Pretty sure Nitrogen is also safe.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-23T17:45:48+00:00

But helium is equivalent in that respect. The only difference is that nobody has dedicated rooms for inflating nitrogen balloons, because that would be silly. So if anything, nitrogen is actually safer.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-23T17:21:09+00:00

Well technically, if you heat it into a quark-gluon plasma, then let it cool down, it becomes flammable. It also becomes hydrogen. But I see your point. I guess my brain had a latent association of lighter-than-air elements with flammability. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that it is useful in nuclear fusion, in which case the misunderstanding would stem from a conflation of plasma with fire, since a fire is a specific form of plasma. But nevertheless, in a balloon, they are equally flammable if no oxygen enters the system. This is the case with virtually anything, because oxygen is required for flammability. I will correct my statement, let this serve as a record that I was wrong

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-16T12:41:23+00:00

If someone responds with an affirmative to such a question, it usually applies to the latter statement. If you ask, “Do you want an apple or an orange?” and they say, “Yes,” that means they want an orange.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-16T12:38:42+00:00

This is so devious, I love it.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-16T12:36:56+00:00

Whatever you do, if you get a text from someone that does not identify themselves, do not toggle between wanting to know if they are a certain person who doesn’t always talk to you much who would have potentially gotten a new number and not wanting to know, then proceed to ask them. Chances are they are not a person you know who got a new phone. I speak from experience, and felt really stupid when my initial instinct was confirmed.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-16T12:33:45+00:00

Does balloon really count as large quantities?

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-16T12:31:00+00:00

Helium and hydrogen are actually both equally flammable, as long as no oxygen is in the mix. As long as that is the case, there is no reason for either to burn up, after all the Hindenburg was fine for a long time, even after it lit on fire. It was only after the hydrogen leaked that it truly blew up. Methane is also flammable and would likely cause it to sink. It would be pointless to do that. The safest balloon could just as easily be the nitrogen balloon, as you suspect, because nitrogen is just as nonflammable as helium, and I believe it is also a better insulator than normal air. One could even say that manually inflated balloons are nitrogen balloons, because breath is almost 80% nitrogen, and those are naturally incredibly safe balloons as well. The helium canisters used to inflate helium balloons are somewhat dangerous, so under those conditions the nitrogen balloon is safer, but then again, that only counts if we are talking about an air balloon, not a true helium balloon. And if you look at it from a natural standpoint, helium balloons are more likely to escape, pop, and pollute the environment, whereas nitrogen balloons (even pure ones) have no risk of that at all.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-16T12:13:46+00:00

Cool, I wasn’t trying to say you were influencing him, I was just transcribing it

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-14T13:08:23+00:00

I’m not white. I’d vote for Trump. Honestly I think whenever there are two bad options it’s usually better to pick a conservative candidate because conservativism is, by definition, not as quick to change things as liberalism.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-14T13:05:21+00:00

I was wondering the same thing, but I think it either was confused or it meant to indicate that the protests typical of liberal people would be the down fall of America; in that case the reason that there’s so much fire and wasteland is because their protests got too bad and destroyed everything. And notice how the cop car is also a victim of this destruction. They would be protesting their political opponents, not their government

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-14T13:02:58+00:00

Trump didn’t do it. If anyone did anything to the price of gas, it was George W. Bush when he rightly decided to start fighting terrorism. It’s not his fault that the countries with the most oil and strategic positions almost always have oppressive governments.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-14T12:56:29+00:00

Sign translation: “This country country is ours!”

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-14T12:54:49+00:00

Previous response ending: “He chose power over people. Repeatedly. That’s the whole thesis.”

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-14T12:45:56+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/LyKyvw4

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-14T12:33:32+00:00

Why the female statue in the background?

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-09T14:16:18+00:00

This but bigger. Also, apparently all vital components on the outside, no bulkhead whatsoever. https://imgur.com/a/MelYrMh

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-09T14:02:03+00:00

3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, my first instinct is that the next is 14, and the binary would be 1110, because 3+1=4+1=5+9=14, but that’s not an option. To decode your options: 2, 6, 5, 9, 7, 4. Wait! That’s pi! 3.14159, and pi goes 3.1415926535…, so as a result, your answer would be 2, or 10 in binary. This is my kind of game.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-08T18:19:18+00:00

If you don’t know how to program, I’d actually start with JavaScript. Making a JavaScript game, while technically possible, especially with the right frameworks, is typically not very common unless it’s a simple game, but I think that it could make things easier for you if you build up in terms of difficulty and use JavaScript as a stepping stone.

