Nah, you just have to make random nerfs to the equipment you’re interested in and claim it’s to maintain realism.

All the boring western gun names like Desert Eagle, Colt Python, Winchester, Walther Pocket Pistol…

Please send help; I’m going down a wikipedia rabbit hole for the sake of a stupid joke

MYbe they meant to say “it’s not optional” instead?

So did anyone else read the terrible Star wars novel “Darksaber” about the Hutts hiring one of the architects of the death star to build their own in order to hold planets hostage or something, and while the new Republic is trying to rally the gang to go do what they do to death stars the Hutts are so busy cutting corners and embezzling that when they go to turn the thing on for the first time it just fucking explodes?

I don’t know why that’s coming to mind right now.

Xerxes I dug this from scrap metal Mount Athos in a cave 492 BCE!

I wonder why there could be confusion about the chain of command and who actually has what authority. I wonder how that happened, like if this was an easily foreseeable consequence to some kind of earlier action.

The Vatican has been two weeks away from a nulear weapon for the last 20 years, ever since that business with the antimatter bomb at the conclave. It’s a boogeyman they’re using to try and justify continuing the forever war against Italians. I say if they want atomic spaghetti, let em have it.