Buh?
This was apparently a bit of light-hearted humor on Bidens part. but let’s face it… light-hearted humor died years ago. We’re not in the era of perpetual outrage, in no small part to Biden and his ilk. So… Biden called a young woman a liar with the face of a dog, which is clearly him calling her ugly. Is it not time to sic the feminists upon him?
Here is a home made pump action five-shot revolver shotgun, made from 3D printed parts and bits from Home Depot. Does it look cool? Certainly. Does it work? Is it reliable? Is it safe? Ummm… dunno. One certainly hopes so. Truly functional and practical firearms that can be made with consumer-grade printers and easily modified hardware store parts, as opposed to guns requiring a decent shop and a lot of skill and knowledge, would be a great benefit. But tacticool 3d printed guns that blow up in your face? Ah, no. Not a good idea.
So, bring on the ten-thousand-shot testing videos.
Not sure about the propriety of posting a cartoon that demands licensing, so I’ll just post the link. It’s topical, funny and accurate.
Huh.
A few things of interest:
“Deep space” as in 500 million light years away. “Signals” as in a cyclic fast radio burst, the first of its kind spotted. The source of the signal and the cause of its periodicity remain unclear.
Back in December, the Boeing Starliner capsule that failed to meet up with the ISS had bigger issues than previously disclosed. Had the issue not been detected and corrected, upon separation from the service module there may have been thruster firings that could have led to loss of the capsule. Whoopsie.
$25 billion next year compared to $22 billion this year. This is to support a return to the moon by 2024. Whether Congress will support that after about half of ’em just tried to overturn the last election is anyone’s guess.
The quickest way for a white person to commit career suicide is to be accused of being a racist. But it seems the quickest way to career success for *other* people is to publicly and proudly declare racism. Go figure. As an example, behold:
Some examples:
3. Because cookout meat is precious and sacred and not meant to be shared with interlopers, gentrifiers, and Travis ᚠᚢᚲᚲᛜ Kelce.
7. BECAUSE INVITING WHITE PEOPLE TO THE COOKOUT NEGATES ONE OF THE PRIME REASONS FOR HAVING ALL-BLACK GATHERINGS AND THAT’S TO BE IN A SAFE AND UNDERSTANDING SPACE TO DISCUSS, DEBATE, DECONSTRUCT, AND TALK ᛋᚺᛁᛏ ABOUT THE ECOSYSTEM OF PECULIAR BEHAVIORS KNOWN AS “THAT’S SOME WHITE PEOPLE ᛋᚺᛁᛏ.”
Feel free to imagine the response of someone getting paid to write a color-reversed version of this article, declaring why it’s important for white people to keep their own spaces and to stop socializing with “others.”
The Critical Drinker presents his top five cinematic “last stands.” Last stands in both history and fiction can be damned inspiring, the sort of thing that every man worth his salt hopes to aspire to. As the man wrote: “To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late, And how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.”
His top five are pretty good, but I’d actually put one of his “honorable mentions,” the last stand of Leonidas in “300” very, very close to the top. But very likely my number one would be that of Jack in “Oblivion,” who, while facing down (and telling a truncated version of Horatius at the bridge to) a Lovecraftian cosmic horror, says something that I wish was more commonly accepted: “Everyone dies. The thing is to die well.” He then goes out like a boss with a fantastic last line, God his own self smiling next to him.
Leave a comment on your favorite last stands. They need not be the actual *last* stand of a character; sometimes they manage to pull through. But a defining feature is that the character – fictional or historic – goes into it accepting that it is, indeed, the Last.
In 1985, Rockwell International contemplated the business case for Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicles. The specific design illustrated used the ET and SRB’s more or less stock, but the orbiter was replaced with a recoverable propulsion and avionics module. The payload came in the form of an upper stage with something very like the Apollo Command and Service Modules. This would probably have been for a lunar mission of some kind as a Shuttle-class booster is too big for a simple capsule mission to LEO. The basic design would have roughly performed like the presumably forthcoming SLS.
