a “black friday of spiders” has an ominous ring to it

Yep. Had the war continued, that would have probably been the first prototype.

My uncle used to tell me this story all the time about his experience with bullying during his time in HS.

I haven’t read an offline newspaper in a decade. But when I was a child it was Sports, Comics, TV Guide, then time for school, in that order for a decade at least.

I'd say that McMike is acknowledging that he may have prematurely doubted the veracity of Zapata's claims.

I respect a person who can eat crow.

I think he’s saying he initially thought was fake, but now he doesn’t.

They’re jets, hence the crazy power numbers. In no way could he make 1k with a micro-sized ICE.

Not really. He’s burning insane amounts of fuel to get to that level of power. You can push 1000 horsepower out of almost any engine if you construct it from materials durable enough to survive it, but doing so requires insanely high RPM that eats through fuel at a rate comparable to a rocket. He’s using a gas-turbine…

I believe it’s four 250hp turbojets. Still....Holy Crap.

*furiously searches for King Cobra fistfights.

That looks like one of those things that seems so easy to use if you’re really, really good at it, but a normal person will die almost instantly. Like wielding a King Cobra in a fistfight.

“the lack of a goal means it’s not really a game”

Stop, my wallet can only get so empty...

Maybe she has poor eyesight? And, she may have no reason to believe that a giant figure like this of anyone else.

Well, I’m nobody, but I got more out of this story of a sloth than I did your human-composed response to it, so they’re not totally useless.

You................sound like...............a.................very...............................miserable...........................human......................being.

Right... gassing.