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its going to get so crazy when ballistic armor tech improves and develops materials lightweight enough to construct entire suits from. probably some kind of carbon bullshit. head to toe plate body armor, with little slits for visors and shit. stops practically all small arms fire. guns wouldnt even be shit anymore but it wouldnt be like dune where everybody has to go and stab each other and shit. overpressure would probably be the easiest way to kill each other at that point. like the gm94, that thermobaric pump action cqb grenade launcher. everybody gets some shit like that, or a bazooka of some kind. of course heavy weapons would still be useful, like anti-materiel rifles and HMGs and cannon and mortars and shit. but then the sheer destructive force would probably make fighting from structures an outright liability. you could just get crushed under the rubble. the increase in ordnance would render most cover into concealment. urban fighting would fucking suck. at that point itd probably just be like WWII style remote bulldozing via howitzer. just picture it. great big formations of guys in medieval lookin armor, probably puffier-lookin, weird semi-matte sheen to it. runnin at each other across a bunch of smoldering craters, fuckin blowin each other up with bazookas and grenade launchers. people honest to god getting turned into soup. everybody worth blowing up already has been so theyre all like dumb conscripts and try rocket jumping and dont know about backblast and shit so theyre all killing each other their bazookas. all their bosses are sitting in trucks with absurdly massive machine guns on em, just indiscriminately firing into the crowds, through both sides, trying to hit the trucks on the other side. their brains are all microtears from being around explosions all day so they see like ghosts and dragons and shit. they work for some obscure government offices run by guys who invented child gambling. theyre fighting over some three thousand acre splinter-nation that just came up with a new semiconductor production method. nobody even knows what the actual fighting looks like cuz everyone everyone who goes out just gets evaporated immediately so its just like a giant constantly exploding crater in europe we keep shoveling human soup into. birds love it. ghey get huge from all the anabolics and testosterone and shit in the tissue of the souped bazooka knights. so theres just like giant dickhead birds going around fucking everything up all over the world. that would be crazy huh

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Michelin also offers a Green Star for sustainable restaurants, and the Bib Gourmand award for quality affordable restaurants. that’s like, 4.5 potential stars at least.

On one hand, I am a firm believer in "just start writing a fictional story without research if that's what it takes to get the first draft down, mistakes can be fixed in the second draft". On the other hand, I am also a firm believer in cultivating the reflex of "hang on, I don't really know what that means, let me at least go skim the Wikipedia page right now to make sure I'm headed in the right direction here".

Sometimes, especially with original fiction that's presumably been professionally edited, obvious mistakes that are harmful can be infuriating, but I'm usually just amused whenever I encounter an author who clearly hasn't done research for the industry or skill that plays a central role in their story. If one of your main characters is an athlete, you should probably know the rules of that sport??? How its professional leagues work??? Maybe???

"Character A is a chef in a 5-star Michelin restaurant!" <- Michelin stars only go up to 3, bud. "Character B is a famous Michelin food critic!" <- Michelin reviewers are also famously anonymous, bud.

The easy fix for the above example is to just invent a fake food guide company for your story, with known reviewers and a system that goes up to 5 stars. Michelin Guides came out of a tire company and they're not infallible; they've received plenty of reasonable criticism over the years. If you know what Michelin stars actually are and where they came from, they can be modified and replaced in your fictional world's alternate universe to suit your purpose. Instead of you being very obviously misinformed about, uh, the basic facts of your setting in your own summary.

Does anyone have any memorable examples of "that's not how that works" experiences with fiction that have stuck with them?

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death by surprise Dorito

Class 1 recall on Tostitos. (Class 1 means they can kill you if consumed.)

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I feel like this is mainly applicable for arid climates, because humidity changes the game completely.

Summer in Florida means sporadic rain showers, so nobody leaves their windows open. It’s also humid, and getting into a hot, wet car is honestly worse than a hotter, dry one.

God forbid you leave your window open over night, your car is now a mosquito encampment.

Its come to my attention that a lot of people do not know how to deal with a hot car in summer. A lot of people will get back to their car, after hours of it being parked in the full sun, and will open the door to be blasted in the face with furnace-level temperatures, and you'll just clamber in and shut the doors and leave the windows closed and you'll start driving that thing, and you'll wait for the air-conditioning to battle and overcome the heat.

