Recent content by UberIguana

What happens when you take Back to the Future, make it into a video game, then throw in copious amounts of Mount and Blade, GTA, and Total War? Probably something like this. In which the player travels to 1461 England and builds their own faction in an attempt to save the future. Complete...

When I read the first part my first thought was that Malcolm was being set up for some sort of con. Considering they're a bunch of kids with money to throw around I'm actually a little surprised how few attempts there have been at that.

How long before she realises she can get higher level 'matches' and thus more XP by giving corpo servers a good poke and seeing what comes out? Maybe a bonus if she accidentally steals something valuable. New XBD trolling idea: That time [REDACTED] stole Arakasa's entire R&D personnel roster...

Figuring out a trebuchet mechanism isn't hard and can be done through trial and error. Remembering that legumes are good nitrogen fixers isn't the same as remembering a string of a few dozen basically random squiggles in the right order. You could handwave knowing some addresses by saying you...

The only thing missing from recent chapters is bullying Judy with more XBDs. She's done parkour, she's done ultraviolence, what does she do next? I'm still waiting for Hiromi's butthurt classmate to pull something and end up in over his head.

How are you going to find half the worlds in question? Some of them are completely forgotten by the galaxy at large. Do you have the addresses memorised? Do they even show the addresses of some of these places? Unless you're bringing notes, you'd have to find them through trial and error...

Anakin has a doctorate in Darth Plagueis the Wise.

One idea I've been toying with for a Xander gets powers fic that isn't just another spin on Halloween: He gets bitten by a werewolf and, much like Oz, finds out it can be managed and controlled. Maybe Oz bit him, maybe he gets bitten instead of Oz to avoid character redundancy. Cue forced...

It's worth bearing in mind that 'Prussia' as it was, now mostly makes up northern Poland and Kaliningrad. Yes, the ethnic Germans who lived there were forced to move to modern Germany, but Prussia as a nation or identity doesn't really exist anymore, certainly not in the way it did back then.

The contrast between the usual magical problems and solutions and the Necron 'let's BSOD the laws of physics into doing what we want' would be a source of entertainment all on its own. Or Xander kicks off a major incident among the magical community after trying to use an airborne retrovirus to...

For a giant the size of the one pictured a scythe would be pretty effective. Or a flail with some heavy weights attached. A 3 meter tall giant would probably have to fight a lot like a regular soldier, except he's a really, really big. A whole lot of armour, plus a greatsword for wrecking...

I don't think he's talking about occupation (not for very long, anyway). More the 'no people, no problem' approach to counterinsurgency.

One piece of advice, if you're getting a GPU that draws more than 150 watts, make sure the power supply has 2 PCI-e cables. Not connectors on a cable, cables. They can't reliably take more than that.

The problem with dealing with an opponent who has orbital supremacy via nuclear terrorism is that your opponent still has orbital supremacy. They now also have far less reason to hold back and a populace out for blood. You can't smuggle nukes if you have no spaceports to depart from, or...

I'm mostly getting this from online anecdotes. You can see the arrse wiki on the SA80 and judge for yourself. Most of it is complaints about the original, but the last few paragraphs say the latest versions aren't bad. Yes, I know it's a wiki, but it's run by people who use the thing, rather...