Welcome to the New Week

I have a 1911 from Rock Island Armory that's 100% reliable with CLP. The secret is using not dogshit ammo and actually getting through the break-in period.

Urst_

Hey Goodly Ser Tex, be well and praise z0rg. May the great burney one smite all when he breaks spicy wind after Bean Burrito Wednesday.

Rabbid Pencil

Hey Boss dude. I gotta say that chilling to the Immortal Lou Rawls, You will never find.... while cruising in a Marauder, sipping sweat tea, is going to be hard to beat. Looking forward to the Charger and the Christmas dump. You do sound a lot less stressed. Also.. finally,... how do I send you ammo. We have a plethora here in VA, the Nation's Gun Show is coming up.

Scott

Love me some Dresden! He early books are tough sledding, but Jim Butcher gets his feet under him by book 3 and it's good from there. His crack at fantasy is pretty good too, and was born from an internet forum bet. He was given two bad ideas to combine- the lost Roman Legion and Pokémon.

Victor Badger

I'd definitely love to hear his take on this one. Personally I feel that "specialist" units can be a gimmick for people trying to "build" a win rather than earn one - hoping to impose an unwinnable scenario on the opponent by building a lance that works in a set, "foolproof" way rather than reacting to the shape of the battle (fortunately, Battletech is not a game that will allow this against a patient opponent). Although I can see exceptions, like with lights and lighter mediums it's hard to have everything and then of course there is the Charger which specializes in glory.

Konstantin Pogorelov

On its own the Charger is a design that makes people ask why you made this, but it was made in times when mechs were so common that the SLDF could and did have whole battalions of the same design. It’s a lot harder to worry about the eighty tons of metal and cocaine bearing down on you at Mach Fuck when his thirty friends are lighting up your whole zip code. Post-Star League it’s an oddball, yeah, but it’s still got a purpose, if an oddly specific one. The problem is the lore bit where the engine size is the largest driver of a mech’s cost.

Daniel S

I enjoyed your conversation on the Moskva. I can say from what I saw as a Coast Guard repair locker leader and rescue & assistance team member that the CG and the Navy's destroyer fleet are still pretty solid for damage control. Certainly not perfect but the actual sailors doing the job get a lot of experience in SAR and R&A situations. But this is HEAVILY dependent on command standards. If you have a CO and DCO that encourage initiative and run realistic drills, you'll have some badass repairmen. Having said that, there are a lot of systemic issues that impair DC efforts (as you guys discussed with the Bonhomme Richard). Semper Iratus--- Err, I mean PARATUS, of course...

Augy-WMEC906

Hello! Love the update, I saw the Homeworld 3 preview and thought of you. I was woundering if you had some Bommer Crew play throughs in the future? I was, snickering to myself, hearing your Randy Savage with Dekard Cain lines, and Gramps with Randy Savage lines! You do you, we'll do us Pistol6699

Pistol6699

Couldn't stay very long for the stream, as this hit pretty much a minute or two after I rolled into bed. I do love Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts though; it's not perfect, but the devs put a lot of effort into it. Looking forward to playing as Japan with the upcoming world map. I had to bail around when you started on the light ramming cruiser fleet, which had me thinking : the 19th century version of rams failed, but with the lack of armor on current ships, could that be resurrected in the form of small ramming drones? Or have the sensor suites become so accurate even tiny ships get picked up and shot up by ? Also, Sniper Elite with a cop sounds fantastic.

Erdanya

Thanks for the update Tex! Looking forward to what comes next. Question: One of the things that seems common in battletech mech design is making mechs that are useful at all ranges. Do you think that is more effective than making dedicated long, medium, and short range mechs?

Jalatron

$5 for a no crap guarantee? Along with no adds? Take my money you beautiful man! And side note for music, look up El sondito. The song was introduced to me by a friend while on vacation. There us very few moments where you can blast a song as ear popong levels driving beside another car full of friends a d have them look at you and your car full of people jamming out to a song that is random, strange and in some strange way dominance asserting. Heck it may hit you in the rights spot to add it to a stream when you decide insanity us an option. Stay safe and take time to enjoy the finest things in life like maple syrup

A definite fav of mine.

PrimaFacie

Snooper elite is gonna be a funny one. Those games are fun, super hard/intense if you crank the difficulty all the way up too. The last two have sorta strayed from being sniper focused and are more like a ww2 version of metal gear solid, with a similar amount of crazy delivered by nazi secret projects. They're a guilty pleasure of mine.

Teyanis

You've expressed many times your enjoyment of reading over other forms of entertainment, have you ever read any of The Dresden Files? Kind of a hard boiled detective novel series, but the main character is a card carrying Wizard and consultant for Chicago PD. A favorite series of mine, thought I'd float if your way for potential reading material.

ApokalypseCow

I played Sniper Elite off Gamepass. Lotsa great killshots on the natsees.

Andrew Hess