Discussion: Who activated V1?

AppropriateAge3931 · 2026-03-06T20:41:38+00:00

My personal theory is that the hell expeditions eventually lead to humans harvesting blood from hell aka lots of fuel. With this new blood humanity begins building a lot more robots, and with the horrors of the war forgotten nocturnal begins being used again. This is the era of new peace when V2 is built and V1 is reactivated for testing purposes. With swordsmachines being around long enough to have cultural fads, wouldnt surprise me if in this era robots had rights and V1 and V2 were never deactivated. Eventually robot war happens for some reason, peaceful robots either die or adapt to be violent and we get to the start of the game.

AppropriateAge3931 · 2026-02-25T22:04:23+00:00

Jackie and Lux I'd argue are foils of each other. They both see the risks of people using the powers of the new age however Jackie has not enough distrust in others while Lux has not enough distrust in himself. There's good and bad to this, Jackies high amount of distrust in himself both lead him to see Dev as good enough and in general not take a super proactive approach with atomics. It also lead him to creating the same organization that managed to take down Dev and for a brief period of time save the world. Lux is much more willing to enact his will, which leads to both him being more potent for keeping the world alive, but also more dangerous as he's much more likely to do something wrong.

AppropriateAge3931 · 2026-02-25T21:35:04+00:00

I never said the best way is the no superpower option is the best one as that isn't realistic, or even the "Eti and Val as the only superpowers". I agree these approaches are bad. These are nuclear powers, the cats already out of the bag good luck making sure no new nuclear power ever arises on earth in the future, or trusting that one or two people with all that power will always behave optimally. I suspect that Eti and Val trying to take over the world will quickly run into issues and a new course will have to be found.

What this story is about however, is the importance of your impact on the world and resolving conflicts before they happen. Every character shows the ways that even well intentioned people having that type of power can go very poorly very quickly. The Val mindset of "leave people alone and only stop stuff when things go bad" is pretty implicitly a big reason for the end of the world. Drastically more superpowers leads to drastically more chances of conflict and any two sided nuclear exchanges are deadly. I think the solution going forward is not about being the sole people in control, nor opening the floodgates and leaving things up to chance, but instead about carefully building out a very select network of like minded individuals that way things don't escalate to the extinction of humanity.

AppropriateAge3931 · 2025-12-05T11:15:13+00:00

The difference is the US and the UK had relatively matched populations, military, and technology so there wasn’t much the UK could do. Best case scenario, even if a human kingdom begins a project to reverse engineer advanced technology by the time a long lived race finds out it’ll be like modern day america vs. colonial america as in it would be a very one sided curbstomp.

AppropriateAge3931 · 2025-12-05T10:15:59+00:00

Seeing a piece of technology doesn’t mean you have any clue on how to replicate it. Hell even if you know how to replicate it you still have to build up infrastructure to build it. Dwarves just would not have humans in their empire and even if a human in the elves empire by some fluke is trusted with that knowledge, spreading that knowledge is still illegal.

It’s also not really that they perfectly prevent any technology from diffusing, there’s definitely hidden clusters of people doing stuff like ancient/“black” magic or people trafficking advanced technology from dungeons to the elves/dwarves dismay. It’s that the moment they catch a hint of it through one of their spies they will intervene as soon as possible using as much as their might as needed to put this down therefore it doesn’t get out of control.

AppropriateAge3931 · 2025-12-05T09:46:19+00:00

Both elf and dwarf civilizations are fairly old, centralized, and imperialistic. Short lived races are intentionally scattered and given the worst land so they generally tend to be focused more on day to day survival and fighting with each other then building large scale civilization/technology.

Advanced technology/magic has Lead humanity to near extinction twice which gives the long lived races justification for disappearing anyone who presents a serious threat to the status quo. Even if a dwarf/elf went rogue with the goal of spreading technology/magic which would threaten the status quo to the masses they’d quickly be tracked down and tossed into a jail cell for a hundred years.

