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Tempest_56 posted:There are two good reasons: True, but the range bracket on an ER PPC is the same as on another ER PPC. If the Warhawk CAN fire all PPCs at once, just at major risk, it makes a bit more sense. If it was totally unable to fire them all at once, as the article implied, then the extra ERPPCS would be utterly useless.
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SynthOrange posted:Look at these jerks who've never heard of backups and redundancy. Yeah, what chump decided to give the Charger 5 small lasers anyway? 
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PoptartsNinja posted:Oh God. I forgot about chapter nine. Ahahaha It's like a "oh THAT was an interesting roll" teaser, except we KNOW that everything is terrible for this one!
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W.T. Fits posted:Stupid question from a guy who doesn't drink: you keep mentioning {type of alcohol) "cut with" (some other kind of liquid). What exactly does "cut with" mean in this context? Generally, you cut something with a large percentage of alcohol with something non- or less-alcoholic to weaken it or cover the taste.
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W.T. Fits posted:Stupid question from a guy who doesn't drink: you keep mentioning {type of alcohol) "cut with" (some other kind of liquid). What exactly does "cut with" mean in this context? They mix four parts grain alcohol with two parts something that has a flavor. For example, the Kurita PPC is: 4 parts White Lightning (grain alcohol, very high alcohol content) cut with 2 parts Sake (rice wine). The taste of this would be... well, as someone who doesn't drink either, even I know this mixture would taste absolutely vile. The Steiner version cuts the White Lightning with 2 parts Peppermint Schnapps, which may or may not be better but either way it's going to burn like a motherfucker on the way down and probably again on the way back up. Edit: Personally, I cut grape juice 50/50 with Lemonade because I find grape juice a bit too sweet and the tartness from the lemonaid gives it a better kick. It's good stuff. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 05:05 on May 6, 2011 |
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W.T. Fits posted:Stupid question from a guy who doesn't drink: you keep mentioning {type of alcohol) "cut with" (some other kind of liquid). What exactly does "cut with" mean in this context? You pour something else in. That's all. I'm surprised you haven't heard it before; "cut with" can apply to alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, foods, and drugs. Particularly drugs.
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W.T. Fits posted:What exactly does "cut with" mean in this context? I'm really wondering what the hell the author intended for this character. It just doesn't make any sense, like that chapter a bit ago, where he goes and visits Warwick. This rich fellow is willing to just give him a battlemech, something worth several million c-bills, for participating in the arena. (Naturally since he's a protagonist he'll win easily) And instead of accepting, or at least declining graciously for the generous offer, Rose decides to throw it in his face like an rear end. What the hell. Also, his ridiculous obsession with forming his own merc regiment, when he has effectively no resources of his own, and he gets pissy when nobody is willing to just hand him expensive machines and valuable pilots, seems completely incomprehensible. I think he was intentionally written with a histrionic personality disorder.
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Let’s Read: Main Event (part 9) Chapter 9 Solaris City, Solaris 4 August 3054 Days elapsed since book start: 104 Mercenaries recruited since book start: 2 Mercenaries recruited off-screen: 1 Things accomplished since book start: 0 Protagonists introduced since book start: 3 Protagonists mentioned but not yet introduced: 1 Antagonists introduced since book start: -2 (Warwick and Scoggins likely won’t see any comeuppance for the murder) Chapters Spent on Northwind: 5 Six hours after the shooting, Jeremiah is contemplating ways to capitalize on what’s-her-name’s death. A police officer is talking to the bartender, who is telling the cop everything he knows about Jaryl so that hopefully, due process will see the murderer caught and tried. Main Event posted:With ill-concealed contempt Rose watched the policewoman work. She was beautiful, if somewhat short for Rose’s taste, but he had long ago learned never to judge a woman by appearance, either for good or bad. In another circumstance he might have been impressed with her soft features and athletic body, but tonite she was just another officer. An officer he did not care to be around. An officer who, for six hours, had done nothing but ask questions, covering the same ground over and over. Y’know. Policework. Jeremiah can’t rationalize murder—he only understands killing on the battlefield, accidental deaths, and natural causes. Sorry, Jeremiah, a rocket-propelled microgrenade to the skull will quite naturally kill someone. He’s currently piecing things together as fast as his room-temperature IQ will allow; equating Jaryl with a soldier and the bar with a battlefield. He then contemplates his life with the ComGuards, the first time he’s ever done so, and their emphasis on “Dogma and Duty”. Given Rose’s penchant for irritating and/or abusing authority figures, it’s a wonder the ComGuards didn’t shoot him. Then again, Warrior: Riposte established that ComStar went out of their way to hire sociopaths into ROM (because, and this is their exact logic, “who would miss them?”); and until 3050, the ComGuards were just a sub-branch of ROM. It’s kinda interesting to note that the sociopaths start vanishing once Anastasius Focht takes over as their supreme commander. Unfortunately, we still have to put up with Jeremiah Rose. Rose then basically admits that he has no idea what the police actually do. Main Event posted:Another lead, another dead end, only this time he could do no better than watch as the woman who’d tried to help him (NOTE: she hadn’t decided to do anything, they were just Crisis of conscience resolved. Glad that’s out of the way. Rose then imagines that the policewoman and the bartender are loving each other, since they seem to know each other. Main Event posted:Whatever the situation, Dillon obviously had more patience for her than did Rose, who’d stopped answering even her occasional questions more than ninety minutes ago.  