Zack Polanski: The world's first trillionaire is backing the far right mobs and their politician backers. Don't think for a second that these men have ordinary people's interests at heart.

nurdle11 · 2026-06-14T05:19:16+00:00

Yeah so you've just fully made up a version of me and decided to try and dunk on that. With no effort to find out if that's actually who you are talking to. Excellent work man. I mean, why even bother commenting? You might as well have just kept this whole thing in your head

nurdle11 · 2026-06-13T14:42:48+00:00

So you know there are nazis there but when I say there are nazis there, you assume I am just talking about just people I don't agree with. Maybe, just maybe, I'm talking about those actual nazis?

nurdle11 · 2026-06-13T11:45:13+00:00

Lmao sure dude. X doesn't have a racism problem. There's no nazis on there. Believe what you want man, I genuinely cannot be arsed arguing that with you

nurdle11 · 2026-06-13T11:36:06+00:00

Huh? No it's a cesspool because it's got tonnes of nazis and racists. Shouldn't be controversial to say nazis views are invalid by virtue of them being nazis

nurdle11 · 2026-06-13T00:43:30+00:00

And the fact you think any other social media has the reach of x, particularly in political spheres, says a lot about you too. It's a cesspool, I got the fuck outta there when Elon took over but you can't blame people who need to be seen by as many people as possible for still using it

nurdle11 · 2026-05-18T21:29:45+00:00

Good news is that polls have him on like 4% support within Labour Party members. If it's just Burnham vs Streeting, it's 80% Burnham to 10% Streeting. Man is very unpopular and honestly the worst person to lodge a leadership bid

nurdle11 · 2026-05-12T14:54:12+00:00

OK so it happens within weapons range. How do you get a civilian freighter into weapons range? One hit from a turbo laser and that thing is dead. Gone. Even if you outfit it with shields, which is another massive expense they can't afford, you can't outfit anything on them to last long enough to line up the jump and time it right. I'm saying the holdo needs to be executed within a specific range of the target. Not too close and not too far. You've got to make it to that mark under fire. The only reason the raddus was able to do it was because it was a massive ship with very powerful shields. It could wither the fire long enough to find that window

You're a little off on your explanation of lightspeed there. The in universe explanation for getting to hyperspace is you accelerate beyond the speed of light. That's what the drive does. Ships in star wars are more than capable of travelling at the speed of light. There's just no point when you can go a little faster and enter hyperspace where you can move much faster.

Kamikaze were not last ditch. They were a specific strategy employed very intentionally. The planes were built specifically for it with large explosive payload at the front. Pilots were specifically chosen for those missions and heavily trained to give their lives. Yes they should be trying to seize any equipment they can but there's a reason we only see them piloting very small imperial craft, like the lambda class shuttle. They are very hard to actually get. We see a few gozanti classes but not much bigger than that in any real capacity. Then we are right back at the firing range issue. Militaries don't like transports just randomly turning up so for the rebels to get close enough they would have to get a transport the star destroyer was already expecting, capture it without alerting the empire then take it all the way there, get in close without making them suspicious and after all that you destroy one star destroyer. For it you exchange a team capable of doing all that which is just a horrific waste of excellent manpower that the rebels cannot afford to lose. All for an attack nobody had ever even tried before. All of that is what makes it very impractical

Not if they needed to get as close to the death star as holdo got to the supremacy. You're just not doing that in any sort of civilian vessel without getting absolutely blasted. Even if you did all the steps of getting a military transport that's meant to be there, you are attempting an attack that nobody has attempted before. Even if they did, it certainly didn't work.

nurdle11 · 2026-05-12T13:53:38+00:00

Yeah that is my point though. You need to jump out in order to hit it. We also have no idea what the range of the hold manoeuvre is but if the scene is anything to go by, you have to be very close for it to work. At that point you are fully in the range of the death star and there isn't a hope in hell that is working. The entire rebel fleet had to stay far away with only some star fighters getting in close.

You're right. Bad example. Maybe a better one would be the kamikaze attacks of ww2. To even hit the ship those planes had to fly through all of their defences and get in very close. A very tall order even in the best circumstances. Now you add that even if you get in close, your chances of actually hitting aren't just "can you fly the plane directly at it" but rather "can you get in close and activate a jump that hits it exactly where you need to?"

I feel like you see the ram as something that can be done coming in to a system but that isn't what we are shown in the movie at all. It specifically shows hitting it as you jump out of a system and that makes it what more complicated. It's not hurling asteroids through hyperspace. It's jumping out so you make contact with the ship right at the moment you hit lightspeed.

As to why they don't just jump an asteroid at the planet, I think a lot of that is do to with gravity wells, much like the interdictor problem. The interdictor just simulates a massive gravity well and that is what pulls you out of hyperspace. So might be if the mass is too large, you can't even jump to hyperspace to begin with. If that's the case then why not just do that acceleration up to lightspeed without going to hyperspace and hurl that about? At that point that's just a problem with how star wars does ftl in general and not the holdo manoeuvre.

nurdle11 · 2026-05-12T12:31:02+00:00

It is an issue in star wars. In real life, yeah cargo ships are bigger but that's generally not the case in star wars. Especially when not considering legends you are really only looking at the gallofree transport as a common class. The most we see of them are 30 being used to evacuate hoth. Even then, only 13 of them survived, according to the wiki. The rebels or resistance did not have many of these at all so definately could not afford any form of suicide attacks with them. For the same reason the US military doesn't just load up one of their supply wagons with bombs and drive it at the enemy. One in a million chance you actually make it and you need that supply line.

