#bolo series

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I really need more people to know about the Bolos series.

Then you'll understand why I so badly want to hug a bunch of giant sentient battle tanks

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Round 3: who would win a rap battle, Rourke, Gaston, or Tiny?

This one is very unfair.

For anyone reading this, Tiny is an OC of mine. He is a gigantic sentient tank, a Bolo, run by a human level AI supercomputer. He is also a little shit sometimes. Oh, and he's gay.

Knowing this, it's easy to see that Tiny has the advantage, being a supercomputer with access to vast data stores in which he can find endless amounts of comebacks, slang, disses, rhymes, beats, etc. And he can run searches faster than a human can comprehend. By the time the first person finishes, he will already have multiple possible responses ready that he can choose the best one from (he's a war machine, meaning he's a tactician also).

Rourke and Gaston, being mere humans, have no chance against that. Even Gaston working closely with Tiny's BF (another OC Bolo named Soup, who is also gay) or Rourke being Tiny's commander (Bolos still have human "operators" but that's a whole other post) would not give either of them much of an advantage. They may do better against Tiny than most other people would, but Tiny would definitely still win.

[multiverse-of-misfits]

So, I got a day off from work today. Found some gift cards I hadn't used, and……I'd like to think I made good use of the day:

Completed my Space Odyssey series, plus Bolo books!

[Image: The spines of five paperback books. From left to right they are : 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke, Bolos Book 5: Old Guard created by Keith Laumer, Bolos Book 1: Honor of the Regiment created by Keith Laumer, Rogue Bolo by Keith Laumer, and Old Soldiers by David Weber created by Keith Laumer]

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I'm getting emotional over giant sentient tanks.

And loving every moment of it.

@heywoods-comet-water thank you for this

[beetle3000-1]

I made an addition to a post that I guess didn't pick up at all, but I wrote a lot so I feel compelled to make this its own Bolo propaganda post:

if you're looking for a good sci-fi series where the men and women are all treated equally (in the vein of the og post), then I'm gonna be extremely cliche and recommend

THE BOLO SERIES THATS RIGHT, GIANT SENTIENT SPACE TANKS

Oh and I guess there's human characters too - for the age of the series at times, the female characters are often treated well and are seen as equals to the men. Except for whatever goes on with the Mark III bolos sometimes but they hardly ever show up in stories. ...Weird shit. ANYWAYS if you like the idea of GIANT SENTIENT SPACE TANKS that have more chivalry and loyalty than their own human creators, and you also like a narrative that will:

• Make you violently patriotic for places and people that don't exist

• Make you cry over either some of the most gutwrenching shit ever, or the most uplifting shit ever

• Make you slam your fists on the table like an enraged chimp

then this is a very very good series to pick up ok.

ALSO THE COMBAT DESCRIPTIONS ARE TOP NOTCH IF YOU LIKE WAR STORIES

do you see that magnificent bastard up there. he has a bigger heart and sense of righteousness than like 90% of the human race and I am NOT kidding. if you read this series you WILL fall in love with giant sentient space tanks.

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