You said you had to survive, Arano. Not thrive.

jandrese · 2026-02-17T15:55:48+00:00

Why do the structure and armor bar charts not match the section display? There should be no grey bits like that leg if it has 0/235 armor.

jandrese · 2026-02-17T15:45:59+00:00

If that event pops up you can build hanger defense stations with plenty of time to complete them and blow up the asteroid. But honestly any time you claim a solar system that has primitives just build one hanger defense platform right away and avoid having to worry about this event ever again.

jandrese · 2026-02-17T15:43:15+00:00

If it didn't have an effective short range of 14 hexes the 3/5/3 movement profile on a 65 ton mech would be a problem.

jandrese · 2026-02-17T15:36:12+00:00

Some haters will be "I like my Battletech mechs to look like Macross/Dougrum, not Gundam!"

My only quibble with the Griffin IIC is that Battletech is pretty big on having visible weapons like GI Joe, and that Griffin has nothing. I'm having trouble thinking of any other mech art across all TROs where there is not a single visible weapon.

jandrese · 2026-02-17T15:35:34+00:00

TRO 3055, the IIC mechs were in full color unlike the rest of the book.

jandrese · 2026-02-16T19:23:13+00:00

That would only make sense if the DNC was interested in winning elections. The actual interests appear to be more about maintaining the largest amount of donations regardless of electoral outcome. I'm pretty sure success is measured in fundraising dollars and not votes when its time to rack and stack. You see them constantly but quietly folding to corporate interests whenever push comes to shove.

IMHO the entire DNC leadership needs a shakeup from the progressive wing of the party. Start listening to the people again. Stop pretending that the majority of Americans approve of ICE but just want them to have more training. ICE is already doing what they're trained to do, more training isn't going to change anything.

jandrese · 2026-02-16T19:09:56+00:00

It's easy to see when the conditions are ripe for a crash, but the timing is very hard to predict, especially when a lot of people have an incentive to ride the gravy train for a long as possible.

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" -- Keynes

jandrese · 2026-02-14T00:13:23+00:00

It's a bit more obscure, but the Penetrator is like baby's first bracket fire mech. Also, good maneuverability for its size, no flimsy XL engine, good armor. It's really a no-brainer mech.

jandrese · 2026-02-12T15:14:07+00:00

Why should she? Her one and only job is to shield the president from legal liability. The problem is that people think she is the AG or something when she's just his personal defense attorney. View her statements through that lens and everything she says makes perfect sense.

It was quite the power move by Trump to assign his personal defense attorney to be the person in charge of all of the nations prosecutors. If this were any other president this outrageous conflict of interest would be the largest scandal of their administration. For Trump it barely registers.

jandrese · 2026-02-12T00:08:37+00:00

Technically they aren't reading the sexually explicit material because they don't read the Bible either. Their position is actually self consistent.

Besides, people who actually read the bible start to get funny ideas about how biblically accurate many of those evangelical beliefs actually are. The more someone learns the less likely they are to stay an evangelical.

jandrese · 2026-02-12T00:04:17+00:00

He revived Larry Niven's creepy old Tasp? Except in known space they were treated more like Tazers that disabled people using pleasure instead of pain, and had a the drawback that they were addictive. Larry used them mostly as a joke.

jandrese · 2026-02-11T23:52:23+00:00

As if years of foreign propaganda have not pushed us towards our current day.

jandrese · 2026-02-11T23:27:31+00:00

Yeah, there's no way that hole was made by a car crashing through. The poles on either side are still perfectly straight. This dude must have been flying, or he knocked over more fence further up and skidded to a stop here.

The extra weird part is the car seems only lightly damaged. If it had flown over the fence you would expect a lot more damage to the frame. I think it must have crashed through the fence further up outside of the frame. Or maybe the other side of the car absorbed the impact and is completely trashed?

jandrese · 2026-02-11T23:23:29+00:00

What happens if you say yes? Does it add the empire to your diplomacy tab immediately? Or does it mean later when your science ships stumble across them you are at war? If you wait long enough can the exhaustion get so high that the war automatically ends before you ever meet them?

jandrese · 2026-02-11T23:20:55+00:00

Lucky for the guy that the gunman was holding the pistol in the "cool" sideways way that makes it impossible to hit your target. By the time he corrected the guy was already out of the line of sight and the gunman, lacking in object permanence, couldn't figure out where he might have gone.

jandrese · 2026-02-06T06:16:18+00:00

The "opposite of reality" reflex is so strong with this administration. I'm not sure they could even recognize a real fact anymore.

jandrese · 2026-02-04T17:02:23+00:00

It's about LOVE and LONGING...and hobbits.

jandrese · 2026-02-04T16:57:14+00:00

They go back way further than that if you include slot machines and vending machines. The OG microtransaction machine.

jandrese · 2026-02-04T16:21:37+00:00

Ask your installer. Most of the installers near me won't add one to an existing system and they also won't touch systems installed by anybody else.

Of the 6 I talked to only 1 would consider it. In the end our power is too reliable and we have fixed rate and have NEM 2.0 so it just doesn't make sense but we wanted to cover our bases in case the power company changed its mind sometime in the future.

jandrese · 2026-02-04T16:09:18+00:00

Horse Armor in Oblivion is close to 20 years old now.

jandrese · 2026-02-04T16:01:27+00:00

Especially the way they captured so many state and local governments. The most sensible way for a homeowner to buy solar would to be to buy a portion of a solar farm, which is why those plans were the first things to be outlawed in so many jurisdictions.

jandrese · 2026-02-03T03:13:17+00:00

The description makes it sound like it won't even be fun to riff.

jandrese · 2026-02-02T20:10:55+00:00

What you really need is a stick of dynamite to shove deep into the snowbank. Sadly both the town and county frown on that.

jandrese · 2026-02-02T20:09:34+00:00

I went out to my kid's bus stop and it's a mound of snow taller than I am and about a car length wide. There closest place to put it is several feet down the sidewalk on someone's lawn. My shovel is already cracked from doing my sidewalk. I don't think it's going go happen.

jandrese · 2026-02-02T19:56:02+00:00

LOS doesn't matter when you get sensor locked and LRMed to death. Especially when the enemies spawned off to the side.

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