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[Flying Dice]

That's usually what they are, self-contained missile pods with sensors strapped on.

Clearly I haven't found the right books yet.

Unfortunately most of the right ones are also full of political soapboxing bullshit.

But yeah. The "like sea mines, except in space" is pure space fantasy trash. Unless they're high-yield nukes or antimatter warheads with appropriately large proximity triggers used in extremely high density/natural choke points (orbital shells around smaller worlds, perimeter defenses for deep-space stations, at a natural FTL choke like Battletech or Starfire's respective jump points, &c.)

[TheBiggerFish]

THE BIRDS.  WHAT ON EARTH.  IT IS WINTER.  IT IS SNOWING.  THERE SHOULD NOT BE BIRDS HERE.

Also, what just HAPPENED in the sad thread?

[Amperzand]

One reasonably logical one that mostly avoided political shit was "The Last Angel", which fortunately is free and forum-based.

But yeah, honestly, even nukes wouldn't really work as sea-mine bullshit, their effective range is pretty limited a vacuum, at least without using the kind of absurd Tsar Bomb kinda stuff you don't want anywhere near anything you care about.

[Rolan7]

THE BIRDS.  WHAT ON EARTH.  IT IS WINTER.  IT IS SNOWING.  THERE SHOULD NOT BE BIRDS HERE.

Also, what just HAPPENED in the sad thread?

I see a 4.5 hour gap, so I guess it got deleted and I missed it?  Aw.

[BlackFlyme]

I think TBF is referring to all the shitposting yesterday.

Again, I apologize.

[TheBiggerFish]

It could have been yesterday, I only read it today though.

[Frumple]

The (truncated, I'm only doing vehicles*) Inventory of the Keys has progressed! Have so far identified five (5) keys that go to absolutely no vehicle currently owned by the people who own the keys. What they go to, nobody goddamn knows.

On the less confusing side, all the keys that do go to something are now friggin' labeled.

On the more confusing side, there's at least three vehicles out there that currently do not seem to have keys, at all. I guess some of the family does know how to hotwire stuff, but...

*Because there's by weight a small child or two worth of other ones and to blue hell with that.

[Rolan7]

I thought you lived in Florida?  Vehicles go to Keys, not the other way around.

[Frumple]

there's a difference between keys and The Keys, rol :V

Also no one goes to The Keys, either. Too expensive.

[Akura]

I am quite... angry today. Angry, and tired. Production this morning was informed that we're now over 3000 pieces in the hole, meaning we were below quota 1000 pieces yesterday. Technically an improvement. They seemed to have fixed the bottleneck that was hurting us, but I won't know until until tomorrow how well that worked. Still had to deal with more crap. Left my price gun in the break room, went to retrieve it, accidentally spilled someone's coffee, and by the time I finished cleaning it up(a task made more tedious by the lack of paper towels), someone else had already jumped in my spot, meaning I had to roll product onto the sales floor. This is an immensely more physical task.
Also learned that girl I sorta like is on the verge of quitting/transferring to another store, partly because the idiot production manager may have said something to her that was completely uncalled for.

[Orange Wizard]

there's a difference between keys and The Keys, rol :V

Also no one goes to The Keys, either. Too expensive.

I swear that's supposed to be spelt Quays

[Flying Dice]

there's a difference between keys and The Keys, rol :V

Also no one goes to The Keys, either. Too expensive.

I swear that's supposed to be spelt Quays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Keys

[Orange Wizard]

So they're not actually quays, then. Right.

[itisnotlogical]

Star Trek: Elite Force II came out in 2003 on the Quake 3 engine.

I can run Fallout 3 at almost-full settings no problem.

I experience lag, slowdown and stuttering on Elite Force, even with everything turned down as low as possible.

Why.

[Flying Dice]

Probably shitty optimization. Like, really shitty, if you're benchmarking with FO3.