Ok, I know how it is. I see a post from an account I don't know and I go to their media tab to see "so how hot is this person?" and until now you've had to squint at my blurry 5-year-old profile picture, so now I'll pin my most recent photographs and you can all be the judges...
@artificia1girl@frogs4girls When her rebel cell has the opportunity to kill this guy to keep the empire from expanding his (very successful) interrogation program, they give her the job of killing him and she chooses to subject him to the same torture before blowing up his office with him in it.
@artificia1girl@frogs4girls The woman was one of the victims of this torture and interrogation in season 1, and from the end of that season through season 2 she shows severe PTSD from the experience, a "nightmares about this guy every night" sort of deal.
@vampmeido omg did this but with a couple nickels back in the day... didn't know it was a known hack but it feels so vindicated in that particular decision of high-school me
@TheAlexSylvian Stanislaw Lem had me feeling like this with Solaris, Fiasco, His Master's Voice... just really nailing "something truly and utterly alien, plausible but only just at the farthest edge of imagination"
@wookmaster69 @cryosilver Oh I guess I could be wrong, but I was under the impression with the right bullet construction that you're still shattering weight-bearing bones
@wookmaster69 @cryosilver I think more than the arteries, you're trying to hit bone and joint, which will lead to injuries that can be immediately debilitating just by the factor of how much of a body's biomechanics rely on the hips and pelvis, and also bone becomes shrapnel with a well-constructed bullet
@wookmaster69 @cryosilver I take a lot of issue with the political biases inherent in this book, but the chapter on urban sniping success by insurgents in Iraq is eye-opening on how often hip and crotch shots were a "successful strategy" on heavily-armored adversaries. Lots of bones, nerves, and arteries.