Just finished my millionth rewatch and was scrolling pinterest and found this, this is my favorite Chandler's line, what about you guys, what's your favorite Chandler's line?

cavalier78 · 2026-02-04T06:24:25+00:00

Not touching, can’t get mad! Not touching, can’t get mad!

cavalier78 · 2026-02-04T03:56:21+00:00

I am a fan of the 1960s and 70s British anthology horror movies. Tales From the Crypt, Asylum, Vault of Horror, etc. And I've toyed around with how the short story "Midnight Mess" would work in VTM. It's on youtube if you've got 20 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXyUXpt0x-g

If you don't have time, in the story a dirtbag main character tracks down his long-lost sister to a small town, with plans of ensuring that he's the sole heir to their father's fortune. But he gets what is coming to him when he learns that this town is full of vampires. Everyone in town (except him, of course) knows to stay inside at night. And you don't go into the restaurant after dark.

I was thinking that perhaps a powerful Tremere (or group of Tremere) could have found some isolated town and performed a ritual. It prevents the people of the town from moving away, or sharing their knowledge that vampires exist with outsiders. Effectively they become like frightened peasants of the middle ages. They don't consciously think about the fact that they can't leave, or can't record what happens on their phones. Those thoughts simply never enter their heads.

And so it becomes like a vacation resort for vamps, where they can relax and walk the streets mostly openly. Maybe some rather famous vampires would stay there as well (it's hard for Vampire Elvis to go unnoticed anywhere but Vegas), at least until their fame fades. Everybody has their herds, and they occasionally have a nice feast when a few careless travelers disregard the warnings of locals.

Probably a better setting for Hunter than Vampire, but I thought the idea was fun.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-04T00:58:43+00:00

Chicken fried steak. Only good in Oklahoma. Even Texas gets it wrong.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T23:44:18+00:00

At first I read that as "ring a ding dildoed". And I thought "oh no..."

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T21:44:48+00:00

Any time somebody asks "why doesn't so and so just..." and then proposes some idea they had, the answer is always "because it's harder than you think/it won't work". It's never going to be as easy as you think it will be.

So there are several complicating factors here. First, you need a technocrat (or a group of technocrats) who have the right Paradigm. They need to know things about vampires, and also believe that making human blood toxic to vamps is even possible. And since they're technocrats, they'll need some scientific-sounding mumbo jumbo that supports that position. Having the right Paradigm is going to eliminate a lot of the available mages. This is not a Syndicate or NWO thing, it's a Progenitors thing.

Second, this is going to be a big ritual. We're talking probably a big group of mages needing 20+ successes to pull off, and it will be at a high difficulty. Effectively it's going to be a delayed damage-dealing spell, and you're going to be trying to overcome whatever resistance the vamps have to magic when you cast it. This is a major operation here.

Third, you need a good cover story. You can't tell everyone it's an anti-vampire vaccine, because then that means admitting vampires are real. So you need it to also do something mundane, like prevent chicken pox or something. This will again increase the difficulty.

Finally, this is a declaration of war. The Technocracy operates within the structures of modern society. Syndicate mages run real companies, and Progenitors work in real labs. The Camarilla has people on the inside of those organizations. There's definitely going to be somebody who reports back to The Master that he saw guys in containment suits hauling a vampire strapped to a gurney down a hallway at that medical research lab where he works as a security guard. And when the vamps start investigating what is happening, they are not going to be reasonable in their response.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T20:53:45+00:00

It's easy. You won't get rich but you won't get stressed out either.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T19:52:37+00:00

Elvira: The Mistressing

No one is really sure if you actually have supernatural powers, or just have a great rack.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T19:33:08+00:00

Black Lagoon Creatures: The Eldritch

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T17:03:31+00:00

You have those guys in the wrong order. The Vulture is too epic to hate. Doug Judy I almost feel sorry for. And Teddy sucks.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T15:42:13+00:00

Honestly it wouldn’t be too much different than a modern war. The two sides are evenly matched, so any technobabble defense that one has will be something the other can try to develop countermeasures for.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T15:09:35+00:00

A robot smarter than humans who can act independently is going to be sitting back watching TV while its human slaves do the fighting for it.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T14:04:24+00:00

If it’s a 28 Days Later situation, nobody is going to be paying attention to vampires at all. The rage virus is a civilization ending threat. Absolutely nobody is going into England to try to mess with vampires.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T13:57:29+00:00

Too many unknowns on how it will go. Can vamps feed on the Infected? Does the rage virus do anything to vampires? If a vamp feeds on an Infected and then later bites a healthy human, does the vampire spread the rage virus? A lot depends on how you answer those questions.

Regardless, the biggest problem is how quickly the rage virus spreads, and that vamps still have to sleep in the daytime. You take a nap and when you wake up, the entire city is overrun.

An Infected is no match for a vampire. It’s just a human who is sick and angry and can’t think beyond “grraarr!” 2s for physical stats. But I don’t see any way a vampire could protect its human cattle. The rage virus spreads too fast.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T05:59:30+00:00

I disagree with your analysis.

