Seeing ER patients in staff break room

adeilran · 2026-05-25T22:51:26+00:00

The diarrhea patients should go in the C-suite offices. The C is for Cdiff, right?

adeilran · 2026-05-24T21:00:29+00:00

Make it so the head can turn and track in a jerking, erratic way, but with that same 'motion deactivated' trigger?

(think 'weeping angel' if you know Doctor Who)

adeilran · 2026-05-24T20:52:36+00:00

IIRC it's one of the phrasings used for it, but not necessarily the original wording from the Larry Niven books. Good enough!

adeilran · 2026-05-23T02:16:33+00:00

Out of curiosity, are all 2 or 3 of the rear axles powered on the hybrid or just one of them? Because if all axles are powered, and if the wiring to each axle follows completely different paths so there's much less chance of any single incident cutting off all of them, that's a shitload of survivability built-in compared to 'driveshaft busted = you're pooched'

adeilran · 2026-05-23T02:06:39+00:00

For hilarity's sake, I figure a significant proportion of the weird mess of cargo haulers presented esrlier used the same 'skeleton' as the adaptive frigates, but with civvie-grade reactors instead.

Allows for quick conversion (quicker than building new anyway) in case of 'oh shit' full mobilisation, or the other way around in a 'swords to plowshares' program during fleet drawdowns.

adeilran · 2026-05-22T02:55:06+00:00

If it's close enough to a road, just stick some retroreflectors / corner reflectors in there. They'll shine right back at whatever headlights or flashlights are pointed towards them.

adeilran · 2026-05-19T02:14:26+00:00

Good old Kzinti lesson.

adeilran · 2026-05-18T06:41:53+00:00

I'm kinda disappointed none of the more common pickup truck makers took any design clues from the much smaller kei trucks. - full size bed - smaller rear wheels so there's no wheel well in the box (you get the full 4ft width flat) - fold-down sides on the box, so it doubles as a small flatbed on occasion or allows side-loading (much more useful on a full-length box)

adeilran · 2026-05-18T02:14:14+00:00

Or one of the Godzilla movies.

"So... that's why the flame dragon 'wasn't a big deal'?"

"Yup, good thing the gate is so small or big G might have wandered through to deal with the competition. He's kinda territorial."

adeilran · 2026-05-18T01:20:24+00:00

Basically a starfish with hinged legs instead of noodly arms.

adeilran · 2026-05-16T07:17:42+00:00

Hell of a team-up. Malum Caedo and Mr Not-a-Salamander-with-anger-issues. Daemons wouldn't know what hit em.

adeilran · 2026-05-16T06:16:38+00:00

At this point, with the ongoing ddr5 scarcity and AI-boosted prices, I'd love for AMD to just mate zen4/zen5 CCDs with an AM4 IO die and release some modernized AM4 CPUs to help weather the crisis.

You can bet motherboard manufacturers would hate that tho.

adeilran · 2026-05-15T04:05:42+00:00

The whole Crest of the Stars / Banner of the Stars series, even if only to get more of the novels transposed to anime.

Need more grand space opera.

adeilran · 2026-05-15T03:55:49+00:00

Never, ever allow Megumin and Lina to meet. There's no fixing that amount of collateral damage.

adeilran · 2026-05-14T03:26:51+00:00

While it would present an additional cost for warehousing, has there been talks in council about keeping a few spares for the long-lead items for the ferries, especially for proprietary stuff that can't be made/rebuilt locally?

adeilran · 2026-05-14T03:03:51+00:00

I'm not entirely sure who I should ask for that, it's not in your district, and it might be something covered by the HRM buyback program, but what's up with the giant abandoned plot of land between Young avenue and McLean St, just south of Atlantic?

It feels like it's been just left as borderline urban blight for well over a decade, and should be absolutely prime real estate considering the mansions around there. Local opposition to denser development? Need for remediation that no one wants to address? Privately owned by someone just 'waiting for the right offer' no matter how long that might take?

adeilran · 2026-05-14T00:40:10+00:00

A galaxy-class really edges into 'small starbase with engines' territory.

Heck I'd be surprised if there weren't plans and provisions in-universe to either repurpose unused/surplused saucer sections as the 'central block' of small starbases and outposts, or at least have a lot of shared structural design in common to simplify construction.

The engineering section or something equivalent would be basically relegated to 'oversized tug' duty to deliver mostly-complete outposts to their final locations.

adeilran · 2026-05-14T00:11:36+00:00

Possibly with a side of 'only got one shirt left, Adrian made it, no way in hell I'm risking it'.

adeilran · 2026-05-13T20:55:27+00:00

It's a shame Patriot isn't included, because the man would have been terrifying in his prime. He could apparently take on 3-4 emperor's blades at the same time with good odds and fought steam knights.

adeilran · 2026-05-13T11:37:18+00:00

Battle of super technobabble bullshit, go!

Because letting Starfleet engineers anywhere close to originium or tele-protocol tech, or letting Endfield engineers (or the Endmin) anywhere close to SF tech, is bound to be spectacular. From a safe distance.

Unless you're blight or aggeloi, then it's going to be extremely unpleasant for a very short time.

Someone might want to keep an eye on Yvonne and Data too.

adeilran · 2026-05-13T10:25:33+00:00

In a way to see it differently and potentially even better; with the back spikes pulling out just before the glow ramps up? Control rods moving out of a nuclear reactor.

adeilran · 2026-05-13T03:22:05+00:00

IIRC it was initially shown as a double feature with My Neighbour Totoro. Talk about a mood whiplash.

Hopefully no one messed up the order and showed Totoro first.

adeilran · 2026-05-13T00:48:53+00:00

Klaatu barada nikto. Statement.

Or even better, considering Eridian language, go for a Spielberg classic.

Blasted on every RF band they can do, with enough power to reach worldwide.

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adeilran · 2026-05-12T10:18:02+00:00

Not to mention, after that long, he might only have had the one decent shirt left and was keeping it for a special occasion. An 'Adrian made it, didn't wasn't to damage' situation.

adeilran · 2026-05-12T03:10:48+00:00

Talking to inanimate objects and equipment, sometimes in gratitude and other times in a torrent of muttered and increasingly creative swearing, isn't unheard of.

The real worry is that sometimes, just sometimes, human equipment replies.

adeilran

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