He Likes His Boxes.

I believe it was both, in a way. The story I heard was that Pluto started life as a study to determine if it was possible to build a strategic bomber that was powered by a nuclear reactor. However, after they found the shielding that was necessary to keep the plane’s crew from dying added too much weight to the plane, someone asked the obvious question of “what if the plane didn’t have a crew?” Ironically, once development started on Pluto, it was eventually decided that its reactor didn’t need any shielding anyway, and would just vomit reaction products out the back as it flew across the Soviet Union, just to make sure they got everyone. (Given the projected flight path Pluto would have needed to take to get from its holding pattern at the North Pole to the Soviet Union, large parts of Europe would have been doused in Pluto’s exhaust, which feels like a metaphor for American-European relations, somehow.) While some prototype ramjets were built, the project was eventually canned by the early 1960s due to improvements in conventional rocket engines for ICBMs, the Partial Test Ban Treaty, and the fact that even the nuke-happy generals and eggheads in the Defense Department thought the whole concept was a bit much. (While I have no confirmation on this, I have also heard that another nail in Pluto’s coffin came when someone working on the project was asked what the United States could do if the Soviets built and launched their own version of Pluto. Their precise answer is unknown, but it boiled down to “die, mostly.”) Also, with Orion I believe that there were early phases of the project where the vehicle was intended to be launched from the ground with its own nuclear drive, but again the Partial Test Ban Treaty put an end to that idea.

Well, Madiha and Esther called me out in this episode, so here’s my thoughts on Hitoe’s fate: Thought #1: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Thought #2: Even though I’m a guy who’s never touched a Wixoss deck, even I am not immune to having my wishes turned against me in a cruelly ironic manner. Thought #3: Why do we play customizable card games? Just to suffer? Thought #4: Given how there are probably a bunch of LRIGs out there who were once human (and how I suspect Tama was one), there’s a sliver of a chance Yuzuki got her memory wiped, and as such might be a less awful person as an LRIG.

Thought #5: Even so, someone please get Hitoe off of Mari Okada’s wild ride.

And finally, I want to thank you two for plunging into the depths of animé hell to entertain us biweekly. You two are the troops in my book.

Transmediacrity Anime Club, Ep. 14: The Bomb Diggity Lives Of Selectors

Nobody can think in this show.

Topics include: Video Game Hell doesn’t do anime so we win there; these episodes of Wixoss are dire; once again, relevant trigger warning for Incest because Yuzuki sucks; foreshadowing The Scene; a quest to stop the marketing; Yuzuki marauding the streets for card duels; Ruuko overturning the tables; hey Mari Okada weren’t you hired to sell cards; Takara-Tomy what happened; does Executive Man know what he is doing; DONT LOOK AT THE WIXOSS WIKI; our whitehouse.gov petition to get fan wikis regulated; Ullith the Horny LRIG; two girls doing it; thirst for battle; It’s A Wedding; Iona strategies; Wish Crisis; Yuzuki ruining lives; Kakegurui crossover; addicted to booster packs; dubbed Akira; Guy Fawkes Mask; the First Malformation of Akira; chuuni scar; Alt Girl turn; somebody sponsor us for $15 to keep this podcast solvent; quasimodo scare; Akira ninja; elite friendship moves; the most angelic girl; we’re gonna dox Ruuko’s brother; best Grandma; impressed by my fake deep sister; The Final Duel; The Wrath of Buns Girl; my friends who spread incest rumors; peeling some beans; girls are terrible, except for my sister; The Incest Scene; cool genes bro; bio-horror dialog; Mari Okada’s intentions; we nearly quit the podcast but we talked ourselves into continuing; Madiha’s Nebula-Brained Galactic Genius Analysis; returning to Hitoe; Hitoe, situation improved, or fate worse than death? You decide!

Outro theme is “Battle – Why Not Eliminate The World?” from Selector Infected Wixoss’ OST.

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Nasty little beastie, but a good doggo nonetheless

Who’s a good ghost doggo?!

Oh my god @wyattsalazar, I was just bouncing through deviantArt and I found this amazing piece by glucosefiction. I don’t know if you commissioned this or it was just fanart but I had to show it to you. Consider it a belated birthday present of a kind. ;)

And in another parallel with Disco Elysium, Kathryn Janeway’s psyche is also composed of 24 self-aware archetypes, 18 of which are actively trying to drive her to destruction.

from what i can gather Disco Elysium is about this guy

I’ve had those dreams too (I usually end up getting to the exam without having taken any classes), and so does my dad, who’s a good three-four decades older than me. If I had to guess, I would say that the life-or-death importance many of us attach to our education, combined with being in such a state for several years, is so intense that it seeps into our subconscious and stays there long after we graduate. I’ve heard stories of personal assistants having dreams about their bosses calling for them, so it isn’t just limited to people in uni.

I keep having this recurring nightmare that I’m in college, but somehow have either forgotten or otherwise blown off all my classes. And it’s getting near the end of the term when I suddenly realize I haven’t gone to class at all, and have missed all of the tests and assignments and I’m going to fail everything. 

It’s been ten years (!) since I graduated college, and back then I think I skipped class no more than one or two times total, so I have no idea why my subconscious is so fixated on something that never happened. Brains are weird. 

Daily Kuvira #103 - Glasses

I had to go see the eye doc today..

I can actually give you most of that with one stop, complete with orthographic views and a rotatable 3D model, thanks to the artist’s ArtStation page! https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4b6mK2 I can’t help as much with schematics, but the artist did do a little period-appropriate systems display schematic with Photoshop. https://twitter.com/thomasthecat/status/1104090439232024576

nesterov81 submitted:

Have you seen the Georgiou-class from Star Trek Online yet? It’s a bonus skin for the Walker they made for a DSC-themed discount pack, and rather than go with the game’s 25th century aesthetic the designer decided to go for a movie-era aesthetic and made a neat contemporary of the Excelsior. The links below have some nice pictures.

https://www.herocollector.com/en-gb/Article/star-trek-online-uss-georgiou https://twitter.com/thomasthecat/status/1094065137202253826

Very cool, thanks for submitting!

Isn’t this the final level of Hitman: Codename 47? Is there a mass grave full of dead bald guys in suits in back of this place?

GOOD EVENING

i just found the most fucked up property currently for sale in austria

THIS LOOKS NICE RIGHT JUST A BIG OLD HALL

CUTE RIGHT? NO. FUCK NO

I FEEL SO MUCH DREAD SEEING THIS HALLWAY

YOU WON`T LEAVE THIS ALIVE

IT HAS AN INDUSTRIAL KITCHEN AND BATHROOM IDK FOR WHAT BUT I HATE IT

THIS CUBE IS WHERE YOU GO TO DIE

like this is advertised as just a curious amazing thing with no explaination to what the fuck is going on or what THE ACTUAL FUCK HAPPENED IN THERE

but you can buy it for 99,000€. you might die looking at it but like. you can fucking try to get this

here is a link to the listing i guess. i hate this so much https://www.immowelt.at/expose/2b46g4c

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Kuvira (Avatar), Bataar Jr. (Avatar), Suyin Beifong (Avatar), Gnatha Chavran, Ailing Fengtian, And some more minor OCs Additional Tags: Epistolary, Politics and War in a Time of Revolution!, Yet another fill-in fic for B3 and B4, Inexplicable Dream Sequences Summary:

A week before setting out for the state of Yi, in a state of some minor disquiet, Kuvira sits down and recounts all that has happened to her over the last three years.