Rose then does what he does best: he gets frustrated, impatient, and angry. He yells at the police officer for a while, and she then tells us that Scoggins is a Liao national and that he’s likely safely in Cathay (where a Davion police officer would likely get murdered by the Tongs). Main Event posted:Feelings were boiling in him—his frustration at not being able to find a ‘Mech anywhere in Solaris, exhaustion from going without sleep for something like forty-eight hours, and then the horror of Jaryl’s murder. Even a man as controlled as Rose was cracking under the strain. Rose then insults Viets’ policework, calls her an idiot, practically calls her out in the bar; and for his trouble gets treated with remarkable restraint. She counters Rose’s idiocy with a good, strong dose of sarcasm. Rose then leaps over the bar and tries to murder her.  “ROSE SMASH PUNY SOLARIS!” Main Event posted:The lieutenant ducked under the blow. With a sharp movement, she struck the inside of the elbow of the arm supporting his weight. Rose’s entire body, which a moment ago had been perfectly poised on that one arm, came crashing down. Momentum carried him across the bar’s flat surface, allowing him to land mostly on the padded runway. His head, however, bounced off the stainless steel sink just below the bar’s surface. Viets is amused by the entire thing, and says she loves kicking the poo poo out of ‘Mechwarriors. Rose responds with “Touché” which is IN NO WAY AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE. Rather than arresting Rose for assaulting a police officer, Viets then develops a case of terminal brain damage, declares herself off-duty, and demands a beer. Rose doesn’t apologize, but reacts as though he’s been humbled by having the fight go south an instant after he started it. Viets then casually announces that she’s a ninth-dan black belt (because anything less wouldn’t have been able to stop Rose, you see). Rose then apologizes for insulting the police, mostly to keep her from She reminds him that he tried to kill her not TWO MINUTES before. Rose then asks her why she hates ‘Mechwarriors. My head is starting to hurt. She gets angry and tells him to mind his own business, and Rose decides, finally, that he can’t take her in a fight (either a fair one, or if he cheats) without a Battlemech. He then decides he needs to keep her talking in order to complete his ‘personal mission’. WHAT MISSION?! The police officer will in no way, shape, or form be able to help him beg, borrow, buy, or steal a loving battlemech. WHY DOES THIS CHAPTER EVEN EXIST? If memory serves, the murder is going to go completely unresolved. Viets then describes police process in detail. She’s willing to take Rose’s word (even after he tried to kill her); she has to send things up the line (accurate); fill out a mountain of paperwork (accurate); things get sent up to the bureaucrats (accurate); there may or may not be a trial depending on plea bargains and/or debts owed (accurate). She then calls out Rose’s impatience and politely tells him to go gently caress himself because they both know he’s not willing to stick around for six months to testify at the trial. We are then treated to more of Rose’s… eeeugh. Main Event posted:“So you’re saying it won’t be easy to bring Scoggins in for trial?” Ghk…. Ghrrrhk… He then… ghk… GHRRRK… NO. YOU STUPID SONOFABITCH, EAT A DICK! Wait a second. Microsoft word’s autocorrect thinks a no-spaces SONOFABITCH is thumbs-up A-OK. That… that blows my mind. Really? Of all the things I’ve learned while doing this Let’s Read, that is the weirdest. Anyway, Jeremiah then discusses his hatred of Warwick and blatantly accuses him of being involved. Now, he is probably right, but the only successor states that would move without proof are the Draconis Combine (only if they bothered to investigate, which they wouldn’t) and the Capellan Confederation(likely to give the murderer a high-up position in the military and/or Maskirovka because they love go-getters). Rose then makes to storm out of the bar, and Viets asks if he’s going to start something stupid. Rose announces that he’s going back to the hotel to take an asprin and sleep off the rear end-kicking; and that he won’t bother her or her police force again. See? You can teach a retarded dog a new trick. You just have to beat—goddamn, I can’t make this analogy, I feel too bad about it. Then the chapter ends. Things Accomplished: 1 (Jeremiah Rose has FINALLY taken a loving nap) PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 05:12 on May 6, 2011 |
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Regarding "cut with": you're supposed to understand that starting with pure grain alcohol and then "cutting" it with hard liquor is kind of a joke. You're effectively taking hard liquor and making it more alcoholic by adding grain alcohol, which is sort of the opposite to what you would normally expect when someone is cutting a drink with an addition. E.g., its the kind of drink that will taste awful, make you instantaneously drunk, and has no other purpose than total shitfaced irresponsibility. The only people who drink drinks like that are college students trying to prove how drunk they can get, alcoholics, and people who are too insecure to ever turn down a dare.
