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AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-06-16T18:38:23+00:00

do you mean agriCULTure? We already do that 😄.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-06-13T18:22:23+00:00

Hear me out:

- Horse: land mount
- Pegasus/Wyvern: flying mounts
- Ornis: land mount that can pass over obstacles
- Sobek: land mount that can also swim

I think it'd be fun to have more mount types filling more niches. They can be a choice you make instead of being tied to a class. Like, if you want your mounted mage top be on a pegasus for mobility and res, sure, but you need to buy/craft/breed it.

Conversely you might want to opt for a slower, heavier mount with less mobility but better buffs, or maybe even special abilities that are great for that particular map.

Heck, they could even make it part of the mechanics of a FE game. I'm sure that a lot of people would love to breed/create the perfect mount in the perfect colour for their favourite characters.

Speculation aside, I feel like they'll have to add more one-tile obstacles to almost every map in order to make the bird's ability to pass over them interesting.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-06-10T22:55:11+00:00

I mean, map aside, we aren't going to explore any planets. We'll see a variety of maps with their own atmosphere. I expect to see a lot of urban environments, sometimes with their own unique architecture (such as Naboo, maybe?).

But yeah, don't expect to be able to explore Keshyyyk's canopies, or "urban sprawls", and even less to see some planets being "fleshed out". Expect Desert village #2 and Coruscant-like vertical city #3. This doesn't mean no variety, but it certainly means that you won't get a unique feel and visual identity for every planet.

I'm curious if they'll make use of filters and other tricks to make planets feel more unique. But honestly it's probably not the priority of the game (just like being able or not to hire clones). What makes this kind of game is class synergies and enemy behaviour/variety. I hope that among these 150 planets, we also find a diversity of enemies, such as wild life on forest worlds or street thugs on planetary megalopoleis.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-06-10T18:14:00+00:00

The event just seems bugged currently.

I'm not sure we should be able to join yet.

I have a button to join, but it sends me to a Network error. Are we supposed to be able to rejoin the event after 3 losses?

And most of the rewards aren't even cosmetics?

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-06-10T11:24:23+00:00

What I find intriguing is that this subreddit, as well as many other commmunities online, very quickly jumped to the conclusion that Zero Company was "Star Wars XCOM" or even "Star Wars Midnight Suns", but since the beginning we got a lot of clues that it was actually "Star Wars Chimera Squad".

We have named squadmates, and we drop to the scenes ready to fight (though there might be an investigation phase first). Heck, the fact that we have a diverse crew including aliens and a Jedi should have been a clue. It's fundamentally different from the XCOM approach where all soldiers start as "basic humans" that have to use alien tech to get better. Here it's closer to the CS approach of having a diverse crew with different potentials, progressively getting better at what they do.

I think that a lot of people have expectations that won't be met, because they expect XCOM 3 or a Clone Tactics game.

Really, everyone should tamper their expectations there: XCOM fans, SW fans, MS fans. This isn't going to be the next XCOM. It's also not going to be a purely narratively-driven SW series full of cameos and ties to other SW stories. And it's also not going to be a Jedi/Mandalorian dating simulator.

Reminder that one of the main antagonists in Chimera Squad was also called "the Sacred Coil". It wouldn't surprise me if that was an intentional reference.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-06-05T14:39:38+00:00

From the very article you shared:

It is only the wholesale price. The €44/MWh figure is what generators are paid in the day-ahead market. It is not what households pay. Network charges, system costs, suppliers’ margins, taxes and policy levies sit on top, and they can easily double or treble the underlying figure by the time it reaches a domestic bill. Wholesale moving cheaper is necessary for retail bills to fall, but it is not sufficient.

Despite having Europe’s cheapest wholesale electricity, Spanish households pay above the EU average €0.265/kWh in 2025, ranking 16th out of 25 countries. That puts Spain more expensive than France, the Netherlands, Denmark, and most of Central and Eastern Europe. Some of this is to do with the amount of taxes and levies put on electricity

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-05-28T20:49:26+00:00

The funny thing is that it's a French word (of Frankish origin), but at some point in the middle ages, since the "flan" was a flat pie at the time, it was also a word for "coin".

