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Let's try and at least go A SINGLE DAY without backtracking on this decision. JUST ONE FUCKING DAY. And then some. people are like a cancer. They have to be forcibly removed to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I am absolutely unable to deal with (and this list is non exhaustive): human unpredictability. human illogic human fallacies human ignorance human stupidity HUMANS FUCK PEOPLE

I would like to thank my friend Zeno4ek for doing the voiceover for the Marauders radio communication in Russian.

The Unified Terran Federation, now known as the Old Federation, possessed perhaps the largest unified military in human history; myriad branches and services structured together to fulfil the requirements of humanity's defence interests in the stars. This, of course, included a unified, standardised firearm series with 'pattern's blueprinted for mass production across the dozens of solar systems controlled by the Old Federation at the height of its power in the early 41st century A.D. These firearm designs were produced in such vast numbers that they can still be found by the 45th century, even in factory-new condition, despite the complete collapse of the Old Federation and reduction of many of its worlds to ruins. The reliability and standardisation of the platforms developed by the UTN is reflected in the fact that almost all of the base designs are still in service with the current Aquarian military power, ATIS, some few hundred cycles later, with only a few major changes to each design. MX-4 Platform Standard Infantry Weapon History. The MX-4 is widely recognised as the defacto standard of the Old Federation's foot soldiers. It was developed in the early 2800s as a replacement to the MX768 Intermediatory Battle Rifle Platform due to advancements in integrated, compact FIMD technologies allowing higher chamber pressures and velocities with significantly smaller munitions delivering the same or greater damage to the target. The MX-4 has its origins in a project by the Western Alliance to replace the original, ancient M4 carbine weapon using the equally ancient old-earth 5.56mm cartridge in the 20th and 21st centuries. The MX-4 platform was originally proposed by the TSRC for testing advanced, then-prototype FIMD technology some time before the end of the Fossil Wars, but was rejected by the Western Alliance who had already adopted an intermediate 6mm cartridge based on CIMD technology. The design was archived and later rediscovered by the Unified Terran Nations after the TSRC made contact with the Federation in 2415, 5 years after the founding on Eridonia. The TSRC had worked with the fledgling federation to fast-track advanced designs (many of which had been prototyped decades before the Colony Ship Eridonia left Earth). FIMD technology was one of such advances - with the TSRC assisting Federation engineers to create the first series of 7.68MM Fission Impulse Mass Driver projectiles, and with it, the first-generation MX768 battle rifles. The MX768 would remain in service with the Federal Military until the early 2800s where Federal Weapons Design Bureau requested a smaller, more accurate yet higher lethality armour-piercing cartridge based on newer, Fusion Impulse Mass Driver technology. The TSRC utilised the base design for the original MX-4 rifle and modernised it, presenting it to the FWDB in the mid 2800s. The Design was approved and entered service in the middle of the century, eventually phasing out the pattern B MX768 rifles, which were relegated to Planetary Guard Stocks entirely by 3000 A.D. It is interesting to note that several times in human historical firearms design, smaller cartridges replaced larger ones, even when larger ones had began to replace smaller designs by the early 22nd century - ultimately advances in FIMD and penetrator technology allowed smaller rounds to achieve 'sufficient' lethality against human targets without needing to be physically large (hence the 4mm cartridge). Design. The MX-4 is fairly bulky weapon, despite using the relatively small FIMD 4mm cartridge. This is innate to essentially all FIMD weapons technology due to the considerable active cooling systems required to regulate the temperature of the firing assembly and barrel construction during operation. The distinctive 'blocky' design is signature of this technology, as it contains the heat-sink cells and fluid reservoirs required to facilitate this cooling system. This cooling system uses highly pressurised coolant fluid (typically liquid helium or liquid hydrogen) to exchange thermal energy, which then vaporises and is exhausted from the heatsink assembly. The highly compressed coolant required for firing a single round is entirely contained within the cartridge. Despite the size, the weapon is not overly heavy. The design incorporates advanced (for the time) macropolymer construction with low-metallic composition, with low mass, high tensile strength characteristics. This macropolymer furniture and frame is also extremely durable - being able to take significant abuse before braking, contributing to the reputation for rugged reliability that these weapons earned in service, and indeed, after the Fall of the UTN. The larger size is also due to a design emphasis with the original MX-4 platform- intended for highly accurate, high volume of fire with a high velocity, but small, projectile. This allows the MX-4 to function in a SSW (Squad Support Weapon) in a suppressing fire role with volume of fire, similar to how an LMG would be operated in earlier armies. The MX-4 platform had several magazine types developed, all of which could be interchanged with the weapon system, in the field, with no re-tooling required. One of such designs was a large, 100+ round box magazine allowing the MX-4 to lay down impressive suppressing fire in an SSW role. The MX-4 platform weapon features an integrated display and digital micro-controller that handles basic data processing functions such as diagnostics, thermal regulation, ammo count, and basic targeting data. Later models featured a full-spectrum optical targeting system with magnification and image enhancement (such as Thermal or Low Light optics) on the integrated display. The Standard Magazine holds 59 rounds in a dual-feed straight box design, which is