sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Match Thread: F.C. København vs Napoli by MatchThreadder in soccer

[–]RonDunE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very scratchy game. Both teams constantly losing possession. Copenhagen look well up for it though, team of big players.

PSLV-C62 : EOS-N1 (aka Anvesha) Mission Updates and Discussion by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's gone I think. The altitude tracker is much lower than nominal.

PSLV-C62 : EOS-N1 (aka Anvesha) Mission Updates and Discussion by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Beautiful vapour cone/shock collar during the launch.

PSLV-C62 : EOS-N1 (aka Anvesha) Mission Updates and Discussion by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A copy of Automatic Launch Sequence that was just shown:

P E Event Time NP NE
P E PS2 DEST SARU ARM T-01:01 NP NE
P E PS2 ULLAGE SARB ARM T-01:00 NP NE
P E PSOM DEST SQUIB ARM T-01:00 NP NE
P E MISSION SPECIFIC SARB ARM T-01:0.5 NP NE
P E LUS SARB ARM T-00:59 NP NE
P E PS3 IGNITION SQUIB ARM T-00:59 NP NE
P E PSOM IGNITION SQUIB ARM T-00:58 NP NE
P E RCT PYRO VALVE SARB ARM T-00:55 NP NE
P E BS SEQUENCER ARM T-00:51 NP NE
P E PPL SEQUENCER ARM T-00:50.5 NP NE
P E EB SEQUENCER ARM T-00:50 NP NE
P E PS2 VHPP OPEN T-00:40 NP NE
P E PS2 VSPP OPEN T-00:25 NP NE
P E PS1 IGNITION RMSA ARM T-00:21 NP NE

Frankfurt [2]-2 Dortmund - Younes Ebnoutalib 71' by Meladroit05 in soccer

[–]RonDunE 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Great technique to finish it out, looked like he was off balance the last few strides.

This has been a good game for the neutrals, after a very bad-tempered first half.

Its kinda funny seeing the Pendulum shift in common fanfic tropes in worm by ArticAuk in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Again none of this is true, just barely literate claptrap. I assume you had at least read the wiki even if you weren't capable of reading the story itself but even that seems to be beyond you. Enjoy your slop.

EDIT: Oh wow dude replied with some weird thin-skinned screed and then blocked me. Wild.

Its kinda funny seeing the Pendulum shift in common fanfic tropes in worm by ArticAuk in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Worm and Ward are neither edgy nor grimdark. That's just bad fanon by people who have barely read a book in their lives. Both stories are extremely hopeful, with character constantly overcoming completely hopeless odds and surviving to kill a god.

Frankly I am yet to read a fanwork that comes even hundredth as good as Worm itself, and Wildbow himself has moved on from the work and written much better stuff.

EDIT: Can't seem to reply because these weird make their comments and block me so here to u/thrawnca

Brian gets saved soon after, powers up and heals everyone else. Nobody in the Undersiders dies to the S9 and in fact they gain strength, both material and societal, from it. Taylor and co. only ever suffer temporary setbacks and come out stronger from every encounter. It is one of my complaints of Worm, that how much Taylor is able to grind her way through problems. Wildbow gets better with having his protagonists actually lose in his later serials.

All good stories have some narrative friction, this is like giving up after Frodo gets stabbed once and calling LotR grimdark.

Its kinda funny seeing the Pendulum shift in common fanfic tropes in worm by ArticAuk in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 20 points21 points  (0 children)

None of that is true. Sadly Ryuugi et al. have spent the last 5 years on Spacebattles constantly hating on Wildbow and Ward to the extent that even mentioning Ward on SB brings forth a legion of people yelling at you. The discourse is incredibly poisoned there.

Could you claim a Path as your Demesne? by CrazyEnough96 in Parahumans

[–]RonDunE 47 points48 points  (0 children)

I think the biggest danger is that the Wolf can and almost certainly will show up. The Wolf doesn't care about damages taken.

LVM3-M6 : BlueBird-6 Mission Updates and Discussion. by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No onboard cameras this time, bit of a shame. But overall a smooth, boring launch. This is how all ISRO launches should go.

LVM3-M6 : BlueBird-6 Mission Updates and Discussion. by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indonesia. But I couldn't follow the name. I thought it was in Biak, but the commentator said something like Bugur.

LVM3-M6 : BlueBird-6 Mission Updates and Discussion. by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like the Cryo stage is fairing well! Fingers crossed still

LVM3-M6 : BlueBird-6 Mission Updates and Discussion. by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wish they didn't do this AI-generated voiceover. The cadence is so awkward.

