Ok before I hit the hay. You can turn into an animal at will. Your clothes and such won't turn with you but mass is not conserved so you can turn into something much bigger or smaller. It has to be a real creature that does or has existed and I guess if you want a plant that would be fair game. For me its an albatross. could travel around the world. might even manage to carry something that is not to large if packaged right. I am a bit torn though as the ocean is large so maybe a sea creature would be better. like a killer whale. of course then its not great for getting somewhere inland.

I say weapon because it gets to complicated with all the super powers you can get. Turning invisible, walking through walls, teleporting. So for this I want to limit it to sci fi weapons that at least attempt to have a tech basis. So like not the masters device that turns people into dolls. However we don't care if we can completely explain how it might be done now. Like lightsabers are fair game. As for me I would go with the star gate zat guns as initially put in. Both lethal and nonlethas and very portable. I want to put an honorable mention for tthe minority report sonic shotgun that seems to run on wind up energy so you should never theoretically run out of ammo. although not so sure as there was no indication you could power up more than one shot at a time.

EDITED: Its a little late at this point as the answers have went way off the rails but in case it gets more replies my intention was a weapon someone might carry around and could use as one person. not a weapons system or vehicle. Also no robots or things that essentially are their own entities. It should be a weapon used in a weapon like manner. aim and fire. also that quote about sufficiently advance technology looks like magic. if it looks like magic to us instead of technology then its to far afield. I hope this makes it more clear what I was looking for. Honestly I would have like to not use weapons as a basis but there are just to many things when you look at all of sci fi.

Looking at the sidebar do you want people to just post a wikipedia link and title but not to start the discussion?

So im watching sg1 in order but want to bring to interweave atlantis at the appropriate moment. What season episode should I start watching atlantis episodes. As an aside just finished the season 2 finale, season 3 premeire and wow. It starts as a boring clip show and ends in like the most amazing bringing together of various aspects of the show.

So. I never watched the show in order until recently. Im on the late season 2 episode with the wormhole and I think I was scratching my head before with some other episodes as I thought it was two way. That episode finally made it clear it was one way. Also will add a mildly infuriating but do a community search for stargate does not bring up this community.

First I know. facebook why am I on it. I mean I don't use it in any regular way but I have an account because of freinds and family. Try to make it a point to check if someone is trying to get a hold of me with that format like once a week. Also I know. Two posts in a day. Thats a lot for me. But man I get an email about changes to their settings menu with a blurb:

The setting to disconnect your off-Meta activity is going away. You can use the updated Activity from other businesses setting to choose if we use your activity from other apps, websites or offline interactions, such as in-store purchases, to show you relevant ads and now other content. To adjust this setting, go to Your information and permissions in your account settings.

and oh man the actually settings area is such a cluster. The above blurb is no where near enough to try and make your settings are as closed as possible so now you have to rely on people who figured it out and made a page about it or a youtube video.

So these class actions generally are over digital break ins and are rediculously common. Amounts are low. This one says as much at $10 but to get it you need:

To qualify for the Cash Payment up to Ten U.S. Dollars ($10.00) you must provide proof of membership in the Settlement Class, with your Claim Form submission. Examples of reasonable documentation to show proof of membership in the Settlement Class include your browser search history, screenshots showing dates, and email receipts of online purchases within the applicable time frame. Depending on the number of Valid Claims filed, the Cash Payment amounts may be reduced on a proportionate basis. You may be responsible for any applicable taxes on your Cash Payment.

Then if you go through that rigamoral it asks how you want your payment and it lists give me your bank account number or use venmo or paypal and you have to really look for this little tiny note. I mean we are talking like a font size of 3 or something. Barely legible and the other options are not only big but come with large logo pictures.

Anway this appears to be an enshitification of this kind of thing. I think they are hoping no one will do it and maybe they can set a precedence that no one asks for a check.

You have a bunch of thick, sticky, salty stuff in the back of your throat and your choices are to swallow or spit.

Wife and I have avoided covid for awhile. I got vaccinated a few weeks ago but my wife had not yet. I got something that surfaced last weekend and tested negative but she picked it up from me and tested positive. Im thinking my recent vax may have kept the titer low enough the test did not pick it up. I was somewhat bad for a few days and have some symptoms but she is at least twice as worse. Keep in mind she had a vaccine about a year ago. We both been masking since it was showing up on reddit in 2019. Guess it was inevitable.

Last week the old laptop that I use just for watching various internet stuff stopped playing adult swim shows. The shows show up as well as the episode list and when I go to an episode everything shows up but it does not populate the total time and can't start playing. At first I figured browser issue and cleared out cookies and such but still no go. Ok so I try chrome. nope. then edge. nope. Today I decided to try and play it on my own laptop which is linux whereas the old one just for playing stuff is windows. Still nope. So seems at this point its my network or adult swim has some sort of larger issue. My network seems fine in all other ways and a web search does not bring up any issues with adult swim. So I am checking out what people have to say on the only social media platform im willing to use. I don't see anyone else having posted this issue though and I figure most would follow my same route but might be more into AS than I am. So I don't have high hopes but if anyone has seen the same thing let me know.

So I don't know why I get excited about these things. The last series I had high hopes for was wheel of time. I was very disapointed with it. It was a nice enough fantasy series but it messed up the authors story and world while having to much of it in it to be an independent things. Foundation is even worse. While watching I was thinking it was maybe like stories that took place in the Foundation universe. Like stories between but even then with the whole cloned emperors. It was more like stories in a alternate foundation story universe. I feel like it was kinda dunified. Not in the sense of sandworms and spice but in the sense of people with special powers and all sorts of wierd sects and they really stressed the whole ai war thing. I almost feel maybe someone read the amber series with walking the spiral. Thats a stretch Ill admit but I wonder. Thing is the dune movie that did so well came out after this series started. I hate so much that these movie and show runners seem to be like. I can tell this authors story better than these silly authors can. ugh. Most of the series revolves around stories around stuff they added. Only the framework of the original stories seem to be present. Im only in season one but Im not sure I can handle watching it through to the end.

I wish the interface would allow me to crosspost while posting as this would be good for cyberpunk2077 and boring dystopia.

So the movie is ok and not a bad way to spend an hour or so. What I like about it though is it does a good job of showcasing wealth disparity. The mansion where a lot of it is filmed seems to be the same as the one the rockstar has in cyberpunk2077 if you played that. Im assuming its some iconic thing that gets a lot of filming and such and that the whole hills (hollywood hills?) is some iconic thing. Granted I think im kinda off on comedies. Comedies used to involve figures that were so outrageous but our society has gotten so wierd its pretty hard to do so if anything they try to humanize aweful behaviour. I in particular don't want to spoil anything but my personal opinion is not bad, worth some time. I sorta don't want to give it a C especially with what is being put out now so I will give it a B-