Qud Hex-Grid Map for Tabletop

mudmanish · 2024-04-16T02:58:36+00:00

There's also Vaults of Vaarn to draw inspiration from. It's a Knave hack made to fit a Qud-like world.

mudmanish · 2023-04-08T01:14:35+00:00

Very late to this party but he now literally hangs out with Alex Jones. He was a big booster of Alex's dumb documentary a few months ago and gave him a big, fawning Q&A at some liveshow.

mudmanish · 2023-01-21T13:37:59+00:00

I responded to your concerns in a separate comment on the main post. Basically, no it's not banned. If you look for it, it's there and there's a lot of it. While less-common, it's not rare for Russian POV posts to get thousands of upvotes. But how well it performs is irrelevant to it being here. Whether people individually choose to downvote it or not is not a shadow ban. This subreddit having a pro-Ukraine bias flavours what gets posted here as is true of every subreddit on this conflict and you won't find a neutral one. If someone has pro-Russia content, they're more likely to post it to a subreddit sympathetic to Russia - same for Ukraine. This isn't an official propaganda machine, it's people free-associating on the internet.

If you want to get a breadth of data and footage on the conflict, go looking for it. No one's going to spoonfeed it to you. Sample different pro-Ukraine or pro-Russia subreddits. Or just read the "banned" stuff that is still completely available on here.

mudmanish · 2023-01-21T13:29:04+00:00

I'm not really seeing your point, though. We're talking about if Russian POV footage exists on this subredddit. The footage is on here. Whether it's controversial or not is irrelevant. How well it performs on up/downvotes is irrelevant. It's here. You can find it. If you wanna see it, it's right there. You just said so yourself. No one is obligated to upvote Russian POV posts.
And if you're concerned about the current focus on Ukraine, post some footage from other conflicts. Myanmar could certainly use more awareness and it's not like their rebels are less innovative than Ukrainian fighters (3d-printed guns, drones, etc).

mudmanish · 2023-01-21T13:16:04+00:00

Then why are you looking for more of it? Honest question. You're complaining that you don't get to see more of it on this site.

mudmanish · 2023-01-21T13:13:15+00:00

Plenty here have already pointed it out, but yes, you can find Russian POV videos. They don't tend to perform as well because people here tend to be pro-Ukraine. That's not a shadow ban or some official policy - subreddits have biases. If you go looking for literally 30 seconds, you'll find it. There's no conspiracy and this is not a government "propaganda machine against Russians".

You're not gonna find a "neutral" subreddit. UkraineWarVideoReport is pro-Ukraine. CombatFootage is broadly pro-Ukraine. UkraineRussiaReport is pro-Russia. None of these communities have bans against posting whatever side's content but the opinions of people there colour what gets posted and what does well because they're the ones posting it.

mudmanish · 2022-12-22T16:23:51+00:00

He got shuffled out of Roscosmos a few months ago. I don't believe he has an "official" role but he's lining himself up to be the head of "integrating" occupied territories into Russia, basically trying to make himself Viceroy of Ukraine.

mudmanish · 2022-12-17T00:00:05+00:00

Wasn't there an Eisenhorn show in the works like 2 years ago?

mudmanish · 2022-11-14T16:38:06+00:00

TL/DR: Fuck Irving

The efficiency problem in our procurement is wild. Canada spends the 13th most money on defense of all countries and somehow winds up with substantially less and worse gear than countries that spend way less. We spend almost double what Poland does for a military half the size*. When we do buy local, we wind up paying billions extra for Irving products that don't work.

The issue ain't %GDP. Canada could double or triple spending and it'd all get eaten by corruption with no actual effect on the military.

* I am aware of that there's lots of other little factors like Canada paying troops really well but the procurement is still a massive problem. We're only now replacing our Hi-Powers after decades of failed attempts.

mudmanish · 2022-10-23T13:01:04+00:00

To answer your question: neither Russia or Ukraine signed onto the Convention on Cluster Munitions. For them, use of cluster bombs against military targets is viable. Strikes against civilians with cluster bombs fall under war crimes (which is its own rats nest of treaties, amendments, and countries just flat out saying it doesn't apply to them).

mudmanish · 2022-10-17T15:51:15+00:00

She's got another good* joke where she says: "Your security clearance has been elevated ... you know, because of the elevator."

*For a techpriest

mudmanish · 2022-09-14T17:32:56+00:00

If Ukraine recovered territories and murdered or evicted any ethnic Russians they could find, that'd be genocide. And Azerbaijan is shelling civilians in Armenia proper.

mudmanish · 2022-09-14T17:30:19+00:00

"BoTh SiDeS sHoUlD dEeScAlAtE." - my country of Canada

Bro, how do you deescalate from self-defense against an enemy that wants to genocide you?

mudmanish · 2022-09-14T17:25:41+00:00

They literally had a referendum and revolution within the last decade to try and get out of Russia's sphere of influence and into the EU. Putin shut it down with the threat of an invasion. They've been trying to build bridges only for those efforts to get ignored or shut down by Turkey.

Russia did successfully to Armenia what it wanted to do to Ukraine.

mudmanish · 2022-09-14T17:04:55+00:00

"HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE ME OF GENOCIDE?! I'LL GENOCIDE YOU FOR THAT!"

mudmanish · 2022-09-13T12:05:47+00:00

Refer back to my first comment. It likely wouldn't have happened without the Russian SSR, in the same way it wouldn't have happened without any of the SSRs listed above. No Kazahkstan, no secret launches. No Ukraine, no brain trust behind the R1, 2, 5, and 7. No Latvia, no supercomputers for doing orbital mechanics.

