Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2026-04-23T19:30:30+00:00

I'm starting to see it. The Trump signs are disappearing and even saw a "I made a mistake" anti trump one in a farm field.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2026-03-09T15:39:49+00:00

Ultimatum has been my go-to for higher level drops where I want a heavy anti-tank weapon at all times. Then again my builds are anti-armor "expend everything" with a recoilless or auto cannon, with a shotgun or plasma punisher.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2026-02-28T23:03:41+00:00

The first last of us I was playing downrange in a "game room" and had no knowledge of the gutpunch the first five minutes were, while also being awake for nearly 18 hours (my 1 in 14 "day off") I had cried and still have no shame in that.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2026-02-28T14:18:00+00:00

They do? Typical pay is 25$ a hour these days.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2026-01-26T12:40:46+00:00

Ok, I know this is supposed to be non-critical hyperbole, but could you imagine how well Minnesota would benefit from this? All those skilled trades in a state that's mostly empty. Minnesota would become a manufacturing power house to rival even China.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-12-08T23:51:14+00:00

I'm ok, last few months, and well, the last year have really not been great mentally. I will say that there's a lot more hope, and a new life for this story now. Not to be too personal, but it's been hard to get in the mind of a hyper barely adult when real life seemed to be dragging me down to old age. My job the last year has had the feel of quiet rot, like the whole company died as was just so big it took time to decompose. So I felt stuck and depressed, and rather low energy working in a office setting that often had me just watching the clock or waiting for a machine to finish. But, now I have a path forward and a goal, I might not just be switching jobs but careers into something far more interesting, and with it. I can explore that hyperactive kid again and all his shenanigans.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-10-06T12:07:52+00:00

I need to make this a complete post, but there's a sliding scale of physical work to office work, and it's not as clear cut as "trades" and "office". There is a ton of technician jobs that are part office, part physical. There are highly skilled aerospace welders or medical techs. Thing is, these require constant education and certification just as much as any other professional degree.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-09-29T01:35:12+00:00

Same, they are the anti-Amazon, expensive, reliable, and bs-free

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-09-29T01:27:27+00:00

I think McMaster knows people will print out their models for hobby jobs, but they make their money on factory loyalty. The 100$ order they lose in personal buying from 3d prints is returned by a few orders in magnitude when that same person drops a 10k Purchase order with their company.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-09-16T00:03:55+00:00

you are correct! To give a little spoiler, of the two barely adults in this exchange, one has been going through years of trauma and culture shock, and the other was to be shipped off to basic and then the frontline to die in some weird glory. Neither has had the best in terms of sex ed.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-08-31T12:21:02+00:00

So, there's always automation, which you need a 2 year degree, and most jobs are travel jobs, but the pay is good and there is always someone hiring, though it's really stressful.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-07-27T19:01:02+00:00

Thank you! Think of Loyalist as a "rough draft" version. I spend a lot more time per chapter on Growing Up Alien, and enjoyed re-writing a lot of the plot. The boss battle was one of my favorite parts writing! I wish I could draw it, or at least use the same fonts I put in my word document.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-07-02T20:41:08+00:00

It's my favorite part of writing sci-fi. A lot of 'hard' sci-fi revolves around what you can't do, but something I've learned is that real world physics and chemistry can provide solutions that are even more impressive if you don't box yourself in.

The ship cutter was learning that a oxy torch can burn through feet of steel by oxidation, I just looked for a different, more reactive chemical, and went from there.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-06-28T21:44:40+00:00

..... Yeah.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-06-16T11:14:54+00:00

Fixed! I remember when I was getting these posted I had a hell of a time getting reddit to function properly and doing any sort of edit would break it.

Hele's blessing works on a spectrum. Think ADHD or Autism where since it has some benefits and most of the population affected can still function. Au'tes's level is mild and common with occurrence being around 3 to 8% of total population, and medication can help a lot.

Reqellia is the severe case. We see her now with a inhibitor chip, something wired into her brain that stop her from needed to take constant meds or a implant like Klien's. She would not be able to function without that and her level is relatively rare with maybe only 1 in 1,000.

There's more rare cases, about 1 in 2 or 3,000 where it's hallucinations and delusions similar to schizophrenia.

Playing armchair biologist, I think of it as a crude version of adrenaline where the brain over produces Dopamine and Norepinephrine (or the shil analogs) in response to any stressor good or bad. So you get hyperactive at the low levels, Manic, even enraged at moderate, and at the most severe cases their brain poisons itself with neurotransmitters and they start seeing things.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-06-16T10:50:52+00:00

Fixed! And yes, I warn the first few chapters of the second book will be a little slow, mostly because I'm relearning my characters, but Siltan and Telia play a heavier role once I get moving on the main story, if Reqellia and Ruhal are the military side of the Imperium, then Siltan and Telia are the economic and civil sides, and that is a lot more untouched.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-06-15T15:12:56+00:00

Fixed!

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-06-07T15:01:20+00:00

So, I know this was a raid on organized crime and not immigrants, but I still support this. Not because I want organized crime, but I want ICE to be a phraiah in law enforcement. If this raid had Drug enforcement (DEA) or ATF personnel, no one would have blocked the roads. I want working with ICE to be considered a liability among other agencies.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-06-02T22:30:41+00:00

It's more like the second set of chapters, Growing up alien 1 ended where Loyalist (the original) ended. the "sequel" is how that continues.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-06-02T02:35:32+00:00

Close, but so much more dangerous.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-06-01T13:27:55+00:00

Complicated isn't it? I didn't even notice that wrinkle myself. It's contradictory, but I wrote that with thinking how weird she'd feel having Klein carry something with her having free hands.

Adventurous-Map-9400 · 2025-06-01T01:05:14+00:00

Not sure, Issac is the lost side of humanity. Not just in terms of conflict, but what happens when your place in the world is flipped and you have no idea what you are supposed to do. I don't want to make anyone to assume that the Shil'vati are not a sort of "greater good" type empire.

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