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MechWarrior 5: Clans Stomping to PC, PlayStation and Xbox in 2024 from Piranha Games (www.techpowerup.com)

Piranha Games revealed MechWarrior 5: Clans today, a new stand alone MechWarrior game coming to PC, Xbox and PlayStation consoles next year. MechWarrior 5: Clans, while retaining the MechWarrior 5 designation, represents a transformative step forward in the MechWarrior 5 franchise. MechWarrior 5: Clans linear campaign will be an...

clay_pidgin,

It was bound to happen, given how the timeline advancement worked in MW5:Mercs. The story covered the Third and Fourth Succession Wars (2866-3025 and 3028-3030), the typical starting point for Battletech before the lore, politics, and tech get too complicated. The Clan Invasion (3049-3052) is the most iconic part of the timeline, I think.

I live to talk about Battletech, so hmu if you’ve got questions!

Sarna.net is the very good wiki for the BT universe.

clay_pidgin,

They are indeed, to a degree, though it basically never comes up. There is an illustration of a Pleasure Circus in the A Time of War RPG companion book with a catgirl. I screenshotted my copy of the PDF here.

The mods are described on page 53, “functional tail and mobile ears”.

clay_pidgin, (edited )

Oh man, that’s when I cut out too, early 2000s. I came back in the last few years and saw that Catalyst had really restored the franchise.

3067 Word of Blake (boo, hiss) takes over Terra and starts the Jihad. COMStar fails to take Terra back.

WoB attacked Luthien, Tharkad, New Avalon. Outreach gets nuked. Pretty much everyone takes advantage to attack their old rivals.

Clan Ghost Bear evacuates the whole clan, Touman and workers, to their Inner Sphere holdings in the FRR.

Tons of the characters you know get killed.

3080s Devlin Stone shows up Deus ex Machina and kicks out the Wobbies. He founds the Republic of the Sphere.

Maps change, some clans change names or merge with the IS. (Nova Cats, Ghost Bears, Snow Ravens, Sea Fox (neé Diamond Shark))

Peace!

clay_pidgin,

3132 Devlin Stone retires, and then still-unknown forces break the HPG network across the Sphere, and things fall apart. This is where the old Dark Age books and Clickey-tech minis come in when WizKids took over the license from FASA and did a time jump. Since then, Catalyst took over and is still filling in the gaps.

War starts again. The Draconis Combine invades FedSuns. Wolves and Jade Falcons attack Tharkad. Alaric Ward becomes Khan of Wolf. And somehow, Devlin Stone Returned.

The Republic of the Sphere has a still-unexplained bullshit technology called The Wall that blocks jump ships from entering their space.

3151 Wolves under Alaric Ward and Falcons under Malvina Hazen figure out how to get last The Wall and race towards Terra to defeat the remnants of Republic of the Sphere. An ilClan is declared, fulfilling the goal of the original Clan Invasion.

That’s where we are.

Your main sourcebooks are Era Report:3145, then Shattered Fortress, and lastly IlClan.

clay_pidgin,

I recommend the Overdrive app. sign up (in the app, even!) for a library card (doesn’t necessarily need to be to your local library) and start checking the books out!

clay_pidgin,

You betcha. I recommend it to people all the time.

clay_pidgin,

Oh right, thanks.

clay_pidgin,

What are the numbers?

clay_pidgin,

I’ve played this on mobile. It’s OK. I didn’t feel like it had much depth.

clay_pidgin,

So do connect and wefwef.

clay_pidgin,

Welcome! Were you a user of Reddit previously?

clay_pidgin,

Top as opposed to bottom (receiver of penetrative sex), sub as opposed to Dom(inant).

clay_pidgin,

How about that cellular peptide cake, though? We horny for cake, now?

Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft "Makeshift Biohazard Suits" (futurism.com)

On Friday, an international Delta flight bound for sunny Barcelona was forced to U-turn back to its starting point, Atlanta, for an exceedingly rare air travel horror: a passenger had suffered diarrhea throughout the plane’s aisle so extensively that completing the flight was deemed untenable....

clay_pidgin,

It happens way more often than you’d expect, since you’d expect it to happen zero times.

