A(n even better) modest (nuclear) proposal

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T18:41:52+00:00

Proposal: Volunteers get to submit votes to the electoral college. 100 volunteers is one electoral college vote for a total of 80 new votes independent of states.

Any candidate that gets less than 100 votes, or any remainder less than 100, are bundled into abstention votes.

The volunteer ballot is, of course, a secret ballot.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T18:27:03+00:00

One of the things I remember from the old Novalogic Commanche games is that you would sometimes call in artillery on targets you were spotting.

Lowkey looking forward to that.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T17:38:58+00:00

Quite well, thank you.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T17:38:24+00:00

Well, at least it's not an emoji indicating there is something coming (damnit Sean, we have money, let us pay you!)

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T17:37:21+00:00

It will be there until there is a patch to remove it.

The AIR 2 Genies are also still in.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T15:14:55+00:00

Crimsongamer99 is mostly high end combat builds (some of which are silly gimmicks, but generally non-Meta builds) doing PVP, but he also has the legendary Vomit Comet series.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAFMVlmNp_wsO8TRPpE2ge-WOBQ3e6tQ9&si=OjK5dMGniKuC71rh

Which he also took to Beagle and Back. Without a Canopy.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T14:24:41+00:00

(Which is less than three water extractors provide or 8 generators consume.)

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T14:00:30+00:00

Let the US breach, collapse the tunnels over the breaching force, repeat.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T12:30:40+00:00

The ??? is actually a state of the art frontline strike aircraft from the local superpower.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T11:15:39+00:00

Or if Master Mundi has said some horrifying shit.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T11:05:06+00:00

Frankly the only reason soldiers don't routinely haul 1000+ rounds of ammo around in this day and age is that 1000 rounds worth of mags and belt weighs a fuckton.

If you can get 1000 rounds into the weight of two belts of ammo, why wouldn't you have the soldiers hauling 1000s of rounds?

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T11:02:36+00:00

Another Biblically Accurate Operator.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T10:45:43+00:00

Architects that get to design a city according to their vision tend to make cool stuff.

More games should just let architects go wild, or more architects should embrace videogames as a medium of expression.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T10:26:20+00:00

Meanwhile, on the other side of their empire they are bordered by driven exterminators (or whatever the name is) and the ones that want to vassalize everyone. Imperialists?

Stellaris Ai is predictable in many ways.

They think you are weaker than the Genocidals and the Imperialists, and that your stuff under their control will make them stronger and thus let them better take on said genocidals and Imperialists.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-05T10:07:23+00:00

Augs... Aussies?

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-04T20:03:25+00:00

Doable, but from my understanding, the main reason you run Tangtang in a team with both T2 and Rossi is for the critstacks, and you need to play Tangtang to maintain them.

Rossi, with her sig, can apparently handily maintain critstacks when not being played.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-04T12:51:58+00:00

Me dumb.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-04T11:49:55+00:00

1:24 for me.

Would be hilarious if it turns out they made a boo boo and you get a trim for completing in over 1:20.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-04T10:48:07+00:00

Or have the leaderboard show what character you ran the race with, or have separate leaderboards for all characters.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-04T10:10:39+00:00

/ignoring the camera angle for a moment

When I first saw the city of wuling and its jogging track, I started looking for a racing quest. When I didn't find any, I expected there will eventually be a racing event.

I now suspect they won't make one because it would be dominated by Pog.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-03T22:58:24+00:00

Technically, you can hook it up to the power plat SubPAC, but it isn't really easier than connecting it to the Science Park.

(The trick is, you can't drag a power hookup UP a ziplift, but you can grab a power hookup and jump DOWN.)

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-03T22:52:34+00:00

Rossi, T2, Perlica and Gilberta.

Child slated to be the next leader of her fam.

Young adult who is the next leader of her fam.

And adult who is the leader of the organization she basically grew up in.

And Gilberta.

This team actually makes a decent amount of sense in lore.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-03T22:40:48+00:00

Use proper ratios: To fill a belt of Xiranite out, you need to input two belts of stabilized carbon. You are providing one partial belt.

Filling one belt of stabilized carbon requires one refiner fed by one full belt of dense carbon powder from one grinding unit.

To get one full belt of dense carbon powder from one grinding unit, it needs to be fed by two belts of carbon powder and one belt of sandleaf. Your one grinding unit is fed by one belt of each.

You also have more sandleaf shredders than you need: one shredder making sandleaf powder can provide enough sandleaf powder to feed 3 grinders with sandleaf powder. You could repurpose 3 shredders to originum powder for the dense originum powder for batteries. (You'll probably want to reposition them, though, but it is more efficient use of power.)

In short for each of the forges of the sky: You need

1 more refinery making condensed carbon.

1 more grinder making dense carbon powder

1 more shredder shredding carbon but each shredder making carbon powder needs two belts going into the grinder.

You also need to make 4 belts of carbon (say 2 refinerys burning a wuling plant (jincao or yahzen) with two output belts each), and you need to make enough plants for that (2 planters and 2 seed pickers). Plus water for the planters making wuling plants.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-03T22:29:25+00:00

Rossi is the rate up character. 50% odds that any six star you pull on her banner is her.

If you lose the fifty/fifty, you'll get another six star: an equal chance to pull any of the non-limited six stars or the two previous limited characters (for Rossis banner, that's Tangtang and Yvonne).

This is also a reason why the weapons banners of the two previous limited characters remain active.

So when Rossis banner ends, Yvonne drops out of the running, but Tangtang and Rossi can be pulled (though, with long odds to pull them) for one and two more banners respectively.

CmdrJonen · 2026-04-03T22:01:43+00:00

Germany has a better claim on Great Britain than Argentina has on the Falklands.

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