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The book is called Armor. It starts with a kickin' rad power armor combat sequence and has a few more of those kind of scenes - Felix kicking Ant rear end despite the best efforts of High Command to get him killed. That;s not what the book is actually about. it is about armor. The kind of armor we put between our vulnerable selves and a cold, uncaring universe where hurt happens to those who don't deserve it. Think about why Felix put the Scout suit on. Re-read all of Karen's backstory. You probably know people with as painful a past as Karen had, but can't realize it because they never opened up about it. I was on my 5th or 6th re-read when an ex-GF of mind popped into my head. The thought of the poo poo she went through coming of age as the "pretty one", and what happened to her made me weep. Then do Lya, she's only the first to break under the tidal wave of Felix' experiences. Karen and Lya's stories are the most important ones in the book. That's how real people deal with trauma. The cool poo poo in the Scout suit is just sugar coating to get you to take in the medicine.
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Wild T posted:My favorite response to folks raving about how those cowardly French always surrender is to point out that the American Revolution would have been a failed footnote in history if France join in due to their love of loving up the British. Then give us a huge sum of cash to get started and a fancy statue to boot. Y'all can thank Ben Franklin's penis for that. The French left the flower of their manhood on the bloody, muddy fields of WW1. They get a pass for several generations after that.
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Aug 9, 2019 06:44
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Also, as a resident of the city that built the Helldivers that helped sink the Yamato, Japan's continuing obsession with their giant all powerful ship-dick is never not bizarre/mildly amusing. On the plus side, Yamato 2199/2202 are really good remakes of classic animes. They drop all of the nationalism that made it into the original series.
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Aug 19, 2019 07:52
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Casimir Radon posted:At least CAP has a slightly better chance of doing something cool. That's a big maybe, but far better than the big fat zero chance you'd get in JROTC. I quit CAP after 6 months because the ETA on the promised time up in airplanes was "LOL, what ?" That, and not getting into the naval academy were my closest brushes with actually signing up. I feel somehow blessed.
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Oct 19, 2019 05:14
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Lethality Jane is a pro follow on the Twitter.
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Dec 19, 2019 04:31
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CainFortea posted:There's dumb, then there's all along the watchtowers dumb. That was the best kind of entertaining dumb. It was an awesome moment of television. Then we had a week until the next episode to think about it and... don't do that, it ruins the fun. 33 rules.
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Dec 29, 2019 10:42
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MA-Horus posted:Oh we haven't even discussed Mack Maloney and the Wingman series. The WIngman series is high art in its own way: full on whackadoo bananas poo poo
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Feb 18, 2020 21:20
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That's a nice post, but it isn't a prescription for a compound of 0.3% Nitroglycerin in white petroleum jelly [petrolat]. Get that prescribed early in the process if you've got damage down there.
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Apr 8, 2020 05:42
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Had a fissure, was in shocking levels of agony. Got prescribed that compound, healed in 2 days. Had to see two doctors to get it. I told the second one who I'd seen first, and he just said "I've got better drugs than he does." He did.
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Apr 9, 2020 01:44
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Godholio posted:Sounds like our new Mt Gipmore dude, frankly. He's on Fred Dibnah's level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04dGK1_wYA
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Apr 16, 2020 03:48
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Apr 30, 2020 16:26
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I don't see a strip club, a used car lot, or even a payday lender. 3/10. I see an empty storefront. Have Patience everyone else in your unit has.
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Jun 9, 2020 02:29
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Cyrano4747 posted:Fun fact - GiP doing its thing is what got me to make moves on killing "retard" in TFR back whenever I did it. Thank god someone made a new Idiots thread, just the username of the OP of the old one was pissing people off on a daily basis.
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Jun 15, 2020 01:27
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I finally got to reading the self-published book of Humper Monkey ghost stories.It starts in the Haunted Barracks and ends in the insane Cold War-bullshit stories. I will not tell a lie, that's a really good military-themed book of ghost stories. Highly recommended, search Amazon for "Humper Monkey and grab it. There's a bunch after Haunted Barracks that I don't recall seeing here.
