• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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      You would probably really enjoy Heavy Metal Magazine. Especially the stuff by Moebius. It’s a French sci-fi comic magazine the 80’s animated movie was based on.

      I don’t think they make it anymore but there’s plenty of back issues to read. A few have been scanned in and put on the Internet Archive and I wouldn’t be surprised if you could find more by sailing the high seas.

      https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A"Heavy+Metal+Magazine"

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        This is all going so well with my current play through of Caves of Qud, and my planning for a Gamma World campaign. Thank you so much, I plan on descending into these waters and not emerging for a while.

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    Remind me of the prototype weapon “the davy crocket” it was a concept weapon which would be used by field units preferably mounted to a willys jeep. Which would launch a football sized nuclear warhead.

    It never saw deployment because of multi reasons which include

    – it didnt shoot far enough to get the launchers out of explosion range

    – there was alot scrutiny in the 50s over nuclear bombs.

    – it was heavy as fuck

    Lots of people says the fallout series of games took heavy inspiration fron the davy crocket to make the fatman

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      I’ve read about it before. There’s even photos.

      If you want to apply the phrase “derp” to atomic weaponry, there you go.

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        Ha thats pretty funny. silly 50’s military thinking they can strap the power of a small sun to tripod thanks for the photo :D