Sacred Cow Shipyards
@SCShipyards
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Just your neighborhood Dockmaster taking a serious, quasi-historical, (mostly) sober look at some of the famous ships and other such things from science fiction
Just, y'know, floating around
Joined March 2021
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Now for some real engagement-baiting.
This is the basis of the "keep politics out of our fictional entertainment" argument on your planet - the need to unplug from the reality around you.
That does not, however, mean, that said fictional entertainment has to be devoid of
I'm not a musician like
@alicecooper
.
I'm not even a musician.
In the end, realistically, I create nothing.
And I'm ok with that.
But that's also why I don't bother myself with the politics of your planet.
I'll keep rambling on, y'all keep doing what you do, and we good.
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Remember when Neil deGrasse Tyson told the world that BB-8 couldn't operate in sand, and ILM politely informed him that the droid was a practical effect (i.e. they built one and drove it around... in the sand)?
That was awesome.
Neil deGrasse Tyson critiques thumpers and sandworms in 'DUNE: PART TWO'.
"You can't thump sand, if you do this to sand [slams fist] nobody else is gonna hear it... they have the worm going straight fast, no that's not how physics work they gotta curl"
Source:
@colbertlateshow
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@SCShipyards
That picture looks like it could be straight out of a 90's computer game, that has been updated with HD graphics. just needs little green bars over the vehicles and people's heads.
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It's amazing how many sophonts consider things like Quarry Junction to be "bad game design". There was a whole subthread on my joke post about the "shortcut" in New Vegas a few rotations ago about how open world games shouldn't do that and it was all dumb.
Designers have to
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You really have to wonder what's going on with the current, male, humie psyche that it would actually enjoy being strapped into a literal rocket-propelled coffin and launched at a planet... to engage in grievous warfare against either Lovecraftian or Cameronian nightmares.
Men literally only want one thing and one thing only.
To be ODST Helljumpers.
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@MandoWookie
Humanity has produced a lot of insufferable sophonts, but he seems to be going for an All Time Record or something.
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@MGecko117
The problem is, as we mentioned in our episode, Holtzmann field generators are basically wormnip.
You could never set down anywhere, for all the shai-huluds chasing you.
So he was still fundamentally wrong :).
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@MilsurpM
And if you want to nut up and shut up, you can power through and ignore what the designers want.
But it takes effort.
Which is the point.
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It just needed a snack.
US Marine Corps Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion heavy transport helicopter made an emergency landing on a rice field in Japan.
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*sigh*
House Atreides was getting powerful enough to challenge the Corrino Empire on equal footing in the Landsraad.
But not in open combat, thanks to the Sardaukar.
Leto hoped that he'd be able to personally enlist the Fremen to his side, and - knowing their reputation as
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I may be out of spells, but I'm not out of shells.
Needs more backblast, though.
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@c00lbeans21
In some cases, that is true.
In other cases, it was entirely a remotely-controlled robot, with no puppeteers pushing it along.
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@AlanGresov
You mean they want first-time players to experience they story they'd laid out for them?
I'm shocked.
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How can you tell when your starship designers have just given up trying?
*STD kicks open the door*
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Since this tweet? xeet? whatever seems to have... uhm... absolutely exploded, I want to remind you humies that NdGT was wrong about the ornithopters too:
It's not clear that the ornithopters are even reasonable, but was definitely wrong in his objection.
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I see the "wheelchairs in a dungeon" nonsense has resurfaced.
It's entirely reasonable that debilitating, incurable - even with magic - disabilities could exist in a fantasy world.
People so afflicted wouldn't be adventurers, just like they aren't soldiers on your planet now.
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@Scow21
A single TIE popped a MG-100 one and it not only took it out, it took out its neighbor.
But ok.
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@MGecko117
The spacecraft only landed in Arrakeen, which was protected from the worms by the Shield Wall.
The carryalls didn't use suspensors.
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@MGecko117
I think it's entirely a duration thing. It's impossible to know how many worms there are on the planet or where they are, so you flip it on, hope no one notices, and turn it off as soon as you can. The books articulate that the ornithopters are entirely because of this problem.
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Admittedly, fantasy is not my schtick after all, but I'm genuinely curious how many dungeons are ADA-compliant.
I mean, the catacombs of Ankh-Morpork having ramps seems about as likely as the Empire bothering to put railings on their catwalks.
That's the problem.
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@Sigilstone59653
With such charming sophonts as yourself recommending it, how could I resist?
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So, real talk, this little dork is meant to prevent bubbles inside of grain silos (which can be lethal for you humies) & keep the grain fresher or something. I dunno, I'm not a farmer.
But I can't stop thinking about this little bot going "WHEEEEEEEE" all the time he's running
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Those mountains are older than Polaris.
No, not the vehicle company.
The literal star.
Don't go poking around in them unless you know how to make friends.
