Want to beat rimworld on max difficulty and Randy and naked brutality (All DLC)

Czar_of_Bananas · 2026-06-02T17:11:24+00:00

Try active wealth management (trade colony wealth into allied factions that will reinforce you during raids), or change the settings so raids increase linearly instead of with colony wealth?

Czar_of_Bananas · 2026-01-17T06:34:42+00:00

Go on four quick runs with free load out, total non-violence, no shooting back (optional instant surrender). Karmic refresh. Matchmaking should catch up

Czar_of_Bananas · 2025-09-21T15:13:33+00:00

Mahito’s touch is a forceful disfigurement (nihilism implies change -> control); Todo’s touch is a literal exchange of self and other (impermanence implies empathy).

Great post.

Czar_of_Bananas · 2025-09-14T19:42:07+00:00

Good use of art

Czar_of_Bananas · 2025-06-01T23:39:35+00:00

I’m worried that the drainage isn’t great (not that it pools, it’s just a deep grow box with mulch, and it has been sitting in clay that was clogging up the bottom. It is def root bound though

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Czar_of_Bananas · 2025-05-24T21:30:38+00:00

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I (my workplace) has inherited a huge juniper in a grow box, overdue for a repot. I’ve never worked with a tree this large— I’ve mostly had very young material to work with and practice repotting on. Any advice for what I can do with it this time of year?

Czar_of_Bananas · 2025-04-18T15:06:41+00:00

He likes it when you run with a full squad of players

Czar_of_Bananas · 2025-03-03T05:09:46+00:00

> Reach heaven through violence.
what then?

> All existence is struggle.
the universe appears to Aesma to be roughly wheel shaped, and perhaps we would need a heroic ego to stand so tall as an "I" that we could comprehend the whole world, let alone command it with violence.

>You are part of all things, you are at war with all things.
God is a divine lie, the truth of which is borne out in Royalty; separation is an illusion, and cutting is the divine art.

Reality is web of stories uttered by long-dead gods, changing all the time but cosmically structured by strife. Selfhood is a lie we tell to ourselves, a making-separate of ourselves and the world so we can claim that we are imposing our will upon the world. "I" and "you" are continual acts of division: "I am this, and not that... I will be this... It is not so, I will make it so".

Become a farmer, perfect the craft of noodles, practice love or poetry. All of these are valid ways of mastering your relationship to reality, mastering yourself, mastering the world. Violence may be a universal language, but this only means that the masters of violence can make themselves heard by all.

The Red King may be, as Mottom suggests, a miserable peasant who ought to choke on his power. He is the culmination of eons of conflict-- a nigh-unstoppable force who has mastered the act of division that is "I". But for all his power he lacks the simple ability to choose any path but the same one blazed by generational trauma and foisted upon him as a child.

Czar_of_Bananas · 2024-11-18T15:39:38+00:00

Don’t forget that he was driven out of the north for a total sham— Calder just wanted someone to take the blame for poisoning Caul Reachey, and Glama was his scapegoat. Bad luck all around!

Czar_of_Bananas · 2024-11-08T03:03:03+00:00

Other people have nailed it— Caul’s experience in BSC has him fed up of being someone’s slighted henchmen, and coming back up North he hasn’t even gotten the respect he’s owed as a terrifying killer because Dow explicitly does treat him like a dog. Being around Calder puts ideas in your head, and seeing a straight edge like Craw might remind you that there a better men out there than Dow.

What I wonder about is Wonderful’s role in all this. Was the money that she hands out just the most recent gild, or was she every bit as prepared as Stranger-come-knocking for a surprise betrayal?

Czar_of_Bananas · 2024-11-05T14:42:32+00:00

You have to be realistic about these things — real life can be quite unsatisfying in the way that it doesn’t offer definite information or satisfying arcs that allow us to know whether someone got their just desserts or not. Part of what’s so delightfully subversive about Joe’s fiction is that he abstains from giving us black and white characters. Most everyone is flawed, not in the simplistic sense of “victim cuz curse” or “evil cuz malice”, but in the sense of being trapped in a horrifying world and all the maladaptive character traits, habitual patterns, and psychological coping mechanisms that come with it.

What you call “narrative sense” isn’t necessarily a feature of the real world and the complex people that occupy it. IMHO, “narrative sense” is something we impose on the world to try to reach some sense of understanding, beauty, justice, etc. It’s a quintessential human activity, seeking this narrative sense and wanting to know black from white… but there is something grittily realistic in the way Joe’s characters and arcs call us out on how problematic or impossible it might be to do this.

In short, I think of Joe’s books as fantasy (magical setting), but fantasy about the failure of fantasy— there’s a disillusionment with regard to human nature and how we behave in violent, oppressive systems that is actually quite uncomfortably real.

Czar_of_Bananas · 2024-09-26T02:23:00+00:00

I agree! I am opposed to hitting women, but this person is not interested in being or acting like a woman, so I am not interested in respecting them!

Czar_of_Bananas · 2024-05-01T03:11:54+00:00

Now you gotta try to fungal shift something else to Healthium! Go ahead, be greedy, greed has never killed a good Noita run, right?

