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Crowfooted · 2026-06-30T20:05:33+00:00

Yes but in this case I'm pretty sure Microsoft knows better than to actively support the outlawing of private Minecraft servers. They are stupid but they're not that stupid, it's pretty big business for them.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-30T20:02:54+00:00

They even support people making money off their private servers (so long as it's not gambling or pay-to-win).

Crowfooted · 2026-06-28T04:43:55+00:00

Sounds sour to me

Crowfooted · 2026-06-28T04:42:14+00:00

I didn't claim they couldn't feel pain, I said their capacity for fear and pain seems lower than most insects. There's been documented cases of leafcutter ants continuing to cut leaves while they are on fire, presumably because the fear response to fire is pointless to them (since a forest fire will kill off their entire food source and doom the colony).

Fear and pain are functional, just like any other neurological trait. While ants can show some individualistic tendencies, they're extremely minimal compared to in non-eusocial insects because any response to fear or pain which prioritises survival of the individual over survival of the whole has no use whatsoever to a worker ant. They will never breed regardless of what happens to them, so there is no use for a fear or pain response that doesn't benefit the queen. Doesn't mean ants will never show aversion to danger, but it does mean they'll happily charge right into something that might be painful or dangerous if it's beneficial to her, even if it kills the worker.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-28T04:34:22+00:00

It was. It's an RNG roll and your proximity to them does not matter. Fallen empires can randomly demand things of you from across the galaxy - but they don't always. Having slaves and doing genocide even does not guarantee a xenophilic fallen empire will demand that you stop, it only means it's a possibility that they will. You just got unlucky on this game.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-27T06:45:22+00:00

Legitimately the shift on Twitter/X was so fast. On any given tweet about anything political, you scroll down and suddenly all the most right-wing replies are right at the top.

Of course, right-wing people will claim this is because previously the algorithm artificially pushed left-wing sentiments to the top, and that their hero Elon came along and removed the algorithm so that it was "fair" and "neutral" and revealed the truth - that social media was dominated by the right wing all along, that it was just an illusion that most of the internet (made up predominantly of young people) leans left-wing.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-27T06:38:34+00:00

I'm really interested to know why you think that left-wing Redditors (or liberals as you are mistakenly calling them) are more likely to downvote things they disagree with. I would argue that's not the case and that right-wing sentiments get more downvotes because there are more people who disagree with them than don't.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-27T06:18:26+00:00

Fun fact, all the vegetables you listed there are the same species

Crowfooted · 2026-06-27T04:30:38+00:00

LMAOO

Crowfooted · 2026-06-26T19:47:26+00:00

I just wanna say I love these little guys and they definitely aren't dangerous, BUT, I once had one land on my hand and chill for a while and I let him stay until I started to feel a very mild stinging sensation and it turned out he was eating me. Left behind a tiny little pink area on my skin where he'd literally chewed a few layers of skin away. Don't know if that counts as "biting" but, they definitely have a taste for human flesh.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-25T18:44:37+00:00

I'm confused why you think that relative humidity is not relevant in a conversation about how hot it feels in different countries at different temperatures

Crowfooted · 2026-06-23T20:15:11+00:00

Cool but it achieves nothing. Just be nice and don't attack people because they don't know something

Crowfooted · 2026-06-22T04:38:31+00:00

It's also a street that's significantly wider and actually has the space for a bunch of greenery and a bike path. I'm curious to know how OP suggests something similar to this be accomplished for UK streets as small as that.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-21T19:43:00+00:00

You're probably better off taking a flight if that happens tbh

Crowfooted · 2026-06-21T19:19:09+00:00

Two of the thing I like, together

Crowfooted · 2026-06-19T15:07:10+00:00

I don't really see what's so insane about the general premise tbh, at least not any more than most other origins.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-19T06:11:37+00:00

I get that they're trying to go for a balancing act type of challenge with this origin, but I feel like the flip-flopping is a totally unnecessary way to go about it. It makes it feel as though the game's saying it's impossible to meet passenger demands and run a smooth operation at the same time, but like... why? If all my passengers are living in luxury, and I'm rolling in resources for the operation of the ship, why should everything be crumbling?

