For his hard work to the Crown, the Royal Engineer of Equestria has been honored with a retinue of VIP bodyguards who protect him everywhere he goes. Their ordinary, everyday adventures together wind up being anything but ordinary.
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Next trick will be compensating for magnus effect when firing at vector to fast motion with strong wind giving extra vertical coponant?
One wonders is there are some magic amplifier thingies, protection enhancements or whatnots which has previously been way too heavy to field that could be integrated with such things. The shooter does not really NEED to be mobile anymore.
OH GOD I'M HAVING FLASHBACKS! Mr. Piccolo NO!
She's a pretty slow to adapt gunner...
Mile track, with - if this chapter is the indicator of average - 4 or 5 passes by Sparkshower per leg of the track (based on how Glammerspear and Engy kept halting the action to talk), with three legs of track. They rounded the home stretch just before those first few passes, so that's 8 stretches before the beginning of this chapter, so at least 32 runs by Sparkshower, plus the 3 here.
Across nearly three dozen attempts at close range, Glammerspear, as a trained marksman with combat experience, still doesn't have the personal skill to naturally adjust her lead at all? Instead, it had to be explained so she could essentially math it out? I'm no trained marksman, but I'm pretty sure given that many tries, my natural ability to guesstimate trajectory would've let me hit Sparkshower at least once.
Though it is really impressive that Sparkshower is making attack runs on a car traveling at nearly 40 miles per hour.
I listened to "You Say Run" during this chapter, I couldn't help but imagine this fanfic having an anime style opening with the song in the background
and it zooming in on character after character like the adventure time intro XD I couldn't stop laughing
Ah yes. A surefire way to get your science thingy funded is to convince a government it's useful for war. I think Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote a book about that.
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Man, I'm learning something new every day. It's not new to me that whatever is in motion tends to stay in motion unless something interferes, but it never really occurred to me for these things.
I haven't served, so I can't say I have fired a gun at a moving target while moving. I have played some air-to-air plane battles in video games though, and I am surprised that I don't see this in them.
What is it about old films like that explaining things so much better than modern education? Like, obviously we aren't learning how to shoot incoming planes in school these days, but this is the second video I've seen from over 70 years ago, in the past couple months that explained something like that a hundred times better than what we have today.
I wonder if a unicorn could launch artillery. Just an arcing glob of unstable magic that explodes when it hits something. Probably contributed to by several unicorns per round, given their apparent limits.
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Investors want practical results first, and the government doesn't give a shit about civilian convenience.
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It's the difference between teaching someone to understand something and teaching them what to regurgitate for testing purposes. Teaching why versus merely teaching what.
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*almost remembering Mr Popo's training* You're lucky you only trained with Piccolo.
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Wartime films like that had to convey complex math/calculations/subjects to soldiers with... less than stellar educations, shall we say.
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Maybe it's just the fact that I was in the Army, but those videos explained everything so clearly and simply. The other one I saw was about differentials in cars and I had absolutely no idea how they worked until a 15 minute video from 1934.
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We do not speak of Mr. Popo's "training".
We just give him more crack than Canada has snow.
"Don't fight the carriage. Take your time. Watch your sight. Lead your target. And above all, relax!"
The last starfighter, Grig said very similar. Classic Movie.
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Out of curiosity, what was the other one?
Nice
Lily before Anon reminds her about moving targets and moving platforms...
i.imgur.com/hz4DpVC.gif?noredirect
After Anon reminds her about the math...
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A video about how differentials work on cars. It was from 1934 I think. Everything made perfect sense and it was described a lot like the video in this chapter
I have to test that theory in warthunder. Nice training video.
I can imagine Anon now voicing the Equestrian version of the "Posistion Firing" video
Nice little chapter. Guess they need some more practices runs and than can enjoy the raining funds to come in.
I daresay, the Specialist has done much for modern gunnery, and she knows more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery.
Maybe next she'll master strich ranging and outdrink some batpony pirates in the bowels of the mountain next, and persuade them to join Anon's team.
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uh...yeah...
Honestly I CANNOT wait till he figures out airships ...
I never comment but this damn story makes me grin so much while reading.
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Equestrian Space force, orbital drop shock ponies incoming.
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If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!
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Honestly, I think it's a combo of the clear, concise language with , well, actually taking the time for you process what they said before moving on.
Alright, time for Lily to serve up some Blue Plate Specials.
