barrbaric

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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like it's certainly possible, you do occasionally hear stories of outlandish hacks. That said, I'd say it's not very likely, and for it to actually matter they'd have to simultaneously hit not only every US missile launch site, but also every nuclear sub and bomber.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yep, they're part of the nuclear triad, which consists of land-based ICBMs, submarine-based missiles, and aircraft carrying nuclear bombs.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 30 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

All the control systems that actually launch the nukes are air-gapped and cannot be hacked by typical methods. They only stopped using floppy disks in 2019. This is just saying that some DoE offices got hacked, which really means nothing.

You'd need something like a stuxnet-level worm, and even then, I can guarantee you that those consoles are secure enough that nobody is going to plug a random USB stick they found in a parking lot into them. Further, nobody would reveal that news, either China or the US, because you wouldn't tell your enemy that either you broke their MAD abilities or that they broke your MAD abilities.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Oh wow I sure care what any group operating out of Israel has to say about the ongoing genocide they're committing, surely they will be impartial!

Death to the zionist entity, death to their supporters, and death to the IDF.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

It’s suspicious that a Presidential Daily Briefing was postponed to make way for ICA ordered at Obama’s request, fishier yet that the evidence that Putin intended to help Trump came from a classified annex containing Steele dossier material, but the smoking gun is that these eventual conclusions leaked instantly — not one or two weeks after Obama ordered the ICA, but the same day, before any group work could possibly have been done.

If your "smoking gun" can be written off entirely as coincidence, it doesn't seem like you have much of a case. Not to mention, what damage did this even cause? The article claims that Trump people "went to jail, fell ill, went through family crises, and dealt with other serious problems". Frankly, who cares? I'd applaud the dems if they could do as good a job of ratfucking republicans as they already do the left.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

BECMI ends with Immortals, so the concept of playing extremely powerful characters has always been around. While I'd imagine the vast majority never played with those rules, the same is true for modern D&D. A vanishingly small number of games actually make it to level 20.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I once had windows quarantine the download files, claiming they were viruses. Had to manually add an exception and then it worked fine.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

In the US transit mostly doesn't exist beyond buses that barely ever run.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ideally he could have fragged some higher ups, but this will have to do officer-down

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

Getting extremely high readings. hitler-detector

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Hmm, do I pay for a service that has ads, or do I simply pirate-jammin? It is impossible to make this decision.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also the political terror enacted by the KKK in the south post-reconstruction. This shit is as american as it gets.

 

Only 4p, sadly, because one guy dropped out to go on a date (valid, but incorrect). Rather short game, ending on turn 5, after ~6 hours (with meal break). Disregard the flipped over objective cards, we just wanted to see what they were post-game.

HS1 is Sol, HS2 is Xxcha, HS3 is Hacan, HS4 is Ghosts of Creuss:

Winner was the Federation of Sol, played by yours truly, because the others more or less forced me onto Mecatol Rex and once in position my ability to drop in infantry squads made me impossible to shift. Also got very lucky with my secret objectives lining up with the publics (2 unit upgrades + 2 faction upgrades, which are the same for Sol, and own 4 planets of any color + own 4 Blue). They let me score Imperial twice which is way too many. Nobody made an attempt to dislodge me until Turn 5, too worried they'd be backstabbed, which, in fairness, was probably accurate for every player but the Xxcha. EDIT: Sol has a rep as being overpowered, so we nerfed it by reducing its starting fleet by 1 carrier. This did not seem to be enough, and it is now on the ban list, along with Jol-Nar.

Ghosts in second with 7 points because both other players gave him Support points in exchange for him suiciding into my invincible army on Mec Rex (not knowing that the game was already over unless they took my home system). This player is generally the weakest in the group, and failed to secure their slice until way too late, leaving them with little to do.

Hacan and Xxcha in third with 4 apiece. Hacan didn't really do much interesting, just spent infinite money to build up a giant fleet but that was no help with invasions, and was too late anyway. Xxcha built a fucking wall of PDS (6 total in a ring around Mec Rex, plus the flagship for 8), which prevented me from reinforcing with ships, but I think made taking it too dangerous for anyone else to consider. He also really fucked over Hacan early, blocking his movement with a cruiser move T1 onto tile 27.

 

Technically it was done a while ago, but now there's a comm for it! The hull gun on the front is magnetized and can be swapped out for a laser, and the sides are magnetized as well so I can put sponsons on if I ever get around to having some 3d printed. The turret-hull connection is just a giant circular hole so it pops off real easy and I have taken to blu-tacking it in place for transport/games.

The actual name for the model is "Mars Alpha Leman Russ Incinerator", and I run it as an Executioner in 40k.

Behold, the warm glowing warming glow of the turret gun (which I'm still not really happy with even after like 10 revisions):

The last thing space fascists see before being run over:

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