Wut tiling manager is that?

They’re gonna be drones designed to withstand sustained 20G turns to be able to get their guns on target

Full Gallente.

The Hunt for Red Cocktober

It’s not like she was a conscripted child soldier in Africa and escaped to a refugee camp or something.

Fuck. Too many choices bru.

Halo’s OG AR, the MA5B has that utilitarian look to it, like the rest of that universe. I like that because it feels realistic in a way (think of the utilitarian designs to the armor and vehicles in Aliens, for example.)

The railguns in Eraser, with their oversized x-ray scopes. Nothing special in retrospect, but I thought they were awesome when I saw the movie in theaters.

Weta Workshop has put out some cool-looking stuff. The Chemrail in Elysium for instance. Although, I think I’m more enamored with the in-universe lore of it. From the fandom page:

It is a dual-stage weapon, use chemical propellant first and then electromagnetic rails as the second stage.

Pretty cool actuation! That and the Lightning Gun from Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 are the only two with memorable (lore-wise) firing mechanisms for me. Here’s the Lightning Gun’s:

Once the target has been acquired, the operator depresses the trigger, painting a proton “patch” on the target. Milliseconds later the rifle emits a high voltage arc of electricity, which seeks out the charge differential and annihilates the target.

Design-wise though, I think Weta’s weapons in District 9 were more appealing—more exotic, u noe? E.g., the ARC gun, and the Repeater.

I think the District 9 designs must have influenced the weapon design in the Titanfall franchise too, and I like the weapon designs there as well. The Flatline is maybe my favorite pilot weapon design (not to use though). Charge Rifle is pretty cool too though, with the ‘breathing’ capacitor banks on the sides. Titan-wise, gotta be Tone’s cannon, hands down.

But there’s so many more!

Someone sell this asshole a polar bear liver.

And a trip on Oceangate’s next sub.

This is Apple lookin’ like a Lemon.

Don’t know if you’ll be able to fall asleep to it, but squeeze this in your watchlist.

I’m still weighing whether this tops Vesna Vulović or not.

Someone archived all the quotes on the Internet Archive.

Phew. Otherwise we’d need to share all the quotes by mouth around a hobo campfire.
I’ve read Fahrenheit 451 so i noe.

Wish I had advice for you OP, but the best I can do is offer my own anecdotes in solidarity with you:

With time, I’ve learned to accept my own mistakes. E.g., if I “forget something at the store,” to use your example, I would generally be able to forgive myself that.

But something that grates on me more and more is, broadly, anything that seems to “encroach on my personal autonomy.”

I have a lot of examples from work. Like if a manager pushes work on you after gutting the rest of your team?

I’d rather quit in that situation on principle, even without anything lined up—and I have. I can’t seem to let myself just get bent-over for work, although it might be easier if I could go with the flow in these situations.

It’s great!

Sounds like it’s working!

And then I remember.

Can you share with the rest of the class?

da ba dee da ba di

Mm-mmm, waffles.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.

…can you not make me feel like a fossil

Ian’s Shoelace Site:
Different ways to lace your shoes.

The Phrontistery:
Glossaries of, e.g., obscure words, lost words, etc.

Let’s call it cancer then

but they are now ignoring me.

Hmm. Did you try giving them your email address?

Nah a fortnight is two weeks