King of Salt; BA, PMP

Cyberpunk is Noir in Neon

@BrainLeakage03 AMAZING

"Federation White Base-class slammed two plasma bolts into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Solomon to Axis, just delivered the Zam. The Big Zam. Eleven hundred men went into the void. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. "Didn't see the first Federation mobile suit for about a half an hour. Gundam. Prototype model. You know how you know that when you're in the void, chief? You tell by lookin' at the v-fin. "What we didn't know... was our Zam mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. That Gundam come cruisin'. So we formed our Zaks into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like ol' squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the Gundam comes to the nearest Zaku, and that Zak, he'd start shootin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the Gundam would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away..."

@romanhelmetguy is she the lady that all the mainstream rags are raving about because she was translating without "male bias" or some dumb shit

In Emily Wilson’s own explanation of why she misleadingly translated ‘polytropos’ (literally ‘many-turned’ or ‘many-turning’) to the pejorative epithet ‘complicated’ when describing Odysseus, she gives the correct translation:

@planefag Thing is you ask them what's the number. what's the number that lets us wipe our hands and be done and there isn't one because they just want to leach forever.

360,000 Northern boys died in the Civil War. You have your fucking reparations, you ingrate.

@BlastingThrough HR

In your experience, what are some of the greatest threats to achieving optimal leadership?

@nonregemesse wouldn't his "warhammer" be considered a maul? isn't that what the two-handers are called?

That line in A Game of Thrones where Ned says he could barely lift Robert’s war hammer was quite funny. Clearly George had not seen a real one at that point

@Lutra_Gaming Napoleonics

Going to deep dive into several games (Wargames) and what you think I should get into the most 1)Battletech 2)Konfilkt 47 (Japanese) 3)Star Fleet Battles 4)Bolt Action (Germans) Might get into Historicals (Japanese, Romans, etc) Or another suggestion you can think of. Going to have some time to paint and do things soon

@DI313_ worth it

‼️🇺🇸 Straight out of a war movie. Late night, US special forces locate the second pilot and land a transport for extraction but it gets stuck. Operators are forced to hold positions under fire as three more aircraft rush in for a high-risk rescue. At the same time, a C-130 gets trapped in sand at a remote base in Iran. With no recovery possible, a Delta element destroys it on the spot. Two US aircraft gone in one mission.

@Ganglosaxonnne Still better than the DA mech imo

@andrewkfor Look at me, brother.

Just reminding everyone of the MechWarrior: Dark Age's take on the Dire Wolf.

@Ganglosaxonnne I am being honest in my biases. im not trying to pose as someone who likes Dark Ages and just think the model is shit.

@andrewkfor I literally didn't ask. But it's good to know other people enjoy the Biblically accurate Daishi.

@Ganglosaxonnne The model looks like a warehouse with downs. The illustrations are better. But hey battletech doesnt go past Tukkayid for me so enjoy

@andrewkfor There is a vague resemblance in the hunched profile and boxy head, but the legs, arms, and body are all different.

@nonregemesse but we know how that ended for Rob so... lol

@nonregemesse well it is treason... except to quote the Anjin "unless I win"

It’s interesting how much of a pass audiences give to protagonists. Which ever way you cut it, Robb and Catelyn were traitors to the Iron Throne whether Joffrey or Stannis was the rightful king. In an ending where either wins out, their execution would be justice.

@Havoc_Six mammoth tank. There's something about a two barreled heavy tank that just appeals.

Let's see em

@nonregemesse Was gay reply hinted at in the books? Its been years since I read and I always thought that was weird in the show

Renly is basically Robert but 2 inches shorter and even more likeable. Catelyn Stark describes him as Robert’s ghost when she first sees him. ‘Small wonder the lords gather around him with such fervor, she thought, he is Robert come again.’ Only in the show is he a whiny bitch.

@Ganglosaxonnne Spring what are you talking about its 3052 and the fucking phone company just stopped the Clanners.

So now you know about the Regent. Didn't mean for this to be so long. And I promised you a link to where I talk about Mech Prices, so here's that. And that's all I got. 20/20 FIN x.com/Ganglosaxonnne…

Catalyst is going to put out a new starter box and game box as well as new rules for the #Battletech game. A lot of people are talking about it, and, because it's the internet, everyone has opinions. But one thing I don't see people talking about is the Regent. 1/20🧵

@TheHappyHereti1 they want people to focus on their era rather than the classics.

*looks at the loadout for the Kontio* *Triple Strength Myomer* *Supercharger* *Stealth Armor* Shouldn't the purpose of a starter box be to ease new players into #battletech BEFORE hitting them with the weird ass advanced rules?

@migikatakawai oh look a Gaijin assaulting a local... you wonder why the PM won so convincingly?

ネウロズ（クル◯人の祭り）で暴行された。

@aakashgupta also see: Escape from Tarkov

Game designers figured this out decades ago and it cost millions in failed launches. Will Wright built SimCity with a fully accurate traffic simulation. Testers hated it. The cars behaved realistically, which meant nobody could build a functioning city because real traffic is an unsolvable nightmare. He had to make the simulation dumber before the game became fun. The tension is permanent: the more accurately you model a system, the more it punishes the participant. Real medieval economies kept 90% of the population in subsistence farming. A historically accurate fantasy world doesn't produce heroes. It produces serfs. Tolkien solved this by making his economy deliberately vague. No one knows what a gold coin buys in Gondor. That ambiguity is a design choice, not a shortcut. The Reddit post is funny. The lesson underneath it is one of the hardest problems in simulation design: fidelity and fun are opposing forces, and you have to pick which one wins.

@bencroyderived I dont overall disagree with your thesis, but Iran having a 'modern military' is... stretching a bit

I’m tired boss, the U.S. is literally kicking the shit out of a nation with a modern military right now. Ukraine didn’t stop because “Westerns aren’t modern enough” they stopped sending them because Ukraine has a hybrid Soviet-DroneSlav way of war that isn’t compatible with NATO doctrine. NATO blasphemy needs to stop.