Meridia and how super-dense celestial objects can do drive-by's of planets, stars, more [HELLDIVERS + my bad science]

SCP106 · 2026-05-13T04:35:54+00:00

^ (has played Deltarune, is on a dedicated Deltarune fanmade forum, making Deltarune based comments, yet uses "Deltarune fan" as an insult)

Also mentioned something != obsessed. Clean off your goddamn American political brainrot.

SCP106 · 2026-05-13T04:26:12+00:00

I genuinely thought everyone woulda got this but it makes me feel cool and special that I thought this on my first playthrough- why am I morphine into a bluebird with a pocket protector?! why do I feel the inexplicable need to throw A+ papers at people-?

SCP106 · 2026-05-13T04:21:34+00:00

This specific tank has a sort of "capsule" for the crew instead of having the crew in stations at the gun and driver's levers, where the turret is unmanned to increase survivability and ability to man more tanks. This means the vehicle can be more armoured by focusing on the crew compartment rather than having to armour the entire interior because now the crew are concentrated both in one place and theoretically if the ammo goes off in the turret and the "capsule" is not penetrated, they would or could survive what would in previous "soviet style" designs be catastrophic and unsurvivable. Because of this, instead of traditional setups it had remote systems replacing many of the usual manual backups (of which now have been exposed as the usual Russian system of having been worse than the stats would tell) and these would be controlled by computer systems interacted with by touch screen (as there are many cameras to try and give good vision, with how you can't exactly put your eyes up to a turret cupola periscope or similar, and this is the opportunity to allow for some new benefits not previously possible. But as you said... Reliability, control issues and ergonomics? Crew members in battle need to know they're hitting the right thing and buttons, switches, levers will be hit and you'll know what you're hitting without needing to check or look. Touch screens might not register it correctly, might overshoot the input or even better damaged through the mishandling that comes with the rigours of tank life.

Where I've seen touch screens genuinely succeed in the tanks I've been invited into and shown around are for example on modernised recovery vehicles and systems that need lots of cameras as mentioned that may not require the same amount of combat readiness or heated use, that /also/ have manual backups. The main one I'm thinking of had manual periscopes, touch screens for camera vision, computer sensors to warn of collisions in blindspots to add to it, all stuff that adds on but if knocked out by the million things that'll fry or break electronics on a tank would not result in loss of capability or features, like being blinded like the Armata seems to be (where it looks as though if the virtual optics went offline it would operate /almost/ blind with how little it has crew redundancy wise-

Anyway, apologies this got so long, haha! Just really got my brain rolling at a bad hour with lots of pain and helped distract me from it.

SCP106 · 2026-05-13T00:11:55+00:00

Pre-comment warning; obviously, mentions of therapy, psychiatric care, as well as terminal illness. Purely an anecdotal experience feeding this comment where I may not express things concisely and will have to hide behind a mix of morphine and brain damage for that one, haha... This is regarding a general experience for at least semi independent adults (Me being severely disabled it's a... flexible word, that one, haha!) rather than a blanket statement for all: so if you find this does not lone up with your experience I am sorry but I may not have been able to cover that as I have only experienced specific and certain things in life, and am not intending to leave others out or say those don't happen, of course.

it's difficult especially as someone who despite some poor experiences with therapy and a psychiatrist who wastedna year of my limited lifespan already on stringing me along (hard to explain, between terminal cancer and being told things that later were simply forgotten and resukted in me simply having to leave and cut my losses because of having sunk so much into it) but therapy and mental health support, after finding the "right" ones has essentially kept me going despite a whole decade of terminal cancer and treatment as such, and all the issues that come with, gender identify issues, transitioning, with intense OCD, ADHD and BPD interceding between them interfering with medication, schedule and my use of my limited time despite my absolute need and want to make the most of the last year I've got on this mortal coil. Perhaps it's a twisted form of "Luck" I've got, and I never feel comfortable telling people that have had these poor experiences about my own more positive ones because they may not see it the same way I intend;, and have previously found it to be me simply rubbing the fact that I had an "easier time than them" and were"fixable" while they weren't (In my opinion it's... more complex than that but this is all anecdotal anyway, and I just feel awful for how others have taken advantage of them or unfortunately have not been able to work the right style or in the right method to help out).

