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Proteus Jones posted:Eh, seems to me it's basically a supernatural exterminator service. Although, in "defense" of this system, I suspect that anything as dangerous as werewolves is going to fall under the government bounty, so the local/private contracts are just the supernatural equivalent of termites and bedbugs.
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chitoryu12 posted:Oh yeah, that's the kind of protagonist you want: someone who was flagged by the federal government as right-wing militia. Frankly the most unrealistic part of the book for me is that the government even bothers flagging white right-wingers. Dammit, I wanted to make this exact joke.
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I will point out that while Larry Korea is a terrible shitstain of a human being and has zero self-awareness and is just awful and never, ever give him any money... his Grimnoir series is actually a pretty decent, light read of a fantasy series, even if it is fantasy in name only. It's basically magic X-men set in pseudo-World War 2 with necromancers and zeppelins and tommy guns and terrible samurai honor masturbation. It's relatively free of his crazy-rear end politics, at least up until about book 3 (I think?) where FDR turns out to be an evil villain who tries to ensnare the handsome billionaire protagonist with his evil New Deal. Also, the audiobooks are read by Bronson "Cousin Balki" Pinchot, and he does just an absolutely amazing job as a reader. If you can find them at your library, give them a listen. Old Kentucky Shark fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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Internet Wizard posted:Of course this dork has weird calibre hang-ups and thinks that true men only use .45 and .308 When doing my monster hunter campaign, I justified the use of the largest calibers possible because you actually want the silver plug to stay in the monster instead of overpenetrating and exiting, and you want the largest amount of silver possible. So you really just want to use the minimum necessary to penetrate the skin (vital organs if necessary, depending on how vulnerable the monster is to silver) while getting a fat honking bullet like a .45 or .50. This also means assault rifles aren't that great because of the small bullet and potential for overpenetration, while shotguns full of silver buckshot or slugs are ideal.
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Hostile V posted:I'm mad I have the same tastes in pizza that he does. Look, Owen is here to kick rear end and eat pizza, not be a lover boy. Besides, you know how they say write what you know? I am thinking, with Larry, that's what he knows.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Owen should be glad the story isn't set in this year because of the literal train-loads of poo poo stinking up Alabama right now. As opposed to how Alabama usually is? 
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So an interesting thing about gun-nuttery, Correia hates HK guns IRL, and I don't think his protagonist ever uses them. But when John Ringo wrote his basically fan-fiction of MHI that has been published and Correia helped edit, his protagonist wanked off about how HK makes the best guns for a solid 2 pages and it was glorious in some meta gun-nut argument kind of way.
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:So an interesting thing about gun-nuttery, Correia hates HK guns IRL, and I don't think his protagonist ever uses them. But when John Ringo wrote his basically fan-fiction of MHI that has been published and Correia helped edit, his protagonist wanked off about how HK makes the best guns for a solid 2 pages and it was glorious in some meta gun-nut argument kind of way. I think it's because Ringo is a weirdo who can't stop wanking over special forces, while Correia is a gun shop owner and shooter so he has the typical hatred of HK for being crappy to civilian consumers.
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Anyone have a title and such for Ringo's fanfic? I have never heard of it until now and would to at least like researching it.
