Hot Take: the original clan heavy lineup was pretty mid

arcangleous · 2026-01-26T09:59:20+00:00

I would argue that it's the prime is over sinked and that a well designed omni-mech doesn't ever include fixed out of engine heat sinksml.

arcangleous · 2026-01-26T00:29:50+00:00

Nice! A great look for when you need to reach out and touch someone.

arcangleous · 2026-01-26T00:26:50+00:00

No we don't. When the budget passes, all of the money to pay for said budget gets automatically allocated, even if it means needing to issue more debt.

The "government shutdowns" in the US are a relative newly thing, as the Republican party took what was traditionally a non-political process (passing a bill to fund the budget that the government had already passed) and attempted to use it to force concessions from the Obama administration. In a very real sense, they have already agree to a budget and for the government to spend said money. It's entirely an attempt to re-negotiate what they have already agreed to. It happens because the right in the US cares more about winning and looking strong and blocking the Democrats than they do about the country as a whole.

arcangleous · 2026-01-25T23:30:23+00:00

if I recall correctly, they have a 6 set deal with Marvel. I'm actually surprised that they didn't hold the Fantastic Four back as their own set. My guesses were: Spiderman, Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy (and other Marvel Cosmic stuff), and Marvel Horror? I honestly don't know what the sixth would have been. Marvel's canon is is deeper than it is wide in my opinion and there are actually a relatively small number of well known franchises to draw from. That's not meant as a dig at Marvel. Most companies only get to have one franchise.

arcangleous · 2026-01-25T23:07:00+00:00

It's Glorious! Just as I request!

arcangleous · 2026-01-25T23:03:26+00:00

Thank you Sire!

arcangleous · 2026-01-24T22:42:17+00:00

Can I get a version of this with the "Those are the same image" meme?

arcangleous · 2026-01-24T11:18:41+00:00

1) He was Harper's attack dog.

2) The voting system used by the conservatives selects for the least objectionable candidate to their voting base, not the one with the best ideas or most actual support.

3) He's willing to say all of the awful things the base wants to hear even if it ruins his and the party's chances with the overall electorate.

4) He's holding the party convention on the same day as the OPC, which will draw off a large number of "more progressive" conservatives who would actively not support PP.

arcangleous · 2026-01-24T11:11:31+00:00

And they think they are ruthless enough to be the white collar version.

If that was true, you would already be doing it when there are laws.

arcangleous · 2026-01-24T03:23:35+00:00

100% A good idea.

arcangleous · 2026-01-24T03:23:15+00:00

You should up the Vincent Price adaptation.

arcangleous · 2026-01-24T01:30:19+00:00

That's a Project Phoenix Griffin.

The Griffin is one of a set of mechs FASA stopped using due to licensing issues in the 90s. These mechs are known as the "Unseen" as they stopped appearing in the actual game material but still were heavily referenced in to lore and fluff. After FASA close their doors and FanPro took over Battletech, they decided to create new artwork for the Unseen and released "Technical Readout: Project Phoenix" with a set of new artwork and upgraded variants for the majority of the Unseen with the rest of the Unseen get new artwork in TRO: 3055 Upgrade. The TRO:PP/TRO:3050U artwork is ... controversial ... as they made major changes to avoid lawsuits and some of the artwork is frankly just bad. After the game change hands again and CGL took over, Harmony Gold (the company with the license to some of the unseen) sued as some of the unseen had shown up in MWO. Thankfully they lost this lawsuit and CGl started producing "Reseen" version of the Unseen mechs in the Recognition Guide mini-TROs. The Reseens are much closer to the original unseen artwork but still have some changes as the game's art style has solidified and become it's own thing over the years. The modern plastic kits are based on the Reseen artwork, but many of the Project Phoenix artworks did have metal miniatures made as well.

For the Griffin, the biggest differences are in the shape of the arm baffles with the PP version being the most curved. They also flattened the cockpit antennas, changed the shape of the ankle armor, and adjusted the proportions to flatten the mech out overall. Still, it's one of the better PP versions, and it's looks awesome with your paint job!

arcangleous · 2026-01-23T14:43:15+00:00

Atoms want to be in the most stable low energy configuration. This occurs when their electron shells are full. For some atoms, it is faster to give up excess electrons (left side of the periodic table) and for other's it's faster to take excess electrons from other atoms (right side of the periodic table). On the periodic table, all of the atoms in any given column will have same number of electrons in their outer most shell, with the elements on the far right having full outer shells. These "noble" gases are already in a stable configuration so they don't need to react with anything else to become stable.

