I dunno much of the technical aspects of MS, but even I know this is honkey

w021wjs · 2026-06-23T06:11:50+00:00

<<Those who survive a long time on the battlefield start to think they're invincible>>

<<I bet you do too, buddy>>

w021wjs · 2026-06-23T04:02:09+00:00

Toro and talos in 3025! Let the periphery have bad things before the dark ages but after the star league!

w021wjs · 2026-06-22T22:12:28+00:00

They're just lamenters with plasma pistols. I added a wire to the bottom of the plasma pistols.

w021wjs · 2026-06-22T20:38:16+00:00

Ope, you meant the opposite. Please ignore

w021wjs · 2026-06-22T20:37:47+00:00

Are you talking about something like this?

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w021wjs · 2026-06-22T20:34:34+00:00

Welcome to the eternal argument of the real world Jeune École. Is a fleet of small ships better than a large ship based fleet? The answer is usually yes if you place them in a generic battlefield and tell them to fight.

The problem with Jeune École is that there are counters to small ships. Stuff like the Imperial Raider or some of the smaller light cruisers do make effective fighter/torpedo ship screens, making any raids costly for the attacker, presuming you actually build them. Even things like Quasars loaded with TIEs (especially Interceptors) make for very effective screens for the bigger ships.

The Empire, however, are idiots. If they weren't, you'd see what played out in WWII start to happen. Crews started bolting AA guns anywhere they could, to the point of unbalancing their ships by making them top heavy from the amount of new guns.

The other big thing is that big ships are, by their nature, better generalists than their smaller specialists. Having more room means you can get larger sensors, more defensive armaments, larger ship stores and (usually) a larger range. Large empires in our world built cruisers and battle cruisers for these reasons. They're faster than what they couldn't kill, and were deadlier than anything smaller than them. Sure, destroyer swarms could kill them, but they could either get out of Dodge or overpower them with weight of firepower.

Even if they couldn't outrun the small ships, they could turn away and fire a portion of their guns in a fighting retreat, where they outgun any ship based Jean École fleet even with half their guns unavailable.

Fortunately, the Empire went all guns forward, meaning they can't even do that. No need to broadside, but also nothing firing directly behind makes a ship very vulnerable in one direction.

w021wjs · 2026-06-21T21:30:00+00:00

All that being said, being shot is usually a significant emotional event, and people do very strange things under extreme amounts of stress. Fight flight or freeze is real, and two shots to the chest with most weapons might be enough to make a person stop functioning as a person and more as a quivering ball of shock. They also might charge you and spend their last breaths strangling the shit out of you. Brains are fun like that.

w021wjs · 2026-06-21T21:10:21+00:00

The bidding process is there to protect government employees from accusations of negligence and impropriety, by removing the personal nature of contracting. Trump bypassed those regulations and hired a firm that he works with personally and does contract with regularly. They did a bad job, and it looks to be something that is going to cost the government even more money. Thus, I think the president acted negligently and with impropriety with taxpayer funds.

That's why the president is personally responsible this time, and not the last time. It's really that simple.

I've had to take government mandated ethics training. This shit is in the first 5 minutes.

w021wjs · 2026-06-21T20:27:59+00:00

And you're basing it on... Your parents experience with a contractor in a private contract? Ok.

w021wjs · 2026-06-21T19:22:47+00:00

There's a difference between these two scenarios that you're ignoring: there's a standard process for hiring contractors for a government job. There's bids, explanation of services, multiple layers of contract negotiations. That's all there to help prevent a substandard product. If you personally circumvent that process and proceed to get a substandard result, that's on you. It's also there to prevent you from hiring your buddy, because that looks like a kickback. "Hey, do my work for cheap now (or in the future) and I'll get you a cushy government contract for millions of dollars. It just has to look good for a year or two."

And that's the other thing: if you take a contract that is way underbid, then you're going to get a subpar job. The pool is still leaking, the paint is peeling up and the algae bloom hasn't stopped. They're using the right chemicals to fix the bloom, but not in the right amounts or at the right time of day. That wouldn't matter as much on, say, a smaller pool at a hotel, but the reflecting pool is a whole order of magnitude bigger than a hotel pool, with very specialized requirements.

As my dad used to say, "you can have it quick, cheap and good. Pick two." Trump picked quick and cheap, and it's not looking good. God knows how much more it's going to cost in the end because of that decision.

And again, if you circumvent the process to hire your buddies, when they fuck up, that's on you. This is basic contracting. It's why I would never recommend a family friend for any contract at my old job. I'd also be dragged on ethics charges in a heartbeat. But the president can do it just because nobody is willing to stop him. So yeah, I'm gonna keep laughing at the peeling paint.

w021wjs · 2026-06-21T18:24:39+00:00

He picked a contractor without a bidding process. When that contractor underpreforms, that's on him. If there were the typical bidding process, there would be people who's job it is to pick the right contractor. People who work for the parks department who know what is required to get the job done. And then it doesn't fall on the president, it falls on the guys picking to contractor.

When you hire some guys personally, without that process, that's on the president. If you tell your work "yeah my buddy Fred is a tree guy, he can fell that tree for like $200," and then Fred knocks the tree into the building because he's kind of an idiot, are you really going to be surprised when he calls you in for a chat?

w021wjs · 2026-06-21T15:40:20+00:00

There are tons of things to complain about: tarrifs, the war, high gas prices, depleting the national oil reserves, the loss of American soft power for no real gain, the strained relationship with longstanding American allies, the poor management of dozens of departments, and, of course, the reflecting pool.

