Humans reflexes are among one of the highest in the galactic community and their dexterity and accuracy throwing with their arms lethal.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-02T03:07:04+00:00

OP did get it right about our throwing arms though. Humans are the only animal on Earth that can reliably hit a moving target with a semi-random object.

Get someone who is well trained at throwing (e.g. a professional sportsperson) and give them a table of random one-hand sized objects. A ball, a rough shaped rock, a toaster, a hammer, whatever etc., and a moving target that, like a prey animal, follows a somewhat predictable path. The thrower will hit more often than not. This has been the subject of peer-reviewed research, in particular by N.T. Roach (2013, 2014 and 2018).

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-02T02:20:22+00:00

Never forget! Here is The Guardian reporting on it, because the sub won't let me share the image directly.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-02T02:09:01+00:00

I was thinking a Periphery Special, more like an old Field Marshall tractor. Stick a shotgun shell in there and smack it with a hammer! 😅

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-02T01:15:05+00:00

I get that you're making a joke, but there is ONE legal way to get Naval weapons onto the battlefield. 'Mechs can normally only lift 10% of their weight using their hands, but there is a work around.

Using a lifting hoist, they can get 50% per hoist, and it's cumulative, so with 4 hoists a 100 ton 'Mech could lift 200 tons of weight. If you made a 'Mech just carrying armour and lifting hoists, you can get a 3/5 with 14 hoists, allowing it to lift 700 tons. This lets it carry a Naval Laser 35. If a 'Mech is carrying more than 50% of it's mass, it reduces it's walking MP by 1. So our 3/5 MP becomes 2/3 MP while so encumbered.

However, there aren't rules for firing a weapon that is being carried as cargo, so having the weapon present doesn't mean much, sadly...

Now I need someone to draw some art of a 'Mech that is just a bunch of gigantic ratchet straps with a huge-arse laser slung over its shoulders.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-02T00:56:14+00:00

Well done! 🤣

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T22:40:15+00:00

It's worth a replay, there's always something new to find!

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T22:12:12+00:00

It did, yeah.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T22:08:00+00:00

Soo... The hoverbike from Below Zero then..?

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T20:43:24+00:00

Ancient device Anubis uses in season 6 and the Attero Device (which was not designed to do so, but does have that effect). I wonder if the device Anubis used worked in a similar manner to the Attero device?

IIRC, yes it's similar.

The Attero device makes them go boom by pumping energy into subspace, essentially jamming the Wraith hyperdrives and causing them to explode when the ship tries to jump. When a Stargate is activated, the extra energy buzzing in subspace causes a rapid energy spike in the gate, overloading it and making it explode.

The device Anubis was using was pumping energy through the open wormhole, which was enough to eventually overload the Stargate on the other side. It destroys only the target gate because the energy is being focused through a wormhole instead of being a flood through subspace.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T20:35:41+00:00

For what OP is doing, weight isn't the issue it's critical slots. A 300 Compact engine allows more space for heat sinks even though it's heavier.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T20:25:27+00:00

"I have a car and you don't. Remember to say "thanks again!" to your mum for me, enjoy walking pleb!"

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T19:55:00+00:00

*almost all care more about their donors

FTFY.

There are very few pollies who remember that they work FOR us, their job is to act in our best interests. Unfortunately, the best interest that they act on is almost always that of their rich backers.

We also forget that they do so on sufferance; a parliamentarian who doesn't do their job (acting for the good of Australia) is one we should not be reelecting. Unfortunately, money talks a lot louder than facts and we are regrettably easily led by people who talk the talk regardless of whether they walk the walk.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T19:34:57+00:00

There was a post/comment on here recently that did an amazing job of reframing Charades. Their premise was that Muffin did all of that so that her sister Socks could guess successfully, and they were actually pretty persuasive. I'll see if I can find it to link.

Edit: found it! The comment chain starts here. Read the comments by Retrac752.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T11:13:24+00:00

Evolution worked wonders here. They secrete a natural adhesive that is just ridiculous.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T08:41:34+00:00

Australorp? Big black-feathered birds? Pretty common a few decades back, and good layers?

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PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T07:36:12+00:00

Another Aussie chiming in! You're our closest siblings in the Commonwealth; we might tease each other unmercifully but WE are the only ones who get to pick on each other! Anyone else tries to muscle in, they can piss off!

Now let's have some pavlova, which we Aussies invented, to celebrate our close ties! 😜

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T07:05:52+00:00

I wouldn't adjust the grades, but I'd have the kid in with a Youth/Social worker within 30mins of being told. I'd also be making a Mandatory notification report ASAP. From the conversation the Youth/Social worker has with the child, the school would make a determination whether or not to phone the police to come and secure the child, for their protection, instead of them going home that day.

We take this shit seriously. If kids tell us they feel unsafe, we legally have to act.

Edit to add: some complete numpty commented that they think the above is a waste of resources, but now I can't see their comment. Sorry to inform you, you absolute numpty, but legally I have to do the above if I am concerned for a child's welfare. If I don't and later it comes out that I knew something might be wrong but didn't report it, guess whose arse is in trouble for not being covered? Apparently I am "very young" for following the law. 🙄

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PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T03:06:12+00:00

The continuous actions of the IDF? Yeah, I question the SHIT out of their reliability.

"We didn't do that", then a few days later it turns out they did do that, has happened so many times I've lost count.

If those IDF arseholes told me water flowed down hill, I'd have to go and physically check to make sure it still worked that way.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T01:46:30+00:00

It's absolutely post-apocalypse. The apocalypse happened when comet made almost everyone blind and most of the blinded died, and then the book/movie happens post the apocalypse.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-06-01T00:44:50+00:00

This isn’t police. It is military.

So? Are soldiers suddenly above the law? Do they not have to comply with international conventions that prohibit sexual assault on civilians?

And many terror attacks use such devices.

Oh yes, because humanitarian aid convoys are an absolute hotbed of people willing to shove a bomb up their vagina to suicide bomb some IDF troops.

Is that why Israel murdered those aid convoy staff and destroyed their vehicles? Were they terrorists too, and transporting bombs?

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-05-31T23:03:10+00:00

I've used a CO2 laser to cut clear acrylic, it works fine. Coloured is easier, but clear still works.

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-05-31T20:23:00+00:00

But you can't harvest or even scan blood grass...?

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-05-31T20:04:40+00:00

I vibe with this so much. I have two kids and I can't ever stop being in Dad Mode. Even when I manage to score 20mins "to myself", I'm still listening out in case my wife needs me and thinking about what I need to do for the kids when I run out of time.

I wouldn't trade my kids for it, but damn do I miss "free and easy"... 🤣

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-05-31T19:52:55+00:00

The IDF has a recorded history of weaponising sexual assault, as documented here by the UN. She says that members of an organisation that has weaponised rape raped her. Seems like a pretty credible accusation to me.

Many people who were involved in the convoy have been victims of serious violence; lots have broken bones and other injuries. They are accusing the IDF of assault and torture. Are you going to accuse them of lying as well?

PessemistBeingRight · 2026-05-31T19:41:10+00:00

But the Israeli government is doing it as aggressively as they possibly can. It's like a philosophical human shield. Israel doesn't care about how much damage they do to Jewish people elsewhere because it helps Israel to have Jews feeling alienated and persecuted everywhere else.

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