The one thing Star Wars has over Star Trek is absolutely absurd levels of energy generation and storage. The thing about the construction of light sabers that impresses people in-universe is the Khyber crystal, not power cell running it which apparently is a palm sized terawatt fusion generator. That is why ships like the X-wing are still useful in combat. Even at their size, they can carry enough firepower to punch through a lot of armor and force shields.
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ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•"Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics.English
3·3 months agoMost arguments for using Hitler’s DNA end up supporting the eugenicist trash Nazi scientists espoused. There is little practical use for it.
As a geologist from Illinois, I wish we had some Igneous granite. In my field camp we cored 500 feet of glacial loess.
I played a campaign where we had a dagger of healing. It worked great against undead (as intended by the DM) and also to torture information out of people (not intended by DM).
I would be like 5 of these, so I would be multiclassed beyond usefulness. Come to think of it that is a pretty accurate representation…
Their origin is a pretty interesting read too.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•‘Big Balls’ in Biggest Ever Social Security Leak: Whistleblower
17·6 months agoIts always Big Balls involved in crazy shit. He is like the fascist Forrest Gump.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Chicago’s South Side gets over 3X tickets per red-light camera as North Side
3·7 months agoThe cost of repairing their car from an accident won’t stop them, a ticket won’t either. All it does is punish local drivers making moves that no actual officer would actually ticket for (like turning right on a red with no pedestrians present).
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Chicago’s South Side gets over 3X tickets per red-light camera as North Side
62·7 months agoRed light cameras are nothing more than a tax on local drivers and, as usual, that burden falls most on minorities.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Supreme Court to hear private prison company appeal in suit over immigration detainee $1-a-day wages
2·8 months agoRegardless of how you feel about immigration or prisons in the US, the economics of the situation is bad policy. Slave labor suppresses wages. It also incentivises creating a larger prison population to generate more cheap labor.
Resting Buck Face
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Va. Gov. Youngkin signs law restricting social media to 1 hour a day for kids under 16
12·9 months agoIt seriously needs to be illegal to propose laws that are unenforceable.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•FBI arrests Milwaukee judge, alleging she interfered in immigration operation
5·10 months agoIt will be pretty hard to prove she intentionally misled police, especially to a degree that constitutes a felony.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•South African diplomat to USA expelled for DEI posts
2·11 months agoAnd it has been co-opted by the far right to act as a nebulous term (like woke) that just describes anything bad.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•South African diplomat to USA expelled for DEI posts
25·11 months agoWe have to stop using the fascist’s code words. It wasn’t DEI. He was expelled for supporting desegregation and racial equality.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto
Games@sh.itjust.works•What's your favorite FPS weapon?English
4·11 months agoThe Thumper from Tribes. Most people went with the Spinfusor because of the linear projectile, but once you learn to account for the arcing shots the Thumper was better.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto
Games@sh.itjust.works•What's your favorite FPS weapon?English
4·11 months agoYup. In multiplayer, I used to blow a crater in the floor with explosives and then sit in the hole with the rail gun, shooting people through the floor.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Musk says all federal employees need to explain their work immediately — or be let go
17·1 year agoFor fucks sake Elon, Office Space wasn’t a management tutorial.



Duncan Idaho in fact