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PhotoKirk posted:Dammit, I just had a flashback to rec.games.mecha. There was a munchkin on there that house-ruled his own gauss rifle ammo: hollow spheres filled with wasps that had been genetically-modified to produce blowfish venom. "I have invented a weapon that can put spattered bugs on our enemies' windshields from upwards of two kilometers!"
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PhotoKirk posted:Dammit, I just had a flashback to rec.games.mecha. There was a munchkin on there that house-ruled his own gauss rifle ammo: hollow spheres filled with wasps that had been genetically-modified to produce blowfish venom. ...Oh god, HERO Chip. I still don't know which of them was worse - him or ATN.
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# ? Feb 23, 2012 22:35 |
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PhotoKirk posted:Dammit, I just had a flashback to rec.games.mecha. There was a munchkin on there that house-ruled his own gauss rifle ammo: hollow spheres filled with wasps that had been genetically-modified to produce blowfish venom. Herochip? He also invented "the Bop Drive," a ship propelled by pushing large weighted spheres into the back end of the ship repeatedly.
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# ? Feb 23, 2012 23:31 |
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So close, and yet so far. The bop drive sounds like Project Orion's retarded cousin.
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# ? Feb 23, 2012 23:34 |
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Arquinsiel posted:TBH the most effective weapon varies based on the bell curve. The harder it is to hit the less likely I am to kick, especially if I have a poor pilot contributing to the poor target number. In those cases a hatchet or punch is definitely the better option. This is all true, and I did cover the torso bit under punching somewhat. Usually though my first choice is always to set up for a kick and it's circumstances that will dictate otherwise. The only exception is if I have a TSM mech with two hands, in which case my first choice is usually to punch.
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# ? Feb 23, 2012 23:38 |
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Tempest_56 posted:...Oh god, HERO Chip. I still don't know which of them was worse - him or ATN. That's the guy. He refused to believe that his uberwasps would be squashed into goo by the g-forces generated when the round was fired.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 00:27 |
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Sounds like he's just playing Pro Thunderball and you guys are all bad sports.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 00:53 |
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PhotoKirk posted:That's the guy. He refused to believe that his uberwasps would be squashed into goo by the g-forces generated when the round was fired. Did he ever explain why he felt gauss rifle shots needed to release a swarm of uberwasps to begin with? I literally cannot think of any possible benefit to your gauss rifle ammo being filled with blowfish-wasps.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 00:59 |
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W.T. Fits posted:Did he ever explain why he felt gauss rifle shots needed to release a swarm of uberwasps to begin with? I literally cannot think of any possible benefit to your gauss rifle ammo being filled with blowfish-wasps. We can do better than that! By the power of Google, I SUMMON USENET. HERO Chip posted:I designed a new kind of bioweapon to be simulated with the BattleTech & HERO Chip posted:1) How are you going to pack the wasps (or even wasp eggs) in w/o getting HERO Chip posted:Well, the bombs could be safely & slowly parachuted in, or one of the 5 ton HERO Chip posted:Since the wasps are so lightweight, they could handel G-Forces alot better than HERO Chip posted:<You know this whole thread is silly. But if it helps... if anybody developed HERO Chip posted:I don't know about that. I suppose that the attacking force using the
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 01:22 |
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uh that is completely ludicrous!
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 01:25 |
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Tempest_56 posted:A bunch of stupid poo poo. That's the most effort I've seen anyone invest in an idea that is objectively worse then existing methods in every way. We've had caustic chemicals and poison gas in shells and projectiles for centuries. cafel fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Feb 24, 2012 |
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Defiance Industries posted:Herochip? He also invented "the Bop Drive," a ship propelled by pushing large weighted spheres into the back end of the ship repeatedly.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 01:33 |
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... my god. There is just no way for me to express how utterly horrified I am at the sheer stupidity of that guy's concept.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 01:40 |
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Yeah, wow. That really is a terrible idea.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 01:40 |
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How old was this guy supposed to be again? 5?
