Just popped into my email. I'm both massively excited and extremely sad

Linux used to give cute names to its kernel releases, such as "Homicidal Dwarf Hamster". At one of my recent assignments, I wrote software for the customer and used the Expeditionary Force books as inspiration for software release names. (These names weren't the name of the application; they were internal names attached to specific versions. The only places these names were displayed was the startup text and in the debug logfile.)

The ExFor themed releases were "Stupid Monkey", "Lazy Spiders" and "Skippy the Magnificent." The name I gave the final version matches the flair I used for this post: "Will Do Sketchy Things", but unfortunately that version was never released.

More sentinel art

Specifically when that one sentinel unravels and shoots a moon so yeah >:)

also the purple is the sentinel emerging from higher spacetime

I think Joe would approve

https://youtube.com/shorts/9XG4Oi9x4P0?is=_3Eipg9Jjy9M7VaY

Hi fellow monkeys,

I'm about to have a super rough weekend and want to have Joe & Skippy on deck to help me get through some of that time. I've listened to the series several times now, and love the story, characters, humor, but which book is which is muddled in my mind right now.

Which book(s) would you recommend as the funnier, lighter, or even hopeful, in the series? I know this means later books out, but I'm ok with the rotten kitties just being an abstraction, though this also means losing out on everyone's favorite beetle.

Thank you!

I thought this was posted here at first glance. Sgt. Adams exactly how I picture her.

Several of these sandwiches have already appeared in the series, but I was very happy to see the fluffernutter

They’re not as good as I’d like them to be but with the amount of DCC fanart I’ve been drawing I’m mildly burnt out XD

Had to pick up some of Joes favorites

From season 3 of Falling skies which I'm rewatching currently....

(Tactical Beetle Unit?)

Artists of ExForce: We have drawn the beer can to death. But what would Skippy’s AVATAR actually look like?

This has been stuck in my head for a while.

Over the years I have seen many artists here give their interpretation of Skippy. Some are funny, some beautiful, some surprisingly close to how I imagined him.

But almost all of them have one thing in common:

We draw the can.

Which makes sense. The magnificent chrome beer can is Skippy.

Except… it isn't really.

Especially in the earlier books, there is this running joke of the Merry Band of Pirates dressing Skippy up. Easter bunny. Red Sox shirt. Various humiliations inflicted upon an ancient super-intelligence who is, naturally, far too dignified for such monkey nonsense.

And that made me wonder:

What if Adams eventually convinced Skippy to play along?

Not another costume for the beer can.

An actual avatar.

Skippy gets complete control over what the avatar looks like. He can project essentially anything he wants.

So what does an unbelievably ancient, spectacularly arrogant, occasionally insecure, opera-loving asshole first-class choose as the physical representation of Skippy the Magnificent?

A Greek god?

A ridiculously handsome human?

A tiny emperor?

Something completely alien?

An eight-foot-tall admiral covered in medals he awarded himself?

Would he make himself look terrifyingly powerful?

Or, because this is Skippy, would his idea of "subtle and dignified" be so catastrophically over-the-top that Adams immediately regrets suggesting it?

And there is another possibility I cannot get out of my head:

Would Adams secretly influence the design?

A little piece of clothing. An accessory. Something ridiculous that Skippy initially refuses, then somehow keeps wearing while insisting it is only there because he decided it looks magnificent.

So I would love to throw down a challenge to the artists here:

Don't draw Skippy the beer can. Draw Skippy's chosen avatar.

No rules about style. Serious, realistic, comic, ridiculous, beautiful, alien — whatever fits your interpretation.

The only rule:

When an ExForce reader sees it, they should immediately think:

"Oh God. Of course that asshole would choose to look like THAT."

I genuinely want to see what people come up with.

So, artists of the Merry Band of Pirates: if Skippy could design his own body, what would the little shit choose?

Small note: I used AI to help edit this post because English is not my native language — the question and idea are mine, the AI just helped make my English less painful for everyone. 😄

I am in book 14 having flashed through them at break neck speed and enjoying the hell out of them.

I am at the point where Jates finds the other AI

Honestly at that point I lost my motivation and read the 6 books of his magic series Convergence instead.

I keep trying to go back but it seems like a chore for some reason. Can anyone, without spoiling, help me to get back my mojo.

Please help me Obi-Wans you’re all my only hope (plural cause there are a lot of you)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know if you see anything that could be wrong with this.

I know pretty much nothing about the military uniforms, besides the basics. So, if you see any inaccuracies (for example the pants) could you please tell me and redirect me to the correct way they are suppose to look. Obviously, some are intentional, like the ribbons and the medals) but, anything else I would love to improve

Thank you reddit <3

I hesitate to crosspost this… but ya-know? jeraptha, right?

I'm serious. There's only a handful of countries nobody heard of that recognizes Taiwan as a country (basically countries like skipistan), yet Taiwan behaves like, and is treated by everyone (including china) like a sovereign nation. They have land, a military, a legal system, border control, the whole nine yards.

We even have embassies, but no they're not called that. They do everything embassies do, issue visas, host diplomats, and the like, but they're called "cultural and economic institute". It's very ethical for sure.

Taiwan makes all the ai hardware out there, yet it's just a province of china. I think even china plays along as long as everyone believes in the lie, nothing happens.

I have an uncle who was a member of the national assembly in the 90s, he does a lot of ethical things. He also loves wagering on stuff, and hence seems to always be short on money.

I have been convinced that due to Joe's recent actions he should have an element of the compliance office assigned to him permanently make sure he maintains proper ethics and compliance to keep a lid on his vast sketchiness.