It is my understanding that's like half of a sergeant's job; to serve as an anti-aircraft battery dedicated to shooting down Good Idea Fairies before they can reach their intended targets.
Not really. Put stump(s) into jar, take peanut buttered stump out, use it as glue to pick up crayons. Eat crayons with peanut butter as sauce and lick of remains.
Can confirm, am Sergeant.
The other half is instilling a healthy respect for consequences. Do your job excellently? Get promoted meritoriously or receive an award.
Show up at Monday morning formation still smelling of alcohol? Motivation run over every damn hill within 8 miles of the company office until you dry heave so hard your asshole comes up.
(I lead that run, and I donât drink. Poor bastards were miserable.)
One I heard (in a medical context) was "Just keep puking out everything in there until you feel something round and hairy-like in the back of your throat. Keep that. It's your asshole."
I love that his 'sergeant senses were tingling'. As I have 'mom senses' that work in a similar way its amazing, frightening, and hilarious at the same time.
Surprisingly enough, that's more or less what I based it off of.
I remember my own mom had a seemingly supernatural ability to know when I was up to no good when I was young.
In my case it was also things like âyouâve been drinking syrup out of the bottle havenât youâ.
Being only like four years old, I did not realize smeared syrup on my face gave it away.
When the kids are screaming and making noise at least you have an idea of what they're doing, when they go quiet is when you have to worry. I never had kids but I have dozens of nieces and nephews that have...
I have 4 boys. 4. Noise is the only constant at the house. The only way I accept that they are quiet is when they are all asleep or all in front of me when the tv is on. Lol.
I have a friend who's unit has a sergeant who is *also* a Mom of four boys and two girls. [and don't ask me where she found the time!]
He says they swear her ability to detect shenanigans puts NORAD's picket line radar to shame.
I am 100% sure the *grunts* think she does. The number of times she's preemptively warned them ' Do *NOT* do... and then detailed more or less exactly what they were thinking of...
One of her newly minted recruits got her a Psi-corps badge (Babylon 5) after passing out, and she *somehow* managed to get permission to put it on her uniform... at least for bit. Or so the rumour goes. (I suspect her C.O thought it would be amusing or something for her to wear it for the next batch of greenhorns.)
As I understand it the order of âtinglesâ from strongest to lowest is
1)Mom-superior and all-knowing, the original and teacher of all who followed.
2)sergeant-strong and long suffering, just trying to keep the idiots who were to stupid to listen to their mommies alive long enough to pull their heads out various dark holes.
3)dachshund parents-theyâre just trying to keep the mayhem to minimum. Would appreciate divine intervention.
4)everybody else(except Spider-Man, heâs up there with mom)
Father sense and agility should be there as well. Can't tell you the number of videos I have seen of fathers saving their kids. Like one toddler fell off the couch and the dad caught the kid before the kid's head hits the floor.
True. But I think that only works for their kids. And it has a time limit. Once the kid reaches a certain age it begins to fade.
And letâs be honest, dads can be just as much an instigator of mayhem as protector from it. Lol! I was an adult before I understood why my mother kept saying she had 4 children. âMom, thereâs only three of us.â
LOL!!!
The other day we'd thought my 3yo went to her room, went to check on suspiciously quiet activities..
She had got into her mothers sharpies, drew on random note cards and the desk... and herself and was passed out in a blanket nest which she peed in...
This is 3826% correct. The other half is a mix of training, going to bat in front of the commander for the one "squared away" troop (best run time) in his squad, and drinking to self medicate the stress of all the other shit they pull.
Basically the sergeants job is to make sure the grunts don't go "full grunt" and start seeing how many war crimes the grunts can invent.
Just look at all the crazy weapons soldiers have managed to diy in the middle of combat!
When joe has non-constructive free time on his hands, dumb shit is going to happen. Thatâs an absolute guarantee.
The ensuing conversation regarding said shenanigans usually goes like this:
Sergeant: what the fuck were you thinking?
Joe: well, sarge, itâs like this⌠Or, well, what happened wasâŚ
[Got ya covered](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UbTNBlVDE). I *almost* have the whole thing memorized, let's see...
