When I went to Disney I saw an altercation at the end of the day at the place where the guests ride a bus back to the farthest parts of the parking lot. It was a huge guy who got into a fight with someone else in the line and was yelling profanities at the other person. Out of nowhere an abuelita screamed "HEY, YOU ASSHOLE! STOP CUSSING, THERE ARE CHILDREN HERE!" in a thick accent and the angry guy was so taken aback at this woman less than half his size screaming at him he mumbled something and shut up until the bus arrived.
I say all this because I do not believe for a single second that Frank Wu could ever command the same respect as that old latina woman did at that moment.
A 6'3" twitching hunchback in a stained cocktail dress hectoring some huwhite MAN on Disney rides, backed up by a tiny asian homonculous defending this thing he calls a wife. What a sight that must have been.
The most incredible thing would be Wu being polite when telling someone to wear a mask. If it ever happened we know he would drip with smugness while he imagined all the stories he would tell twitter. Even a polite christian surrounded by children would feel the urge to tell that faggot to ride a cock straight to hell.
I can actually see Frank being terrifying in public, because my God, how fucking insane do you have to be to openly admit to sticking your dick in the heap of melting flesh what am John Flynt?
Revolution 60: Special Edition is not merely a game, but an experience: one that many would quote in the same breath as religious.
The gameplay is less of gameplay, and more of an immersion into the psyche of the memorable, multifaceted characters, that, in many ways, reflect upon the player their own joys, their own sorrows, their own hopes and dreams.
To understand the story of Wu's opus, one must recount the rise and fall of empires, the various mythologies of ancient peoples, be they Aztec or Greek, or even Polynesian. Wu took the Hero's Journey and somehow managed to innovate from within it, bringing about the Modern Myth, the struggle and triumph of those new gods that bring our world to Outer Space, and perhaps even beyond, in the expansion of our Collective Cosmic Consciousness.
My friend, those games, within that succinct tweet, those silly little time wasters, are but the musings of children, compared to what can only be understood as monolithic, brought to us by the Prophet Wu:
A well earned vacation after FOURTEEN MONTHS of staying at home and playing video games and ordering food delivery. It's a shame that those MEN had to ruin everything once again, as natal female John Walker Flynt knows, all women on earth agree all the time and always do what they are told.
Cool! It's another round from "tales from /r/thathappened" starring Wu. Florida is absolutely and thoroughly done with Wuflu (lol) hysteria and has been for almost a year now. Absolutely everyone is sick to death of it. Hell, I went to McCarren International Airport back in November 2020 to appear in person to enroll in TSA Precheck (yes, I'm a good little citizen) and forgot to wear a mask. Nobody gave a shit -- not even the TSA folks. Not a single mention of masks or the vaccine. In fact the ticket agent I asked for a spare mask when I realized I'd forgotten one said "nah, don't worry about it, you're fine."
Exactly one person in Florida has (politely) asked me to put on a mask indoors. A non-employee. I said "I've had my shots already" and went about my business. She seemed satisfied with the answer and moved on. People don't get angry about it (on either side). The worst you'll hear is some under-the-breath mumbling -- which is pretty rare -- and they're usually mildly mocked by those around them when it does happen. The public chimpouts we see on Youtube are rare exceptions and almost always involve tourists.
If Wu tried to go all wokescold on somebody who happened to be Floridian, they undoubtedly just politely told him to mind his own business. There is zero chance anyone got "belligerent" with him. Florida has 100% adopted the "lol it's no big deal" approach to the Chinkenpox and laughs off "wear the mask" demands at this point.
And if chink Wu stepped up to anyone to warn them to stop harassing his "wife," I guarantee they laughed in his perpetually screaming face. He couldn't intimidate a six year old, much less an adult.
But John, you're a straight woman who's been happily married to a man for over a decade, why are you inserting your opinion into this discussion anyway?
If Tulsi Gabbard had the sense to tweet about sports cars all day long I would respect her more. But she doesn't so therefore she's a fucking whore and I hope she dies.
In case you don't remember, Lori Lightfoot is this bug-eyed hobgoblin of a race baiter.
Bitch fell out of the ugly tree face first, hitting every branch on the way down, then it fell on her for good measure.
Same as modern "racism", "rape" covers a lot of shit. There's a reason that "statutory" rape is clarified as such, and it's to distinguish between that and actually coercing an underage person into sex.
It wasn't rape at the time, when he was 18 and she was 14, and it was legal to marry in the case of a pregnancy, so that's what happened. So it wasn't rape legally, not even statutory rape. You could argue it's distasteful or was irresponsible, or that it would be rape in some places, but it wasn't where and when it happened.
But John, you're a straight woman who's been happily married to a man for over a decade, why are you inserting your opinion into this discussion anyway?
Why would gay people want to fight and dismantle cirnormativity when they're cisgendered(or bi in Wu's case)? It's almost like everyone is getting tired of all the tranny shit. It took a couple of hundred years and and a lot of hard work for the gypsies to get everyone to loathe them yet trannies are currently speedrunning "Being Hated By Absolutely Everyone(100% completion)" and might accomplish in 20 years something that took 400 years for the gyppos. Hitler and Nazi Germany still have fans and supporters so they're actually on track of becoming less liked than fucking Hitler.
I tried to keep my autism in check, but you niggers wouldn't let it lie.
As I make this moonrocks post, remember: As a nation-state actor, moon rocks are dumb as hell. You would need nuclear power to launch big enough moon rocks, so if you're building a deterrent WMD, just build nukes. Moon rocks are dumb. Now, if you are a bunch of angry, dumb prisoners with mining equipment...
