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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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I was borrowing a joke from “America, The Book.”

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Nanomachines, son.

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1995 San Diego tank chase (lemmy.world)

In 1995, Shawn Nelson, a former Army tank commander drove into a National Guard armory and stole an M60A3 tank. He drove the tank out of the armory, and onto residential streets where he began crushing things in his path. He drove the tank onto a highway and was pursued by a number of San Diego Police Department cars....

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Wikipedia says the hatch was combat locked, but there is really no way that I can see to attack the hatch with bolt cutters. I suspect (and this is entirely speculation) that the true detail missing on Wikipedia may be that one of the hatches was locked from the outside with a padlock, which is a common way of securing other military vehicles when they are in depots. If the lock was cut and the hatch was not locked from the inside, that would be the way police got access.

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Tanks have more than one hatch. (IIRC a M60A3 has two on the turret and a driver hatch in the hull). He was mentioned has having cut padlocks on a few tanks, which supports the supposition they were locked in that way.

Once inside, he may have combat locked the hatch he had broken into, but not combat locked the other hatches, which would still have padlocks on the outside.

Again, that’s all speculation but based on the way combat locks work I have trouble picturing police somehow cutting the door itself open.

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He tried starting two other tanks before driving off in the one he stole. National Guard maintenance in shambles.

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We used to have a market where I live that had shelves that low until a few years ago. It was a shock when they installed the tall ones.

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I changed my PC pretty extensively since the last time I played, but on my old setup with pretty middle of the road hardware and Windows 10, it fired right up.

I’ll try it again on the new setup and report back.

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Just tried, works perfect on my Windows 10.

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Hope it helps.

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Good. And I will definitely go with the controller. My quick test flying around with mouse and keyboard was pretty terrible. I can get used to an unusual button layout I hope.

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If he really wants to watch Phantom Menace first, I suppose it would work if you jump from it to A New Hope.

If he is truly ignorant of Vader being Anakin, he’ll see a movie with kid Anakin, followed by a movie with old Obi-Wan lamenting how Vader killed Anakin at some point in the prequels, leaving the big reveal in place. Maybe actually making it better in some ways.

Honestly I don’t think Rogue One is worth watching. It’s pretty, but was very meddled with. I would highly recommend perhaps putting the Andor show in place instead of it. Either way, watching these after Episode 1 makes sense to me.

Then do the normal Machete Order.

If he doesn’t remember that the Han Solo movie exists, don’t remind him.

Of course that’s a BIG commitment. The sane way is to convince him just to watch the original trilogy first and the rest if he likes it.

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Yeah, default was in en E-Wing. Pretty fun mission I thought.

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The Dark Empire series. I’m not sure precisely what issue.

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The A180 was briefly considered for the list, but there are just so many designs, it had to be cut. There’s a lot of interesting stuff all around in Rogue One.

Westar 34 was super interesting because it’s one of the few designs that isn’t based on any kind of real firearm. It looks very delicate and precise.

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There’s a huge rabbithole to go into about visual language and aesthetic coding.

Star Wars original trilogy was Flash Gordon meets WW2, but with an added layer of grime and strange extra details to keep it from exactly being either of its main influences. Not just with the blasters, but with everything.

Star Trek started out with Flash Gordon raygun looking phasers, because probably in the 1960s they just thought it was the thing to do. In TNG the dust buster phasers were an intentional choice to signal a kinder, gentler Federation. It’s easier to look non-threatening without a big iron on your hip.

Stargate guns needed to be recognizable as modern military, but all the normal choices would be generic. An unusual gun gives the show more of an identity. In the first couple of seasons they used MP5s that had Colt scopes on them to make them more unusual than a normal MP5, but eventually they discovered something more unique with the P90. Given that decades later the sight of a P90 makes people talk about Stargate, I’d say it worked.

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And now I gotta go make and SG1 and Trek post.

USS Monitor (lemmy.world)

The USS Monitor was an ironclad warship used by the Union Navy during the US Civil War. It was a radical design that sat low on the waterline to present a very small target, and had a revolving turret rather than a broadside battery. The turret traversed with steam power, being about to make a full rotation in just under 23...

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Floundered is still a appropriate use of a different word (struggled in water) in the context. I’m done making edits.

I appreciate all the input.

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Looks like the original “floundered” was correct. The ship struggled, which is the meaning. Wording taken from Wikipedia as well.

“Foundered” doesn’t have any meaning close to that which I see on a quick google glance.

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Thanks. I guess that’s what I get for putting this together on the go. I’ll fix it when I can sit down properly and look it over.

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You get almost no comments but I wanted to say I always appreciate reading these. Thanks for all the daily posts.

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Luke showing up to Jabba’s palace with a red lightsaber and being like, “Bitches leave.”

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Yeah I read that years ago. I need to pick it up somewhere. I still have the Tales From Mos Eisley Cantina, and Tales From Jabba’s Palace, but I remember the bounty hunter book being the best.

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Thanks! He was a fun figure to do. Doing his chipping over the rest of the paintjob was pretty terrifying.

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By the way, this art appears to be signed “Markus” but I can’t find the name in the credits of the book, or by any quick searches of Star Wars comic artists. If anybody knows for sure the artist is greatly like to credit them.

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