Highly relevant, one of the most memorable quotes from Mass Effect:
Gunnery Chief: This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kilotomb bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton’s First Law?
First Recruit: Sir! A object in motion stays in motion, sir!
Gunnery Chief: No credit for partial answers, maggot!
First Recruit: Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir!
Gunnery Chief: Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this husk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you’re ruining someone’s day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not “eyeball it!” This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!
Elementary gun safety is not only to not point a gun at anyone or thing unless you are willing to shoot, it is to not point a gun if you are unwilling to shoot anything in the line of sight.
I occurs to me that if they just tell him what they need the board for, he might totally be into it. I suspect he’s just bored, but haunting a flying ship as it journeys into danger might be the thrill he’s craving.
Unless he’s just the ghost of bully and it’s pure coincidence he’s picking on a group no one cares about…
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As a dumb person, THIS is a perfect example of why I don’t think ‘do what a smart person would do’ is very good advice.
And that automatically makes you wiser than many.
I wonder how many plans it will take for Roxy to volunteer to disguise herself as furniture.
When you miss what you’re aiming for, you hit what you’re not aiming for. I wish more people bore that in mind when using ranged weapons.
Highly relevant, one of the most memorable quotes from Mass Effect:
Gunnery Chief: This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kilotomb bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton’s First Law?
First Recruit: Sir! A object in motion stays in motion, sir!
Gunnery Chief: No credit for partial answers, maggot!
First Recruit: Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir!
Gunnery Chief: Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this husk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you’re ruining someone’s day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not “eyeball it!” This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!
Second Recruit: Sir, yes sir!
Elementary gun safety is not only to not point a gun at anyone or thing unless you are willing to shoot, it is to not point a gun if you are unwilling to shoot anything in the line of sight.
Rule #4 of Firearm (and slingshot) Safety: Always be aware of what’s beyond your target.
Especially when aiming for incorporeal entities?
Incorporeality didn’t matter, he dodged.
Ahh yes, the Looney Tunes arc. I’m down for this.
Kinda shocked that the bard isn’t immediately reaching for “Bard Trick 101”, talk to it.
Or, in this case, “neghostiations.”
Where the Tartarus did the gnome-prizes go?
Picturing Roxie attempting boarder slang with a reversed baseball cap and shades.
Hello my fellow rad ghosts…
Maybe they should give up and let the cool spirit rule the city. I think he’s earned it!
They probably would if they didn’t need the board he’s using.
Odds on the Viscount having a plan to steal the Spectral Surfer’s board after it’s been separated from him?
Damn you, Uncanny Dodge! This ghost must’ve been a rogue at some point. He’s certainly a menace to society (or at least a society) now.
Not a society we actually care about though…
I occurs to me that if they just tell him what they need the board for, he might totally be into it. I suspect he’s just bored, but haunting a flying ship as it journeys into danger might be the thrill he’s craving.
Unless he’s just the ghost of bully and it’s pure coincidence he’s picking on a group no one cares about…
So is this an event that IS happening, or a hypothetical scenario being illustrated AS IF it were?