So, ignoring that Moonbase Wu is an expensive boondogle that'll cost billions to just keep supplied let alone function as a deterent - I mean, sure the Russians know where our silos are, but we don't have to send the missile officers into space when its time to change crews.
However, its not as vulnerable to counter attack as people seem to think. You can't just set up a mass driver on earth and return fire. The reason for this is because earth has an atmosphere. The same atmosphere that makes things heat up on reentry doesn't care if you are going up or down - if you launch something from earth's surface at escape velocity (as you need to do with a massdriver) it will heat up to full reentry temperature in your railgun, and possibly explode. So even ignoring the 6x gravity you need to fight, you won't be able to retaliate with railguns.
Rockets Accelerate (fairly) slowly and constantly, meaning they suffer less atmospheric friction. So you could launch nukes at the moonbase, but that has its own problems. So the ISS gets pelted with a fair bit of debris - most of it man-made - but being that it above the surface most things are falling away from it; its small, fairly hard to hit target. The moon gets hit by debris - a lot. You will probably need some sort of anti-meteor defense for your moonbase; defenses occupants could use against rockets.
Now sure, you've got a whole planet, they have a moonbase, and could probably just send more nukes than they can shoot down.
The next trick is hitting a target. To hit a target 300,000 miles away with an unguided projectile takes a lot of computational horsepower. But lets face it. If you're putting reactors on the moon and railguns that can launch 11,000 tons of mass, you probably have computers powerful enough to crunch the numbers and CNC mill you the right shape and give you the right current to pop into your railguns.
Now if you really wanted to build your moonrocks launcher, here's what you do.
The fucker needs nuclear power, so you build it on the darkside of the moon. No one can see it. If you've got the computational horsepower to hit city over 300,000 miles, you can probably throw in a hookshot using the moons gravity without too much trouble.
You also ideally build a few of the fuckers, and you do this so you can launch multiple packages. And 11,000ton object isn't tiny, but in the grand scheme of space, it is. If your launchers are on the dark side of the moon, probably no one realizes you've launched until they start glowing from reentry.
hehe - interesting way of putting it.
I guess as A-Team (and I am STILL not flying with any crazy Murdock) is an action-adventure morality play that takes dramatic liberties, so does MiaHM.
The thing about MiaHM is it's political allegory and I think some of the technical points are done for expediency.
though I do find it a bit strange..heinlein was a naval officer.....that'd he miss some things
the problem with Luna is it'd be more of an installation than a colony.
unlike a colony that is resource rich (which is why you'd colonize) and is independently viable (indigenous population is a good indicator if it can support itself in basic living functions), the moon is maybe more like midway that has value, but it's independently viable. Luna would probably act more as a facility with need for re-supply, tours of term-employment and so forth.
but I think Heinlein is taking that liberty to move the story along as political allegory as he may very well be doing with the technology (both in kind and in asymmetry) to move the story along.
sci-fi often employs very 'speculative' means as a narrative device (and the piece was written mid-60s how hard the SF is..welllll -- as SF has developed we've seen distillation into sub-genres with the hard getting hard)
Starship troopers had FTL to move the story along
Stranger in a Strange Land had Martians
again, to allow for the commentary of the theme...they are devices in the literary sense rather than the utilitarian sense
take another author's work, Dune, also a socio-political allegory - with magical spices and made up ecosystems (not a criticism, they are narrative devices)
I think with all these guys. Like Pournelle, we have to distinguish between the fiction and non-fiction writing
Mote in God's eye : fiction
Thor proposal : non-fiction
the technical problems of a narrative device in even hardish SF reminds me of the chant : the ringworld is unstable, the ringworld is unstable!
Dune is a fantastic criticism of over centralised government and the alienation of the political class from their constituents as well as the dangers of corruption via power
Yet somehow even my FPS-enthusiast, real-gun-loving/studying 10-year-old nephew cant seem to stop ranting about the faults in representation of various types/models of guns in video games.
Dune is a fantastic criticism of over centralised government and the alienation of the political class from their constituents as well as the dangers of corruption via power
It's a great book (as is ringworld), Herbert spoke of his main theme being about the dangers of charismatic leaders
My pointing out isn't about the quality of the literature, but that it is literature -- it's fiction that (appropriately) employs dramatic license to move the narrative along.
it's the fi part of scifi...or...scientifiction as it was known
Those types of things aren't technical white papers
For those keeping score at home, that's 11 Handmaiden's Tales to 1 Handmaid's Tale. And remember, the only time John got it right, he probably copy-pasted it, so the true score is probably 12-0.
Their heater broke and they had to spend the weekend on a hotel because it was too cold. They took Rocket with them because "she was the girl dog and could behave" and conveniently did not mention the part where the house they left the other two dogs in was "too cold for them to stay during the weekend".
The Wu household pet situation is inconsistent. At first it was three dogs (Rocket, Splat and Kablam) but Wu started referring to only having two for a long time until the heater incident happened, then it was back to three dogs. I'll only believe the other dogs are alive if Wu posts a photo or video with all three.
It speaks volumes about Frank and Wu's terrible pet ownership they can sink thousands of dollars in whatever catches Brianna's fancy at any given moment but their dogs have consistently looked like they haven't been cared for in years.
I know this will be a shocker, but, I'm gonna have to disagree with john. Sexualizing young girls is getting more and more rampant, and the current culture norms are encouraging it. "Just turned 18, time to make an onlyfans." So I say good. Start altering photos to make em more modest since we no longer teach it.
Also, this Handmaidens book must be amazong for john to reference it all the time. By name...correctly.
