SARGE

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 67 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Toss a rock at a shitty car? Terrorist

Shoot a thief that stole part of your life by denying you Healthcare? Terrorist

Plot and carry out a plan to kill people due to their political beliefs during a time you know you could have reason to be around them and use shady online services to help plan things in order to coerce political change?

.......... checks every possible definition to find a loophole

Not terrorism? poker face

10/10 government we have, just the best people, I'm super duper thrilled to be trapped in this shit hole country

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's literally what it feels like: being stuck in an objective (the planet) and you have a teammate that's SUPER gung ho about the fact he's got a bomb vest (nukes) on that will go off if he dies, and you're just praying he doesn't catch a stray round (attack) while shooting at people from the doorway (doing proxy war things or just straight up committing/supporting genocide/ethnic cleansing/war of extermination/etc) or lose connection (leadership going insane).

If any of those things happen, you know you're all toast. And it's all mostly outside of your control.

I hate to use video games as a metaphor for literal nuclear war and sorry for spelling it out like I'm talking to a child but I felt it was needed for clarity.

We're all on the planet together, and no one will ever be able to force everyone into submission, the more we fight the shorter time we have as a species.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

The moral high road is filled with corpses.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

And I didn't have any idea what to do, but I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track

Which then was then synced to the Moog Modular

I knew that could be a sound of the future, but I didn't realize how much the impact it would be

My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio

synth beats intensify

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 47 points 5 months ago (22 children)

nobody should have nuclear weapons.

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if the scientists working on the Manhattan project had all agreed it's too much and intentionally sabotage every test.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, but this way you get to make sure your intended target actually gets hit instead of assuming the following nuclear wastwland would destroy your target like everything else.

It's like the Martyrdom perk in fps games. You die and drop a grenade or c4 pack or something and explode, hopefully taking out the person who killed you.

It's just a dead-man switch to get the AD part of MAD.

Effective? Maybe.

Incredibly stupid? Yes.

Is that stopping the US and Russia from doing it? Lolno we invented this dumb shit.

The world is run by insane people who would rather see the planet scorched into a lifeless rock than admit their way of doing things might be wrong.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

I absolutely used to be that "my character is a quiet rogue-ish type that definitely wasn't modeled after Aragorn when he was introduced at the Prancing Pony mixed with Robin hood" who always "had to be convinced" to join, and nobody ever called me out for it. I honestly wish they had because that's annoying as fuck and you miss out on playing an actually fully developed character.

Nowadays I tend to be less tactful that you are, but essentially tell people the same thing, or literally beat their characters over the head with ambushes.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm a big fan of "you all wake up in loincloths sitting in a wagon, hands bound" and as long as someone at the table can roll higher than a 1, they can break free.

Or something attacks them while they're all in a tavern

Basically I'm a fan of "you could ignore having your shit kicked in, but will you?" since so many players would stop at nothing.

Fallout NV had the right idea. "Where's that little fucker who shot me in the head?!"

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 26 points 5 months ago

It works at the current 93 billion light years of observable universe (46ish in every direction)

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago

My first introduction to them was Yuve Yuve Yu, also a banger.

I got a little hyper fixated on throat singing one week and they popped into my feed. Bike rides and road trips have never been the same.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 10 points 5 months ago

This movie was my jam back in the day.

I don't care what critics or even fellow nerds say, it's fantastic and if they want to fight about it they can meet me on Bob and settle this with heavy plastic swords like Gilgamesh intended.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 155 points 5 months ago (11 children)

38 digits of pi can get the circumference of the visible universe to within a single hydrogen atom.

10 digits gets the diameter of the earth to within an inch.

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