Unless this is some form of CGI sorcery, of course…
For those wondering why a “Space Force” might be necessary, behold:
The “shadowing” is a little distant, varying from 150 to 300 kilometers. But the message is pretty clear. Since satellites can be observed from the ground (certainly with better resolution than from other satellites at 150 km range), the purpose of such a satellite is clearly intimidation. Either it can destroy the US satellite, or it is supposed to give the impression that it can do so. The US Space Force *should* eventually be able to do something about that, rather than just watch helplessly as the US is currently doing. The USSF will, hopefully, eventually be able to send inspectors of its own to rendezvous with the foreign inspectors and shadow *them,* preferably at a range of a few meters. The USSF will eventually have rapid responsive launch capabilities to not only send inspectors, interceptors and defensive craft, but also replacements and reinforcements.Refueling and orbital tugs. Orbital Banksies that can tag opponent satellites with something as simple and effective as spray paint… which will do wonders for optics, PV array and thermal balance.
A couple weeks ago I made a spectacular, world-shaking post about a small RPG company that decided to insult about half of their potential customer base while also telling their base to *not* buy the product. That’s remarkable enough, but the company has not only continued to insult their potential customers, they’ve also pointed out that they fundamentally do not understand their own product.
Their game is a Cthulhu Mythos-based role playing game. One of the most important features of cosmic horror as defined and virtually invented by H. P. Lovecraft is “madness.” The universe is so vast and uncaring that if you get a good look at it, the horror of it all will likely break your tiny little brain and drive you mad or kill you outright. Madness is as fundamental to the Cthulhu Mythos as space wizards and lazer swords are to “Star Wars,” optimism and interstellar adventures are to “Star Trek” and sparkly teen vampires are to “Twilight.” So… behold:
There are no sanity rules in Fate of Cthulhu. We don't require anyone to play or perform mental illness.
(If you choose to, we have guidance on how to do it respectfully.)
Instead your PC gains Corruption, a potent, alluring slice of the Elder Gods' power.https://t.co/v0F853zsM0 pic.twitter.com/13tLqmE3wR— Evil Hat Productions (@EvilHatOfficial) January 30, 2020
“There are no sanity rules in Fate of Cthulhu. We don’t require anyone to play or perform mental illness.
(If you choose to, we have guidance on how to do it respectfully.)
Instead your PC gains Corruption, a potent, alluring slice of the Elder Gods’ power.”
What. The. Frak.
Dude. Dude. Naw, dude. If you meet one of the Great Old Ones, you don’t gain superpowers… you go bugnuts, get mutated into Class A body horror, burn to a crisp, vanish from existence. You don’t get *stronger.* That’s the whole friggen’ point: you can’t deal with this ᛋᚺᛁᛏ. It’s beyond you. Your efforts to be a badass only make Nyarlathotep chuckle.
Now, if they want a game where meeting the scary transdimensional space monsters gives you superpowers, great. Go ahead and invent that universe. Nobody will complain. But that’s not what they’re doing. Instead, they’re doing the “circle of diversity” thing of colonizing an existing property and then twisting it to suit their own ends while insulting the original fans. But what’s the *real* reason why they’re not creating their own thing, when they manifestly hate what they’re actually colonizing? Let the game designer explain:
Yes, we wanted to do something with Cthulhu because Cthulhu sells. That’s not us playing anybody. Just because we wanted to do that thing, it’s not therefore true that we could not then want to do anything else at the same time, like directly calling out HPL’s documented facts.
— deadly fredly (@fredhicks) February 3, 2020
“Yes, we wanted to do something with Cthulhu because Cthulhu sells.”
Not “we wanted to do Cthulhu because Cthulhu is awesome and a great basis as-is.” Instead… cash-grab.
After seeing Ghostbusters 2016, JJTrek, STD, Disney Star Wars… I’m a bit tired of seeing people taking over franchises and iconic cultural properties and turning them not only into talentless garbage, but garbage that is directly opposed to what the actual property actually is. This kinda makes me want to revive my “War With The Deep Ones” effort. If these anti-Lovecraftian hacks could make a mint on Kickstarter… why the frak can’t I?
