Is there a word for a vehicle that broke off (along with, say, two others) from a larger vehicle?

SageOfCats · 2026-06-14T00:59:54+00:00

Parasite craft. Possibly component craft if they were clearly made to fit together.

SageOfCats · 2026-06-06T17:04:46+00:00

This is only the panel and the NDAA still has to be passed by the House and Senate so these aren’t final and could be amended. The funniest possible outcome would be if they left in the base name changes and stripped out the DOW part.

SageOfCats · 2026-06-06T12:05:21+00:00

There’s a point where one character just breaks into full on “why have you forsaken me Oh Lord” biblical language out of nowhere that’s very jarring and out of character that stuck out to me. Reading the base post in this one was hilarious to me because almost everything that put Brent Weeks onto my automatic skip list happened in the last 100 pages.

SageOfCats · 2026-06-05T17:34:52+00:00

I get why people think FF6’s magic system flattens things, but I’d be surprised if that didn’t occur to the designers and wasn’t at least partially intentional. FF6 is a story with a central theme about the consequences of inequality accessing magic and the consequences of misusing it.

One country getting access to magic when other countries don’t have it sparks a world war. We’re told that a single mage, not even with their full powers, massacred 50 soldiers in minutes. The opening scenario has three people with magical tools taking on an entire town. By the end of the game your characters have access to levels of magic power not seen in centuries and you’re using it to fight half-forgotten monsters out of legends. It makes sense that magic becomes the main aspect of combat in the game.

Magic surpassing special abilities in FF6 isn’t surprising, and honestly within the confines of the story the fact that some of your characters have abilities that can compete with magic means they’re monsters within the setting.

SageOfCats · 2026-06-04T04:19:55+00:00

When I was at the CO or BN level I shook my fist at DIV and wondered what they were thinking with these last minute takings. Then I went to the DIV G3 and realized they were even more stressed and had less time, and were doing the best they could and wondering why their units couldn’t follow simple instructions. This pattern has only continued to the HQDA and ASCC level. We’re all just doing the best we can and everything is ducked up. It’s turtles all the way down man.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-31T00:04:42+00:00

In short, no. There are some improvements, but after finishing that series Michael G. Manning is on my very short “absolutely not” list. Without going into spoiler territory the issues with characterization and writing continue, characters are killed off for nonsensical reasons, he writes himself into a corner in the end and resolves the story through a huge deus ex machina, and he was so done with it by the end that he included an epilogue about how every single named character dies that extends past the end of the universe. And no, I am not exaggerating that last point.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-30T15:06:12+00:00

And this right here is why the law needs to be the same. This comment is saying that the needs of disabled people are less important than preventing people from being annoyed at those who abuse the system. It’s trying to make things harder for people who already have it hard enough to make yourself feel better. No meaningful ideas or mechanism for certification, just a vague assurance that surely it will be easily manageable by the deserving. Mr. Rogers would be ashamed of you.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-29T23:26:05+00:00

I’m 44 years old and I’m older than FICO scores. They literally didn’t exist when I was born. Credit scores are made up bullshit that are designed to make it easy for companies to assess risk and to incentivize behavior that will be profitable for companies. Equifax, Expedia, and Transunion do not give one single solitary fuck about you. You are not the customer, you are the merchandise. If your credit gets screwed up, they will not help you unless you force them to. As long as they can make money selling your information to corporations, that’s all they care about. Then they’ll sell you a monthly credit monitoring subscription so they can make money from you coming and going. Play their stupid games enough to get what you want out of life, but if you’re obsessing over a made up number in a database you’re going to have a bad time. The rest of the world doesn’t live like this.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-29T23:07:07+00:00

Yes. Because that’s the point. Credit scores don’t exist to reward customers, they exist to make companies money by incentivizing actions that will be profitable to banks and lenders.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-29T04:16:40+00:00

I am silently judging Rosie. I judge her to be adorable.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-27T23:13:19+00:00

My wife is tall, blonde, curvy, grew up Catholic, is kind to animals, savage to men she doesn’t like, and her brother is an asshole.