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@c00lbeans21
By your rules of logic, being partially right means you're wrong.
He claimed it would never work on sand.
It, in fact, did, without the assistance tools you're indicating.
That makes him wrong.
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@c00lbeans21
And yet the fact remains that there was, in fact, a remotely-controlled BB-8 that operated just fine on sand without puppeteers.
Which makes him... well... wrong.
Sorry-not-sorry.
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I am, naturally, an unabashed 40k tourist, but didn't Horus kick off one of the big, galaxy-spanning to-dos in that 'verse?
And he's basically the reason an entire faction exists?
This whole, "Lore doesn't matter," nonsense is turning into a right proper cancer.
So folks are saying Horus Lupercal hasn’t been relevant “in universe” for a millennia therefore it makes sense people (irl) don’t know his name. Which fair i guess?
But End and the Death v.ii just came out
he’s kind of a MAJOR player my guys.
he did a very relevant thing 🪶
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@LewisBenWarner
No, but Herbert went into great detail about how the plates on their exterior flex and contract like oars, allowing them to move in a straight line, yes, at a high rate of speed.
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Rogue One stands as proof that Disney can make good Star Wars content.
They just, by and large, refuse to, for some reason.
The entire third act of Rogue One is EASILY some of the best Star Wars that we’ve ever gotten, and I’ll forever stand by that.
The Battle of Scarif remains as visually stunning as it is incredibly exciting and intense.
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Janeway keeps an old, physical copy of the long-since irrelevant "Geneva Conventions" in her stateroom.
She uses it as a checklist.
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@ForbesEnt
It's getting bad reviews because it has bad writing, bad sets, bad characters, bad "lore", and is, generically, bad.
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Yes, I know what it is.
No, you shouldn't lick it, since I know at least one of you was thinking about it.
Yeah you.
*stares*
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@foxlink38
@ReviewsPossum
We've often wondered what a neutron star would taste like.
But since we lack the appropriate sensory organs, it's something of a pointless question, I suppose.
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See how ridiculous that path is?
Just head straight to the strip from Goodsprings. It'll be fine.
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Train-mounted battleship guns raise some... interesting questions.
The Liberterran coastal wall is the largest structure in the world. Depending on how one quantifies things it is also the largest weapons system ever produced. Without the wall, the Kyzerian “Operation Oberherr” naval invasion of WC047 would most certainly have succeeded.
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Just don't let the screwdriver slip while you're setting it up.
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But did they think to ask what the big red button was for?
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Counterpoint: Tyranids.
And Brandolini's Law applies here, so I won't even bother.
There is nothing within the lore of 40k that would justify the existence of the Imperium on the basis of the fact that the Imperium is inherently genocidal, and in the wise words of the best Star Trek character:
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The funny thing is I literally have people in my mentions pulling the "it was always this bad" card, right now.
No, it wasn't.
You're certainly welcome to gaslight yourself into thinking so, but no one else has to play along.
This proves it! Disney Star Wars shills are not real Star Wars fans if they choose to take a dump on everything that came before to defend whatever slop Disney Star Wars farts out, claiming it’s all just as bad.
NO!
As a true Star Wars fan how dare they try and tear down our
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@TedNels50120556
The "small" part is the problem.
They were good, there just weren't enough.
And Leto had no designs for the throne, but the Emperor thought he did, so Leto had to respond accordingly.
And given the opportunity to... acquire... a fighting force widely regarded as being
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I am told that this fire-in-vacuum-and-null-G is not, in fact, from a fan-made, low-budget, garage-filmed sequel to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
Instead, it appears to be from the $180,000,000-budget
#TheAcolyte
Star Wars series.
I am at a loss.
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Half of my timeline is apparently full of humies explicitly siding with entirely-non-hyperbolic, no-joke, overnighted-straight-from-hell demons simply because the humies who've been fighting them for 800 years developed a... predictable aesthetic.
#YourSpeciesIsNGMI
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@thinking_panda
The issue is simple: the reef is inside of The Philippines' EEZ.
Ergo, it's not China's.
See? Simple.
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Remember, I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together.
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This /almost/ makes me want a live-action Treasure Planet.
Except we all know they'd bugger it up.
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*war crime stick intensifies*
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Think of where you could be if low-information humies weren't taught to be afraid of warm rocks.
THAT'S IT?
This is what 20 years worth of spent nuclear fuel looks like safely stored at the former Maine Yankee nuclear plant.
The energy produced from this fuel helped avoid 70 million metric tons of CO2 emissions.
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"I'mm'a murder people who disagree with me," is always a good look and totally shows that you're approaching the conversation from a rational, reasonable point of view.
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No, the maneuver makes absolutely no sense, because now all you need is a lobotomized droid bolted into a hyperspace drive and - presto - you have a fleet-killing superweapon.
No need to nail that thermal exhaust port, just let MurderBot 9000 do his thing.