located behind the hand grip - giving the MX-4 the distinctive 'bullpup' layout. The 59-round magazine is fairly large for a 4mm cartridge design (smaller, more compact magazines were available for scout weapon variants) but the FWDB placed emphasis on soldiers being able to fire for longer without having to reload. With training encouraging small, but highly accurate 3-5 round bursts- such weapons could overwhelm enemy infantry fairly quickly, especially when fired in full squad co-ordination. The original OF Pattern-1 MX-4 weapons had a forward hand-guard located under the muzzle section, designed to protect the operator's hand when using the weapon against impromptu cover or makeshift barriers. In addition, this guard could also mount a folding bipod for when the weapon was used in SSW capacity; allowing effective emplacements to be established with little effort. Later variants lacked the hand-guard to save volume and mass, and cost of production, however. All patterns of the MX-4 platform feature a fixed, non-collapsible frame-stock for shoulder-fire, despite the extremely low recoil of the weapon. The weapon features an interchangeable top-mounted attachment rail for various additional scopes, sights and modules. For basic operation, the weapon incorporates illuminated iron sights as a backup in case of a failure of the integral sighting system. Characteristics. The MX-4 is known to be an extremely easy-to-control weapon; with very light recoil and muzzle climb in large part due to the extensive internal recoil-compensation mechanisms. The entire firing assembly is suspended in a Pneumatic Pressure suspension system allowing the firing assembly to reciprocate in addition to the bolt carrier when cycling a round. The barrel is telescopically sleeved with a fluid seal on the muzzle end to allow this without barrel movement. Combined with magnetic stabilisation on later patterns, the MX-4 is extremely easy to control, has low recoil and impressively accurate even at range. Due to the nature of FIMD technology, the MX-4, like all FIMD-firearms, has innate thermal concerns - somewhat offset by the extensive cooling system, but not fully nullified. Barrel warping is one of the most significant of these concerns, due to the extreme (nuclear) energies released by each Catalyst Ignition, without active Fluid Cooling (typically Liquid Helium) thermal regulation, the barrel would disintegrated after only a few shots. The cooling system produces a significant amount of helium vapour after each shot, which can build up leading to visible exhaust sprays from the heatsink assembly. In extreme cases, prolonged firing of the weapon can visibly impede the shooter's vision. Typically, the weapon is not operated for long periods of time, but in SSW roles - this was a fairly common problem among the earlier patterns of the weapon. Later variants had improved exhaust outlets that directed the sprays downward, but only alleviated the problem, rather than solving it entirely. In addition to vapour expulsion, thermal cycling of the barrel and firing assembly was a major concern with pattern-1 weapons due to the cast Tritanium (Macropolymer-infused Titanium alloys) chamber developing cracks after extensive operation. Later variants solved this issue with fully macro-polymer internals when such heat-resistant molecular compositions became available during the UTN's rapid industrial advancement in the early 30st century. All variants of the MX-4 platform feature computer-controlled thermal regulation with internal sensors on the firing assembly and barrel construction- warning the operator via the integral display of excessive thermal build-up. Ammunition The MX-4 platform weapon utilises the FIMD 4mm cartridge from which it derives its name in the UTN Standard weapon naming system. The FIMD 4mm cartridge is a small, high velocity dual-purpose, smart-configurable round with the ability to be dynamically configured by the weapon system in the field, as per operator requirements. The basic design of the FIMD 4mm round includes a sub-calibre rod-penetrator constructed of Tungsten, with a rear fin-stabilisation array. The rod-penetrator is enveloped in a softer, expanding 'jacket' which also doubles as the sabot for the penetrator. In Armour Piercing mode, the jacket is discarded after the projectile leaves the barrel, releasing the rod-penetrator at extreme velocities. Due to the design, the penetrator is the full length of the cartridge itself (longer than the jacketed 'bullet') and has extremely high pure armour penetration characteristics. Effective penetration of the rod-penetrator when the round is configured in AP mode is around 50-60mm of RHA steel. This was primarily developed to defeat enemy infantry equipped with heavy power armour, or armoured exo-skeletons. In Soft Target mode, the projectile retains the expanding jacket around the tungsten core as a complete, full calibre projectile. Upon impact, the jacket expands, delivering high amounts of kinetic energy to the target, while the penetrator is released, entering the target and fragmenting in a manner consistent with ACPR rounds of old. Though the armour penetration is still effective at 20-25mm of RHA steel, the significantly lower velocity of the projectile means that it is still shy of the penetration of the penetrator in sabot operation. The weapon system can be selectively toggled, per-round, by the operator via the integrated display, or on later models, via the integration to the soldier's suit interface, or automatically based on BAS-enhanced X-ray target compositional analysis (Pattern 3 and IMX-4 models in service with ATIS). In standard configuration, the MX-4 firing the FIMD 4MM projectile in Armour piercing mode achieves a muzzle-velocity in 1G, ~1020mb atmospheric pressure environment of around 2200 m/s, while in Soft Target mode, the velocity is around 1400m/s. Like all FIMD cartridges that saw active use, the FIMD 4MM is fully cased, largely due to the integrity requirements for withstanding Catalyst Ignition pressures innate to the technology. Caseless variants were trailed but were largely unsuccessful due to premature cook-offs (an attribute of caseless cartridges well known throughout their trials in history, further exacerbated by the extreme energy/pressure tolerances required of FIMD casings).

