‘walking distance’ there is literally not a sidewalk for hundreds of meters or more from where i live. i get the horrors of the suburban experience except my house is outside all the local gentrifying rich ppl suburbs right on a major road so i get few of the alleged benefits. no walking and hardly any neighbors here. not a shred of a sense of community. i have to drive and spend gas money to get literally anywhere outside my house. absolutely amazing environment to go through childhood in, no out-of-school friends or sense of belonging in a community or free range child (or even adolescent) adventures or anything like that, a constant panopticon of mediocrity. no way that could possibly ever lead to being a mentally wrecked loser of an adult no way its the safest way to live. america is an alienation farm i stg

LMFAO all of my neighbors are rabid trump supporting racists with comically large TRUMP flags and those oversized skeleton decorations in their yards year-round, i am doomed

basically my thoughts lol (probably just going to be another missile tho)

i can’t watch the video thru this link but from what i gather its like the boston dynamics robodog but with wheels for feet. adding wheels to robot legs is probably the Coolest design choice possible. it’s ingenious really, you need something to be the ‘foot’, and that something might as well have built-in shock absorption and also spin to provide a traversal option that circumvents the major disadvantage of legged vehicles, speed on flat ground, without removing the capacity to use the legs to traverse more complicated terrain. skating quadruped robots might even handle terrain at speed that a car or traditional UGV might not ever be able to handle, using the agility provided by legs to position wheels. i want my car to be an oversized one of these so badly. i can’t wait until someone makes a useable larger bipedal version of this, make my skating mecha dreams come true!

frankly tho i would just put the wheels on the main chassis separate from the legs for simplicity’s sake, used with legs folded more like a traditional wheeled craft, so the wheels are still useable if the legs break and you don’t have to put electric motors or wiring or whatever in inconvenient places through the legs. it would lose a little agility without ‘mech skating’ but i think it might be worth it for reliability/ease of manufacture/repair.

maybe those aliens are chill, worst case scenario id still rather be vaporized intentionally by a cool alien laser than randomly by space weather

oh great another potentially galaxy-rending planet-destroying stellar catastrophe i can have intrusive thoughts about constantly. i thought getting inevitably enveloped by the sun or instantly vaporized by an unlucky space beam from a quasar or something or exploded by a large asteroid was bad enough. but there’s also mobile black holes out there that we don’t even know how to look out for yet. great. cool.

i think you are correct, google images says the following are MICLIC carrying vehicles and they look very similar.

i’ve heard of MICLICs (‘MIne Clearing LInear Charges’ for those not problematically obsessed with tools of war, a bunch of explosives attached in a line for clearing paths through minefields) before but have never seen how they are carried or deployed, it’s especially interesting how it seems like the MICLIC tubes are inside of the ‘turret’ hull, underneath what i presume are at least lightly armored panels that fold out. I would usually expect something like that to be mounted on the outside of a vehicle in a tube or something (like a TOW launcher would be on the side of a Bradley turret in an external box). I wonder if the charges are particularly volatile or susceptible to incidental detonation or something.

bonus sci fi pic - this fashionable lad also carries a MICLIC tube!

SERIOUSLY! i read the lore entries in-game and almost every single thing they mentioned about the Hegemony was incredibly based despite being presented as some unspeakable orwellian evil lmao. like way more lines saying stuff like ‘hegemony citizens all get healthcare and food and housing’ than the bad stuff like ‘they are ruled by a class of orphan oligarchs’.

death to all IP lawyers. modern games are all fortnite clone over-the-shoulder battle royale microtransaction games, even single player games have microtransactions and locked over-the-right-shoulder cameras. every time i see a new game i have to temper my excitement until i see gameplay footage to check if it has that godawful fortnite locked-to-the-right-shoulder camera perspective, which they almost always do. all 3rd person games should either have centered cameras or the ability to switch which side the camera is on so i can aim around cover to the left sometimes instead of always moving right or having the disadvantage against those who can.

