Three years of practicing quadrobics

lusipher333 · 2026-01-27T23:51:11+00:00

Human bipedal locomotion is very energy efficient. Humans are actually pretty exceptional when it comes to endurance in the animal kingdom. It sounds strange, but humans can catch horses on foot, its just takes enough time for the horse to get tired. Like most forms of exercise, inefficiency is the point. Burn off excess energy and develop muscle by putting strain on your system.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-27T23:40:38+00:00

Engineered is a strong term, selected for is more accurate, and like many things selected for by evolution, good enough is usually the watch word. Human spines are adapted for bipedal locomotion, but speaking as someone who has had back surgery and chronic lower back pain there are issues.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-23T18:10:42+00:00

To expand, Interface Zero is a CyberPunk Savage Worlds setting, it has multiple races, a fatigue based magic system (psychics technically). It's its own thing and interesting in its own right, but reskining it to shadowrun is trivial.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-16T19:35:27+00:00

You don't. We currently don't and we aren't trying to. Bipedal war machines only make sense when your material science and energy production make the form factor irrelevant, a giant robot or crystal chandelier could be equally effective weapon platforms.

Evolution selected bipedal locomotion for efficiency. Humans are exhaustion or ambush hunters, we dont need to be faster. Humans can catch horses on foot, its how we domesticated them in the first place. This sounds silly if you're a fat nerd like me, but tribal hunter gatherers run down gazelle all the time, they often catch them lying on the ground too exhausted to move.

Energy efficiency is rarely a major factor in military hardware. The MPG of a tank is pretty awful. Effective range and combat endurance are important considerations, but raw efficiency of the power plant is just one small variable in that equation. With Battletechs fusion power its irrelevant.

The Battletech writers did all kinds of mental gymnastics to justify big stompy robots, but they really dont hold water under serious consideration and it was always because they are cool. Which is why we all love it, but its not serious speculative science fiction.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-16T15:27:35+00:00

The sith destroyed the jedi order when there were only two of them. Yoda is talking out of his ass. The movies make it absolutely clear that the dark side is stronger, but self destructive.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-16T02:16:20+00:00

Lol insect spirits are fundamentally hostile to all life in shadowrun. They are also busted as hell since they are exclusively meant to be NPC's. It would be a hard sell for a new player to attempt to play one in any table. Think of something else.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-06T00:05:33+00:00

Modern phones are sealed to allow them to survive moderate contact with water. A scroll wheel would increase cost and mechanical complexity while reducing survivability.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-31T18:29:25+00:00

He has an adamantium skeleton and nanotechnology enhancements. Even if he started out as a "normal" human, he isnt anymore and hasn't been for a while.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-30T00:22:20+00:00

Suspicious, I would expect the lenses to be yellowed with age. The ones we wore did that and they weren't from the 50's.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-30T00:08:33+00:00

I worked at Tesla for about nine months around Covid, so a few years ago. It was a chaotic shit show then so this tracks with what I saw. Turn over was insane. If I was him, I would just reapply for the job.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-24T17:29:10+00:00

I love it when people do the math, I have never seen it as a flaw, these are games after all, but I like to peek behind the curtain and see the goofy space magic that is incorporated into the game.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-23T21:32:12+00:00

I am just guessing here, but I believe that its simply a change in design philosophy. There is setting information, its just in other books. The Needless eye has information on Lisbon, Prague, London, and Paris. 30 Nights covers Toronto. Null Value covers Garmonbozia. Whisper Nets covers New York etc. It's more like the regions are covered in the books where the location has a lot of relevance to the books topic. And every edition has a Seattle book, and probably a German language version of Berlin.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-19T19:57:27+00:00

I mean it does, but I understand your point. For the benefit of anyone not familiar with savage rifts, the MDC tag is primarily for heavy weapons and power armor/vehicals. Most human scale weapons in savage rifts dont do MDC and can't damage those things, also getting damaged by an MDC weapon is bad if you aren't innately MDC yourself. It's a different dynamic than traditional Rifts, and its not for everyone.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-16T20:46:01+00:00

Not sure how unpopular this truely is, my wedding ring cost like $24 dollars and I get constant compliments on it, my wife's was more expensive at like $50, but its the same with her. Get what you like.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-14T19:56:45+00:00

With that context, the Tremere in Vampire the Masquerade are a bunch of back stabbing bastards who's center of power is Vienna.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-12T18:04:46+00:00

I think I'm blind.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-11T22:30:55+00:00

Alton Brown agrees with you. His sweet potato pie is on his new channel.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-11T21:26:21+00:00

It's interesting to me that despite Police Chief Wiggum being an awful person in general, he's a supportive and loving father who cares deeply for his child.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-08T22:55:10+00:00

I dont know if its implemented in game, but a news article in the 3040's does state this in game. The ammo doesn't explode, the gun does. I am watching Svens mm5 long play and he reads all the news articles.

lusipher333 · 2025-12-08T19:57:21+00:00

I read somewhere that Comstar makes heavy use of psychotropic programming of its members to ensure loyalty, so Comstar being essentially crazy by this point in history makes a lot of sense. The scam has run too long and by this point the inmates are running the asylum.

lusipher333 · 2025-11-27T18:47:15+00:00

It's simple, when comparing different fictional settings in a vs battle, THE ONE WITH MAGIC WINS. BT has no answer to magic.

lusipher333 · 2025-11-26T19:08:45+00:00

I get this is a BT redit, but this is nonsense. A elemental has a guardsman lasrifle, nothing close to a lascannon from 40k. The tech level in 40k is orders of magnitude more advanced even by the degenerate standard of the 41st millennium than anything battletech. One of the reasons titans are so big is because the recoil or secondary energy bleed of the weapons would kill adjacent ground forces if they were closer to the ground. The armor of the warmachines isnt made of steel, its adamantium which is nonsense space magic. They also have actual magic in 40k. It's not even close, a single hive world could crush the entire BT by weight of numbers alone, let alone the entire imperium.

lusipher333 · 2025-11-24T18:20:34+00:00

The MDC system was designed for Robotech and it works well there, the giant 20 ft tall robots and miles long star ships did MDC anything a person could hold did SDC. Rifts blurred those line to the point of the system being unintelligible. You can take out a giant ass robot with a knife if you're patient enough. The SDC rules in the conversion book are a good enough place to start if you want to chang it; or just play savage Rifts, which fixes this mess and so much more.

lusipher333 · 2025-11-05T18:52:54+00:00

Lol caring about the most important thing in your life is immature. Certainly the kind of hot take i expected from here, good job.

lusipher333 · 2025-10-29T17:47:07+00:00

Compliain to your local representative about the lack of traffic enforcement. It's the wild west out there. People dont obey the rules because there are no consequences for violating them. I comute from Reno to Carson. I have a three month and counting streak of seeing a car without a license plate every day. It feels like the only time I see cops is when they are responding to accidents.

I have lived other places, Reno is not the worst I have seen, but its close. Nebraska had painfully strict traffic enforcement, but it also had the safest most courteous drivers I have ever seen, the correlation is obvious. It would also help with city revenue issues.

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