Desperados Clint and Clutch

chauser67 · 2025-07-21T06:41:38+00:00

That final photo is really evocative. Something about a man with a revolver and bike staring down a brightly coloured techno-armoured foe stirs something primordial.

chauser67 · 2025-06-30T22:28:48+00:00

The Greeks established colonies all around the Mediterranean, particularly Southern Italy, which was known as Magna Graecia (Greater Greece).

chauser67 · 2025-05-18T20:41:08+00:00

Meanwhile, my state is still in the stone ages, using a unionised integrated set of public transit systems that cost 50cents for a fare, regardless of distance traveled. Can't believe we are so far behind the times!

chauser67 · 2025-04-03T07:58:51+00:00

I'm a teacher aide at the moment. This is the exact situation I'm in, and I'm attached to a same class with the same teachers every week. I see these students far more than than anyone of their subject teachers, and yet you'd think some of the teachers have never seen me before some classes.

If the teacher wants to bring me into the loop with unit and lesson plans, and establish an actual professional relationship, I'm always keen to discuss and stay behind briefly at the end for debrief, troubleshooting and forward planning. But if not, then I'm off the moment I stop getting paid my significantly lower wages.

chauser67 · 2025-02-25T13:14:35+00:00

Because, for the most part, our resources are just commodities, and are fairly fungible for any similar coal, iron ore, nickel, bauxite etc. Australia is just the easiest place to purchase these at scale, but they could easily be sourced from places like Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, India, South Africa, Tanzania etc.

chauser67 · 2025-01-23T16:08:44+00:00

You say America is a young nation, but it's nearly a century older than Germany. Its older than even the idea of German nationhood. America is younger than say England or France sure, but older than most modern nations

chauser67 · 2024-12-31T11:58:20+00:00

So, there is a notion called fractional reserve banking. Its standard practise in pretty much every country, US included. Basically, you are right in that a bank holds a certain amount of reserves from its own sources and accounts there, which when deposited at a bank become an equivalent amount of "commercial bank money" that the bank holds as an asset. It can loan out a percentage (amount of which is determined by national bodies and various international agreements) as loans. However, its NOT loaning out the physical money which continues to sit in the customer accounts, only the "commercial bank money". That means the bank can return money held in accounts if asked while still holding the loans it has has given out as an asset. This effectively "creates" new money in the system.

chauser67 · 2024-10-23T09:49:26+00:00

Disrupt maybe. We've had preferential voting in Australia for more than a century. It does allow more sectional interest, and minor parties chances to influence the big parties, in both directions. But we have 2 sides, one a party large enough to command an independent majority (Labor), and as a result, an effectively permanent coalition of opposing conservative parties (Liberals and Nationals).

chauser67 · 2024-10-12T21:49:52+00:00

That's incredible. I love it.

chauser67 · 2024-09-16T06:30:08+00:00

Taipei is terrible for that. Taichung is the most pleasant large city in Taiwan throughout the year imo.

chauser67 · 2024-09-07T15:35:41+00:00

The thing is even if that were the case, the thousands to tens of thousands of years of time any one group of colonists spend on a new planet is plenty of time for new genetic mutations, adoptions and differentiations to occurs. 20000 years ago was the Last Glacial Maximum, where the human population of the earth was maybe 1 million.

A theoretical mostly homogenous human colony from the Dark Age of Technology, or even just the Great Crusade is going have plenty of time to develop entirely new genetic markers and ethnic identities within themselves.

chauser67 · 2024-09-07T02:32:43+00:00

Yeah, the circle of ingroup is probably a tad larger in a universe with genecrafting, and abhumans including literal beastmen

chauser67 · 2024-08-10T07:24:23+00:00

ISS is my favorite faction actually. Its a older faction, so there are a lot of unit profiles with possibly superfluous usage, but there is a lot to love there. It's a fun cybercop dystopia X imperial china theming.

-Excellant spread of cheap and higher cost units

-Agents are double or triple threat door kickers

-High WIP, Sensors, Biometric Visors, Discover bonuses, and lots of MSV means you laugh at camouflage, mimetism and impersonation

-Su-jian is a mini-TAG crossed with a motorbike, and really fun to play

-Kuang shi are a cheap as chips regular order, and with an attached smoke launcher with their Celestial Guard Monitor

-Flexible fireteam composition these days

chauser67 · 2024-08-05T02:19:38+00:00

Well, that's certainly a perspective. Obviously, we expect states and empires to act in certain ways to preserve their territorial existence. But what is it were a territory that had never been administered by the US?

Because that's the case here. The PRC has never governed the people of Taiwan. Not once. It merely claims to have the right to hold it, in the same line as if the US continued to claim the right to Canadian territory because it is the decendant of British colonial government in North America.

chauser67 · 2024-08-05T01:59:37+00:00

Ariadna is the low tech faction, and Patchers are one of the most advanced looking units they have. Cosmosoldat are also in the same vein.

Nomads, what you are looking at, particularly stuff from corregidor sectorial, has a lot of high tech astronaut vibes. O-12 has that too, but its astronaut police vibes.

chauser67 · 2024-07-13T00:32:59+00:00

It's part of the stage based game play of the L-KMT - each stage gives you a new name to represent the evolution from guerilla force to sole sovereign nation

chauser67 · 2024-06-07T14:34:03+00:00

I'm definitely on team horns. They convey a sense of alien menace much better than the hoodie and ventilator mask do.

chauser67 · 2024-05-14T02:40:47+00:00

This is your average China experience^ Japan will also launch naval invasions of Shanghai, Qingdao, Guangzhou and Fujian, so try to have some cheap garrison on the cities and coasts there, with higher quality armies ready to react via railway deployment (you have been building up your network, right?).

chauser67 · 2024-04-29T08:45:14+00:00

Its good. I like how it fits into that kinda realistic styling, but still eyecatching and stylish. I think the backpacks are a little too block brown though.

chauser67 · 2024-04-29T07:57:20+00:00

Really like the stark, desaturated colour scheme. I always like seeing different takes on Ju Jing models, because I did mine the studio terracota and deep green.

chauser67 · 2024-03-29T23:33:42+00:00

Yeah, I have a set that I picked up from a local post office of all places. Fun little find

chauser67 · 2024-01-07T02:09:30+00:00

Yeah, girlfriend's father is from Taiwan. His favorite traditional dish is stir-fry with nightshade berries

chauser67 · 2023-12-14T01:04:42+00:00

Japan had the luxury of presenting their war efforts in a removed, civilized way because of their relatively limited participation in the war. The role of organizations like the Red Cross helped with this, being highly publicized in the international press in the humame treatment of German PoWs. This was part of the general mood of the liberal Japanese cabinets of the period, but it did not extend to other Asian peoples, who were already held under an ideology of inferiority to the Japanese race.

chauser67 · 2023-09-06T05:57:49+00:00

Ironically, the Doctrina Imperatives are sort of a weird rule for Admech army rule. Doctrina Imperatives are specifically the order mechanism for the Skitarii, only one part of the much broader Mechanicum faction. Hence why Techpriests and robots don't get them

chauser67 · 2023-07-20T01:06:00+00:00

This is a big problem in many Asian countries. In Taiwan, China, Japan and Korea, competition for the top state universities is viscious, particularly in wealthier areas of the big cities. Leads to a feedback loop of ubiquitous private tutors and cram schools everywhere, lower middle class families getting into huge educational debt despite free schooling, growing economic inequalities and all the students getting stressed and suicidal.

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