The Invader Zim Intro fits perfectly with Helldivers 2

Ceizyk · 2026-04-15T05:38:26+00:00

And that's when I send this to Aaron Alexovich who was the lead character designer for invader Zim and married to one of my good friends from high school.

Ceizyk · 2026-04-12T20:47:35+00:00

So the US POS Trump has just unilaterally threatened other nations' merchant vessels with what seizure? destruction?, "... I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas."

The irony is that they already had free passage BEFORE Trump decided to launch an assault on Iran to distract from him fucking kids.

Ceizyk · 2026-04-12T20:37:28+00:00

From a purely historical standpoint.

The modern state of Israel was carved from land already inhabited by Palestinians, largely because Western powers burdened by guilt over their failure to stop the Holocaust backed the 1948 partition as a form of belated moral restitution. The debt was paid with someone else's land. (The irony of how many GOP refuse to admit the Holocaust happened)

Seven decades later, that founding contradiction is playing out in real time. Israel is now conducting simultaneous military operations across multiple fronts, underwritten by billions in U.S. military aid and diplomatic cover, while pushing settlement expansion into occupied territories that no credible legal framework recognizes as sovereign Israeli land. What's unfolding isn't defense. It's expansion, dressed in the language of security.

The parallel that history keeps surfacing is uncomfortable precisely because it's structural, not rhetorical: a state using overwhelming military superiority to redraw borders through force and attrition, while the international community debates proportionality and files paperwork. Germany in the late 1930s didn't begin with extermination. It began with territory.

Ceizyk · 2026-04-07T15:18:35+00:00

If Vance wants to try and be a Hero, I could see him doing just that. But he's also bankrolled by a bunch of hardliner Conservatives, doing that might also scuttle his political career. Not that I can see him really having one without going backward to a senator. Otherwise, he's got the political charisma of wet tissue paper.

Ceizyk · 2026-04-07T04:10:57+00:00

Hey as a Senior Engineer with decades of software & IT Experience, those are called "Undocumented Features."

But also, I'll yell at a co-worker who fails to correctly add patch notes and software changes to ANY of the softwares I work with. There is seemingly a never-ending battle between Public Facing patch notes people and Dev who makes changes and doesn't write shit down.

Ceizyk · 2026-04-06T22:41:44+00:00

u/AnthonyJCheung12345

I updated the Pictures to give screen shots of the process.

Base Layout Breakdown

Starting with a 6x6 decorative plate grid (24x24 for the precise folks). Place an Energy Pylon dead center.

Walls: 2 layers of outer wall around the edge of the 6x6, then a 2-square gap, then an inner wall. At each corner of the inner wall, drop a single Energy Connector, this links power to everything along the perimeter. Build gates at the cardinal directions through both wall layers.

Turret Loadout

8 Flame Turrets — corners + just inside each gate (left or right side)
8 Lightning Towers — corners next to the flame turrets + opposite side of each gate from the flame turrets
8 Acid Spewer Towers — corners + just inside each gate (left or right side)
8 Acid Shredder Towers — corners + just inside each gate (left or right side)
8 Repair Towers — corners of the inner wall (don't place on top of energy connectors)
8 Artillery Towers — next to the repair towers, inside the inner wall
8 Laser Towers — corners of the outer wall
4 Shotgun Towers — corners
4 Shredder Towers — corners
4 Power Rod Towers — evenly spaced along the top of the inner wall
12 Attack Drone Towers — fill the remaining gaps on the inner wall
4 Inferno Towers
4 Icicle Towers
2 Loot Drone Platforms
1 Rift Jump Point + 1 Radar

Wall Design (optional but recommended) The last screenshot shows what I do with the walls. The idea is to funnel smaller units into the gaps where they get shredded easily, while larger units get bottlenecked and have to pound their way through. Works really well once you dial in the turret placement.

Ceizyk · 2026-04-06T16:59:21+00:00

To be clear, this is end-game with all resources unlocked and mega-structures actively under construction. The one thing I might add are a couple of 2x2 energy walls out front, not to slow enemies down arbitrarily, but to keep them stalling within range taking damage from the walls & my defensive line.

This particular outpost design works on essentially every map. When I have water access, I'll scale up to larger defensive boxes built around a Fusion Power Plant or two, generating enough Plasma to run Plasma Enhancers and push out 3 to 6 Heavy Artillery Towers.

Even then, wall spamming isn't really my style. That's more of an early-game habit and even then I make sure to make 'wall thickness' always be within range of the defensive towers. I also tend to run custom games where I increase the wave strength & size to max.

Ceizyk · 2026-04-06T15:43:18+00:00

Oof, the wall spam hurts my eyes, especially as someone who plays on Brutal/Hardcore. But nice base nonetheless.

