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I think it depends on how frequently per session they want you to be able to do this. Could they say - you go into a hospital, "die," get your consciousness transported to another medical bed where you "wake up" ala the rez mechanic? Yes. But that would mean you could actually do that like, several times per session if you wanted. It would also worthwhile to do that like ... in the middle of a firefight. You could just teleport right into it. I suspect that they actually don't want that. Personally, I'm thinking maybe this could be solved not by spawning your character, but your hangar. I'm thinking that your personal hangar could spawn in whatever base you could summon your hangar at. You could say, "Start in my medium hangar at New Babbage" and then when your buddy comes online and he's in Orison, you could log out, move your medium hangar to Orison, and log in. You couldn't necessarily do your large hangar at a place that can't do large hangars, and you wouldn't be able to go to any place that can't do hangars. So that doesn't allow you to teleport all the way to your leader, but it does allow you to cut out huge amounts of space travel time. As we move into multiple systems, I think that's the problem they must solve. Getting you all the way to that final leg, I think they purposefully don't want to solve. But that's not the part that people are complaining about. Yet. Maybe in the future players'll complain about that final leg, but right now, if I'm in Nyx and my buddy starts in Stanton it's like ... might as well not even try to meet up. It'll take 30-45 minutes for him to even get to Nyx, and then another 20-30 minutes to get to the same place, and that's if nothing goes wrong and nobody explodes. If he could just start in the same base I'm at? Hell yeah.

Idea: Teleporting functionality could be tied to bunks, where they function similar to medbeds requiring you set them as a "respawn" in person. Beds can only be assigned to 1 to 2 people each, depending on the ship. Assigned beds can be chosen from the menu to log in to like a landing zone. Assignments could be reset or deleted by the owner of the ship, but assignments can only happen in person and if the person has permissions from the owner by being in the group. Assignments could be saved like attachments and components between reclaims! This gives more practical function to bunks, balance to a teleporting function (limited by bunk number), and adds value to capital ships for orgs! Whatcha guys think?

The US Gov't has very advanced camera sensors. But they are not infallible, and they are not impervious to outside interference (such as cosmic radiation). If an aviator looking at a camera goes, "I don't know what that dot is" then the gov't should absolutely take it seriously. But these are anomalous dots on CMOS censors. (Of course, they might be a Chinese drone, or a Russian spy plane, if they have those still. So they gotta take it serious.) The more interesting photos, such as the moon ones, also have more plausible explanations, ranging from lens effects to some old booster (nasa.gov/science-resear…) but they are definitely more interesting than dots on censors. But all these things get conflated. "Oh, but military people have reported UAPs!" Military people have reported dots on sensors. I am unaware of any active duty, on mission military servicemember that has said, "I saw a bronze ellipsoid appear out of a bright light with my own two eyes" haha (I'd be interested in that story though, if it existed! But literally all of them, you dig in and it's like "well, I mean, yeah he was looking at a camera screen, it was 120 miles away" ... yeah ...) I will never get excited by dots on sensors because there's way too many mundane explanations. Or ellipsoids. Or "perfect ellipsoids that show up dead center of the camera wow what an amazing ufo" like ... yeah🙄. And the gov'ts response is, of course, "we have absolutely no comment on our $120,000 camera sensor getting fried for no obvious reason" As for the timing of all this stuff, Trump's been talking about this forever. The very sad part is, they're moving as fast as they can hahaha

UFO: The Department of War just released this. I don't know what it is, but the fact that it's a single dot that they themselves felt compelled to share... one where the heads of the FBI, NSA, and Department of War all felt compelled to add a statement to. I don't know what this is, but I think they do. If this is a psyop... why now? To what end? The Epstein files are buzzing in the background but have functionally lost steam. The Iran War as a think has fizzled out. And mostly I think a lot of people will think this too unreal to believe anyway. Their natural distrust of the Government will kick in. So if it's real... wow. But if it's a deliberate fake.. why? Why now?

@ThePraxiologist Yeah but... The French.

Meatballs are a type of sausage and I don't care who thinks I'm wrong.

@MichaelFKane Yeah. It's pre-spiced meat! But they focus grouped "pre-spiced meat" and the response was overwhelmingly 👎👎so they said, "Fine, it's sausage" and the French were like

@ThePraxiologist I have a pound of italian ground sausage not in a case in my fridge as we speak. In fact the most commonly sold sausage in the US (breakfast sausage for patties) is caseless.

I mean, however you feel about Red Letter Media, they gave us generational memes. For that I’m forever grateful

I would use the noun, myself. Of course, if you do that, it kind of presents a small issue, which is that "driving a spear of depleted uranium plasma" is a lot like saying, "a cloud of water steam" Plasma is typically not really an element, anymore, per se. So yeah I'd probably just call it plasma, regardless of the source.

I know this is not a word but I don't know of a better one. The main missile weapons in the Starry Knight universe use a nuclear shaped charge that turns a chunk of depleted uranium into a nuclear EFP. Thus it is plasmafied. I really don't have a better word. 'driving a spear of plasmafied depleted uranium forward at relativistic speeds' Thoughts?

