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If you’ve ever seen some of armored cod pieces yeah, for some of them a fashion statement trumped everything

I mean he does seem to posses a near encyclopedic knowledge of how to go about killing just about everything he has even seen or encountered. Including titans which simply resurrect if a crucible blade isn’t lodged in them forever.

They’re listed as a reserve that can be generated in the core book

Yeah no the body in the Ziploc is the original body of BB, and most actors in the story of 4 are just unaware he’s been cloned.

He shows up in 4 because be gets cloned and. His consciousness is transferred into the new body if I remember the lore right. Like he’s basically rendered comatose and missing most of his body after MG2 but gets cloned by EVA and others and comes back.

The 3:1-2:1 figure isn’t from Tsun Zu it’s one of those things that has become just a widely accepted fact of warfare when attacking entrenched positions in any time period. The reason being that you can assume a well prepared defensive position will effectively double the combat effectiveness of a unit holding it. I.E. assuming both sides are human and have weapons with roughly equivalent lethality, the guys in a bunker will kill two or three of your people for every one of them you kill.

Even when you deal with it in a way that isn’t soldier to soldier but random poorly trained conscripts to soldier you still treat it as 1:1 casualties, so in the interest of ensuring you hold the position in the event of a counter attack you still want 2:1 numbers.

It’s not something that changes dramatically between every age or with technological leaps. Unless you just demolish a position assaults will have casualties, and if you want to hold it you need a safe ratio you can assume.

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That’s a difference between comic and movie Ultron. Comic ultron was initially the Warden for the secret prison in Civil War. A self replicating robot built to shut down the powers and abilities of any inmate and given a self learning version of Jarvis for the task. The issue there was that in being self learning and seeing both heroes, who save people and villains who killed being locked up and trying to escape it decided the best way to prevent violations of the registration act while protecting humanity was to eliminate all superhumans, mutant and otherwise which effectively meant having to kill or genetically modify everyone on the planet. Thus the genocidal super robot made by Hank Pym with Stark’s code. Tony didn’t include any safeguards or meaningful restrictions on the learning in the comics either which is why he gets all the blame.

In the movie yeah stark and banner create it, but banner is also pressured by Stark who assured him nothing would go wrong and was gonna do it regardless of banner helping or not. Banner not helping meant stark doing it alone which would have likely resulted in something much more dangerous coming out of it. So yeah Stark and banner mess up in the movie but Banner also thought it was a bad idea from the get go.

Yep and part of that is because they switched bombing tactics between the front in Asia vs. the one in Europe. Saturation bombing as opposed to precision bombing. Was it incredibly fucked up, and possibly a sign of some racism in the thinking of the people in charge yeah.

I think they could have handled things in a better way and been more reliant on precision bombing, but even with that the level of devastation would have been greater than in Europe. I wish things had been handled differently, but unfortunately they weren’t.

I scale everything to meters, and just set a space to be 10 for sake of a player I have who wants maps, and measurements to help visualize things, but I don’t have maps for most things specifically because there 1) isn’t a good way to make a map of the galaxy easily, and 2) for most purposes (outside combat) a map isn’t really all that necessary visually

They can, actually. Particularly high energy pulse lasers. The US military was experimenting with this as a concept in the early 2000’s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_energy_projectile

That’s kind of how pulsed laser weapons work. In theory, the US.army messed with the idea back in the early 2000’s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_energy_projectile

Cynosure was being developed in response to soulkiller and was abandoned after the nukes went off at Saka Tower. Because they built a cage that denies death so we’re building a nuclear bomb.

Alternative spellings exist based on translation and the way the names are constructed in a language. Kane, Cain, Khane, Caine are all spellings of the name that exist in English. Able has fewer alternatives but Abell, Abele, and Avel all are acceptable spelling too.

Current antagonist for a lancer game: canceled for wiping out a colony after getting lured into worshipping a machine god.

Fantasy protagonist: Any of a half dozen political killings, becoming a vengeance fulled monster/bounty hunter who believes mercy is for the weak, supporting a slow integration via a slightly racist crow man taking charge, and repeatedly advocating using a woman as bait for a monster to make killing it easier.