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Choco1980 posted:I love how he says that she rifles off stats that would only be interesting to gun nuts, then immediately rifles off those stats. This is also something I've studied. A big problem with iron is that depending on your particular formula, it can also end up being too hard and ruining your rifling. One question is "What does 'cold iron' mean?" If it means a specific kind like consecrated iron, you've got a problem. If any kind of iron or steel works, you've got steel core ammo or steel buckshot and birdshot. Shotguns are the ideal anti-monster or anti-ghost (if you're shooting rock salt) weapon because they're just steel tubes, so they can safely load and fire virtually anything that fits in a shell. Need a quick silver load? Just buy a bunch of silver beads from a jewelry supplier and make as much silver buckshot as you need. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyS6tiGiEcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEEjArD1R3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ5Fhb395i8
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quote:The next three weeks had passed quickly. The PUFF check had surprisingly enough cleared. And with a bloated bank account, I had packed my bags, sold or given away most of my stuff, broken the lease on my apartment, and driven to the middle of nowhere, following the directions that Julie Shackleford had left me. Pitt drives straight through from Dallas to the small town of Cazador, Alabama about 2 hours from Montgomery. It's in the middle of nowhere with only one road in and out, surrounded by dense forests, rolling hills, and many streams and creeks. The town has a population of 682 according to the sign; the only attraction is a catfish plant, tours open until 4:00 PM. Pitt stops at the only convenience store in town for a soda, gas, and to scrape the bugs off his windshield. Deeper in the woods, he follows the directions to a small gravel turn-off. A sign reading "MHI" with a green smiley face with horns is the only marker, with many "No Trespassing" signs as he drives down.  quote:Finally I came to an open gate surrounded by high chain link and razor wire. Near the gate, a man sat in a folding chair under the shade of a large umbrella, relaxed and apparently listening to a big battery-powered radio. He waved lazily as I braked and rolled down my window. This gate guard is Milo Ivan Anderson, who simply introduces himself as "the guy who teaches you how all the cool stuff works". Driving past the gate, the MHI compound comes into view. The only permanent building is a red brick and steel office building with narrow windows and iron bars. Walking inside, Pitt notices that there's a second set of doors airlock-style behind the main entrance with a portcullis that can be dropped to separate them. The receptionist is a matronly old woman in her 60s, a large revolver printing underneath her purple sweater. She likewise compliments Pitt on killing the werewolf; her name is Dorcas, and she used to be a hunter herself until a werewolf left her with a plastic prosthetic leg. Pitt signs in at the desk and continues on to the cafeteria and meeting hall. The halls are lined with photos and plaques memorializing fallen hunters; the oldest go back to the 1850s, while nearly a hundred of the pictures all share the date of 12/15/1995. Conspicuously, there's no death dates beyond that until a few in the current year. Pitt notes this is 6 years, suggesting that this book actually takes place in 2001. quote:A group was waiting in the cafeteria. There were a few small pockets of conversation, but mostly they had pulled up chairs by themselves and were waiting nervously. Not being one for socializing, I grabbed a metal folding chair and took up residence in the back of the room. The fellow to my right was snoring loudly. To my left was a young Asian man, warily watching the others. He shook my hand and introduced himself as Albert Lee. When I asked him how he had ended up here he muttered something about spiders. Big spiders. From everything you've said about your racial background, Pitt, you seem pretty drat white. Earl comes in, along with a few other people like Milo and Julie. quote:"Hello. My name is Earl Harbinger. Many of you know me already. I'm the Director of Operations here at MHI. Welcome to our new Hunter orientation. Let's get one thing straight right off the bat. We hunt monsters. That's what we do. Every one of you has had the experience to realize that there is a lot more out there than you've been led to believe. In the coming days I would just ask for one thing. Keep your mind flexible. Don't get caught up in what you're sure is real, because if you can't believe in them, you can't fight them." Larry really seems to idolize Southerners who don't take poo poo from anyone and hate political correctness. quote:"Welcome to Monster Hunter International. My name is Raymond Shackleford the Third. You can call me sir, Mr. Shackleford, or Boss. Today you are going to get a little history lesson, so pay attention." He cleared his throat loudly. "My grandfather founded this company in 1895. Raymond Shackleford the First, but around these parts everybody knew him as Bubba. Bubba Shackleford was born and raised in this very valley, here in the heart of Keene County. One winter the good folk of Keene County started to disappear: sadly, some of them even came back, only they were not quite human any more. My grandfather formed a group of concerned citizens, best could be described as an angry mob, and took care of the problem. The fault lay with what we now know to be a vampire. Grandpa Shackleford lynched the creature twice, and when it wouldn't die they finally, in frustration, burned it at the stake. One by one my grandfather's men found every newly created vampire, and destroyed each in turn, until finally the