Wandering Through Space

Flights Daily to the Pleiades, HIP 63835, and Betelgeuse

[littlenyao]

Soon...

[themightyspacecow]

Watching @littlenyao making this model, teaching herself airbrush painting, and then teaching herself soldering so she could modify it to take LED lighting was quite the thing.

Meanwhile, I'm just staring at my pile of shame and worried I'll break something just taking it off the runners.

[littlenyao]

I was finally able to complete the makeover of the original Macross SDF-1 toy made in the 80s by Takatoku/Matchbox (released in the Robotech line outside of Japan).

I had to source from two different kits to get unbroken parts and then repainted the yellowed white plastic while giving the blue parts a darker blue. I'm really happy with how it turned out!

[themightyspacecow]

I got tired just *watching* her work on this thing. Amazing job of bringing it back!

[littlenyao]

We've had to go to drastic measures to keep Hank out of Yuki's automated feeder. (Hank will either push her close enough to use her chip to activate it or use his strength to pry it open.)

So what should we call this cardboard construction?

Fort Yuki

The Hungerdome

Hank Exclusion Zone

Other (in the tags) / Show results

Voting ended onNov 26, 2024

[is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not]

[roguesynapses]

Does Battletech has lore as unhinged as 40k or did you mean it as just tabletop wargame?

I am already looking for fandom migration and Battletech doesn't sound bad but what captivated me about 40k is eclecticism and everything being over the top so

Battletech is a story about feudalism and bands of knights riding their steeds to victory against impossible odds. It's a story about the decay of technology after constant warfare. It's a story about racism and how extremism twists even the most righteous ideals into something wicked. It's a story about the Bell Telephone Company becoming a religion in order to preserve communications technology, and the schism of that religion causing every star to bleed. You also get super cool robots. And it's way cheaper than 40k.

I wouldn't say it's as over the top, but if you want to get into the lore, try reading the Blood of Kerensky series and see if you like that.

[themightyspacecow]

The best description I've heard of the 'verse is: "Kindness is hard."

[dagger-shack]

I love how a Warhammer 40K fan guy decided to try and pick up Battletech, and not even a full day has gone by and he says that it's all fuckin "woke" and how the queers have taken over the Fandom and "ruined it".

Buddy, why is he so pissed people have their own stories that they wrote? Also wait till this mf hears about Canopus and our Cat Girls. He's gonna fuckin lose it.

[themightyspacecow]

The challenge from Robin Hood: Men in Tights comes to mind

I wouldn't exactly say *Magneto* declared war. I'd more say he... acknowledged the declaration.

[boldnewera]

flamewar: *sees someone teleport in front of her and beg for help before vanishing*

flamewar: anyway fuck sixshot

[themightyspacecow]

A Summary Of The Transformers Franchise

Generation One Cartoon: A four season long shitpost. Really wants you to buy some toys.

Transformers The Movie: All My Friends Are Dead The Movie. Featuring a musical score by somebody with a serious hard-on for rock music.

Marvel Comic: A grand cosmic adventure spanning thousands of years and tackling themes of morality and faith, interspersed with the goofiest shit imaginable.

Headmasters: Only notable for the terrible dub. Fortress Maximus has come himself.

Masterforce: Things go off the rails. Wishes it was a Gundam show.

Victory: Things go back to normal. Starring BURNING JUSTICE. Probably the best of the animes.

Zone: A yaoi anime posing as Transformers. An utter enigma. Probably would’ve been hilarious if it got past the first episode.

Generation Two: The one everybody forgets. Contains dangerous amounts of 80’s and terrible rap music.

Beast Wars: The Transformers become furries in order to survive in the time of cavemen. Somehow manages to be awesome despite a bizarre premise.

Beast Machines: Also known as “Why You Don’t Fix Things That Aren’t Broken”.

Robots In Disguise: That guy at work who you don’t hate, but you don’t exactly like him either. Starring a shark that does poetry.

