Blog of an Uncommon Nerd

Drawing a blank on a couple of hobby projects at the moment that I want to work with, but maybe I could do something to jog the creative juices.

Thoughts on the Hermes II? I find while its offensive power is generally mediocre it has surprising staying power.

It has a decent amount of armour for a 40-tonner, and it might feel like it has a weak damage output but it is much due to it having an Autocannon 5, and Autocannons take up a lot of space. So, this machine will never run hot (unless something has seriously gone wrong) as a result of it's weapon load-out.

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

There are some mangas I read that I know are just hot garbage, but since they’re fun I overlook their flaws

There’s a worldwide livestream of a girl that wears a jack-o-lantern as a mask fighting against US-made spider drones, which is happening right after she dispatched an entire Seal Team 6 unit with the help of a gigantic man that dressed like a baby, a mad scientist armed with a sniper rifle, two Japanese police detectives, and a crossdressing hacker.

So Doctor Deveraux has a new blog post out about how pre-modern armies were mobilized after their recruitment as part of a series of posts about world building, and I'm still reading through it, but he touches on something major: unless your fictional Medieval Fantasy government is MASSIVELY centralized on a par with either Imperial Rome or the various majorly centralized Chinese kingdoms (I know some were more centralized than others but I can't for the life of me remember which ones) or the later European powers after the 1600s, all of the men you are able to muster for combat will supply their own weapons and their own armour.