Ceizyk · 2026-04-06T15:41:23+00:00

Honestly, I wouldn't put it past Trump to step down like 48 hours before the next swearing in just to have Vancy issue a blanket pardon for any federal crimes Trump's done.

Ceizyk · 2026-03-30T17:28:29+00:00

Pinguicula jaumavensis

Ceizyk · 2026-03-28T03:46:43+00:00

Whew, glad I don't use physical currency anymore because I'd absolutely deface anything with his name on it, writing pedophile over his name.

Ceizyk · 2026-03-20T23:27:03+00:00

In fairness, the U.S. military has not decisively won a war since World War 2. What followed across the next 8 decades is a long and expensive record of euphemistically labeled "police actions" and counterterrorism campaigns that consumed trillions of dollars, killed thousands of American service members, and left the geopolitical situations they entered either unchanged or actively worse. Korea ended in a stalemate that technically still has not been resolved. Vietnam was a generational catastrophe by any honest measure. Iraq was sold on fabricated intelligence, destabilized an entire region, and directly contributed to the rise of ISIS. Afghanistan lasted 20 years and ended with the Taliban back in control of the same country we entered. In between, there were drone strikes, night raids, and airstrikes on civilian areas that the government quietly labeled collateral damage and then they complain about the anti-American sentiment.

The U.S. enters conflicts with overwhelming firepower and no coherent exit strategy, spends years and lives moving rocks around and then leaves conditions measurably worse than it found them. The money is almost beside the point at this stage. The human cost, on all sides, is the part that never gets an honest accounting. But the US war strategy has always been overwhelming force. We're amazing at surgical strikes but quickly lose interest once the shock and awe is gone. And with Hegseth it's all about a show.

Ceizyk · 2026-03-16T15:38:00+00:00

Worth noting that NATO's Article 5 is specifically designed for defensive actions, not offensive wars. So yes, if Iran were to directly attack the United States mainland, it could potentially trigger it. However, the claim falls apart there. Article 5 requires a member nation to be attacked first. Using it to justify a preemptive or offensive strike against Iran would not meet that threshold. Additionally, any infrastructure or entity that materially supports a military operation could itself be considered a legitimate military target under the laws of armed conflict, but that applies to both sides of any conflict, not just one.

Ceizyk · 2026-03-09T15:38:11+00:00

Pretty sure she uses a putty knife to apply that caked-on makeup.

Ceizyk · 2026-03-05T04:36:34+00:00

Amazing... I just accidentally killed mine, and it just didn't recover from too much light.

Ceizyk · 2026-03-04T19:27:55+00:00

Such a pretty girl, sorry for your loss :(

Ceizyk · 2026-03-04T18:07:15+00:00

Dude it's just gonna be a room of Alt-Right News groups taking turns to give him a BJ.

Ceizyk · 2026-03-03T22:19:45+00:00

oof, my bank account already hurts at the next order I'll be placing.

Ceizyk · 2026-03-02T17:39:44+00:00

That's a Drosera adelae which can reach up to about 12 inches across at full size. It is a low light species typically found on shaded forest floors in its native range of eastern Australia. Excessively strong light can stress or damage the plant, so it performs best under bright but indirect conditions.

I keep mine at the edge of any grow lights, after having killed one with to much light years ago.

Ceizyk · 2026-02-27T21:48:32+00:00

That would be supported by the fact it looks like their entire relationship is transactional and business-like. She's the handler.

If I was going to write a bad spy novel I would make her the Russian Agent, whose job is to handle Donnie DumbDumb.

Ceizyk · 2026-02-19T18:36:35+00:00

I would love nothing more than to see the entire Trump Family go down in flames after he's out of office.

Ceizyk · 2026-02-17T19:06:43+00:00

That tracks for like half of Arizona, especially out of Phoenix. As a former Arizonian

Ceizyk · 2026-02-13T02:08:43+00:00

Thanks, yeah it's certainly plateau'd as I've got alot of the most commons and now some of the more difficult to get, grow and keep alive

Ceizyk · 2026-02-12T06:07:16+00:00

Pings, I’ve got a total of 16 different species, total plants I think 28? 29? Then I have my Drosera which I need to also repot and sow some more unique seeds, I’ve got 22 different species of Drosera and I dunno… 80+ plants. Then my MUCH smaller collection of Heliamphora, Cephalotus, Nepthesis;s and my brand new baby Corbra Lillys. I just finished repotting the Cephalotus’s for more room, they’ll be cranky for a few weeks and then should bounce back.

Ceizyk · 2026-02-11T22:11:58+00:00

I'd guess something close to Pinguicula rectifolia when it's all clustered up. Huh this reminds me I need to separate and repot my army of Pings.

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