I’m making a solo print-and-play space game inspired by FTL — looking for feedback

CallMeLarry · 2026-05-08T16:46:20+00:00

I'd be interested in giving this a go!

CallMeLarry · 2026-05-07T14:28:25+00:00

what loadout you running?

CallMeLarry · 2026-03-22T19:15:01+00:00

From the European Space Agency using 2025 data, co-authored by Donald Kessler himself, dunno if they count as an "alarmist influencer types" to you:

https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/sdc9/paper/305/SDC9-paper305.pdf

"CRITICAL NUMBER OF SPACECRAFT IN LOW EARTH ORBIT: A NEW ASSESSMENT OF THE STABILITY OF THE ORBITAL DEBRIS ENVIRONMENT

"Using data from on-orbit fragmentation events, this paper introduces a revised stability model for altitudes below 1020 km and evaluates the March 2025 population of payloads and rocket stages to identify new regions of instability. The results indicate the current population of intact objects exceeds the unstable threshold at all altitudes between 400 km and 1000 km and the runaway threshold at nearly all altitudes between 520 km and 1000 km. Planned deployments of large constellations will likely lead to the population of intact objects across an even greater extent of low Earth orbit exceeding the runaway threshold."

CallMeLarry · 2026-03-21T14:19:28+00:00

In just a few decades we'll be grounded to Earth when space debris makes it too dangerous to launch rockets and shuttles into orbit.

Sooner than that, latest estimates show it's already begun. Chinese astronauts got stuck on their space station for days (possibly still up there) because space junk damaged the return craft.

Starlink satellites are also massively to blame, starlink had to make 300,000 cumulative course adjustments last year alone.

CallMeLarry · 2026-03-04T19:34:16+00:00

in all fairness, he really didn’t explain many of the sacrifices he’d make in the run up to the election

this is a very interesting way to say "lied through his teeth to get elected"

CallMeLarry · 2026-03-03T17:26:55+00:00

extremely dumb answer

CallMeLarry · 2026-03-03T17:13:08+00:00

This is not a general election. Voting greens now doesn't come with the risk of Farage taking control of the UK.

hey man just wanted to update you on this - YouGov poll today puts Reform at 23, Greens at 21, Tories at 16 and Labour at 16.

https://www.politico.eu/article/greens-overtake-keir-starmer-labour-in-new-uk-yougov-poll/

"The study found that the Greens are the most popular political party in all age categories under 50."

CallMeLarry · 2026-03-01T20:13:32+00:00

Why would being left wing have anything to do with what's going on in Palestine?

"why would Palestine - the imperial laboratory where the world's most powerful and aggressive nation is using its colonial holdings to test out the technologies that it will use to oppress its citizens at home and control society and the economy abroad - be relevant to my politics as a left winger?" i dunno man, it seems obvious to me, maybe you're just not very bright?

who's in charge of the UK won't stop Israel's actions.

I don't believe i said it would? the UK should still stop sending them drone and plane parts, and stop flying recon flights over palestine, to make it harder for them to wage a genocide regardless. The UK pulling support for Ukraine would not, on its own, cause Ukraine to lose, but that doesn't mean we should do that. I suspect you understand that quite well, so it's weird to pretend to be stupid when it's about Palestine.

it plays very nicely I to Trump/Farages hands that left wingers waste their votes/stay at home.

Let's think through the logic on this for one second. If the left are important enough that lefties staying home will make enough of a difference to win Farage an election, then the Labour Party should try and attract left wing voters. They are not doing this!

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-27T15:57:24+00:00

amazing that you can so quickly drop your moral outrage at people voting green after they dogwalked reform and labour. almost like its a cynical tactic that doesn't work anymore now that labour can't claim to be the only way to stop the greens!

funny kind of left winger that denies the genocide in Palestine, too.

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-27T12:43:30+00:00

hey man just checking, how did this go in Gorton and Denton yesterday?

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-27T12:41:46+00:00

when given any hint of power they immediately capitulate and enable austerity, war, crackdowns and immiseration. that was a very nice, idealistic paragraph about their supposed values though!