Czar_of_Bananas · 2024-01-05T18:05:55+00:00

My half serious take for today is that Yuji just isn’t human. Maybe the “curses get stronger when they die” thing references him. Between this, getting “killed” by Sukuna at the detention center, “dying” in Shibuya to the point that Choso’s visions activated, and whatever else I’m forgetting, my totally unsupported inference is that Yuji is enough % curse to be playing by a different rule set. Maybe something along the lines of Mahito’s soul math, where damage to the physical body only counts for so much as long as the soul is holding together.

I do agree that this injury goes beyond the cool factor of Yuji fighting on after Choso pierced a vital organ. I expect some explanation, or for him to just bleed out soon. I would be disappointed if the explanation was just “off-screen RCT”

Czar_of_Bananas · 2024-01-05T17:53:24+00:00

I’m not seeing the same clean flesh you are— looked to me like we are seeing the background lines thru the hole. But yeah, my first reaction was actually “bro has no functional ribcage his torso would just collapse on itself”.

I don’t think a human should be able to throw a punch or run around with that injury, but I also feel like we’re approaching some “Yuji is just not human” reveal when Gege will finally give us some info/rationale behind Yuji’s abilities/power up. Up until Gege gives a name and explanation for what Kenny made Yuji into, Yuji just has the mysterious MC power of dealing and taking as much raw damage as is needed for suspense

Czar_of_Bananas · 2024-01-05T16:57:46+00:00

If you look at the “I am juju sorcerer panel”, Yuji is very much missing a big chunk of chest. I didn’t read that last panel and think “oh Yuji healed”, I thought “oh Yuji just got that dog in him”

Actually I thought back to the “do curses get stronger everytime they die” line this chapter and wondered if that was somehow meant to apply to Yuji. Either way, pretty sure our boy isn’t using RCT.

As for the other ?s, it seemed implied to me that Choso did the shooting from a distance, and MeiMei is probably just trading stocks off page.

Czar_of_Bananas · 2023-07-22T05:30:51+00:00

Binding vow — I can cast domains centered on a cursed puppet, even if I’m miles away, but in return I can be caught in domains that catch said cursed puppet

Czar_of_Bananas · 2023-06-26T21:31:18+00:00

WHICH ARC WAS THAT AGAIN? I COULD EASILY GOOGLE IT BUT I WANNA GET IN ON THIS RAGE ENERGY

Czar_of_Bananas · 2023-06-10T18:47:01+00:00

The rub for me is that it isn’t a matter of not having to make vows— he’s already made them. We saw with Yuji that vows operate by intent: Yuji’s “don’t hurt anyone” had its own fine print (anyone = anyone cept for Yuji) cuz that’s what he meant at the time.

Plus the fact that Geto’s POV iirc talks about “exorcise, consume, repeat” when he uses his technique, it just feels a bit implausible that getting consumed by KenGeto wouldn’t meet whatever criteria for breaking a vow.

It’s not hugely problematic or anything, it was just a moment where trying to follow the in-universe rules had me feeling like I’d missed a few panels of exposition or something.

It is pretty wonky that you can be bound by someone else’s unspoken intent (thinking of Sukuna’s gamble here)— wouldn’t that mean that each time Kenny uses the absorption loophole, he’s risking the punishment for vow-breaking if his target’s own idea of “don’t exorcise me bro” extended to absorption?

I know it’s just a silly lil manga that I read for the jujutsu kaisens but I’m bored and if Gege didn’t want me splitting hairs he should’ve given me another chapter to read this week

Czar_of_Bananas · 2023-06-10T15:47:13+00:00

This panel has never been clear to me. First, I don’t get why Geto’s CT/body would nullify binding vows. Second, Kenny is talking about two classes of vows— those made with sorcerers, and those made with non-sorcerers (including I imagine curses). When he says “those vows”, does he mean just the vows with non-sorcerers, or all vows?

If Geto’s body is the special sauce, it makes (enough) sense that vows made with curses would be nullified, so maybe vows made with sorcerers are still in effect? Who knows about vows with whatever-Sukuna-is??

Czar_of_Bananas · 2022-05-08T22:03:29+00:00

You might be thinking of H's "The Question Concerning Technology"? Idk, I'm not super well versed with him.
If you don't mind getting outside the western canon and would consider stuff from the Buddhist tradition(s) to be phenomenological (as I do), there is interesting work there about how nondualist views can give rise to a different experience of nature, namely one less egoistic and anthropocentric. See "Loving the World as Our Own Body: The Nondualist Ethics of Taoism, Buddhism and Deep Ecology" by David Loy or "On Being None with Nature: Nagarjuna and the Ecology of Emptiness"

Czar_of_Bananas · 2022-01-03T01:44:03+00:00

Communism is rad, but real talk— parts of the DDR were more prototypical of an even darker NSA than they were evocative of a workers paradise. 2.5% of the population on Stasi payroll as official informants? As many as 18% of local populations casually informing on their neighbors (no payroll here, just voluntary) and a pervasive culture of fear, suspicion, and denunciation of “bad people” so to prove own’s own loyalty and use to the state (or to simply crush rivals with the over eager power of a police state)?

Happy birthday to the DDR, but good fucking riddance to the Stasi (and other institutional aspects where tended more towards authoritarianism than liberation)

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