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Ranking my top 12 favorite tornado interceptors looks a little something like this:

TIV 1 - my sentimental favorite; the vehicle that first got me into storm chasing and a beauty and a badass all rolled into one, easily the best-looking interceptor ever and I eagerly await her return

Titus - second coolest interceptor ever made even if it was technically just a movie prop; it's still a real truck that can drive

Dominator 3 - a fellow Ford, gull wing doors, consistently gets the best tornado intercept footage thanks to Reed Timmer being Reed Timmer, and an extremely versatile vehicle with its rocket launcher and fast deployment; it's done me very well in Twisted due to this, so for that it holds a very dear place in my heart

TIV 2 - easily the greatest interceptor ever built, nothing I really have to say here

Dorothy - I just love this van lol yet another Ford and also has gull wing doors, really wish it got to be used to its full potential

Tornado Attack - an absolute beast: 800+ horsepower, a roaring V8, unrivalled off-road abilities, and the one that started it all; super cool

Dominator 1 - I have a soft spot for the little red shoe lol

Dominator 2 - a good build that sadly still gets the middle child treatment even from me lol

UTAV - WUUUUTAVVVV!!! a solid build that got the job done without as much fuss compared to its more famous counterparts; I have the utmost respect for it

Titan - not done yet, technically not classed as a full-on interceptor either by the lad himself, but having followed along from Day 1 (as have most of you here), I've grown quite fond of it and am rooting for it to do well when complete; plus it's surprisingly good-looking

Armadillo - could be a GOAT but to me is just D1 on steroids; nothing wrong with it, absolute beast in its own right with that screaming engine plus spikes, but yeah

Tornado Puncher - love the concept, just wish it was better executed lol

u/Kaidhicksii — 6 days ago

▲ 19 r/Oceanlinercreations

Place your bets on the name. Arriving August 2026.

u/Kaidhicksii — 26 days ago

▲ 105 r/Oceanlinerporn

If MV Britannic was the largest UK motor ship in 1930, what was the largest motor ship in the world?

u/Kaidhicksii — 1 month ago

▲ 5 r/Oceanlinerporn

The United States could have been built to 1,000' despite the Panama Canal and I can prove it.

u/Kaidhicksii — 1 month ago

▲ 8 r/TornadoInterceptors

In response to the question of what MTRV might look like when/if completed. (© olxfwx, TikTok)

u/Kaidhicksii — 2 months ago

▲ 2 r/TornadoInterceptors

HELL YES ROB!!!! :D

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u/Kaidhicksii — 2 months ago

▲ 2 r/Beyblade

Addressing the characterization of Ryuga in Metal Fury

I'll be brief. We saw Ryuga go from a power-hungry villain in Metal Fusion, to a reformed, wiser blader blazing his own path on his own terms in Metal Masters, to... back to a power-hungry antagonist in Metal Fury. Since that was rightfully something his character was criticized for in the third season, seemingly completely undoing almost all the growth he had undergone between the first two seasons, I'm here to propose a potential solution. And I believe that solution is found in his interactions with Kenta.

Whenever Ryuga wasn't terrorizing other bladers in pursuit of all the Star Fragments and was either on the move or relaxing, his big thing was whether Kenta could make him take him seriously in his bid to get Ryuga on the Legendary Bladers' side.

That, in my opinion, is the solution. Ryuga doesn't need to regress back to a power-hungry tyrant like in Metal Fusion. Instead, go all in on his lone wolf nature and arrogance. One could imagine a story where he denies the existence of Nemesis and doesn't take it as seriously of a threat even if it does exist, just as he does when Gingka and co. first tried to get him to join them on the volcano. From there, he simply continues going about his life, battling in the same tournaments and against the same people he did in canon in his quest to further grow in strength, not out of a desire to gather all the Star Fragments for himself, but to grow on his own to achieve the highest point of perfection over L-Drago Destructor possible. All out of the belief that he alone is the strongest blader on the planet and can handle whosoever comes at him, even if his opponent is a god. The ending can go the same way when he finally recognizes Nemesis exists, and this is where his overly prideful character comes to its climax, refusing to cooperate with the other Legends to create Zeus' Barrier out of the belief that he alone can defeat Nemesis no problem, and then ultimately paying the price.