Thats. Insane to me.

The inside of a car can get up to 40°C/104°F hotter than the outside temperature. Why would anyone get inside that????? It's gonna take your air-conditioning at least half an hour to combat that and bring the temperature down to something even remotely reasonable, and in the meantime you're sitting there risking heatstroke.

Now, I understand that it's currently winter in the northern hemisphere, which is where most of this site lives, but a) I'm in the southern hemisphere and today was Lots Of Degrees, and b) y'all should read this now and commit it to memory or queue it to reblog in summer or whatever, because it boggles my mind that some of you get into a car whose interior is literally oven-hot.

So!!!! Some tips!!!!!

Get a sun visor. One of the big ones that goes inside your windshield. You will not believe how much cooler those things keep your car. Get one, use it. Leave it to bounce around in your back-seat on cooler days, but have it on hand for the stinkers. They range in price but two-dollar stores usually have them for pretty cheap.

Leave the windows of your car cracked open. It doesn't have to be much. Literally just the tiniest amount will mean that the heat building inside your car has a way to escape, meaning the interior temp will naturally be kept lower. The larger the opening, the better, but depending on the neighbourhood you're parking in, maybe it would be better to have them open just a sliver. Even the tiniest crack will help. Ever tried warming up an oven with the door open? It doesn't work well. This is the same concept. If there is a way for the hot air to escape, the inside of your car will stay a lot cooler than it otherwise would have.

If you're fancy enough to have an openable sunroof (that's the dream) then leave that open a bit as well.

Youve just gotten back to your car and opened the door, and its hot as fuck in there. Open another door, ideally on the other side of the car, and let the hot air escape. If you can open all four doors and the boot, then thats even better. A bunch of the hot air will flush out. Not all!!! But a lot. Give it anywhere from a few moments to a few minutes, depending on how much of a hurry you're in.

Get in, start the car, open all the windows. Yes, even if you hate having the windows open.

Put the air-conditioning on full blast, and make sure the recycle is turned OFF. This means it pulls fresh air from outside the car (hot, but less hot than inside) and pumps that into the car, further displacing the heat inside the vehicle.

Start driving, still with the windows down. Once you get up enough speed, the force of the air from outside coming in will blast the rest of the excess heat out of the car.

The temp inside the car will now be roughly equivalent to the temp outside the car. Still hot!!!! But MAJORLY less so, and majority more handle-able by your air-conditioner.

Put all your windows up, and switch the air-con over to recycle. This means it takes the air in the car and cools it, then spits it back into the car, meaning that with each cycle, the air gets progressively cooler a lot faster.

If you do this, your car will be a hell of a lot more comfortable a hell of a lot sooner than it would be if you got into a 60°C/140°F cabin and just.... endured that, until your aircon could overcome it.

This post has been brought to you by an Australian who knows not one but TWO people who get into 60°C cars and wait 15 to 30 minutes for their car to drop back down to a temperature that's even REMOTELY tolerable.

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-stoner talking to his stoner best friend

I love talking nonsense with you and I hope that we can talk nonsense with each other for the rest of our lives.

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reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts

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me normally: i'm not personally a huge fan of modern art

me around right wingers: I love modern art sooooo much and I think there should be litter boxes in schools also

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A little brown bunny was so kind and sweet it stretched its whole body out and got long enough to go to sleep

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I imagine that’s what happens when you’re born into a wealthy venture capitalist family. he spent his childhood in wealthy private schools, some in South Africa and some in the US. I don’t guess he got to spend a lot of time being a kid, let alone being a cool kid that people liked.

now all he wants is to be the coolest kid in the whole world.

Its like. It's it's really something that the richest man in the world desires internet clout more than anything. Like he wants specifically the kind of clout you get on reddit or 4chan by being a poster like he wants to be a high tier Video Gamer he wants the specific kind of respect you get from being a competitive smash player who posts really good online. But he's just not good. At any of these things . And it's really something. That he has more money than god. But he can't be happy because he can't get a genuine laugh out of the twitch chat.