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Balsa posted:What I want to know is why control consoles in Star trek can even explode?! I mean, I get the wall panel ones, since its got poo poo running behind it. but the bridge and its control panels should not be able to kill anyone.... Starfleet cant keep pumping out so many new officers if there arent roles for them
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:...payments? Its just a concise way of saying unlock the replicator function to make pre-triangle-folded federation flags
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Jul 18, 2020 08:26
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post funeral cocktails of Gin Rickey's will be served in the aft lounge.
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I liked the episode of Ghost in the Shell: Hegelian Cops Unit with the anti-implant terrorist group basically being completely correct about their issues with the implants and how the government uses non implant status among refugees to exploit them and how that wasn't even the main theme of the episode, just a thing everyone involved kind just accepts. The new series of Stand Alone Complex on Netflix is fuckin trash, btw.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Lol I thought it was good after the first episode with Section 9 doing a pacifist run It was more a joke about the bluntness with which the show occassionally brings up philosophers up Hegel. I also feel like any show like SAC has a real dialectic going in every episode for the characters but thats not intentional in my joke. BiggestOrangeTree posted:Wow, a thread just for my boy Jet Alone. Jet Alone could have killed at least two of the Angels on its own sans any AT field. The main reason it got sabotaged though was because if it worked humanity could have dealt with the reason why the Angels were attacking without putting themselves at risk/letting the background scheme percolate
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Some Goon posted:Y'all ain't wrong, but as a nonliving being Jet Alone couldn't have done poo poo against an AT field. I do not think Jet Alone could have won under the conditions of the death cult wanted to play the game, but given they do kill some angels sans any discussion of AT fields or via "convential" weaponry rather than barrier contact its possible they could have made it work. What Im saying is the entire rebuild series should be dumpstered and we get an alternate timeline series where Jet Alone works and steals the funding.
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I don't think they can predict Angel attacks that accurately, and even if they could the whole point would be to demo this thing in a non emergency time period. As lumbering and stupid as it is, it could concievably have wrecked one of the upcoming angels which has the distinction of being the only one taken down by the standard gun Evas are equipped with. Also this episode occurs before the thing the death cult needs is transferred to them, its possible if they lose funding they don't get that item. Hell maybe it gets destroyed instead since humans think they don't need it anymore and as an attempt to stop the angels. Something else to keep in mind is the people in charge of Jet Alone also make a claim an artificial AT field is in the works. How true that is is never seen, but again, if you want your death cult ending to happen you surely don't want money spent on successfully building a counter to your endgame.
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General Battuta posted:Jets Alone Jet Together, surely? But yes, by the end of the series they have extremely potent artificial AT piercing weaponry, but the question would be (since its not super clear) when those were completed and if they could have survived whatever assaults until those were ready. It'd obviously be extremely different but it'd be an interesting what-if where humans decide to go with Jet Alone and finish off Adam only to discover Angels keep going for the Tokyo 3 base as they scramble to make Jet Alone fully functional while dealing with the competing Evas and whatever the back-up plot would be by the Zoom Meeting of Doom
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Yeah, N2 mines are explicitly no fallout, and how they work is never said in show, so just insert your own personal biblical nonsense technobable here. On the note of stupid tech in Evangelion, the tiny dingy they put in the blood sea in central dogma. NERV has the budget for a graveyard of failed mechas, a geofront base, a city inhabited entirely by expensible specialists to make it work 24/7 and they gotta use a repurposed fishing boat to go inspect the god they keep locked up in their basement. The thing has one cheap rope mooring it, what the hell, this is where you cut costs? General Battuta posted:Zound Only This made me laugh all day.
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They used N2 bombs in the war before the series, I thought. So it seemed less nuclear disarmament and more people felt comfy using the hell out of N2 bombs since no radiation so stockpiles naturally transitioned. Or Im making this up because only so much data fits on my walkman cassette Im using to listen to my class notes on.
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Honey just because Ragripper has a decommissioned nuclear warhead doesn't mean we have to have one, it doesn't even work. Dammit, spouse, its not about it working or no, its about prestige. Im Warlord Thundrous, and I should have a missile. Sometimes you can just be so insensitive <hires a black leather clad wanderer in a V8 interceptor to help him steal the missile setting off a chain reaction of social uprising leading to both his and Ragrippers demise>
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The NCR stands out because they actually have infrastructure and science; one of the triggers for Veronica's storyline is vising the Vegas office of the NCR's science and industry office and realising that the NCR don't just have scavenged technology but are actively researching and innovating. It's also noted that the Gun Runners produce all of their merchandise on-site from blueprints, in the one quest where the Crimson Caravan wants said blueprints for their own. Which is baffling because the nuclear war that ended the world was, in game, 200 years prior to the events of Fallout New Vegas. Im not saying that the world should be perfectly hunky dory or whatever, just, you know within 150 years of the black death in Europe they discovered the new world.
