I’ll tell you the most important thing to keep in mind when playing Battletech: Have a good time. Sometimes ya just gotta open up an alpha strike at point blank range, overheat and stackpole. When you do, make it as hilarious as you can.

Mocha the all hearing…some kinda Rex I imagine. What breed is Mocha, OP, a Cornish Rex?

I have never actually played a game of tabletop battletech. I’ve been a fan of the Mechwarrior sim games since I was a kid (Mechwarrior 2: 31st Century Combat blew my 9 year old brain) and I rather like the novels, they’re a guilty pleasure of mine.

Big jump from a mercenary company to the battle of Tukayyid. Comstar brought 50 regiments to that fight and butt wrecked five whole clans. That’s a biggie.

Looks like a nice warm spot for a birthday bask.

I’m contemplating the immortal words of Socrates who said, “I drank what?”

Chess needs ERPPCs and Streak SRMs.

I cast ANGRY UPVOTE

I mean if communism is what it’ll take to get rid of golf I figure the ends justify the means.

I’ve found I prefer Irish whiskies or American bourbons to scotch. And you know what I say to folks who like different drinks than me? Cheers!

Cool, does it run on a Galaxy S10 series phone?

I have heard that Apple removed the headphone jack to kill compatibility with those Square credit card readers.

Natural colonic more like

and really disappointed with his visit to a therapist.

I remember some guy, anthropologist or something like that, was trying to figure out why it was that people in cities made on average more money than people in small towns or rural areas, until it hit him: That’s why cities exist in the first place.

Leaves everybody else jockeying for seventh place.

I love how Brian Brushwood described it. It was either an inside job from someone at the station, or a very impressive feat of radio hacking, and they had to plan out the costume and the corrugated sheet on a pivot behind him to simulate the “CG” backgrounds, “But it’s as if zero thought went into what he was actually going to say.” He hums the Clutch Cargo theme tune, makes fun of Max Headroom as spokesman of New Coke by holding up a Pepsi can, and throws a little bit of shade at WGN and Chuck Swirsky.

The halcyon days of the 1980’s when a broadcast intrusion like this was basically a harmless juvenile prank.

Get a guilty plea, eliminates a lot of appeals, dude spends life in prison.

It’s creative commons share alike. No need for attribution.

That’s a common myth; what it actually does is water it up. There’s still 2 or 3 ounces of 80 proof booze in the glass, but now it has a few more drops of water in it.

At one point in Casino Royale, Bond says he likes his drinks “very cold” which is probably the realistic reason for shaking. You can get a drink a lot colder a lot faster by shaking than by stirring.

There’s also…Ian Fleming wrote Bond to have a lot of cool and sophisticated opinions like that, at the time it sounded cool to have a custom bar order, whatever it was. Nowadays if you walk into a bar and start issuing a list of instructions to the bartender you look like a prick. If you’re in an actual bespoke cocktail bar they probably have a style they’re going for, or sir, this is an Applebee’s.

I’ve had one of those little sample bottles of Johnny Walker Blue. Tasted like 3 feet upwind of a campfire. Flavor profile: combustion.