Fractional stick of dynamite and/or a cherry bomb. Basically goes "bang" real good, scares the little fuckers off wherever they are you don't want 'em.
This may seem weird, until you realise that in the PNW and bits of CA, we have seal/sea lions like some places have... Like ocean-going pigeons, if pigeons were huge, mean, federally protected from harm, and had a penchant for eating all your fish.
Huzzah! I am tipsy. Who wants to talk to an Englishman slowly sliding down the bar into a sitting position he will pretend he was aiming for all along?
Cannonball: A cannonball was discovered in checked baggage at Ft Lauderdale (FLL). Nothing malicious here, just a diver who found the old projectile near a 1750-1800 era shipwreck. It was determined that the coral covered cannonball was explosively viable which triggered an evacuation of the checked baggage area and a visit from a TSA explosives specialist and a Broward County bomb tech. Cannonballs found on the ocean floor can retain their explosives and have been known to detonate on their own. The bomb tech took possession of the item for further identification, diagnostics, and safe disposal. Three flights were delayed affecting 290 passengers. Cannonballs are created to damage and destroy things, but I doubt its creators had any clue that it would destroy people’s schedules hundreds of years later.
Probably an early version of a shell mislabeled by the TSA.
Actually solid iron cannonballs salvage from shipwrecks do sometimes explode. You're not supposed to ship them through the post or anything, so I would imagine a similar restriction applies to flights:
Actually solid iron cannonballs salvage from shipwrecks do sometimes explode. You're not supposed to ship them through the post or anything, so I would imagine a similar restriction applies to flights:
if a dude dies in XCOM, the shit he has on him isn't lost or anything like that?
I don't think so.
If you bail on a mission and don't get everybody out I think you lose the stuff carried by those left behind, though.
ahah.
Hm.
Well, hopefully everything won't go horribly wrong.
But the equipment of this squad is far, far more expensive than the lives of this squad.
This is common.
You have to balance the cost of the equipment against the rate at which you will acquire experienced soldiers (since soldiers more likely to survive means that a greater proportion of them will live long enough to become experienced).
In the remake the small squad sizes usually tip the balance in favour of giving them better gear as soon as it's available, since you can't pack a skyranger with rookies with suicide grenades like in the original.
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if a dude dies in XCOM, the shit he has on him isn't lost or anything like that?
I don't think so.
If you bail on a mission and don't get everybody out I think you lose the stuff carried by those left behind, though.
ahah.
Hm.
Well, hopefully everything won't go horribly wrong.
But the equipment of this squad is far, far more expensive than the lives of this squad.
This is common.
You have to balance the cost of the equipment against the rate at which you will acquire experienced soldiers (since soldiers more likely to survive means that a greater proportion of them will live long enough to become experienced).
In the remake the small squad sizes usually tip the balance in favour of giving them better gear as soon as it's available, since you can't pack a skyranger with rookies with suicide grenades like in the original.
I'm packing a full squad of rookies. With brand-new carapace armor and laser rifles.
There is no way this can turn out badly.
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Actually solid iron cannonballs salvage from shipwrecks do sometimes explode. You're not supposed to ship them through the post or anything, so I would imagine a similar restriction applies to flights:
I was interested at first but then turned away in disgust when I read "pounds per square inch"
Sometimes just the fact of being buried in oxygen-free silt will do it. The corrosive effect of the seawater eats away everything but a finely-honeycombed sponge-like ball of elemental iron, which when removed from the silt and exposed to the air rusts so fast that the heating explosively shatters it. That usually happens within minutes of them being taken out of the water, though.
I still can't believe how Udina reacted when I stuck Anderson on the council at the end of ME1.
After that stunt he pulled, it's amazing that he imagined I had anything other than contempt for him.
Udina is an example of a particular character type common to a lot of military sci-fi.
I sometimes think some authors don't even realise that they are writing to a very specific stereotype.
I've always found that interesting, the way that invariably the bad guy is the bureaucrat who's job isn't going around shooting people.
It seems especially common in those authors who didn't serve themselves, as well.
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the bosses in revengeance are mostly pushovers which is a shame
you get so many health bars
especially sundowner
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I am looking forward to going back home in July, because it means I will be able to play all these video games that everyone has raved about over the previous twelve months
Huzzah! I am tipsy. Who wants to talk to an Englishman slowly sliding down the bar into a sitting position he will pretend he was aiming for all along?
you would be an awesome person to get drunk with Bogart
no question about that
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Udina was terribly written. Like, he was a caricature, not a character.
Probably, to me, the worst part of the first Mass Effect.
I still can't believe how Udina reacted when I stuck Anderson on the council at the end of ME1.
