Berttheduck

If physics were no object why not have a better tank?

Walkers generally have lots of problems compared to conventional warfare. Mainly they aren’t resilient enough to stand up to much more than rifle or pistol caliber weapons without some hand waving. Joints are super vulnerable if you want them to still move and you can’t mount as big a gun as you could on a conventional vehicle on something that walks. We don’t currently have something that is portable and powerful enough for what would be needed for most sizes of mech. Also depending on how tall your mech is they are way bigger targets for equivalent firepower compared to a tank and by virtue of following a human body pattern are less armoured.

So yeah if physics is not a problem then have an anime mech powered by unobtanium with vibranium armour and a giga buster gun, they could fill every role in a conventional military. Mechs are all about the rule of cool. If you want realism then maybe something like an exoskeleton to help infantry carry more kit or bigger weapons. Up to a little bigger than a person they could potentially be useful in dense environments like urban or jungle where things like tanks are vulnerable to ambush by infantry.

UK government is asking people to be prepared and have 3 days of food and water ready. To make an emergency plan like for a fire and to check in with your neighbours in case they need support.

Gonna have to go with something like a lasgun from 40k. Given the restrictions of no vehicles or weapons platforms and nothing magical.

The lasgun is a mass produced rifle which hits something like a modern day 50cal and has basically infinite ammo by being able to recharge the battery packs from literally any available source including sunlight and chucking them in a fire.

Think of the tech advances we could get from that. The battery alone would change how tech functions. Given how ass backwards the imperium is about tech there’s also a decent chance we could work out how to reproduce it pretty quickly too.

Other good options are fallout laser or plasma guns for similar reasons. I’m trying to remember if those guns take fusion cores because we’ve been working on that for a very long time.

You are technically correct, the best kind. I probably should phrase that as taking a life rather than murder.

I genuinely don’t know. My beliefs are pretty contradictory on this. Murder is wrong, unless it’s self defence in which case it’s still bad but better than being killed yourself. This is a pretty core tennant of my beliefs. However I genuinely believe that there are a number of people the world would be better off without. This includes the awful right wing leaders much of the world seems to be under currently and their backers namely every billionaire on the planet. It is potentially possible that with something like the death note I could convince myself that writing those names is self defence, or defence or the planet/ human race. I don’t know if I could go through with it or if I’d be able to find someone with more flexible/ extreme views and hand it over to them. Or if I could use it, destroy or hide it and then turn myself in.

On one hand I’m sad that a good team with some good games under them is closing down. On the other hand I’m glad that the BioWare team isn’t going to be making games for the Saudis so hopefully someone decent picks up the team and the IPs in future.

Memetic hazards. Hands down no question, lie to me.

Sharks are older than trees.

The appendix isn’t useless it helps repopulate your gut bacteria after you’ve been ill.

Some people have their heart on the right side of their chest. Some people have all their organs swapped round - really confuses surgeons.

I used to work with a Doctor who could after a 30s to two minutes conversation and maybe placing hands on a pulse or abdomen give an accurate diagnosis and management plan. Just decades of clinical experience and staying up to date with everything shining through. Seriously impressive to watch. Never doubted a diagnosis either unlike some other times I’ve seen that done.

Needs tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding and toast. Maybe some form of potatoes. This is like discount full English breakfast.

Psychiatric diagnoses are made with time and extensive interviewing. Usually you need symptoms to be present, persistent and having a negative effect on the patient’s life for a diagnosis.

You do raise a very good point though because there is so much more subjectivity diagnosis can take a long time, a part of it is trying to rule out what you describe.

Apparently you really offended all the people who do get chips and curry sauce from the Chinese. Which always felt a bit sacrilegious to me, like these places are known for amazing rice and noodles so let’s get fried potato which we can get at basically any other food place in the UK.

The driver is obviously at fault for using a 2 ton metal box to kill someone whilst drunk. The fact that they died as well just means justice is working quicker.

Whistle with my fingers, took a good few weeks of practice over one summer blowing spit all over my fingers but eventually I learned. Still a really useful skill today.

I enjoy both. I switch between fiction/fantasy heavy and science heavy. Sometimes I’ll do a run or a series of one and get a hankering for the other. Usually I prefer my sci-fi more science than fiction. I love the expanse and the martian for example. But I also enjoy the culture and the Polity books which are more fiction than hard sci-fi.

I’m pretty sure the anachronisms in a knights tale are deliberate to give modern audiences more appreciation for the feel of things for the locals of that time period. Great movie. Always forget it’s really long though.

Well shit, I was playing dying light 2 yesterday. It’s mildly better than the other game I’ve been playing Pathogenic which is a rogue lite where you play a pathogen trying to kill the scientist who made you in a lab.

Think I’m pretty screwed either way to be honest. At least I’m dying light 2 I get to be human and do parkour so that’s cool.

Steam OS? Or emulators? It’s not like an old laptop is going to be running modern games

Could you just put Linux on the old machine instead? I suspect that would be safer.

And party on dudes.