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Midjack posted:A lot of those stories are available here too: https://nothotbutspicy.com/para/ Just to keep things interesting, he may also have written this: https://smile.amazon.com/How-Not-Start-Backpack-Company/dp/1735437409/ That one has an author's bio that kinda matches what we (I) have heard here. But like I just said in my Amazon review, I want the Cold War Bullshit sequel. e. Nevermind. Reading stories at NHBS Corporal Ant mentions his brother is also in the unit. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Sep 20, 2020 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:If he's selling his work now they probably shouldn't be. He don't wanna put another volume together that I can give him money for he might as well leave 'em 'up.
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Liquid Communism posted:I thought everyone knew, I bought a print copy of that first story like 7 years ago. Been up on nothotbutspicy forever though, back when we still had yearly ghost story threads in GBS. There is a mortal shitload of stuff I hadn't read ! I'm going through the second winter in the new barracks and someone really needs to get this man an agent. It needs an editor, but this is the good poo poo.
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So I've been working my way through the 50 Foot Ant stories on nothotbutspicy.com and, if you read any of his stories, read 50FA's 3rd story. It's purestrain, uncut, Cold War Bullshit: decommissioning a 1950s vintage Continuity of Government bunker. Sized for 6000 people and the motor pool and artillery battery to match. That's on a mountain. In winter. That should give away the gist of the story right there. But there's some wild poo poo down there and, oh man, 50FA does not like the loving CIA. Not one bit. He needs an editor and an agent, these stories would clean up real good. I mean gently caress, why hasn't someone from Baen found him and started piling cash in front of him until he signs a deal ?
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Sep 29, 2020 03:50
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quote:"General Peay has served VMI as superintendent exceptionally well for more than 17 years. General Peay is a great American, patriot and hero. He has profoundly changed our school for the better in all respects," the statement said. In every respect except for the, uh... racism.
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Oct 27, 2020 23:19
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Totally watching the good the bad and the ugly. I'm just leave this right here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo The Danish National Orchestra has done a lot of nerd-adjacent soundtracks, check 'em out. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Nov 1, 2020 |
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That reminds me of something that is both a canonical paratroop story and a canonical Gurkha story. In WW2 the British were looking to convert a Gurkha battalion into paratroops. They pulled the battalion into mess and broke out a film project and put on a training film about paratroops. Some nitwit had got the wrong film, it was one about defending against a parachute assault, had lots of shooting at men in chutes, and ended with the line, "if your unit does everything right, there's no reason a single enemy will reach the ground alive." Luckily for the brass, the Gurkhas don't speak English and as far as they're concerned they just watched a film with lots of shouting, shooting, and chuting. The whole battalion put their hands up for jump school.
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Defenestrategy posted:I have to assume at this point you'd have to be REALLLY good at reading cat moods if you had that as a pet. A play or "don't do that" bite from my room mates cat kinda sucks and can draw some amount of blood, I can only imagine one from a dwarf puma. I gotta play downer on this. If you get bit by a cat and they draw blood, disinfect the hell out of it - which is tricky for a narrow puncture wound. If you see the slightest sign of redness around the wound, go to urgent care, you are at risk for losing whatever part of you got bit. Don't hesitate because of lack of insurance, you've already lost the "crippling medical expenses" lottery and now have a ticket in the "getting bits medically amputated" lottery. Seriously, you could lose a hand to infection. Love the fuzzy little guys, but train any biting behavior out of them urgently.
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HelleSpud posted:Watching the "Battle of May Island" episode of "Down the Rabbit Hole" and thinking of you. That's a good video, very informative on a bizarre situation. The thing is, the ability to spring a torpedo ambush on the enemy battlefleet just as the grand decisive battle starts is a tactical advantage beyond price. Studying that concept and developing it are worth doing. The problem comes when someone goes all in on the idea and says "yes" when they see the blueprints to the loving K-class. Nothing in their design specs says "this will work". The Royal Navy gets a lot of flak for being hidebound traditionalists, but they were into aviation, submarines, and even armored cars very early. That's all fine, but this was "if it works we're geniuses" taken to the point where it kills hundreds of your own sailors and would never have actually delivered. And then there's the M-class...