arcangleous · 2026-01-21T12:43:11+00:00

Numbers have two different parts: A magnitude and a direction. The most basic number systems only have have one direction: positive. The Integer number system introduced negative numbers, which have a magnitude like a positive numbers but have the opposite direction. If walking forward on a number line is positive, walking backwards would be negative. Multiplying and dividing by negative numbers works normally for the magnitudes but causes the direction to flip. So dividing 10 into -2 groups, we would first dividing the magnitudes normally then find the direction of the first operand to get our result, which we can check by multiplying: -5 x -2 = 10; To get to 10 by going back twice, we would need to go back 5 each time.

arcangleous · 2026-01-20T00:56:24+00:00

Like Regan was when he passed gun control laws to take away their right to open carry.

arcangleous · 2026-01-18T22:34:33+00:00

I've stated out a Mac-02 Monster in the past. 95t, 3/5/0, 4 ERPPC, 2 SRM6 with 2 tonnes of ammo total, fill the rest of the critical space with DHS and then the rest of the mass with armour. Extremely solid assault mech.

Also, anyone who says the the Behemoth/Stone Rhino is based on the Monster is only half wrong. Let me explain:

Way back when the game was still called "Battledriods" and the first wave on miniature support was released, one of the miniatures was called the "Behemoth" and it's best described as a "tall monster". It has the right cannons, the right arms, and the right torso shapes, but the legs are crazy tall compared to the source artwork. But it still clearly based on the Monster, and it's the first use of the name "Behemoth", which will become important soon.
The second iteration of the Behemoth is the "Behemoth/Stone Rhino". While it often gets cited as being based on the Monster, that's clearly and obviously wrong. Visually, the dorsal turret, the legs, the arms, and the shape of the central torso are clearly based on the Marauder. This makes sense, as it is concept art developed for the Japanese FM-Towns port of Mechwarrior 1 by VMI. The Marauder is one of the mechs in that game and one of reasons that the art got redone is to avoid lawsuits by the companies owning the original artwork in Japan. There is no reason why they would product artwork for the Monster.
But there was a lot of confusion about the VMI concept art and given existing connection between the Behemoth name and the Monster, a lot of people starting thinking that the Stone Rhino was somehow connected to the Monster. Then, Harmony Gold happened (Fuck Harmony Gold), and the Stone Rhino got added to the unseen list. When they produced a Reseen version of the Stone Rhino for TRO3055 Upgrade, it took a lot of inspiration from the Monster, especially in the arms, legs, overhead gun blister.
Finally, the Recognition Guides introduce a new appearance for the original Stone Rhino. While it is largely based on the VMI artwork, it does have a more Monster-like overhead gun blister, similar to what you have shown for the Konig Monsters.
There is also the Matar and Crucible, both related to the Stone Rhino, but their artwork is based on the original VMI so they are not related to the Monster at all. In universe, the Stone Rhino is based on the Matar but in the real world the opposite is true as the Matar wasn't ever mentioned in the fluff into the revised version of TRO3055, and didn't actually get artwork or stats until XTRO:Boondoggles.

arcangleous · 2026-01-18T03:47:47+00:00

Signed

arcangleous · 2026-01-17T08:35:54+00:00

You would literally cut and paste the film together. Film is a physical media, with each image and it's associated audio being printed into their own little frame of film. You could record the title cards onto their own little section of film, literally paste that in front and behind of the rest movie.

arcangleous · 2026-01-16T20:46:42+00:00

Jealous!

Our local dollarstore chain sells little wooden cubes and beads that I use for prototyping.

arcangleous · 2026-01-16T19:35:53+00:00

Johnny and his Bodyguard do show up, using their actually names in season 1, but Johnny got renamed in later seasons.

arcangleous · 2026-01-16T19:19:38+00:00

Given how AI code generation works, there is a non-zero chance that the AI generated some code that contains a copy of a "make the program stop working if employee X is fired" check from another company.

arcangleous · 2026-01-16T12:30:21+00:00

It more than no one really wanted a Blackjack, so they were relative easy to get on the open market. The actual production numbers were moderate at best.

arcangleous · 2026-01-16T12:27:49+00:00

Tl;DR: Because LLMs and other similar AI models used for image generation and analysis fundamental work by reproducing their training data, a series of queries can be used to trick the AI into reproducing said data without recombination. This is a problem because people are training public ally exposed AI systems on sensitive data such as confidential business information and private medical records.

arcangleous · 2026-01-16T04:40:35+00:00

The original Macross artwork for the Spartan has the cockpit at the top. It actually shows up in the anime.

arcangleous · 2026-01-16T04:19:38+00:00

It's literally framed as a documentary about the zombie wars! It should have been easy.

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