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Aight bruvs i appreciate the bumps but ya gotta...
y'know, make some lore too

>>50536451
Do stories count?

>>50536738
That was a long discussion but I think the conclusion was
Sometimes but in a different way than lore entries do. They're like lore packets that sometimes have scraps of hard lore in them and other times have mushy bits of lore inside

>>50536451
Why?

>>50536451
Will do, I'll start having more hobby time in June.

>>50536946
Would more people like my stuff if I write lore entries and put them in my stories?

>>50538403
No. Now back in the lore mines, slave.

>>50538667

>>50538403
I'm not sure how the lurker's mind works, but if you write lore entries I'll read 'em.

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>>50538403
I think its good to have lore from storytelling. Just remember to keep a document on the side to check your history so you don't write a contradiction.

>>50542592
I do but it’s even less presentable than my actual writing. I have a habit of thinking about random pieces of lore when writing even if the two are barely related. Today I spent hours at work thinking of a character’s preferred weapon before remembering the plot effectively prevents her from having it in the story

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>>50544157
Yeah that's the kind of stuff that would generally be lore to throw at the side, though I can understand if someone would want to avoid writing down what essentially is just a random sci fi tech that wouldn't evoke much interest outside of its given part in a story.

>>50546973
I wouldn’t be so bothered if it at least appears in the story outside of potential dialogue mentions even if it’s fun and pleases my chuuni heart

>>50544157
In my opinion, considering details of a character that don't explicitly come up in the story is pretty valuable. Details like that inform the individual's personality even if it's not directly relevant, for example her preferred weapon says a lot about whether she prefers to be up close to the enemy or far away, cautious or reckless, the kind of technology and factions she's familiar with, etc. She might also say something like "I wish I had an X right now...", and then there's always sequels.
But I also like to make insane character sheets with a bunch of info that literally won't ever be mentioned, so I might be biased.

Kokone has nice tits

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squirmin

https://rentry.org/cvt40k-vnugtale2#the-run
I finally wrote something that I actually know about!

>>50558249
ohh new vnugtale!

>>50558358
Truth be told I don’t know if any of my vnugtale actually has a lot to do with vnug

>>50558653
It has tons! The possum tail gets mentions every chapter.

>>50558249
Nice, will read after work.

Ive been away for like a month, has anything happened in the meantime or has it just been bumps and clears?

>>50563707
Laplus baby

>>50563707
Ah right there was the planned vote as well wasn't there?

>>50531154
peace

>>50567174
Yes and the voteanon didnt start it because he's a lazy sack of shit.
T. Voteanon

>>50563707
nothing happened

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>>50563707
There's been a piece of lore or two every thread that ran its course.

Butt!

Thinking about radiators...

thinking about thos defibs........

Thinking about my bro...

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For as much influence the catalog is supposed to have in terms of the heavenly realm and all that hubub, I never saw alot of representations of how it could be used or explored outside of one or two stories.
The fuck could you potentially do if you were in the space setting and chuubanite mechanics had no limits?

>>50597318
>chuubanite mechanics had no limits
They always are limited by the laws of physics, but that's semantics. The main thing I could see is wider application of the energy it provides through conventional tech.

>>50597318
There's a concept from space Battleship Yamato I want to shamelessly steal where the subspace/hyperdimension was used as a means to achieve stealth instead of just an FTL transport method.
Basically, the ship slips into the catalog and only comes out to fire its weapons before disappearing again.
For an analogy, it's basically a U-boat, which went underwater to achieve stealth, and has to come almost to the surface to fire its torpedoes. Except "underwater" is the catalog.
I don't think it would be flawless, as always when using thosses things there would be magical emissions, but it would be invisible in electromagnetic waves, and require specialized weapons to attack while in the catalog.

>>50597707
Both for energy production and storage! It would probably remain more expensive than mundane methods, but it could make for efficient batteries.

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I ended up writing the random lore piece at work even though it’s unrelated to either lore or work. Please read it in the same way as below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYBRVZ9aro

>>50603778
>stealth revolver
very nice, I want more gun lore overall for all nations but this is nice and has some little bits of flavoring to give the gun an identity where it could have easily just been "le quiet gun".
I must know, is all of that researched or did you kind of fudge some of it? I'm never sure if anon's are actually doing a shit ton of research or if they're just excellent at bullshitting.

>>50604103
Academic insight: Most of actual research is being excellent at bullshitting.

