Bastille Day YouTube video by Rush - Topic

I don't have all these, but I do have something.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3t6...

Good for the muse, a fair warning for everyone else.

It's just "irrational" because fielding it has never actually done me much *good* over using those points for anything else.

(Except, again, the 2Ht which was collecting Clan 'Mech body parts.)

Which would be:
- Warhammer
- Wolfhound
- Griffin
- Jupiter
- Ion Sparrow
All of which are useful in their own niches, only ONE gets me a "really, THAT one?!" look, and more often a 'oh, so the usual list'.

(Incorrect. I'm not a BIG fan of the Timby, but it is worth the price.)

Irrationally? The only 'Mech I like which I could say is 'irrational' is the Shadow Hawk.

... it's often outclassed, doesn't really improve too much aside from the 2Ht which I think is just incredibly good at ambushing things, but I love the look.

Other things I like are the usual suspects. :)

Welcome to "Politically Inconvenient" with rhe New Republic, and our host Borsk Fey'la...

I dunno. On the one hand, I love Mike Stackpole's work. And Aaron Allston's.

On the other... I dunno if it's a story any exec would allow to be told.

I... didn't watch the movie?
I tapped out of the whole MCU when I wound up falling too far behind and didn't feel like needing a whole day binging to catch up. I was more interested in binging "Clone Wars".

(And instead I wound up painting batches BattleTech minis.)

Wait, did they sign? Last time I saw that it was Star Trek 6 - when it REALLY was intended to capstone an era.

(Who I was referencing with my comment! :D I've seen the video a while ago. Fun stuff.)

Oh there's plenty going on with the film which could make history buffs go nuts over.

... that's not something I am intending to even begin to get into, because my knowledge of history is weak and anemic due to being American.

(*looks up from packing minis for his weekly BattleTech night*)

... well there are many forms of "engagement" to think of, have you considered subcontracting some Heavy Forces to handle the problem?

Gladiator - people should know YouTube video by Zoran Grujic

"People should know when they're conquered."
"Would you, Quintus? Would I?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmC...

Hi, serious question here...

... why wouldn't it?
Bonus question: Once it's explained where it's from, why would the reaction not be "oh, I should cover that up then"?

A challenge coin from "Schlock Mercenary". It reads: "Maxim 70: Failure is not an option. It's mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do."

Don't be afraid of failure.

"What do you mean many many times-"
Piers Anthony, Anne McCaffery, Jo, Neil Gaiman, Joss Whedon, and Scott Cawthon. I replaced each of these with other people, and if it comes down to it I'll replace them too.

May I suggest some Alexander Dumas for some classical nonsense? The Diane Duane wizards?

"Well, that sucks. Time to leave it behind and discover something new. Even if I have to make it myself."
- Me, last year.

I have done this many, many times. It can be scary to think someone who created something you adored is/was/continues-to-be shitty.

But do yourself a favor.
Keep exploring.

Hey, I like supporting creators who make things I like. For as long as they make things I like, and I have a job.

(This is how you get Clan Sea Fox mad at you.)

*want

... the hell is with this site losing random letters in my posts lately?

Third: "Anything except a Kit Fox. ANYTHING."

But honestly, it'd probably be the JR7-31 Rattlesnake. Because I would ant to move fast and break things, not stand still and get blown up.

Why not an Ion Sparrow?
Because "not getting blown up" is a valid concern, and Clan Pulse Lasers are death.

#BattleTech

The usual question crossed my path: "If you were a mercenary, and could have any BattleMech... what would it be and why?"

First, once I realized I was in the Inner Sphere, I would scream about waking up in Hell instead of Purgatory.

Second, I would try to UN-isekai myself ASAFP...

... look, you make it a blog post and I'll reskeet/share it. I'm sure those following me will love to meet the big cat author.

But Comcast has its own suite of problems with it, so...

Ugh.

Ideas are never my problem.
Having to work to afford to live, and thus having no energy to write? Or time to focus on practicing a new talent?

That is my problem with creative output.

Link to the page for people to look at if they feel like it:

sfdebris.com/videos/films...

Cover of the novel "The Girl With The Silver Eyes" by Willo Davis Roberts. The image shows a young pre-teen girl with bright silver eyes apparently using telekinesis on someone's bags of groceries in the background.

There's another thing, a book I read out of the school library ran real close to the same, published in 1980, "The Girl With The Silver Eyes".

Got getting me to think a LOT about the prospect of managing to write something which ends up parallel (or intersecting) to another work unintentionally.

So why am I reasonably sure it's separate? I've seen it in anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction. Quite a bit. And in several sub-themes as well. I could believe at least one author in question has knowledge of "The Midwich Cuckoos" but not the eight others who got real close to the same plot framework.

Here's where it started: I'm watching a review from SF Debris of "Village of the Damned" (1960). This led to me thinking about the plot and where it came from. This led to me looking up "The Midwich Cuckoos" as the source material.

This plot has been done since, and I'm reasonably sure separately.

Fun thing about watching reviews of old media...

... you start noticing plot frames and pieces which are still used more recently and seemingly with no knowledge "hey, this was already done before".