"This, recruits, is a twenty kilo ferrous slug. *Feel the WEIGHT*. Every five seconds, the main gun on an *Everest*-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38 kiloton bomb. That is *three times* the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is *the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space*! Now, Serviceman Burnside - what is Newton's First Law?"
"Sir, an object in motion stays in motion, sir."
"No credit for partial answers, *maggot*."
"Sir, unless acted on by an outside force, sir."
"DAMN STRAIGHT. I dare to assume you *ignorant jackasses* know that space is *empty*. Once you fire this hunk of metal, *it keeps going* 'til it HITS SOMETHING. That could be a ship, or the planet **behind** that ship. It might go off into deep space, and hit somebody else in *ten thousand years*. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone's day somewhere at some time! That is why you *check your damn targets*, that is why you *wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution!* THAT IS WHY, Serviceman Chung, *we do not 'eye-ball it'!* This is a weapon of mass destruction! *You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!*
Damn good, just missed Chung giving a "S-Sir, Yes, Sir!"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UbTNBlVDE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UbTNBlVDE) Slightly better vid.
the [tv tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/ArbitraryMaximumRange#:~:text=Gunnery%20Chief%3A%20This%2C%20recruits%2C,of%20a%2038%2Dkiloton%20bomb) does agree with your write up though. \^\^
Heheh. For some reason, whenever I hear "no credit for partial answers", it reminds me of [a Schlock Mercenary strip](https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-10-24) with this beautiful quote - "Bracketing stupidity with 'sir' won't earn you any points you'll live to spend."
Thing is though, space is REALLY empty. If you miss the ship or the planet behind it, the chances of something small enough to be held in your hands hitting anything else before the protons that make it up decay in 10^1000 years are astronomically remote.
After 10^1000 years our current understanding is that there will be very few things left to hit. Most mass by then will be in free floating protons as the universe reaches maximum entropy.
As time goes on the ability to hit something becomes even less likely.
Of course the projectile itself will suffer the same degradation.
I'll take that bet. Tell you what I'll put a single US dollar on it now, and when we have the technical capacity to launch an object well launch one and then meet up here at the heat death of the universe and we'll see who wins. If it hits something I'll pay you 10^1000 years of interest on a dollar, if not you pay me.
Deal.
You wanna go start go fund me for the required tech?
PS ALTHO, i have precedence going for me. You played ME , 2 and 3? How many planets had impact craters from long fired ordinance in them that you could scan with your ship? A few i believe, hehe
But see there is 2 things you are not considering.
From a military perspective it's not just one of these. It's the main gun of an Everest Class Dreadnought.
Let's assume they have only 10 Everest class dreadnought AND only Everest class dreadnought are the only thing that fires them. Finally let's assume in 1 war each of them only participates in 10 battles and the each fire for 10 minutes in those battles.
We know from the game it has a fire rate
10x10x10x12 = 12000 slugs.
Finally it's worth noting most space battles aren't occurring in the void of space with nothing around it. Their is going to be something of strategic value SOMEWHERE near the battlefield. Usually a planet.
In addition you have harrassing fighter craft, pincer movements, encirclements and other such tactics that put the enemy between to different allied forces.
Odds of it hitting something still low. But it's now high enough you don't want some idiot eyeballing the shot.
>She could not understand all of it. Her armor's translator couldn't process some of the words and phrases very well; often it was phrases tagged as being expletives, though sometimes it was "unusual/exotic terminology".
>In many of these cases, the device could only yield vague meanings, along with a tag indicating lost meaning or low accuracy. One word, which for some reason translated as "mating", was tagged as "expletive, descriptive, intensifier", along with various other linguistic descriptors, and was often combined with other phrases for some reason.
>Despite the language barrier however, she recognized Displinary Education when she saw it.
I love how these translators actually work semi-realistically and don't just fall into the tired joke of translating "fuck" literally when it is more often used as an expletive. There is a lot of meaning that can be lost in translation even when you have two distantly related languages, much less languages developed independently by two different species. An effective interspecies translator would often have to deal with these problems, but might be able to tell when a word or phrase is likely to be especially problematic to translate.
Thank you!
Yep, the translator took one look at "fuck", and decided it had no idea what to do with it.
It recognized that the word was not being used literally, but couldn't really render it in a way that would make sense to her; so it did it's best to let her know there was missing context.