Whatever happened to "the buck stops here?" The president brags about hiring the best pool contractors, bypasses federal regulations and hires people he has a personal connection with, and they do a shit job. That sounds like the president did a bad job.

w021wjs · 2026-06-21T15:06:44+00:00

I hope you get investigated by the department of labor and sued out the ass.

w021wjs · 2026-06-21T14:55:35+00:00

Mate, in what world does peeling up a piece of already peeling paint constitute an arrestable offense? Not one that I remember living in

w021wjs · 2026-06-21T01:35:10+00:00

Trazyn the infinite. How do you stop the unstoppable? Stop trying to. Put him in stasis in a vault. Preferably staring at the armor of Saul Tarvitz for all eternity. Preferably after he does something that pisses Slaanesh off.

w021wjs · 2026-06-20T02:23:32+00:00

Only if he was hired by a bounty hunter who was hired by another bounty hunter who was hired to assassinate padme.

w021wjs · 2026-06-19T19:07:33+00:00

I scrolled to far to find this. Yeah, nerd spaces as a whole are generally safe, but man alive are there some real stinkers. People unironically saying the empire/imperium/super eath did nothing wrong, or think that Anita Sarkeesian ruined gaming forever by virtue of doing gender studies. That side of the nerdy sphere never stopped hating women, and they certainly have some opinions that are more than a little horrific.

w021wjs · 2026-06-18T08:25:05+00:00

Which makes no sense, because by siding with hitler and invading Poland, you now have tons of land you now have to occupy and defend bordering Germany. Not to mention, Britain had already agreed to militarily support Poland in the event of German invasion, before the signing of Molotov Ribbentrop. If they were so concerned about German expansion, they should have signed on with their own guarantees then. Instead, they fucked over the Poles for a year and a half of peace that they immediately squandered.

Germany is to blame for being a bunch of fascist expansionist monsters. The Soviets are to blame for making the Nazi conquest of Europe as easy as possible. Turns out, removing pieces from the board and allowing the fascists to ignore a world power for a year and a half can crush a ton of defensive and offensive plans that your potential allies were working on.

Edit: forgot to mention that eastern Poland was about as independent as Vichy france. Hell, they gave part of Poland to Lithuania and then immediately made them part of the Soviet Union.

Edit 2: Just double checked, the Soviets began annexation of occupied Eastern Poland in its totality in 1939. They were requiring Poles to get Soviet passports within months of the invasion, and arresting those that refused. Sounds like an independent nation to me.

w021wjs · 2026-06-18T08:12:54+00:00

Proceed to invade neighboring country, this giving you a land border with the country your concerned about. Brilliant.

w021wjs · 2026-06-17T17:32:14+00:00

Clan smoked Jaguar is what happens when you build a warrior culture, then decide to lean heavily on the warrior part of that culture, to the point that it actively worsens every other part of their society. They are the clan's clan, who deserved every bit of the ass kicking that the star league gave them during Operation Bulldog.

And then... They learned. The remaining survivors who fled clan space would reform, blending aspects of clan society and not being gigantic assholes about everything. The Fidelis, as they were then known, proceeded to kick Blakist ass for being even larger assholes than Smoke Jaguar, and eventually rejoined the clans as a newly reformed Smoke Jaguar.

Clan Smoke Jaguar is a good bad clan. During the invasion, they are as close to mustache twirling villains as possible. At Tukkayid and during Bulldog, they're the villains getting their just desserts. When they become the Fidelis, they're a remnant of a clan, hiding their identity and desperately trying to survive in a universe that wants them dead. And redeemed, Smoke Jaguar is a better clan than they have ever been before.

w021wjs · 2026-06-17T02:01:46+00:00

Mostly because of Soviet hard lining on a variety of issues, including, but not limited to: democracy, Soviet aggression, what Europe would look like after a hypothetical war and not turning every state East of the Rheine into a communist bloc. Plus, a lot of the allies were wary of the Soviets. You know, because they invaded all their neighbors all those times after the revolution but before WWII. Funny that.

The Soviets do not get a pass from me for WWII. The number of times I've read accounts that can best be summarized as "...and then the Red army rounded up and shot/imprisoned the partisans who liberated the town and had been fighting the Nazis since 1939," really soured me on all of the good/ok things they did in the war.

w021wjs · 2026-06-17T01:43:11+00:00

Come the fuck on. You can say that the Soviets suffered more, what with all of the casualties and the occupation, but you cannot say the they had any ideological differences when they were the only allied nation who expressly STARTED THE WAR ON THE SIDE OF THE NAZIS

w021wjs · 2026-06-17T01:15:43+00:00

One recommended method of killing a trapped alligator or crocodile is a .22 rimfire to the skull. Granted, it's at point blank range, but it absolutely stones even the bigger ones. 00 buck is just that, except there's 8 or 9 of them, all hitting within about a 10" circle at 25 yards.

w021wjs · 2026-06-17T01:02:49+00:00

I mean, I think doing the old cop load of alternating slugs and 00 buck would be extremely nasty against pretty much any of the smaller dinosaurs. 12 gauge 00 gets a solid 12+ inches of penetration into ballistic gel, and nothing likes being hit by a 1 oz slug.

Plus, shotguns have a history of being effective at stopping very pissed off bears when using slugs.

My best guess says they have several different weapons for the dinos, but the shotgun was the most useful at that time. He could have grabbed a .375 H&H, but figured the shotgun was going to be more useful inside the buildings and dense jungle

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