Wonder if he should introduce the concept of proximity fuses and see if she can emulate some ww2 anti air.
Wow a Last Starfighter reference.
'Terrific, I'm about to get killed in a metal box barrelling down the road with a gung-ho ape who tells me to relax!'
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That's right; here at Everyday Life With Guardsmares, we only make the Highest Quality of references.
Welcome to suplex city.
I love it.
So fucking cool!
The physics here (and thus the story of the chapter) doesn't make sense. She's measuring the approach vector relative to her position, right? It's exactly as if the car was standing still and there was a heavy wind in one direction.
UNLESS
Glamerspear's missiles do not obey Galileian relativity like regular objects do.
Anon and his Guardmares, are getting an upgrade almost every chapter. Go get it, Lily!
Something only now occurred to me, and I don't know if I will like the answer;
Where do batponies find leather for their armor on the moon?
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My family is my power!
...
...And not just because I'm wearing great-aunt moonblade's tanned hide as armor.
Waste not want not.
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That makes a scary amount of sense
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And I thought the question was creepy when people were asking it regarding Equestria...
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It makes a lot more sense with the recommended video. Her shots occurred during the incoming charge or pass from what I understood, not parallel flying (Lily mentioned that Sparks was doing diagonal attack runs). At that point their motion would not be relative and some leading would be necessary.
ayy!! you're online, chapter 81 and more lets go *squee*
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I just like to read and I'm up late I keep a fairly consistent publishing schedule, and the next chapter should be up in about eight hours.
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It's hardest to train someone who has a wealth of experience, because they have routines/ reflexes/ muscle memory already developed. If I had to take a shot in the dark, that's what it is, her gut is telling her those shots SHOULD hit, so she's listening to her gut.
So adorable. Sparkshower reminds me of Maple Tree in Bofuri (I think is what it’s called).
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And I'm saying her gut wasn't adapting at all, which seems a bit weird for someone with plenty of experience in what she's doing. I mean... imagine an athlete being able to pass a ball to a running teammate, but being completely unable to pass their teammate the ball if both they and their teammate are moving. It says some things about the player's skill that they're incapable of adapting to the situation based on their own skill and experience.
But then, when the moving and passing thing is pointed out to them, they suddenly become a master at it.
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I'm not saying you're wrong, it is odd. I'm saying your scenario is more common than you might expect, even amongst skilled athletes. Throw in one new variable and you can fuck over very skilled individuals. If anything, I think your last point is most accurate, it's surprising how quick she corrected.
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Just Look at speed running, you can take years for new methods to be developed, and sometimes the very top speed runners don't want to or have a hard time adjusting to the new methods because they are so used to the old ones. For example in 007 it was discovered that looking downwards actually increase your character's movement speeds by a slim margin. The top speed runners at the time were considering banning this method for some reason or another I don't work exactly recall. Book professionals can and do often times have a difficult time adjusting to new methods
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It is more common and reasonable than you think. In fact, I am sure if you actually did some digging, you would find a defined name for this cognitive dissonance and why it takes place.
Stop looking at the specific issue, and step back to see the whole field here. Lily has a lot of solid experience under a set of circumstances, but the new variable getting tossed in did not filter into the proper place on encountering it. Prior training did give her the skillset, but it had been largely abandoned for lack of need in her mind until pointed out. With a moment to think it through, the new variable was put in the place it was meant for and the flow of information was no longer jamming up against her experience, but moving smoothly with her experience.
I have had a similar experience multiple times in my life, and have seen others experience it many times.
Cognition is weird, but like Lily's helmet lenses, once you find the right perspective to use, you grasp the logic taking place much easier.
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I'm also not saying Glammerspear's difficulties shouldn't exist; it's the black and white nature of everything in the situation. She has some skill at pegging aerial targets. We saw this in the Pas de Sabots. But instead of dropping from her normal... let's say 70% strike rate, to 25%... or 20%... or even 10%... her accuracy was 0. And a very consistent 0. A 0 for which she, as a trained professional, had absolutely no inkling of how it could have come about (she said this herself).
Then, when the Royal Engineer simply states the new parameter affecting her accuracy, her adjustment is perfect. Not to 50% (to maybe show she's still got room to practice)... or even the afor-guessed 70%... or even 90%. Her accuracy is suddenly a full 100% ex post "hey, change up your lead-o."
Again, I'm not saying her difficulties are unwarranted. I just find the absolutist nature of them worth an eye roll.