Facts don't care about your feelings, but not in the way conservatives think

The woke mob took away our one-one-eightium

I at least respect Idris Elba having to do it as a deal with the devil sort of thing, Elton not so much

The Shadow of games were so funny conceptually, gritty grounded Peter Jackson LOTR but there's just a really angry man with a racist ghost headmate running around and fucking up the entirety of Mordor. It's like The Force Unleashed but with actual sauce.

It's less realistic than Gundam and I will never tire of pointing that out

Which means that it's carrying kinetic energy on the order of its own mass in TNT, and in terms of all-up system mass you might as well have fired a cruise missile, or a ballistic missile with a conventional payload, both of which offer more flexibility and better response time

The big problem there isn't the velocity regime (you routinely hit 7-8 km/s in laboratory light gas gun rigs), it's that the Earth's atmosphere makes the velocity pretty much useless. Entry drag saps most of a rod shot's kinetic energy and it's hitting the ground at only about 3 km/s

Der Sturmer at it again

This is pretty much exactly how Krasnikov tubes work, actually!

It's one of the reasons why the Japanese are pursuing a fairly low velocity railgun for air defence, if its capacitors get hit you basically just lose the weapon instead of half the ship