#DSS

[1stprototype]

Two months worth of MOs to build a space station that actively makes the game worse to play on whatever planet it's orbiting. Thank you Arrowhead, very cool.

[symbiotebadger]

The DSS indiscriminately bombarding everything and every one is the funniest possible outcomes for the game, the narrative, and Arrowhead. Seriously, genuinely, fantastic job devs. I'm not being sarcastic even a little bit. This is the best possible outcome.

Let me tell you a little history about fascist wonder weapons.

See, during the rise of European fascism in the 30s, the fascists started dumping a ton of time and resources and money into superweapon programs. The idea was that they could make a weapon strong enough to win the next war and conquer Europe if only they put enough time and money into figuring it out. Tons of resources, figuratively and literally, were poured into these programs that, at best, provided mediocre results.

The Maus, the King Tiger, the Graf Zepplin, the Bismark, Heavy Gustav, the list goes on and on and on. Each one stronger than the last. Each one capable of ending the war.

Meanwhile, the Allies built perfectly serviceable and easily manufactured machines and absolutely rolled over the wunderwaffen. They were, at best, novelties and at worst dangerous to anyone who might be operating them.

The DSS being a Super Earth Wunderwaffe is fucking amazing. Of course High Command was so blinded by the 77 Presidential Class orbital cannons that they never bothered to figure out how useful this weapon would actually be for soldiers on the ground. Of course they are going to deploy swarms of Eagles with no strategy or focus. It's about sending a message. Super Earth is the biggest, baddest motherfuckers around. Who cares if it is basically fucking useless and at best a decent tool for sending somewhere far away from you. It's literally perfect.

The community getting mad about this or thinking this is in any way an accident from the devs need to think about why this might be frustrating to the Helldivers on the ground, and the enormous loss of life in universe that came from the Wunderwaffe. Is it fun to play with? Absolutely not. But see, sometimes games are about more than fun. Sometimes they make you think. Maybe the DSS is a chance to reflect on the story being presented and share a hearty chuckle with the developers.

[zakurarain]

C0mm-ed by @/Luvoid96

[deepdeanvsweston]

Bertie storms around the house angrily at the end of DSS moodboard <3

"How dare she!" he says, again and again, his eyes red. "I taught her to swim in the (unprintable word) lake myself, that (unprintable word). How dare she!"

Page 350, Death Sets Sail

[blasteffect]

Cygnus X-1,

Cygnus X-1 is located near large active regions of star formation in the Milky Way, as seen in this image that spans some 700 light years across.

An artist's illustration on the right depicts what astronomers think is happening within the Cygnus X-1 system. Cygnus X-1 is a so-called stellar-mass black hole, a class of black holes that comes from the collapse of a massive star.

New studies with data from Chandra and several other telescopes have determined the black hole's spin, mass, and distance with unprecedented accuracy.

Optical image from the Digitized Sky Survey

[itsallmadonnasfault]

[bizarrelittlemew]

Madonna as Susan in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)

[infinitehench]

We're building a space station y'all!

[deepdean-detectives]

hrrrngh mmu being blue and the book where daisy and hazel first met

jfp being yellow. their biggest fight and the first time we see them drift apart

dss is blue and gold. full circle guys

[detective-society]

DSS SPOILERS, LOOK AWAY NOW IF U HAVEN'T READ IT YET

[1stprototype]

Footage taken aboard the DSS during the bombardment of Mastia.

[eggcheeseham-ster]

dss game nights go hard

[zakurarain]

Datastorm bois celebrating Valentines!

[deepdeanvsweston]

Absolutely emotional at this bit in Death Sets Sail:

Hazel asking people if they heard it, if they heard Daisy say her name and everyone looking at her pitifully, like they know she's grieving but she's practically begging for someone to remember it with her, because if no-one remembers Daisy's last word how can they remember Daisy at all. Her father saying "fear and grief will do funny things to people's senses" and of course she knows that and her detective side says that if no-one else remembers something the one person who does is most likely mistaken but she SWEARS that Daisy said her name, she must have she must have she must have, what else would have Daisy's last words be other than her name? Daisy's name would have been Hazel's last word. It's hard to hear her own name after Daisy falls because it's always been DaisyandHazel, and now when people call her Hazel they're forgetting the fact that that Hazel isn't her name, that actually 'Hazel' is lying at the bottom of the Nile, Daisy took it when she went in, and Hazel isn't truly Hazel without a Daisy around to say it. Their names to each other were like a language in themself, moments of realisation and joy and sadness and delight and anger, and Hazel lies in bed at Fallingford wondering if when Daisy said 'Hazel' it really meant help.

[dreamstormdragon]

Dan-Sing test

So I got this program, called Dan Sing/DSS for my VRM models. It allows me to upload them from vroid hub into the program and make MV's and animations with it. I'm not sure what I'm doing YET, I'm learning, but I figured out how to make it move and do a small sequence using some preloads they have to make making the first steps easier. I'm excited to learn more.

[itsallmadonnasfault]

Madonna and I were super close during that film [Desperately Seeking Susan]. We really bonded heavily and had a deep female friendship at the time … for many years. Then she married Sean [Penn], I was at the wedding and all that stuff. We lost touch in these years, except I was at the [Celebration Tour] show in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see her and was really bummed.

When we made that film she of course was exploding. Melanie Griffith was up for it [Madonna’s role], who was one of my best friends. Ellen Barkin, another one of my best friends, was up for that role and they were talking about this pop star that wasn’t an actor and I was kind of bummed out about it at first. And then I saw the “Lucky Star” video. She was so enigmatic and gorgeous and I had to throw myself into being obsessed with Madonna like everybody else in the world was while we were making the movie. 

I always had a fantasy, because you see them doing sequels all the time, about what happened to them? Who are they now? It would be so great to make that movie. And where did everybody go? Do Dez [Aidan Quinn’s character] and her stay together? What happens to them?

The original ending, which is not in the film, they [Arquette and Madonna’s characters] are not with the guys. They are off on an adventure together on a camel in the desert and we filmed that … and it wasn’t happily ever after with the guys. It was a great ending and I was really bummed they didn’t choose that.

Queerty