You can still see the remnants of trying to address the “realism” issue with things like Riker existing at all. Writing in an XO was supposed to divide responsibilities; keep the captain on the ship to make choices and put the XO on away missions to karate chop Klingons. However if that had been stuck to rigidly, Picard would never be written into many exciting situations.

MACOs on ENT should have logically made Malcolm redundant, but the show kept finding things for him to do.

Sir, this is a Quark’s Bar.

It’s a dumbfire system. Very similar warhead diameter, but a lesser effective range than the guided Javelin and it lacks the top down attack of the Javelin, meaning it can not practically engage with as heavy armored targets.

Zelensky actually specifically said that they didn’t seem to want to give enough aid to “win” particularly, just enough not to lose

Not to stir up too much, but it’s Zelensky’s job to constantly ask for more and more and more, and to push and prod and guilttrip and use every angle for every piece of aid. I don’t think there’s any level of aid given right now where he wouldn’t turn around and ask for more, saying what he’s getting isn’t enough. He’s a politician who is trying to leverage for maximum aid rather than an objective source. That’s not a knock, just saying that that’s his job right now.

America isn’t putting the weight of its military in as if it were being invaded, but it is and has been sending hundreds of billions worth of equipment, and people online only seem grateful for about 5 minutes when each shipment arrives, before going back to knocking the U.S. The U.S. didn’t invade Ukraine; the U.S. has advised and helped train them, and given them aid.

The earlier above comment wasn’t meant to say it isn’t giving aid, but it did downplay it and thanks only came when that was noted.

I noticed you skipped 2022, when the U.S. approved $100+ billion in aid.

The U.S. support hasn’t been perfect, but ragging on the U.S. without even acknowledging 2022 when they supplied billions on billions worth of aid, and downplaying other aid just reeks of wanting to be negative no matter what.

Drug use on its own usually doesn’t result in a court martial, which means it normally isn’t a DD.

Drug use would be a less severe separation like an OTH or general discharge.

The commander must have liked HST at least a little bit to have gone through the trouble of an administrative discharge, but not even downgrade from “honorable” to “general”.

Usually if somebody is a minor pain, everybody just waits it out until their contract ends and denies them the ability to sign a new one. If they are pain enough to discharge early through a pure admin discharge (as opposed to medical), there is usually enough hard feeling for a downgrade.

Amazing, an entire society run by Kevin Sorbo.

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Popsci article.

TLDR solar panels have a lot of inefficiencies, which makes them more of a detriment to mounting on standard commuter cars when you take into account the effects of the added weight.

It is his work, which I believe he was doing for quite a while without coherent lore to connect the thematically linked pictures. I think only since the game started actually being worked on he has been making art specifically for the lore.

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I’m both posting as high output as I feasibly can of OC, and aggregating links from blogs and creators I follow to [email protected], as a way to minimize reddit content.

[email protected] is also full of links to articles and blog content relevant to the hobby that isn’t ripped from reddit.

[email protected] has a small but regular community.

So many people complain about dead niche communities or niche communities only recycling reddit content. If that same energy was put in service to making new content, the communities would be improved. There is a bystander problem where loads of people complain, but if you check the profiler of the complainer, you often find few to no posts.

I too got an email and haven’t posted at all since the API change.

If I really was in the top 35k before that, then at least I know quitting Reddit made some kind of dent in their content.

Looks like a classic Fallout ending visual.

[email protected]

I think [email protected] is pretty neat. A setting with webs of overlapping political intrigue that shifts between different eras, all driven by conflicts where big stompy mechs are used to fight. It’s got decades of different miniatures behind the actual game, and the game itself is very rules crunchy. The small number of mechs needed to play makes it quite accessible compared to other wargames that need more of an investment.

[email protected] is another setting, probably more well known in the current mainstream. A huge variety of factions to choose from. It is the default game of any game store so you’re sure to be able to find other people to play with.

[email protected] is a setting that’s had a lot of controversy, but I personally like focusing on all of the great parts of it. I’m currently reading through some old EU books and really enjoying them.

Yes, that’s a real pickle.