[-] Sam@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

While I appreciate that your shotgun approach to posting any and all headlines you find regardless of source keeps people engaged in the website until Something Happens(TM), I would also like to say that posting a headline that links to a reddit post of a wordless 15 second tiktok clip should be a warcrime.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago

Holywood accounting but for military casualties

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

Im afraid that electric horseless carraiges were actually the first thing to be invented. There was a window in the late 1800s were battery and motor technology was just as if not more viable as ICEs and as with steam power the first attempts were usually just "replace the horse". Then ICEs got to the point were risk of death was at an acceptable level and the allure of going over 15km/h killed them.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago

Actually 1998 was just the abolition of the death penalty for treason. Hanging, Drawing and Quatering was abolished in 1870, and hadn't been properly practiced in well over 100 years by that point.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago

It is real, though from what I remember its unlikely to ever be completed since they have about 30 people volunteering to be writers and like 5 people willing to do anything else. The usual problems of trying to make a volunteer fan game with strangers on the internet, its quite literally the opposite of how Disco Elysium was actually made. My main take away from the no clip doc was how suprisingly well funded DE was, there is probably the makings of a ZA/UM in every country that never sees the light of day.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago

These are the posts I come to Hexbear for, and its kind of crazy how hard they are to find. That Venezuela thread should have like 50 comments and have been on the front page but I never even saw it. These highlight posts are definitely something I hope continue.


[-] Sam@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago

Matthew Broderick, he was driving on the wrong side of the road in Northern Ireland and smashed right into another car, killing Anna Gallagher, 28, and her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63. He was fined $175. He continues to have a holiday home in Donegal that he uses frequently and has refused to meet with the family of the people he killed. He claims to have no memory of the crash.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago

Black Library does have some geniunely good sci-fi hidden under all the crap. The trick is to completely avoid anything involving the Space Marines or anything that might affect the setting's status quo. Eisenhorn/Ravenor Trilogies is pretty good. Last Chancers is one of my favourites though, It was written when 40k authors were still allowed some freedom with the setting, its about a penal legion being sent on a bunch of increasingly more clandestine suicide missions. Peter Fehavari's books are an interesting attempt to carve out his little niché. Basically every book he writes, from the full novels to the short stories they write just to promote new models are all interconnected in a very cosmic horror web of connections. Warhammer Crime has some pretty good sci fi in it too, its essentially a series of short story omnibuses and full novels all written by different authors themed around sci-fi detective stories.

To me the Horus Heresy's popularity makes zero sense. I get how someone can sit through and enjoy a marvel movie alright. But how in the hell can someone sit down for hours to read the book equivalent? Its so much more excrutiating to do.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago

They will most likely be made to turn around like the last two ships before the one that was bombed.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Genuinely surprised there was any steel manufacturing happening in the UK still.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is the way to do it, right? Dump the bike in Central park, change clothes and just immediately head for JFK.

[-] Sam@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

Last night I was talking about the base to a friend and he said they should livestream the base for when the Israelis hit it as proof, I told him they could probably flatten the whole base on camera and get away with it.

view more: ‹ prev next ›

Sam

0 post score
0 comment score
joined 5 years ago