Matt MacFarland

@Tom_Rowsell @NationalReilly Lord Protector was also a tyrant.

@NationalReilly Cromwell was respected across Europe as a dangerous and talented military leader and strategist

I never got the English obsession with Oliver Cromwell. The English have never produced a Great Man of History (arguably Winston Churchil, but he is infamous) so they try and meme Cromwell into something he wasn't.

@monsterhunter45 This is epic! Good thing you’re smart with Finances, Larry, a lesser man would squander such wealth.

I'm gonna make so much money. :D

@monsterhunter45 @DirtbaggeryBR @longshotauthor You gave me a new Author to follow!

I've been on podcasts with Jesse here, nice guy, and he just told me that he made the mistake of launching his kickstarter the same day me and @longshotauthor had a new release. So rather than me drowning the poor guy out, I'm gonna say you guys should all take a look at this.

@YAProlegomena @Jringo1508 Ugh, I concede. Given that if I were penetrating armor with an EFP, the denser plasma would be the preferred choice. By HEAT I meant High Explosive Anti-Tank.

@ThisIllDefend13 @Jringo1508 At some point it is not how hot the jet is it is does it cut through steel and ceramic like buttah…

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?

@YAProlegomena @Jringo1508 I think I agree. Military application is different than industrial. i think the reason EFPs use copper is the amount & type of explosive available. It’s cheaper to make copper into plasma than steel, energy-wise.

@ThisIllDefend13 @Jringo1508 We are talking about 2 very different things. Like when I worked with waterjets… 200k psi laminar flow is very different than 45k psi turbulent

@YAProlegomena @Jringo1508 Given sufficient energy to convert the steel totally to plasma, then I presume the nuclear density matters. But if you’re making an explosion of that size/power do you really need a shaped charge?

@ThisIllDefend13 @Jringo1508 Nuclear density affects plasma behavior - higher Z elements have different stopping power, opacity, and equation of state even fully ionized. Uranium plasma ≠ copper plasma. Same energy, very different physics.

@YAProlegomena @Jringo1508 After re-reading… i realized you missed a key element. The EFP material must be highly malleable. Something hard… like DU would not be a good material.

@ThisIllDefend13 @Jringo1508 DU alloys are used/investigated for EFP & shaped charge applications b/c of their density & performance In a nuclear shaped charge the liner is plasmafied anyway, so the main advantages are density & mass in the jet DU excels there while being less radioactive than natural U

@MAC_Arms @BradenLOA Sad that he’s a full psyop that’s tricked our most idiotic compatriots.

@BradenLOA Oh no, it gets even better. He's backing a Jewish woman. He claims to hate Jews and thinks women shouldn't be able to vote. This had me laughing all afternoon.

A raging racist democrat endorses a democrat based off racism and then says the "GOP should burn"... Sounds like dems to me...

@4nt1p4tt3rn Zenzunni were pacificists to a fault until the end of the Butlerian Jihad. Fremen=FREE MEN OF DUNE, is a violent evolution of that cult mixed with North African tribes. FH idolized the Muslim resistance to USSR push into the Caucases.

Something that's always bothered me about Dune (the books as well as the movies): You're rooting for the Fremen. They're the underdogs. The good guys. The Fremen are Muslim. If you doubt me, just look at their language. Their belief system. Hell, even their habitats are almost too on-the-nose. FFS, they even refer to Muad'dib as "Mahdi".

Win your very own range setup! wn.nr/WrzEpB9

@DerekElder306 @Dr_M_Davis @revishvilig @WarintheFuture Agreed. Neither Russia nor Ukraine had the combined arms training, experience, or capability prior to the war. They are operating at the grade school level and lack the infrastructure to develop secondary school education systems to improve.

@ThisIllDefend13 @Dr_M_Davis @revishvilig @WarintheFuture If Ukraine had the capabilities to eliminate Russia’s air defenses, the stalemate would be broken and the war would look much different.

General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and current Ambassador to the UK: Due to scientific and technological progress, it has become impossible, regardless of what others may claim, to carry out operational-level tasks. 1/12

@wvfunnyguy Only because the best half of 1 and 3 would secede to join 2

2 and it would be quick

@Dr_M_Davis @revishvilig @WarintheFuture From what I’ve seen, limited to GWOT, application is the primary barrier. Even within the US Army, there were leaders who couldn’t effectively use combined arms warfare. My assumption is that Russia and Ukraine are woefully behind the curve of application.

@revishvilig @WarintheFuture this makes fascinating and thought provoking reading. But as you say, all war is about adaptation and learning, and my bet is that states will be working on ways and technologies to overcome this impasse and restore mobility to the battlespace.

@RickPartlow66 @monsterhunter45 My goodness!! People still buy that

@ThisIllDefend13 @monsterhunter45 In 38 Super no less.

This is the kind of low quality equipment you’d expect from a John Scalzi fan.

@rukky_nate If he wasn’t ready to settle down at 27 and now at 30, sounds like he was the problem.

My brother’s girlfriend left him. He was 27. She was 25. She left because she wanted to marry and settle down. My brother wasn’t ready. He was hurt because he genuinely liked her. He is 30 now and doing really well for himself. She is 27 now, still not married. She now drives a Lexus SUV, has her own place, and a well-paying job. Guess who’s back sleeping with each other again? Both of them. Told him to enjoy her. But he should never think of marrying her. He agrees. She left once. She will leave again.

@vyderac Actually, I’m writing one very similar. Except the Atlanteans are in different factions and fight each other via surrogates. A wandering mage selects a young boy from a village in Doggerland to train him in Atlantean magic. L

Has anyone made an RPG setting where you’re Atlantian outcasts who fight cannibalistic Nephilim giants in pre-flood Doggerland? And if not could you start please?