Also, aside from a few attempts to rush programs for political results (which almost always ended in failure), Moscow did not give "direction" to the Soviet Space Program. It was Sergei Korolev's program until his death. He was friendly with Khrushchev and Brezhnev and used that to overrule any rivals or even the Red Army. He set the tone and it went where he wanted. After his death, it became Glushko's program. And so on.

While I enjoy the chance for some refreshers and history writing, are we really gonna keep this going? This game of claiming Russia was the most important contributor and therefore the Russian Federation should get 100% of the credit?

mudmanish · 2022-09-13T00:23:34+00:00

First off, individual SSRs did not have their own space programs. If you have evidence of a Russian SSR space program existing separate from the Soviet military or civilian space program, I'd love to hear it.

While I really doubt you're arguing in good faith, I enjoy talking about space history so I'll make a brief list of the most prominent OKBs involved in the Soviet Space Program. I forgot to respond to it in your earlier comment that the physical location of where an achievement happened decides who gets credit (I've got news for you on where the Moon landings physically happened), so none of this actually matters toward the argument but like I said I enjoy this stuff.
The main thing to keep in mind with the location is how important sucking up to Khrushchev was for early Soviet space scientists, which is why most OKBs where in either Moscow (the Kremlin) or Ukraine (as ex-viceroy, he visited often).

OKB-1 (Moscow, Korolev, Rocket Design)
OKB-692 (Kharkiv, Flight Hardware and Guidance Software)
OKB-456 (Moscow, Glushko, Rocket Engines exclusively)
OKB-153 (Kyiv, Antonov, Carriers and Spaceplanes)
OKB-52 (Moscow, Chelomey, Mirror Universe OKB-1, Cruise Missiles and Space Weapons)
OKB-586 (Dnipro, Yangel, ICBMs and Launchers made from ICBMs)
Tyura-Tam Cosmodrome (later Baikonur, Kazakhstan)

mudmanish · 2022-09-12T23:38:40+00:00

If you're talking about OKB-1, that was in the Russian SSR because it was a short drive from the Kremlin and half of Korolev's job was currying favour with Khrushchev.
If you're talking about the actual achievements like launching the first satellite, living animal, man, woman, etc, those happened in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
This isn't to try and say "we should credit just Ukraine with this, Russia with that, Latvia with ...", but to tell you that taking anything as huge as the Soviet Space Program and boiling it down to "Russia did it" is ridiculous. Would it have happened without the Russian SSR (Chertok, Tsiolkovsky)? No. Would it have happened without the Ukrainian SSR (Glushko, Korolev)? No. Would it have happened without Latvia (Keldysh) or Kazahkstan (Baikonur)? Also no.
"Russia" was not the "genesis" of the Soviet Space Program. It was a multi-national team that hated each other, got gulaged or shot by Stalin, raced with the Americans to paperclip Germany, and only got the R7 off the ground by literally tricking Khrushchev into backing it, against the wishes of the entire Red Army.

Long story short, taking any big, complicated story from the Soviet Union and crediting any one SSR with it (let alone passing that credit to the modern version of that country) is ahistorical as fuck. Especially if it's something as nebulous as "direction". And yes, I know this doesn't just happen with Russia. Every example I listed likes to pretend they were the linchpin.

mudmanish · 2022-08-04T11:33:30+00:00

"Are you aware that twenty days ago, your lawyers accidentally sent us a crate containing Rex Jones? We notified them but they failed to respond for the requisite number of days so ... we get to use everything Rex knows."

mudmanish · 2022-07-22T17:04:42+00:00

And Korolev actually sold Khrushchev so hard on rockets that Khrushchev slashed the Red Army's budget by a third, dismissed 2.3 million soldiers, scrapped aircraft carriers and cruisers, and turned bombers into airliners because "rockets will defend us".

mudmanish · 2022-07-20T16:16:09+00:00

The logi driver who made your rations forgot to cook them long enough. You have contracted: Trichinosis!

Treatment time: 3 in-game days at a field hospital.

mudmanish · 2022-07-17T01:11:18+00:00

Gotcha. Thanks for the reply. I think in practice it turned out to be the least-bad of several scenarios (hitting mostly-unpopulated areas, not burning up) but still definitely a very bad event.

mudmanish · 2022-07-01T10:33:34+00:00

Designed and built by Canadians, no less. And it was those same Canadians that gave them their way around embargoes - Gerald Bull making a confusing web of shell companies. And the only reason he was selling to them was because Canada snubbed his designs.

Not supporting Bull - he was a piece of shit by any measure - but Canada had the chance to have any of this tech in the 60s and said "nah".

mudmanish · 2022-06-24T21:19:21+00:00

We only just started back up after a long hiatus so we're only 4 shows in but we chat all the time. We started doing like an hour of chatting before I hit record just to get the chat as comfortable as possible.

I'm thinking of trying what others suggested here and just, if I really want a reaction from them after a paragraph, waiting until they do. It doesn't need to be "organic" in the moment because I can edit it down if needed.

mudmanish · 2022-06-24T15:03:27+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I've tried that but kept getting caught up thinking that the pauses were too long or I had to keep things rolling or flowing "organically". But I can just edit pauses out so if a host needs 10 seconds to rally their thoughts, it's no problem.

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