People who, when I tell them about the BOOK, go "oh its a Halo rip-off!" and I just,,,, "This came out in 1959 and is credited with the idea of power armor in scifi in the first place. But okay, sure, tell me more about how its a Halo rip-off."

People who refuse to read the goddamn book and only watch the ONE movie from 1997. There are 5 movies (3 liveaction, 2 3d animated) and 2 series (one OVA, one 3d animated). Not to mention the video games, the TTRPG, etc etc etc.......

to build off that last one; the sheer amount of far-right idiots who cant grasp anything about the series. I hate it here. I dont wanna engage in any form of fandom bc its MOSTLY that sorta people. UGH.

have literally never found a sourcemate. have seen at least one other from a Heinlein book tho, so that rules!

~ Cut-Out, noncanon Mobile Infantry soldier from Starship Troopers

#DDC

I'm cackling bc I haven't thought about this in a while, but I was given the callsign "Cut-Out" bc no one thought I'd get thru training for Mobile Infantry.

But I did. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Honestly not the worst callsign I could have gotten, by a long shot.

- Cut-Out

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I sit in my corner. I do not engage with the fandom. Too many right wing chucklefucks who missed every damn point of the book. (if they even read the book; most just watched the 1st movie and nothing else. Still missed the point, even then.)

Man. Love to even find sourcemates maybe that'd be nice. But I do not engage. I am not risking anything.

- Cut-Out, noncanon Mobile Infantry soldier from Starship Troopers

Im counting basic training, cause that's teaching you how to function in the field (or... in space. as it were. sometimes it was on a station that got over-run, sometimes it was a large asteroid, but more often than not it was some planet. maybe a moon.)

anyways, its sure an experience. if you know anything about basic training for the military in this world, it was similar. a lot of getting smoked for stupid mistakes, because that could get someone killed in active duty. a lot of nonsense during downtime.

I wouldnt mind doing it again. I want my armor back. we dont have that on this planet yet :(

- Cut-Out, noncanon mobile infantry trooper from Starship Troopers

Okay yeah I know we had a massive world collapse of various governments due to a whole slew of reasons but like... coalescing roughly 200 individual nations into one (1) government system is uh.

well thats a lot of paperwork. and diplomacy.

the sheer concept of the logistics of that change-over terrify and baffle me.

- Cut-Out, noncanon Mobile Infantry Trooper, Starship Troopers

Imagine the ants that infest your kitchen or patio have a god-ant and they have religion as a result. Except that god-ant is absolutely ridiculously massive in comparison to all the normal ants and also has like. Bug telepathy??? Like could communicate with ants on the other side of the planet.

That's a seriously scaled-down version of what we were facing.

Shit was wild.

I don't miss fighting in that war tbh. Surviving it was a damn miracle.

- Cut-Out, a non-canon Mobile Infantry soldier from Starship Troopers