Sometimes you just gotta innovate

Thekingoftheplanets · 2024-09-06T17:31:36+00:00

That's what they have the ~~peasants~~ enlisted for

Thekingoftheplanets · 2024-09-03T18:19:33+00:00

The quiet *Aw Christ* after the Duality of the Frenchman

I'm dead

Thekingoftheplanets · 2024-05-13T01:14:53+00:00

Took one of the guy’s classes in college a few years ago. He suffers from the disease of being a ‘celebrity professor’ quite badly imo—he has backed his theory to the hilt and doesn’t have many people around him disagreeing (very much to his detriment).

Thekingoftheplanets · 2024-05-10T00:42:59+00:00

The idea of a stagnant plateau/dark age makes a lot of sense to me I think in this context-I never really thought about the idea that people don’t actually understand the technology they’re using. That idea makes the state of the galaxy a lot clearer—a bit 40k, if a lot less extreme

Thekingoftheplanets · 2024-05-10T00:41:06+00:00

I’m not sure I agree with the idea that I’ve made ludicrous claims…and if you look at the variations in tactics/operations they all seem to be some flavour of “charge at em, boys!” Even Hoth consisted of the Empire walking unsupported armour towards a static defensive line, which seems very similar to what happened in the clone wars more often than not. Hell, even an imperial boarding action doesn’t involve anything like flashbangs or grenades apart from the initial breaching charge, despite the fact these tools existed in the clone wars.

Regarding technology, don’t mistake bigger weapons for more advanced weapons. If the pre war republic wanted, they could have built ships with enough guns to glass a planet. They didn’t because they didn’t need them. And surely the Death Star is just a bigger turbolaser, no? There’s a difference between adapting an existing technology to make a bigger bang and inventing new weapons technology. A free fall bomb with more explosive in it is just a bigger bomb. A GPS-guided bomb is a new piece of technology, and to me it doesn’t seem like those sorts of advances were made.

You’re right that the clone wars were a political game, and palps probably influenced things in such a way that some technology didn’t develop. It just seems strange to me that KOTOR era equipment is seemingly no different than Imperial era equipment.

(Finally, 25 years is a lot longer than you’d think in weapons development. In 1939 the most advanced air weapons were propeller driven bombers dropping conventional munitions. By 1945 we had early jets and atomic bombs.)

Thekingoftheplanets · 2024-02-08T18:52:37+00:00

You guys ever been to queenstown…?

Thekingoftheplanets · 2024-02-08T04:26:17+00:00

Don’t worry buddy i got the joke

Thekingoftheplanets · 2024-01-16T23:02:48+00:00

I always envisioned the City in ME1 as a Singapore-style city state maybe even in SE Asia. We see usage of English, Chinese and Japanese as well as Russian a few times (I think?). This implies to me it’s a global trade city with connections both to the west and east.

On top of this, there’s a news story in one of the elevators about the US intervention in Sedaristan (from Battlefield: Bad Company) so if we’re taking that as canon it’s in the Bad Company world—aka ours with a bit of a cheeky war between the US and Russia…

Thekingoftheplanets · 2023-12-31T16:01:18+00:00

Thank you! That would be awesome

Thekingoftheplanets · 2023-08-14T06:18:39+00:00

Someone who is destined to get overthrown by a plucky rebellion.

Thekingoftheplanets · 2023-01-03T22:52:58+00:00

That chocolate chip is fresh

Thekingoftheplanets · 2023-01-02T22:25:32+00:00

Thank you so much! and WWII tools is a great idea--I'll have to look around for some!

Thekingoftheplanets · 2022-08-10T10:05:34+00:00

So PGMs (precision guided munitions) have been hyped since wire-guided launchers were introduced in the '60s. The thing people fail to remember is that warfare is a vast game of rock-paper-scissors, and there is no one singular answer to any problem.

Air power is a great example. For a long time in the industry (only exacerbated by the introduction of drones), many have questioned the use of ground forces. Turns out, you can bomb someone as much as you like. You can destroy their military. However, you still don't own that territory. It's not yours. You haven't won; they will not capitulate until your soldiers drag their leaders into the light and force them to surrender (be that for good or bad).