>>50604255
I must enhance my bullshit

>>50558249
So the scary being is some kind of automaton, or a drone? With motion-sensor based vision, old fashioned but robust. We're Jurassic Park now.
Ah, so the amber eyes weren't just to give her a cool flair, there's functionality! Nice foreshadowing. So contact lenses with laser protection and active focusing included? Or are they more passive? That's a nice gift regardless, MC is progressing. I see why you asked about Morinium now... Guess I should come up with some stuff important enough to use it. My project just delivered, so I might be able to finally write a bit.
-- Beret
++ Laser-proof contact lenses

>>50604103
To be honest a lot of its design’s ultimately based around it being le quiet gun, it’s just that suppressed revolvers are pretty rare due to how it functions so a stealth revolver is inherently cooler (also because revolvers are inherently cooler)
Many of the details are based on OTs-38, a relatively rare gun from Russia. Its silence mostly comes from the unique ammunition design and it’s also used by the earlier PSS silent pistol. Apparently the same design’s also used by S&W’s Quiet Special Purpose Revolver (but it’s more like shotgun shells than pistol bullet) for tunnel-clearing purposes. The integral laser sight’s from OTs-38 while some models of Bamak having a rail system’s based on RSh-12, a non-silent “assault revolver” that fires sniper rounds and make use of the bottom-chamber barrel to make recoil more bearable. The bit about removable cylinder’s from an experimental design commonly known as “air marshal revolver” which is ironic because it was commissioned by Eastern for its pilots so that they don’t have to have air marshals on board (they eventually relented). The idea’s that the pilots would carry the gun and the cylinder separately and only put them together on-board, but here I use it for quick reload without having to take the spent cartridges out (more on that below)
These characteristics also happen to be useful in space ships as their corridors are probably cramped like tunnels but worsened by them likely being metallic. The issue with ejected casing in microgravity’s something I found on Atomic Rockets while doing my laser gun rep, and it also suggests using revolvers to mitigate that issue. The only part that I made up myself’s the lack of muzzle flash allowing it to be used when the air’s flammable or explosive (but Atomic Rockets probably have that mentioned somewhere anyway)
It’s meant to be the preferred weapon of the possum girl from the story but I can’t find a way to justify her specialist weapon present in the story, as the only way it would be on an enemy ship’s if she brought it on board, but then she would likely still had it on her and have used it already

>>50603778
>>50605805
>the 40 000 AC gunpowder revolver
kinooooooo. That carries on the theme of vnuggets liking old, reliable technology. I like the note on muzzle rise, I researched that a bit some time back and found out about guns that mount the barrel at an angle such that the kickback goes through the center of mass of the weapon, replacing most of the muzzle rise with pure recoil.

>>50605805
The sharper vision’s actually a feature of hard contact lenses because the space between the lens and cornea’s filled with tears. Tear’s also the right word here because they’re a complete pain to use and keep clean until you get used to it and I hate every moment of it
The ones they use in the story are probably either hybrid or scleral lenses because hard contact lenses are very difficult to fit on someone else’s eyeball, although it’s also possible that the lenses are made with some high tech stuff that automatically fits to the eyeball they’re on (given that they can already block laser reflections and disinfect themselves) and also have auto-focusing ability like the ones from that Batman movie

>>50607481
They are a pain. I used dailies until I stopped doing contact sports and switched to glasses, and even those are annoying. Not being able to freely take a nap is a huge bother and would have become more of a problem as I get older and naps become more common. I wonder what other fun features you could slap on contact lenses... Maybe a really high tech one could fit a heads-up display in there and get some AR going. Or it could convert IR to visible light. Not sure if you could fit that much hardware into something like a contact lens, diffraction limits might get in the way.

>>50609030
You can probably justify putting a lot of stuff in contact lenses with a combination of nanomachines and chuubanite but I think the more important question’s how many things you want to put on them, since the more information you put in, the more likely the user’s sensory gets overloaded as you can only process so many things

>>50605805
I think it would depend on how costly it is to integrate Morinium into the system but I imagine it being a standard (if potentially expensive) thing on laser and other caseless man-portable weapons where you need to pump a lot of energy through them (either a lot of bolts or one big bolt) without access to air or large radiators

>>50610092
>You can probably justify putting a lot of stuff in contact lenses with a combination of nanomachines and chuubanite but I think the more important question’s how many things you want to put on them, since the more information you put in, the more likely the user’s sensory gets overloaded as you can only process so many things
Oh no... Time to include a mind-altering AI in your contact lenses to handle the load.

