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Tbf, you can weaponize a lot of methods of FTL in a pinch.

In Mass Effect their guns literally work on the same fundamentals as their FTL, just scaled down.

40k’s Warp… well, it’s where Psykers get their power from so every space wizard is kinda weaponizing FTL at all times if you squint. The warp itself doesn’t need weaponizing, but you probably could.

Stargates just sort of… disintegrate things that are in the way when they open. I can’t remember an instance of them weaponizing that, but I’d be shocked if it never happens.

Early versions of Stellaris had something similar, but reduced in scale- it’s a 4X grand strategy where you’re basically controlling a spacefaring species you create, if you’re not familiar with it.

They did away with multiple FTL systems at some point, but early on in the games lifespan when creating your species you’d pick between hyperdrives, wormholes, or warp iirc.

Hyperdrives were basically Star Wars style space travel- predetermined FTL ‘roads’ in space that you can travel along.

Warp was ‘the ship teleports from where it is to where it’s going’.

Wormhole was the most interesting one to me, because it used giant ‘hubs’ you’d need to build in space to… well, make a wormhole from the hub to wherever the ships were trying to go. The downsides were that you had to build hubs and they were expensive, and you could only actually leave from the hub itself which had a limit on how many wormholes it could make. The upside was that it had dramatically better range than the other FTL options so you could build one on the borders of an enemy and then basically show up wherever you wanted.

deploy a huge solar sail and wait two weeks to charge the capacitors.

The one exception are JumpShips (usually WarShips) with Lithium-Fusion batteries, which allow for a second jump without the recharge time. Those are functionally extinct in the Inner Sphere outside of Comstar, though.

Y’know, I’ve never actually been in a family group chat.

I’m okay with that.

Halo’s Slipspace has always been my favorite. It’s another dimension where instead of being able to move in four directions, things can move in eleven. This results in travel being faster there than in normal space.

The fun part is that the UNSC and the main antagonists- the Covenant- use the exact same method of FTL travel. The Covenant are just dramatically better at it, to the point of UNSC ships that attempt to run away from the Covenant via slipspace sometimes having the Covenant fleet they were fleeing already there and waiting on them.

What device are kids getting their mitts on that can access the internet, but doesn’t have reasonably easily enabled child safety settings?

The holy trinity of PS2 platformers is, in my order of preference: Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, and Ratchet and Clank.

For Jak and Daxter and Sly Cooper in the first game in the series is pretty different from the rest so if you bounce consider giving the sequel a go.

I thought it was cringe af. Like a wild fanfic you’d find on a blog or forum. Yet I paid money for it in a book.

Tbf, Shadow Warrior in general has always struck me like that. Ridiculously over the top to the point of being cringe, but it’s so clearly intentional it circles back to being funny. To me at least.

I’m ngl I also been told that and believed it. I don’t really feel very gullible since I’ve never actually been stung by one? Even destroying their nests doesn’t seem to make them aggressive.

I guess?

PTO can usually just be used anytime as long as you give notice and get it approved. That doesn’t match with the American definition of ‘holidays’ since those are specific calendar dates, but I think British English uses the term interchangeably with vacation?

It’s not always an acronym- a lot of people will just say ‘vacation time.’

But yeah it’s basically so that you have one pool for vacation time and sick time that’s paid. A lot of places expect you to take unpaid leave if you’re sick- or just fuckin work anyways- because unchecked capitalism.

Not parody, but still amusing.

You’ve discovered ludonarrative dissonance!

I’ve always thought it was funny how fast she goes from crying over a deer she had to kill to remorseless murdering machine.

Using swarm rules from PF1E for bears is actually a nightmare scenario that I need to use someday. Beears?

Nobody would’ve heard paracetamol, but you’d probably get some hits with acetaminophen. Not a lot, to be clear, but some.

I went to make sure I wasn’t subscribed (I was, so glad I checked. I might accidentally call someone bro not realizing where I am, after all. Need to ensure he has a safe bro-free space) and he’s not just locked the thread, but locked the entire comm due to “brigading”.

Anyone have suggestions for an alternative?

I can’t take anything coming from Atlas_Shrug seriously- even ignoring all the other problems with it.

FMHY definitely updates as well. That site is much more streaming focused, though, so definitely useful.

https://fmhy.pages.dev/ just link them here instead.

I know three people with the newest two Xboxes. I can’t count the number of people I know with a PS5, though.

I hope they keep being hardware, but don’t really have a dog in the race since I moved over almost entirely to PC years ago.