Armada: A wacky scavenger hunt for Pokémon leads to the deaths of hundreds. Everybody keeps forgetting everybody else’s names for some reason.

Energon: The screw-up the rest of the family hates. You expected nothing and you were still disappointed. Has weirdly good music.

Cybertron: Unexpectedly good. Doesn’t get as much respect as it probably should.

Dreamwave Comics: Professionally published fan fiction. Everyone pretends they never liked it to save face. All the characters have the Ctrl-Alt-Delete face.

IDW Comics: Professionally published fan fiction, except it’s actually good this time. Won’t stop until every character is gay.

Kiss Players: The actual WORST. Embodies every horrible stereotype about Japanese media. You’ll probably get arrested if you read it in public.

Bayverse: The red-headed stepchild. Makes a ton of money but is so obnoxious everyone else ignores it.

Animated: Was too good for this sinful world. More anime than the actual animes. Inspires a lot of really weird fanfics.

Transformers Prime: What Bayverse would’ve been if it was competently made. Dwayne Johnson is in the first episode for no readily apparent reason.

“For Cybertron” Games: The only video games in the franchise even worth mentioning. Gears Of War with robots.

Rescue Bots: Pure and innocent in every way.

Robots In Disguise: Has nothing to do with the first “RID”. Ostensibly a sequel to Prime, but feels like it didn’t really want to be one.

Combiner Wars Cartoon: A total shitshow.

[themightyspacecow]

Well THAT answers a few questions...

So... with the latest episode now watched, that actually... possibly makes a wild kind of sense, which I’m going to be trying to hid behind spoiler tags and click below links.  Like this one!

This might actually go a long ways towards explaining why Discovery looks the way it does...  So, what we know, and what I presume, and what conclusions I draw:

We know from TOS, the connie-class Defiant disappears some years ahead of Discovery, during Kirk's command of Enterprise.  

We know from ENT that it goes back in time, AND ends up in the mirror universe, where it ends up in the hands of the nascent Terran Empire,

We know Lorca was able to put Burnham in the spore chamber early on and take her on a tour of various strategic sites throughout the region.  And we know that while she could see them, he was still speaking to her from outside the chamber. This implies a remote viewing option rather than transporting her.

We know Lorca input the jump coordinates to the mirror universe from memory, manually overriding the computer from his chair.

So now for presumption:

One can presume that a state-of-the-art 23rd century starship going back in time a hundred years gave the terrans all kinds of interesting tech leaps.  So, the Defiant has probably been in service for the last hundred years in the mirror verse, being updated and modified and having all kinds of interesting things done to it in order to seek out and subjugate new life and new civilizations.

Granted there's a lot of if coming off of this, but perhaps there was some espionage that went on, observing the mirror universe and building tech based on what they've observed.  

So basically my hypothesis boils down to the idea that they used the spore drive to open a window into the mirror universe and observe some of their tech, then building on that tech to create a ship that wouldn't be out of place in the late 23rd century and late or post TOS movie-era, in a pre TOS setting.

[thepigeongazette]

get that man some maple syrup stat.

oh god please don’t sic your moose on me

Also i’m a horrible liar and my schedule did not get better no it got worse :( so sorry for irregularities in posts

[psych2go]

So true

[beammeupchief]

[queereldritchgalaxyprincess]

GUYS GUYS GUYS

I JUST REALIZED A THING

WORF AND JADZIA GET MARRIED IN “YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED” BUT EARLIER IN THE EPISODE SISKO CHEWS DAX OUT FOR BEING CHILDISH WHEN SHE’S 356 YEARS OLD

“YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED” TAKES PLACE IN EARLY 2374

THE DAX SYMBIONT IS THEREFORE BORN IN 2018

WE’RE GONNA HAVE TO THROW A PARTY WORTHY OF CURZON IN ABOUT FIVE YEARS

IT’S GONNA BE AWESOME

[queereldritchgalaxyprincess]

jesus christ its been two years and people are still reblogging this

is this my legacy?