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 01:50 |
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Hang on, I wanna try this out... "Apparently you don't watch Animal Planet." I just, I can't...
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 01:54 |
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Keep in mind that that thread? That was the very first thing HERO Chip posted. This was his best idea of bringing something meaningful and contributing to the community. Later posts included the Bop Drive (a space movement drive based on, in essence, punching the starship forward from inside of it), Rage Potions (ammo for ballistic weapons that fired steroid clouds at friendly units), the Hummingbird VTOL (a VTOL with an XXL engine and one of his most sensible ideas), the PistonBallStick (a mech pogo stick), the LightningBolt MineBomb (a mine that acts as a turret that shoots lightning bolts), Weather Bombs, Poison Ivy Bombs, Tornado Bombs, the use of asteroids as tele-operated missiles in Battlespace (using the Bop drive to move), boarding large interstellar vessels by having very small interstellar vessels jumping inside of them, Mole Tanks, inflatable LRM ammo, the Overheater (Battlespace-scale weapon that amounts to a giant magnifying glass to burn starships), sticky grenades and - my personal favorite - the Shocktgun, which uses electricity to, and I quote, "As with voltage, this weapon will knock a person down ninety degrees and unconsciously out of phase with reality."
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 02:11 |
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what in the loving gently caress
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 02:13 |
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Well, come on. It's not like real-world physics, chemistry, or biology has any place in Battletech anyway. All he's doing is stretching the boundary of nonsensical pseudo-science warfare a little. OK the wasps thing is dumb, but is it really that much dumber than putting legs on a tank?
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 02:22 |
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Leperflesh posted:Well, come on. It's not like real-world physics, chemistry, or biology has any place in Battletech anyway. All he's doing is stretching the boundary of nonsensical pseudo-science warfare a little. Yes. Yes it is.
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Tempest_56 posted:Keep in mind that that thread? That was the very first thing HERO Chip posted. This was his best idea of bringing something meaningful and contributing to the community. I'd forgotten most of those. The guy was like the Wile E. Coyote of Battletech.
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Leperflesh posted:Well, come on. It's not like real-world physics, chemistry, or biology has any place in Battletech anyway. All he's doing is stretching the boundary of nonsensical pseudo-science warfare a little. There was a hovertank that propelled itself forward by, inside the tank's body, setting up a cloth sail in front of a very large fan. That ain't pseudo-science, that's goddamn retarded.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 02:31 |
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This guy sounds like a very creative and earnest troll and could well be declared Retroactively Hilarious.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 02:34 |
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Tempest_56 posted:There was a hovertank that propelled itself forward by, inside the tank's body, setting up a cloth sail in front of a very large fan. Conservation of momentum, what's that?!
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 02:40 |
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Is it wrong that I really want to know what inflatable LRM ammo is?
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 02:43 |
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... Seriously, this guy's ideas make the poo poo in Far Country and The Main Event seem plausible by comparison.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 02:50 |
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Der Waffle Mous posted:Is it wrong that I really want to know what inflatable LRM ammo is? Because I watch too much Gundam I'm imagining it's LRMs that when fired balloon out into inflatable decoys of various Battlemechs, perhaps with a sensor transponder on them as well to fake a signal.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 03:01 |
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Tempest_56 posted:inflatable LRM ammo,
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 03:17 |
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Tempest_56 posted:There was a hovertank that propelled itself forward by, inside the tank's body, setting up a cloth sail in front of a very large fan. Wasn't that quote in Cray's sig? I remember someone using that as a tribute to stupidity.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 03:28 |
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Der Waffle Mous posted:Is it wrong that I really want to know what inflatable LRM ammo is? HERO Chip posted:An Inflato LRM is an LRM that inflates (technically, it has expandable metal PhotoKirk posted:Wasn't that quote in Cray's sig? I remember someone using that as a tribute to stupidity. It was somebody's, though I don't remember who's. In all fairness, I may be mis-remembering - the sail-hovertank may have been an ATN creation.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 03:39 |
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Tempest_56 posted:...Oh god, HERO Chip. I still don't know which of them was worse - him or ATN. Nadin. Also, since I wanted to post it when people were posting Charge of the Light Brigade parodies earlier -- you were beaten by about 15 years: Camille Klein on rec.games.mecha posted:CHARGE OF THE RUBBERMAID BRIGADE (Yes, Camille was batshit crazy too, but in a different way.)