i hate modern gaming, i’m going to go play Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (the Terran Hegemony did nothing wrong)

arguing that the Imperium are the Good Guys despite the fact they are Space Fascists because The Universe Is Just That Bad

arguing the Imperium are the Good Guys because they have Space Commissars and are therefore Communists doing Galactic War Communism, being literally ruled by Psychic Lenin’s Preserved Corpse after the Horus Revisionism. Space Marines are the True Volcel Vanguard.

their beef with the Tau is like a weird Sino-Soviet Split

i prefer DPS style classses but i will always choose the class with 2 handed swords in fantasy RPGs. i would play mages more often but i generally don’t like the ‘big glowing colorful ground markers with area of effect elemental damage attacks’ genre of magic aesthetic, it comes across as gimmicky/fictitious/unimmersive, magic should be liminal/surreal/terrifying imo. i basically kind of hate the WoW style fantasy/videogame aesthetic and genre of RPG, the only one i really even slightly enjoyed was Guild Wars 2 (because huge playable cat guys with 4 ears and 4 horns and no paid subscription)

@Boredom is literally doing this right here in this thread lmao

i haven’t finished it yet because the controller i use on pc for emulators is broken. i do remember that there are like 2 significantly different campaign playthroughs depending on some dialogue choices in the early missions, there might be other choices as well. i think it determines which of the major political factions you work for in the campaign, and i’m pretty sure one of them features an ally/protagonist/party member that works for the Chinese who recruits you and your friends, who so far has been portrayed as an ok/good guy. front mission games from what i’ve played tend to be fairly pessimistic about any political faction i think, similar to Ace Combat kind of vibes. Left Behind (technically part of the series i believe) is the closest to having a clear-cut badguy faction and i haven’t finished it yet either (the on foot 3rd person stealth is just not very good, not enough robot missions but the robots are super cool when they show up) but i think it was leading up to revealing that the situation is less obvious than it seemed.

lmao navigating the relationship drama of those around me is exhausting. not even anyone’s fault so i can’t find toxic relief through blame lol. on top of all that, best case scenario i will be significantly more alone-er in the near-ish future. it will be a curse and a blessing, i like having (unproblematic) people around to analyze media and stuff with, to compare experiences etc., but i all too often find the expectations of dialogue to be an interruption of some obscure thought i’m trying to process. maybe more space and time and isolation-induced unhinged-ness will make me manic enough to accomplish something. worst case scenario it doesn’t work out for them and they relapse into alcoholism with a risk of self-harm or worse. i’m pretty terrified of the last person i talk to regularly being gone but i obviously want them to be happy. i know i’m going to be less upset than i expect and that will only bother me more, like dead family members or childhood friends that are completely forgotten until you have a weirdly emotional dream about them like once or twice a year that makes you question some of your past choices and priorities but otherwise change nothing about your current life other than a vague sense of existentialist ennui for a few days. i need to sleep now.

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someone plz tell me this isn’t a lolicon pedo game because it sure looks like it. is there like a joke i’m not getting or what? is it problematic for ‘frilly 18th century dress design’ and neonatal anime proportions/behaviors (thin limbs, large heads, childish affect) to trigger me? (i am autistic and have relevant PTSD so i might legit be overly sensitive)

wait people think the bathroom should be the same room as living/sleeping/cooking? what the actual fuck. like that could kinda almost work (not really) with literally one person in this multi-function room, but having families or groups live in something like that is just asking for increased risk of SV/SA imo. your horny uncle should not get to watch his niece shit. teenagers need private spaces to experiment with masturbation. a significant portion of adults and adolescents with a penis likely wake up with a rock hard erection in the morning, you should not have to go through that in the same bed or room as the rest of your extended family. i’m glad i’m not on twitter.

Shadow Of The Colossus Without Boss Battles does actually sound pretty cool. as long as it lets me climb stuff sometimes and doesn’t have the always-over-the-right-shoulder-with-no-way-to-switch fortnite camera every game seemingly has to have these days.

verizon phone service outages across USA: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/verizons-network-down-thousands-users-downdetector-shows-2024-09-30/

(idk if this is a good source but its happening to me at the worst possible time lol, my roommate went on a walk or something earlier while i was half asleep and i cant send or receive texts to find out whats up, idk if theres tracking stuff to fix with the link either)

(parenthetical edit: roommate is fine)