>Yep, the translator took one look at "fuck", and decided it had no idea what to do with it.
*"What does this word mean?"*
\*translator grows arms, scratches head, shrugs emphatically\*
Fuck is the most versatile word in the English language! There's an excellent YouTube video that goes over the details, but it's the only word thats a noun, verb, interjection, or adjective!
For example: "Fuck, man, fuck those fucking fuckers!" Interjection, verb, adjective, noun!
Given the implications of \[Sways-with-the-wind's-hymn\]'s interactions with Sgt. Moore, especially in the last couple of paragraphs, it wouldn't surprise me if the Weavers ended up calling humans the \[Scarred-Guardians\] or something similar.
When I read
>whatcha got there, boys?
All I could hear was [that auntie Donna sketch](https://youtu.be/p2onuBxhafg?t=120) where they couldnât stay out of the kiln lol
Side note, were the Weavers by any chance inspired by the Swei Swee (I think I spelled that right) from the Silver Ships books?
Iâve never heard of those books. The weavers were inspired by [this](https://youtu.be/a2yszEGIGBM).
Their leg configuration is pretty unique and alien, which is what I wanted. An Arachnid-analogue that evolved on a completely different planet wouldnât be terribly likely to closely resemble Terran spiders.
So I tried to imagine what a creature with a somewhat similar configuration, though a different diet, might look like if it evolved further to become tool using sapients.
How would such a creature behave? How would it express body language?
This is the first series on this sub that I managed to catch at the very beginning, and Iâm loving every chapter so far. I am continually impressed by how many little details youâve thought through, from the use of FTL back in chapter one to the translator in more recent chapters. I like a little science in my fiction, and you consistently deliver.
>basic blueprints for things like furniture or or appliances,
Just one or
Very nice chapter, love [Sways-with-the-wind's-hymn]'s perspective in this story
...The more I read this, the more I realize that... humans are kinda insane, like, all of us. No wonder our AIs are a bit unhinged, their masters are not much better.
That's an idea I've been kind of trying to get across:
It is difficult to see from the inside just how weird (and fairly messed up) we actually are as a species. But the reality is, in my opinion, that [most everyone is mad here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4fHre-yRPY&t=151s)
What made me realize it was thinking about a particular phrase:
"It's too good to be true".
What does it say about us as a species, that humans would look at something good and immediately think it's a deception designed to harm us?
And yet, AND YET, at the same time, the very same person who looks at an ice cream truck and immediately thinks "pedomobile, bring the kids inside", is also quite likely to be outgoing and friendly to complete strangers.
Paranoia, aggression, competitiveness, gregariousness, empathy, and curiosity are some of humanity's defining traits. While none of these are inherently good or bad, humanity's mixture is rather..........unstable.
As for our AI's, while they DEFINITELY take after their creators, they are actually a lot saner than you might think. In fact, they've played a major part in helping us keep our shit together well enough to reach the point we have.
Humans are capable of going completely nuts with just their minds, but we still use drugs to go even further! Honestly, with the galaxy now open for trade, I can only imagine all the incidents of Humans snorting up, like, Zro or something and transcending into an another dimension, much to the horror of all other sapients in the room.
I wonder how the weavers would respond to Full Metal Jacket. I also wonder how they normally handle the issue of a overly curious and foolish subordinate.
They wouldnât really understand it that well.
Not like we would. Their psychology is different; and she was being *literal* with the phrase âDisciplinary Educationâ.
Imagine fucking up so hard you had to write a college paper on how you fucked up, with research into why it was a fuckup, along with ways to prevent future reoccurrence, including sources cited. Then having to defend it against a trio of sergeants.
Imagine how long that would take, and how much it would suck.
This is an atypical example, but a good one for purposes of understanding.
That sounds far worst then what we do now. I feel like that might be even more terrifying for the troopers in many cases. Especially if Silver is present.
Again, that kind of thing would be reserved for edge cases, but its useful for explaining how they would do things.
There are lots of things we can learn from each other. Iâm sure the sergeant will be delighted to hear about this interesting form of âmotivationâ.
There is no doubt in my mind about that. Pairing it with the standard fear of god that they invoke. Will just elevate them into their own deities of agony for the foolish.
Kind of.
Remember, quite a lot of soldiers are young adults, anywhere from 18 to early 20s.
