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They like sharing spots.

The console and PC versions of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter are entirely different games, and personally I think the console version is more fun. It emulatable.

Lovecraft’s stuff has that reputation, but on a listen through his works, he had a tendency to actually be properly descriptive when it was appropriate. I think it’s a case of later, lesser writers gloming onto to making things indescribable as a lazy crutch that made the reputation of the mythos like that.

I think only ‘The Unnamable’ by Lovecraft really goes incredibly vague at a point where it should be describing the creature, but that story feels like a joke about this exact topic.

Michael Shea’s mythos stuff is pretty good I think. ‘Demiurge’ is a book collecting all his stories. He updates them to the then contemporary 1980s, keeping the elements of cosmic horror but putting them in more modern and relatable situations rather than attempting to make them period pieces.

Tom Clancy has entered the chat and has started describing a submarine engine. Please help.

I know it’s a comic, but I’m always bothered by ultra extreme regeneration powers where the mass seems to come from nowhere. If Wolverine is burned down to little more than a skeleton, what is giving him the raw material to create regrown muscles?

Yes, the US Civil War had a lot of super interesting transitional ideas. Even metal submarines like Hunley which sank three times during the war, which is pretty nuts.

Sort of. I’m sure you know, but for other people reading: The Merrimack was a wood hulled steam frigate that was retrofitted as an ironclad, but the Monitor was a radical design built from the start as an ironclad rather than being an existing ship with metal armor added later.

The two ships have almost a video level of countering of each other. The Merrimack (resurrected as the CSS Virginia ironclad) was slow, heavily armored, and sported many guns in fixed positions. The Monitor was fast, low to the water to make it a tiny target, and had only one gun but it was in a rotating turret. In their only battle against each other, the Merrimack tanked a bunch of incoming hits without suffering any critical damage while the Monitor maneuvered around it too fast to be hit.

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Attaching a bayonet doesn’t make shots impossible, but it can affect point of impact. The anecdotal answer in Garand shooting communities seems to vary anywhere between a 1 to 8 inch vertical shift at 100 yards, and an opening up of group sizes.

The vertical shift can be compensated for if you know what to expect on a given rifle (I’m going to assume a lot of little variables adding up between different rifles to account for different anecdotal differences), since pretty much everyone reports that a given rifle with a given bayonet is going to have a predictable shift.

The change mechanically is barrel flex and harmonics (which for years I have not will continue not to pretend to understand beyond the pop-sci tier articles I read).

There was almost certainly value in training to shoot with the bayonet attached, since attaching a bayonet was a plausible combat reality. Just because a bayonet might have degraded accuracy to suboptimal levels didn’t turn the Garand into a non-functional firearm.

Given the rarity of SPAS-12s I’d say decent chances it’s an airsoft gun.

Road Warrior was all a retelling by the feral child many years later.

The discontinuity is good, although the major close ties between the movies mean that I hope we never see another movie where the Citadel plays a major role. For as much discontinuity as there was, there was also so much close connection that I don’t want more material to flesh it out, especially if it starts getting out of George Miller’s hands because I don’t trust other writers not to make things more literally and cinematic universe style.

For the folk tale aspect, the ending of Furisoa heavily leans into it with a sort of chose your own adventure ending, and the “true” ending being so absolutely insane that it has to be a folk tale.

I do wish the beginning of Furisoa had played up unreliability of the details regarding the green place, only because what we saw on screen was a bit preposterous if taken totally literally, and would have gone down easier with some vasoline on the storytelling lens.

The T92s were built on the chassis of the M26 Pershing tanks. The open top picture of the T92 with visible troops helps visually illustrate how massive these vehicles were.

The game was well put together (if a little repetitive), but my point is that the more content gets made that is specifically trying to make a cohesive canon, the more Mad Max loses the folk tale flavor while gaining a “cinematic universe” feel. One game on it’s own tying into Fury Road won’t do it completely, but if the game was part of a successful franchising of the Mad Max Fury Road (because Fury Road represents the nexus of a reboot here) brand, then it would contribute.

It is nice to have things in media that just exist without being stretched out and milked dry.

I would hope no one gets this idea. Mad Max is at its best with bold impressions and hints and implications of worldbuilding, without entirely giving away its hand. I appreciate glimpses that make me wonder, I don’t need a light shined in every crevice.

Similarly, I like Max himself as a semi-mythical figure. He’s Robin Hood or something. The stories around him usually agree on major aspects, but the details and timelines can get muddled between stories.

I think a detailed TV show would just strip all that mystique away. You might say “then don’t make it centered on Max”, and I would say- then it shouldn’t be explicitly in the Mad Max setting. Make a post apocalyptic TV that pulls from Mad Max but isn’t constrained by it, and doesn’t affect it.

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.