Endymion_Mallorn

Anyone who’s a fan of mecha anime or games already knew this. The human body is a comedy of errors masquerading as a marvel of bioengineering. We’re just fish who forgot how to swim and learned how about economics.

You don’t walk through it. You roll through it in an ox-drawn carriage.

Or from dissin’ Terry.

Once, yes. Back in the day. It’s the only TES I ever actually beat. I got bored of both Arena & Daggerfall.

Or, in more realistic terms, the internet is already mostly dead. Half of the stuff that should be available on clearnet or the visible web is now hidden in Discord chats. The hope lies in things like Gemini, Tor, and Freenet, but even there the braintrust is in Matrix.

If you mean it’s the hot sheets and they’re never wrong, I don’t disagree.

I tend to agree with you. I actually like Legacy of the Force as a series.

And TES ended after Redguard.

The Mouse said the Vong are non-canon.

The crab people. The dinosaurs were the Bakurans.

Almost like people who don’t want the government breathing down their necks don’t live in places that are government controlled. As someone who’s lived in NJ all my life, it’s the cities that are the disease. The economy and society in cities isn’t anything we should be proud of.

The chocolate is the only thing that makes me question what’s going on.

You as a person don’t need direct representation, usually (though having a lawyer ready us always a benefit). The only way to stop the social media companies from extracting value and facilitating harmful criminal behavior is to stop their actions completely. Yes, that affects people. Yes, that means people won’t be able to use an online service. But if all social media went away tomorrow, the only one I’d actually miss would be YouTube.

Fediverse instances have a different structure, and what should happen is that the owner of each instance that wants to operate in Nepal should register with the government, and only federate with those who are also registered. Otherwise, you’ve lost out on a country that barely us a blip on the Internet radar, with the exception of rich, entitled, jerks ruining Everest and adding to the colossal body count.

No matter what, it’s not worth dying for. Protesting in favor of big companies is dumb from the start. Protesting in favor of niche platforms is dumb. Don’t risk your life for anything but life-and-death situations.

That is a very obedient borzoi. I love the breed and all the hounds.

This makes me wish we could use our AT Field.

My experience is that basically, if you actually want to do anything meaningful with video, you need to host your own instance, because no one wants to be beholden to the bandwidth, especially if it gets any uptake. In which case, obviously, you’re on your own for the costs. The only way I can see PeerTube working is if a few of the medium size YouTubers & Twitch streamers with decent monthly Patreon takes band together and fund it that way.

Check the vids from Gamers Nexus.

When he returns the cooler block he damaged and stole, I’ll stop trying to turn people away from his content.

PeerTube would be great if you didn’t have to self-host. And yes, I mean that. Every instance I’ve found that allows user uploads charges the users for bandwidth (or charges a subscription fee). I’ve never found an instance yet that works like Dailymotion or YouTube. When we get a big instance (like mastodon.social or one of the big two Lemmy instances), that allows user uploads freely and seamlessly, we’ll start seeing it grow.

Reasons I can think of for the size:

1. Ammunition is large and needs to be stored carefully so it doesn’t explode. And this thing will either need extremely heavy batteries, or carefully protected tanks of fuel onboard - or both. So that’s going to massively add to the weight.
2. Human beings are soft and squishy. We’d need huge amounts of suspension for the purpose, plus the matter of armor. Think about how large a jet plane really is, or a tank.
3. Physical laws around mass and movement. Tanks are as small as they are because treads are effective at transferring torque and creating linear acceleration. If they were just on wheels, they would need to be larger. Legs would require huge amounts of mass to safely support the machine, and we’d need to have excellent stabilizer systems in addition to the suspension mentioned above so that you don’t fall flat on your face
4. Passive cooling (which would probably be necessary for safety - you don’t want a sniper stopping your whole mech by shooting a few fans) requires wide surface areas to dump the exhaust heat.

That’s all I can immediately justify, but basically, it would have to be huge.

So you want wanzers.

Seriously though, realize that if we ger Mecha, it’s going to be more like Armored Core. Or a game set in an AC4 AU, Metal Wolf Chaos.

Do you want the US President (especially the current one, to have something like that, and be told to believe in his own justice?