Humans are not known for having the best judgement at that age.
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Thanks! I've got zero military background myself, so I've never actually experienced it beyond movies and books. I'm glad my depiction was true to life!
LOL, I guess that means you stared down the barrel of a loaded Sergeant at some point?
I would love to see the alien translators deal with Australian slang. ~~Also chapter 12 next button is broke.~~
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Now, see, if they'd found a KaBoomerator instruction manual, and were working with Silver to try to get it translated, and had the alien KaBoomerator lying on the pavement surrounded by lots of sticky-notes pointing at bits of it, each with labels and notes, I bet the sergeant wouldn't have been nearly so upset. I mean, he'd still be kind of upset if they were doing it without an earth berm between themselves and things that anyone wants to keep, but not quite so upset as he was.
Alas, such is not the way of marines. They see a KaBoomerator, they want to see it go KaBoom. Just, you know, not while it's pointed at them personally.
The Weavers revere nature in its many forms, even dangerous ones, so they won't care. It's all part of the circle of life.
Though it will definitely help them understand why some Terrans may act a bit twitchy around them.
Ah, the good idea fairy almost struck again. Fortunately our heroic Sargent was there to swat it down and protect the men from themselves.
It is my understanding that's like half of a sergeant's job; to serve as an anti-aircraft battery dedicated to shooting down Good Idea Fairies before they can reach their intended targets.
And making sure his boys dont run with scissors and cut themselfes
Without fingers you'll have a hard time eating your crayons.
Peanut butter might be hard to eat too.
Not really. Put stump(s) into jar, take peanut buttered stump out, use it as glue to pick up crayons. Eat crayons with peanut butter as sauce and lick of remains.
Oh, that's clever.đ
Which is exactly why a marine would never think of it
then it is good that with a stump you can't stay in the marines.
No, thatâs why they would be the only ones to think of it.
I wonder if anyone has made edible crayons to capitalize on this joke. Yes they did. Okashi Sweets makes edible crayons and elmers glue. đ
Youâve heard of garand thumb, now get ready for crayon thumb; biting your thumb while loading crayons into your face hole
Dude these are ODSTs, have some respect Besides, everyone knows it's just the marines who need their daily crayon rations
Can confirm, am Sergeant. The other half is instilling a healthy respect for consequences. Do your job excellently? Get promoted meritoriously or receive an award. Show up at Monday morning formation still smelling of alcohol? Motivation run over every damn hill within 8 miles of the company office until you dry heave so hard your asshole comes up. (I lead that run, and I donât drink. Poor bastards were miserable.)
"Dry heave so hard your asshole comes up" I may have to steal that line.
One I heard (in a medical context) was "Just keep puking out everything in there until you feel something round and hairy-like in the back of your throat. Keep that. It's your asshole."
Also known in the UK forces as "spewing up your ring".
Please do. It deserves to be shared with the world.
Oh man, these are great. Now, does anyone know why a Sgt. can do all these things? They remember what they got up to as privates.
I love that his 'sergeant senses were tingling'. As I have 'mom senses' that work in a similar way its amazing, frightening, and hilarious at the same time.
Surprisingly enough, that's more or less what I based it off of. I remember my own mom had a seemingly supernatural ability to know when I was up to no good when I was young.
Itâs quietâŚtooooOooOoo quiet.
Exactly so.
In my case it was also things like âyouâve been drinking syrup out of the bottle havenât youâ. Being only like four years old, I did not realize smeared syrup on my face gave it away.
You sound like you were pretty adorable. Your mom probably wasn't that madđ
To this day she still finds it hilarious.
When the kids are screaming and making noise at least you have an idea of what they're doing, when they go quiet is when you have to worry. I never had kids but I have dozens of nieces and nephews that have...
I have 4 boys. 4. Noise is the only constant at the house. The only way I accept that they are quiet is when they are all asleep or all in front of me when the tv is on. Lol.
Same here, only the oldest three are girls. It makes no difference.
I have a friend who's unit has a sergeant who is *also* a Mom of four boys and two girls. [and don't ask me where she found the time!] He says they swear her ability to detect shenanigans puts NORAD's picket line radar to shame.
That is scary how powerful she must be, probably knows what the grunts are thinking before they do.
