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Fiction/quest/short story writer, prolific shitposter. My stories (Google Drive:) https://t.co/YiAXpq9ylp https://t.co/3hYfPvBtWh
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Apr 15 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
People are (rightfully) pointing out that GW's entering a familiar spiral; altering their product and alienating customers to appease shrieking harridans who don't actually buy their stuff. However we should remember the harridans demands *are* backed by an actual threat. Yes, quite often that threat's illusory and *probably* won't manifest. But it's NOT nonexistent. Look no further than Gamergate (original and rerun) to see how devotedly journalists pursue character assassination and smear jobs on people/companies/orgs singled out as targets.
Apr 6 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
This punch isn't being telegraphed, it's being broadcast in 4K HD Just like the missile attack on the US base in Iraq, this is pure deterrence signalling. The problem for Iran is that their deterrent is weak - they can do a lot of damage, but once they've shot their wad, that's it. Which is why they're milking this so hard.
Mar 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
You misunderstand. The exact reason why games have become bloated, preachy, and personally insulting to us and our values makes no difference - it's still unpleasant and un-fun.

Moreover, we want to see people like you - who hate, loathe and detest us - out of a job. A lot. We aren't projecting. We know exactly how you feel about us because you put it in your games. We don't care when you put black people in a videogame - it's when you put words in their mouths to the effect that whitey is evil and bad and should feel bad or that we're literal Nazis
Feb 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Laudable as this is, nobody ever seems to make the connection between the prerequisites that produce a society such as this and the number of people in Japan killed by suicide jumpers hitting them on the sidewalk. There was a blog a while ago; written by a black man working as an English teacher in Japan. "Gaijin smash," I believe it was called. And his insights into the culture were prescient and at times downright disturbing.

One regarded Japanese daytime television.
Jan 29 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Me, a "right wing racist": "how many IQ tests calibrated for modern westerners is a guy who grew up in a fucking straw hut going to pass?"

You, an "anti-racist": "I can't offer any alternative explanations, I just shriek that it can't be possible."

Telling on yourself. Will can't even be bothered to look up refutations/criticisms/caveats of IQ testing that've been long published and are easily summarized in < 280 chars because this isn't a data issue to him.

He's railing against blasphemy against his civic religion.

Jan 24 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Extremely interesting to watch @catalystgamelab cut their own throat. I said this before in regards to fiction writing but it applies to tabletop games too - in the age of open-source Java clients, 3D printers and .pdf files, all financial support a company gets is VOLUNTARY. People can - and are - playing Battletech using pirated .pdf's of the books, based on scenarios they derived from pirated .pdf's of their fiction, with minis they ran off on a 3D printer for $0.15 USD worth of plastic, without Catalyst Game Labs seeing one fucking penny.
Dec 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Gangs of professional thieves from Chile using wireless jammers to suppress security systems as they stage orchestrated raids of wealthy homes in SE Michigan.

The government that allowed this uncontrolled immigration demands you pay your taxes.

clickondetroit.com/news/local/202… I told you people use of jammers was coming here. I told you it wouldn't remain a South African problem. I fucking told you.
Sep 23, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Nothing pisses me off more than this sanctimonious horseshit. As if you would be quoting your Pure Liberal Ideals Of Justice if it was your country, home and family suffering from the wanton destruction and atrocities. You can fuck right off with that bullshit. This isn't a new take of mine, either. I've argued before and argued again that if you don't factor in this human element you can't properly appreciate the decision to utilize the atom bombs against Japan. Sure, there were a laundry list of good reasons to use them.
Aug 13, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
@stillgray The Russian military:

* Was fought to a stalemate north of Kyiv and forced to retreat from the entire northern front of the country
* Suffered a rapid collapse of the entire north-east front near Kharkiv, losing thousands of square km's in a few weeks
* Lost the city of Kherson @stillgray The loss of Kherson, especially, was notable because once the US finally transferred one moderately modern weapon (HIMARs), every Russian ammo depot within 80km suffered catastrophic existence failure overnight, brutally disrupting extant Russian logistics.
Apr 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
>boss is upset that we went home when we ran out of work to do

note to self: you need to ask permission to clock out but you don't need to ask permission to stand around holding your dick running up your wages because the boss isn't on-site to see you do it I assume that the boss fucks off from the worksite early because he has actual work to do elsewhere, like meetings with new prospective clients and stuff like that.

Am I supposed to blow up his phone with every single possible concern and judgement call or...?
Apr 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
So now I get to watch a fucking anime girl lay down better beads than I can, too.