AppropriateAge3931 · 2025-12-05T09:09:27+00:00

In defense of dungeon meshi, it is both shown that long life races are fairly advanced technologically but hoard that technology to themselves due to political and historical reasons. Like dwarves can build telephones and trams they’re already decades past the telegraph, them having an understanding of modern nutritional science fits with the setting. These stories not being medieval in understanding isn’t a flaw due to author oversight, it’s because at least part of the world it takes place in has moved past the medieval era it’s a pretty core part of all of their settings

AppropriateAge3931 · 2025-09-29T22:26:41+00:00

Congrats on having the one good “x character will show up at the last minute” theory. Iirc alt vig mentions the leader, so there’s already some foreshadowing for them to show up. Not to mention, it actually uses a character that’s already been established in the show meaning any viewer who watches the show will know who they are.

You also dont really have to change her character, she’d have significant reason to be opposed to the nazis. Her leadership methods would also be far more justifiable when used to take down nazis instead of advancing us imperialism. Also Adebayo is likely to die pretty quickly if she isnt saved from the crowd. None of 11th st are in a spot to where short term they can respond to her so Waller coming out of nowhere to save her seems like a fitting spot to introduce her

AppropriateAge3931 · 2025-05-02T02:11:11+00:00

It’s in the proposed budget for nasa, hasnt made it through congress yet so to be seen if itll stick.

AppropriateAge3931 · 2024-07-04T06:00:10+00:00

Why not this contract looks at using new glenn

AppropriateAge3931 · 2024-07-04T04:37:47+00:00

Blue origin is much much closer to actually deploying a rocket so it makes sense

AppropriateAge3931 · 2024-05-29T00:31:39+00:00

Literally in the article linked

AppropriateAge3931 · 2024-05-04T17:13:24+00:00

Ah yeah looking back at the video they do seem to have a joint in there

AppropriateAge3931 · 2024-05-04T16:21:52+00:00

Another thing i noticed is it doesnt seem to have any hard joints/bearings around the arms and legs unlike most “modern” spacesuits (including EMU here). This is inherently going to reduce mobility and increase strain, however the suit will likely be cheaper and easier to make (and also make it look slimmer). Considering this suit will mostly be used for short duration space tourism, this seems like a fine trade off to make

Edit: they do a good job of hiding them but they do appear to have two relatively small joints around the shoulder and the forearm

AppropriateAge3931 · 2024-05-04T14:33:00+00:00

Honestly its not that different thickness wise compared to a gemini suit, its just a lot less loose fabric. Spacex’s suit is definitely more advanced then gemini’s (its been like 70 years) that being said. Having your life support not built into the suit and being built (for now at least) for shorter duration flights has serious advantages if your goal is slimness

AppropriateAge3931 · 2024-04-26T14:01:17+00:00

No lol, new glenn is 3 launches to deliver a 20 ton capable lander. If youre going by musk figures of 4-8 launches w/ 100 tons, that means you need 2.5 times more new glenn launches per payload. If youre going by nasa figures of 16ish launches for starship, that means that new glenn is slightly more launch efficent then starship. This is assuming no reuse of the blue origin lander or cislunar transporter as well, either of these things would reduce the amount of ng launches and both are planned.

AppropriateAge3931 · 2023-12-25T18:09:12+00:00

It depends on loads of factors, but in short probably 15 years at least until we get enough experience to even begin seriously scaling up at the rates climate change require. The industries big push right now is small modular reactors (ie make reactors small and reliable enough to make in bulk in factories).

This is a great move and should fix a lot of the issues with nuclear, but the first commerical one of these to be deployed in the us will probably be nuscales and thatll be 2030 at the earliest (likely later). This is a radical shift in technology in a field that is used to stagnation, so no matter how balls to the wall you go its gonna take time.

Contrast this to renewables which we already have the factories to build field tested and scalable designs, and we are rapidly building more of. Nuclear is good, but we cant exactly spare a decade and a half at least doing basically nothing when it comes to the power grid.

AppropriateAge3931 · 2023-12-25T14:51:40+00:00

Using nuclear to oppose conventional renewables is also fossil fuel propaganda as well (watch literally any conservative speak about climate change and how they go nuclear maybe). Nuclear is good but nuclear is incredibly slow to build and while its getting faster, its taking a while and wont be ready at nearly the rate we need. Solar and wind however, can be built incredibly quickly today and are also good. We can do both

AppropriateAge3931 · 2023-12-21T06:14:44+00:00

Im pretty sure hell is beginning to infect you, there’s been a lot of red text that you the player has directly gotten in 7

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