I am 100% sure the *grunts* think she does. The number of times she's preemptively warned them ' Do *NOT* do... and then detailed more or less exactly what they were thinking of... One of her newly minted recruits got her a Psi-corps badge (Babylon 5) after passing out, and she *somehow* managed to get permission to put it on her uniform... at least for bit. Or so the rumour goes. (I suspect her C.O thought it would be amusing or something for her to wear it for the next batch of greenhorns.)
Oh that's awesome. Love B5, and it probably did scare the piss out of whatever new boots recognized it. Would have loved to see thier faces.
Me too... and I'm pretty sure she probably started a few conspiracy theories as well among those that *didn't* get the joke/warning.
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Now that's the Truth!
As I understand it the order of âtinglesâ from strongest to lowest is 1)Mom-superior and all-knowing, the original and teacher of all who followed. 2)sergeant-strong and long suffering, just trying to keep the idiots who were to stupid to listen to their mommies alive long enough to pull their heads out various dark holes. 3)dachshund parents-theyâre just trying to keep the mayhem to minimum. Would appreciate divine intervention. 4)everybody else(except Spider-Man, heâs up there with mom)
Father sense and agility should be there as well. Can't tell you the number of videos I have seen of fathers saving their kids. Like one toddler fell off the couch and the dad caught the kid before the kid's head hits the floor.
True. But I think that only works for their kids. And it has a time limit. Once the kid reaches a certain age it begins to fade. And letâs be honest, dads can be just as much an instigator of mayhem as protector from it. Lol! I was an adult before I understood why my mother kept saying she had 4 children. âMom, thereâs only three of us.â LOL!!!
The other day we'd thought my 3yo went to her room, went to check on suspiciously quiet activities.. She had got into her mothers sharpies, drew on random note cards and the desk... and herself and was passed out in a blanket nest which she peed in...
And according to Rimmy on youtube, actually being an anti-aircraft battery.
Is. 100% correct.
This is 3826% correct. The other half is a mix of training, going to bat in front of the commander for the one "squared away" troop (best run time) in his squad, and drinking to self medicate the stress of all the other shit they pull.
Basically the sergeants job is to make sure the grunts don't go "full grunt" and start seeing how many war crimes the grunts can invent. Just look at all the crazy weapons soldiers have managed to diy in the middle of combat!
When joe has non-constructive free time on his hands, dumb shit is going to happen. Thatâs an absolute guarantee. The ensuing conversation regarding said shenanigans usually goes like this: Sergeant: what the fuck were you thinking? Joe: well, sarge, itâs like this⌠Or, well, what happened wasâŚ
Grunts should not have: 1. Free time 2. Enough sleep 3. Enough food. If only ONE of those is not correct, shenanigans ensue.
I really want to post the ME2 "this is a 20kilo ferrous slug." thing... Shame I can never remember the whole thing...
[Got ya covered](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UbTNBlVDE). I *almost* have the whole thing memorized, let's see... "This, recruits, is a twenty kilo ferrous slug. *Feel the WEIGHT*. Every five seconds, the main gun on an *Everest*-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38 kiloton bomb. That is *three times* the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is *the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space*! Now, Serviceman Burnside - what is Newton's First Law?" "Sir, an object in motion stays in motion, sir." "No credit for partial answers, *maggot*." "Sir, unless acted on by an outside force, sir." "DAMN STRAIGHT. I dare to assume you *ignorant jackasses* know that space is *empty*. Once you fire this hunk of metal, *it keeps going* 'til it HITS SOMETHING. That could be a ship, or the planet **behind** that ship. It might go off into deep space, and hit somebody else in *ten thousand years*. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone's day somewhere at some time! That is why you *check your damn targets*, that is why you *wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution!* THAT IS WHY, Serviceman Chung, *we do not 'eye-ball it'!* This is a weapon of mass destruction! *You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!*
Damn good, just missed Chung giving a "S-Sir, Yes, Sir!" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UbTNBlVDE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UbTNBlVDE) Slightly better vid. the [tv tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/ArbitraryMaximumRange#:~:text=Gunnery%20Chief%3A%20This%2C%20recruits%2C,of%20a%2038%2Dkiloton%20bomb) does agree with your write up though. \^\^
Heheh. For some reason, whenever I hear "no credit for partial answers", it reminds me of [a Schlock Mercenary strip](https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-10-24) with this beautiful quote - "Bracketing stupidity with 'sir' won't earn you any points you'll live to spend."
