I mentioned the Gauss rifles on a comment, but I wanna talk about my atom-gothic setting too though it’s not quite sci-fi.

During the forever war a lot of relics and items of magical origin have been seized for use on the front. Most people at this point don’t have the piety/devotion/innocence/practice to use these things as they were intended, so creative engineers have found more unconventional uses for them.

An example of this is the hilt of Næġling, said to have been slapped by Beowulf in his battle with the dragon. When impacted by anything made of electrum it amplifies that force exponentially. Built into the stock of a lee-enfield it’s now the personal weapon of Winston Churchill III on the German front. With the Germans and Australians raising the dead, it let’s him fashion bullets from crosses salvaged from the churches on the front.

In my sci-fi setting we use Gauss rifles as the general purpose firearms. They’re cheap to make, the ammo is functionally recyclable in some, and they aren’t as big an issue in space. Rail guns are used almost exclusively for heavy armaments because if you overload the projectile you’ll end up spraying molten slag. Larger projectiles don’t melt as quickly if the load isn’t balanced.

Neat callback to current railgun failures aside, I bring this up so I can share with you the beautiful though of an over the shoulder railgun with gyro based recoil resistance.

I’d highly suggest QIDI if you’re not building from scratch. I got my X pro back in 2018 and not only is it still stupidly detailed, but it’s an absolute workhorse. On top of that, they’re the best customer service I’ve ever had. I’ve made a ton of mods to mine over the years and they’ve done everything from helping me flash custom firmware to recording video guides for reversing the spin on the motors. I really cannot stress how great they are and how well they understand the DIY nature of this hobby.

Couldn’t we use this information to provide a fake fingerprint for the browser? Like a plugin that makes your browser read as being from an unmodified Chromebook?

Ideally we don’t fuck those guys, we can’t risk them reproducing.

I don’t see why we don’t steal heterosexuality from these dumb fucks and add it to the queer community. Literally make it “OK with people who have preference” against “hates preference” if we stop letting them hide bigotry behind normal things, they can’t keep pretending they’re not bigots.

Wanna know the difference between a Harley and a lawn mower?

The lawn mower has a reason to sound like that.

I love that my dinky hatchback has more get up and go then they do, they get so fucking offended when you zoom off from a light next to them.

I do not have tits, but I understand bra sizing and frequently have to advocate for women in my life to go get a proper sizing. I’m baffled by how women can wear a shitty bra for decades but know their measurements in every shingle companies arbitrary standards.

Oh man, you’d hate the Midwest. Aside from the obvious reasons, there’s a baffling culture of white dudes who only wear shorts and hoodies no matter the temp outside.