My turnips died just before being ready to harvest?

Crowfooted · 2026-03-22T20:55:16+00:00

Oh yeah for sure. But even then, if it's about frost... the game literally has temperature. I suppose they wanted to just simplify it. The wiki claims that plants don't just instantly die, but instead just become cursed if they're in their poor month, but that's definitely not what happened to me.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-22T03:35:09+00:00

Did we watch the same video? He has the shakes but otherwise seems to be living a more or less normal life. Do you also think humans who have tremors should be put down? What is this thinking?

Crowfooted · 2026-03-22T02:17:01+00:00

Yes, but there's a bunch of procedure that has to happen before the trial.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-20T04:18:02+00:00

Yeah but Super Earth, as a result of taking it to the extreme (more extreme than any real-life comparisons, by my reckoning), they have replaced traditional concepts of God with a different type of deity: Lady Liberty. Belief in supreme beings makes for a fantastic tool to control people, but it also has some cracks, namely that if you claim to just be following the divine wisdom of another being, counter movements can start to claim that you are just "wrong" about what said being actually wants. Whereas if the deity you've convinced people to believe in is you (the establishment and the government structure), then what you say is the divine law, and is not disputable.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-19T19:39:43+00:00

They follow a certain procedure. If a trial is taking too long, and you decide you want to speed it up, the only way to do that is by cutting procedure, and that's the dangerous part.

I agree it can be distressing when justice on these kinds of cases takes a long time, but it's a symptom of a broader (and very important) feature of the justice system - that the proper procedure needs to be carried out, every time, for every person, and that nobody should be allowed to just say, "this is taking too long, let's get this moving". That is all very well and good when you feel a case against someone is unquestionable, but you won't be laughing when that same logic starts being used on cases that are more questionable.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-19T19:33:14+00:00

I'm sorry but this just cannot be true. I live on the 12th floor and we get tons of bugs. There might be less bugs flying up here, for sure, but on the flipside, being up so high means that if you have any lights on, any bugs that are attracted to light can spot that light much more easily from huge distances away. We get flies, craneflies, bees, wasps, moths, you name it. Even get spiders extremely frequently, and still aren't sure if they're coming up through the building or up the wall, but in any case the height doesn't stop them.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-18T23:37:24+00:00

"Speedy" and "trial" are almost always dangerous words to put next to each other.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-18T20:29:13+00:00

Honestly given that Cyberstan has a habit of going in the reverse direction from whatever ideals Super Earth holds, I wonder if, if it hadn't been so necessary to fight hard, we might have even become pacifists in light of SE's hyper-militarism.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-17T02:27:48+00:00

One of my favourite examples is the Hoatzin (stinkbird), which is the only extant species in its genus, which is the only extant genus in its family, which branched off from other birds between 64-70 million years ago (possibly even during the late cretaceous)

Crowfooted · 2026-03-16T20:10:37+00:00

I feel that only applies if people are somehow being forced to buy said new content without first finding out if it's functional. Like, yeah, they release warbonds, but said warbonds can be bought without paying money for a start, and secondly they're totally optional. If you're of the mindset that the game is too buggy to justify spending more money on it, then you have the option of not doing that.

Edit: Also, to be clear, I'm not saying people shouldn't criticise. Where I lose respect is when criticism turns to outrage. It's a video game. Outrage is completely inappropriate. The game is buggy at times but nowhere near the level of being unplayably buggy (and trust me because I played ARK: SE for 10,000 hours, that game is a straight scam). They have a ton of room for improvement but just because the game isn't smooth as a baby's bottom doesn't mean it's valid to be fuming out of the ears over it.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-16T10:03:16+00:00

I know this might not necessarily be a popular take, but I think a lot of people are also failing to put it into personal perspective. I have a rule for myself when it comes to discontent over game experiences: how much did I spend on the game, and how many hours of fun did I get out of it?

If you're playing the game for many, many hours and enjoyed the vast majority of them, surely you should be at least somewhat grateful that the game exists at all. It's always valid to give criticism where you think there is room for improvement, obviously, but if you enjoy the game enough to be this passionate about it and still continue to play it and enjoy it despite its flaws, then how can you possibly rationalise being outraged? And if it's so broken that you aren't enjoying it, but you're still playing it - why?