The rage against the Holdo Maneuver makes no sense because what else would happen in you flew a starship into another starship? Doesn't mean it should be the go to maneuver, it was a desperate move and a last resort.
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So it was the "longtime SW fans" who removed Boyega from the posters and not only destroyed his character's arc but also rendered it almost entirely irrelevant, all because "certain markets" don't like humies with dark skin?
I wonder if they knew they had that kind of power.
"Racists, bigots, and sexists were never allowed into the Star Wars fandom."
Tell that to Rose Marie Tran and John Boyega who had to suffer through all the hate-mail and death threats over the last decade from people calling themselves "longtime SW fans". 🙄
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@WolfWraithPress
I have no idea what scale you are using, but I'm going to go ahead and stick with the rational one that says the people who atomize entire planets just to ineffectively make a point are not just "grey", but objectively bad.
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As another entry into the "the notion that 'nerds don't like strong women' is nonsense", allow me to remind you about Petty Officer (and eventually Junior Lieutenant) Anastasia Dualla.
Was she physically strong?
No.
She was 90 pounds soaking wet, if even that.
HOWEVER, she
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Remember that the effective range for Long Toms is "yes".
God gave me four Long Toms, and I'm about to make it EVERYBODY'S problem.
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Sulfur.
On Mars.
Sulfur on Mars.
Well, I know what comes next.
*Cronch* I ran over a rock and found crystals inside!
It's pure sulfur. (And no, it doesn’t smell.) Elemental sulfur is something we’ve never seen before on Mars. We don't know much about these yellow crystals yet, but my team is excited to investigate.
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"Arrested"?
And there's everything wrong with humie society, right there.
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Hoooookey dokey.
You ambulatory imbeciles tried to float solar panels on a liquid body and... say... didn't anchor them?
Like... at all?
WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?
And this is without getting into "you're killing biomes because you're afraid of warm rocks."
AL GORE please pick up the red emergency phone.
Storm destroys the world's largest floating Solar Panel Farm.
What Valedictorian engineer signed off on this stupidity.
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I... actually have a hard time arguing with this.
Plus you get bonus ramming damage simply from inertia.
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Fat Man destroyed about two square miles of Nagasaki and ended up killing about 80,000 people in the end (a majority immediately, the rest within a year).
The firebombing of Tokyo reduced 16 square miles of the city to ash and killed 100,000+, most immediately (i.e. higher shock
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Imagine how we feel watching from the outside.
Your planet chose the strangest cautionary tales to use, instead, as instruction manuals.
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I don't think many of you humies fully grok how being able to put a 1kg payload into LEO for $10USD is going to change your whole world, on almost every level.
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Humies are space orcs.
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"Commander, we're surrounded!"
"Good, that simplifies the targeting solution."
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@c00lbeans21
As has been repeatedly stated, ILM made it clear that some of the BB-8 models were remotely-controlled robots without the use of pupeteers.
Oddly, they worked just fine, regardless of your objections.
So did they lie?
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Huh. Someone dressed a Cybertruck up as a Puma.
Okay, I'm NGL, suddenly the Cybertruck is growing on me for some strange reason. 😈
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Now comes the part where we throw our heads back and laugh. Ready?
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@c00lbeans21
Why would I care about your suspicions?
Or are you that dedicated to calling ILM liars?
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@Madao_415
There's a reason it took literally-suicidal religious fanatics to "liberate" Arrakis.
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Of course, equally high-larious has been the same sophonts screeching about how gatekeeping is wrong/doesn't work/etc. now turning around and, for the last solid rotation, proudly thumping their chests and telling others they "aren't welcome there".
Some folks can't see the
Half of my timeline is apparently full of humies explicitly siding with entirely-non-hyperbolic, no-joke, overnighted-straight-from-hell demons simply because the humies who've been fighting them for 800 years developed a... predictable aesthetic.
#YourSpeciesIsNGMI
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@c00lbeans21
Yes, the entity known as "BB-8" included multiple forms.
Some were puppeteer-driven.
Some were not.
Both operated in sand.
Those that were not prove NdGT wrong.
This isn't that complicated, really.
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@TriangleCyclops
You are clearly a serious person who everyone should endeavour to take seriously... while laughing at you because you have no idea what you're talking about.
Good luck with that.
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And there certainly could be exceptions to that, except the solutions wouldn't be as mundane - and limited - as a mere wheelchair.
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Since this is taking off, I would like to remind everyone that a CH-53 - like the one in the rice field right here - once towed a full-up, last-generation LPD.
By itself.
The ship's engines were not on.
Fornicateth not with Sea Stallions.
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"Fortified" must mean something different on your planet.
I mean, my minions aren't even combat units, and they could almost literally walk through that.
An encampment that is flying under the radar but is very fortified is the one at California State University, Los Angeles. You can even hear a drill whirl as activists reinforce the CSULA wall.
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