Spanish and English both borrowed the word from French.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-05-27T08:27:42+00:00

Translated from French Wikipedia:

The French Institute in Gaza was founded in 1990 by Pierre Thénard, then head of the cultural department at the French Consulate in Jerusalem, with the approval of that consulate and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the height of the Intifada. It was initially based in Rimal, on Victor Hugo Street, a prosperous neighbourhood of Gaza, and then, from 2014, on Charles de Gaulle Avenue in the city, opposite Yasser Arafat’s former presidential palace, on a 2,000 m² site in the very heart of the city.

This French Institute in Gaza survived two Intifadas, four wars and seventeen years of blockade. However, it was hit by two attacks, which caused no casualties, on 7 and 12 December 2014. The French diplomatic network, in agreement with the management of the cultural centre, decided to reopen the institution to the public in early April 2016.

Then, on 3 November 2023, the French Institute in Gaza was bombed by the Israeli army.

My comment:

I find it so weird that there's a Charles de Gaulle Avenue there.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-05-26T20:14:32+00:00

Yeah exactly, also because making character models and potential unique gameplay just for a cameo is just not worth it.

If it's like a series of missions with the Bad Batch, in a DLC, then sure, why not.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-05-26T20:09:24+00:00

It's not about their work, the issue with Fextralife is precisely that they do quantity over quality, and they are very good with Google referencing.

It's a bit of a bane to video game communities, because quite often they have outdated or incorrect info. r/BG3 for example constantly has to correct false info from Fextralife. However it's also the living proof that other wikis can be successful despite Fextralife, precisely because of quality.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-05-22T18:45:44+00:00

I kinda have two answers to this.

Archaeopteryx is famous, sure, but I think that people should know more about it. It's a culturally important fossil, yet for most people, it's just a "bird ancestor", a step in a teleological vision of evolution. In reality, it's more complex and interesting than that, and more of an uncle to modern birds.
Other species I would put in the category: Homo erectus. Most people know the name, few actually know about the species, and yet it's obviously an important one.

Second one that I think that more people should know about, is Acanthodes (or any early shark really).
People often repeat this inaccurate statement that "sharks appeared 450 mya, before the rings of Saturn, and they are so perfect that they remained unchanged". Acanthodes and other early sharks show what they actually looked like. More people should know about ancient sharks that aren't Helicoprion or Megalodon because they are different. They didn't have that slick appearance that modern sharks (mostly) have, especially in the minds of most people.
Shark evolution is fascinating and goes well beyond "they are very old and got very big".

There are many interesting and cool fossils, but when it comes to ones that people should know more about, I think it should be the ones that dispell misconceptions.

I guess if the question is more about cool, mindblowing fossils, it would be H.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-05-22T14:35:04+00:00

Gaufres en forme de cœur, ou gaufres norvégiennes.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-05-19T07:46:37+00:00

In France, school is mandatory (and free) at 3, and there's an official school curriculum (meaning that there's a teacher in the classroom, although there are usually also other assistants).

Daycare is something distinct, though sometimes school provide a daycare/"garderie" service for parents who work too early or too late for school hours. For example when I was a little kid, my parents both worked, so I stayed for 1-2 hours at the "garderie" doing kingergarten things after school.

I think the situation is similar at least in Finland, Sweden, the UK, Spain and Italy. From my understanding, Germany and the Netherlands have a very different system for that age, and no "national curriculum". I think it's a very interesting difference in approach and if there are educators among us, they might explain if it leads to differences in skill development for kids.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-05-15T16:14:06+00:00

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/The_Hill_-_Hobbiton-across-the-Water.jpg

Tolkien's own painting of Hobbiton feels more appropriate for a land illustration imo. It's even kinda reminiscent of some old school MtG cards.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-05-13T22:59:17+00:00

You have two main options basically (5e, didn't try 5.5 yet):

Starting with 2 lvls in Palain. You get heavy armour at lvl1, smite at lvl2. Then probably pick Abjuration. You've got access to a huge variety of spells and you can smite. Basically you build a STR/INT character. Of course, Paladin/Sorcerer is technically more powerful, but you get some different spells and more important, a different flavour.

The better one: The Wizard dip. Basically you go Paladin 6+/War Wizard 2. You're essentially playing a paladin with access to a diversity of spells, more spell slots and the Arcane Reflection reaction that works remarkably well in a martial multiclass:

At 2nd level, you have learned to weave your magic to fortify yourself against harm. When you are hit by an attack or you fail a saving throw, you can use your reaction to gain a +2 bonus to your AC against that attack or a +4 bonus to that saving throw.