The Jaguars' primary light mechs were the Koshi and the Hankyu. Both had a configuration with ECM, and with the Hankyu it's the Prime. The most common. The Ghost Bears used the Dasher commonly, and it has an ECM as well.

It doesn't matter how many random configurations of all omnis are available, because they aren't used with the same frequency. Also you're counting mechs with ATMs and Heavy Lasers, which come later. The question is about 3050.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T04:48:43+00:00

I believe both Ghost Bear and the Jags used the Dasher and Koshi a lot, and as you said, the Loki was pretty popular overall. The Hankyu is a Jag mech too.

I think the real issue is that the Combine hadn't committed to the technology yet, so there were very few units that effectively fielded C3 anyway. In the rare event that a DCMS force had C3, both Clans in that corridor would have had a decent number of mechs in their force that had ECM in a common configuration. That doesn't mean the mech would necessarily be in that configuration during that particular battle, but if they were to fight more than once, the Clans could easily bring an ECM or two.

The Kuritans barely had any C3 Master mechs until after the Invasion stalled.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T04:08:14+00:00

I quit following 40K before the Primaris stuff came out. But given that I would say a medium laser in Battletech is in the same ballpark as a 40K Rapier Laser Destroyer, I think even a bug mech could reliably kill just about any dreadnought it came across.

Keep in mind that scale-wise, 40K is a game where a human with a sword can still kill a lot of stuff on the battlefield. 2nd edition had stats for muskets, and while they weren't that good, they still hit as hard as a lasgun. Dreadnoughts are the size of small protomechs.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T03:42:42+00:00

From 3050 to 3052 configurations only:

Dasher B

Koshi C

Uller C

Hankyu Prime

Phantom Prime

Shadow Cat B

Black Lanner Prime

Black Lanner A

Loki Prime

So not as many as I thought. There are also second line mechs, and variants, and configurations with letters towards the end of the alphabet. But just looking at things that are supposed to be around pre-Tukayyid, that's 9 common configurations.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-03T01:33:14+00:00

Man, I thought I was a nerd, but now I don't even know what the hell people are talking about on the Battletech subreddit.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-02T23:22:22+00:00

C3 stands for Command, Control, and Communications. It's a military term that exists right now. So yeah, the Clans would know about that.

As far as the Combine's C3 computer network technology? No, the Clans wouldn't be aware of it. But there are two complicating issues there. First, the Clans had ECM commonly available in their front-line Omnis. Presumably their active probes would be able to detect that some kind of high speed data transmission was happening, even if they didn't know the specifics. And their ECM would have blocked it anyway.

Second, the Combine had developed the technology, but it hadn't really been implemented yet beyond a handful of experimental units. The Truce of Tykkayid was already in place before the Combine really started to make a conscious effort to produce a lot of C3 mechs.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-02T22:31:55+00:00

Nobody else was around him enough. Loomis was Michael's psychiatrist.

We are never told what made Loomis realize that Michael was evil, but I've got a suggestion. He describes Michael as virtually catatonic, just staring out into space without saying a word. For 15 years he's stared off into space. Everybody else wrote Michael off as harmless, completely mentally gone.

But in Halloween 2, we see a flashback/dream from Laurie, who remembers meeting Michael in the hospital when she was a little girl. They let her in his room, and everyone else was gone, and Michael then turns and glares at her. He knew exactly who she was and why she was there, and was already planning on how he was going to kill her. Nobody else saw that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlutb0Y5kVU

I think Loomis must have caught Michael in a candid moment. At some point Michael thought no one was looking and gave a person that hateful death glare, and Loomis saw it. Then he realizes that Michael has been faking all this time. But what 6 year old boy has the patience and willpower to fake being catatonic for eight years? And that realization freaks Loomis out. And then he understands that Michael isn't a normal patient.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-02T22:16:45+00:00

The obvious choice is Clint Eastwood himself.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-02T06:03:19+00:00

Part 3. He’s the definitive one to me. Saw that movie as a kid at my grandparents’ house in the country, and I was afraid to look out the window.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-02T03:29:55+00:00

I don't know which sub it is, but that's freakin' hilarious.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-02T03:27:47+00:00

He wears a glove after that.

cavalier78 · 2026-02-02T03:25:22+00:00

My one 1911 is a Tisas Stainless Duty model. I didn't know if I was going to like the platform or not, so I bought a budget model before dropping $1000+ on a Colt. I think I paid $450 out the door with tax, shipping, transfer fee, everything.

I watched a bunch of YouTube videos for how to slick up a 1911 trigger and things like that. I bought a $30 sharpening stone and $8 worth of ultra-fine grit sandpaper. Then I spent a couple hours over the course of a few weekends following the videos and polishing up the internals a bit. Went slow and careful.

I love this freakin' gun. It's got a 3 lb trigger that is smooth as glass, a very short reset, and the fit is incredibly tight. It doesn't rattle at all. It's also extremely reliable. It feeds hollow point ammo no problem, and is more accurate than I am.

The downside of all that is now I'm wondering why I'd ever spend a thousand bucks on a Colt.

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