I just want to say that I'm so happy that people are taking notice of privacy concerns in cars

Mozilla released their studies, and I’m seeing a growing number of posts on the Internet about cars and the privacy nightmare they entail. I remember how this issue wasn’t talked about earlier because “just buy an older car” was still prevalent. I’m so happy that people are taking notice. Thank you to this community...

clay_pidgin,

It may be that the car company doesn’t want to pay more for the cell service than they need to; if they can push the download onto your cell plan it’s cheaper for them.

clay_pidgin,

Exactly. My car is 10-15 years old, and the touchscreen handles the climate control, radio, gps, phone, interior lighting, and ton of ancillary features. I doubt it’s possible to replace the system with anything but an OEM replacement unless you’re a really dedicated hardware hacker.

clay_pidgin,

Subscribed; I’ll check it out.

clay_pidgin,

Their instance, I gather, is set to NOT federate with anyone by default, and their admins need to manually add other instances to their federation. Most instances are set to federate by default, so they need to un-federate with another instance here and there.

clay_pidgin,

The voice actor Paul F. Tompkins is awesome!

  • He’s a principal on The Thrilling Adventure Hour, a stage show and podcast in the style of old time radio. I highly recommend it. *
  • He had his own show No you shut up! - a demented fake news show where his costars are puppets.
  • He was one of the leads of Bajillion Dollar Properties, an improvised riff on HGTV real estate shows.
  • he co-hosts Star Trek: The Pod Directive official ST podcast with longtime friend Tawney New some (Mariner Beckett)
  • He had a fantastic improv podcast with excellent guests, many of whom you’ll recognize, called SPONTANEANATION
  • PFT is the First Lady of Podcasting - he’s got thousands of episodes under his belt, and he’s the most prolific podcast guest.

I could go on for ages.

clay_pidgin,

I’ve never experienced the party going off the rails. I guess I’ve just joined relatively mature groups.

clay_pidgin,

We’ve had a few instances where the party decided we want to go do thing, but there was no way the DM had prepared. We let him know “this is a thing we’d like to pursue later” and get on with the planned events. We try to remember that his time is valuable!

clay_pidgin,

The son was a terrorist, wasn’t he?

clay_pidgin,

What does this mean? Voice coaching to sing metal as the gods intend it?

clay_pidgin,

Want to share your favorite soup or stew recipe so we all get suckered into your site?

clay_pidgin,

That looks great! Thank you for sharing.

clay_pidgin,

If it’s on AND off, it’s a good design, I’d say.

clay_pidgin,

I’m kind of tired of movie stars taking all the VO jobs. We don’t benefit from having these characters share a voice with spiderman and starlord.

clay_pidgin,

One of my clients has that quote in his email signature. Seems a bit aggressive to me!

clay_pidgin,

It’s gotta be.

Do you know if that comic has a home on Lemmy somewhere?

clay_pidgin,

Read the article and watch the trailer; these are built very hastily with probably store/free assets. I’m sure your games will be much better!

clay_pidgin,

I hadn’t heard of this happening at all! How exciting.

clay_pidgin,

Somer.blink. There’s the Hypernet now, which is OK but not nearly as fun.

clay_pidgin,

Personally, I think the activity is low enough here that the gifs would be welcome. You might create the gifs community just to claim the name, though!

clay_pidgin,

I’ve never played a Telltale game. Is it more like playing through a story with QTEs?

clay_pidgin,

Interesting. It still sounds fun.

clay_pidgin,

Is the Navy looking for more combatants? It seems like ESBs and ESDs are a good fit for current operations, though I wouldn’t think they needed dozens of them.

[Netflix] Free full mobile games included with subscription (help.netflix.com)

As it’s been a couple of days since there have been any proper freebies, here’s an FYI for anyone who happens to subscribe to Netflix: you can get access to quite a few games for Android and iOS as part of what you’re already paying. No, this isn’t a proper free game giveaway (so I’m not going to do individual per-game...

clay_pidgin,

Thanks for posting this; I had no idea.

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