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 03:58 |
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Tempest_56 posted:the Shocktgun, which uses electricity to, and I quote, "As with voltage, this weapon will knock a person down ninety degrees and unconsciously out of phase with reality." As an electrician I find this much funnier than it has any right to be.
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The Casualty posted:As an electrician I find this much funnier than it has any right to be. That's probably because all your contact with electricity knocked you out of phase with our reality and into one where it is funnier.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 05:19 |
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Sounds like the munchkin was rather derivative of games/media he was exposed to (rage potion anyone? ).
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 05:53 |
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The Casualty posted:As an electrician I find this much funnier than it has any right to be. Could you do me a favor and translate it, then? Because after twelve years I still don't know what the gently caress that means. I laugh, but only from the sheer ridiculousness of it. e: vvv I give Camile credit, at least - she was dedicated. Being a Liao loyalist in the 3050 era? Tough road. Tempest_56 fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Feb 24, 2012 |
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Is it just me or is there literally no reason to use those inflatables at all? If they were Thunderbolt 20-mimics it'd make sense, but 5? OH NOES A STANDARD LRM CLUSTER!Carbolic posted:Nadin.
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 06:50 |
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Inflato LRMS, new from Quickscell! Because if you wanted the best, youd pay more!
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 06:57 |
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Leperflesh posted:Well, come on. It's not like real-world physics, chemistry, or biology has any place in Battletech anyway. All he's doing is stretching the boundary of nonsensical pseudo-science warfare a little. When Space Knights of the 80's duke it out, style goes before substance. That's why you can have mecha katanas and orbital bombardments in the same game. But I really can't see any way you can incorporate wasps anywhere without spoiling the mood. Or can you? There drew he forth the bulbous Beehive, And o’er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the wasps: For all the nest twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest bugdom. (apologies to Lord Tennyson)
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# ? Feb 24, 2012 07:12 |
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Tempest_56 posted:Could you do me a favor and translate it, then? Because after twelve years I still don't know what the gently caress that means. I laugh, but only from the sheer ridiculousness of it. This is going to be awesome since my computer is broke. Hmm, how to do this without mspaint... Edit: here have a pic I made on a buddy's comp! Ok, picture a sine wave of alternating current electricity. If you extrapolate the waveform into a circle (think back to trigonometry), then you have 0 volts = 0°, peak voltage = 90°, the second instance of 0V = 180°, and negative Vp = 270°. Electrical phases are waves of equal amplitude traveling down the same line at slightly different intervals. If two waves are 90° out of phase, it's as if one is a sine wave and the other is a cosine wave right behind it, their energies blending together. Using 2 or 3 phase AC power ensures a smoother supply of power than a single phase, because you spend more time at peak voltage, which is critical for all sorts of commercial/ industrial needs. So in other words, his death beam will knock you 90° out of phase, which would be problematic, if you were a sentient member of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Casualty fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Feb 24, 2012 |
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PhotoKirk posted:Dammit, I just had a flashback to rec.games.mecha. There was a munchkin on there that house-ruled his own gauss rifle ammo: hollow spheres filled with wasps that had been genetically-modified to produce blowfish venom. Didn't anyone inform him that the wasps would be squashed when a shot is fired? Edit: beaten so many times. I should have known... HERO chip posted:I've used the Inflato LRM as a decoy for real Thunderbolt 5 missiles in So, he actually used them in a game? He probably really was a 7 year old who played with his 5 year old brother. Oh the bullshit bigger brothers feed their younger siblings Nektu fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Feb 24, 2012 |
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