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I am all three of those things and I still don't desire one thank you.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Let’s Read: Main Event (part 9) I think this is the most surprising part, to me.
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Let’s Read: Main Event (part 10) Chapter 10 Solaris City, Solaris 7 August 3054 Days elapsed since book start: 107 Mercenaries recruited since book start: 2 Mercenaries recruited off-screen: 1 Things accomplished since book start: 1 (Rose took a nap) Protagonists introduced since book start: 4 Protagonists mentioned but not yet introduced: 1 Antagonists introduced since book start: -2 (Warwick and Scoggins likely won’t see any comeuppance for the murder) Chapters Spent on Northwind: 5 This chapter opens with a new character. … Wait, what? A colossal drunk Scottsman exits a local pub, being escorted by a whore. Main Event posted:“You’ll be lucky to survive the night, let alone the match, O’Shea. Elaine is more than a match for your oafish advances.” Roars of laughter followed the insult. O’Shea staggered in feigned shock. … h-have I gotten my books missed up? Are we reading about someone interesting? Well, no and kinda. Meet Badicus O’Shea or, as I like to call him, the man who should have been Jeremiah Rose. Anyway, pretend I didn’t call Badicus by his first name, since we haven’t learned it yet. Badicus laughs about his ‘crude joke,’ which is one he’s pulled before apparently. He also towers over Jeremiah Rose, he has a full beard, and pilots a Warhammer. He is basically “The Scottsman” from Samurai Jack but with a Battlemech. In other words: he’s a fun and interesting character so he’s going to get sidelined by chapter sixteen and <redacted> kill him in the next book. Anyway, his girlfriend cautions him to get some rest before the fight tomorrow. Badicus scoffs, since he thinks Warwick is an imbecile. Someone (Jeremiah Rose) then tells Badicus that he’s underestimating Warwick. Main Event posted:O’shea judged the speaker to be in one of the adjacent doorways, but he couldn’t be sure which one. Adrenaline kicked in as he reached instinctively for his trusty Sunbeam. Maybe those last three drinks hadn’t been such a good idea after all. He slipped the safety strap off the pistol and scanned the sidewalk. gently caress YOU, Jeremiah Rose. Badicus, of course, assumes that Rose is an assassin sent to kill him. He’s pretty confident, since he’s “one of the fastest draws on Solaris” (of course. ); but he’s not concerned even though he knows his teammate was just killed three days ago.Anyway, he stands there doing nothing for a few minutes and is about to decide the entire conversation is a figment of his imagination when Jeremiah bushwhacks him. Badicus decides he would’ve been knocked out if he were less drunk; but stays standing and tries to fight back. Rose, being a drunk and well-rested sociopath, kicks his rear end. Rose declares ‘nothing personal’ (which is code for: he’s the hero so it’s totally ok for him to be a colossal dickhead and beat up a future member of the Black Thorns) and hits Badicus with… wait a second. Main Event posted:“Believe me, there is nothing personal in my actions,” the voice said. Then, in a blur of motion, both [Rose’s] hands reached out and clapped O’Shea over each ear. In the fraction of a second he remained conscious, O’Shea could not help but notice that the air trapped in his outer ear made a sound just like that of a landing DropShip. The pitch of the engines increased as the attack forced the air past his eardrums and into his middle ear. When the DropShip landed, O’Shea lay unconscious on