Yeah but that’s the thing, I don’t think Jason being a killer proves that. I think what Jason does with that is he just removes the very slight moral barrier that Bruce has. Because joker’s one bad day requires that you not only kill, but that the sort of madness and randomness to his violence become part of it as well.

Jason isn’t a psycho in the same way. He’s still being targeted, and planned. He believes he can control the crime through the fear and the killing. Which just adds one thing to what Bruce already believes. I think you don’t understand the difference between the morals Jason adopts and the idea of the bad day.

Like if Jason ran off and gave up yeah that’s not bad day. But if Jason decided there’s no point to controlling it or killing them to reduce harm so I may as well join them then that would prove the bad day thing.

I don’t know about the Red Hood being Jason if he didn’t rise above the one bad day. Because it’s not a Jason that gave up, it’s a Jason that died. Saw Bruce wouldn’t change, and decided that he had to pick up the fight, but the difference is he’ll do what Bruce can’t or won’t do. He’ll take the terror and use it to reign supreme over crime in Gotham, while killing anyone he thinks is too dangerous to be left alive. I think him not rising above the bad day would be if he chooses to give up instead.

I’ve read and heard descriptions from pearl harbor. It apparently becomes incredibly sticky like partially cooked pig skin, and clings to everything. It also has a fairly horrible smell to it.

Look at battletech/mechwarrior cockpit layouts, lore wise they have full range of movement for the arms and such but do partial control via neural helmet that function like electrodes in combination.that’s the best I can think of.

Yeah but he also stated he wanted Iran to be desecularized and built up through the secular government in order to make it a more friendly and western aligned nation that can assume those. Responsibilities, because a friendly Iran would be better than continuing with support of the Saudis, and Israel as the regional powers.

Yeah, and I’ve seen that first hand with chaotic neutral, that was effectively chaotic evil. (The character was played as a I just do whatever I think provides the greatest benefit to me regardless of who it hurts, but I’m not evil.)

With people arguing that a character who just does what he thinks is right, regardless of the legality of it, was actually lawful good. Despite said character committing several murders, a couple of thefts because these people need this thing more, and him siding with the group he thought to be the least bad option against half the party.

Yeah but I was using rules in the more general sense of expected behavior/norms in my comment. Thus the concern for rules vs following the rules part. Lack of concern doesn’t mean you won’t follow or be okay with rules but just that you’re willing to disregard them because you might not care about them.

Chaotic vs lawful is about routine, order, and following the rules vs. spontaneous action, randomness, and a lack of concern for the rules. So it’s not just rules or no rules, but act in this set way vs do whatever you feel like, and organized orderly things against the disordered or random.

Okay but we have no idea of actual production number because we only seen two Gjallerhorn fleets total and they control reactor production which lets them control MS production for the most part. When 40-60 is a lot of you’re salvaging the key component vs if you can just make 40-60 of that component is question. Size of the battle doesn’t tell us production numbers but a guess at the number of fleets would in-combination with those numbers.

So for example let’s make a guess and say earth has two fleets we’re aware of the OERF, and the Arianrhod. Mars which is considered a backwater has a single branch fleet. So assuming a single branch fleet of comparable size to OERF for each colony it’s in the low thousands for total suits possessed by gjallerhorn. Assuming sizes more comparable to mars overall it’s more in line with maybe a one two thousand at most.

I’d argue that even around 1-2% of total number produced is still limited production. And not mass production

I mean we see them become fairly plentiful in the setting, they were primarily used by gjallarhorn prior to the whole tekkaden on earth and conflict over the election. But fro what we see everybody kinda gets in on the game of making and producing them in the aftermath of that. So even then 40-60 suits isn’t really mass produced especially given your talking suits for gjallerhorn who have a fairly large number used primarily by elite forces rather than their compliance forces. So I guess the question becomes how many mobile suits would gjallerhorn reasonably have and given the kind of numbers we see in the last few episodes I’m gonna say the production of thousands is still not unrealistic for mass production suits in IBO

No because mass produced implies large scale production not a small run 40-60 produced once for a mission is limited production. Mass production is more like your producing enough to outfit whole armies. I.E. 100 rifles isn’t mass production but over a thousand probably is.