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basically just read the first chapter of starship troopers where they're jumping around a planet of idiot aliens shooting micro nukes everywhere
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Darkman Fanpage posted:basically just read the first chapter of starship troopers where they're jumping around a planet of idiot aliens shooting micro nukes everywhere Dropping bombs specifically made to scare the aliens into their churches
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Dec 19, 2014 00:10
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Ivor Biggun posted:Larry Niven's Ringworld used inter-species sex as a diplomatic protocol and even had word for it: "rishathra" "Just lie back and think of Earth." 
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Dec 19, 2014 00:22
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Reminder to everyone talking about Rape in the EU: Troy Denning wrote a scene where a thirty year old woman in a dominatrix suit sexually assaulted a fourteen year old boy.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:26
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Improbable Lobster posted:Starship Troopers the book was 95% military fellatio You don't have to work in the military to vote in the book you're confusing it with the film.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:29
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Groovelord Neato posted:You don't have to work in the military to vote in the book you're confusing it with the film. Doesn't change the fact that it's a bad book
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Gammatron 64 posted:starship troopers is also like really right wing pro-military ooh rah war is great, only soldiers are allowed to vote Just to be fair, Asimov greeted female fans by shaking their breasts instead of their hands.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:34
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Young Freud posted:Just to be fair, Asimov greeted female fans by shaking their breasts instead of their hands. being a rich old dude sounds sweet as hell
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Arcsquad12 posted:Reminder to everyone talking about Rape in the EU: Troy Denning wrote a scene where a thirty year old woman in a dominatrix suit sexually assaulted a fourteen year old boy. Still not the most offensive thing Denning has written into the EU.
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redshirt posted:How would a Hutt even gently caress a Twi'lek? grab them by their little tentacles and gently caress them ???
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Dec 19, 2014 00:48
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the whole heinlein "specialization" spiel is a relatively decent piece of advice if it weren't the fact that it was said by robert heinlein which automatically invalidates it
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Improbable Lobster posted:Doesn't change the fact that it's a bad book I remember reading Rico crowing about how MI suits are the awesome thing ever and could beat an arbitrary number of non-power-armored human troops  inducing. Wouldn't those stupid suits be easy MANPADS fodder as soon as they light the jump jets?
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Woolie Wool posted:I remember reading Rico crowing about how MI suits are the awesome thing ever and could beat an arbitrary number of non-power-armored human troops Nuh-uh cause they got missile proof lasers and a big gun that'll see you when you shot the rocket and blow you up KABOOM Young Freud posted:Just to be fair, Asimov greeted female fans by shaking their breasts instead of their hands. Golden age
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Woolie Wool posted:I remember reading Rico crowing about how MI suits are the awesome thing ever and could beat an arbitrary number of non-power-armored human troops Not really. i'm going to preemptively myself for this, but MANPADS would be effective maybe in open terrain and sky, where a MANPAD has an effective range of 3-4km, but the whole thing about MI suits is that we see them used in urban warfare against a relatively-equal technological alien culture, jumping from building to building. In most urban warfare, the engagement range is something like 150m to 200m if you're lucky. The minimum distance the tracking will engage on most MANPADs is between 200m for something like the Stinger to 600m for it's Russian equivalent. At that point, you're better off using a RPG, since they're cheaper and you can carry more of them, but even then, hitting man-sized targets with RPGs is hard, let alone a fast moving man-sized target like a powered suit.
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Young Freud posted:Not really. i'm going to preemptively If you can make fast, flying, nuke slinging robot suits then you can make something to shoot down those fast, flying, nuke slinging robot suits.
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Improbable Lobster posted:If you can make fast, flying, nuke slinging robot suits then you can make something to shoot down those fast, flying, nuke slinging robot suits. The only thing that can take a fast, flying, nuke-slinging robot suit is another fast, flying, nuke-slinging robot suit (or a giant, nuke-slinging cybertank like an Ogre or a Bolo), which is why we never see that in the novel. It's either skinnies, who are capable of doing so but don't, and the bugs, who have no need for such things.
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Shut the gently caress up
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gently caress you, GOTO is awesome. Crazy robot with broken logic that tries to "fix" the republic by pretending to be a person projected via hologram, but is really a mob leader who uses black market deals to stimulate damaged economies.
