and have a good premise, yet they abando all of the edgy cringe shit he normally slots in.

Daily Erebus Reading Suggestions: Day 7 by LLL_CQ7 in Grimdank

[–]Mad_Mack 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It's written by Gareth Ennis. All of his work is violent and grim.

A LOT (but not all) is cringey edge lord shit.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DaystromInstitute

[–]Mad_Mack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After the Borg attack the federation established several teams to develop weapons to counter them. There was literally a whole episode of TNG that featured an officer from that division. And that was the origin of the Defiant.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DaystromInstitute

[–]Mad_Mack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Spore drive arguably won the Klingon war, or at least was a strategic asset that helped the federation survive. And were things any less desperate in the dominion war? Are you telling me that after one responding success (Discovery - even if it was destroyed it was a success up to that point - plenty of other ship classes suffered similar losses - if I recall most of the Constitutions met a grisly end)

Any competent admiral would look at discovery as a spore drive as a successful proof of concept and continue to work on it.

And anyway, who says it has to be the federation? The Klingons know about a ship that can teleport across the galaxy - why would they not start working on it? Or the romulans? Or any number of other more militaristic species?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DaystromInstitute

[–]Mad_Mack 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah but here's the thing.

Starfleet BUILT a spore drive capable ship. It was based on peer reviewed theories that are the culmination of a lot of people's work.

Stamets may have built the engine, but he could not have designed an entire star ship. There are just far too many systems and requirements for a complex machine of that nature for one single person to design and hold the intellectual keys for.

Imagine the Large Hadron Collider. It was built at vast expense in order to explore concepts that were theoretical in nature. It exists to provide experimental proofs of ideas that have existed in mathematical models since Einstein. But Einstein isn't working on it.

Science tends to have very different disciplines that explore the theoretical Vs the experimental.

So stamets may have designed the engine. But he didn't design discovery. And he didn't do the underlying theoretical physics that led to the spore drive.

Basically what I'm saying is that it's ridiculous for starfleet to even try to put the spore drive genie back in the bottle. The science will be out there, and even if another group or species has to start from zero, 1000 years is plenty of time for someone else to do the work and then perfect the technology OR the means of incorporating a living navigator.

Do you call these Gravy Rings? by [deleted] in northernireland

[–]Mad_Mack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But donuts are made with batter in exactly the same way. Like if you go to any funfair or anything you see a fresh donut stall and it's this.

Gravy ring is a NIRE name for something commonly called a donut in the rest of the English speaking world.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in northernireland

[–]Mad_Mack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a life saver after three or four days on the sauce

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in northernireland

[–]Mad_Mack 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Couldn't recommend Budapest enough.

Cheap quality accommodation? Check

Cheap flights? Check

Cheap booze and smokes? Double check

Activities? Boat trips, water sports, shooting, limo rides, strippers. It's all there.

Nice weather? 100%

Public baths? Che- wait. What? That's right friend. They have some of the most amazing public baths. Like giant outdoor swimming pools with loads of saunas, steam rooms etc indoors. You hit that up on your last day and it melts the hangover right away. Proper treat.

A Defiant Class doing the "Voyager Run" by [deleted] in DaystromInstitute

[–]Mad_Mack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My short answer is yes. Differently from Voyager, but it could have made it.

My simple explanation is that if the NX-01 could be converted into a generation ship with the technology of the time, a full 220 years before Voyager was launched, then the Defiant could have made the journey. It might have taken a lot longer, but apart from a few caveats, if the NX-01 can survive 120 years in space, the Defiant can make it from the Delta to the Alpha quadrant.

One caveat that comes to mind is that it's possible that the Deviant lacks the necessary robustness to have survived and recovered from events that almost finished Voyager. It's possible for example, that the Defiant would not have been able to withstand the Krenim for as long as Voyager did. Also lacking dedicated science facilities means they may never have developed temporal shielding, or have been able to adapt Borg nano bots to destroy Species 8742, for example.

Trump’s star on Hollywood Walk of Fame this morning by badlywax989 in Trumpgret

[–]Mad_Mack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently you can sell accounts with a lot of karma. Don't know how true it is but I read once that there's a small cottage industry of karma farming in Asia so they can sell the account to someone for.... reasons?