Do these ridiculous journalists think the armor below is actually historically accurate? "What would keep you safe in battle" and "What our heroes wear" Is not the same thing, and has not been the same thing since Greeks drew on pots 3000 years ago. It will continue to not be the same thing in the future. Armor can and will be sexy, heroic, badass, vicious looking, sad looking, too big, too small, too heavy, too light, and bad for battle for as long as we have heroes who have characteristics we want to come out in the clothing and armor they wear. That's what it's for! It's for story telling! If it was actually for battle, everyone would look the same as everyone else! Well, not really. The rich guys would have the same armor, i.e. the best. Everyone else would have whatever they could cobble together. But you know what I mean.

The vast majority has a very different opinion than this dude. The huge backlash to his article shows most people even at his channel actually love the female armor designs in Lords of the Fallen 2. Completely disagree with his narrative. And aside of everything else those “sexy” armors are just a few of many different players characters variations — and in dark fantasy, that’s exactly the point.

@Kumo_KD An insecure pilot lost among strange aliens in a violent galaxy will need cosmic hope to outwit a psychopathic gangster and overcome the darkness that threatens her crew. And I think making that logline "extra chaotic" actually improved it significantly hahaha

Let’s do something fun!🤭 Describe your story in the most chaotic one liner possible😂

@DungeonNoir Sorry to clarify, the previous edition - SAGA - was way worse

It is the best Star Wars RPG. I played 3 full campaigns over multiple years that recreated the prequels from a different perspective. I played the previous edition of Star Wars rpg, it's way worse. That said, it is an average RPG that does it's one thing - playing Star Wars - pretty well. And does other things - such as explain how the hell to actually play - pretty poorly. If you're not that into Star Wars but you want a crazy scifi game, I'd recommend Numenera.

I have never looked into FFG Star Wars. Is it any good?

@_SweetDan @MichaelFKane So really, it's all Jar Jar's fault. Darth Binks indeed

@ThePraxiologist @MichaelFKane The replubic itself was VERY against cloning and even the idea of having a army itself. Even with war looming the clone army would not have been accepted if Palpatine had not be given emergency powers to override the senate and authorize the army and it using the clones.

Okay. I'll take some hate for this. 1. We were told in Ep II that the clones were engineered to be more docile and obedient. 2. Which means even pre Clone Wars show those Clones probably didn't 'really' have a choice in order 66. The cards were stacked against them. 3. That doesn't make the BF 2 monologue any less compelling. Temuera understood the assignment and absolutely kills it with that performance, but it is worth keeping in mind that they may not have entirely been moral free agents in the sense a normal human is. 4. The Clone Wars shifts the narrative on the Clones to make them a part of the overall tragic tapestry of the prequels. Like nearly everyone else, the clones were victims of his schemes, probably more than other group. They ARE portrayed as moral free agents that have their agency stripped from them. 5. All this is to say is that, really, both versions of the story work well for very different reasons.

Personally, I don't think creating the army makes them villainous. The problem is that they didn't really show why the army was a bad idea without Sidious' interference. Without that, what I think it's showing is that they just got tricked. And I think "got tricked" is not a great "flaw." Contra without the chip, yes they got tricked, but their flaw was not contemplating the consequences of their choices. Especially because the now non-canon non-chip version set up a series of legal loopholes that allowed the Chancellor to declare all Jedi (save one) as enemies of the Republic, automatically triggering a series of orders (but especially 66). Which means the Jedi helped build the system that brought them down, without contemplating how that system could be used. That shows hubris a lot more directly. It was all significantly less straightforward (and more interesting to me) than "there's a switch that makes clones bad guys so that we can have them be good guys on the Saturday morning cartoon show" Which of course, is what Lucas wanted haha. So everything I'm saying is irrelevant, really.

@ThePraxiologist I don't think there is any need for the Jedito approach villainous. As it is, the PR portrays the jedi as noble but very flawed. And those flaws are exactly what bring them down. And that's a good balance for me.

@Kumo_KD What matters most is authentic reaction. If you're describing how you FEEL, it cant really be wrong.

Hey writers! I have another question today! Do you prefer brutal honesty from beta readers or gentle honesty?

ITS FINALLY MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!🎈🎉🥳 Oh dang. I’m getting too old😭 My age is getting a little more serious than I am😭

@Devon_Eriksen_ hopefully amazon puts in his recommended

It's always a horrible idea for an author to respond to bad reviews, even if his objections are completely justified, and the reviewer is completely out to lunch. It just makes you look petty. Therefore, I will post this critical review as is, with no comments at all, no reaction pics, nothing. "Pretty good audiobook, but very confusing when you listen on shuffle. Please fix."

@SentrySpartan @BlackDumpling Yeah when flashing memory involved sunlight. Then came the advancement of EEPROM, way better than EPROM

@ThePraxiologist @BlackDumpling And on the older motherboards when there was an option for low level formatting. For when yoy absolutely had to show a HDD who was the "User"!

Is this like the Matrix for old dudes?

I was shocked at how hard my mom crashed out at the appearance of Jack Black and Lizzo. She's usually a very like, "Oh, you know, as long as it's entertaining" kind of movie/show watcher. And she was like, "What is this? It's not Star Wars" and never watched another episode haha I never really got around to watching much more than like ... the first episode of Season 3. It was so underwhelming, I never really went back. And then my mom couldn't even finish it, so I figured it was a waste of time.

@ThePraxiologist I don't tend to hate season 3 as much as most folks and think it's about on par with season 2. Which I think is a little worse than most folks, so I guess it evens out lol

Star Wars was western from the beginning. Second half of the tweet checks out though. 😔