Lover of cute animals, debate, and debate about cute animals. Politics can be described as: Moderate, Libertarian, Egalitarian, Meritocratic, Authoritarian-leaning(police and military must protect the liberties of the people. I know it sounds contrary to libertarian, but if you ask I can explain better.)
I'll take the Anti-tank mines, thanks. The Spear's already a great anti-gunship weapon, and you don't need a support weapon to deal with shriekers.
🚨 NEW MAJOR ORDER 🎖️
Helldivers, it's time to choose between liberating Choohe or Penta. Depending on your choice, you will receive either the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines or the RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher.
(And you'll save the citizens. Don't forget the citizens.)
That literally happened. That's literally how the original shot at electric cars went over 100 years ago.
280.27 lb. ft. of torque. This is the direction we should be going, not heavy EV batteries that require a massive amount of mining and toxic chemicals to produce.
I loved Worm and Ward. It was a great few weeks in summer where I decided to listen to the Worm fanmade audiobook project(available on podcast apps. Highly recommend, though some of the voice acting is rough, you'd expect that from amateurs.)
Like you said, you brought this on yourself reading fanfiction. Sounds like it was compelling enough to keep you reading, but yeah it's very difficult to write story with such fantastical powers at play. It feels like the only way to defeat an 'I Win' button is with another one.
So there's this web novel called Worm.
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It’s about a dark and edgy world that’s full of superpowered folks, and which is, therefore, about three steps away from dystopian collapse. Many places are already there.
The story is about a teenage bullying victim who gains powers, and uses them to become a very dangerous supervillain, despite her best efforts.
And anyone familiar with the RWBY fandom may have just gone “wait, this sounds familiar. Are there a lot of fics where a main character gets an alternate power set?”
Yes, yes there are.
In this fanfic I’m about to complain about, Taylor gets an already existing power that’s already broken.
Canon has “Path to Victory”, which is almost literally just an “I WIN” button. It tells “Contessa” what she needs to do to succeed at almost any goal she wants. She’s a big blindspot for people who can see the future.