Great. Swell. Fantastic. meh she's using MIG anyway, anyone can do that, you can do that in your SLEEP Image
Apr 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Finally, a gorgeous, warm day. Got outside and burned some rod. Things I learned:

1. The pool takes time to form! Give it time.
2. Give the steel time to cool down.
3. Lock the door, so nobody can walk in on you, glimpse the shambling, twisted monstrosity you've just made and The scream rises in their lungs but escapes only as a terminal sigh once the pointed end of the chipping hammer has done its heinous work. You stand, stunned, wheezing breath filling the hood with fog as you begin to hyperventilate.

You didn't have a choice.

He SAW.
Apr 11, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
>Philippines
>dudes famous for being able to beat people to death with sticks they picked up off the jungle floor
>and also for making world-famous M1911s in caves with a box of scraps
>and turning Jeeps into world-famous pimpmobiles

yeah not gonna do that

ever Image You know those videos of free-climbers? On mountains or skyscrapers? Where they're holding onto a rock-face with fingertips and toes, and then they backflip onto a ledge the width of two fingers as if they have a grudge against goats and want to put them in their fucking place?
Apr 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
despite being an anti-government psychopath with a personal arsenal that has me on multiple watchlists and a devout belief in the illegality of the income tax

I find myself thankful for OSHA

because gawd

daymn

youtube.com/shorts/r5jSL7n… Note that he only touches it with his un-gloved hand after he has made a connection between the two wires so he is no longer the shortest conductive path.

But

I

just

if he slipped or had an oopsie I just

ffffffffffffff
Mar 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I'd like to see GPT-4 come up with Hellcow. GPT-4 can be sane, reasonable and adequate. It'll put tons of milquetoast writers out of work.

But only humans can be bugfuck insane, in writing or any other way.

How ironic - all that shitposting will prove to be my job security
Mar 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hot take: no China-Russia co-operation at this point is going to seriously tip the scale. It's going to look more like what Iran is doing - sending desperately needed basic munitions now (low-budget cruise missiles aka kamikaze drones and 152mm shells) in exchange for tech. The savvy will recall how Russia sold China some SU-33 carrier aircraft, only to get salty when China promptly reverse-engineered them and built the J-15. But the Chinese came crawling back later because it turns out that building jet engines is very hard.
Mar 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The most egregious thing about the "wHaT aBoUt oUr sTOcKpIlEs" take is it ignores that the most likely major prospective land war was against Russia in the Baltics.

Weapons expended to destroy Russian gear has already filled its purpose, in other words. More to the point, dumbfire artillery is only in demand past what (typically massive) war stockpiles usually demand *because* it's a stalemated war between two nations with roughly the same equipment and doctrine.

If NATO was in this fight it'd be over.

Mar 21, 2023 • 31 tweets • 9 min read
whatever will the United States of America do without *checks notes* shoulder-fired missiles? Maybe we can make do with those strike fighters, main battle tanks, IFVs, attack helicopters and EVERYTHING ELSE WE FUCKING OWN Just forgot about the F-35 being a thing that exists now? Or do you seriously believe *anyone* can actually challenge US air superiority? Either way, you are illustrating why you, and everyone else who makes these arguments needs to stop doing it.

Now.

Feb 26, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
It is 2025. You are a PLA Admiral running a computerized wargame simulation of the invasion of Taiwan.

Your troop transports are being sunk by American SSNs. You sortie ASW to stop them but every helicopter and fixed-wing MPA eats an AMRAAM from invisible F-35s at long range. They must run out of F-35 flight-hours eventually but even when they do Taiwan's airspace is a buzzing cloud of HAHA GOOD LUCK generated by EG-18 Growlers. You are trying to use long-range SAM's to deny that airspace but everything that radiates is being eaten alive by AARGMs.
Feb 23, 2023 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
PlaneGreek's guide to making kydex holsters without spending hundreds of dollars on bespoke tools and other sundry BS sold by knifekits.com: #1. You don't need a fancy press - they're easy enough to build. I bought the hardware to do it, then never did, because two longish boards (2'x1') placed on a box (so edges stick out) plus two QuickGrip-style squeeze clamps were MORE than enough.
Feb 23, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I like you bro but lets face it the Russians are bogged down not 100km from their own fucking borders and yesterday they had an ICBM test misfire. Not one single American who doesn't volunteer for it is going to "die for these people" and I'm sick of people pretending otherwise. Putin was 110% sure all reports of the might of his army were legit only to watch the paper mache facade get crushed by the Western military-industrial complex flexing one fucking pinkie finger, you REALLY think he's eager to go nuclear?