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The Old Hack

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    The Old Hack reacted to Darth Fluffy in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    Good thing they have those T-34s to fall back on.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Deep Thoughts   
    I would call Ron DeSantis a pretty good argument for abortion into the 138th trimester.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    Still, with that sort of protection and armament it should be able to handle just about anything a parade can throw at it.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Deep Thoughts   
    I would call Ron DeSantis a pretty good argument for abortion into the 138th trimester.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    I would say the biggest rear area they have is the chair occupied by Putin's backside, but it already seems to be filled to capacity.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)   
    We can always hope that they will be deployed in areas less likely to see combat to free up younger troops. Ones in their forties and fifties.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Comic for Friday, Jul 14, 2023   
    Here is.
    Of course Tedd thinks that his code being used everywhere is awesome.  I've always thought that he might be an open source sorta dude.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Generic Table top gaming.   
    An old friend of mine somehow managed to cram the entirety of Classic Traveller's character generation system into an ABC-80 with 32K of RAM. It was amazing. We could generate characters very quickly and could even automate the process entirely. Near as I could tell it was entirely bug free.
    Then my friend had a brilliant idea. He wanted to make an invincible supercharacter. So he set the function that rolled 2D6 to get an automatic outcome of 12.
    (Stats are rolled with 2D6 in Classic Traveller, which was just where the fun began.)
    So this guy with perfect and more than perfect stats enlisted in the Navy. He of course made all his commission and promotion rolls. He accumulated massive amounts of skills and laughed at survival rolls. He was unstoppable. And when the time for aging rolls arrived, he obviously breezed past them as well.
    That was when his one little problem arrived. He was finishing his seventh and supposedly last term at age 46. He was looking forward to some truly epic mustering out benefits. But then it developed that he was not mustering out after all.
    You see, if you rolled a '12' on your survival check, it meant that you were automatically re-enlisted for another term of service. Even if you were 46 or older. So the Navy refused to let him go. The same event of course repeated when he turned 50. And 54. He suffered mandatory re-enlistment again and again. And of course he never aged due to his amazing rolls. He was literally unstoppable. He couldn't stop even if he wanted to.
    By the time he turned 134 years old my friend gave up and ended the program. At this time the guy had the skill set of a particularly obsessive-compulsive demigod and had presumably been promoted to command every single naval force in that entire galactic spiral arm regardless of its government of origin. His piloting skill was so high that he could make a moped perform a hyperspace jump. He was a living legend that wouldn't and couldn't die. He was tougher than Kimball Kinnison and John Carter of Mars put together. I think he had maybe one stat that wasn't an E or an F.
    This guy would clearly have been an amazing PC but he would never arrive at that point. The Navy knew a good thing when it saw it. It was never letting him go. And I am kind of having a hard time blaming them.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)   
    We have much to thank science denialism for.
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    The Old Hack reacted to Darth Fluffy in The Weather.   
    It would seem it does not need to, it can merely walk away.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Generic Table top gaming.   
    A PDP 9 is a massive beast.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)   
    I still fucking love that when Putin declared that Ukraine was not a country, the Ukrainians responded by withdrawing Volodymyr the Great's charter for the founding of Moscow, revoking its right to exist as a city.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)   
    I still fucking love that when Putin declared that Ukraine was not a country, the Ukrainians responded by withdrawing Volodymyr the Great's charter for the founding of Moscow, revoking its right to exist as a city.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Generic Table top gaming.   
    The CompSci Department in the University of Copenhagen still uses a PDP-9 for protection of their main server.
    Admittedly they use it to block a window previously employed as an access route for hardware thieves, but it still counts.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Discussion of Military, real or fictional   
    I have to admit that if I were a dictator about to fight a civil war, I'd probably just hire my own mercenary group to fight itself. Winning side gets to be the new Praetorian Guard on the condition that whenever they depose a dictator, they themselves get to clean up the mess left behind. That sort of civil war would be a lot less bloody and destructive, and I bet it wouldn't even exact all that many casualties. If I remember my Italian history correct, if you set mercenaries to fight other mercenaries they typically settle it by either boasting, a war of maneuvers, a drinking contest or a best of three in rocks-paper-scissors.
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    The Old Hack reacted to Pharaoh RutinTutin in Deep Thoughts   
    I still think Napoleon added those.
     
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    The Old Hack reacted to Darth Fluffy in NP Tuesday 04 July, 2023   
    He does skirt around the edge of that crater . . .   I feel like there is a good back story for that, he got his fingers burned in the past and is now more cautious. Then there's the whole 'we've had several hints that he's gay' without anyone ever confirming it; one generally does not come out of that revelation unscathed, unfortunately. That can add fuel to the whole jaded view of humanity as a whole.
    Several years ago a gay friend of my one daughter gave me a hug because I did not treat her like shit and question her sexuality. She was estranged from her father at the time. In between the desire to comfort and the hope for the health of her psyche, and the basic pleasure of friendship, there lurked a lingering dark cloud of 'what the hell have you been through? You don't deserve that!' - I'm fairly certain her story is nowhere in the ballpark of unique, especially in the Bible belt location where I live. Because, as I'm sure you know, "A young lawyer asked him (Jesus), 'Which is the greatest commandment?' And he replied, 'Hate the gays, and the second is like it, hate the transsexuals, and make sure they don't have access to their meds.'" Or something like that.
    I often wonder if there is intelligent life on Earth. Odds are, 'no'.
     
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    The Old Hack reacted to Pharaoh RutinTutin in Comic for Wednesday July 5 2023   
    "Why meet at a restaurant" is a question someone might have asked.
    Midichlorians are an answer to a question no one asked.
     
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    The Old Hack reacted to Don Edwards in Comic for Wednesday July 5 2023   
    At least it isn't a STUPID answer, like midichlorians.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Darth Fluffy in Comic for Wednesday July 5 2023   
    In this particular case I feel it somewhat compensates for the slowdown that the explanation is actually funny.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in Generic Table top gaming.   
    The only not during design phase math formula that classic traveller has is the in system time of flight formula.  It's no so much math as it is accounting for design phase stuff.
     
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    The Old Hack reacted to Darth Fluffy in NP Comic for Saturday June 24, 2023   
    Ah, before he became POTUS. I was wondering how I missed this. Yes, it is prescient.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in NP Comic for Saturday June 24, 2023   
    One of the great photo ops of the 21st century.