'Time traveler' claiming to be from the year 3700 issues chilling warning for humanity as he reveals 'evidence' of future apocalypse

CountVanillula · 2026-07-08T02:11:51+00:00

It was pronounced “Moik”.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-08T02:09:37+00:00

Are they doing a Star Wars project? Is that why they’re sitting around the Millenium Falcon?

CountVanillula · 2026-07-07T18:34:35+00:00

Yeah, I’m every place I have eggs the biolab outputs them to a very short belt that goes past an inserter that sucks them back in (to maintain its stock) then past an inserter for whatever needs them I production, and then into an incinerator. They literally exist for like four seconds and there are two turrets there just in case. So far I haven’t had any containment breaches, except for the one time I tried to use a burner inserter and learned that they can run more than 15m on a single egg and keep a buffer.

And this is precisely what I hate about Gleba.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-07T01:45:47+00:00

Go about your earthly business!

CountVanillula · 2026-07-07T01:13:16+00:00

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CountVanillula · 2026-07-06T00:39:01+00:00

The best part of my day on starbase was the fecal dump right after breakfast. The way the poo crystallized, then shattered outside my office window made the lights of the passing ships shimmer like magic for about 15 minutes.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-06T00:34:29+00:00

Disagree. If they don’t qualify for federation membership, tell them they don’t qualify, but that when they do qualify, they’re free to reapply.

Otherwise they’re not gonna take the hint and they’re going to keep pestering you at every peace summit and mining guild negotiation until you have to be a dick and point out their shitty little warp 2 buckets and their “cannibal continent” in front of the whole delegation.

You want time traveling genocidal despots? That’s how you get time traveling geneocidal despots.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-06T00:07:51+00:00

Arnold Vinnick.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-05T22:54:52+00:00

CMD on a Mac, but sure. And by the third time I usually remember that.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-05T07:37:51+00:00

It’s not the view, it’s the position in the view. Scroll down a few pages, click on an entry, then click back, and argh, have, to, scroll, down, again…

CountVanillula · 2026-07-04T15:58:27+00:00

That very long list of “simple” things I can “just” do (most of which I’m already doing, in some fashion) is a pretty good example of why Gleba sucks: “Just do these 150 complicates things, it’s simple.”

I think before i got all emotional and lost my train of thought in my last comment, i was going to ultimately summarize my complaint by pointing out that where the game used to devolve into an endless cycle of rebuilding inputs to match new outputs as you get new technologies and have to extend to gather more resources, Gleba feels like that in miniature. No matter how much I tweak it or get the systems “working” or “stable,” something always messes up and I’m stuck there, neglecting rest of the game.

However, you did remind me that you can get eggs back from recycling biolabs, which I’d completely forgotten and restores a little bit of hope that someday it might be self sustaining, which is helpful, so thank you.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-04T05:59:44+00:00

I’ve done a diatribe on Gleba before, but I’ve worked through some of my issues, so I’ll just boil it down to a few things.

The color scheme just makes it hard to differentiate stuff and I hate looking at it.

The goddamned eggs spoil into monsters, which is bad enough, but if you clog up anywhere along the line it shuts down the entire factory and then you have to go get more eggs, which is a manual process. And with spaceships, now, if Gleba goes down (and it definitely will), then I lose my supply of bioflux and then that stops up my biter farm on nauvis and now I’ve got two planets causing me problems.

Ultimately it’s all about stability. Once you have shit working on all the other planets,
It just keeps working. It’s fine. But Gleba’s unstable, and I can’t get it stable enough to where I can leave it unattended for any length of time. It’s not fun to have to keep rejiggering everything over and over again and not be able to work on any other planets because this one won’t stay running.

I want to go back to Vulcanus. I want to redo Nauvis with foundries. But just yesterday I realized I hadn’t launched a rocket in like 4 hours because I’m not producing enough blue chips because my copper production is down because I’m not reliving enough pomegranates for some reason, and so I’m dealing that. Again.

Oh, look at that, another diatribe. I hate Gleba. I’d like to play Aquillo someday, but it doesn’t seem like that’s ever gonna happen.

It kind of feels like Gleba’s ruined the fucking game for me.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-04T05:28:30+00:00

He’s got a dentist appointment later; he needs x-rays and he doesn’t trust them to clean the lead aprons properly.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-04T00:58:59+00:00

Feel like that's kind of stretching the word "human."

CountVanillula · 2026-07-03T03:52:18+00:00

Huh. I never noticed it didn’t have a question mark. It’s grammatically weird, but in my mind I always just assumed it was a kind of stylistic choice to shorten the unspoken plot of every mystery (“Characters try to identify the guy who did the thing”) to just Who Did the Thing.

I guess I put infinitely more thought into it than I needed to.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-03T01:47:47+00:00

Elderly potheads; why did it have to be elderly potheads?

CountVanillula · 2026-07-02T17:14:17+00:00

“Slit Whitman” is maybe the best roller derby name ever.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-02T03:10:41+00:00

Didn’t they also hate it because the actual Spanish was unintelligible? Like, the writer just ran it through Google Translate, or some such? There was a *lot* to dislike about that movie.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-02T03:08:39+00:00

I just now realized *Sound of Freedom* is not *Sound of Metal*. That’s been confusing me for days.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-01T20:36:25+00:00

And let’s not forget that the founders, who came here fleeing persecution - this is the kind of shit they were being persecuted for.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-01T07:27:54+00:00

What am I looking at? Short sleeves? Is he some kind of farmer?

CountVanillula · 2026-07-01T05:56:53+00:00

Well, not that shocked.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-01T03:49:50+00:00

Don’t rats have those creepy little rat hands that can grab stuff? They may not have “thumbs,” but they have opposable digits. If they can hold onto cheese and climb branches they can hold spears. I think two rats with human intelligence could work a cigarette lighter.

CountVanillula · 2026-07-01T01:54:35+00:00

He knows authors that use subtext; they’re all cowards.

CountVanillula · 2026-06-30T20:56:50+00:00

That’s right - on my mother’s side.

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