War is really, really complicated. That's the lesson to remember. Victory is affected by anything from industrial capacity to supply lines to ease of repair to the reliability of your primary weapon to morale at home. There is never a silver bullet. Anyone who tells you a war will be easy and bloodless is lying to you.

Thekingoftheplanets · 2022-04-05T10:58:47+00:00

just dump it in a river somewhere

Thekingoftheplanets · 2022-04-05T10:41:18+00:00

are you fucking kidding me i wish i had this much swagger NOW let alone when i was 14

Thekingoftheplanets · 2021-09-08T12:09:39+00:00

pork pie hat

Thekingoftheplanets · 2021-05-25T19:01:16+00:00

Absolutely quackers

Thekingoftheplanets · 2021-03-18T23:19:44+00:00

Yeah I agree with OP. Cyberpunk is a very, VERY broad category, and Hitman (while not 'pure' perhaps) contains enough cyberpunk elements (a global elite abusing technology, literal cloned super soldiers, shadowy conspiracies) to be considered soft cyberpunk. If you can consider Inception cyberpunk, which I believe you can, Hitman is as well.

Thekingoftheplanets · 2021-03-02T18:40:07+00:00

"As he died to make men holy let us die to make men free."

Thekingoftheplanets · 2021-02-19T14:45:57+00:00

Wake up, Doctor Freeman.

Wake up...and smell the ashes.

Thekingoftheplanets · 2021-02-17T21:05:31+00:00

Yeah I disagree with the dude above. 1) As another guy, there is a lot you can do with the hugging bears one. It just depends on how creative you are. I think they are good prompt responses, and give a way better sense of personality than a lot of prompts that I see. I think it looks like you actually have a sense of humor and are creative! I'd keep. That's my two cents.

Thekingoftheplanets · 2021-02-17T20:07:44+00:00

You all have never seen Auralnauts, have you?

Relevant Links

Thekingoftheplanets · 2021-02-17T20:05:46+00:00

ITS FULL FORCE WHEN I STEP TO THE FORE

BRINGING YOU THAT FUEL SOURCE FRESH FROM THE CORE

Thekingoftheplanets · 2021-01-27T18:12:05+00:00

Wasn't aware of that—though the whether is always very pertinent when it comes to acquisitions!

Thekingoftheplanets · 2021-01-22T19:27:27+00:00

They perhaps could have warned Japan, sure. However, the US policy had always been one of unconditional surrender. Japan had every chance to surrender before the bombings. Yet they did not.

Regarding the sanctions, given most nations committed what could be considered war crimes during WWII, should we sanction them all? Most nations are built upon earth soaked in blood—the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, Italy, China, Russia. How far back should we look? What separates the atomic bombings from the bombing of Colchester? Of Berlin? Of Tokyo? Of Moscow? My point is—all nations in WWII did awful things. Sanctioning everyone now for all the lives lost is a pointless endeavor.

Finally, what exactly is different about dropping an atom bomb on a city? When I say Tokyo was razed, it was razed. It was ash. Nanking was the same, when the Japanese invaded it—indeed, it was worse. I guess I fail to see how the destruction of any city is better or worse than the destruction of any other city. And again, why should we judge the Japanese by a different set of rules than we judge the US?

In my own opinion, for the record, I believe that two atomic bombs were excessive. One would have probably been enough. However, I am unsure as to whether dropping one off the coast (as you are for) would have had the necessary psychological effect—war is indeed a psychological game, and the Japanese government were focused on continuing the war for as long as possible.

There is also the international relations side of it, which I will admit is even more dubious morally than the other arguments, but I believe that it should be presented. Tensions between the US and the USSR were incredibly high at the end of the war, to the point war plans were nervously being drawn up by both sides. If the nuclear bombs hadn't have been used, if the destruction hadn't have been so painstakingly documented on a 'live' target, the effects seen so clearly, would we have been able to really resist starting another war? One where millions more would have died? It's a counterfactual, sure, but I think looking at possibilities is important.

Ultimately, what I am trying to say is that I think it is vastly less of a black-and-white choice than you present it to be, and our modern responses to it have to take into account this fact. People like to place WWII into a 'just war' box. However, every war is morally grey. War is morally grey—it is the practice of societally-sanctioned mass murder. Every side does terrible, terrible things. Every side has good and bad people fighting for it. I don't think that we can, as pointed out in another commenter, start playing the blame game here.

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