Scolopendra ⚛💚 the Timperator of Mankind

<A-K> This is correct doctrine.

hell yeah

By all reports apparently he was also a *very good* boxer, so yeah.

Also wrote the screenplay for /Seven Days in May/.

Oh yes. He was the angry young man of Hollywood for as long as he was around because of, well, The War and all the shit he'd seen.

<A-K> I feel like, given everything, pointing and laughing *but* I also strongly suspect that'll just make everything worse.

It was not.

it's not your right to quiet the world. you as a human being are obligated to be in the world with other people even if that sucks shit sometimes. my neighbors listen to loud music and sometimes it's annoying but i also feel safe knowing my neighbors are okay and that if i need them they're there

I mean, that's just AM

Same.

(also, for lack of characters: Growth Factor = 1.10^20*1.04^51 = 49.723

I know, the thing that attracts y'all most to this is _math_)

lol get spun

LOBBYING WORKS

You.

***You*** forgot Homeworld?!

Huh, I would've expected more Homeworld. ;)

System Shock (1993) System Shock 2 (1999) Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries (1997) SIGNALIS (2022) Disco Elysium (2019) Space Quest III (1989) Rogue (1980) Star Trek 25th Anniversary (1992) Starflight (1986)

Okay, I can do this nine game thing.

I've worn a big felt fedora-style Stetson since high school in 1997-8 to avoid having to constantly switch out for prescription sunglasses and *not* wearing a hat is like getting flashbanged.

Black and white hand-drawn comic. Panel 1: A-K, a tiger-like alien thing with glasses, a curly mane, and fin-like ears, scowls in the corner in thought. Behind them, silhouettes of a skyline rise while in the foreground they share space with the equation T=P(1+r)^t and a graph of exponential and linear growth over time. A-K [thinking]: (So. Percent per reaction implies continuous implies exponential, and thread implies per post, which means additional input channels...) Panel 2: A-K stares wide-eyed and slack-jawed with mouth closed as realization hits. Their fan-ears, normally splayed, now droop almost flat against their neck. The stripe on their forehead equivalent to eyebrows shoots up to just below their hairline. A-K [thinking; the thought bubble has little horror lines under it]: (Oh no.) Panel 3: Long, running down the center of the page, illustrating how A-K grows by roughly a factor of three over what's probably a few seconds while they run and leap for a highway near the margin. A-K [thinking]: (Gotta get to the highway. More room...) Panel 4: Oops, all text. NARRATOR: "Fun Fact! Concrete can take ~3-4 MPa in compression. A-K's ground pressure, with a dynamic factor, is about 1 MPa. Too bad elevated highways aren't designed to have light aircraft carriers dropped on them. Panel 5: A-K's giant paw smashes into the concrete road with a CRUNCH as it shatters around them. Panel 6: NARRATOR [in box]: "With feline spacer grace, A-K converts momentum from linear to angular..." A-K flails forward most ungracefully, tripping with their foot caught in the wreckage of the bridge. A-K: "FFFFUUUU" Panel 7: A-K's cheek slams into the pavement with a THOOM, eyes tightly shut and glasses askew. NARRATOR [in box]: "So graceful." A-K: "ck." Stats in the corner: LIKES 51 REPOSTS 20 HEIGHT: 120 m MASS: 25.2 kt

Turns out it's hard to be a civic-minded kzin prone to #growth too slow to be explosively inevitable but too fast to be convenient. A deflagratory #macro, if you will.

This #GrowthDrive proceeds apace this first week of #MacroMarch, where our now kiloton kzin reaches the limits of civil planning.

Well, specifically Earthdawn, but Fallout.

This is just Fallout.

It's a good movie.

CARVER matrix - Wikipedia

Everyone's going nuts about them targeting AWS data centers and here I am going "it's CARVER, it's just CARVER"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARVER_...

> Iranian intelligence was likely able to identify and track U.S. forces moving off military installations as a part of the Pentagon's force protection plan

lol

lmao

of course

it's not like the buildup was /subtle/ and this wasn't in their fuckin' backyard or anything

<A-K> ...that explains a lot. A whole fuckin' lot.

some day there will be a world that does not live in the long shadow of an eccentric catcher and a cartoon pun on his name, if only we reach out to take it

With friends like these...

<A-K> She's NOT my friend!

My friend, dumbass.

<A-K> ...

we are going to be one of the last cohorts brain-damaged into always pronouncing it "pic-a-nic baskets", aren't we

Closeup of A-K reading a newspaper in the first panel of the growth drive. OPINION section. Headline: "BEAR: MENA[ce] TO SOCIETY"

<A-K> A correct article in the opinion section?!

Somewhere between. The extreme it goes to is a bit cranky, but it's not outlandish.

Remember: heels on ground, comrade found
heels in sky, imperial spy!