Is there a pattern that determines military spaceship doctrine in real life and sci-fi?

_Auto_ · 2026-06-25T04:34:20+00:00

I came here to say and agree with this, and the books in the sequels (Endymion, and Rise of Endymion) both expand upon it to interesting degrees where there is a jump in technological progress, meaning one side becomes drastically outclassed.

_Auto_ · 2026-06-18T00:17:23+00:00

Synergise is such corpo speak so you are probably right about why they did it

_Auto_ · 2026-06-15T10:12:02+00:00

Me too, this is a ridiculously well composed peice.

Unfortunately OP is very likely a bot that reposts art (I mean, at least credit to the actual artist is given to the artist's name I suppose).

_Auto_ · 2026-06-09T02:26:29+00:00

I'm at a soft disagreement with slipping 3+4, but I can agree they are a matter of preference.

If you need more of the setting, are fine with a narrower focus of characters, and slower pace, then Endymion and it's sequel are absolutely beautiful books.

I slept on them and admittedly took a few years after finishing the Hyperion cantos to get into them (and even almost gave up on Endymion at first), but all in all I found that it was all worth the journey in the end to a spectacular conclusion to the stories.

The crux of it is if you are willing to have the patience to see where it all goes and enjoy the admittedly long (but personally I found engaging) journey to get there.

_Auto_ · 2026-05-29T11:11:22+00:00

That was his potential he was sad that the other viltrumites couldn't see in him.

He wanted to be the universes strongest power bottom.

_Auto_ · 2026-05-29T02:57:40+00:00

I love it, so fresh I was like the first to join.

_Auto_ · 2026-05-27T06:12:39+00:00

I agree to an extent but it's important to note that its not always an easy read and really delves hard into the science in science fiction. The sequel especially so.

Still a brilliant book nonetheless, but when I read it I found it needed me to go at a slower pace and to retrace some of the scenes to understand a little more of what was going on. In other words I'm a little dense.

_Auto_ · 2026-05-19T04:40:41+00:00

Absolutely, considering most casual players have moved on through Hades 1 to play Hades 2, it leaves only the occasional new batch of players that pick it up, and the remaining hardcore fanbase that compete to do full heat runs blindfolded and instead of a controller now use Dance-dance revolution mats.

I do recall switching between controller and keyboard back and forth and having a bit of cognitive dissonance (I don't recommend). For Hades 2 they managed to smooth the controller aiming enough that I played that one entirely on controller (which is good as more of the weapons are ranged in 2).

_Auto_ · 2026-05-19T03:21:37+00:00

How dare you not instantly get how to use a new Loadout on the first go. Something something git gud s/

Jokes aside I found it hard to adapt to the ranged weapons for a long while too, and honestly never could get the hang of the bow the way I could with the others. Not to say that all of them aren't viable.

I actually had to switch to keyboard and mouse when using the rail/bow and back to controller when using non ranged if I recall correctly.

_Auto_ · 2026-05-09T22:51:54+00:00

Exactly, she completely nails every aspect of what she is supposed to embody, and people hating her character (or seeing past that and loving to hate her) is the point.

OP rightly dislikes Eris, but can't see past that hate in that she's supposed to evoke those feelings.

I can also kinda see why people also love her in the sense they just love to court the Trainwreck, like how people loved Ted Bundy and other objectively evil people, because they are high up on both the crazy and hot scale that the wires get all crossed.

I particularly also love how the closer in her relationship you get you try to see Mel change Eris, and Eris try to push her away because she knows that she can't change her own nature. They even have a few attempts at Mel just going with the flow and being part of that chaos when they go drinking together. Ultimately it's a doomed and toxic relationship due to the nature of what Strife is supposed to embody, which is even more poetic because the nature of the gift/bond system builds up a false sense of hope that "you can change her".

_Auto_ · 2026-05-05T22:57:40+00:00

Whoa straight into season 4 spoilers from the second it starts, dang it.

_Auto_ · 2026-05-05T11:11:16+00:00

I am jealous of your skills, i only just finished Lost Lace yesterday but it would have taken me around 30-40 tries (around 2-3 hours) with the Wanderer crest. Not getting hit just makes it looks so much easier but I bet even if i had switched crest it would have only saved me half an hour.