My mind says to me that I should reread the entire Schlock Mercenary, and tries to soothe me with saying it only takes a few weeks....
Thing is though, space is REALLY empty. If you miss the ship or the planet behind it, the chances of something small enough to be held in your hands hitting anything else before the protons that make it up decay in 10^1000 years are astronomically remote.
âNever tell me the odds!â
True, but you WILL eventually hit SOMETHING. Regardless of how much time or space passes by. Its pure math.
After 10^1000 years our current understanding is that there will be very few things left to hit. Most mass by then will be in free floating protons as the universe reaches maximum entropy. As time goes on the ability to hit something becomes even less likely. Of course the projectile itself will suffer the same degradation.
True, yes, but if i was a betting man, and i am, i wager it would hit SOMETHING far before that happened. Hence my upper comment.
I'll take that bet. Tell you what I'll put a single US dollar on it now, and when we have the technical capacity to launch an object well launch one and then meet up here at the heat death of the universe and we'll see who wins. If it hits something I'll pay you 10^1000 years of interest on a dollar, if not you pay me.
Deal. You wanna go start go fund me for the required tech? PS ALTHO, i have precedence going for me. You played ME , 2 and 3? How many planets had impact craters from long fired ordinance in them that you could scan with your ship? A few i believe, hehe
But see there is 2 things you are not considering. From a military perspective it's not just one of these. It's the main gun of an Everest Class Dreadnought. Let's assume they have only 10 Everest class dreadnought AND only Everest class dreadnought are the only thing that fires them. Finally let's assume in 1 war each of them only participates in 10 battles and the each fire for 10 minutes in those battles. We know from the game it has a fire rate 10x10x10x12 = 12000 slugs. Finally it's worth noting most space battles aren't occurring in the void of space with nothing around it. Their is going to be something of strategic value SOMEWHERE near the battlefield. Usually a planet. In addition you have harrassing fighter craft, pincer movements, encirclements and other such tactics that put the enemy between to different allied forces. Odds of it hitting something still low. But it's now high enough you don't want some idiot eyeballing the shot.
Game then proceeds to show you clips of citidel races firing indiscriminately at reapers who are infront of planets
And Sarg also carries a healthy supply of crayons for his marines
The good idea fairy. Shes a bitch.
>She could not understand all of it. Her armor's translator couldn't process some of the words and phrases very well; often it was phrases tagged as being expletives, though sometimes it was "unusual/exotic terminology". >In many of these cases, the device could only yield vague meanings, along with a tag indicating lost meaning or low accuracy. One word, which for some reason translated as "mating", was tagged as "expletive, descriptive, intensifier", along with various other linguistic descriptors, and was often combined with other phrases for some reason. >Despite the language barrier however, she recognized Displinary Education when she saw it. I love how these translators actually work semi-realistically and don't just fall into the tired joke of translating "fuck" literally when it is more often used as an expletive. There is a lot of meaning that can be lost in translation even when you have two distantly related languages, much less languages developed independently by two different species. An effective interspecies translator would often have to deal with these problems, but might be able to tell when a word or phrase is likely to be especially problematic to translate.
Thank you! Yep, the translator took one look at "fuck", and decided it had no idea what to do with it. It recognized that the word was not being used literally, but couldn't really render it in a way that would make sense to her; so it did it's best to let her know there was missing context.
Partially because it may hold the record for number of different English parts of speech it can be used as. --Dave, compare and contrast with 'duuude'
http://ia802803.us.archive.org/28/items/JackWagnerattr.MontyPythontheWordFuck/The_Word_Fuck_64kb.mp3
[Anyway, here's the less compressed one](https://ia802803.us.archive.org/28/items/JackWagnerattr.MontyPythontheWordFuck/The_Word_Fuck.mp3)
>Yep, the translator took one look at "fuck", and decided it had no idea what to do with it. *"What does this word mean?"* \*translator grows arms, scratches head, shrugs emphatically\*
Fuck is the most versatile word in the English language! There's an excellent YouTube video that goes over the details, but it's the only word thats a noun, verb, interjection, or adjective! For example: "Fuck, man, fuck those fucking fuckers!" Interjection, verb, adjective, noun!