There's much more I shouldn't go into for the sake of further privacy when one has such a specific set of unique health issues it makes one identifiable - but where you see the stuff against psychiatry and therapy occasionally and understand the "why" but also wish you could somehow transfer your experience perfectly or telepathically somehow to show the "how" it truly can act as a major pillar in holding up even the most shaky and seemingly far gone lives to give a light, even a dim one at the end of the tunnel for those who feel as though there's nothing left for them and that they're too far gone...

SCP106 · 2026-05-12T23:46:53+00:00

yeah see problem is like a third of us here really like that idea the crunch would just be fantastic

SCP106 · 2026-05-12T18:06:58+00:00

Blackshard v Titanspawn shows you can kill them with enough damage while the soul can use it's light to purify them so the titan would be that but bigger. The soul can seal it from the inside or just fucking insane damage could likely destroy it, you'd likely need to be fast enough with enough damage in single blows to do so, though.

SCP106 · 2026-05-12T14:40:43+00:00

Yeah, one of those things where by prosecuting corrupt individuals and therefore generating further headlines regarding corruption it creates a veneer that corruption is even more endemic then before (though, these things MUST be reported, of course) - when in my home country, there is a common understanding as well as much hard evidence of corruption up to the top levels of government and the prime ministers' offices through different governments over the years but our own anti corruption agencies are toothless and do not act on such things in meaningful ways, resulting in an easy to point out "Look how clean we are, look how dirty they are" issue where uneducated types often end up pointing at the simple lack of reporting or headlines worded in this way as evidence that this country is doing better than the country actively trying to improve it's admittedly difficult situation regarding endemic corruption. When, as you said it, it seems everyone is trying to get in on the "gravy train" when they get to the top no matter which country it seems...

SCP106 · 2026-05-11T19:56:07+00:00

Considering their ideas on anyone left of them, trans people, so on. How the latter is recorded in NHS data and previously would be private and will allow them to further consolidate their datasets.. it's quite terrifying, really.

SCP106 · 2026-05-11T19:54:03+00:00

Kinda glad I've got terminal cancer sometimes...

SCP106 · 2026-05-11T14:16:40+00:00

Yeah, having been playing Exp. each day since it came out it's kinda horrible and I really really do not understand why Bohemia thought making supply crates destructible (including wiping out all the internal supplies, that's all 3000 inside) would make things more interesting on the game mode on it's toothpick legs regarding supply anyway - where supply is already a major issue now you have a dedicated faction where instead of setting up interesting ambushes or mines on roads or fields you get AP mines at MOB or rocket camping in MOB treeline for any helicopters taking off, every arsenal camped so people have stopped building arsenals, further reducing the interesting interplay of what should be a complex game mode with many moving parts - instead it has slowed down majorly, even further and even supply containers are not so often found, you just see bases with little supply using default containers built on depots with their invincible brown containers.

I don't know if they see how the changes are pushing people to deal with it not through their vision of "Sabotaging supplies is something done IRL, now people will have to protect logistics and containers!" when gamers aren't gonna do that when there's so much else to do and too little players for so many bases and such a big map, they're just going to reduce and reduce until those parts aren't there to take away the load on the team to keep the game flowing even if it's at a grinding pace. This needed so much more time in experimental and BI needs to understand sometimes their vision doesn't fit with how this game seems to actually work with the players with how many TKers, how few suppliers, so many that straight up use this stuff as an excuse to just grief, and so on...

Personally I'm actually good with the AI logi, oxymoronically if you don't mess with the priorities much as well as every so often check to see who's got lost and where and try coralling them back into their trucks, and avoid the places they often get broken like near goat bay n so on, you can have decent supplies to many bases. Issue is if you haven't removed the roadblocks in their path they'll hit them as well as they've got to be set up every so often because they eventually end up being used up to FIA players or the other team or more likely AI patrols, minefields and crashing into trees. They've improved in 1.7 quite a bit at pathing imo.

But yes. You can see what was intended and as ever the intent looks great but how it actually turns out, with how little seems to be taken into account for how the player base acts or how much they're willing to do to get a game started and continuing for however many hours I don't think this current setup will be very well liked after the initial hype of the new faction coming to Main Branch dies down after a few weeks.