So I'm typing this after just publishing Episode 6 of my ROE series which I'm really happy with. I'm really excited to bring my universe and stories to life with 3D graphics animations. This is just the beginning for me. I have BIG plans for this. Anyway I'm typing this post because I'm sat here feeling like fucking shit for a very specific, and well-known reason. If you somehow read my blog before you'd know what that problem is. It feels like one of those addictions or being stuck in an abusive relationship where you always think "It'll be OK next time" or you get so high on your very strong dosage of anti-depressants that every day, you feel you are strong enough to wade through that cesspool of social excrement. Probably more of the latter. It's also closely related to other issues I've got that are mostly derived from this. I'm not going into details here, because I frankly can't be fucking bothered nor do I want to regurgitate the usual drivel about thus subject. In fact, I don't really know why I'm typing this at all. My problem is how fickle I am, especially with emotionally-drive mood-dependent perspectives that can be polar opposites. Some might call that cognitive dissonance, but I call it serotonin reuptake inhibition and an artificial sense of how happy I should feel about everything, including people, that invokes a long-established and apparently utterly irresistible urge to display overt affection for those I feel are my friends. The 'meta' is that I know some one will read this post and think this entire thing is their fault, or at least, that's what my brain will make me think they think if that makes sense... But it's not. They're just another person caught up in how absolutely broken I am. This isn't even the cause of the emotions that spurred me to type this post. It's about someone else, someone I've known for a very long time. It's about how I've learned over many years that the vast majority of our upsets are caused by my warped misinterpretations of attitudes towards me, yet, even with that knowledge - I'm powerless to counter the emotional turmoil those misinterpretations create. It's like seeing all your problems right in front of you, seeing them damaging you, knowing exactly what is causing it and being absolutely powerless to do anything about it. So I type this, feeling rejected, which evolves into anger and resentment, then ultimately ends up with depression and isolationism before returning to something you might consider "neutral", if such a state even exists in my fucked up brain. Yet I'm typing this right now with completely acknowledgement that this is likely a flawed interpretation and a completely unjust emotional response - it doesn't fit any facts. Yet here I am, typing this, feeling like shit, and the cycle continues. Closed all the messaging apps, overwhelming desire to reject and block all people I talk to, including close friends, relatives, because somehow this notion of pre-emptively "attacking" people and rejecting them first means I'm in control. I can't be rejected by them if I've already rejected them. There's only so much self-awareness can do in this battle, and I feel I've hit that limit already. Without the pure willpower required to control myself instead of being a slave to the emotions - which I know are bullshit, there's very little I can do now. So, life goes on. I keep riding the train. Can't get off, train can't stop. It's a one-way ticket to wherever it's going. And there's jack fucking shit I can do about it.