the street. … that probably would’ve ruptured his eardrums. Jeremiah, why must you ruin everything you touch? We then finally get the reveal that this is Jeremiah Rose; which was pretty blatantly obvious even without me spoiling it. Rose then tells Elaine that Badicus will be ok “in about an hour.” Since he’s Rose, he’s right; but that’s still stupid since he’s not a doctor. Rose is surprised when Elaine has drawn a gun on him, and laments that Solaris VII’s gun control laws seem ineffective. Elaine laughs and reveals that she is an assassin sent by Warwick. Main Event posted:“You really seemed to care for O’Shea back at the bar.” Rose kept his eyes on Elaine, shifting his view between the pistol and her eyes. YES. Badicus O’Shea is the ONLY GOOD CHARACTER the Black Thorns will ever have.  We learn that Rose is “irrationally” afraid of Needlers, but he decides that after wussing out and not fist fighting a gun on Northwind that he must reestablish some man-cred and so lunges at Elaine. He of course, gets hit in the shoulder (ETA until he bleeds to death: 5 minutes). Rose gets hit again in the ‘left ribs’ (gee, it’s a good thing the needler spread missed his heart and lungs (ETA until he bleeds to death: 2 minutes)). Rose recovers Badicus’ laser and kills Elaine on the spot with a single shot. He then shoots her again, just to be sure; and runs away into the night to avoid being beaten up by lieutenant Viets again. Then the chapter ends.
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W.T. Fits posted:Stupid question from a guy who doesn't drink: you keep mentioning {type of alcohol) "cut with" (some other kind of liquid). What exactly does "cut with" mean in this context? As others have said, it means essentially the same thing in this context as it would in the context of cutting your heroin with baking soda or whatever the gently caress they use; by taking something very potent (grain alcohol, heroin) and adding something less potent (liquor, brick dust, whatever), you dilute the strength but increase the volume. In the drug-use scenario, dealers do it so that they make more money; if you have 10 arbitrary units of 100% pure poo poo, you can turn that into 200 arbitrary units of 5% pure poo poo, and 200 customers is better than 10 customers. In the usual alcohol scenario, you dilute the grain alcohol to make it less potent and less likely to make you go blind; also for the same reason dealers do. For roughly the same price as a shot of whisky, for instance, you can get a 7 and 7, which is three parts whisky and 9 parts 7-up. This means you're getting a larger drink by volume but you're actually getting slightly less whisky for your money. I've never heard the term 'cutting with' used for booze before; I mean, it makes sense, as it means the same thing, but instead I'm just going to assume that the author of this book has a terrible drug habit and uses drug slang habitually. I look forward to reading about how Jeremiah Rose scores a kilo of small lasers from a Defiance Industries clocker.
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Please tell me Jeremiah Rose actually turns his casual sociopathy in a useful direction and murders Warwick. Please. Guys who loving send assassins after every MechWarrior who spurns their offers are at least on parity with Jeremiah loving Rose and deserve death.
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I never read either of this books and I am intensely grateful I never picked them up. I've read most of Victor/Phelan/Kai's mary-sue adventures and mostly wrote it off as a pulpy, guilty pleasure, but this stuff is just horrendous. I can't make it through half the summaries.
