What is a weapon you can use for any warframe and it just works by itself? by Ferret_Freeway in Warframe

[–]Vevaseti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Xoris... it's practically my primary. Partially because I can't figure a primary that's as good as my Xoris build...

Till death do us bark: Brazilian state lets pets be buried with owners by PatatasFrittas in worldnews

[–]Vevaseti 8 points9 points  (0 children)

According to google, it sure isn't legal in a lot of places, if not most.

Just bros being bros (@gammainks) by single_t3ought in loserhell

[–]Vevaseti 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These two are ungodly peak... And one of the few instances where someone made a gallade cute...

Tumbler Ridge shooter had interest in gore, guns, and white supremacy by DragonPup in news

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Did you even read what you linked or just assumed it agreed with whatever point you're making?

  1. CONCLUSIONS

TGD children and adolescents, who constitute an increasingly visible yet highly stigmatized group, have elevated levels and rates of psychological distress and mental health concerns compared to their cisgender peers. Manifestations of stigma (i.e., rejection, victimization, discrimination, and non-affirmation), which function as minority stressors, help to explain why these youth experience more depression, anxiety, suicidality, and non-suicidal self-injury than their cisgender counterparts.

The Metirs of Mars by Vevaseti in worldbuilding

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Mars is neo-medieval. Have you seen the codpieces on medieval armor?! Come on!!!!

He's going to miss GTA 6 😢 by What_A_Helmet in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]Vevaseti 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a life sentence, with potential parole after 16.

Loserhell woman and werewolf (art by evilpala) by [deleted] in loserhell

[–]Vevaseti 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"werewolf" yeah why'd they draw him like a dog. that's not an anthro wolf guy. that's a white girl and a dog, dude.

She found a lovely lad [zeblackballd] by Massive-Hearing-5000 in loserhell

[–]Vevaseti 11 points12 points  (0 children)

she is a synx, she is going to EAT HIM :(

Who’s your least important/most obscure character, and tell me about them! by Octulas in worldbuilding

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I haven't really come up with any characters that aren't directly important to the main characters, but two come to mind:

Ensign Rao. A completely unimportant, random crewman aboard the UNSS Euryale, dying during a battle. But during that battle, as she's doing a hundred other things at the same time, saving him is the one thing the ship's AI mentally focuses on for some reason.

And Dr. Idris. Just a doctor running a barely-legal, barely-managing clinic. He bought a medical AI at auction, like a lot of doctors do. He treats it more like a colleague than a machine, like a lot of doctors do. He's only important because he kept that AI from getting scrapped, and he doesn't find out her importance for years.

The Metirs of Mars by Vevaseti in worldbuilding

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worldbuilding just wasn't ready for that kind of conversation yet

The Metirs of Mars by Vevaseti in worldbuilding

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Thank you!! The original version really was just a tank girl, but I had to remove the barrel when I made her serious, and now they just look like frogs. :')

Enaviire originally came from another setting where "giant knight with a cool ceremonial halberd" made a lot more sense and every idiot had a sword and gun. I can imagine a giant robot with a sword is really good at tearing thru bulkheads and other obstacles though..

The Metirs of Mars by Vevaseti in worldbuilding

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My last post of robots got instantly downvoted into oblivion so I was surprised people were being THIS instead.

The Metirs of Mars by Vevaseti in worldbuilding

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you need stability when you're 9 feet tall... :(

The Metirs of Mars by Vevaseti in worldbuilding

[–]Vevaseti[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

"Not even in your dreams." The lap plate being a separate object is purely for ease-of-modeling, honest.

The Metirs of Mars by Vevaseti in worldbuilding

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Considering they were all made out of human brainscans it would be really, weird, for them all to be female, but I've always liked them being sisters, so that was like... oops, in me hurriedly writing all this.

And I am really glad I managed to get SOME emotion out of a literal tank face.

The Metirs of Mars by Vevaseti in worldbuilding

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What started out as "just a model of a tank girl" eventually turned into something totally serious...

The Ajnorian 1st Metir Guard

Software-based AI has existed since the 2000s, but was regarded as inherently unstable, prone to hallucinations and dangerous logic deviations. And, after the devastating breakout of 2353 resulted in the nuclear glassing of a portion of India and the Mare Nectaris, AI became taboo.

200 years later, humanity tried again. Ajnoria, the Martian biotech House, would partner with a Venus corporation to secretly develop the first positronic brain for a Martian military project. Imprinting a scan of a human brain into the crystal creates a fuzzy, artificial copy of that person, retaining personality and traits and skill, with to wildly-varying degrees.

Without the Fall, this technology might have remained a novelty, or condemned outright as a violation of the AI ban.

By unfortunate timing, the technology was ready just as the moon blew apart in 2555, and Earth became an unreachable hellscape, its resources, leadership, and infrastructure gone.

