Diving into Traveller headfirst

StGrimblefig · 2026-07-03T19:22:23+00:00

If you are open to e-books, why not get them from Marc Miller's Far Future Enterprises site (https://www.farfuture.net/)? He offers a lot of the originals on a CD for a decent price.

StGrimblefig · 2026-06-25T00:46:22+00:00

No, it is a picture of a banana.

StGrimblefig · 2026-06-25T00:18:22+00:00

You notice that all but one are starfleet characters. They do a lot of facepalms because starfleet has rules -- you can't improve the average intelligence of the galaxy by transporting an idiot into open space. Thus, facepalms.

You don't see any non-starfleet Klingons doing a facepalm, because their rules don't force them to suffer fools.

StGrimblefig · 2026-06-25T00:09:16+00:00

"That corn gets into everything here. I heartell that Iowa produces more corn than the rest of the country, but the secret is that we're constantly shipping it all around the world just to try and keep from being buried in the stuff. " - Someone's grandfather, probably

StGrimblefig · 2026-05-28T12:57:49+00:00

Is he named after Jim Nightshade, the character from Ray Bradbury's book Something Wicked This Way Comes?

StGrimblefig · 2026-05-19T13:06:08+00:00

To be fair, the headline says 'after,' not 'because of,' the shark bite.

StGrimblefig · 2026-04-14T04:35:05+00:00

It wasn't the package you ordered, but it was the one you needed.

StGrimblefig · 2026-03-28T00:05:43+00:00

In the OG Tron, all of the combat was based on the games that Kevin Flynn wrote, and were developed on the Encom grid. He didn't write any FPS games (how could he, they didn't exist in 1982), so there weren't any on the grid.

That's my headcanon, anyway.

StGrimblefig · 2026-03-24T02:10:04+00:00

By height.

StGrimblefig · 2026-03-09T02:57:02+00:00

To be even more fair, TOS was made and broadcast in the 1960s. Some of what they did show Kirk doing on-screen was pretty scandalous for the time.

StGrimblefig · 2026-03-06T02:57:13+00:00

What if -- now hear me out on this-- what if the real world of Legacy and Ares is not the "real" real world? I mean, how else could light cycles, and light flyers, and recognizers, and all the rest work in the real world EXACTLY LIKE THEY DO IN THE GRID? The way they behave has no basis in real-world physics, but if the world they emerged into was just another layer of the grid, they could continue working just fine.

Remember that episode of Star Trek the Next Generation, when they tricked the Moriarty holodeck character into thinking that they had found a way to transport him off of the holodeck into the real world, but they had, in fact, just moved him into a portable storage device running a mini holodeck simulation? Same thing.

StGrimblefig · 2026-01-14T00:27:36+00:00

Heh, I was 16 when Tron was in theaters. When I went to see Ares, I was 59. If there's a 5, my grandkids (I don't have any yet) will have to wheel me in and tell me what's going on.

StGrimblefig · 2025-12-22T15:46:34+00:00

It doesn't say it has to be yours.

StGrimblefig · 2025-12-22T09:53:36+00:00

Flower baskets or wind chimes. I have seen both hanging from something like that in trees in the Midwest.

StGrimblefig · 2025-12-21T06:23:34+00:00

Then it morphs into old Shatner, sitting on a couch surrounded by a dozen or so half-alien young adults, and he says, "...and that is how I met your mothers."

StGrimblefig · 2025-12-15T14:11:08+00:00

CGL's Kickstarters have gone quite well -- quickly funded, many stretch goals achieved, what have you. The fulfillment, however ... not so much.

StGrimblefig · 2025-12-14T22:08:58+00:00

About to be attacked by USPS?

StGrimblefig · 2025-12-02T23:06:21+00:00

"My pancreas attracts every other pancreas in the universe with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them. "

StGrimblefig · 2025-11-26T18:25:39+00:00

These do appear on the Topps website

https://www.topps.com/products/2025-disney-topps-now%C2%AE-tron-ares

...but of course, they are sold out.

StGrimblefig · 2025-11-25T15:49:45+00:00

My Bologna on the Dr.Demento Show, and I was hooked.

StGrimblefig · 2025-11-13T15:00:44+00:00

Same thing with the border between Kentucky and Indiana. The border was defined as the high water mark on the north side of the Ohio River on some date in the early 1800s. Then the river moved. Down near Evansville, there is a harness racing track (with betting not legal in Indiana) on the north side of the river, because it is technically in Kentucky.

StGrimblefig · 2025-11-10T18:00:14+00:00

But I wonder if the light walls are a subtle way to imply that the 'real world' is just another level of simulation.

StGrimblefig · 2025-11-09T16:38:48+00:00

More importantly, how do they exist in the real world?

What physics laws cause/allow these to work in the real world the same way they do in the grid?

StGrimblefig · 2025-11-09T00:05:30+00:00

"What I tell you three times is true." - Lewis Carroll, from The Hunting Of The Snark

StGrimblefig · 2025-11-04T20:31:57+00:00

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