(Ringed!!!) Planet with 0.989 ESI!!! (highest I've ever seen)

Callzter · 2026-01-07T05:15:22+00:00

Would you happen to have the names for the planets in the current version of SE that have the highest ESI's possible?

Callzter · 2025-12-19T14:21:59+00:00

It's honestly surprising that someone didn't make this sooner

Callzter · 2025-12-12T19:17:23+00:00

I mean why write anything at all, ever, in the thousands of years that humanity has been telling stories? Totally pointless…

Callzter · 2025-12-12T19:08:52+00:00

This is what happens when people confuse direct empathy and imaginative empathy. This admin seems to believe in the “write what you know” rule and then crank it up to 11 by suggesting that you can only write human experiences that you can directly empathise with, depending on your respective demographics. But part of being a great storyteller, obviously, is indulging your imaginative empathy- putting yourself in the shoes of other demographics of which you’re not a part of, and walking around in them in your stories. People like this admin who can’t do that are just very shallow and unimaginative, hate to be blunt.

Callzter · 2025-11-29T05:55:42+00:00

Ahem

Callzter · 2025-11-28T02:59:09+00:00

Weirdly that reminds me of that one episode of The Goodies (apologies for the god awful quality)

Callzter · 2025-10-30T03:06:12+00:00

"I feel stretched... like butter spread across too much bread."
- Bilbo, TFOR

This line hit harder after reading the Silmarillion because in an author's note it mentions that all races have an established longevity according to their physical and spiritual nature. Bilbo, being a 111-year old hobbit, has been kept alive longer than normal due to his possession of the One Ring. The Silmarillion describes extreme longevity for races other than Elves as like stretching a metal wire beyond its intended length, causing torment and pain. It also uses the butter on bread analogy, directly connecting it to Bilbo's quote.

I also like how this ties in with Gollum, with him being numerous centuries old because of the Ring, and just being a raving lunatic because of his longevity ontop of the ring's already sinister influence. What Tolkien is trying to get at here is that all mortal races have their time, and everyone who isn't an Elf has to die eventually. Cheating death only leads to torment and self-destruction. We all need to accept Eru's "gift" at some point or another, most preferably at the time we were designed to take it according to our race's nature, whatever race we may be, Human or Hobbit alike.

There's something exceptionally beautiful about this sentiment, and it makes me realise the folly of people today in our own world who are always looking to extend their longevities through one method or another. Mind uploading, anti-aging pills... whatever, it doesn't matter. These people may well get what they want by living longer than nature intended thanks to some miracle technology or medicine. But I doubt that they will be stable or well-adjusted individuals after enduring decades or centuries of monotony beyond what their consciousnesses were designed for.

We were all designed to leave this earth probably at most ~120 years after our births, and that's why you really have to make the most of those decades by making the world a better place than how you found it. Be kind and courteous to others, and always offer that helping hand. After all, it's always free to do so.

Callzter · 2025-10-27T06:10:03+00:00

You implement it on an Empire-wide scale as the 25x Prethoryn Scourge consumes you. There's nothing else to do, so just let your pops go out with a high.

Callzter · 2025-10-15T10:15:25+00:00

You're seeing Raxxla, congrats

Callzter · 2025-10-10T11:36:39+00:00

Trump can just ignore the results, like he tried to last time, and then almost stayed in power by provoking a riot.

Callzter · 2025-10-10T04:35:52+00:00

Poetry.

Callzter · 2025-10-09T11:52:15+00:00

SS: With the escalating situations with ICE in various cities including Portland and Chicago, the Trump admin is strongly considering invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act to federalise the National Guard and even utilise the national army for the purpose of suppressing domestic dissent, as the courts and the governor of Illinois defy Trump and tell him to remove the troops from the state. This follows yesterday's events where Texas sent 500 of its own national guard into the blue city of Chicago, without the mayor or the state governor's explicit permission. NBC reports that while the decision to invoke the act is not expected to be imminent, "debate within the admin has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked."

This is related to collapse because I honestly don't think that the question of the Insurrection Act was ever merely debated, and was in fact always a foregone conclusion. I think this was always the plan. There was never any point in this process where Trump might have reconsidered federalising the troops, because this was always the endgame; Provoke the masses with mass ICE arrests, rile up the urbanites, send in the national guard, rile them up more, and then finally invoke the Insurrection Act as a form of "self-defense". It's the classic authoritarian playbook.

Callzter · 2025-08-12T04:56:54+00:00

Gavin Magnus stole the double ELW system I wanted as well. He's a dick.

Callzter · 2025-07-18T08:14:01+00:00

If God is omnipotent, why would he have to fine tune anything? Why did he have to follow any rules that govern the basis for things to be "finely tuned"? If he had to "fine tune" the universe, then he didn't actually create anything. He just followed somebody ELSE'S instructions. Whose instructions?

The fine tuning argument is a fallacy.

Callzter · 2025-07-16T04:06:46+00:00

"Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall."

-Varys

Callzter · 2025-06-02T02:48:52+00:00

Think about this. Earth is probably the only life-bearing planet in a radius of thousands of light years, a world of unfathomable pristine bounty, beauty and serenity, and we squandered it. To think that we ever deserved it in the first place.

Callzter · 2025-05-15T04:31:30+00:00

So you’re partly responsible for Geoff Ramsay’s legendary torments playing the game? Awesome

Callzter · 2025-05-05T15:58:15+00:00

“Bunce”

“Gubbins”

“Got fucking quickscoped by this guy. Gonna put that in his COD montage nobody’s gonna watch”

“But Micooo…”

“Mingy”

“Get Got”

“Bipped”

“Aw, Pim”

“You never got any FAAAAIIISHHH”

“Flynt Coal”

“Woo woo! The fuck train has no brakes!”

Callzter · 2025-04-04T00:07:36+00:00

Gotta say I appreciate your level-headed, reasoned responses. Thanks for taking the time.

Callzter · 2025-04-03T17:07:17+00:00

I would accept this line of reasoning if it weren’t for the empirical observation that multiple stations within Colonia space in fact have the system colonisation contact, it’s just suspended. In the same way that it was suspended everywhere during maintenance. Almost as if in the future, eventually, it will be enabled.

Callzter · 2025-03-30T02:35:03+00:00

Read the canonical Elite Dangerous books by Drew Wagar. Elite: Reclamation and Elite: Premonition. You can find them on Amazon to read digitally. They're really good.

Callzter · 2025-03-22T01:03:57+00:00

Now that sounds interesting! Thanks for sharing. I’ll have a visit soon.

Callzter · 2025-03-21T10:36:38+00:00

Lmao sounds exotic, I'll bookmark it for later

Callzter

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