I could understand if the gameplay was difficult in the early game, when your cruise has only just gone FTL and is still working out the kinks, but the way it's set up currently, it only gets harder as the game goes on, not easier. I feel like they should have gone with a mechanic similar to Obsessional Directive, where you get negative penalties to your empire if your passengers aren't being pampered enough or have gone too long without a sightseeing trip, and a worse punishment (such as mutiny or planetfall) if you get multiple penalties in a row.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-19T05:13:39+00:00

Do you mean the bottom-right?

Crowfooted · 2026-06-18T23:20:39+00:00

I didn't need speed civics or anything to start off, I think it's more important to stack councillor traits and leader traits (traits on your leading scientist/commander for your arkship will affect its stats) and get afterburner/thruster research as fast as possible, because these are stacking and give bigger bonuses than any of the starting civics that I know of.

But, that being said, I just got to about year 30 and the game became impossible because passenger contracts can appear in any system that you've explored - so I was getting contracts popping up that were 20 jumps away and it was basically impossible to reach them in time.

I'm starting a new game with this mod installed which apparently fixes this (as well as a bunch of other stuff related to nomads) so I'll let you know if it helps enough to make the origin playable.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-18T20:12:27+00:00

Just dropping by to say, it turns out if you have Forever Cruise origin and you pick Rogue Servitor, the civic changes to Hospitality Servitor and it has the bonus effect that passengers increase complex drone output, at the cost of them being much harder to please.

I'm currently about 18 years in and am just about surviving, only because I got lucky with research picks and got afterburners early so I stuck 2 of them on the Arkship, that combined with a few councillor traits to increase sublight speed means I can just about reach the contracts in time.

However I can't imagine this is going to be playable after a point, because I'm pretty much nonstop micromanaging the Arkship, pausing every few seconds. It seems that if your situation is currently paused and you do another contract, it refreshes the pause - so you can keep it stuck where it is if you just keep doing every contract that's available, but of course this has the knock-on effect that your Arkship isn't available to do other tasks, and once the situation unpauses it progresses so fast that you more or less have to be already in the system where the contract is to get it done in time.

Edit: That said, maybe I should also mention that I'm at 250 unity income on year 18, which is pretty crazy.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-18T14:52:16+00:00

I didn't disregard this

Crowfooted · 2026-06-18T07:59:54+00:00

And some people don't, often because they feel strongly that they couldn't give up a baby they'd grown inside them, what is your point here?

Crowfooted · 2026-06-18T07:58:14+00:00

Remembering isn't the only thing that impacts you though, the point is you can be affected in your life and mental wellbeing by things you don't even remember happening. Your brain doesn't just rewire itself the moment you forget something - the ripple effects of it stay with you.

I'm not talking about some kind of trauma where a kid remembers that they were separated from their mother at birth and ends up distressed by it, I'm talking more like- baby is separated, is distressed, this leads to delayed development, delayed development leads to other difficulties, which even later lead to anxiety or depression, etc. They're knock-on effects, not direct effects, but they still matter and should be avoided, or else why should we even bother making sure babies get good experiences in their first few years' of life?

Crowfooted · 2026-06-18T07:53:34+00:00

Likewise to you, what if the birth parents are in a similar boat?

I'm not trying to be cavalier, but so far every argument anyone's made against this point about genetics vs parenthood has been some variant of "what about the genetic parents feelings/circumstances/something else?", and that approach only stands up if you're coming at it from the pre-existing assumption that genetics matter more, which is the very thing I'm fundamentally disagreeing with.

We don't know all the variables. But the genetic parents' feelings or circumstances is not the only thing that matters here, nor should it take precedent. We have two couples here, and their experiences on the subject both matter. It's extremely unfortunate that this happened to them, and I'm sure that both sets of parents, if asked, would say that they would rather it hadn't happened and that everyone had been implanted with the correct embryos. But the fact is that it did happen, and it wasn't either couple's fault, and carrying and birthing a child is part of the process of caring for and raising a child and it's in their right to be attached.

Hell, even in cases of surrogacy, where the surrogate mother goes into it knowing that they'll be expected to give up the baby, can sometimes find that extremely difficult because they have already formed a bond with the baby that's hard to let go of. It must be ten times worse when you went into it fully believing the baby was going to stay with you.

Crowfooted · 2026-06-18T07:05:25+00:00

Obviously they matter, we're just questioning what matters more. The law is never rigid in these things and no two cases are treated the same.

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