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[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can't remember what it was, but there was a game or a book I played/read where the lasers on battleships were infinite and there's an argument over why the gunner needed to be precise.

Not Mass Effect; not the "Sir Issac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in the galaxy" line. Similar thing, but that game world used ballistics, not energy weapons IIRC.

Horus Heresy had something similar to that. Using their weaponry, I think that the quote was something like you will ruin someone's day. It might be today or it might be a planet 10000 years from now, so be accurate.