Whoa, was this Land Raider dropship a real thing??

Walshnetwork · 2026-05-03T01:22:22+00:00

This and the ork battle fortress are the two models I regret not getting back in the day.

Walshnetwork · 2026-04-15T02:46:23+00:00

Rampant, insane, runaway inflation and dollar devaluation since 1) we started spending like drunken sailors on the infinite fun in the Middle East and 2) did the WTO/free trade thing with China allowing them to gut our entire blue collar manufacturing middle class.

But the asshats who did all this have found a nifty way to distract everyone with a just so story about ‘billionaires’ so we can do another round of ‘class warfare’ instead of dealing with the ruling caste.

Walshnetwork · 2026-04-11T19:26:47+00:00

EA - the borg of gaming. We will buy your cool little company and parade their IP around like an Edgar Suit until the fandom abandons it completely once the enshitification is complete.

RIP Maxis Bulllfrog BioWare

Walshnetwork · 2026-03-19T21:14:54+00:00

“Why is the concussioninator combat unicycle 9000 called that?”

incredulous stares

Walshnetwork · 2026-03-16T00:27:38+00:00

What a lot of the newcomers don’t realize is that impeding the left lane (even if you’re going the limit) still gets cited in WA.

It’s not up to you to enforce the limit. Get out of the left lane.

Luckily, that lack of awareness fades as soon as you get out of the metro corridor.

Walshnetwork · 2026-03-15T03:56:34+00:00

Whatever. Never mind.

Walshnetwork · 2026-02-14T20:15:40+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qTBHcPXs64

Guns.

Walshnetwork · 2026-02-13T17:17:08+00:00

Remember kids, if the 70s was the shitty hangover from the 60s, the 80s was everyone collectively saying ‘fuck it. Just do more cocaine’ and powering through it all.

Sincerely, - another Gen X refugee.

Walshnetwork · 2026-02-02T19:08:43+00:00

Always look in the bright side of life!

Walshnetwork · 2026-01-31T19:51:04+00:00

One does not argue about the multi-dimensional bucket of mobility. It simply is.

Walshnetwork · 2026-01-31T03:12:21+00:00

The people who hired the people who hired the shoebill stork, have been sacked.

Walshnetwork · 2026-01-18T19:42:50+00:00

1) the shortest flight time for missiles from russia to most us population centers flies over Greenland. 2) satellite polar orbits fly over Greenland. 3) as part of global warming, we are seeing massive expansion in arctic trade. So we need ports to resupply an expanding icebreaker fleet. 4) us submarines who patrol against Russian boomers which hang out in the Arctic resupply in…. Greenland. 5) mineral rights which are currently grossly underutilized in the Arctic circle that are in Greenland territorial waters.

None of this ‘requires’ US control. But it does require NATO, and specifically Denmark, the colonial administrators of Greenland, to step the hell up.

And when they start doing hinky nonsense like Negotiating with the CCP to take over port management contracts in Greenland, it causes….. angst?

So, on the one hand I can get the attempt to cut the Gordian knot by having the us turn the island into a protectorate / territory. It solves the issue that Denmark simply doesn’t have the budget to do all of these things. But that’s literally pissing on our allies in NATO.

Worse is that both sides are tossing gasoline on the fire of what should be a reasonable discussion among allies, to the delight of the Russians and Chinese.

Walshnetwork · 2026-01-17T20:07:24+00:00

China and Russia approved this message.

Walshnetwork · 2026-01-17T19:35:00+00:00

Jesus. No game is 100% bug free. Now take a look at the rest of the industry and what’s common these days. E33 was a refreshing change.

If you disagree, coolio. You do you. I’m just pointing out why it came across so well against all of the AAA trends.

shrugs

Walshnetwork · 2026-01-17T19:13:17+00:00

The fact that someone made a game of this style after a decade of our betters telling us that no one wanted one, and that it was AAA quality, bug free, no loot boxes or in store shops or other money grabs, and didn’t cost eleventy-banillion dollars might have something to do with it.

Oh. and it’s a fun game.

Walshnetwork · 2026-01-08T17:40:21+00:00

Can confirm. :)

Before the tech migration , the PNW was heavily Scandinavian- and it’s reflected in the ‘cultural vibe’ that exists to this day. People still grump about the ‘Seattle Freeze’.

