@heckindoc.bsky.social
I have always played video games, now being in my 30s I would like to share that love with you. Outside I'm in the military and a Family Medicine doctor - here I'm just a guy who's doing his best.
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- By popular request, no later than next week, I will also be streaming on YouTube -
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Join 8pm Central for a continuation of the Billion Brigade as we continue with our current contract in hopes of moving closer to our financial goal.
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A very fun battle from my last stream. Check out the VOD on Youtube! I hope to see you at the next stream tomorrow at 7PM central time!
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Join 8pm Central for a continuation of the Billion Brigade as we continue with our current contract in hopes of moving closer to our financial goal.
Schedule this week:
Mon 1-26 8pm central
Fri 1-30 7pm
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In this I stand with the developers of MegaMek and plan to continue playtesting and QCing the project that they continue to work on. You are welcome to have other opinions, and this one is mine.
-HeckinDoc
11/11
hearsay. Should the author of this article like to speak with me directly, I would be more than happy to speak with them. I am actually looking forward to reading through some of their previous articles to learn more about their opinions. However in this one I feel that they have missed the mark
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forward with using any tools that he thought or believed in any way would jeopardize this wonderful project.
Overall, I am disappointed in this article. I would have hoped that they would have spoken with Hammer or the other devs before publishing the article and not use secondary sources or 9/
by AI. And I know in making this statement I will likely be bombarded by examples. However, the developers who I have interacted with from the MegaMek project are some of the most careful and thoughtful humans that I have had the privilege of interacting with. Hammer, especially, would not move
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consideration before acting because they are always walking on a tightrope.
Could more of an effort have been made to make it obvious AI was used in portions. Sure. However, I would challenge you to find software published by major companies in the last several years that has not been touched
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community regularly and does not appear to be involved in the development of MegaMek. I have not seen them on the discord channel. I have not seen them on the GitHub page. This is an open source project made with love by people who have lives and jobs outside of this who utilize tools with
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And looking at the revision history it can be seen that no changes aside from commenting code was made from Nov to now.
What I am most disappointing about with the article is that the author makes sweeping statements and, while I am likely wrong, does not appear to interact with the Megamek
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work of the developers.
I'm not going to beat a dead horse. Hammer provided an official reply, the AI article from the GitHub page was also published. One area where I can find fault is that it was not published immediately after it was written in Nov 2025 (which is shared by Hammer)
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profession as a physician is not excluded.
Broadly speaking, the current dev team uses AI to assist them in tasks that would otherwise be time consuming and tedious, and is not involved in the primary process of producing MegaMek. The primary space that I have seen AI used is in checking the
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As I am not a regular reader of the substack, I'm not going to make any broad strokes about it, or the articles. I'm sure that they articles are well written and provide great insight. In this instance, I think it is off the mark
AI tools pose great risk to many professions, my primary
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If you're going to tag me specifically then yes, I am practically obligated to respond.
I do no agree with the stance of the article that was written and feel that it was written with inadequate research and care. To be fair, I have never read any of the articles on this substack
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Join 8pm Central for a continuation of the Billion Brigade as we continue with our current contract in hopes of moving closer to our financial goal.
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Join 8pm Central for a continuation of the Billion Brigade. We picked up a new contract that we will be starting today after the devastation we dealt on those wicked pirates last episode.
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Join in 90 minutes (8pm Central) for the continuation of the Billion Brigade. Mistakes may have been made with this contract
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After surviving the flu, we will be streaming tonight at 8pm central over on Twitch. Join for the continuation of the Billion Brigade.
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Thanks for the shout out, enjoy!
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Join in 60 minutes (8pm Central) for more Battletech using MekHQ as we continue our campaign. If you can't join, don't worry you can always catch the VOD on Youtube.
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Join in 60 minutes (8pm Central) for a continuation of the Billion Brigade as well continue our campaign in 50.10. If you can't join, don't worry you can always catch the VOD on Youtube.
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Join in 45 minutes (8pm Central) for a continuation of the Billion Brigade as well continue our campaign in 50.10.. If you can't join, don't worry you can always catch the VOD on Youtube.
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Tonight's stream will be canceled owing to a case of laryngitis. To be continued on Sunday!
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Tonights stream is starting in 1hr (8PM Central). With the upcoming 50.10 release, we'llbe making a new company in the most recent nightly and looking at the new features that will be coming out in this new release. If you can't join you can always catch the VODs on Youtube!
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Join me tonight (11/23/25) at 8PM Central on Twitch for more MekHQ / Megamek as we assault two data centers. If you can't be there, don't worry you can always catch the VOD on YouTube!
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#Battletech #Megamek #Mekhq #Twitch #Streaming #letsplay
Streaming Schedule Thanksgiving Week:
Sunday 11/23: 8pm-?? MekHQ
Wednesday 11/26: 8pm-?? MekHQ
Friday 11/28: 8pm-?? MekHQ
Reminder: When 50.10 is released, we will be starting a new campaign.
Catch the streams on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/heckindoc
Or the VODs on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@Heckindoc
Join me tonight (11/21/25) at 8PM Central (+/- pending how bedtime goes) on Twitch for more MekHQ / Megamek as we assault two data centers. If you can't be there, don't worry you can always catch the VOD on YouTube!
www.twitch.tv/heckindoc
#Battletech #Megamek #Mekhq #Twitch #Streaming #letsplay
Stream Schedule this week (All times in Central) --
Monday 11/17: Monday Night Mechs 8pm-10pm
Wednesday 11/19: Possible Stream
Friday 11/21: Mechs 8pm - ??
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