Simple change, but one significantly for the better in my opinion. What do you think?

u/Kaidhicksii — 2 months ago

▲ 7 r/batman

Vicki Vale post

Meant to post this shortly after I had watched Batman '89, but I just want to give a quick word of appreciation to Vicki Vale.

Normally I never dabble in anything romance, but I'd be lying if I said the thought of who Bruce Wayne might one day be able to settle down with never came to mind. For that one I'll blame the Mystery of the Batwoman movie for bringing that question from a mere curiosity to the forefront of my mind in recent years.

If ever there was a woman who is the right one for Bruce, in my confident opinion, it's Vicki.

Selina Kyle is pretty and all, and she certainly has her moments, but the cold hard facts are that Catwoman is a criminal and Batman is the opposite. Unless she reforms, it would never work out, and indeed both acknowledge that it won't.

Wonder Woman may be infatuated with Batman, but she's an Amazonian and Bruce is a mortal. Apparently in JL: Unlimited they have kids in the future, but as I haven't seen that episode to my memory (it's been a long time since I've last seen the show on Saturday morning TV) I don't know how that worked out.

Barbara Gordon has apparently been shipped with Bruce, and I could see why it'd work since they both work together, but during her Batgirl days she's always been a child, so even though she's grown older over the years I'm just unable to envision it.

Katana from Beware the Batman would definitely work, but I just never detected that "spark" between her and Bruce. I never made it to the end of the show - much as I loved it; it's a goated show - so I don't know if that began to change throughout the season. Doesn't help either that it was cancelled after its first season which I'm just now finding out.

Talia al Ghul, unless she can pick a side (Batman's), no. Just no.

And one more thing about Vicki before I go: I find it funny her relationship with Bruce Wayne. Because this is the fourth time now that I've seen the main protagonist comic book superhero has a girlfriend who is a reporter, journalist or the like. Clark Kent? Lois Lane. Barry Allen? Iris West. Peter Parker? Mary Jane Watson. A neat little cliché that I certainly welcome more of, which only makes me favor Vicki x Bruce even more.

u/Kaidhicksii — 2 months ago

▲ 105 r/Oceanlinerporn

Am I the only one who wouldn't have a problem if QM2 ever got a duck tail?

'peak 20th century counter sterns intensifies'

u/Kaidhicksii — 2 months ago

▲ 73 r/Oceanlinerporn

Cunard Line has plot armor and I'm tired of pretending they don't.

This isn't a rant lol; just a funny observation.

Here's how you know God has favorites:

Not even the first to the transatlantic game in 1840, and yet Sir Sam Cunard with his quartet of spartan Britannia sisters gets the mail contract from the British government to kick off a weekly service instead of Brunel's Great Western.
They meet their match for the first time with the Collins Line in 1850 and their fleet offering is immediately clapped out by comparison. Yet Cunard prevails in the end because the no-good southern U.S. politicians sabotaged Collins, giving him an inadequate amount of subsidies and yet still forcing him to operate his ships at full speed the entire time, the cost of fuel cutting into profits and shortly after driving two of his ships to disaster, bankrupting the line by 1858.
Then the White Star Line, the Inman Line, the French Line, Norddeutscher Lloyd, Hamburg Amerika Line, the Italian Line, the Holland America Line, and the United States Lines all come online, and I'm just going to speedrun through all of them really quickly:
- White Star loses two of their three premiere express liners - one in a freak accident on her maiden voyage, the other in war before she ever entered passenger service - spend the rest of the 1920s unable to offer a reliable three-ship weekly service like Cunard; then get bought by a financial swindler who bankrupted the company with a little help from the worst economic crash in history; and finally are "saved" by the British gov't via a forced buyout by Cunard.
- Inman gets crit-hit by another financial crisis [Panic of 1873]; loses their mail subsidies and forcing them down to only their express liners; wastes precious money building a liner [City of Rome] to be the biggest and fastest but that fails to be the fastest and sells her in less than a year; and finally has their UK mail contract outright revoked, getting bought out by the American Line.
- French Line ships just could not stop catching on fire, culminating in the loss of their greatest liner at the hands of a bunch of over-rushed incompetent Yanks, forever killing their dream of one day offering their own two-ship weekly Atlantic service like Cunard soon got to do. By the time they built the France in 1960, the jets had already taken over, and she was hardly cut out for cruising. Then the '73 oil crisis came and she became too expensive for French Line to operate because the French gov't scrapped her subsidy, spelling the end of the line.
- NDL and HAPAG both lost all of their express liners and could never recuperate because Germany twice thought they could talk the talk in starting a global conflict but could never walk the walk. Oh yeah and some brat $@#%ing kid decided to torch the Bremen.
- Italian Line also lost both of their premiere express liners in WW2 because Italy picked the losing side, then took the overly traditional Ansaldo shipbuilders' advice to build two more pure-bred express liners in the mid-60s when the jets had by that point won the game instead of listening to CRDA's advice to design them as dual-purpose liners, thereby shooting themselves in the foot.
- The Rotterdam was no QE2, so once she stopped doing routine Atlantic crossings in 1968 Holland America just never built another liner. Carnival Corp. hasn't been nice enough to give them one either even though they did for Cunard.
- From the ashes of the American Line which was never a household name came the United States Lines, which for the first decade of its life was just a bunch of ex-German liners, but then gradually built up a name for itself until it finally built what was functionally the greatest liner of all time, only to also almost immediately after fall victim to the planes and then utterly drop the ball on the rising container shipping market which may have saved them if they just designed the right ships for the time. So they died for good, and now the aforementioned functionally greatest liner of all time is being sent to the bottom of the #@$%ing ocean just in time for this nation's 250th birthday. Meanwhile Cunard's darling is still proudly preserved in her stead because she served in war.