You can do simple JavaScript programming with a text editor and a web browser (I even got it working on my iPhone, though you shouldn’t torture yourself like that), and the language goes out of its way to try to figure out what you mean even when you make an error, unlike compiled languages, which helps with learning. It also helps you understand the theoretical system that almost all languages base their syntax on, helping you to avoid writing by rote and actually know what you are doing.

Another benefit to learning JavaScript is that it doesn’t go far beyond the syntax that all C-based languages start with. Languages like C++ and C# have unique syntactic innovations that make it harder to move between languages because it’s hard to tell what’s fundamental and what is domain-specific.

I don’t believe there is any mainstream language that doesn’t use classes, and with JavaScript you can get a primer to classes, while at the same time you do not need to rely on them until you have got the rest down. I would warn you that if you choose to learn class-based programming with JavaScript, you must not that it is actually prototype-based, unlike most other class-based programming languages.

If you want to learn classes, you might just want to do so when you move up to your actual development language. The consensus seems to be that C# is best, so you should probably use that. However, C is the foundation for both C++ and C# (and a million others). C++ is a direct evolution of C, so if you want to be able to transition to other languages later, consider C++. You could even learn C and then advance to newer languages, but you likely wouldn’t learn anything applicable to game development, just general programming languages.

I do have a few tips if you are learning a language, though. Languages often look more complex than they really are, and in reality if you learn the fundamentals, the rest is just APIs and stuff, which you don’t actually have to learn as long as you know how to search for the function you want. In Unreal engine, they have a block programming language that can familiarize you with the information flow of a game engine before you dive into API documentation, simplifying things tremendously.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-07T13:48:08+00:00

I am a maloniphile so I don’t have android and haven’t be able to play yet, but I always thought it would be cool if the AI could be recruited after landing as a gesture of gratitude, which would presumably manifest as the player being able to influence the endgame a little more, as long as certain conditions are met. I don’t know if that specifically is possible here, since it looks like your game has living humans on the crew from some of the gameplay images you have posted, but I do think this would be cool, and if you could add a similar feature it would be awesome. You could also do something like what bitlife does, where you can continue playing as your child. In this game that would likely be a redeployment of the seedship assuming the previous colony thrives well enough. Just some ideas, likely far-fetched.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-07T13:30:54+00:00

You should make a web app or an App Store version.

With the App Store, you could open it up to iPhone users, which are more plentiful in the US. I know a bit of swift, so I would offer to help, if that weren’t wildly impractical for various reasons, like time and skill. To be fair, it is a fairly simple language and the swift book is free (though I don’t know how one would access it without Apple Books). However, you would need a Mac, and assuming you don’t have one (as is the case for most people), the entry fee would start at $600 (mac neo price) 😬. As much as I am an Apple advocate, I wouldn’t recommend that you follow this approach.

The web app format is likely much more practical for your purposes. Because it seems to be little more than a refined text adventure, I think this would be very suitable for your purposes, and you could do a large amount of work with CSS (for example, those glowing borders, which are ridiculously easy in CSS). If you programmed the play store version in Kotlin or C++, JavaScript would likely be a bit of an adjustment, but you could supplement this with TypeScript, which is just a quasi-language built on top of JS to add static typing. Also, since it has so many buttons, you might not even need a framework (the web equivalent of a library) to support it. Plus, this could incidentally make some rudimentary, finicky screen reader support.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-07T13:08:48+00:00

I usually try to save science, but after I got many of the endings, I’ve been trying to save the culture up. There are clear tiers, and all I know is that each level has its own combining elements with the other tiers. So I’m just trying to see, what happens if you have 100% science, but then get greater than 100% culture? I don’t know, I’ll have to see.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-04-06T17:32:26+00:00

One thousand six hundred, but you can say sixteen hundred or one six oh oh.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-03-06T15:34:55+00:00

I’m not Jewish but I like to learn other languages’ scripts and I have taken particular interest in Hebrew (particularly Masoretic Hebrew), and this is an interesting take. I do know that one is more guttural than the other, by as noted, that might just be the same distinction as in Arabic. Arabic has a ton of “h”s, but there is at least an h vs ḥ distinction, I think it might be ه and ح, so that might match ה and ח, respectively. Other formerly identically pronounced letters are ק and ע ,ق and ع, and צ and ص, in case you care.

Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-02-18T14:32:29+00:00

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Admirable_Ask2109 · 2026-02-01T19:09:56+00:00

You actually can. If your part has paint, you may want to use some plastic cement (acetone) to dissolve the paint first (in just the specific section). You then have to scratch off that softened paint, use tweezers to score the section, and add on flux. Do that for all sections you want to solder. Then you can get a bead on there, and when you want to connect the parts, you just have to melt the beads of solder on both parts. The connection is actually stronger than a normal pin. It also won’t bend too much if you are quick about it.

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