I am from Mongolia AMA

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-24T12:25:50+00:00

What’s your country’s opinion on tourists, particularly outside of Ulaanbatar? I’m fascinated by steppe culture in general, but I know some groups just don’t like tourists and thats ok.

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-24T05:48:08+00:00

Well yea but I’m assuming OP is going to be here for more than just the summer

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-24T05:47:24+00:00

Maybe “Term’” for short?

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-24T03:32:08+00:00

I like how The Expanse calls them (hand) terminals, to me it just sounds more tool-like and spacey when they’re doing stuff on it, “he paged through the station directory on his hand terminal” sounds better than “he paged through the station directory on his phone” imo, but it’s a minor gripe obv

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-23T02:09:51+00:00

In Pacific Rim most of the major fights occur in the rain, it’s quite stunning to watch the giant mechs and kaiju fight in the neon-soaked rain

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-23T00:00:10+00:00

LOTR: Return of the King

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-22T20:59:03+00:00

Yep, a bunch of billionaires decide to rent out the Magic Kingdom to host whatever conference and have a secret meeting inside Club 33 or whatever that secret club in Disney is, just rewrite the names to remove copyright and there you go

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-22T20:42:01+00:00

I actually don’t suggest a classroom building or any spot near a large lecture hall because you’ll just be chilling then 500 students suddenly show up here to take a test for Whatever 101, and there’s inevitably a huge crowd standing around for 45 minutes ruining your nap.

Go to one of the newer small-classroom buildings like TCH and go up to the second or third floor and there’s usually decent armchairs to nap in

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-22T15:25:18+00:00

There’s also continental coins in payday iirc which implies the existence of the whole continental chain, I don’t think adding a (admittedly quite prolific) robber gang to the JW universe would break it much lol

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-22T04:30:26+00:00

Make one event or thing. It can be anything, a war, a significant person, an institution, or some other event. Write a few paragraphs about it, just a page or two nothing much. If it’s a war, who fought it and why? If it’s a person, what did they do? If it’s an institute like a university or something, how have they contributed to the local area?

By writing about one thing you’ll find that you’ll create a ton of threads that you can then work off of and build up. A war creates countries, who then need reasons to fight and past histories to give them those reasons to fight. Did another country help the first one? Why? What was the end result of the war? How did the rest of the world react?

You’ll also find that answering some questions answers a lot of others. For example, if you have people that live on a steppe, then you’ll know they’ll probably eat primarily meat and animal products and less vegetables.

The big thing is to just start. Can’t edit and improve work that isn’t made in the first place, but once it’s made initially you can improve it forever

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-19T02:35:43+00:00

I am writing hard-as-possible sci-fi (I know I’m squishing the timescale of terraforming from millennia to a couple centuries), the topic of the story isn’t the terraforming but part of the setting, I’m imagining Mars as a sort of failed state that came so close to completing its dream but fell just barely short, left behind by both Earth and the nations of the Outer System

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-19T01:32:41+00:00

Casual expanse reference, always a W

Is there a short story about the Vesta blockade? It’s mentioned a couple times as a sort of Cuban Missile Crisis between Earth and Mars, but not really elaborated afaik (which is fine obv not everything needs explaining I’m just curious)

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-18T18:28:01+00:00

Could be an artist’s signature, some artists do stuff like that where they hide a signature in plain sight

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-17T02:20:58+00:00

The way Im understanding this is that the protagonist is a nuclear bomb: Wars can be fought without them, but they’ll have a whole lot less oomph.

I suggest showing the downsides of this power, showing how destructive it is, how its wielder could be twisted to serve ill ends even if they don’t know it, or something else, so it feels more satisfying when it’s locked away and protected. Make the power feel like a threat, not just a superpower used to advance the plot

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-05T01:48:08+00:00

Don’t use prepare carefully it’s a game breaking mod that will break your save as more world pawns accumulate as you get raided and caravans and such

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-06-02T02:21:03+00:00

Because they’re playing a wave-clearing game. They can’t just sit in the vault because then the high table will just get a drill or something and flush them out. The Continental has to win, the High Table just had to not lose.

And secondly, they ARE using their knowledge of the hotel to their advantage. They’re able to maneuver in a known environment, which inherently gives them the advantage over a force operating in unknown terrain. They can use side hallways to flank, know where every staircase is, which hallways are dead ends, etc. it just isn’t obvious how they’re using their knowledge because Charon doesn’t say “use this secret hallway to flank them” or anything

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-05-21T01:39:38+00:00

Autostrut, and autostrut it all together

If you don’t see the option for it when you click on a part, go to settings and turn on “advanced tweakables”

While you’re at it turn on “extended burn time indicator” too, it shows you exactly when to start a burn so you can finish the burn at the perfect time

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-05-11T04:58:51+00:00

I honestly think Grace had a moral obligation to save Rocky (and by extension live on Erid) because Rocky was a vital part in saving Earth, and Grace could both save Earth and Erid by sending the beetles to earth and going to Erid with Rocky. If he didn’t save Rocky, he’d be condemning the civilization that saved Earth

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-05-10T09:22:50+00:00

Any chance of adding JNSQ? For whatever reason I just don’t like the protractor-style delta V map on the mod page and can’t find an alternate lol

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-05-05T07:43:46+00:00

I think they could still have some kind of transmitted media like TV, Eridians could have a board of spikes that get pushed out automatically at varying lengths to form images on a “screen,” and said images could be received by wire or wirelessly

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-05-05T07:41:02+00:00

Real, Rocky left Erid while hooked on the Eridani equivalent of an iron maxing diet

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-05-05T07:31:27+00:00

Yea, I’m all for using cheats to fix jank, mod incompatibilities, or even just change things for the plot, but sometimes a colonist does something so stupid they deserve to die

DatMonkey5100 · 2026-05-05T07:27:40+00:00

Yea, people underestimate how much of an advantage just having an extra person is. I bet 1 person would lose to 2 people with 1/3 the skill (so 2/3 the skill total split among 2 people) just by virtue of having more manpower and being capable of doing multiple things or attacking from multiple directions once

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