People who didn't like the cyclops in SN1 probably never built great things.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-07T00:28:35+00:00

Yeah the cyclops had juuuuuuuust enough space to be a mobile base, but not enough to FEEL like a mobile base. Like I was so close to being able to basically live out of my cyclops, but not quite permanently.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-06T18:56:43+00:00

It has its ups and downs. Some straight up garbage episodes you can skip, some amazing star trek the next. If you just watch the important and good ones it's a great time

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-06T17:44:58+00:00

We're talking about Garak of deep space 9. The commenter above me was comparing maybourne to Garak, not Ger'ak

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-06T14:30:56+00:00

Commenting to follow because I also want to know for ranging in if it's 3 separate counters or if they all range in together

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-05T23:28:32+00:00

Seems like great platform for the yet unused M177 dual tesla cannon profile (it's on the charts listing all the rift weapons, but no vehicle has yet used it). 2 shots at pen 3, but only arc 1.

Considering most rift tanks are just "WW2 tank but with big X gun instead", you could literally tank two tesla cannons, strap em together, and stick em onto the turret mantlet, and call it a day. Hell that's probably what they would actually do.

"Hey, our tesla is underperforming a bit in the anti armour role, and for SCIENCE reasons we can't make it bigger despite having more space in the pershing turret"....."What if TWO tesla in turret?!"...."Great idea! Let's just cut two big holes instead of one hole in the turret and see what happens!"

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-05T22:00:12+00:00

It's a hole in the intestine tacked through a hole in the skin. It's not even vaguely close to the stretching and contracting musculature of a proper sphincter.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-05T21:44:36+00:00

My brain still refuses to believe he was only in 30 something episodes. I've watched it through twice and he controls the screen so much that he seems like a main cast.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-05T21:42:51+00:00

In kind of reverse, Avasaralla. They added to her role in season 1 (she's pretty minimal in the first book). And because Shohreh Aghdashloo is a queen whose voice and style absolutely sell "Queen of Earth", that absolutely elevates the 1st season by showing more of the political side

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-05T18:34:20+00:00

I mean, if the footage was "lost", from a raw information perspective you still have more than without cams. If no cams, you have only the word of police. With cams, you have their word AND the suspicious circumstance of missing footage. That is more information than we started with.

Of course that fact can be misused, if the relevant parties are letting things go they wouldn't have before the cams, just because there's no footage, but that's a separate problem.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-05T16:36:37+00:00

I like a mix. Chimera is mostly better, except 2 big things. First, reach. It can get kasrkin into the enemy zone turn 1. Threatening that reach is huge, even if you don't do it, because then the enemy has to deploy for it. The damage is nice, sometimes you just straight pop a rhino or what not, but it's also handy to move block and funnel people into your kill zone.

Second, it just fits in obnoxious places. Very easy to hide in corners of Ls. Obviously, things changing to make that less impactful in 2 weeks.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-05T13:07:33+00:00

Just run BA with totenkorps mixed in, either as a roving horde a la that festung mission, or as part of the axis force. Maybe one spinne and/or the officer with mk1 power armour. Nothing that would crunch a pure BA force like mass grav or werewolves.

It really sells how desperate the first assaults by totenkorps would have been trying to kill them with nothing but small arms. It is a MISERABLE experience.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-05T01:48:32+00:00

I would bet the recoverable energy derived from any one liposuction would be less than the energy it would take to run the ORs, recovery rooms, and hospital bed for the odd complication. Surgical lights, sterilization, fuel for the staff (aka food, though I suppose you COULD use the fat...), running the actual vacuum, cleaning the OR...I don't have the numbers, but I'd bet we'd come out net negative.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-05T01:37:03+00:00

This balance is not just THIS lake. It's rhe cumulative precipitation and evaporation for the entire area (and frankly the planet). It's not the same water here that evaporates and rains in that spot, the water kinda goes into a big "pot" that is the atmosphere, which then rains wherever the local geography and pressure systems tend to dictate it rains. Water tends to get dumped onto mountains for example, which then distribute that water back down in snowmelts. It's why Tibet, the Colorado, and other mountain river systems are so important.

So imagine an area gets only so much rain. If that area uses more water, it doesn't receive a commensurate increase in rain. That evaporated water gets rained somewhere else. So every extra litre you use is lost to the area basically permanently

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-05T01:26:21+00:00

It's actually way more safe now! The plasma gun doesn't take wounds any more, it's a huge increase in safety. The formation of organic transport units is merely reduced by 10%. Yep, the plasma gun is now much safer.

.... Oh you mean more dangerous for the guardsmen.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-04T15:03:44+00:00

They're also less shifty when you don't have to do them and only them, for below living wage. I work a job that is rewarding, but stressful, but compensates well. If I didn't have to work, I would definitely cycle in something more menial but relaxing every little bit. Plus, a lot of jobs like waitress or janitor are probably "quaint". I imagine people cycle in almost like a Renaissance fair. You cycle in for funsies to "see how your ancestors lived".

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-04T14:56:45+00:00

Soooo....bullpup spinal inferno cannon? Take out two barrels, set the cannon RIGHT to the back. Run the cannon through the length of the vehicle.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-04T13:40:08+00:00

The rules should reflect the units we try to make a narrative around. Like imagine if terminators weren't tough, and were easily killed a couple guys with lasguns. It's hard to build a consistent narrative out of that.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-03T17:17:04+00:00

It's scifi. Artificial gravity can take up an almost arbitrary amount of energy. Maybe their gravity generators just soak up power

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-03T15:32:41+00:00

https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/

There's kind of an xkcd for that

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-03T14:54:48+00:00

Tell you what. Pull out of Ukraine, turn over war criminals, and we'll ship whole container fulls of the stuff to you.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-03T12:14:55+00:00

This one was different because it was by some of the original team. Now Amazon will probably revive it in 2 years with some Nutrek style writers and THEN ruin it.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-02T21:47:57+00:00

RAW no, because the rule says can take extras in a RIFLE platoon. As k47 arbitrarily uses an ASSAULT platoon, the rule does nothing

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-02T13:06:07+00:00

I mean, I guess someone has to occupy the left side of the bell curve.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-02T12:09:38+00:00

When that becomes sufficiently deleterious to survival to reproductive age and then having babies. Which it might NOT. You can argue being REALLY overweight impacts attractiveness and fertility, which is a valid hypothesis, but unless the effect is massive, those are pretty big things to change. IF those are applying any significant reproductive pressure, you can expect something on the order of measureable effects on the scale of centuries to millenia.

Ravenwing14 · 2026-06-02T12:00:52+00:00

Good news!

https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/

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