• @[email protected]
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    349 minutes ago

    Reminds me of a pulp book I read where they go to Mars and just need to wear parkas to survive the surface

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      146 minutes ago

      I remember reading as a kid in the 80s. That you could survive on Mars with a heavy coat and a respirator. Like not in some old pulp book, in a contemporary book for kids.

  • @[email protected]
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    Remind me of the prototype weapon “the davy crocket” it was a concept weapon which would be used by field units preferably mounted to a willys jeep. Which would launch a football sized nuclear warhead.

    It never saw deployment because of multi reasons which include

    – it didnt shoot far enough to get the launchers out of explosion range

    – there was alot scrutiny in the 50s over nuclear bombs.

    – it was heavy as fuck

    Lots of people says the fallout series of games took heavy inspiration fron the davy crocket to make the fatman

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      32 hours ago

      I’ve read about it before. There’s even photos.

      If you want to apply the phrase “derp” to atomic weaponry, there you go.

  • @essell
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    54 hours ago

    Can we talk about that foot?

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      13 hours ago

      I know, I’ve even done it (badly), but most people don’t know that word.

    • FenrirIII
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      22 hours ago

      He needs a fridge to hide in.

    • @TwanHE
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      67 hours ago

      At that point you might as well go with the Japanese lunge mine design. If a nuke is gonna go off in my general vicinity I’d want to be as close as possible.

      • @Blue_Morpho
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        56 hours ago

        It doesn’t have to be a bomb. It could be like a demon core. The tank drivers get a blast of gamma but it’s a very small lethal radius.

        The bow is actually a better delivery mechanism than a RPG. It’s slow enough that there is time for the caveman to duck under cover.

        • Rhaedas
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          23 hours ago

          Except it’s going to go straight down with the weight. Makes more sense to launch via slingshot.

  • IninewCrow
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    36 hours ago

    No wonder my ancestors got overpowered so easily … why didn’t they think of this before!

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      23 hours ago

      On the other hand, shooting atomic weapons at that close a range while defending their own land might have been just as bad.

  • @Sanctus
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    88 hours ago

    I love settings like this. The tribal mixed with the atomic. Its so cool to me.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      128 hours ago

      You would probably really enjoy Heavy Metal Magazine. Especially the stuff by Moebius. It’s a French sci-fi comic magazine the 80’s animated movie was based on.

      I don’t think they make it anymore but there’s plenty of back issues to read. A few have been scanned in and put on the Internet Archive and I wouldn’t be surprised if you could find more by sailing the high seas.

      https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A"Heavy+Metal+Magazine"

      • @Sanctus
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        68 hours ago

        This is all going so well with my current play through of Caves of Qud, and my planning for a Gamma World campaign. Thank you so much, I plan on descending into these waters and not emerging for a while.