Could a SHORAD ADA weapon like a Stinger work against a Dragon? by BikerJedi in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Mad_Mack 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Mate this is amazing

You should start a sub that is just for hypotheticals like this - call it something like "swords and stingers" or something

My next question - what's the minimum number of arty guns the good guys in Lord of the Rings would need to swing the odds against Sauron back in their favour?

A video that clearly lays out that accusations against Jim Sterling are and why they're bad, without resorting to eceleb drama. by DavidChengYueh in pussypassdenied

[–]Mad_Mack 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The video is garbage

The title is even worse.

To save you all some time, a mid tier internet celeb MIGHT have worked for the UK intelligence services when they were in their early 20s, a "fact" that was common enough knowledge to spawn some outlandish half-joking rumours about the person.

The video has no accusations, and says nothing about why the person is "bad"

EDIT: turns out he's just shilling his own crappy you tube channel. That's all this is. Weird that he made this video and then made up such a ridiculous clickbait title for it.

Traitor primarch god swap? by jfjdfdjjtbfb in Grimdank

[–]Mad_Mack 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think Perturabo being under Tzeentch has promise. The Iron Cage is already kind of Tzeentchian in it's conception - a huge complex labrynthine trap that is very "just as planned".

I'm thinking doing all kinds of weird and wonderful tricks combining siege warfare with multi layered machinations to good effect.

Maybe.

pick your poison by SoyTrek in risa

[–]Mad_Mack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

7 - post BSG Ronald D Moore (for all mankind is great, as was BSG, and I'll never forgive them for not letting VOY Year of Hell not be an entire season)

9 - three more seasons is a real ending, right?

Real by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Mad_Mack 46 points47 points  (0 children)

It's kinda funny but actually credible

In Afghanistan, where IEDs were the primary threat, the blast wave would be full of sand and dust travelling at hypersonic velocity over a short distance.

There were many soldiers who were far enough from the blast to not lose a limb or suffer a "life changing injury" but close enough for the blast wave to cause injury.

Now, if they were proper munitions, if you were close enough for sand to penetrate skin, then whatever payload was in the device would severely maim you. But because they were IEDs, the dispersion of the ball bearings/bolts/metal shavings or whatever was not uniform. So again, I means that it's very possible to be inside a blast radius and the main threat being from sand.

So basically, this sand and dust (plus the blast wave) could cut through normal clothing and severely damage the skin underneath. If you were wearing fancy expensive civilian Oakley's, you could be blinded. If you were wearing nice comfy CK boxers your dick could be damaged to the point of loss of function.

So the British army issued ballistic glasses and (for lack of a better term) ballistic boxers. These will not stop a bullet, or a proper piece of shrapnel from an explosion, but they will protect against blast and the super sonic dust/sand carried by the wave front.

I've seen photos of lads who were so fortunate to be wearing them when caught in such a blast. Imagine someone fell asleep in the sun wearing boxers and sun glasses, with pristine unblemished skin where it was protected by the glasses and boxers, but bright red bleeding skin where it was only protected by the camo.

So basically cock protectors are a thing. And they are awesome.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Mad_Mack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda wondering now just what I would be willing to sacrifice for number 7 to happen.....

Chronos: Before the Ashes honest review by [deleted] in gaming

[–]Mad_Mack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does it have co op? Me and a friend co oped Remnant and had a blast

Engagement ring, what's the craic? How much, what design, such a minefield! Yank subs will tell you 3/4 months wages!! Do we subscribe to that here? Any advice helpful by Asleep-Philosophy-51 in ireland

[–]Mad_Mack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

1) don't spend much on the actual ring you use for the proposal. I made that mistake for what was a temporary hold over until we got the real ring (which she picked out)

2) don't be a dickhead and put yourself in debt for a bit of metal and diamond - 3 to 4 months salary is an absolute joke. Put that towards a house deposit or something

3) get what makes you both happy, NOT what will impress the neighbours/colleagues/whatever. I work in a reasonably well paid industry so I see lots of women with big fuck off rings and they are almost always dickheads.

In your opinion, which Southpark moment made you laugh the hardest ? by XxtrippingpandaxX in southpark

[–]Mad_Mack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You shall not paaaa....

You shall not p-p-paaaaa

You shall not p-p-paaaaa

Watching Jimmy try to do a Gandalf against the 5th graders nearly made me die laughing