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Young Freud posted:Not really. i'm going to preemptively That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. What kind of loving moron would use giant robot suits for urban warfare? Either you intend on capturing the city intact and your troops have to be able to fit through doors, occupy buildings, not fall through floors, and do complex things with their hands, or you intend on committing genocide and blowing the whole place to kingdom come before sending your troops in after the city has been turned into a nice open battlefield by massive bombardment or nuclear weapons. The MI are completely silly, a force with ridiculously small numbers and an absurdly lopsided tooth-to-tail ratio. They're almost as silly as the movie version. And although Heinlein couldn't have predicted this, modern advances in technology make the MI doctrine even more retarded because battlefield IT and augmented reality would make MI suits incredibly obvious targets visible from anywhere even when they're on the ground. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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Dec 19, 2014 04:25
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The Monkey Man posted:That's a hell of an act. What's it called? The Mofference
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Arcsquad12 posted:gently caress you, GOTO is awesome. Crazy robot with broken logic that tries to "fix" the republic by pretending to be a person projected via hologram, but is really a mob leader who uses black market deals to stimulate damaged economies. Nah GOTO was pretty lame because the twist that the mysterious crime lord who showed up out of nowhere and only appears via hologram was actually a hologram was super obvious to anybody who has ever consumed any sci-fi before and he was a pretty lovely party member
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Still can't get over that Mofference thing being a real EU thing.
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Dec 19, 2014 05:19
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was steven moffet part of the mofference
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"Mofference" is still a less stupid portmanteau than the real world etmylogical partial-birth-abortion that is "webinar."
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Dec 19, 2014 07:29
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We should hold a webinar about the Mofference and then vlog about it.
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i think the most hosed up thing abot star wars is that jabba the hutt isn't male
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brb wookepedia searching "jabba + preferred + pronouns"
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much like real gastropods hutts are hermaphrodites this is important to the star wars lore
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i actually got the special edition of the star wars galaxies mmo with the art book (it was actually on sale cheaper than the standard one on amazon is my defense for getting the SE, but i have no defense for unironically playing MMOs) in the art book they point out that they didn't give mon cal women breasts b/c they are fish people then a few years later lucas comes out with episode 3 where you barely see it but i guess the mon cal water dancers in that opera scene have fishtits
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JJ Abrams should make a trilogy based upon Hutt criminal empires, I'd watch the poo poo out of it. Also wtf ever happened to Jabba's kid
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Otisburg posted:i actually got the special edition of the star wars galaxies mmo with the art book (it was actually on sale cheaper than the standard one on amazon is my defense for getting the SE, but i have no defense for unironically playing MMOs) fishtits were designed for motorboating
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Woolie Wool posted:Infernal Sky is mind-bendingly terrible enough to stand with the best worst of the EU, especially with the soldiers ending up on an alien ship naked and conversing with two aliens named Sears and Roebuck oh and the demons are some other kind of aliens and here's some weird jargon and bullshit eschatology that has nothing to do with why anyone played Doom. I think you meant this one, dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaSmassvv4w No, why... why does this show do these things. Stop talking and start shooting before this gets really bad... ... oh. Nevermind. Generally I feel most of Sheridan's ranting/speeching was pretty good, at least. That Ivonova clip I just linked though... man, I think when that starts I just skip to the next episode. And then Crusade introduced Galen or whoever and he was the living embodiment of JMS's sometimes really cringeworthy writing. Captain Candiru fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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the show does those things because it is a melodramatic war opera goons
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At first I was relieved that starship troopers tactical realism chat was over but if you nerds are just gonna start talking about battlestar galactica instead then bring on the power armor and unisex showers
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Wolfsheim posted:At first I was relieved that starship troopers tactical realism chat was over but if you nerds are just gonna start talking about battlestar galactica instead then bring on the power armor and unisex showers battlestar galactica fuckin owns you sperg
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Nah GOTO was pretty lame because the twist that the mysterious crime lord who showed up out of nowhere and only appears via hologram was actually a hologram was super obvious to anybody who has ever consumed any sci-fi before and he was a pretty lovely party member also wasnt it almost impossible to get all of his story because he had very few conversations and few ways to get more rep with him
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Has anybody replied that the entire EU is dumb? Has anybody said that yet?
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Captain Candiru posted:I think you meant this one, dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpb1OXvNNMc
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