OH WELL.

I DEMAND THAT YOU PLAY DEEP ROCK GALACTIC WITH ME AT SOME POINT. MAYBE TODAY, I DON'T KNOW. ALSO TYPING IN ALL CAPS IS STILL QUITE FUN. :D

I'm in bed so don't expect an essay. You can read my blog and understand that I'm very much aware of white privilege and racism in society. I wrote my pieces about it here. I was scrolling the news feed on my phone (big mistake again) when I found this gem. https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/02/films-about-whiteness-race-sofia-coppola-wes-anderson The author of this article seems to border on obsessive with regards to finding victimhood for minorities. I might write a more detailed piece on this later since I have more to say and my tiny smartphone screen is an enormous bottleneck for my fat fingers. Anyway, obsessive victimhood and "white boogie manism" is a component in the radicalisation of white racists because it cements the idea that pro- equality ideas are "anti-white". Seems too many of these "progressive" authors are morally projecting, want clicks by drumming up drama, or have nothing to do besides trying to vilify white people. There's a point when I think you need to stop looking at data in a specific way and start looking at the holistic viewpoint, especially with regards to actor demographics and representation. For example, there non-negative racial discrimination in specific careers due to personal choices or the fact that most black-majority countries are extremely poor and rank low on the development index (itself a result largely from western exploitation in the colonial era, but this is besides the point mentioned in the article). It becomes tiresome to read work from an author that seems to want to find racism in every data point in their chosen industry.

THAT INCLUDES YOU. Yesterday I was going to type an actual post about something but I fucking forgot what it was about. Today I just learned that the newest Metro game is VR exclusive and since I'm autistic and FUCKING DESPISE CHANGE I can't handle it so I'm really fucking ANGRY. After the ARTWORK that was Metro Exodus, locking a chapter in this series behind some retarded bullshit weaponised by social media companies and those who have more than 1 square meter of space in their room, is NOT FUCKING COOL. I'll use AI to generate some shit, oh that was it. I was going to type about the meaning of Generative AI and Art, and what implications I think that has for the actual meaning of art, but I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ANYMORE. GO ON. ELECT TRUMP YOU BUNCH OF DEGENERATE LOSERS. THE USA WAS ALWAYS A FAILED STATE ANYWAY. FUCK EVERYONE.

