Entropy in Action

To the Person Who Asked If I Was OK

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

every once in a while William Regal will find his Twitter password and go on an unbelievable posting streak

what do you mean you can put a screwdriver up your nose

what do you mean you were in the Italian vogue

That said:

Do NOT stand in the entrance of a room (also known as The Fatal Funnel) so that you can fire into it. You are silouetted by the light, you can't see in, you can definately be seen, you have no cover, and basically you're asking to be shot since you aren't moving and you're an obvious target.

Do Not fire grenades at point blance range. You may lob handheld grenades, but not fire them. Grenades need time to activate, unless they're impact triggered. So you're firing a shell that may not activate until it punches out of the wall, window, or in this case, ricochet into your plumbs.

Or it hits something and explodes instantly.

While you're standing still in front of the door you shot it into, which brings us back to my first point.

There's a part in the show Band of Brothers where a guy throws a grenade into a room, then Runs. Into. The room. Before it explodes.

A Bad Thing happens to that guy.

THIS guy just gets his plumbs plonked.

Lady Joanna's inner conflict

Since childhood, Joanna had been trained for a life of service and war, as though her destiny had already been decided. Yet when the Breton War of Succession arrived, she alone was denied the battlefield.

Trained to be a warrior, a fighter, a person of action & consequence, a punisher, a threat, and a force to be measured.

No, really.

Fine!

Well cut Peter some slack, Elektra.

Without Matt being here neither of you have any business being anywhere near each other.

"Your statement is inherently misogynist."

Wow, this MUST be important business if he's willing to forego THIS cat fight.

What do you think you're trying to understand about your story?

She had a steady boyfriend whose name and presence are fairly forgettable.

The Major also has at least two women living with her who she definately has sex with and has added others as well as a man or two for orgies.