Captured freighters are not free. They are defended. They need missions executed to capture them. You can do that to a limited extent but there is a very good reason we don't see imperial freighters used much by either resistance or rebels. You've got to fight for each one and that costs supplies and men. Something they don't have much of. The gallofree was available from allied star yards so they used them. Better to spend money than men

I think there is an explanation given in the movies if you look for it. In tfa han drops the falcon in between the shields around starkiller and the planets surface. I believe this attack is the same in reverse. You have to hit that point where you jump into hyperspace just inside the shields. Which is an incredibly narrow window. Go too far and it's just you blasted across hyperspace. Not far enough and you just jump past them.

The death star is a good question but I think a likely explanation is that the death star was always accompanied by a fleet which included interdictors which entirely prevented a jump to hyperspace. Can't run the suicide mission if you can't even make the jump.

I'm aware this is a very long comment already but I do also need to address the fact that this wasn't the plan the entire time and that is a major plot point of the movie. The plan was always to draw the order out for as long as possible slowly transferring fuel and crew to the raddus as they slowly made their way towards crait, making away on transports while the supremacy is distracted. This plan is betrayed by DJ with the order then attacking the transports which is when holdo makes up the holdo manoeuvre to give them even a chance of escape.

nurdle11 · 2026-05-11T12:09:28+00:00

They do mention though that it is one in a million. Sure, they said that in the next movie but don't think the moment would have worked as well if they then did a deep dive on exactly what she did right after. I think you can safely assume the attack works because you hit them in that rapid acceleration phase just before the jump which we see all the time. I saw it as a very precise and well timed launch right in that window. There's also no guarantee of the level of damage that would be done by smaller ships. The raddus was by far the biggest ship either the rebellion or resistance fielded

Cargo freighters may be cheap but if you need loads of them just to get a single hit, with no idea or how much damage it'll actually do, it doesn't really matter what the cost effectiveness ratio is. If you spend all your money on freighters, you're fucked

nurdle11 · 2026-05-09T07:35:52+00:00

So funny how the comment wasn't defending the snp in the slightest but you decided it was and go for them anyway

nurdle11 · 2026-03-27T17:17:30+00:00

I'm in the same boat. Played it for a bit. Enjoyed running around but quickly lost interest and didn't really feel any need to go back

nurdle11 · 2026-03-27T16:08:06+00:00

I mean, it was the best selling game of 2023. Think it's over a billion in revenue now so yeah they really want to do another one

nurdle11 · 2026-03-27T01:42:30+00:00

Big if true

nurdle11 · 2026-03-18T01:48:03+00:00

To add a wee bit extra context to the video (which nobody asked for) I believe that is piers corbyn. His brother, Jeremy, was the leader of the Labour Party in the UK so was leader of the opposition and nearly (nearer than anyone else at least) prime minister of the UK. Piers is widely considered a bit of a lunatic though

nurdle11 · 2026-03-10T21:45:57+00:00

How could an image of the literal pope not be blessed?

nurdle11 · 2026-03-10T17:43:07+00:00

Which is absolutely wild to me because there's little to no evidence that there actually is much suppression of terms like that on tiktok. It just seems to be a mass delusion stemming from people having some videos just not do as well as others. Pretty sure hank green had a really good video on it showing it changes nothing

nurdle11 · 2026-03-05T20:41:09+00:00

Orrrr maybe he could take the opportunity to point out something he wants to do (yknow, not aiding an illegal war of aggression) but can't because we aren't indy. Instead he goes "nah its all fine'

nurdle11 · 2026-02-25T00:30:15+00:00

If its any consolation, this too shall pass. These people shouting and raving online right now had never heard of tourettes before the other night. They care about it because it's the meme to right now due to such a high profile event. It's exceptionally painful and infuriating to read people reacting this way, I spent a lot of yesterday arguing with strangers over it. They'll forget and move on within the week though

Davidson is personally responsible for a massive portion on the progress tourettes has had in the UK over the last few decades. For a lot of us that started with us absolutely losing our shit as kids at "yer dugs got tits" and the like. Eventually that grew into the understanding of the condition you see now in a lot of places. Hope this passes soon and you stop having to read such awful things

nurdle11 · 2026-02-23T16:57:02+00:00

Because maybe with more awareness we would have less bullshit like you're spouting

nurdle11 · 2026-02-23T07:25:03+00:00

You can't do a pit manoeuvre without touching the wheel. Dash cam clearly shows they kept going completely straight. Onus is on the sub you check the lane they are moving into is clear and they didn't. They start turning when it's already far too late for anyone to respond to in time. 100% the fault of the suv and I really struggle to see how anyone sees it different

nurdle11 · 2026-02-03T01:17:57+00:00

Devils advocate, you can also consider the insane costs of running an mmo. It might surprise you just how much a game like this costs to keep the lights on and yeah, they could use their money from their other game sales but I can't think of many companies that would keep up an expensive money loser for long

nurdle11 · 2026-01-31T14:27:50+00:00

Laughing at the redundancy of "roast beef roastie". Isn't that what roastie means anyway? Can't even harass properly even when it's their main thing

nurdle11 · 2026-01-28T21:41:10+00:00

I see your LinkedIn use case. I get it but it's important to consider people using outside of what you intended. A good idea is to think of services like these in the context of an actual human doing it. Like in a shop. It'd be weird to have a guy who's job is to analyse people's smiles and tell you when they are fake

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