While blender renders this scene, I will write this blog post. First let me start by saying I'm not sure if my definition of 'Radical Acceptance' is consistent with the dictionary definition of that term, but I'm essentially using it to mean "Everything is so fucked up, I might as well just smile and watch the world burn around me". This all started back at school, and a few things since then. I'm not even going to link to the various (and there are many) posts on my blog covering this garbage subject, because it's not important. What's important is that I am here now, and there is absolutely nothing I can do to change the world. So, the only way of 'coping' with the world going to Hell in a Handbasket is to simply accept that it is going to Hell in a Handbasket. Let's make some examples here, since I know of a few things that triggered this episode, in no particular order: Trumpet I should care, I did care, but not anymore. So here is the deal: if the Americans re-elect this degenerate, I give up on that 'state' entirely. From what I've been reading (bad idea, Sash, you know this), at least 55% of Americans are the stupidest, most ignorant, naïve, short-sighted contemptable idiots in human history. Not even the Russians are this stupid, because they're just brainwashed. Trumpets are just Cognitively Dysfunctional, no other way about it. And of course, Democracy will be defeated by populism driven by pure stupidity, no other way about it. Funny, though. So, smile and watch the world burn - it was funny, at least. I wonder what it will do if it is re-elected? Should I care? Yes. Do I? Trying not to. Next. Putty Ah, Putty. That frail old codger in the Kremlin, essentially embodying everything that's wrong with humanity (aside from stupidity, that is): greed, lust for control, arrogance, warped ideology and lack of true vision. Oh, and 70+ year old men with far, far too much power. I don't really need to say much about Putty, since there aren't words in the English lexicon that are strong enough to describe my passionate hatred for this aging sack of putrid human tissue masquerading as a person, but that will probably do for now. Men like this organic trash are the reason why we can't have peace. Why we won't have peace. Humanity is doomed to fail and it's because of men like this. Thanks, Putty! I guess I was born ahead of my time if you're 'Alexander the Great' or whatever. Oh, and that pathetic little puppet-man you have on a leash, he's just hilarious. That said, I doubt he's truly behind everything he says because, well, he's a puppet. Puppets gonna do what puppets gonna do, I guess. Pooh Haven't spoken much about this guy recently, but he deserves a mention. Though probably a little lower on the list of scum-satchels (though in the wise words of Victor Saltzpyre; it's never a good idea to grade evil since you might end up favouring one, a dangerous path indeed). Pooh is just like Putty, and to a degree, Trumpet, though I think the latter is just more of a cognitively dysfunctional psychopath. Pooh will be responsible for the future bullshittery, since like Putty, this fucker's eyeing up more war and suffering in his eternal quest for more power and control. Seriously, fuck 70+ year old men with too much power. I'm seriously going to be skirting the boundary of what's actually acceptable to write on my blog (Hosting TOS) if I keep this up, lol. Everyone Else Everyone else is just not worth my time, their problems are about as important as a shit stain on a public toilet, and about as worthwhile, too. Still, it would be quite 'amusing' to watch them squirm when the world finally ends - which it will, likely in the next half century to a century. And when it does, if I'm still alive - nothing I can do but smile. I was at least ahead of my time, I guess. Dreaming of a civilisation that simply cannot be, because of 70+ year old men with too much power. They really are the cause of all of our species' problems. Millions of young people dying for a few old men in power. Yet we're powerless to do anything about it. Quality shit.

Wix is being retarded, regardless, email me for details if you want. Of course none of this is your fault, just me, being, well, me. Apparently, I also like using commas.

No offence, or anything. But that resentment is going to manifest as the purest form of misanthropy possible. Humanity is so backwardly fucked beyond all recognition that I feel, some days, I'd rather just be dead than live in a world filled with pathetic, greedy, arrogant scum. Rather not breath the same air as this organic filth masquerading as "people". All that anger gets directed inwards. Impossible to control. Sometimes I'd rather die than have to live with that anger, knowing there's nothing I can do about it. Nothing. Fuck you.

Sad, pathetic puppet on strings for the frail old warmonger in the Kremlin. Just thought I'd point that out. The world would be so much better without china or russia in it.