i_drink_bleach [any, comrade/them]

It’s super cute. And the answer to your question is: You’re never too old.

So a liability.

I play FFXI. Our Paladins paladin. You tank like a beast or you GTFO. Damage comes from the Rangers and Samurai and Black Mages. Nobody expects the pally to do a god damn thing for DPS. The pally soaks damage and holds hate, the White Mages heal them. A good Paladin can keep hate off my Ranger. Good luck with that, BTW.

Of course Elmo would claim to be the top pally with the best DPS on the entire server. Y’know, because he’s full of shit.

“We’ll be on Mars by next year” 8 years ago. “Full self-driving next year!” 10 years ago. Sure bud. And I’m going to fart pixie dust tomorrow. YUP! Feckless removed. He is literally the most useless person that has ever lived. He is living proof that “meritocracy” is imaginary. Richest person on Earth and completely and utterly useless.

Edit: I accept that removal, despite it being used in the European context. Dude still sucks though.

Only when it’s convenient for them.

Late reply. My B.

I mean I could figure out how to buy a drone online (is it really that cheap?).

Yes. Drones are very cheap. Only the capability scales with cost. But in general drones are incredibly cheap compared to their capability.

Then I think I need to get a drone license to fly 'em around as practice

You do not need a license to practice flying drones. Neither the FCC nor FAA are going to come arrest you during the hour your battery lasts. Just don’t go fly over an airport or government building. You’ll be fine.

But I’d have no idea how to make the C4 nail-bomb or where to get the stuff for it.

Good. Keep it that way. I am absolutely not going to tell you, or anyone else, how to make explosives or weapons.

So here’s the thing about that: Those are expensive as fuck.

I can get an aerial drone off Alibaba, strap a bunch of C4 and nails on it for like $50 and we’re done and dusted. I don’t have to be a special forces operator. I just have to be able to fly a drone close enough to nail-bomb a bunch of dudes from a cozy remote control center. If I fuck up, well, there’s 10,000 more drones I can remote into. They’re cheap. No need to pay Boston Dynamics $300,000 per unit. I got that Alibaba hook-up.

Warfare is rapidly becoming pointless. What’s the ultimate end game? A bunch of drones versus a bunch of drones? What’s the point? I would like to think that this would make humanity realize the fruitlessness of warfare, but I’m not that naive. We’ll all go along with it. Why wouldn’t we? We’re all idiots.