Honestly? That's pretty fucking brilliant.
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Add in the fact when Comcast got subsidies to improve infrastructure they fucked off with the money and never got punished for it.
It seems to be ending in twenty eight more days.
There are jokes I could make. There really are.
I just don't know how to make the idea of Thiel wanting a database of everyone who's underged into something funny.
Apple now allows sideloading of apps and Google is trying to get rid of sideloading.
What... the Fuck?
No, the health insurance industry is doing that all on its own.
Teach 'em young. Teach 'em Right.
Anyone remember when republicans were screeching murder over Obama bailing industries out?
Cool, now do the same for your stores.
This is the story of KARR. Wilton's Black Knight.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63187744
Apologies for prior post. Didn't realize putting an image in overrode there being a URL link.
This goes all the way back through Earthsiege, but covering Earthsiege and Starsiege is important for some of the Tribes lore given how the Cybrid threat and the Empire shaped.... basically everything. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFMDVzyq_4SQbzBq6tjVUh1vdp6Ckq-Mb
This is less a structured 'professional' essay and more just me unwinding by way of spitballing.
I hadn't really made the connections at the time, but after getting back into battletech to a degree (I was an enthusiastic young sprog. then when the clans got front and center I bailed because I just plain HATED the clans.)
I had long known that Earthsiege was a result of dynamix basically having an engine but either failing to secure or failing to keep the rights to produce licensed battletech/mechwarrior content.
Then recently I went re-reading some of the Starsiege/Tribes lore documents and... the whole thing struck me wit ha case of deja vu concerning Battletech. Sure fine there isn't Lostech as such, and there is no space-ATT/Comcast, but the whole thing feels very... inner sphere politics, with the Wilderzone/Tribes being perriphery states.
More to the point, given the timelines? It wouldn't surprise me if the guys punching up the documents for the Tribes part of the lore were DEEPLY unhappy with how cartoonishly DUMB the battletech clans are from a societal perspective and went 'No. That's stupid. These PEOPLE are stupid with their wholesale mockingly aping new age totamec animal nonsense and doing it BADLY.... All to justify a society that basically only functions because the writer said fuck you I want to jack off to how awesome the space wolves are because even when they lose they actually win.
Meanwhile the Tribes documentation and lroe basically have the tribes 'winning' in skermish fighting and then mostly because the Empire is too busy fighting for its life, and the things that hit the tribes were a 'here we need supplies, go ... see what you can scrounge' attack. I'm talking 'these guys literally exist because the better equipped better organized force can't be bothered' rather than 'these under equipped goons win because the narritive says so.'
And even then it isn't a total 'take that' at Battletech Clans. There's a sort of respect from the empire or at least those that have to share border space and attempts at taking the concept of power armor and going 'hey maybe we can do something with that' rather than 'look how stupid they are.'
Then you have the firetruce. Aka Space Olympics. See this is the kind of thing that I love because it isn't just martial wankery. It's if your family had someone that did well, you are expected to know that story and be able to tell it WELL to keep that history alive. These aren't all jacked up warrriors gene crafted for war. Theyre... people who largely want to do their own thing out in space and the guys in power armor are a very VANISHINGLY small percentage of the population.
I kinda wish actual books were written in the verse, because. Put bluntly. I find it more interesting than the clan wars, the word of blake, and the current il-clan era (where the f'ing clans, from space bumfuckistaan with overly streached supply lines... WON against the people and everything that outnumbers them about ... oh.... a thousand to one.)
https://archiveofourown.org/series/3436888
Blurb: Forty years ago there was A Man and A Car that fought for those that either fell through the cracks or simply could not fight for themselves. Now, a man with barely any sight has gained possession of what remains of the prototype of that car. Can he rebuild it? The more important question is, does he realize what he has woken up?
I've been stuck on Part 4 - Marc'heg Du - For almost two years at this point. Purely because 'What is going to happen is something I dread writing.' Had a decent clip going, and then .... WHAM. Right into a wall.
Edit: Image made using AI both for upscaling and the background for the 1990 Pontiac Fiero prototype.
Edit: Didn't realize the series link got overrode by the image.
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In the Fuck?
WHY?
That's an amazing reason to be refused service by.... Anyone.
'you come here to make arrests. why should I give you my business when you have come to take it away.'