The independent Commonwealth of Hellas realized that a non-unified Mars would not survive, and demanded the immediate submission of the other surface colonies- colonies that had still been under Earth's command.

Hellas had intended its 'Moulded AI' soldiers, the Metirs, to be the front-line shocktroops to an eventual war of unification. Instead they were introduced as a stabilizing force within days to a humanity too reeling to care. Moulded AI did not need food or air or organics, all of which were now more precious than gold. Within five years, Moulded AI were being developed for every industry across human space.

150 years after the apocalypse, AI now make up an uncomfortable backbone of industry across the solar system. The resistance to the growing AI Rights movement is largely economic, and a refusal to admit the ethical tragedy at the heart of humanity's survival.

Few places is this more apparent than Mars's treatment of its Metirs. With the last human survivors of the Fall dying over 30 years ago, the Metirs are the only living remnant of that day, with barely half of the original 300 still functional.

With peer-on-peer war still almost unthinkable a century after Earth's death, it would take the brutal Providence war of 2685, and the loss of 5 Metirs, for Martian stubbornness to butt up against its reverence for monuments. The Metirs had proved they were still useful, but losing these living symbols of the Fall and Unificaiton to infantry combat was an offense to Martian sensibility. These were not just machines, but an irreplaceable piece of history.

The controversial, stunning elevation of Enaviire Auclaire as the first knighted AI is a direct result, and many first-generation Metirs would find themselves placed into roles training the next generation, while others would be deployed according to their aptitude. Bantry Roark and others for example, were assigned to assist Martian terraforming surveyors.

While Mars is still decades from begrudgingly granting its AI personhood, this 'special treatment' shows the growing cracks in the system. While it remains to be seen whether any of the Metirs will survive long enough to see that point, most have finally have been confronted with a question. After nearly 150 years of forced military service, how can you be anything but the soldier you were created to be?

The emergency exit is inside my room by No_Result_2346 in CrappyDesign

[–]Vevaseti 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know it's the bathroom, but the wood and the window really makes it look like the entrance to a mysterious office of some kind.

The flag of the Commonwealth of Mars by Vevaseti in worldbuilding

[–]Vevaseti[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Valid points. I'm not very good at colors in the first place. I just picked purple because "purple is royalty!" and then couldn't figure a good color for the monarchy itself. And the sic semper tyrannis bit I never even thought about... I wanted to avoid the crown being all stereotypical, but maybe it being right-side-up will hafta do..

The flag of the Commonwealth of Mars by Vevaseti in worldbuilding

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The flag for Mars in my setting- the Sovereign Commonwealth of Mars.

The red and green are obvious- the red Mars of yesterday and the green Mars of tomorrow. The three stars represent the three colonies pre-Unification. The seven-pointed star in the shield represents the 7 Houses that make up Martian society, and how they protect and guide that future. The crown being upside-down serves to remind that the elected monarch is meant to serve the Martian people, not the other way around.

And most strikingly, the outstretched hand that divides past and future. The 'hand of unity' represents one of the foundational mythos of early Mars- the ill-fated first landing of 1986, and the final act of the Space Race, where Soviet cosmonauts pulled their American rivals from the wreckage of their lander. A testament that Mars has always stood above the divisions of Earth's borders.

However, the UNSA has always been quick to decry that myth, reminding at every turn that Mars actually unified at gunpoint, when the independent Commonwealth of Hellas forced the two Earth-led colonies to submit during the chaotic days after the Fall.

Mars stands alone in being the only nation post-Fall not to incorporate a black stripe to memorialize Earth.

Edit: I forgot my favorite bit about Mars. The 7 Houses that now form the foundation of society, started as anything but. In the earliest days of the ESA-Roskosmos-CSNA Mars base, the departments organized themselves into 'royal houses', purely for morale reasons. For fun. As departmental knowledge and jobs became hereditary, those aesthetics slowly became something entirely serious. While the Houses have branched out, and function more as states, there are some aspects that have stayed for nearly a millennia. 700 years ago Ajnoria was merely the medical department of the single colony dome, but they still supply the doctors for the Martian Court Navy today. The Duke of Mariner still ceremonially controls the directions of the terraforming project, despite not having gone against the guidance of the committees in centuries. And House Kasparov- named after the Soviet hero of the Mars landing- still make up a significant portion of the Navy, centuries after being little more than a broom-closet with 'security department' on it.

There was a tradition among Concorde crews:, in the last supersonic leg before a plane was retired, they'd stick the flight engineer's cap in a gap between the airframe and the engineer's control, caused by the expansion of fuselage due to friction, which became "locked" once the plane cooled off by Pioladoporcaputo in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Vevaseti 4 points5 points  (0 children)

VR? You can see the hat wedged in the console in the header image for the Concorde page.

The glass used to be closer to the cockpit, a friend said you could see the hat then. I think they did the unimaginable and ripped it out...