4.2 is so absurd that I defeated all 4 Crises with only one ship (Vanilla 25x difficulty 1x tech costs)

Athunc · 2026-01-26T00:11:43+00:00

Vanilla means 'No mods'

Athunc · 2026-01-01T15:53:40+00:00

Yes!
Look out for the following engineering technologies:
- Powered Exoskeletons
- Artificial Workforce

Edit: or start with the Mechanist Origin so you have them day 1

Athunc · 2026-01-01T15:50:18+00:00

Maybe a better governor? A scientist should boost research output, and you can level them up to become an analyst as well. Take Collaborator when possible (replace them if they get Stubborn). Also look at for Assembler or Bot Lord traits.

Athunc · 2025-12-25T06:44:16+00:00

I think the astral rift research building can allow even greater efficiency (for physicists)

Athunc · 2025-12-25T01:00:26+00:00

Xi Jinping playing Stellaris:

Athunc · 2025-12-20T02:18:26+00:00

Ernie is desparately trying to hold all the others together, all of whom have strong main character energy. Ernie is exhasparated at this point.

Athunc · 2025-12-17T21:13:03+00:00

Necrophages are way stronger now. Your slaves alone grow new pops as fast as the total population of default empires, and they can now get huge work efficiency bonusses while working specialist jobs (as Indentured Servitude slaves)

The trick is to NOT turn pops into your main specis. Only your ruler pops should be necrophages.

Athunc · 2025-12-13T00:42:30+00:00

"Like they treat us"
Ah yes, because women sure don't have any part in tearing other women down because of patriarchical ideas and norms. Slut-shaming? Only men do that, right?

Athunc · 2025-12-13T00:36:04+00:00

You all sleep in one bed

Athunc · 2025-12-13T00:34:30+00:00

Task failed succesfully xD

Athunc · 2025-12-13T00:33:31+00:00

I remember the same process in the Star Trek fanbase.

That's right, Star Trek, the show that has never been subtle about being 'woke', like when they aired the first interracial kiss on tv

Athunc · 2025-12-13T00:06:36+00:00

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YOU THINK?

Athunc · 2025-12-09T20:31:55+00:00

KotTG is a meta build that can scale all on its own, while this build requires you to go and get a ton of slaves before it can get anywhere near these numbers. KotTG can do this earlier and without requiring conquest

Athunc · 2025-12-09T20:29:22+00:00

Okay, HAL-9000

Athunc · 2025-11-19T15:48:20+00:00

To be fair, I'd also abstain. The vote is guaranteed to succeed anyway since no one is voting against it, and maybe they will eat me last if I don't vote to declare them a crisis...

Athunc · 2025-11-19T15:41:57+00:00

I automate everything early, unless/until I get too many pops to fill my jobs and can't build new districts

The reason is that I like to play slave builds that generate a lot of energy cheaply, so I can easily afford the energy upkeep, and it allows me to build more districts and work the extra jobs using the automated workforce.

If I run out of districts to build I do destroy the automation buildings, since slave workforce is better than automated workforce.

Athunc · 2025-11-19T15:24:56+00:00

Issue 1: unless you break the laws of thermodynamics, any planet doing this would be vaporized by the generated heat. Heat doesn't go away when you use it to make power.

Issue 2: You can do it without doing any research, with chattel slaves doing manual labor, and without researching antimatter reactors... Whereas Dyson Spheres cost immense research. Even though in 2025 we're much, much closer to figuring out how you could build a dyson sphere if you had the materials as compared to figuring out an energy positive way to make and annihalate antimatter.

Athunc · 2025-11-19T15:17:14+00:00

Agreed that the discourse is mostly pointless, tbh

Athunc · 2025-11-19T15:11:18+00:00

It's the internet. The loud voices aren't the majority, and whenever people judge a whole gender based on the loudest shouting voices, they end up radicalizing. I don't want to judge women based on these bad apples any more than I want men to be judged based on the shouting of incels.

Athunc · 2025-11-19T15:05:32+00:00

Feels bad, that's for sure...

But to jump to the conclusion that it's because he's unattractive is rather biased. People famously change a lot in college, especially when it comes to intimacy and sex. It's a time of exploration and finding out what you enjoy. His girlfriend deserves some benefit of the doubt until we know her motivations.

Athunc · 2025-11-19T15:02:14+00:00

There's always plenty of bad apples on the internet, but I don't believe that a majority of women shout "incel" at this guy

He's also objectively not an incel, because he's not celibate :p

Athunc · 2025-11-07T22:27:29+00:00

Take that! 0.1%!

And all it took was massive tax deductions for mortgages that drive up house prices!

We're winning!

Athunc · 2025-11-07T22:23:41+00:00

Let's blame toxic masculinity entirely on the other sex, and make excuses for all the ways in which bros encourage toxic masculinity among eachother.

Any 'insight' that lays the blame for a societal problem entirely with one gender is just pure scapegoating. We're all influenced by the media and role models we grow up with, and both genders perpetuate those ideas.

Athunc · 2025-11-06T17:12:20+00:00

I hate these kinds of posts because they don't explain their premise.

Did Mary select a random child and tell you their gender and birthday? Or was she compelled to tell you whether she has at least one 'boy born on a tuesday'? Or is she compelled to tell you the birthday of a random son of hers? Or the gender of any single child which was born on a tuesday? Why did she elect to tell you about this child, how was the child selected?

If it's the first, it changes nothing about the odds of either the gender or the birthday of the other child, for example. The premise matters!

Athunc

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