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I mod a worryingly growing list of communities. Ask away if you have any questions or issues with any of the communities.

I also run the hobby and nerd interest website scratch-that.org.

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Nothing is too niche for modders to remaster, not even a '90s Star Wars FPS expansion pack where you play as Luke Skywalker's weird non-canon wife rescuing my favorite Expanded Universe dork ( www.pcgamer.com )

Luke Skywalker had a weird wife named Mara Jade who was a femme fatal ex-Sith assassin with a purple lightsaber. Chewbacca died at the age of 225 years old when Star Wars' Aldi brand Borg dropped a moon on him. The Death Star plans were not stolen by a ragtag bunch of rebel soldiers that included beloved martial arts leading man...

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Luke Skywalker had a weird wife named Mara Jade

Yes, the old Starr Wars [cool typo] Expanded Universe was a bit of an odd duck, and you can maybe see why Disney shunted it to the side in favor of a new continuity.

The smug flippancy of this writer, good lord. That preamble’s tone towards the EU was entirely unnecessary for an article on a game mod.

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Not to be too biased or anything, but I mod

!warhammer40k

and

!star_wars

I also really like

!tabletopminis

The userbases on all of these communities are a little smaller, but steady and the vibe is more positively authentic than Reddit alternatives.

Oh and !simpsonsshitposting

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Loms.

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Often times news upsells what’s happening in their title or with vague language in the article. I’ve become instinctively skeptical of outrageous headlines.

I went and checked the text of the bill itself. Wow. It’s exactly what it says on the tin of the news article. Not even an attempt to vague it up in the bill’s language. There’s no wishy washy way to think it means anything but the biblical Ten Commandments, in straight forward language. The bill wants them posted in every classroom.

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This obviously violates the Louisiana state constitution and the U.S. Constitution.

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I once had an idea for a Fallout 1 run with a lucky but stupid character.

I made him 1 intelligence and put all my skill points into gambling. Mistake.

He was too stupid to use a slot machine.

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Yes hello, I’d like to order one Star Wars Rebellion remaster please.

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Weird that I had to wait so long for it to be clam free.

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Lucas had an uninituative meaning of “balance”. It wasn’t light and dark being equal, but dark side users being eliminated.

A better word would have been “tranquility”. If the force is naturally a calm lake, then dark side users are making waves I suppose is a clearer analogy.

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A valid criticism. Coming from the mouth of something trying to replace it with something worse. A classic villain move.

I did enjoy the old EU Luke being a more reformist and grounded iteration of Jedi teachings. He started by rejecting Yoda’s warnings not to try and save his friends. He put friends over the high minded ideals of Jedi enlightenment right there in Empire Strikes Back. Then in ROTJ he spent the entire movie rejecting the obvious approach of simply killing Vader, instead trying to reach Anakin. Over and over Luke put people he cared about over esoteric codes.

(Remember when the original trilogy and much of the EU establishing Luke was written, the prequels and Clone Wars hadn’t been fleshed out, and Jedi were implied to be even more high minded and classical than they were shown in the prequels).

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Nope, Lucas meant the dark side being wiped out.

Lucas’ intention was that Anakin brought balance, eventually, by killing Palpatine and then himself rejecting the dark side. Thus wiping out the Sith.

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The idea of the prophecy and balance with Anakin as the chosen one hadn’t been thought of when ROTJ was made.

By the time Lucas had come up with the prophecy, the EU had established Luke in the post-ROTJ as unquestionably a Jedi. Luke rejected the dogmatic aspects of the old Jedi order as early as Empire Strikes back, and as more EU material was written he continued that trend, building a new Jedi order in the model of his ideas. However rejecting specific old organizational dogma can be seen as stripping away the excess bloat of a system and finding the “true” core of it. Think of Luke as a religious reformist in a way, rejecting the institutions of a religion while not rejecting the religion itself. He was Martin Luther with a lightsaber.

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My mistake. I have seen quite often the thinking that wiping out mass numbers of Jedi brought the Sith-Jedi balance closer.

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That’s why it is important to do sociological testing on earth first. Putting groups of humans in, let’s call them vaults, to test reactions to isolation and lack of surface contact.

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The Gregorian calendar didn’t go into effect until 1582. Because it’s a modification of the Julian calender. Which replaced the Roman calender.

