Reply To: Hobby Weekender 17/08/18

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Okay, I seem to be waaaay behind here.  Lemme try to catch up.

@sundancer – I agree.  People ask why I decided not to have children – my answer is because I’m not yet done being a child myself. 😀   And more great progress on those rebel troopers.

@biggabum – not a comics expert – but the way I’ve heard it is that Poison Ivy has had a wicked crush on Harley Quinn for years, but old-school 90s Harley was a little too naive to “get it” (way too focused on her ‘puddin’.)  In the more modern era, where everything is super-sexed up, of course Harley Quinn gets it and is all too willing to reciprocate, because fan-boys + two sexy bad girls + steamy “alternate” lifestyle choices = $10,000,000 in revenue.  🙂

Friggin’ awesome narrative battle report, by the way!  You should get a job screenwriting for DC.  Hey, you couldn’t do any worse than the monkeys with typewriters they have there now, right?

Tables look great @woldenspoons .

Awesome kit-bashing so far, @dawfydd – just asking, does that often present a difficulty at 40K tables?  I know sometimes people get very finicky about WYSIWYG rules and what is “legal” vis-a-vis a given codex, etc.

@mage – no worries at all.  If I wasn’t “comfortable in my own skin,” I wouldn’t have appeared on camera in about 60 BoW videos over the years.  That said, very happy to report I’ve lost about 50-70 pounds as of late – a drastic reduction of carbs in my diet has done wonders.

When I first started appearing in BoW content, I think Warren started walking around the nickname “Mighty O” – clearly they Googled “Oriskany” and came up with the US Navy aircraft carrier that had that nickname.  I liked it, but I think some people thought the “O” would start carrying some other connotation – again, not one that I would certainly mind, to be honest.  😀

But no … USS Oriskany is a Valcour-class destroyer from the “Darkstar” game I have going over in the projects.  Matthew Spencer is the captain.  😀

I didn’t know this, but there actually is a USS Oriskany in Star Trek – apparently one of Enterprise’s less-famous sister ships (Constitution /Enterprise class, she had dozens).

The USS Oriskany (registry numbers NCC-1020 and NCC-1733) was a 23rd century Federation starship, a Constitution-class cruiser in Starfleet service in the 2280s. In particular, the Oriskany was built to the specifications of a Enterprise-subclass class XI cruiser, commissioned and launched on reference stardate 2/1906 in the 2270s. By the 2280s, this vessel had been outfitted as a heavy cruiser (CA). (TOS video game: Starfleet Command; FASA RPG module: Federation Ship Recognition Manual)

Oriskany was recorded as destroyed on reference stardate 2/2510. (FASA RPG module: Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer’s Manual)

What kind of hat is the Historical Editor Hat?  A blue “Make America Sane Again” hat.  Oh wait, is that too close to politics?

As far as finding evidence of older cultures …

When it comes to history, we have to be a little like “imprecise scientists” – we have to remain fact-based but always ready to accept new evidence when it presents itself.  We can’t get dogmatic about it.

So if they opened a tomb and found a laptop inside – the conclusion would be that tomb wasn’t really as “undiscovered” as you thought it was.  Unless it wasn’t a Mac or Lenovo or HP … and really was an unknown computing device from an impossibly prehistoric culture.  Then it’s time to start rewriting history books (as well as a lot of computing software, I would imagine).

I’m just not holding my breath.  People who don’t read very much about (or are just casual) about history in general don’t realize how much is actually known.  History is not “a lie agreed upon” as dismissive and uneducated people love to quip – such cynicism is really just an apologetic for how much such people don’t know.  They don’t know how much is known as immutable fact, and so they don’t know “where the walls are” and thus they don’t know what is patently impossible.  Before you know it you have conspiracy theories that really are insulting.

Please understand I’m not saying the question was insulting or anything. 🙂  It’s just that with the amount of construction … and let’s face it … waste that an advanced society would produce – and given the fact that we know how many feathers an archaeopteryx had – and that we know the exact day Ramses II launched his war against the Hittites that sparked the “real” battle of Armageddon – and that we can track where just about any rock that was formed by the magnetic signatures relative to the earth’s magnetic field – we wouldn’t have found something?  How about in space, where nothing can hide?  A race more advanced than us wouldn’t have had some kind of space objects we would have seen by now, given the amount of trash we have up there?

Yeah, “Jäger” in German is literally “hunter”, but used by their air force since 1915 as a “fighter” as in aircraft fighter.  So TIE Jäger is really just a literal translation.  “X-Flieger” is “X-Wing.”  But I’m told by @bothi  that his German group actually eschews these German names, they prefer TIE Fighter and X Wing.  I’m with you, though, I’m stickin’ with TIE Jäger! 😀

More responses coming …