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the ak-47 of space armour (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 week ago by showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website to c/firefly@slrpnk.net
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[–] guy@piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reduce, reuse, repair, recycle

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago

The costume department never throws anything away.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shiney

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

Knights in

Shiney

armor

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So that means they are all same universe. So somewhere in the starship troopers history there were giant robots that could have been used to fight the bugs. Meanwhile space sex in the Firefly.

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or ya know convergent amour evolution? There only so many ways to make goofy amour after all 😂

[–] 01189998819991197253 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah. I like Pantster's reasoning better lol

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Not a big deal. The armour was left over after Troopers and were cheap for extras in the other projects.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Crazy how fascism is a running theme in US based media.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Heinlein wrote the book starship troopers as commentary on military fascism