After that stunt he pulled, it's amazing that he imagined I had anything other than contempt for him.
Udina is an example of a particular character type common to a lot of military sci-fi.
I sometimes think some authors don't even realise that they are writing to a very specific stereotype.
I've always found that interesting, the way that invariably the bad guy is the bureaucrat who's job isn't going around shooting people.
It seems especially common in those authors who didn't serve themselves, as well.
I think it mostly happens because pretty much everyone has, at some point or another, experienced being answerable to a boss that demands the impossible or the impractical because of their lack of perspective on how things work at the sharp end.
Huzzah! I am tipsy. Who wants to talk to an Englishman slowly sliding down the bar into a sitting position he will pretend he was aiming for all along?
you would be an awesome person to get drunk with Bogart
no question about that
I can vouch for this.
I have got drunk with Bogart and, like a gentleman, he only stole one of my kidneys.
Udina was terribly written. Like, he was a caricature, not a character.
Probably, to me, the worst part of the first Mass Effect.
Yes.
Considering the sort of charismatic politicians humanity has generated over the course of history, the idea that when we find ourselves in a galactic community we would choose a priggish, paranoid, sleazy, uncharismatic, openly adversarial goon to represent all of humanity is far fetched at best.
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why doesn't the alliance just put the geth in a big old box with a javelin on all these firebases
he doesn't even need to come out of the box! he's a robot!
Fractional stick of dynamite and/or a cherry bomb. Basically goes "bang" real good, scares the little fuckers off wherever they are you don't want 'em.
This may seem weird, until you realise that in the PNW and bits of CA, we have seal/sea lions like some places have... Like ocean-going pigeons, if pigeons were huge, mean, federally protected from harm, and had a penchant for eating all your fish.
I don't think so.
If you bail on a mission and don't get everybody out I think you lose the stuff carried by those left behind, though.
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Chu in the pool?
After that stunt he pulled, it's amazing that he imagined I had anything other than contempt for him.
Probably an early version of a shell mislabeled by the TSA.
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Udina is an example of a particular character type common to a lot of military sci-fi.
I sometimes think some authors don't even realise that they are writing to a very specific stereotype.
ahah.
Hm.
Well, hopefully everything won't go horribly wrong.
But the equipment of this squad is far, far more expensive than the lives of this squad.
http://io9.com/5651698/why-old-cannonballs-brought-up-from-the-sea-can-still-explode
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I was interested at first but then turned away in disgust when I read "pounds per square inch"
This is common.
You have to balance the cost of the equipment against the rate at which you will acquire experienced soldiers (since soldiers more likely to survive means that a greater proportion of them will live long enough to become experienced).
In the remake the small squad sizes usually tip the balance in favour of giving them better gear as soon as it's available, since you can't pack a skyranger with rookies with suicide grenades like in the original.
I beat Mistral.
And got a B rank on chapter 1, too.
I did not get very far.
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such a fun boss fight!
I'm packing a full squad of rookies. With brand-new carapace armor and laser rifles.
There is no way this can turn out badly.
Eh, I honestly didn't find it that amazing. it was okay, but not as awesome as the prologue boss, IMO.
I did love the character... Dem Arms.
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Sometimes just the fact of being buried in oxygen-free silt will do it. The corrosive effect of the seawater eats away everything but a finely-honeycombed sponge-like ball of elemental iron, which when removed from the silt and exposed to the air rusts so fast that the heating explosively shatters it. That usually happens within minutes of them being taken out of the water, though.
I've always found that interesting, the way that invariably the bad guy is the bureaucrat who's job isn't going around shooting people.
It seems especially common in those authors who didn't serve themselves, as well.
you get so many health bars
especially sundowner
XCOM, Ni no Kuni, Revengeance, etc
you would be an awesome person to get drunk with Bogart
no question about that
Probably, to me, the worst part of the first Mass Effect.
*shock* way to have no French pride
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I'm not French... Nor is Mistral.
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I such with precision aiming so Sundowner was a pain in the ass, im worried about him on Revengence difficulty.
if only all those laws would get out the way
I think it mostly happens because pretty much everyone has, at some point or another, experienced being answerable to a boss that demands the impossible or the impractical because of their lack of perspective on how things work at the sharp end.
It's an easy "instant character empathy" button.
I can vouch for this.
I have got drunk with Bogart and, like a gentleman, he only stole one of my kidneys.
It's a shame it was the good one, though.
Yes.
Considering the sort of charismatic politicians humanity has generated over the course of history, the idea that when we find ourselves in a galactic community we would choose a priggish, paranoid, sleazy, uncharismatic, openly adversarial goon to represent all of humanity is far fetched at best.