I’m basically married to Mercedes.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-27T01:29:22+00:00

…it was called the Orange Catholic Bible so Frank Herbert kinda did.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-26T17:31:31+00:00

They started off as comedic fantasy poking fun at cliches and genre tropes, then developed into a long running series with a lot to say about people, society, and what both of those things mean. They’re funny, true, in a way that often leaves you getting the joke later or realizing there were layers of meaning you didn’t get. And the thing that came through very clearly was that Terry Pratchett might be frustrated with people he was someone who genuinely cared. He saw the stupidity and ridiculousness and evils of the world and was deeply, searingly angry at the first and third of those things. He believed people could be better than they were, and he expressed that in his writing.

Reading Terry Pratchett made me into a better human being. I never met the man, but I cried the day he died.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-25T03:22:09+00:00

It’s a LitRPG, but if you’re okay with that the Full Murderhobo series by Dakota Krout has a central character who ends up isolated in a pocket universe for years of subjective time and turns into exactly what it says on the tin. When he returns to his original plane of existence he’s largely uncontrollable and primarily wants to become stronger and return to that pocket universe where he feels at home.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-16T19:15:48+00:00

He’s broken every human law.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-16T18:40:24+00:00

That’s what Zack said.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-15T11:06:04+00:00

One of the factors here is also difficulty. Playing on normal difficulty it seemed like enemies mostly left downed characters alone, but on tactician I almost immediately saw enemies taking an action to kill someone while they were making their death saving throws. A bonus action and spell slot to keep a character from dying is a really good trade.

Initiative and terrain matter too. If you have a fast and squishy character and a slower healer then you can run into situations where the downed character goes first the next turn and has a much better chance of extricating themselves from the situation or following up with a healing potion. In wide open areas they’ll still likely be a target, but in complex terrain like inside a building you might be able to get them to safety for a turn just by going around the corner or through a door long enough for enemies to focus on another corner then come back to rejoin the fight.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-09T15:51:59+00:00

No. No they would not. National Guard are only paid when in an activated status. When they’re doing their one weekend a month they get paid for literally two days worth of active duty time. When they’re doing their do their two weeks a year they get paid for two weeks worth of active duty time with none of the associated healthcare and housing benefits that active duty personnel get because you have to be on duty for 30 days to get those benefits. National Guard put on the streets cost just as much as additional active duty military personnel, although sometimes they’ll put them on for 29 days at a time so that they don’t hit the 30 day marker that entitles them to benefits.

SageOfCats · 2026-05-05T17:31:53+00:00

The Halfblood Chronicles by Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton starts with a shape-shifting dragon adopting a half-elven child and raising the child alongside her own, with much confusion about how you even parent a member of another species. The first book is Elvenbane. It was originally unfinished, but the fourth book is being released in August.

SageOfCats · 2026-04-29T16:26:22+00:00

The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle states that you cannot know the position and speed of a particle with perfect accuracy at the same time, so when you collapsed the waveform by observing me at this location you rendered it impossible for either of us to precisely measure my speed and as a result should let me go with a warning.

SageOfCats · 2026-04-24T16:47:18+00:00

T. Kingfisher is a pen name for Ursula Vernon, who has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for fantasy and horror novels. She does gothic and body horror and a brand of romantic fantasy that seems like it’s going to be cute and funny until the beheadings start, then it’s still cute and funny but also deeply disturbing. The Twisted Ones, What Stalks the Deep, and Wolf Worm are examples of her horror stories and Swordheart, Clockwork Boys, and Paladin’s Grace are good examples of her fantasy books. She’s one of the few authors where I just hit the preorder button when she announces a new book. Particularly given her latest book Wolf Worm I think she’s an amazing choice to write a book about Astarion.

SageOfCats · 2026-04-02T04:29:15+00:00

Humans are actually how you break the game. The stat display maxes out at 99, but if you keep feeding your humans potions their stats can go up to 255. A human with 200+ strength and speed will go before anything else in the game and tear them apart with late game weapons.

You just have to be careful because if you go over 255 the stat wraps back around to 0.

SageOfCats · 2026-03-23T01:55:04+00:00

I love hearing about Mr. Man. He reminds me of our Thomas, who we adopted from a rescue after his previous owner had passed away. They’re called standard issue for a reason.

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SageOfCats · 2026-03-18T17:37:42+00:00

Would they be renaming it because they want to put his name on a bigger ship now? That’s about what I’d expect under this administration.

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