Almost like there’s a continuity or something.

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I strongly suspect the original post was attempting to use the word “chattel”, but couldn’t get it right.

Chattel, as in chattel slavery. Which means the idea being spun appears to be a driver’s license registers one on the books of the Department Of Transportation as a chattel slave, a good to be bought and sold.

Which begs the question who is trading with the DOT, but I’m sure the answer would be 36 pages of unpunctuated explanation.

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How long does it normally take to build a pier for offloading commercial cargo?

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What’s the reasonable cost for a pier like this?

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It would still have a cost, just paid for from a different source. I was curious how much a pier of this kind is supposed to actually cost, but I misunderstood, and see you were making an entirely different point unrelated to that.

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Is that normally how long piers of this type and size take for the military?

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The bridge was usable after 4 weeks then?

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It says built in 13 hours but usable for traffic in 4 weeks, and I am trying to parse that.

There was a temporary pontoon bridge then, and then a more permanent bridge for traffic built? I ask because pictures I initially saw were quite larger than the initial bridge, which made me question the within a day time.

I suppose it depends if the Gaza pier is closer to the first than the second. While the Gaza pier is described as temporary, it seems built to handle high and continuous cargo traffic. I imagine constructing such a platform which is also seaworthy enough to be towed requires more tasks than a single lane pontoon bridge. I also wonder how much of the Gaza pier had to be adapted and customized compared to pre-fabricated bridge segments.

Given the difference in type of work, and prefabricated material I wonder if 4 weeks is reasonable or not still. An example of similar maritime construction would be useful I suppose.

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I’m aware of the implication. I’m trying to find out if it’s reasonable. Two military projects completed at different speeds is partially compelling, but then I find it less compelling looking at the differences.

I honestly don’t know if a month to build this project is reasonable or not. I’m poking at reactions to find out.

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I’ve heard Homeworld Emergence (formerly Homeworld Cataclysm) is quite good. It started as an expansion pack for the first game but kept expanding until it was a standalone game.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/homeworld_emergence

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There is a flavor of SovCit thinking that refuses to say “understand” because they believe it secretly has a double meaning to “stand under” someone and give up your rights and accept their authority. They think judges and police are trying to trick them into waiving their rights when they ask if the SovCit understands something.

Prototype Water Cannon - CZ Tarantule (1990s) ( lemmy.world )

CZ Tarantule was supposed to be used in cases where explosives couldn’t be used due to a high risk of collateral damage. The Tarantule uses a modified .50 caliber blank round loaded from the breech of the 18mm caliber smoothbore barrel to propel the 70ml of water which is poured down the muzzle and sealed in the bore via a...

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Yes! A percussion actuated neutralizer (PAN) uses 12 gauge shells. Usually blanks, and the barrel is filled with water and plugged with a plastic cap.

PANs can be either manually placed or mounted on robots.

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The Tarantule is quite a massive take on the idea. Which is probably the reason it never took off. The niche a PAN fills is specific and rarely is a concentrated water charge of such a huge size as the Tarantule needed.

Imagine a 12 gauge shotgun that somebody remade as a .50 cal. That’s basically what’s happening.

In bomb disposal, big applications tend to be less focused directional things- like popping car trunks, which you can do with a factory made Boot Banger, or Jerry can with C4 duct taped to one side.

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Why are these all cropped like this?

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In regards to unmasking the Breen and removing the mystery, I think back to the words of Spock: "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting."

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Would you say the lack of the hole is not very interesting?

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I used to be able to guess Simpsons episodes, but then they changed what the episodes were. Now playing 'Guess The Episode' seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you!

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He's like a Russian MandaloreGaming, with his ability to slip in deep pull references into sentences without breaking stride.

The amount of wacky Russian language games and mods he has brought to light for the rest of us is amazing.

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Moleman to the groin.

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$20 can buy many Molemen.

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Simo Häyhä? I barely knew her!

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It was cheerfully withdrawn.

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Orks? Orks?! Paint them tomorrow. And then show them to !warhammer40k

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Thanks so much!

If you ever change your mind, the 40k community here is very relaxed. I love seeing projects, and can give (wanted) tips on either painting or photos at least within my skill level.

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Fake story.

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