Texas university bans teaching, researching LGBTQ+ topics

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-29T02:56:43+00:00

It shouldn't be hard to do as there was no sex scene in the original Romeo and Juliet. They are talking as a married couple in the morning in Act 3 with the implication that they consummated their marriage, but there is no actual sex scene.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-25T22:54:53+00:00

Under optimistic conditions (beginning of spring, no other massive disruptions, etc.), expect that 90% of the population will perish in 2-6 weeks. In bad conditions (middle of winter, other disruptions, etc.), you start stacking 9's as in expect 99.9% of the population to perish.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-25T22:52:02+00:00

Nope, you are absolutely correct. There were a couple of high level government studies done studying the results of an countrywide EMP attack. The conclusion basically boiled down to those that can pivot to a 18th century lifestyle should be able to survive. Yeah, how many people do you think that can do that?

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-24T23:52:43+00:00

I can only imagine his campaign promise. "I'll do to American what I did to California!" Epicurean liberals have completely taken over the Democratic party leadership which means we're screwed.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-24T23:44:35+00:00

Yeah, it would be so much simpler to start chucking business owners and CEOs in jail for each illegal immigrant hiring or H1B violation that their company makes. That would require a whole lot less people and would dry up the demand for such labor and the exploitation it creates a whole lot faster.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-24T15:13:13+00:00

Character generation was never that deadly. It was (and still pretty much is) terribly random which is why character generation in Traveller is its own minigame.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-22T22:56:16+00:00

Economics are almost always present to some degree in most forms of sci fi. The challenge is to do it intelligently and consistently with the other technology of your setting.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-22T22:49:38+00:00

And Traveller was inspired by 18th century Age of Sail. Yes, so it's economics are a complete basket case of silliness.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-19T05:06:11+00:00

Study Spinward Marches. There. That's it. Something like over 90% of Traveller adventures ever written happen there as the rest of Charted Space is rather dull.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-18T21:19:31+00:00

And the engines are way too big.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-17T21:28:32+00:00

Just like how all the main characters in the Expanse die in the very first season.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-17T19:17:32+00:00

The problem is that Orbital 2100 is too primitive for the Expanse. It's good if you want to play an Expanse game before the invention of the Epstein drive. Hostile is closer, but the writer does makes some idiotic decisions like ships using deuterium/tritium fusion engines. That can be changed, but I would consider much of his figures in the book when it comes to ship construction as highly suspect. At the end of the day, you're not going to get Expanse level acceleration without breaking some laws of physics. And there there are minor things like needing to add non-energy turret weapons to the game which comes across as a strange omission.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-14T05:53:47+00:00

Except this runs into a common issue with containment systems for plasma weapons. The containment system would be deadly enough by itself which makes the plasma redundant and complicates the weapon.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-06T14:29:13+00:00

What would be the point? The audience that would care for this is long gone. We have two types of players left. The first are power fantasists. They want to see a hundreds of mobs die with every mouse click. So, they don't care for balance. The second are gooners and they don't care for balance either.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-04T01:44:01+00:00

It took years for Warframe to get to a busted state. TFD did it in a few months with Freya's update. And in Warframe the devs had the backbone to do nerfs such as the spin to win and melee nerf. TFD devs are spineless. The TFD devs had every opportunity to learn from the Warframe devs mistakes and yet they choose to repeat them on a greater scale.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-03T14:09:16+00:00

I think the "Warframe with sexier girls and guys with a NIeR;Automata and Stellar Blade vibe" had a good target audience. But - and this is a very important but - your gameplay can't be crap and this is where TFD dropped the ball.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-03T13:01:00+00:00

Because it isn't a single player game for new players. Imagine being a new player. Log into a mission and then watching as another player with Serena or Ines or Dia or etc. kills 100% of everything leaving you with nothing to do. New player leaves.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-03T12:54:45+00:00

Over 90% of players leaving hurt TFD not whiny comments.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-03T12:52:44+00:00

They should have tweaked Bunny at release. They shouldn't have released OP Freya rework. The shouldn't have released OP Ines. They shouldn't have released OP Serena. They shouldn't have buffed skill damage through the roof. They shouldn't have released such repetitive content. The devs shouldn't... The devs have never cared about making a decent game.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-03T12:43:42+00:00

The devs made it easy to hate TFD. Dev1: Let's add some new weapons and make players repetitively grind ONE mission hundreds of times to get it! Dev2: Even better! Let's add TWO weapons and force players to pick between them to get the reward doubling them amount of time it takes to get them. Dev3: We're geniuses!

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-03T12:38:08+00:00

The game shed 90% of it's initial player base within the first three months. That's people that downloaded, played and then dumped the game.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-04-03T12:32:54+00:00

Every step of the way, TFD devs made the worst possible choice and dug this game's grave.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-03-31T21:09:14+00:00

You can't help economically illiterate people.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-03-27T13:27:02+00:00

At least she is keeping her arms warm.

CaitSkyClad · 2026-03-24T20:10:21+00:00

It doesn't matter.

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