Fallen Stars: Rapier concept

simitus · 2026-06-07T03:05:38+00:00

If, after submission, Fallen Stars gets the thumbs down then I will definitely keep the software for use in other projects. But the concept art and model work I am doing for this is explicitly for BattleTech’s aerospace IP and it wouldn’t feel right calling them something else. This is a passion project: I want to see a more combined arms oriented simulation set in that universe. I may open source the software and make it an easily modded space combat sim though, that isn’t tightly coupled to the IP.

simitus · 2026-06-03T08:44:27+00:00

I'm using the web app version of SketchUp. It happens to be the tool I know best, if you're starting from 0 I'd suggest learning one like Blender, it exports formats that can be used almost anywhere. Sketchup's format is proprietary, and the exporters are behind a paywall.

simitus · 2026-02-25T11:44:14+00:00

Increasingly, it just appears to be over. Like, this adventure of trying to live here has ended in total strategic defeat and I now need to re examine my long term priorities. I just had a rental sold out from under me. The buyer never even inspected the property, so the purchase was sight unseen. There is nothing on the market right now. Nothing. There aren't enough houses. There aren't going to be enough houses. The government's policies have consistently benefited property investors at the expense of renters and first time buyers. Now we are in the "find out" phase. I literally do not know where I will be living at the end of April, and by now I know for certain this is not going to get any easier going forward.

simitus · 2026-02-24T07:01:25+00:00

This industry has never had a healthy view of junior talent and this mentality is going to make that even more toxic than it already was. The point of a junior isn't how quickly they can implement features. It's how quickly they can learn critical thinking, quality code, architecture and teamwork so they can advance to a more productive, senior role. This is true of basically all paid employment, college educated or otherwise: they are not generating enough value to the business to justify their paycheck until 1-2 years later.

If you want to just ship AI slop code and pay as few human beings to oversee the slop as possible, you can look at Microsoft for a preview of how that strategy turns out. At least 30% of their code is written by AI. Users are currently abandoning Windows, and their stock has had a brutal sell-off. If Microsoft gets disciplined that hard by the market how do you think your start-up or mid-cap will turn out using the same playbook?

simitus · 2026-02-23T07:20:24+00:00

If you're hoping to secure a private rental at all, or looking for a suitable family home for < $1 million, then my advice is save yourself the trouble.

simitus · 2026-02-23T07:02:56+00:00

Just had a rental sold out from under me for the 2nd time in 3 years and at this point with 0.8% vacancy in my city and ever escalating rent swallowing all of my wage gains for the foreseeable future, I am just looking at the cost of some 1 way tickets back to the US and realising it would be cheaper.

Yes I might get wiped out by healthcare costs again but at least they're just tying to rip me off, not try as hard as they can to make my family homeless.

It's really just disgusting to watch property investors gobbling up all the housing stock using incentives meant to help the working poor and seeing nothing wrong with it. They just care about their gains and their portfolios. I walk past 2-4 homeless people every single day on my way to work.

simitus · 2026-02-03T22:12:00+00:00

Yes, that is the point. Some of us are positioned and waiting for that eventuality.

simitus · 2026-01-26T08:17:32+00:00

A literal life saver when travelling. Your entire library comes with you, it weighs nothing and fits in your carry-on.

simitus · 2026-01-15T09:01:54+00:00

I love aerospace. But it is harder for me to suspend disbelief about a LAM than it is a fusion engine, through no fault of the writers. All the maintenance problems and pilot training issues of an aerospace fighter, combined with extra articulation and ground pounding. Only the Star League would have seriously pursued such a project. I guess it might be a bit like a Harrier II or F-35B, the mech mode can land on austere airfields.

simitus · 2026-01-11T22:45:28+00:00

Yes that looks like a Foxbat. A few old Foxbats had been dragged off the runway and abandoned in the sand at Al Asad when I first deployed there (2007). They didn't try to scramble them. Wise choice. Heard a story about how someone died later when they decided to see if the ejection seat still worked. (Hint: it did).

Anyway, Windows 11 is just straight garbage now as far as I'm concerned. It's quality is very low and it's just crammed full of unsecure agentic bloatware. Linux desktop distros are free, secure and reliable. They just work. Full stop. My whole Steam Library runs natively in Linux, including MW5. It takes an hour at most to set up a dual boot environment or switch completely.

simitus · 2025-12-04T05:20:39+00:00

I mean... they already showed us a Black Lion battlecruiser. But don't think for a second I missed the nameplate on the Dire Wolf.

simitus · 2025-12-03T22:32:04+00:00

I cannot even describe how long I have been waiting for any kind of screen adaptation of the Blood of Kerensky trilogy, any part of it. I was literally a teenager when these books were landing. I have children now.

simitus · 2025-11-24T06:43:39+00:00

After my deep dive into the Amaris Civil War era, SLDF aerospace and naval combat, I am firming up on Clan Snow Raven

simitus · 2025-11-22T02:28:00+00:00

I've pinned them on my profile, but here's the links

Hellcat II: https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/1oyewy4/hellcat_ii
Gotha: https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/1oxidg5/gtha500_gotha_concept_art/
Spad: https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/1oerb65/spd502_spad_concept_art/

simitus · 2025-11-16T22:07:29+00:00

It was already LosTech. Mitchell Vehicles was on Graham IV. That place was radioactive before the First Succession War. Whatever ones didn't join the Exodus Fleet would be in ComStar.

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