[indigenous-sun-deactivated20240]

Bringin this back as a reminder to throw the birthday part from hell for Dax!

[empresshoshisato-deactivated201]

you are cordially invited aired on november 10 so i say we have a party on november 10th 2018. 

[captaincrusher]

Everyone of these blogs is deactivated but we are ALMOST THERE FOLKS. A year left.

[startrekships]

I’m there!

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[themightyspacecow]

MrMyu Playing Elite: Dangerous - Twitch Clips

"I was actually smart and planned ahead!" ... Fail. - Clipped by MrMyu

Tempting fate is a dangerous hobby.

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

PETA

you guys remember when PETA stole people pets off their porches and euthanized them?

you guys remember how it came out that PETA kills about 90% of the animals it takes in, including healthy and adoptable puppies and kittens, stating “ We could become a no-kill shelter immediately. It means we wouldn’t do as much work”?

you guys remember when PETA advocated killing all pit bulls for the crime of being pit bulls?

you guys remember when PETA handed out these comics to children when there were no adults looking?

you guys remember when they made a porn site and then filled it with videos of animal abuse, and (also in that link) claimed cats should be vegetarian?

you guys remember when PETA lied about sheep shearing, got caught, and defended the lie as true even after they admitted the sheep in their picture wasn’t even real?

you guys remember when they tried to excuse their horrifying ways by claiming that the person who exposed them was manipulating the facts by taking them and putting them in the wrong context?

Because I remember. I remember everything. 

And I’m gonna make sure everyone else remembers too. 

[ourladyofpainourladyofdreams-de]

Why would they kill pit bulls they’re sweeties

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

Because PETA does not care about animals. they do not care that these dogs live and breathe and feel and want love like every other dog. they do not care about the history of human/dog bonding and co-evolution, they do not care that dogs and human beings have relied on each other for millennia, they do not care that its cruel and morally repugnant to put down an animal just because you can, they do not care about animals. 

PETA cares about money and publicity, its a corporation run by a psychopath who is afraid of pitts as it states in the link: she was apparently bit by one, and now she hates them. 

PETA doesn’t give a rats ass about animals. They just want to kill and make money off of idiots who fall of their spiel.

[ourladyofpainourladyofdreams-de]

Some celebs support them

[i-n-m-h]

ah c’mon, dear-tumb1r, I think you’re being a bit harsh. I mean, okay, PETA’s done some questionable things, but it’s not like they’ve also

-spread false information about milk causing autism based on outdated bullshit information

-used holocaust imagery to compare the meat industry to concentration camps (no pictures)

-used a young man’s brutal death as a way to say “yeah that’s awful but it happens to animals every day and nobody cares about that” (tw: no pictures but the way the guy died is described and it is really horrible)

-dressed up in KKK robes and protested outside of the Westminister Dog Show to protest breeding/pure bred dogs (tw: racism)

-offered to pay the water bill for literally the poorest neighborhood in Detroit if and only if they all went vegan for a month (tw: self-righteous shitheads)

-and they definitely didn’t have two of their workers accept perfectly healthy animals from an animal hospital, with the implication that they would give them good homes, clarify that these animals were all healthy and well-tempered, and then euthanized them all in the back of a kill-van before dumping their dead bodies behind a grocery store (tw: PICTURES OF DEAD ANIMALS, animal death)

-and they totally didn’t get off pretty much scot-free for it because PETA has loads of money and lawyers to defend themselves, which coincidentally might be why the Cerate family hasn’t seen justice for their kidnapped and murdered dog, Maya. (tw: animal death)

Nah. PETA’s not that bad.

(/the heaviest of all my fucking sarcasm, I am salty as a fucking winter road, lord do I fucking hate PETA)

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

Did you think i was fucking joking, PETA?

I will make sure everyone fucking remembers what you’ve done. 

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

Bringing it back, because it’s charity season and people need to know NOT to give charity to these fuckers.