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Trabant posted:I'd argue it's more masturbatory than incestuous. Fair
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Masturbation with layers.
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If you gently caress a clone of yourself is it incest or is it masturbation?
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FreudianSlippers posted:If you gently caress a clone of yourself is it incest or is it masturbation? Doesn't exactly apply in this situation.
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*adjusts cowboy hat, tunes guitar* Oh give me a clone, of my own flesh and bone With the Y chromosome changed to an X And when I'm alone, with my own little clone we will both think of nothing but sex Why should such sex vex, or disturb or perplex Or induce a disparaging tone For why can't you see, we're just both of us me So when I bone my clone prone, I'm alone
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Abugadu posted:*adjusts cowboy hat, tunes guitar* 'ts more like Time, time sure is strange When my own junk has gone all astray And I don't get the word that this timeline's absurd But hermaphroditism's not gay
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'Dreadnought' means 'fears nothing'. Super super obvious but I just never stopped and thought about it before.
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^ I see someone just watched Adam Savage's latest video.
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Trabant posted:^ I see someone just watched Adam Savage's latest video. Fuckin called out
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Yeah well I've seen his butthole
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:'Dreadnought' means 'fears nothing'. Super super obvious but I just never stopped and thought about it before. And the successor, "battleship", comes from "line of battle ship". ...but that's not actually all that interesting, in retrospect. Um, um... ok, the warship class called "destroyer", which sounds super badass, is just a contraction of "torpedo boat destroyer". When the torpedo was invented, naval folks collectively crapped their pants because for the first time you could have extremely cheap, small vessels carrying weapons that could threaten extremely expensive, enormous, national-prestige-level ships. So they developed a class of warship specifically for escorting the extremely big expensive warships and protecting them against torpedo boats. When submarines were invented, they morphed into defending against this new threat too, specialising in detecting and destroying submarines. They're smaller escort vessels. Their job isn't to gently caress up anything sailing the ocean blue, it's to protect holy-gently caress-expensive vessels like aircraft carriers or battleships. Or supply convoys. It always annoys me when a sci-fi goes for naval names for classes of war spacecraft and includes "destroyer" as a big scary fucker-uperer. Or, alternatively, uses it when they want a smallish general escort vessel, when they could use the perfectly good term "frigate". Honestly, I think the best use of it would be an anti cloaking vessel escort, since cloaking is so common in sci-fi and is a pretty good analogue for submarines! Still waiting for someone to do that.
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Conan The Destroyer is about him guarding a princess whose sacrifice will bring about the end of the world, so that’s accurate at least.
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Trabant posted:^ I see someone just watched Adam Savage's latest video. gently caress 
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Hyperlynx posted:And the successor, "battleship", comes from "line of battle ship". It's an interesting problem, defending against torpedo boats in the late 19th century. Everything's so slow. They didn't have speedboats; they didn't even have internal combustion engines. Torpedo boats had steam engines on them and weren't that much faster than the ships they were trying to take out. But the guns were also ludicrously slow and hard to aim. Plus, we're still in the era where after you've fired your guns once or twice, you're covered in thick smoke and can't see a drat thing, such as e.g. whether or not you hit your target. Destroyers had numerous advantages in anti-torpedo-boat duty: they were smaller, faster, and more maneuverable than your battleships, they had smaller, faster guns, they could hopefully intercept the torpedo boats before they got close enough to the battleship to shoot at it, and of course, being cheaper, they were less appealing targets for torpedoes themselves. As terrible as early torpedoes were (and they were pretty terrible), it's still clear they were a legitimate threat to your average warship. Navies tried a bunch of different defenses. One of them was to fit every warship with anti-torpedo netting, which was attached to booms on the side of the ship. When the ship was in harbor (parked, thus easy to plan attacks around), it would swing the booms out with the idea that they'd catch torpedoes before they could strike the hull. Of course, weapons manufacturers responded by adding net-cutting capabilities to their torpedoes. I could go on about this...one notable evolution in WW2 was the "manned torpedo", which is basically a submersible motorboat ridden by frogmen. They ride it in close to the target, attach mines to the hull, then make their escape. They were used successfully in the Raid on Alexandria, but the Italian military failed to capitalize on their success. All of the frogmen that carried out the attack were captured, and the harbor at Alexandria was so shallow that the damaged ships didn't visibly sink. So the Royal Navy just quietly pretended they were still fully operational while carrying out repairs.
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Hyperlynx posted:
that's just a star wars problem because lucas is an innocent child who just thought about a big triangle shooting the sun which would be scary
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Regarde Aduck posted:that's just a star wars problem because lucas is an innocent child who just thought about a big triangle shooting the sun which would be scary It would be, and I was disappointed when I found out that's not what they do 
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Stellaris calls 'em destroyers. So did Wing Commander, and that even had cloaked torpedo bombers as a plot point. Funnily enough, in the movies they refer to star destroyers as "Imperial cruisers" more than once, and "cruiser" is a pretty accurate designation (that or battleship, I guess).