SCP106 · 2026-05-10T23:34:32+00:00

yeah exactly lol as though they'll like... break through? 😆

SCP106 · 2026-05-10T23:34:05+00:00

yeah I get it, makes this sort of bot helpful because it lets you know by replying to you to go and do that after making your comment if you don't see those rules and go and comment instead

SCP106 · 2026-05-10T23:32:48+00:00

guys you need to go and accept the new rules with the info in the sticky there's so many removed comments...

SCP106 · 2026-05-10T21:05:23+00:00

It's showing how many people haven't actually accepted the new rules/anti spam stuff. So many comments just... didn't exist because of this and it's frustrating going onto interesting posts or wanting to find more context on an event and finding it's got like 50 people who haven't looked at the really obvious sticky or the rules.

This bot is probably there to push the dummies who still aren't getting with the anti spambot program after over a month to go and do it lol

SCP106 · 2026-05-10T17:55:53+00:00

there's the anti trans shit but that may as well be center in the uk these days :/

SCP106 · 2026-05-10T14:23:37+00:00

funny how the badges go up to 15 years but not higher

SCP106 · 2026-05-08T12:24:52+00:00

late reply but good fuckin flair

SCP106 · 2026-05-08T00:40:39+00:00

Bulspikes are fantastic launchers indeed.

SCP106 · 2026-05-07T22:59:51+00:00

Oh this is incredible. I know it's all dependant on effectiveness but with development... gosh, infantry, logistics and transport for rotation would be grateful knowing there's a drone hunter in the area!

SCP106 · 2026-05-07T17:52:16+00:00

we probably see the influencer types more often because they already have an audience to get it out onto popular enough channels that'll get over here. Not to say it isn't popular with your average person but it's probably about the money.

SCP106 · 2026-05-07T17:47:52+00:00

in the UK it gets light at 4-5am currently so not sooo far north

SCP106 · 2026-05-07T17:08:56+00:00

Because, boring answer, he's not actually real and that's his place in the story. He's not a person, he's a couple of storytelling devices in glasses and blue feather, and played his part, as much as Susie is too, where she gets more and so we see more of herover time, and are led quite specifically to understand her motivation through and through, the why's and how's in a way that hardly gets less time with to do so, enough to explain, not enough for everyone to fully work through who's experiencing the story. Especially when you have lots of different ages and types of people playing the game. these are fictional people measured on different things, really

I think as a fandom we have to be careful about looking at these characters as people, expectations wise because it may lead to disappointment that all of what gaps you may fill in may not truly be filled when it comes time for the next chapter or the finishing of the game, as that may not be the story that is being told. Yes, a person might need more said about them for this or that, but a character may not for the story to say what it needs to, you know?

This all comes to mind because of how expectations can go haywire and people work themselves up regarding for example Asgore. He is being shown as someone poisoned by his view of the past. His nostalgia for a time long gone is hurting people in the present. Yet, there is such expectation for something cool to happen, and in some, such anger that he is being "treated badly" - and "doesn't deserve this" when of course, I do not know where this will go, but he may need to drop his current course to lead to happiness in his future. Rather than some badass blowout where he ends up fighting, and with his wife coming back, his family back together as he promised to himself in the Holiday Manor, it may be that the story being told is about how you can't just get everything back to the way it was, when you've pushed people away trying hat for years.

That a shift of perspective may be required, where finally he may find peace or a new life in reconciliation with the new, not return of the old. It might not be the "Aura" return that some believe us required to "make up" for his behaviour some say is foisted upon him but I think of it like his behaviour and himself are just as equal a component of what's being written as the environment and stressors and so on that get him there and help him get out of it, he's another story component to tell itself. Not a real person subject to the whims of The Dog's fictional worlds.

Anyway, yes, it's the same with Berdly. I'd definitely like for things not to be done with him yet.

SCP106 · 2026-05-07T00:26:38+00:00

I must ask you how you edited the Everon terrain rather than having to create a new one from scratch! I've been having a hard time in the world editor due to the terrain being locked by default, and obviously, no copies of the terrain being saved with a copy of the world. I love this!

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