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Springtime for Zeon (Woggy Mk II)
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"How'd I get here? Ah, it's a long story. I graduated from UMSOT (Undergrad MS Operator training) and test pilot school in '77, back when it was on side 6. Oh, yeah, back then it was something different, we didn't have mobile suits back then, it was MWOTC... Anyways, when the war started, I was a ball pilot for a few weeks, flew three sorties and scored a lucky kill on a Zaku I, and 'cause I was the only one with a kill under my belt, I got chosen to fly with some secret squirrel things on the White Base (back then they just called it the Pegasus). Turns out in order to work on that top secret, feddie zaku ripoff, we couldn't be active EFSF personnel. We got discharged from the service so we could fly for some private shell company. Yeah, we lost MIL benefits, but the pay was so good we figured we'd go for it. We had three weeks to study the manuals and get trained on the simulators while we flew out to our assignment. They put me on the RX-78(a3/4) , but when we were en route to rendezvous to Side 7, the EFSF gave me my walking papers. Turns out, get...get THIS shit: They didn't "need my services any more." Can you believe that? One of the only guys trained on their new, crazy invincible MS, and they fired me.They tossed me, an ace, a qualified TEST PILOT out on my ASS. FOR A G/D FOURTEEN YEAR OLD. Yeah, you know who?! It was the doctor's kid, right? Remember that Tamm Ray guy from the training videos? Yeah, he got HIS kid to be the gundam pilot. Oh, no they tossed all of us. The entire team of mobile suit pilots, gone. Didn't even reassign us. So we're sittin' there, just lookin out the window, watching the stars go by, just angry as all hell, y'know? Fuming. I get an idea, right? So I says to the other guys, who cares? The zeeks need us more than the feddies do, so I went up front, showed the captain our discharge papers, and turned that sum'bitch around. Anyways, long story short, boy do those GM's explode easy! Oh man, jokes on them, the feddies drafted a LOT of stupid 14 year olds to drive those death traps.....so uh, what brings you to Axis?"

My goodwill towards slavs has honestly cratered, it’s like seeing bitcorn go from $50k to $17,000

I work with someone who collects stuff like this….or steals it, then gives it away whenever anyone shows interest. Probably about the fun of stealing

I’m talking about writing, I guess, not copying. Not sure what the norm is for that

block me all you want, that keyboard would be good for 130 wpm w/ a month of muscle memory

Different for their thing though, it’s somewhat technical writing reviewing aircraft - too many variables that AI will never understand. It can regurgitate a spec sheet, but never tell you that the seat design is uncomfortable after an hour in the saddle

It really is tough being the only guy in the room who kinda ‘gets’ where things are headed. I know a guy at one of the big media outlets, he’s trying to get them to integrate some light branding that their work is 100% human written and “handmade” to distinguish it from a sea of incoming AI slop.

The old timers running the show are just sitting there shrugging, acting like that doesn’t make any sense at all

….they wanna make him so cool, man

Every time I am psychically assaulted by that damn Metric song I blame nugger, even if it’s not his fault

(meme came up on music shuffle and I STILL have too much going on to process it)

This looks great, mostly. Needs some dedicated hotkeys but other than that it looks really efficient if you’re writing a lot.

“Gran Torino” but it’s about an aged veteran of the Yom Kippur war giving his life for the impoverished palestinian immigrants that just moved in next door

(He sells off his children’s inheritance to help the teenager get into college)

his whole “ark of the covenant burning nazi faces” has been recited to me as proof the nazi’s were evil by at least 2 old guys. It’s amazing

Why? Common practice for us. We offer a 2.5% iirc, holds for wires too

If they care so much where’s the cash discount

Doesn’t it depend on what you’re doing? For my use, I’ve been content to sit about 5 years behind the market, buying parts and builds (or being handed them) from people who want to offload their last new shiny guilt-free so they can buy a new shiny.

That won’t hunt for gaming, though. Gotta be bleeding edge

Every library is like this because “conservatives” have lives and shit to do. The wives have activities for the kids and a low drive to convert anyone to their brand of “leave me alone, please” ideology. The men are working.

It’s always like this. We don’t have the bandwidth to join library selection committees like the 47 yo spincel looking to make her mark in life by laying ideological eggs in YOUR children’s brains.

dammit ‘could’ve sworn this was a meme