>>50611896
In space /vnug/’s case I imagine they can bypass that need completely since they can already receive information directly through the brain plug. Even those who operate less immersive mechs (usually due to them not being humanoid) probably use more… intense solutions to solve the UI issue

>>50612337
I wouldn't mind a solution that doesn't involve direct implants. But I have a feeling implants are superior in the end.

>>50612337
holy shit monsoon has snail eyes? Played the game five times and I had no idea.

Ah, making up words... Home...

Huh, a bacteria's flagellum is the only known example in all of life of a biological "wheel" (something that rotates continuously to provide propulsion). That's kinda wild.

Skeleton trivia: Arthropods, which have an exoskeleton, actually also have an endoskeleton, in the form of apodemes. They've got both! You can see it as those white bits you can't eat inside of crabs.

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>>50620125
Never understood how life survived in the deep ocean

>>50624479
Well, the pressure really isn't so bad if it's at an equilibrium with the inside of your body. Humans run into issues because there's air inside of them that goes all wacky as the pressure increases, but to creatures down there it's just another tuesday.
The darkness and generally the lack of nutrients and energy is a bigger challenge imo. The deep sea gets compared to a desert in terms of how few nutrients there are.

>>50550946

Butt

CLARO

>>50624656
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation

Pan pan.

I’m starting to think I’m actually cursed

>>50634608
You are. That will be $199.99. Next!

Come on- CLEAR

>>50530095
bump

>>50634608
Why?

>>50530128
Archive in space under /morig/.
Put together a spec sheet to overview the deadbeat crab-based mecha.
I plan on making short entries on all the made up techno-babble words, should be fun. I'll also make a template for more standard machines.
https://rentry.org/cvt40k-morig-g81

>>50530128
Should a "Weapons/Equipment" category be added to the space archive?

CLEAR

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>>50644618
Space Morig should have a gun called Mementos or something.

>>50650761
I was thinking of calling the homeworld Memento, so that could work nicely, a bit like a Winchester rifle, with the gun named after the inventor whose name comes from where he's from.

>>50651453
It would be fun to have a range of weapons that play into different aspects of chuubas, ironic or otherwise.
Also terms and slang that are warped versions of slang on /vt/. Perhaps like calling something "cunny calibur" for a weak cheaply made weapon or "mating press" being used witht the same connotation of BTFO or being the name of a naval warfare manuever. Been looking through my Cyberpunk 2020 book and all the weird slang words jump out in a fun way, the author of Ribofunk does something similar actually.

>>50651990
Imagine politicians "Now that the dust has settled"-posting... I do love the cyberpunk 2020 slangs, they're very soulful and immersive at the same time. Choomba sounds suspiciously like chuuba.

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>>50653200
I mean I've seen chumbie be used for chumbuds enough for it to make sense as slang

>>50658013
Chumbud for friendly use and cumbud for unfriendly, perfect.

>>50658253
>cumbud
what're you saying anon? Everyone knows that's slang for seaside cunny hookers.

>>50658741
No Jerry, that's just you that uses it in that way, and quite frankly, it's cringe af

>>50642653
https://twitter.com/KometaLive/status/1664563295377051654
I just wanted to write stuff without the vtubers related to said stuff graduating

>>50658872
>cringe af
Get with the times dustwomb, your slang's hagmaxxing seriously.

>>50659671
Oh no, they're going with Elaine huh... What a vague announcement, I hope they leave the channels up and don't just unperson them, that always sucks.
Well, look at it this way, like this they're immortalized in some small manner.

>>50659671
Say, you wouldn't happen to have a sudden urge to write about a certain reaper on a hiatus, would you?

>>50660238
>hagmaxxing
giwtwm

CLARO

cheeky bump

gump

boom

>>50676572
Ka-boom. https://youtu.be/UO9JSE3aRtw

>>50678117
And everyone dies
And everyone lies
They're waiting for the second coming again

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>>50679949
I love me some runes

>>50558249
I'm curious, what did she mean when she said they'd already be dead if this was from a boarding party? Does she know them to be much more proficient than that drone?

Guns.

>>50578893
cute shion

>>50689928
Shion's very cute

bump

>>50687631
Yes

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>>50696794
Well, now I wanna know what the hell a bullpup is.

I think the common name for deadbeat mobile suits will be Daemon, there's a lot of Daemon X Machina posting in /morig/, and it's suitably chuuni and thematic.

>>50679949
What did he mean by this?

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