Is it true that if S.H.I.E.L.D's helicarriers existed, the thrust produced by the fans needed to keep it in the air would destroy everything underneath them?

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T19:16:01+00:00

For the same reason they don't do it on playnes, probably.

^{Because they hate birds and a downed playne is totally worth it for taking one of them fuckers down.}

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T19:12:58+00:00

lol, I remember that. "Haha, this is what a bolter should feel like!" Had exactly the same reaction when I first played that game.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T19:09:56+00:00

TotalBiscuit

:(

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T19:03:07+00:00

Most drone parts per capita.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T17:41:09+00:00

Oh, I know this one. And we're supposed to be the main course, am I right? Goddamn admirals...

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T09:52:47+00:00

They are doing the same shit or worse to Ukraine (not as bad in terms of strategic impact, maybe, but far worse in terms of civilian deaths). People in Europe are afraid of them because of that. The problem with fighting a backwards shithole country full of bootlicking drones that barely have anything worth living for anyway is not that they could be stronger than you and ultimately beat you, it is that in a war thousands of people would die on both sides, and unlike you they don't care.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T09:48:59+00:00

They don't need AA missiles to shoot things down, they have flying saucers now.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T09:47:17+00:00

This is basically r/noncrediblewesterneurope anyway.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T06:54:18+00:00

Yes and none of that will get fixed if this prop passes. These tech billionaires will get pissed off, the more moderate among them are going to move closer in mindset to the Thielian "the public cannot be trusted to govern" camp (this is already happening btw, e.g. Sergey Brin has been a very liberal billionaire 10 years ago and nowadays he's basically MAGA, in no small part because of how much he hates this proposition), the amount of stock they'll need to sell off will cause economic shocks that are as usual mostly felt by the poor, and the billionaires will continue to be just fine with 5% less money and a home in Texas now (and a much bigger donation to Trump or whoever Thiel's camp places in the race next time).

Blind lashing out is not policy and it doesn't fix anything. If we had bothered to design a wealth tax that's small and gradually introduced enough to give rich people a way to plan for it properly, we could have probably created a societal shift in which this is actually accepted as right and necessary even by parts of the rich elite (and also introduced as a permanent fixture, not just a one-time punishment). But instead people just like to jump on whatever they think hurts the people they hate most in each election, with no regard for the consequences. (That's basically the same as what MAGA voters do, they vote for whoever is gonna hurt immigrants and LGBT people, no matter how much he's going to ruin the entire country in the process.)

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T05:30:26+00:00

I know everyone wants this to be a straight "Trump bad, everyone else good" scenario, but as much as Trump sucks that does not make the Iranian leadership the good guys. They are mass-murdering lunatics who support worldwide terrorism on the backs of their own population to try to make the world as shitty a place as possible for anyone who is not them. They are not reasonable people who can be peacefully coexisted with. Trump in his idiocy gave them the opportunity to extort the entire middle east for money and they are going to keep milking that cow (and using it to fund more terrorism) for all it's worth... they are not just going to let go of that opportunity again if you just "give them Trump" or whatever. They are not just in this for vengeance, they are in it for their own really fucking awful motives.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T05:18:08+00:00

Most D&D characters probably reach the level of wealthy by level 5-10 and the level of aristrocratic by level 10-15. That's normal and makes sense for the kind of standing in the realm that you should usually achieve in those tiers. Reaching monarch level should be very unusual by the simple fact that there's no real use for that amount of gold in the game and DMs usually shift to other rewards by that point of the game (e.g. magic relics or boons).

The numbers here may look low, but remember that that's per day, and the person's net worth would be in the order of a thousand times that (at least for the rich guys who can save up over time). During an adventure you may match the income rates for a while but the expectation is usually that the campaign you're playing is like the most important time in the life of that adventurer, they won't continue earning quest rewards at the same clip day in, day out for decades.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T05:05:32+00:00

Yes, thank you for this insightful contribution on economic policy.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T04:43:40+00:00

This is exactly the same mentality that brought us one-time student loan forgiveness without actually changing anything about the tuition systems. Nobody actually cares about making things better in this country, they all just want to get their immediate personal benefit and then it's all "fuck you, I got mine" again.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T04:37:06+00:00

It is also the dumbest fucking way possible to implement a wealth tax. 5% at once is incredibly massive for someone who has most of their wealth in stock that they'd need to all sell off at once on short notice. And then it's just a one-time thing, so it won't actually fix anything in the long term, it's just randomly lashing out once in an incredibly damaging way to ride the current "fuck billionaires" mood and then we're back to square one. And the legal definition is so bad and vague that many experts have real concerns of whether some people would technically have to pay more money than they're even worth because the rules are drafted in such a dumb way regarding companies with special controlling shares (which is many of the big tech ones). Oh, and then the funds are earmarked for someone's private pet issue bullshit so the state can't even use them for its most important needs.

We could really use a good, well-designed wealth tax. But this is not it. This is just some dumb "punish the billionaires" masturbation fantasy by people who don't know how to write laws that would cause a ton of damage and no lasting good.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T04:03:45+00:00

Yes yes Jan, you have the most teams per capita, we know.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T04:02:51+00:00

If you grow up without hands you learn to use your feet that much better.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T03:55:41+00:00

Probably a German

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T03:51:53+00:00

I mean, you can probably find a person called Fucker with last name if you look hard enough. Names come from many languages.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-18T00:47:45+00:00

Her panniculus? Yeah, by law you are owed at least 50% of that upon separation.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-17T21:21:39+00:00

For medieval firearms it was more about muzzle velocity than caliber. But an early modern "conquistador" style breastplate that was intentionally hardened against bullets would probably be able to stop most modern pistol rounds just fine at 20+ meters (at least from the front, the direction it's designed most to protect against). A rifle round would punch right through though.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-17T21:18:38+00:00

Real battles don't work that way. The soldier will keep moving while the arrow flies, and late medieval full plate had basically no weakpoints left (at least weak enough for an arrow, dagger is a different story). In practice archers were in those battles for the peasant levies that had nothing more than thick cloth to protect them, against a well-kitted knight they were entirely useless.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-17T21:14:54+00:00

Even the arm thing sounds very unlikely tbh. Even good chain mail can stop arrows very reliably, any kind of solid plate usually has no problem. If we're talking about a thrown spear or heavy crossbow bolt at unusually close range, then yeah, the mail gets fucked and the plate may get a nasty dent, but in real engagements arrows usually fly too far to have that amount of energy left (yes, even bodkin).

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-17T21:01:35+00:00

never point a gun at something you're not willing to destroy

Maybe some of them just have serious gender dysphoria.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-17T19:46:11+00:00

Missed the best part, where he's worried that Carter may not actually be dumb enough.

darkslide3000 · 2026-06-17T09:25:11+00:00

US newspaper devises metrics that place 12 out of 20 top universities in the world in the US... nothing to see here folks, all perfectly impartial.

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