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Hyperlynx posted:And the successor, "battleship", comes from "line of battle ship". Star Destroyers protecting the Super Star Destroyer. WHAT IS THE BIGGER ONE DEFENDING?? 
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MariusLecter posted:Star Destroyers protecting the Super Star Destroyer. WHAT IS THE BIGGER ONE DEFENDING?? What would you classify the Death Star II as? Presumably it's a carrier like the original Death Star was, so the closest analogue would probably be something like Project Habakkuk (a WW2 project to make an "unsinkable" giant aircraft carrier out of ice and wood fiber). But they both feel more like siege weapons than anything else.
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It somehow never once, through 11 star wars movies and over two decades, crossed my mind that "star destroyer" might be etymologically derived from the naval ship type "destroyer." Perhaps because, ever since playing the board game Battleship as a kid, I've always known "destroyer" as "the smallest kind of ship." MariusLecter posted:WHAT IS THE BIGGER ONE DEFENDING?? the second death star.
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I want to see a Star Wars movie where the rebels have to use a torpedo ram against the imperials *sits back and waits seconds for several examples*
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theres a danish class of warship called krydser (which is cognate to cruiser), ive always assumed it came from them being able to cross the waters fastly against the wind due to sail geometry, change directions & what not?
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Yes and then Cruiser evolved to meaning fast ship that can achieve useful things independently, ie raid or patrol or scout etc. Frigates used to be the older age-of-sail term mainly used for these vessels. We should note that English language nautical classifications is mostly sourced from the Royal Navy with a cultural switch to US Navy terms of art during and post-WW2. NATO carried some weight with spreading US language conformity since.
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Brawnfire posted:I want to see a Star Wars movie where the rebels have to use a torpedo ram against the imperials Remind me again how they destroyed the first Death Star
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Yes and then Cruiser evolved to meaning fast ship that can achieve useful things independently, ie raid or patrol or scout etc. Frigates used to be the older age-of-sail term mainly used for these vessels. to add: yacht means "hunt" ie very fast, due to its small size lmao
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Did you know the Dutch word for "ship" kind of sounds like "skip"?
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I went looking in that bastion of Star Wars knowledge Wookieepedia to see what it has to say, and it classifies the regular Star Destroyers from the movie (eg the one in the very beginning that chases Princess Leia's ship) as both cruisers and destroyers, because https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Anaxes_War_College_System quote:According to this system, ships were divided into seven main classifications; these were corvettes (100-200 meters), frigates (200-400 meters), cruisers (400-600 meters), heavy cruisers (600-1,200 meters), destroyers (1,000-2,000 meters), battlecruisers (2,000-5,000 meters), and dreadnoughts (+5,000 meters). 
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Brawnfire posted:I want to see a Star Wars movie where the rebels have to use a torpedo ram against the imperials They did the ww2 style bomber run, that was unironically really cool.
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MariusLecter posted:They did the ww2 style bomber run, that was unironically really cool. I think it was directly influenced by the dam busters raid. Actually it looks like the scene took a lot of influence from the movie about the dam busters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDS26pCUfgg
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Hyperlynx posted:I think it was directly influenced by the dam busters raid. Meant the Last Jedi opening battle, but that is also true.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:What would you classify the Death Star II as?
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Ok, but whats the sdf-1?
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Tree Bucket posted:What! I've been imagining some decades-old show called Inside Baseball. With a bunch of late middle aged guys smoking pipes while discussing McDichael's bat-strike returnage rate or something. Were you ever exposed to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sportswriters_on_TV
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I don't know if this is something "I can't believe I just figured out" but we don't have like a "today I learned this neat thing" thread, do we? Anyway, I work as a cashier at a 7-11, and this dude asks for a "glizzy." I ask him to repeat it, he does, I tell him I don't think we have that here, he gets very annoyed and says motherfucker I'm looking right at them. So I assume he's talking about the like honey buns or something in front of the counter, you know, because they're like glazed or whatever, but after another couple misunderstandings he violently informed me that a "glizzy" is a hot dog and "everyone loving knows this."
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Sounds like you need to research the throat goat obama, gulpin the most glizzies
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Yeah, I kind of figured the whole internet knew through memetic force. It's an intrusive thGLIZZYGULPERought for me by this point
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I only know the word "glizzy" because of a twitter account I found the other day that posts terrible meme hotdogs. It's a stupid word, and I feel justified in my hatred of it as an increasingly old person who doesn't like new things
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Baron von Eevl posted:Sounds like you need to research the throat goat obama, gulpin the most glizzies Oh, huh, I sort of assumed that meme was about dicks.
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credburn posted:I don't know if this is something "I can't believe I just figured out" but we don't have like a "today I learned this neat thing" thread, do we? quote:A glizzy is a hot dog. It was originally a slang term for “gun” in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area (also known as the DMV), but according to HipHop DX, it became a nickname for hot dogs because the length of the barbecue staple is similar to the extended clip of a gun.  ) has no idea wtf
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The best slang term for any tube-shaped meat-derived fast food item is the Democracy Sausage.
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