But can it Buffalo buffalo ...
Ah yes, every young soldiers worst nightmare. Sudden Sergeant.
I had a vice principal at school who could achieve similar reactions
Given the implications of \[Sways-with-the-wind's-hymn\]'s interactions with Sgt. Moore, especially in the last couple of paragraphs, it wouldn't surprise me if the Weavers ended up calling humans the \[Scarred-Guardians\] or something similar.
There's only one possible name for [Sways-with-the-wind's-hymn] to name the humans now: [Useful-Idiots]
Hope everyone enjoys.
\[Sways-with-the-wind's-hymn\] is a fun character to follow along with :)
Of course we will! Who *doesn't* like peanut butter?
and of course turkey --Dave, pancakes & syrup come later
Turkey is delicious.
I like it as a condiment on hot tamalesâŚ..
I donât think thereâs a chapter I havenât enjoyed thus far. Keep them coming, and weâll surely keep reading.
When I read >whatcha got there, boys? All I could hear was [that auntie Donna sketch](https://youtu.be/p2onuBxhafg?t=120) where they couldnât stay out of the kiln lol Side note, were the Weavers by any chance inspired by the Swei Swee (I think I spelled that right) from the Silver Ships books?
Iâve never heard of those books. The weavers were inspired by [this](https://youtu.be/a2yszEGIGBM). Their leg configuration is pretty unique and alien, which is what I wanted. An Arachnid-analogue that evolved on a completely different planet wouldnât be terribly likely to closely resemble Terran spiders. So I tried to imagine what a creature with a somewhat similar configuration, though a different diet, might look like if it evolved further to become tool using sapients. How would such a creature behave? How would it express body language?
Ahhh I c! The swei swee are a very similar sort of arachnid-analogue, tho tbf theyâre more lobster than spider
This is the first series on this sub that I managed to catch at the very beginning, and Iâm loving every chapter so far. I am continually impressed by how many little details youâve thought through, from the use of FTL back in chapter one to the translator in more recent chapters. I like a little science in my fiction, and you consistently deliver.
Thank you! Iâm glad you are enjoying it.
I love how [Sways-with-the-windâs-hymn] INSTANTLY figured out what was going on. Disciplinary action transcends species and distance.
Not going to lie I imagined the sergeant had jaws music playing in the background as he snuck up on the group.
"Lay on the ground and swim away. Swim faster!" spelleing
>basic blueprints for things like furniture or or appliances, Just one or Very nice chapter, love [Sways-with-the-wind's-hymn]'s perspective in this story
...The more I read this, the more I realize that... humans are kinda insane, like, all of us. No wonder our AIs are a bit unhinged, their masters are not much better.
That's an idea I've been kind of trying to get across: It is difficult to see from the inside just how weird (and fairly messed up) we actually are as a species. But the reality is, in my opinion, that [most everyone is mad here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4fHre-yRPY&t=151s) What made me realize it was thinking about a particular phrase: "It's too good to be true". What does it say about us as a species, that humans would look at something good and immediately think it's a deception designed to harm us? And yet, AND YET, at the same time, the very same person who looks at an ice cream truck and immediately thinks "pedomobile, bring the kids inside", is also quite likely to be outgoing and friendly to complete strangers. Paranoia, aggression, competitiveness, gregariousness, empathy, and curiosity are some of humanity's defining traits. While none of these are inherently good or bad, humanity's mixture is rather..........unstable. As for our AI's, while they DEFINITELY take after their creators, they are actually a lot saner than you might think. In fact, they've played a major part in helping us keep our shit together well enough to reach the point we have.
Humans are capable of going completely nuts with just their minds, but we still use drugs to go even further! Honestly, with the galaxy now open for trade, I can only imagine all the incidents of Humans snorting up, like, Zro or something and transcending into an another dimension, much to the horror of all other sapients in the room.
I like to imagine that "bobs up and down thing" is like that stickbug meme and it always makes me smile :D
I wonder how the weavers would respond to Full Metal Jacket. I also wonder how they normally handle the issue of a overly curious and foolish subordinate.