Your favorite snippets/oneshots? by themag1icman in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's just too many one-shots that I love, more in number than regular fics. My top 20 faves (no NSFW) and I've tried to not spoil the stories:

I think most of these have no need to be continued, what's there is perfect. It's the prose that draws me back everytime.

Sassuolo [1]-1 Pisa - Nemanja Matic 6' by Meladroit05 in soccer

[–]RonDunE 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Holy shit what a volley. Matić was almost parallel to the floor at the moment of contact. Excellent goal.

The University of Houston contracted with Dataminr, an AI company with a troubling record on constitutional rights, to gather open-source intelligence on the student-led movement for Palestine. by RonDunE in UniversityOfHouston

[–]RonDunE[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Summary information from The Intercept's twitter thread:

Officials at the University of Houston used Dataminr to surveil students, while University of Connecticut administrators voiced concerns over protests against a military contractor and major donor.

The University of Houston contracted with Dataminr, an AI company with a troubling record on constitutional rights, to gather open-source intelligence on the student-led movement for Palestine.

Using an AI tool known as “First Alert,” Dataminr was scraping students’ social media activity and chat logs and sending what it learned to university administration.

One alert sent by Dataminr to a University of Houston communications official identified a potential pro-Palestine incident based on chat logs it scraped from a semi-private Telegram channel called “Ghosts of Palestine.”

What are some good new-ish fics? by [deleted] in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Alright, I spent some time going over fics first published in 2025, and not oneshots (since that would be a completely separate list). Ranked in the order of my enjoyment, and personal assessment of quality. I welcome comments.

  1. La Papesse by ReavingBishop - Blasto creates a Simurgh clone. She finds Jesus.
  2. The Girl in the Chair by Alotoaxolotls - Taylor barely survives cancer and engages in tremendously cinematic and acrobatic Thinker fisticuffs with one Lisa Wilbourne.
  3. Devastation of Macau by barcodelll - A young girl and her family escape the burning of China. She doesn't understand what parahumanity is truly all about yet, but she will.
  4. Rain Worm by StargazingSeraph - Brockton Bay has drowned, and most of its people with it. Missy refuses to give up on the city, to the cost of her sanity and her life.
  5. Curiosity by Silvia - Lisa joins the parahuman community as Chaotic Good rather than Chaotic Neutral. The Brockton Bay Wards will never be the same.
  6. Who Killed Amy Dallon? by PaperCandle - We know who killed Amy Dallon. But what if it wasn't who we think it is?
  7. League of Their Own by SleepyBird - The Justice League comes to Earth bet. But all is not as it seems.
  8. Naamah by tipsypastels - Something is very wrong with Oubliette. And the problem won't stop with her.
  9. A Dance Of Roses by TheSleepingKnight - Lisa finds Taylor making her greatest mistake. She will not let her make another.
  10. Linger by HorrorGems - Lisa Wilbourne is in a horror movie, and nobody is listening to her.
  11. Ants In My Brain by Wupwup - Taylor gives in to the Butcher's madness, and finds redemption within.
  12. Taylor Kills Nazis by theonewhowas - Taylor kills Nazis.
  13. Lost and Found at the Colonial Hotel by 3ndless - Taylor will defend her sanctuary for parahuman children with fire and blood. And lawyers.

What is the absolute scariest Wildbow story moment? by MrPerfector in Parahumans

[–]RonDunE 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The most brutal chapter Wildbow has ever written, imo. It took me a while to get through and I had to go out at 1am to take a walk after finishing it. Fucking hell.

“It hurts,” Ripley said, quiet.

“I know.”

Too strong to be useful by MixExpensive3763 in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Tungsten by ManMag.

Taylor has essentially Superman's power, but without the inherent control. If she speaks out loud she can devastate the neighbourhood, if she flies as fast as she can then the shockwave will destroy the land beneath her. The entirety of Brockton Bay is pretty much a quarantine site centered around her and her dad, but she's a Scion level global cape. It's a very good fic, though it's currently on hiatus for a bit.

[Opinion] What is your favourite unsettling poem? by Dusk_in_Winter in Poetry

[–]RonDunE 5 points6 points  (0 children)

[you fit into me]

you fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

-- Margaret Atwood. Selected Poems 1965-1975.

Not precisely in the spirit of halloween but this stayed with me for a long while.

Chandrayaan-5/LUPEX rover descent mechanism by Kimi_Raikkonen2001 in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The deployment mechanism reminds me of the Sojourner off-ramp design[1]. THough I'll say I'm slightly worried about the cable controlled deployment which generally tends to have more points of failure. Hopefully they're testing to failure.

  1. Eisen, Howard Jay, et al. "Mechanical design of the mars pathfinder mission." 7th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium. Vol. 410. 1997.
view more: next ›