county and Cazador township was made safe." Yeah, MHI is a full blown conservative Southerner's convention. Despite how Pitt insisted that the recruits are all races, I'm pretty sure there's only one he really cares about. quote:"For over a hundred years, this company has fought the good fight, the noble fight. We have always fought in secret because the powers that be don't want the sheep to be scared. We are the sheepdogs, and there are wolves out there, as all of you know firsthand. But things have changed. We have entered dark times indeed. For a brief time the fools in power, who should have known better, declared our business illegal. They caved in to monsters' rights groups, and the bureaucrats who assured them that federal agencies could handle the problem. There was an executive order. We were shut down, our assets confiscated, and any of us who opened our mouths were threatened with jail time. The drat nanny state couldn't handle the idea of private citizens taking care of their business." He was becoming visibly agitated. That explained the gap in the memorial plaques, but not what happened on December 15th. I'll eat my hat if these books actually display government action as a good thing at any point in history. quote:"Ha! Ignorant bastards just had to have their fingers in everything. Monster attacks went up three thousand percent in the six years PUFF was shut down. The government has long had a policy to keep the truth secret. That is why so many of you here today were paid visits by agents and threatened with physical harm if you talked too much. But with incidents going through the roof, they were not going to be able to keep the lid on for much longer. Even with the full cooperation of the media, word was starting to spread. Not all of those crazy folks on that Internet thing are as crazy as you might think." He grinned widely, obviously amused at that thought. "Once enough voters were getting eaten, Congress had had enough and pressured the next President to reinstate PUFF and revoke the executive order that had banned professional monster hunting." I'm a little confused about exactly how the government has kept a lid on things so easily. Somehow the whole of Congress is now in on it too? And the media has 100% cooperation so nothing leaks? At what loving point in the 21st century has the media been completely cooperating with the current administration? You just know if there were monster attacks under Obama, Fox would have been running it 24/7. quote:"So now we have restarted operations, and are trying to move past our dark days. Unfortunately we are short handed, and the monster problem is out of control. We are spread thin, with only small teams of experienced Hunters scattered around the country trying to put out fires. On the bright side, with so many attacks, it certainly makes finding and recruiting brave people like y'all much easier." He gestured at us with his hook. Harbinger takes over once quote:"Your teachers will consist of experienced Hunters. Listen to them carefully. Read everything that you're given. Your life, or the lives of your teammates, may depend on your skill or knowledge." Harbinger pointed at the small knot of people sitting behind him. "We're not normally teachers. The folks sitting behind me are actually my personal team. I trust each of them with my life, and any of them would trust me with theirs. If any one of them decides that any one of you does not have what it takes to be a Hunter, then you're gone. That is all. Don't screw around with us. We're much better killers than we are babysitters." I knew Julie, and I had met Milo briefly, but I had no clue who the others were. One instructor had a giant mustache, looked like a cross between a cowboy and a truck driver, and reminded me of Kenny's dad from South Park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqbSf_fb1g Terrifying. quote:"Training will last until we decide that you're good enough. After that you will be assigned to your duties. Some of you will be assigned to Hunter teams. We have teams stationed all around the country. Those teams respond to crises as they develop. Other people will work in direct support of the teams. We will go into greater details about how this entire thing works as training progresses. Every employee will be paid bimonthly according to your position. Any PUFF your personal team earns will be shared by the whole company, with your team getting the largest percentage. Think of it as profit sharing. That means that if your team wins a huge bounty you don't get to keep it all. Be careful not to bitch too much about that, however, because the next week it will probably be some other team that wins the big one and not you. Don't worry, though, the lowest paid employee we have probably made more than most of you did in the last year. Our business is monsters, and business is booming." He showed a lot of teeth when he smiled. It almost reminded me of when Mr. Huffman was about to eat me. The only one to raise his hand is Pitt. He asks what happened on December 15th, 1995. One of the instructors (a handsome man in a suit, whom Pitt instantly hates) asks how he knew about that, and Pitt points out the dates on the death plaques. Someone in the crowd asks if he's a detective or reporter. Harbinger says he's worse: an accountant. quote:"Very astute of you, Pitt. I'll answer your question, but not today. Most of you in this room are not going to make it through training. Those folks get to walk away from this place and never look back. They don't need to know. Trust me, they don't want to know. For those of you who make it, I'll tell you the story personally, because I was there, and it affects every single Hunter. It was the straw that broke the camel's back and got us shut down. It was the one hundred year anniversary of the founding of the company, and it was one hell of a Christmas party."