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Jun 27, 2021 07:27
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Wrr posted:I'm an confused old man someone explain to me who is getting owned and why and who the good person to root for here is and who I should dislike thanks in advanced xoxoxo Some dweeb was talking down to women in the military and posted that pic as his credentials. The woman he was talking down to came back with her showing all her medals, including jump qualifications, a combat badge, an expert marksman with the rifle. And he was never heard from again. Because he got murdered live on Twitter.
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Jul 18, 2021 23:00
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Memento posted:I worked with an Afghani guy who was a senior driller for one of the big mine drilling companies in Western Australia. Top bloke. He told me a couple of years ago he thought sometimes about how it would be nice to see the old country again but he knows he almost certainly never will. Good news for him if anyone ever goes after those fabled mineral deposits in Afghanistan.
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Aug 13, 2021 04:04
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goatsestretchgoals posted:HP Laserjet 4 is close on mine resistant and full platoon. Word. That and the 5si would spit out tens of thousands of duplex pages a day all the while someobdy stood next to them hitting them with a hammer. You can still get toner and drivers for the drat things. They aren't energy efficient by a drat sight, but they're lean mean printing motherfuckers.
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Sep 14, 2021 07:10
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:"So I have a very stupid hypothetical you might find amusing..." And I have a video that's close, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYBEl9HFDEI
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Sep 25, 2021 01:16
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Did someone say mall ninja ? https://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
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Nov 16, 2021 23:57
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Kith posted:I'm starting to think I should just ask y'all for feedback on this stuff because every """expert""" that has approached me so far has either been very extremely talking out of their rear end or hasn't offered me anything I couldn't learn from Wikipedia. You have to put this in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfNPihoelPM
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Nov 19, 2021 19:27
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Lemniscate Blue posted:English is a pidgin invented by Norman mercenaries to talk Saxon barmaids into bed. This isn't actually correct, but explaining why takes a two-semester course on the history of the English language, so it'll do for conversational purposes.
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Dec 7, 2022 07:04
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Icon Of Sin posted:Is 420 the French drug-number, or do they think we have a weird obsession with 80? Everyone else in the world thinks eighty being "four twenties" is hilarious. It also being a drug number only makes it funnier.
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Dec 8, 2022 20:49
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I worked for a classic of the type. His recounting of his career stopped in 1993 in Johannesburg and resumed in London in 1994. Gee, I wonder why.
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The Valley Stared posted:If you've got a local place that makes nice jerky, get some of that. It sounds strange, but jerky is drat good currency on ships. And if you don't have a local place, these people make top of the line jerky. A selection of the 2 0z. bags should be a hit. I'll recommend the old-fashioned original without hesitation, it's got that particular flavor of aged beef. https://peopleschoicebeefjerky.com/
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shame on an IGA posted:Lazerpig Good, drink straight from the firehose Second. His gimmick isn't for everyone, but he gives good commentary and analysis.
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Panty Saluter posted:As I understand it the M1 Carbine was designed as a short range engagement weapon that would take the place of a pistol as a sidearm. So being easy to shoot would definitely follow. We had one of those when I was in high school. It is indeed a treat to shoot, accurate out to 200 yards, light to carry, light recoil. On the other hand, a full tear-down and reassemble is a loving chore. That thing is entirely small parts that fit together in cunning and clever ways designed to mystify you. It's still an A- sporting shooter, but be warned.
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Feb 28, 2023 19:56
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McNally posted:Unless you try disassembling, like, the trigger group for some reason. Ding ding ding! One of the people teaching me suggested I try it as a learning exercise. He ended up putting it back together.
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I'm in favor of a shooting vacation, pending results from friends and co-workers who have braved the perils of air travel in the "post"-Covid era.
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I've got some really bad news about why kids might employ "smelling bad" as a defensive strategy.
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MarcusSA posted:I don't think this lady would be happy anywhere. And we have some very bad news about being half-Korean near an awful lot of Army bases.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:/edit: She plugged the article via a public LinkedIn post and commented the following: Now that's how you put the fish on the table.
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