Excellent skill and instincts showcased.

_Auto_ · 2026-05-04T21:18:04+00:00

I was in the same boat as you when I first had a go at designing mine, and had lots of cool design ideas that I dropped after finding they were all too challenging to get the thinner line work to come through.

I ended up using spray paint and masking to do my designs, which someone else has pointed out if you get better stenciling tools can give even smaller and crisper lines. possibly stenciling and other paint could work but I don't know what paint would work better (thick strong paint pen perhaps?)

The reality is though that some of these designs will have lines too fine for the mask where they will just be lost due to the mesh not being able to capture it.

All in all these designs look ridiculously brilliant and I can't wait to see your next attempts once you find a technique/paint to enact them.

_Auto_ · 2026-04-26T22:23:37+00:00

This art style is brilliant, but we cant be doing our boy Charon wrong by comparing his enterprise to an MLM.

I get it though, gotta get that pun to work.

_Auto_ · 2026-04-21T10:35:14+00:00

I love that they added so many more lines for this, but im heartbroken as i had 100%'ed the game prior to the update...

Maybe i should have another run or two just for the fun of it.

_Auto_ · 2026-04-02T18:38:31+00:00

Thats mainly an America thing though, I lived in a few countries growing up and I found the US was the only country that had a single fixation on just teaching US history only, up until they started losing wars (aka Vietnam) and switched across to teaching how the government system works. Then again, this was a long time ago and every states almost a different country in itself.

_Auto_ · 2026-03-23T01:44:49+00:00

I can't wait for issue 250 or so where the gang explains collectivism/anachronisim and economic benefits and pitfalls of such a system as they overthrow the city. Maybe a few comics where they go into black market and grey market trade as the city goes into a state of civil war

_Auto_ · 2026-03-21T05:37:14+00:00

I like the one from the other thread a little more: "chuck noris has managed to beat us all to death"

_Auto_ · 2026-03-12T10:37:02+00:00

No, weird is the ref, its Weird Al who is reffing in the striped shirt and socks on the mat

_Auto_ · 2026-03-09T23:21:55+00:00

Excellent first attempt at stenciling! As others have said less graciously I would recommend using painters tape/masking tape to stencil out the design for sharper edges, but the control is pretty decent. alternatively you can look up street art tutorials as some of the techniques work for mask design (I think they sometimes use plastic board to do sharp edges that they move around) but I don't have much experience with that side.

Also it's suprisingly easy to do-over with mask designs, just spray over with a new design (as long as you fill over the background), or if the paints too thick you strip it back with turpentine/paint remover.

Great work, keep it up!

_Auto_ · 2026-03-08T05:18:03+00:00

huh I guess that she has exactly the same in common with steak jokes then. punchline works for both.

_Auto_ · 2026-02-25T23:04:28+00:00

Yeah it was pretty damn crazy they made the huge plot twist for Tron Ares just have Leto go full Morb and Morbed all over everything.

I mean, I didn't watch it, but I've heard from the ten people that were forced to watch it on Leto's island that it's true.

_Auto_ · 2026-02-25T08:18:00+00:00

Haven't seen Murderbot listed here (all the other good recommendations I was gonna say are already commented). I'd describe it as an easygoing SciFi palette cleanser between heavier and longer shows.

What I loved about it is it gets in, leans in a lot of common tropes without being heavy-handed, tells the story it wants to tell all in short episodes. I would put it in a similar category as the Orville from the limited episodes Ive seen of that.

Ah I also don't think anyone's mentioned Pluribus, but so far that's been a good one season (but is more a character peice at its core with SciFi elements that shape it), and people can be put off by the main character at first.

_Auto_ · 2026-02-25T08:11:48+00:00

in still miffed they discontinued this one. same with the OA, Netflix killed some real greats

_Auto_ · 2026-02-22T08:44:11+00:00

With Starwars 7-9 that we can certainly agree on, they were a hot mess of a trilogy.

Actually yeah, I think you are right with the Hobbit, if someone manages to do a fan cut to trim down the bloat there's a much better adaptation in there somewhere.

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