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Republic Era: A controlled weapon used as a symbol of status by an insane space cult Imperial Era: A controlled weapon used as a symbol of status by an insane space cult who tried to kill the rightfully elected chancellor and whose remaining collaborators are shoot on sight Sequel Era: Its the Imperial Era again for no reason, gently caress it, lets go home
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Some Goon posted:Or just transport their insides elsewhere. Just transport them directly to space and the city is yours.
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Transport the neuron arrangement that contains memories of them always having been a happy member of your civilization into their brain
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:Trek forgets alot of things that they invent. You gotta cut power output to the dolphin's fuckpad and the federation can't abide that
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Finally, what intergalactic phone companies were missing, pre-paid phone card guilds
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Turn the vapor into really hot vapor, thus negating the need to even have line of sight with the room. Phasers are basically portable war crimes.
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I always liked A Dry Quiet War (seriously one of my favorite short stories of all time) and in it while not fully elucidated there are clear heirarchies and tiers of super soldiers that are so beyond a normal person that something a higher tier can effortlessly destroy is so dangerous as to be like a god to normal humans.
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Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans got mentioned and I gotta say the ending of the show being logistics>super soldiers was unexpected.
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SlothfulCobra posted:In 40k they also have a procedure where they scoop out enough key bits of humanity out of a person so that what's left is either a mindless drone capable of performing basic menial tasks or a personality-less processing machine. Machine smart enough to say the imperium is wrong is a machine that gets a brains scooping. The Dreadclaw Drop Pod that was born on a mountain and raised in cave? Totally fine.
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It uses fuel that is limited enough to matter in The Last Jedi and Solo but not interesting enough to have any details
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OB1 being a clone name was a pretty popular fan theory, you weren't alone.
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Defiance Industries posted:If you start asking questions like that you also have to ask why that asteroid belt, with so many asteroids so close together, isn't the industrial heart of the entire galaxy with Hoth as a 1940s Detroit in space Other asteroid fields aren't infested with space worms
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I really liked that bit in Alien, if only because it has such a good setting establishment of "the company doesn't give a gently caress as long as it makes it there, the little humans exist to solve our mistakes and corner cuts" Honestly, of most sci-fi settings while the tech has obvious issues it feels authentic to reality in so far as everything is cut to the bone on manpower and corporations exert an unquestioned role in society. Barudak fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Dec 24, 2021 |
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The Aspen beer cans are a collectible lore item in the new Aliens Fireteam game and I literally thought they were made up for it until your post
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Big Guy and Rusty is a comedy action program where the 1950s basically never stopped all the way into the 1990s, so having a very lovely robot is in line. I still think of the scene where they're showing the failed Big Guy prototypes as being just pure dad humor. "how many fingers am I holding up?" "Thursday"
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Robot Style posted:Weird detour for Frank Miller to take between Daredevil and 300. Its probably his best work, too
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The titular Tek from Tekwar is something only someone who has never done drugs could come up with because it requires so much infrastructure to operate.
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muscles like this! posted:I've learned about Tekwar from a couple of things but one thing nobody has ever explained is how exactly does Tek work as a repeat business for a Tek dealer? Because it is like a program right? Does it just stop working after a certain amount of time? So the infrastructure is still good, but you need more Tek (the patches) to make the Tek (the vr rig) convincing enough you believe its real. You gotta occassionally upgrade your Tek (the rig) to keep up with the latest Tek (the patches) and presumably someone, somewhere, got clean due to struggling with incompatible hardware glitches. Theres a fun concept in the start of the first book when he finds out his wife left him because he went to jail and was a Tek addict where he thinks she came back and says she still loves him but she needs him to get his life back together and it turns out thats his current Tek trip. He then just kind quits Tek and its fine. Honestly the most disappointing part of TekWar is, presumably, when you do Tek you feel as if the moments while Tekked up? Tekking? E-Tek-ulating? are real but nobody ever has dysphoria from incongruent memories or uses it to become like, a combat god or something. Barudak fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jul 19, 2025 |
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Splicer posted:Just because it feels real doesn't mean it's realistic. You could probably use tek to feel like you're a combat god right up until you try to hit a guy and break your own arm because you've spent the past three years playing super puzzle fighter Tek Edition And that would be infinitely more fun, of having Jake Cardigan (I cannot believe thats his name either but yes, that is his name) trundle some Tekk'd up lunatics who think they know how to use guns but all they have is unearned confidence. Hell it's give you a good explanation of where all these low level flunkies come from. Like this is TekWars problem; it has a bunch of cool ideas that it doesn't understand are cool and instead retreats back to the safety of 1960s/70s era pulp detective material. Barudak fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jul 19, 2025 |
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Defiance Industries posted:Isn't Jake a "nickname" for John in that book? I don't remember that, but I also do not wish to dredge up more memories of a book series I borrowed from the library due to desparation and how cool the cover of the first one was. The subsequent ones, get, uh, a little stupid. Like Tek Vengeance, which shows us that in the future of 2120, there are still public pay phones and somehow, in what might be the wildest bit of sci-fi in the series, a US public phone is clean and maintained.
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