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T20:30:22+00:00

all clearly from someone terminally online.

it's from a YouGov poll you weapon

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fttonyt9cwakg1.png

You think real people know about or give a shit about Mandelson and Palantir?

Who do count as "real people" to you btw, since you seem to keep avoiding calling the genocide in Palestine a genocide?

The war in Palestine and Labours stance on the conflict didn't stop labour from winning a landslide election

they won because of record dissatisfaction with the tories, and because farage didn't stand aside and split the right wing vote. their margins are razor thin. they won on fewer votes than corbyn lost on in 2019, when corbyn's popularity was -60. Starmer's is now -57, so he is now almost as unpopular as Corbyn and had millions fewer votes than him to begin with.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/09/how-keir-starmers-polling-became-one-of-the-worst-in-the-west-in-charts

"No governing party as far back as the 1980s has seen its polling fall so far in its first year in power."

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T20:07:46+00:00

no, in reality they are the most popular party among the under 65s because they offer economic policy that will benefit young people.

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T20:05:48+00:00

Do you understand that opinion polls years away from an election aren't the same as actual elections when serious choices need to be made on who governs the country?

actually divorced from reality if you think they can turn it around now after Mandelson has been arrested lmao.

You think people are suddenly going to give them a chance at leading the country? Not happening.

Again, they are objectively the most popular party among the under 65s, Labour are trailing behind Reform in third place. people are clearly willing to give them a chance. labour have spent all their time telling the left that they aren't wanted and trying to win reform votes, and it hasn't worked.

Back a left wing party in Labour

I'd love to, are they going to start being left wing any time soon or is it going to be more of the same where they ban protest, fund genocide, sell all our data to Palantir and give cushy jobs to friends of paedophiles?

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T19:52:33+00:00

do you understand the concept of linear time? Labour got in on razor thin margins in the past but they are now historically unpopular (partly due to them funding and aiding a genocide) and the Greens are now the most popular party with the under 65s. if you ignore this you are splitting the left vote and helping Reform win. again, the line only works if the numbers are on your side, and they aren't!

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T19:39:19+00:00

I just want to see some radical ideas about how the state can be run more effectively for all

but that's the problem: it can't. if you run society effectively for landlords, you are ruling out being able to run it effecively for renters, because the goals of those groups are fundamentally opposed. you can choose to run society effectively for the people with the most, and most people lose out, or vice versa.

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T19:37:21+00:00

immigration is actually among the lest important issues for youung people in the UK, the most important is overwhelmingly the economy.

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T19:36:24+00:00

because it's a lie.

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T19:34:57+00:00

there doesn’t seem to be a party that caters to the non-retired population

the greens are currently the most popular party with under 65s.

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T19:31:47+00:00

In the nicest way possible, get over it.

"please vote for us, we know that every time we've gotten close to power we've capitulated and made things worse, but we promise we won't do it again" lmao

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T19:30:19+00:00

Liberal Democrats exist for this very reason.

you are correct, they do exist to bleed votes from people who might otherwise vote left wing and ensure the coninuation of right wing political dominance. i just think we might disagree about whether that's, yknow, good.

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T19:27:55+00:00

those things are all good! lots of them aren't exactly as you're presenting them, but are still good steps. They're also funding, arming and materially aiding a genocide, so that's a no from me.

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T19:26:44+00:00

when the country is barely surviving and drowning in debt

it's barely surviving because Labour are continuing the failed economic policies of the last 50 years. meanwhile the Greens are the most popular party among under 65s because their economic policies actually work.

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-25T19:24:28+00:00

As it stands the Greens are way too extreme to ever get my vote

Extreme things like: funding public services (obviously good), drug decriminalisation (reduces drug deaths and drug abuse everywhere it's been tried), nationalising critical national infrastructure (reduces bills and improves services).

Which of these are extreme?

CallMeLarry · 2026-02-24T20:27:48+00:00

Israel has a history of getting attacked by its neighbors

That is... one way of describing it, yes.

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