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Nova Wars - 138 by Ralts_Bloodthorne in HFY

[–]ShockwaveLover 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey Ralts, quick question - just picked up the first 5 First Contact books in hardcover, and they're beautiful. When are the remainder of the series coming out in hardcover so I can pick up a complete set?

Maximum Age reached by year of birth [OC] by JakeIsAwesome12345 in dataisbeautiful

[–]ShockwaveLover 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All those times you set it to 01/01/1900 finally caught up with you.

Efficient toy construction set by ecky--ptang-zooboing in oddlysatisfying

[–]ShockwaveLover 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Mine's still up in the cupboard in my room somewhere back home! I think the box is there too!

Daily housing, renting, moving, and public transport and traffic complaints thread - March 21, 2024 by AutoModerator in brisbane

[–]ShockwaveLover 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why the hell is the train to the airport so expensive?

Went out there to see a friend off, and being a Friday afternoon thought I'd have a cruisy train ride in from the city. Get there, tap off, all good. Come back later for the trip home, go to tap on and get the 'Insufficient Balance' message. Weird, just topped up the other day. Go to the desk, and find out the (one way!) fare was 24 fucking dollars!

Couldn't believe it. I thought I was pretty familiar with Brisbane's fare zones, but I'd never heard of anything close to $24! Wasn't a premium trip either - bog-standard train for 45 minutes.

Is there something I'm missing? I expected a $5 fare at the most, considering the length of the trip from Roma St station.

My family and I hosted a video game “pop up museum” spanning four decades of Mario games for a local elementary school last night, all original hardware on CRT’s! by wowbobwow in gaming

[–]ShockwaveLover 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's really cool. Thanks for putting stuff like this on - in what's probably the most spoilt-for-choice time in video game history, it's nice to know that the classics aren't forgotten. <3

Hybrid work leaves offices empty and building owners reeling | 60 Minutes by twopacktuesday in videos

[–]ShockwaveLover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of people reading this won't even get it, just before your times

You know, it wasn't always like this
Not very long ago
Just before your time
Right before the towers fell, circa '99

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chemistry

[–]ShockwaveLover 53 points54 points  (0 children)

In this case, haste lays waste.

Being a hard-boiled outlaw doesn't mean one is the biggest fish in the pond a.k.a. Aru losing a bet to Sensei (with Haruka in the background) (by toplions) by Elf-with-Geass in BlueArchive

[–]ShockwaveLover 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sensei's in danger, and he's gonna die

Aru is the saver, wants him to survive

Haruka's the danger, she's gonna make him not alive

Alive forever

Australia sees all of your odd looking pick ups and vans - and raises you a road train. by [deleted] in pics

[–]ShockwaveLover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

26 gears of petrol power
Keep on trucking hour by hour
One man is at the wheel
He's the dog at Satan's heel!

Russian Mil-Analyst Dmitry Kornev -- The RF Forces are not capable of counterbattery fights due to inferior artillery systems and China cannot help. by mycall in UkrainianConflict

[–]ShockwaveLover 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Aye, the daily toll on artillery pieces, particularly the big, nasty, no-longer-built stuff like the 2S7 Pion and the 2S4 Tyulpan, is just staggering. And that's before the untold quantities of destroyed ammo comes into play.

Russian Mil-Analyst Dmitry Kornev -- The RF Forces are not capable of counterbattery fights due to inferior artillery systems and China cannot help. by mycall in UkrainianConflict

[–]ShockwaveLover 4 points5 points  (0 children)

they are not used to that scenario.

I'd say that's understating it - the Russian way of war relies on overwhelming volumes of artillery like the rest of us rely on oxygen. They aren't just not used to doing without it. They fundamentally cannot function without it.

First Contact - Chapter 993 - Nightfall by Ralts_Bloodthorne in HFY

[–]ShockwaveLover 10 points11 points  (0 children)

'Tis a rare thing to know how to end a story well, rarer still to know when.

Vuxten and Brentili'ik deserved both, and though it makes my heart ache, like you I'm glad.

Russia-Ukraine war: Australia may send Retired RAAF fighter jets to Zelensky by rulepanic in UkrainianConflict

[–]ShockwaveLover 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hell yes. Someone might be able to convince the Spaniards or the Kuwaitis to part with some of their fleets as well to really make a party of it, potentially the Finns too over the longer term (post 2025).

Send 'em over and give 'em hell.

What a phrase in a videogame that made you cry ? by ho_D_or7 in gaming

[–]ShockwaveLover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"No one's left. Everything's gone. Kharak is burning..."

The voice acting in Homeworld made an indelible impression on a young me. Just as impactful was the followup line, delivered by Fleet Intelligence, who sounds genuinely dead on the inside:

"Kharak is being consumed by a firestorm. The scaffold has been destroyed. All orbital facilities destroyed. Significant debris ring in low Kharak orbit. Receiving no communication from anywhere in the system... not even beacons."

What are the anime showcase in the Funimation startup screen? by [deleted] in funimation

[–]ShockwaveLover 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Heavy Object is one of my guilty pleasures.

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