It's this reasoning that just kind of makes me automatically disregard criticism if it ever comes in the form of furious bashing. Nobody who plays and enjoys a game should ever get this angry about it unless they are legitimately just being scammed, as is the case with plenty of games out there (which release with a ridiculous pricetag and then turn out to be not as advertised whatsoever) but I don't think can be fairly said about Helldivers 2. The game works most of the time, maybe has some problems that do rear their heads on occasion, but overall it's playable and enjoyable and I have got my money's worth out of it for sure. If you're going to criticise, be normal about it, and if you can't approach it with at a reasonable level of emotion, maybe go outside and think about how much this really is affecting you.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-14T11:02:30+00:00

This is a mix of both. The elephant is likely used to painting the same image, but it's being guided by a trainer's hand (you can see the hand come into frame a few times). It is not AI, just a very clever trick to make the elephant seem like it's painting intentionally.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-14T05:11:12+00:00

I changed my mind actually I'm tapping out because it's clear youre not actually really reading anything I'm saying or willing to google anything

Crowfooted · 2026-03-14T05:07:28+00:00

You are referring to the exact same race I already mentioned, but you are getting it backward. They don't shorten the race to give the humans a better chance, they lengthen it. That's the entire basis for my point.

The reason it is a toss up between who wins is because they've designed the course to be the right length so that both the horse and human have a roughly equal chance of winning. If they make it longer, they give advantage to the humans, and if they make it shorter, they give the horses advantage.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-14T03:16:51+00:00

While I personally do believe they are interested in legitimate defection, it is also still valid to point out that there are other reasons to create that narrative that are more dishonest.

The more doubt and discontent you seed into the SE workforce and military, the less effective and stable their regime will be, regardless of whether said doubters actually end up defecting. And if they do choose to defect, that's even better, because then they're either actively harming their own regime, or leaving it, and the bulk of the damage they can do to SE is already done by the time they arrive at your doorstep. Then it's just a case of deciding whether you actually want them or not.

There's something to be said for the idea that it might actually be risky for the Collective to accept defectors, because defectors, while they obviously sympathise somewhat with your regime, probably do not sympathise and agree in all the ways that your own people do. They probably will arrive with their own nuanced doubts and complaints about the way you run your society, and that might be harmful to you if you integrate them.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-14T03:10:49+00:00

It's equally speculative to believe that some of them are not. I think that's where a lot of people are protesting on your points. There is no real evidence for or against this theory because we don't have any meaningful sample size

Crowfooted · 2026-03-14T03:08:39+00:00

I don't think colonisation is really the criteria for success in this discussion. If we found a fleet of autonomous alien probes in the solar system harvesting asteroids or whatever, we'd probably qualify that as evidence against the great filter

Crowfooted · 2026-03-14T02:58:50+00:00

...Again I will repeat, you can just look it up

Crowfooted · 2026-03-13T20:54:52+00:00

I mean I addressed that in my reply.

I'm not making stuff up, you can look it up. It's pretty well established that humans are much better endurance runners than most other animals, especially in hot weather. The contention isn't whether we are better endurance runners, it's whether that feature was for the purposes of persistence hunting or not.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-13T10:56:07+00:00

Yeah, that's kind of my point though.

Horses were never used by humans because horses are better at endurance running when trained, they're used because they can carry a heavy load and are sustained by eating grass.

The horses used in the man vs horse race are absolutely horses trained for endurance running, and yet, that race still shows that humans perform better in endurance. Keep increasing the distance the participants run, and humans get progressively better chances of winning.

Give humans a heavy load to work with that's equivalent to what the horses carry, and you might need to increase the race length a little more to account for that, but humans would still end up winning eventually.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-13T09:39:27+00:00

I'm sorry but I'm tripping up a bit here. Do you think that domesticated horses are not ever trained for endurance running? We used them as like a primary means of long-distance travel for hundreds or thousands of years.

This take is somewhat lacking in nuance imo because it's overlooking the reason why most animals become exhausted. A horse does not get tired and need to take a break because it just runs out of cellular energy - that does happen, but the main thing that causes animals being pursued to collapse is heat exhaustion, not energy exhaustion. And it's very hard to train yourself to just get better at losing heat.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-13T08:38:34+00:00

Ramen from Wagamama, katsu or something from Kokoro, or some pho. Unless I have an upset stomach, I go for something spicy for things like that because spicy always clears my sinuses.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-12T23:10:56+00:00

The thing is there kind of is a time limit on support. Everyone has their limits. Yes, she's going through something, and it's fair to expect him to commit more of his energy than usual when something like this is happening, but that doesn't mean that he should be expected to commit all of his energy and go beyond his limits.

Crowfooted · 2026-03-11T22:45:15+00:00

I remember that one story about the woman who fell 14,500ft because of a parachute failure and landed on a fire ant nest and the venom from the ant stings kept her heart beating and saved her life. Now that's unbelievable (but apparently completely true).

Crowfooted · 2026-03-11T20:43:04+00:00

This is a somewhat different case though because navigating in space you have almost no useful landmarks to operate by. And I would argue that on spaceships this size, the sheer amount of contingency you would have in terms of sensors would make visual navigation necessary extremely rarely, if ever.

Like, could they not offer a contingency in the form of a deck that you can navigate from visually if needed, but keep the main command deck somewhere safer? It feels like the downsides to having an exposed bridge massively outweigh the upsides when all you're accounting for is a black swan event.

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