I haven’t, so thank you for the recommendation. Both were available at the library as a reward for finishing the summer reading challenge, so I almost got it.

I read the Martian. It was at least as good as the very good movie.

The main wiki: https://www.sarna.net/wiki/

There was a so bad it’s good cartoon in the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLJM4vjMdhc

Tons of novels, two modern TTRPG systems, two current tabletop miniature wargame rule sets.

A new action game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2000890/MechWarrior_5_Clans/

A very good turn based game very closely following the tabletop rules: https://store.steampowered.com/app/637090/BATTLETECH/

A multiplayer online action game: https://mwomercs.com/

I would think that’d be pretty tough!

TL;DW: because they all use the only mechanism that is still in production. It’s not a good as the top of the line from 2000, but it’s way cheaper than rolling your own from scratch.

Well that just makes me think of EGA Trek.

https://www.playdosgames.com/online/ega-trek/

Not joking. Obviously it’s unenforceable, but when you’re already ensconced in the larger organization and made the choice to join Sea Org, you’re really committed to Scientology and I’m sure the contract feels real. Makes it pretty hard to leave your cushy $10/day job scrubbing one of their cruise ships.

It’s because whatever maniac invented the sizing scheme decided that every letter represents 2 inches more around your body at the weirdest boobage point than just below it. What a bonkers system! A woman with 38B bras is 38 inches around at the band, and 42 inches around at the girls. Nonsense. The way dudes THINK it works makes so much more sense.

It’s more than a life of service, the Sea Org sign a billion year contract to include any resurrections.

Obligatory Long Long Maaaaan!

It’s also just an interesting question.

Thank you, they sound really specialized!

What do they do?

Very kind of you to do this, friend.

That’s pretty neat! An old job took over a space that used to be owner by, I think, Raytheon, and they left some neat junk behind including a touchscreen that can’t have been much newer than that. It used a grid of IR beamers and receivers across the screen and your finger would interrupt an X and a Y beam to indicated location. Pretty cool.

Looks like a render or AI to me.

I assume this is playing on Argyle socks, which have a diamond pattern.

Draal entering the great machine

Vir grinning, wiggling his fingers.

I can’t imagine that the terms are sent back to the server, only the clicked_agree=True