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If werewolves and zombies and vampires and poo poo are 100% real, how did this poo poo ever become secret in the first place. never mind the government covering up the increase in monster attacks once they told private firms like this to cut that poo poo out?
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chitoryu12 posted:This is also something I've studied. A big problem with iron is that depending on your particular formula, it can also end up being too hard and ruining your rifling. One question is "What does 'cold iron' mean?" If it means a specific kind like consecrated iron, you've got a problem. If any kind of iron or steel works, you've got steel core ammo or steel buckshot and birdshot. Cold iron means it's been beaten out, not traditionally heat-forged.
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chitoryu12 posted:I'll eat my hat if these books actually display government action as a good thing at any point in history. You can have ketchup if you want. Fedora, trilby or snapback? I mean the government established PUFF which funds MHI one way or another, so that is good government action, not to mention the government's useful assistance in covering everything up. On the not "Chi Has To Eat His Hat with an Everclear Back" front, I don't remember this well enough, but does MHI actually employ the hunters, or is it more a gig/Uber thing or does MHI provide them support and they get paid by bounties?
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I'm sorry, did the crazy old man blame monsters right's groups? How is this whole thing a secret when advocacy groups exist for bloodthirsty monsters?!
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Up Circle posted:I'm sorry, did the crazy old man blame monsters right's groups?
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Samizdata posted:You can have ketchup if you want. Fedora, trilby or snapback? It’s been forever since I read this, but I *think* they’re employees with room and board. Each mission they get hazard bonus and part of the PUFF (with the lion’s share being plowed back into MHI for operational and personnel expenses). But they also typically go after the big number gigs, so it’s probably pretty drat profitable for everyone involved. Except for that whole life expectancy thing.
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And if the government monster hunters were under the DOD rather than the FBI you just know Correia would never shut up about how cool and elite those Special Forces Operators are as they completely ignore Posse Comitatus because they know better than those dumb civilians in Congress and the White House (bonus points if he throws in commentary about how important the Constitution is at the same time.)
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Sperglord Actual posted:chitoryu, would you mind if I reposted the Shark Puncher snippets here? Go for it.
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Samizdata posted:Cold iron means it's been beaten out, not traditionally heat-forged. That's a more modern redefinition. "Cold iron" was originally just a poetic description for any iron blade, like "cold steel".
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Idran posted:That's a more modern redefinition. "Cold iron" was originally just a poetic description for any iron blade, like "cold steel". Yeah, I've looked it up and apparently it's just a flourish like "Cold Steel" that I suspect they mean "heartless" rather than "frigid" when they say Cold. Like, any iron will do for fighting witches and fae, as long as it's just iron. chitoryu12 posted:This is also something I've studied. A big problem with iron is that depending on your particular formula, it can also end up being too hard and ruining your rifling. One question is "What does 'cold iron' mean?" If it means a specific kind like consecrated iron, you've got a problem. If any kind of iron or steel works, you've got steel core ammo or steel buckshot and birdshot. So I'm not a gun guy, but I tend to understand stuff when people talk about it (it's funny, I'm the same way about programming language, so people automatically think I'm some computer expert for it). It sounds to me like the whole hollow point with a chunk of silver inside that the book went with and you said was where you independently decided to go with other stuff, it's basically the same principle as buckshot, wherein the payload isn't the bullet, but rather inside the bullet to do it's damage piggyback style, correct?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Book would be automatically better if it was called Bubba Shackleford's Professional Monster Killers. "Perfessional", because you know that's how half these assholes say it anyway.
