Foster

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Not the toast!
-hacks time

Iriquis Pliskin was more of a... huh.. he was from the 90's... Just that people today wouldn't have recognized him from his spritely days of yore.
-Dat combat-mullet...

IIRC, the only metal gear I got around to was the virtual-missions standalone.

-Duke Nukem 2 was probably one of the better Duke Nukems.

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Oh, right, I think that was... kb303-something-something... Yeah, I disabled that update manually.
-Still living the pro-life.

I also gave my computer a tinfoil tri-corner hat.

I was talking about the background for the text, from Farcry3: Blood Dragon.
-Probably the fastest way to explain the 90's and why it was awesome to the younger generation.

But yeah, I hear WinX kinda has.. problems.

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*Sees picture, recognizes background*

*Tries not to explain the lasers being fired from the dragon's eyes*

Friends for eternity,
Loyalty,
Honesty,

It's a catchy song, m'kay.

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Well, the request for peer-review wasn't really directed solely at you... It was directed at everyone since I'm preeeeettty sure parts of it read for shit, and I want those bits caught so I can clean it up some.

Also, Aristo knows that I'm an insufferable detail-oriented geek at times that will argue over... pretty much anything* if the day is boring enough. I'm probably not much of an influence... at least I hope I'm not...

*Crafts a tinfoil hat for Aristo to keep away the mind-control rays*

*Seriously, I will argue maths and Dr Who right in the middle of a term-paper.
**Types this while discussing space-rangers with Lucid.

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Least I had some low-hanging fruit in which to pick from. But your point? The dolphins vs fish thing kinda threw me out from left field...

If you're mad, you're mad. But the call for review and GM's decision (on Discord) came before I was involved, so don't go pounding things out in anger just on my account.

I gave my $0.02 that you could probably have just as awesome of a sniper-rifle using a 57mm cannon.
-Someone else mentioned light-gas guns. Both are viable alternatives.

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In other news... I... think I finished filling in all the blanks on my CS.

Feel free to tear it a new one.

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Probably.

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@Foster With fully articulated five-digit hands, responding in real-time to militaristic threats? And bipedal movement? Running on gasoline and internal combustion.

@pugbutter

Well, the main driving force behind the R&D of this tech IRL is for prosthetic limbs, and I'm pretty sure we've got pretty lifelike hands and legs right now (plus I just got done discussing Harry Dinsmore's removal of an unexploded mortar-shell that was lodged in a soldier's chest, along with 30% of his uniform and another fella that took a full mag to all his vital bits in 11th Co 3rd Brigade, ROK Marines back in 1967 and went through 14 pints of blood.). The idea of ignoring electronic storage problems by strapping a gasoline generator (or hydraulic pump) on an operators back dates back to the 1960's along with backpack-mounted air-conditioners for troops stationed in SE Asia.

Concurrent development was also for man-amplifying deepwater diving-suits and early space suits, wich again, for ease of use is making very wholehearted efforts at making responsive 5-fingered hands.

Then there's outright robotics and telepresence units, particularily in respect to "robotic-arms".

The grounds of the complaint isn't the physics, but the touted portability of such a powerful system. -Currently, railguns and coilguns are being pursued for multi-thousand ton craft willing to invest several additional tons into things to power and operate a railgun in order to carry a few more bullets. Not for being mounted to replace tank main armarments.

The break-even point isn't even a nice number like the difference between rifle grenades vs grenade-launchers (which the mass of the launcher including ammo breaks even at around a mere 3 grenades on each system) but more along the lines of several hundred thousand kilograms of ammunition.

For comparison, the ZSU-57-2 only held about 600 kg of shells.

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Note: tends to sway more towards the hard and pessimistic side of sci fi than... pretty much anyone in the history of ever.

Good stuff! So how are the navy's tests on bipedal battle-mechas going?

@pugbutter

Surprisingly well, actually.

Although power-cycle of them is still limited to somewhat less than a typical 8 hour work-day, and aren't exactly the best for operations behind enemy lines unless you're willing to scale it down until it no longer becomes a significant hinderance to the warfighter in an unpowered state of operation.
-That or find someone willing to scale it up until an internal combustion engine can power it.

So yeah... 4 meter tall, 4.5 ton gasoline-powerd mechas are a thing IRL.

Ones attached to umbilicals are already starting to see use in re-arming aircraft on carriers or working in munitions-plants such as the one in Iowa. Hal 5 was already employed in the Fukishima meltdown cleanup operations with considerable success*.
-Hal 5 is produced by Cyberdyne systems, and US DoD is pursuing interest in this design.

Ten years ago, this was all a different story of very optimistic thinking, considering the many, MANY failures and setbacks encountered getting to this point of technology. But keep in mind, VOTOMS actually got its idea direct from the headlines of scientific advances happening in the 1960s.

This RP is set a good 20 years in the past, with a slight extensive alt-history going-on.

*The primary goal of HAL 5, was to allow workers to wear the pre-requisite 100 kg of radiation-shielding to work in ground-zero.

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"N***a imma CapPa yo ass" <--- edgy enough?

You Nocappa my ass, I nocappa yours.

Anyways... may wanna check current railgun velocities, I think we're currently redlining at around 5 km/s with single-shot building-sized guns.

Correction, 2.4 km/sec. That, and even currently railguns kinda suck for their size.
Talks of an '18" shell' that wieghs "11 kg" while the typical 5" naval gun acieves similar muzzle-energies with a shell possessing 3x the mass.

The fact that these 18" HVP shells can actually fit down the barrel of a Mk 45 5" gun kinda indicates someone measured something wrong in their tests.

Current, 1km/sec bullets already leave plenty enough of a vapor-trail, if that's the aesthetic you're going for.

Assuming 22mm shell wieghs 1 kg, it's a 25 MJ gun here to get 5 km/sec (assuming no friction). Meanwhile, a WW2 era 57mm anti-tank gun does about 37.5 MJ at the muzzle for probably less mass.

#killjoy of the year