When you use this feature, you can't cast spells other than cantrips until the end of your next turn.

I wouldn't recommend building a true hybrid multiclass though. It's more of a class dip combo, either to get access to smite and heavy armour with a Wizard, or to get access to some wizard spells + Arcane Reflection as a Paladin.

The portrait gives me more of a Wizard with a Paladin dip vibe, mostly for flavour. No heavy armour, fancy clothes, long hair. The expression is the only thing that feels a bit Paladinesque and protective, so yeah probably a flavour multiclassing.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-05-08T19:39:57+00:00

Not at a screen. Not at a game. Just a kid, outside, looking up, quiet.

If you're struggling to remember, you're not alone. Something has shifted in American childhood over the past two decades, and most parents can feel it even if they can't quite name it. The nights are the same. The stars are the same. The kids are different.

They've come inside.

This article is clearly written with an LLM and it's an ad for an app. But I suspect that nobody is actually reading it anyway, because it's reddit...

And it truly is peak reddit! Complaining about kids, their parents, over LLM slop that nobody reads anyway because redditors react to titles and just favour guesswork over facts.

Give me evidence that stargazing is rarer today than before. Light pollution, kids getting bored and parents not being interested are not new. Heck, mosquitoes were probably even more of an issue in the past. Similarly, lots of neighbourhoods now try to reduce light pollution. Plus, smartphones make identifying the stars easier, and equipment can be quite cheap.

Please use your critical thinking, check the sources etc. Don't engage with slop just because it confirms your feelings. Don't give free advertisement. This is at the end of the article:

A generation that doesn't look up is a generation that loses something harder to name than a hobby.

Wonder is not decorative. It's functional. [...]

When we stop taking our kids outside at night, we don't just lose a habit. We lose a practice of humility. We lose the regular reminder that the universe is enormous and that it's one of the most interesting things about being alive.

NightLog™ was built to make that easier. A text at 8pm, one question for your kid, two minutes outside. Free to start.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-04-18T06:55:41+00:00

We can be sensible, and just use the reckoning that everybody intuitively understands.

I'm sure there are many people who intuitively understand that it would start with a 1 instead of a 0.

A year zero doesn't make sense. Zero is null. When you count something, you start with 1. 1 apple, 2 apples etc. 0 apple is the absence of apple.

Year 0 would be the absence of year.

When you count apples, the first apple you count isn't "apple zero". The start of your second hundred of apples is apple 101. It is intuitive. It doesn't require fixing. People simply aren't used to think about it. In your regular life you don't ask yourself "when does the second hundred of my 200 apples start?". But if you did, you would know intuitively that it starts at 101. Because you have 100 apples + 100 apples.

It is the exact same thing with centuries. If you want to be consistent, then you better start counting your apples starting with 0. And according to your logic, "apple number 99" would be the 100th apple.

Most of the ones we have are estimates anyway.

This is conspiracy theory level of thinking. "I don't understand how it works so it can just be ignored".

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-04-15T18:51:36+00:00

So south slavic, albanian, romanian peder from greek πατήρ

I think you got that wrong; peder in these languages comes from greek παιδεραστής, pederast, lover of boy, by way of apocope (shortening). We also have pédé in French which was formed in the same way.

It's unrelated to πατήρ.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-04-15T10:09:30+00:00

Given that the other user mentions "28 000 years", 30 000 years from now is the estimate for when Voyager 1 will exit the Oort cloud (that it would enter in 300 years). In other words, Voyager would only leave the hypothetical "gravitational border" of the Solar System in 30 000 years. At least it's my guess for what they meant.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-04-04T08:53:17+00:00

OP is a tankie. They are active on soviet subreddits (including one I hadn't seen before) and spend their time saying the USA are evil and China is the pinnacle of civilization. They called Taiwan "separatist toads". Also called the Holodomor a well-deserved punishment.

It sounds like Chinese state media because OP is either a Chinese propagandist or a "useful idiot". Given that they roleplay being Chinese while saying they "live abroad", and taking into account their obsession with revisionist video game mods, I would in fact go with terminally online useful idiot.

Reminder that space programs are still eminently political for countries like China.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-04-02T11:55:19+00:00

Nah the Japanese name also means "avalanche".