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Leperflesh posted:people who are too insecure to ever turn down a dare. Righto, then. We should all understand what kind of person I am... Mechwarrior "Pelican Shooter" Step 1 Gather the key ingredients. Specifically, we need a drink containing "Dark alcoholic drink", onions and/or celery, a sardine, and fire. I hit the liquor cabinet up for a selection of brownish alcohols. Avoiding all my single-malt scotch, this is what I came up with:  Step 2 Chop some onion.  Step 3 Open the sardines. I always thought they came with a little 'key' for the can, but this one didn't. Fortunately, my can opener was up to the task.   Step 4 I noticed the big jug of Sailor Jerry's that I'd forgotten. Also, fire requires an ignition source (it is unlikely we will achieve sufficient pressure and heat for the ethanol to spontaneously ignite) so I fetched matches. A shot-sized measure will also perhaps be useful.  Step 5 Add one shot of Sailor Jerry's Spiced Rum to the glass.  Step 6 The rum was far too light in color. The darkest things on the table were the Kahlua (a coffee liqueur) and the Creme de Cacao (my wife bought this for some reason). Smelling each, I decided sardines would go better with chocolate. So, I added a little more than half a shot of Creme de Cacao.  That's better color now:  Step 7 Add a fork of diced yellow onion.  I was assuming the onion would float, but it immediately sank. Step 8 Add one sardine. None of the sardines were complete, but I fished around (lol) and got the most intact one.  It also sank. I deemed this constituted "covered by the alcohol" as specified:  Step 9 Ignite.  Uhhh...  OK that didn't work. I tried another match but no dice. My guess is that either the alcohol content is too low, or perhaps the sheen of soybean oil covering the surface of the drink acts as a barrier, preventing alcohol vapors from escaping and getting lit. I decided to turn to the highest-proof booze in my arsenal for assistance. Step 10: Add 4 tsp Wild Turkey Rye (101 proof) to a separate glass.   Step 11: Ignite the rye.  Success!  Step 12: quickly pour the lit rye into the main glass, only mildly burning your fingers on the hot shot glass.  Step 13: My worries about burning fish proved unfounded: the mixture instantly went out, so I decided it was time to down the concoction. Mmmmm...  Fishy  That's the last of it!  Victory!  Conclusion It tasted... actually, not nearly as bad as I was expecting. First, I have to say, somehow Rum + Creme de Cacao + Rye, by itself, isn't that horrible. The chunks of onion were crunchy and oniony, but not much of a distraction from the rye and rum taste. The Creme de Cacao didn't really add much. The sardine kind of fell apart as I drank it. I chewed a little and tasted fish and salt, and while that wasn't really well aligned with the other flavors, it also wasn't revolting either. Just kind of a clash of flavors. While I would not make this drink intentionally to enjoy, I could see it being something people at a party would drink on a dare without actually poisoning themselves. The failure to ignite might be overcome with a larger volume of alcohol, and perhaps also by lighting the drink before adding the sardine. All in all, I'd say any Mechwarrior worth his giant stompy robot should be able to down one of these things without complaint. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 08:08 on May 6, 2011 |
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Maybe I'm naive, but wouldn't killing your teams future opponents/ people who just so happen not to be on your team, a bad way to promote yourself in a tournament setting? I mean this isn't some poorly arranged and murky underground street racing league, I think people would catch on real quick "Oh, this guys gaming the whole system," and then you're just barred from competition. I mean if something so slight as an unknown pilot upsets the bookies so much the pilot can't buy a single mech because he's been blacklisted, someone eliminating entire teams should at least get thrown out, or more likely just result in the rest of the major players killing them.
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Leperflesh posted:You should win some sort of prize for deliberately exposing yourself to that. Seriously, PTN what does he win?
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PoptartsNinja posted:Alternatively, I will give bonus points to anyone who makes (and drinks) a Pelican Shooter with double bonus points if you live (Note: please don’t actually try a Pelican Shooter; I don’t want anyone to die trying to drink a whole sardine). Oh yeah, I forgot it was called a Pelican Shooter (I'll edit that into the title). Anyway, I was promised Double Bonus Points so I expect I'll probably get them.  e. also, it turns out cats love leftover sardines! Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 08:09 on May 6, 2011 |
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JoeCL posted:You should win some sort of prize for deliberately exposing yourself to that. Seriously, PTN what does he win? He gets no points, mainly for managing to avoid using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming , the proper ingredient for crafting one of the foulest concoctions known to man.
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Not hard for me to avoid that, since A) I've never heard of it before, and B) unless they sell it at Ikea, I have no idea where to buy some. But yeah it does not sound tasty.
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There's an easy fix for your ignition problems.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Wait a second. Microsoft word’s autocorrect thinks a no-spaces SONOFABITCH is thumbs-up A-OK. That… that blows my mind. Really? Of all the things I’ve learned while doing this Let’s Read, that is the weirdest. Also, I think the reason why he might confuse an onion with celery is because it was probably one of those little green stalk onion things. You know, like a scallion.
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Leperflesh posted:Not hard for me to avoid that, since A) I've never heard of it before, and B) unless they sell it at Ikea, I have no idea where to buy some. Considering most airlines don't even ship it because they're a bunch of wusses, I get that. But apparently a few actually do, if the internet is supposed to be believed (just did a search for the product and Virgin airlines will ship it, or at least used to a while back). And a few outlets ship to the US. I'd say try ICA's international shipping, if that's a real thing and not just something I've been led to believe exists.
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Yeah, I'll um... I'll get right on that.