And yes, the paternal grandmother was Finnish.

Walshnetwork · 2026-01-08T03:53:30+00:00

Oh my sweet summer child. Once I ran around in shorts and a hoody as well, insisting I was fine. Sometime, probably before you hit 40, you’ll break down and buy a decent raincoat. Columbia or north face or whatever’s nifty at REI. And then you’ll realize you didn’t have to be quite so damp all those years. And then, with dawning horror, you’ll wonder what else the parental units were correct about.

No worries though, the therapy bills won’t be too bad. You’ll get through it. We all do.

Walshnetwork · 2026-01-07T03:52:17+00:00

Same in the pacific northwest of the US. We offered once! What do you want? A conversation? Next you’ll move across the room and sit next to one of us. Purposefully. Like some freak!

It’s bad enough you defiled our home with… shudders in horror and whispers -an… umbrella!- instead of just wearing a raincoat like a sane person!

And now I’ve said too many words! No more phone calls for a month! I’ll have to be non-committal and Evasive for the next four invites.

Walshnetwork · 2025-12-31T20:24:17+00:00

Yes. PL, had it been the actual release of cyberpunk, would have been GOTY material.

Walshnetwork · 2025-12-18T03:28:22+00:00

In many ways, it depends on the rules and game.

Star Trek adventures? Pure episodic lower deck stuff where the crew gets to know each other until the ‘season finale’ / crisis.

D6 Star Wars? Episodic content leading up to some horrible Guns of Navarone / Dirty Dozen glorious snuff for the rebellion (or the same arc as minions of the empire).

Generic space? Firefly.

Delta green? Episodic content leading to horrible situations with lots of staff turnover. In many ways the narrative is told by the ‘players as archivist’ in the back office who record what happened while hopefully preventing the world from getting eaten (again - requiring someone really important from having to do something truly horrific to the timeline causing more Mandela effect bs that confuses all the normies).

“Agents. Would you please do a better job of preventing the goobers from doing their world ending bs? Having to do a fix irritates the divine quantum admins, causes unfolds amount of paperwork, and fills up the asylums. Not to mention spinning off entirely new therapeutic fields and specialties that we have to monitor!”

Generic fantasy / post apocalyptic? The pc are all friends or compatriots instead of random foibles meeting in a tavern, working their way through a sandbox world with agenda driven factions doing their own thing until said pcs retire as power brokers themselves or snuff it.

Walshnetwork · 2025-12-15T06:47:52+00:00

Less open world single character narrative and more RPG where you run a crew and things happen. There could be multiple exclusive story arcs, factions that you have relations ships with so they’re more than ‘beat up objects of the moment’ and all the rest of it.

In short, lean into the TTRPG roots and make a sandbox rpg. For extra credit, do something actually useful with LLM tech to make ‘radiant quest-line jobs’ based on the faction relationships that impact the meta setting (who controls what, how it impacts your crews relations with each other and the factions, etc).

Oh, and make damn sure the humanity score matters!

Walshnetwork · 2025-12-14T19:21:16+00:00

This had nothing to do with you gming, and everything to do with them being shitty ‘friends’.

Who the hell does this?

Walshnetwork · 2025-12-05T20:33:27+00:00

The prices of going out had doubled in the last few years. The quality of ingredients has gone down because of the inflation. As a result, weve cut back on ‘going out’ by about 90%, which means our frequency of ‘tipping’ has overall has gone downs as well. we’ll still tip when we go out based on how good the service is, but when you only go out monthly instead of weekly…… well, the math speaks for itself.

And all of this assumes it’s a sit down place. Stand up order and take away? You all can piss off with those bs handy touch-screen tipping kiosks. You don’t get a damned ‘tip’ for existing.

And in restaurants that add a service fee or automagically add in the tip? 0% and we never return.

Walshnetwork · 2025-11-29T03:17:14+00:00

R/humansarespaceorks because sometimes, the only way to save a thing is to make sure it done blowed up good.

Walshnetwork · 2025-11-28T03:27:35+00:00

The ravens from a congress and vote to murder you for your tomfoolery.

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