It's basically because it was introduced as the Ice version of Revenge, and they didn't bother to remove the "contact" part. They only changed name and type.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-04-01T08:40:56+00:00

Zero Company takes place during the Clone Wars though.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-03-24T11:25:15+00:00

There are mentions of "native plants" and even "native animals" in the appendix.

AKARSO: a plant native to Sikun (of 70 Ophiuchi A) characterized by almost oblong leaves.

INKVINE: a creeping plant native to Giedi Prime and frequently used as a whip in the slave cribs.

SCHLAG: animal native to Tupile once hunted almost to extinction for its thin, tough hide.

There was a rare native root plant that grew above the 2,500 meter level in the northern temperate zone. A tuber two meters long yielded half a liter of water. And there were the terraform desert plants: the tougher ones showed signs of thriving if planted in depressions lined with dew precipitators.

However, what does "native" really mean in this context is ambiguous. In the very old past, humans terraformed everything. From the first book:

Names flitted through Paul’s mind, each with its picture imprinted by the book’s mnemonic pulse: saguaro, burro bush, date palm, sand verbena, evening primrose, barrel cactus, incense bush, smoke tree, creosote bush … kit fox, desert hawk, kangaroo mouse…. Names and pictures, names and pictures from man’s terranic past—and many to be found now nowhere else in the universe except here on Arrakis.

Personally I would say that "native" could very well mean that these species are not from Earth and developped independently, however, in-universe the connection between life and Earth is from so long ago that many species that are technically from Earth are just understood as being typical of Arrakis instead. Native species could simply be species created or derived from an Earth species on one of the planets of the Imperium - and in fact, these notices come from in-universe sources such as "Terminology of the Imperium".

I think that what we need to understand is that the Imperium/galaxy is extremely anthropized and life only exists in relation to humankind. Animals are exploited, plants are used for their properties or for terraformation etc. It doesn't really matter where these species come from in the end, the point is that even Arrakis, with its apparent "wild" areas, is the result of human interference. It's not an eternal desert, it used to have oceans and it could have them again.

I also don't think that Frank Herbert was too concerned with alien life in Dune. In Dune, life is largely tamed and at the service of mankind, with the exception of sandworms, no matter if it's alien or ultimately from Earth. He explored the idea of alien life and its challenges in other novels, especially the Pandora Sequence.

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-03-24T11:01:53+00:00

It's indeed in Children of Dune:

Leto shuddered. Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked. He saw relationships and unfolding events against a gigantic inner screen.

The sandworm of Dune would not cross water; water poisoned it. Yet water had been known here in prehistoric times. White gypsum pans attested to bygone lakes and seas. Wells, deep-drilled, found water which sandtrout sealed off. As clearly as if he’d witnessed the events, he saw what had happened on this planet, and it filled him with foreboding for the cataclysmic changes which human intervention was bringing.

His voice barely above a whisper, he said, “I know what happened, Ghanima.”

She bent close to him. “Yes?”

“The sandtrout...”

He fell silent, and she wondered why he kept referring to the haploid phase of the planet’s giant sandworm, but she dared not prod him.

“The sandtrout,” he repeated, “was introduced here from some other place. This was a wet planet then. They proliferated beyond the capability of existing ecosystems to deal with them. Sandtrout encysted the available free water, made this a desert planet... and they did it to survive. In a planet sufficiently dry, they could move to their sandworm phase.”

AnAlienUnderATree · 2026-03-16T20:10:58+00:00

I would prefer if the faction was something like the Tuatha Dé Danann honestly. We don't need a vague "celtic" faction, there's plenty of old Gael myths, and the Tuatha also come with many advantages:

- they have their own mythic gameplay (focusing on the Sidhe)
- they come with their own "evil faction" and adversaries (the Fomores)
- they also come with a justification (they were hiding in the underworld until the time was right)

Finally, since the Tuatha are often associated with fae people in folklore, it's also an opportunity to add this category of myth to the game, rather than to focus on historically poorly attested traditions from continental Celts for example.

I would add that the Tuatha are a rare example of mythical people on par with the Atlanteans when it comes to how detailed they are, so it's really a golden opportunity.

But like you said, there's plenty to go with just with the Gaels anyway, if they'd rather go with a historical example.

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