If Legolas with a rifle is something like Hawkeye or Deadshot and he had a regular mid calibre rifle, he could probably carry more magazines on him with more rounds than he could carry arrows. The reloading might be an issue, but the higher fire rate than a bow should make up for it. A proper sniper would be excessive for killing via headshots, and ammo would be a much more limiting factor. Just handing him a rifle probably wouldn't accomplish much though, since he's trained with a bow.
Orcs typically cluster though, so the LMG with an extra drum or two would probably make a bigger impact. But a couple grenades would have a bigger impact still.

Saga of Tanya the Evil is amazing. Anybody should totally check it out if you want awesome magic/tech fusion in a WW1 setting.
"A diffusive magical explosion. It's caused when magic under maximum pressure mixes with the surrounding air. Even if you dodge the centre impact, you'll be killed by the oxygen deprivation and carbon monoxide poisoning that followed. We didn't need to provide any fire support."

On the other hand, if you're concerned with a violent reaction, it would be much better to do it in public to discourage a scene, or at least have witnesses.

A closer analogy would be a livestream with 20 years latency.

The risk of getting strafed by a racoon piloting an Apache is low, but never zero.

lol yep, oops

"Head of the Dead" is still a metal band I'd listen to.

Draw full of books taking up 95% of the space under mine, which will be pretty concerning if it turns out the Vashta Nerada aren't just one of the Steven Moffat's terrifying fever dreams.

A few of the cast members mentioned in interviews that in some crucial scenes he wasn't even on the set at the same time with the people he was interacting with. They filmed the scenes desperately, sometimes with different actors or just stand ins so he wouldn't even know the full context of a scene he himself was in after filming it. After some slip ups with his first movie they took NO chances.

The bombardment lasted all day long

A million shells were fired

As the drum roll started on that day

The fire thing is accurate, it also allows us to maximize nutrients gained from food which helps us grow faster, larger, and smarter than wild animals. However the use of external resources for energy and heat is not unique; there are plenty of animals that have tactics for protecting or climate controlling themselves ranging from digging burrows (mice, polar bears, kangaroos (ok, roos more dig ditches but the point stands) etc.), building structures (beavers, ants, spiders, bees, etc.), or using other creatures as protection usually by hiding or laying eggs in fresh carcasses (wasps, flies, rats, wolves, hyenas, etc.).

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Most apex predators would fair better than humans if dropped in an unfamiliar environment, and we aint got shit on smaller organisms in terms of numbers. What sets humans apart is our ability to create and manipulate tools, and our ability to communicate complex knowledge to each other and across generations.
Most life forms are limited by their biology to remain within their niche without generations of adaption allowing them to expand or change. Humans can use tools to allow us to participate in almost any niche we wish to (simple tools allow digging, mining, or climbing, complex tools allow extremum environment habitation such as submarine or outer space).
Additionally, humans are unique in that we can retain information long term through writing, without having to have it evolve into our biology the way pretty much every other creature on earth does.

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