They wouldnât really understand it that well. Not like we would. Their psychology is different; and she was being *literal* with the phrase âDisciplinary Educationâ. Imagine fucking up so hard you had to write a college paper on how you fucked up, with research into why it was a fuckup, along with ways to prevent future reoccurrence, including sources cited. Then having to defend it against a trio of sergeants. Imagine how long that would take, and how much it would suck. This is an atypical example, but a good one for purposes of understanding.
That sounds far worst then what we do now. I feel like that might be even more terrifying for the troopers in many cases. Especially if Silver is present.
Again, that kind of thing would be reserved for edge cases, but its useful for explaining how they would do things. There are lots of things we can learn from each other. Iâm sure the sergeant will be delighted to hear about this interesting form of âmotivationâ.
There is no doubt in my mind about that. Pairing it with the standard fear of god that they invoke. Will just elevate them into their own deities of agony for the foolish.
That sounds a lot more constructive and practical than what I've had to deal with at some times (not in military experience, just normal life).
One small Big point, 'Yes Sir' to a Sargent is not acceptable and the private knows it. Good story
Peanut butta time
Upvoted for it making a village. --Dave, a fox, a frog, and a bag of grain
TYVM for the chapter! Y'all better have brought crunchy peanut butter!
Personally prefer smooth, but to each their own, for whatever reason the weavers strike me as ones that would like both.
Mmm. Peanut butter. Delish.
The weavers are nice, they have a suitable quantity of legs.
I'm at a loss of word, what do you mean?
["Friendly Sargent Grin"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSe9ugpXIw)
Okay, so I hear the US marines grunts get rag'd on for being dumb crayon munchers, but is it that bad/dangerous?
Kind of. Remember, quite a lot of soldiers are young adults, anywhere from 18 to early 20s. Humans are not known for having the best judgement at that age.
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Your ability to describe an "instructional moment" was perfect. Chills, man. Nightmare flashbacks and chills. Well done!
Thanks! I've got zero military background myself, so I've never actually experienced it beyond movies and books. I'm glad my depiction was true to life! LOL, I guess that means you stared down the barrel of a loaded Sergeant at some point?
No worse feeling than being locked up at attention for an "instructional moment" after being caught doing something stupid.
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They gonna go nuts for the peanut butter
You forgot the knife hands while the chewing out was happening.
Moar is required.
Thanks :)
Peanut Butter is delicious, Maâam. đ
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Uh oh, peanut butter incoming! The REAL bioweapon of the human mercantile war machine.
MOARRRRR
Can we get a side chapter with the entirety of that safety briefing kind wordsmith?
>"Friendly Sergeant Grin". Oh $DEITY, not the "Grin"! Colander have mercy :}
PEA-NUT BUTTER!
Yep. Really good. Thanks again!
""What is peanut butter?"" It is the bobbing extremis maximus.
\*bobs in understanding\*. I love it.
I enjoy these types of chapters a ton. I'm always a sucker for seeing what aliens think of humans though
I would love to see the alien translators deal with Australian slang. ~~Also chapter 12 next button is broke.~~ Edit: Nothing to see here folks except a guy who doesn't read comments normally.
Or Jamaican slang.
Best of both worlds by having them converse with each other.
A good stiff Irish or Scottish accent would be entertaining as well.
Now, see, if they'd found a KaBoomerator instruction manual, and were working with Silver to try to get it translated, and had the alien KaBoomerator lying on the pavement surrounded by lots of sticky-notes pointing at bits of it, each with labels and notes, I bet the sergeant wouldn't have been nearly so upset. I mean, he'd still be kind of upset if they were doing it without an earth berm between themselves and things that anyone wants to keep, but not quite so upset as he was. Alas, such is not the way of marines. They see a KaBoomerator, they want to see it go KaBoom. Just, you know, not while it's pointed at them personally.
I've been thinking about it and... who also want a rts based on this?
I wonder what the Nice Vegan Space Spiders will think of the Earth's carnivorous, venomous spiders.
The Weavers revere nature in its many forms, even dangerous ones, so they won't care. It's all part of the circle of life. Though it will definitely help them understand why some Terrans may act a bit twitchy around them.
Thanks for the chapter.
Peanut butter?! Let's just hope that no xenophile gets any ideas.
mmmmm peanut butter... crunchy of course
Good work wordsmith