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A tip on opening a can though (trust me on this, really). Open the can submerged in a bucket of water. It is over pressurised and contains vile liquids. Aerosol surströmming liquids is sort of like an anti air freshener. It's ok to get on your clothes I guess since you can
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I will hold this advice near and dear to my heart on the off chance it ever becomes relevant for me to know, but goddrat this has got to be one of the strangest tangents we've gone off on yet. Also, am I wrong, or is the narrative for Main Event just getting increasingly disjointed and insane as time goes on? Not just the writing (which is consistently awful in general), but the general pacing and cause and effect of events. Going to ask for a stupid favor from a wealthy council because you are a stupid motherfucker, that made narrative sense, and it made sense when he was turned down and had to come up with some other way to waste our time. Then we ended up on Solaris, in a logical if disjointed manner, and...uh. Went bar-hopping, defied time and space with sleeplessness, turned down an offer set up through an off-screen informant, got someone killed, recklessly dismissed the possibility we got them killed, assaulted a police officer for no reason, mentally undressed her after getting our asses kicked, and then...potentially crippled a drunk Scottsman for the SOLE goddamn purpose of proving how manly we are before (not) dying to his girlfriend the ASSASSIN and wait, wait, what, how the hell does any of this even have any relation to anything, what the gently caress? I'm starting to see the Mary Sue thing, given that even characters we haven't been formally introduced to are only important in that they are already deeply involved in Rose's story by the time they show up, and that events just sort of...cease to exist outside of Rose observing them. It would honestly be pretty cool if Rose were an anti-hero sociopath and portrayed as such, or at the very least a knowing parody of his character archetype, but the writing goes so far out of its way to be senseless, boring, and at times offensive that I don't the author can be credited with the parody. Having grown up consuming a steady diet of GOD-AWFUL fantasy and sci-fi novels, I will say this kind of characterization (and for the most part, the writing) is pretty much par for the course, but that doesn't make it a good thing by any stretch. I don't think we've used 'swarthy' (dark-skinned) as a codeword for 'bad guy' yet, but we do have short, fat beurocratic gents being reviled by our 'hero', in addition to the fact that apparently every woman in the story exists to serve his whims or suffer his wrath, so we're well on track.
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What happened last chapter anyway? Everything was completely lost to me.. Big scottish dude exits bar with girl, moons bar. -> Rose jumps out of the shadows and beats the poo poo out of him because?? -> Girl is actually an assasin and Rose kills her and runs away? Why did the girl admit to being an assassin? Why did Rose beat up this dude for no reason? Why is any of this happening??
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Shady Amish Terror posted:, and then...potentially crippled a drunk Scottsman for the SOLE goddamn purpose of proving how manly we are before (not) dying to his girlfriend the ASSASSIN and wait, wait, what, how the hell does any of this even have any relation to anything, what the gently caress? Affi posted:What happened last chapter anyway? Everything was completely lost to me.. Warwick wanted Rose to join up for the coming lance-on-lance championship match. Rose turned him down, but still needs a Mech, and has a (more understandable now that someone in Warwick's pay tried to kill him) mad hate-on for Warwick. As such, Rose plans to be part of the lance that goes up against Warwick's in the finals, but they had no vacancy. Rose creates one by "temporarily" disabling one of their MechWarriors, Mr. Drunken, Lewd, Angry Scot O'Shea.
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May 6, 2011 12:54
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The Merry Marauder posted:As such, Rose plans to be part of the lance that goes up against Warwick's in the finals, but they had no vacancy. Rose creates one by "temporarily" disabling one of their MechWarriors, Mr. Drunken, Lewd, Angry Scot O'Shea. Butfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck So why .. di awe waw aaaaaas why was there an assasin there? and why didnt she keep her mouth shut for five minutes and kill the unconcious scotsman ??
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May 6, 2011 12:59
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Affi posted:why was there an assasin there? and why didnt she keep her mouth shut for five minutes and kill the unconcious scotsman ?? Scotsman was on the non-warwick team. Assassin was stupid.
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May 6, 2011 13:02
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Leperflesh that was amazing.
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May 6, 2011 13:05
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Re: the whole Rose being a dick to Warwick thing, many moons ago when I read this, I took it for granted that Rose knew/assumed from his research/common sense that a man who employs his own assassins is not likely to actually follow through on his promise to give a (refitted and as such really pretty valuable) Charger to Rose, a transient with no history and no connections. Win or lose, Rose would have ended up floating down the Solaris.
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May 6, 2011 13:41
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