Mind you these are all the lines I could think of off the top of my head that were considered serious threats to Cunard; not at all including the countless other names who for the most part stayed in their lane then at one point or another kicked the bucket.

Meanwhile I needn't mention what Cunard has done and been through over the years, but I'll do it anyway, just to name a few.

Get funding from the government to build two speedy giant express liners (and later a third even bigger one) when the German lines started really kicking their behind and the Americans began buying up all their domestic competitors, because "her hum muh Bri'ish dominance."
Only lose 1/3 of their express liners unlike White Star who were unlucky enough to lose 2/3s.
Get favored by the British government YET AGAIN when the Depression was hitting to fund their superliner instead of White Star's and also gain absolute control over said company in the forced ~~buyout~~ merger while they were at it.
Come out of WW2 with the only liners big and fast enough to run two-ship weekly crossings whereas everyone else did not.
Somehow have the genius to design the only liner capable of facing the jet age head on and continue routinely crossing the Atlantic for the next 40 years whereas everyone else did/could not.
Then get a major boost when the ghost of their arch-rival's most infamous liner got a movie that somehow made everybody interested in transatlantic crossings again despite the tragic historical ending. Then get saved by the CEO of Carnival who just HAPPENED to have sailed on one of their ships when he was a boy and then commissions a guy who just HAPPENED to also be really interested in ocean liners to design them a new one, and here we are today.

Coincidence? Pure luck? Savvy leaders? Yeah right. The more I look around and see stuff like this, the more I start to think that the crazy people who say we live in a matrix, a simulation, a script, may actually have a point. Ts is rigged man: anyone who competes against Cunard is destined to fail, and so far it seems anything that threatens to turn Cunard from an "is" to a "was" will also fail. All the hammers break yet the anvil is still standing. 😭

Anyways Idk about the rest of you but I just entered Cunard's sweepstakes contest for QM2's 450th crossing. Got off my very first a few weeks ago and I'm still absolutely over the moon about it. Will share pics later when I move my photos from the phone to the PC. :)

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u/Kaidhicksii — 2 months ago

▲ 147 r/Oceanlinerporn

How come the Cunard Red changed and is there any chance of it reverting to its original color?

Originally I didn't have a problem with the current red - as a matter of fact I preferred it and still kind of do - but over the years I have come to wonder why it changed from the more orange color it was previously. Especially after comparing the Cunard colors to other lines that used red funnels: the orange tint definitely helped them stand out some. From a historical standpoint, it'd be nice if the current fleet's funnels could be repainted back to the original colors, as while their funnels do take on more of that orange tone at night - QM2 for example - it'd be nice if they also looked that way in the day.

u/Kaidhicksii — 2 months ago

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