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Choco1980 posted:So I'm not a gun guy, but I tend to understand stuff when people talk about it (it's funny, I'm the same way about programming language, so people automatically think I'm some computer expert for it). It sounds to me like the whole hollow point with a chunk of silver inside that the book went with and you said was where you independently decided to go with other stuff, it's basically the same principle as buckshot, wherein the payload isn't the bullet, but rather inside the bullet to do it's damage piggyback style, correct? Yeah, the problem is that silver is actually extremely hard to make bullets from. It requires very high heat to melt and cools too rapidly to pour easily, so you often end up with air pockets or an uneven shape. Because silver is very hard, it won’t expand if slightly undersized or swage down if slightly oversized like soft lead entering the barrel, and an oversized silver bullet can blow up the gun. The bullets also have very low mass, resulting in poor ballistics and accuracy. Larry and I independently came up with the same idea for monster hunters: filling the cavity in the nose of a JHP with silver. This plug will deal the contact damage of silver inside a monster body and potentially separate to create its own wound cavity. Shotguns avoid this problem because they have no rifling and just pack the shot contents into a plastic shot cup in the shell. You can load up literally anything that will fit in the shell. Steel or iron shot for fae, silver beads for those monsters, rock salt for ghosts, palo santo infused with garlic and holy water, whatever you want.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:"Perfessional", because you know that's how half these assholes say it anyway. "Y'all gotta gets ready to hunt the real monster: that goddamn librul communazi Barack Hussein Obama!"
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Choco1980 posted:it's basically the same principle as buckshot, wherein the payload isn't the bullet, but rather inside the bullet to do it's damage piggyback style, correct? Noooooot really. Buckshot is just a bunch of balls, sometimes held loosely together by a plastic cup or wad of paper while in the gun. Once you fire, the shot itself leaves the packing material before hitting your target. It's basically just a bunch of small bullets all at once rather than a single big bullet. There's not really any piggybacking since they don't strike as a single mass, they strike as a bunch of individual projectiles close together.
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chitoryu12 posted:Go for it. 'Kay. I threw these together for a TFR Let's Read of some awful John Ringo novels a couple of years ago, just to see if I could write schlock as well as the maestro of excruciating milporn. Maybe this thread will motivate me to finish the third installment. Introducing Pekka Nielsen, Shark Puncher posted:“Pekka Nielsen? Jack Valance.” The man behind the desk gestured to the chair in front of it. “Have a seat.” Pekka and friends posted:It was dark when Pekka returned to the hotel following an afternoon buried in paperwork. He climbed the stairs from the lobby to the third floor, pretending it was exercise. A pair of squealing French children and their apologetic French parents nearly ran him over in the hallway. Narrowly reaching Room 308 unscathed, he announced himself with a brief knock and waited to be let in. A bonus from the same thread: The Battle of Robin's Drift posted:A .577/450 bullet struck the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump neatly between its beady, savage eyes. The charging beast fell with a great crash and rolled head over tail in a dusty cloud, momentum carrying it a few paces further. The accompanying section of Woozles, seeing their battering ram felled short of the mark, ceased their advance and began to employ its carcass as cover. A jezail ball futilely struck the stone wall in front of the defenders. Another skimmed over it and clipped one of the Langstroth beehive cabinets in the field behind.
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So. MHI was started by Klansmen, basically? Or at least that's the vibe I'm getting from Shacknasty the Elder's little speech and word choice. Not "tried to kill it twice" but "lynched" which just makes me wonder how many innocent people died before they figured out it was a vampire especially when he says "we now would call a vampire". They had no idea what they were up against at first and they tried to solve all of their problems with "vigilante" hangings. It reads like a branch of the KKK accidentally found out monsters existed and decided "well let's get in good with the government so we can get paid to murder" down the line and Pitt finds this to be a proud and good thing because he's a blundering militia shithead.
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Samizdata posted:Cold iron means it's been beaten out, not traditionally heat-forged. Does smelting count? Hell, even meteoric iron gets melted coming through the atmosphere...
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muscles like this! posted:This suffers the same problem as a lot of secret supernatural stories in that there's not really a good reason for it to be secret. There actually is one but :spoilers: I guess.
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Liquid Communism posted:Does smelting count? Hell, even meteoric iron gets melted coming through the atmosphere... TOTALLY different. That's "sky metal" there. You build your badass magic swords out of that.
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