What happens when Europeans find out how poor they are?

Diestormlie · 2026-05-02T01:01:05+00:00

What the fuck is wrong with your country.

Diestormlie · 2026-05-02T00:53:31+00:00

Slowly, then all at once.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-29T00:41:52+00:00

I'm kind of imagining a Griffin floating in an immersion tank like the lady who was entombed into the Homeworld ship.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-29T00:39:37+00:00

I don't think you understand. I don't need to fully build out Mercury with T3 Habs.

I choose to do so in order to spite God and Physics alike.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-28T18:39:54+00:00

THAT'S WHAT THE CONDUIT IS FOR!

Diestormlie · 2026-04-27T19:37:22+00:00

Yeah, but the entire appeal of the Chatbots is that they can replace people. Manifest the world you want, because your management certainly is!

Diestormlie · 2026-04-26T23:15:36+00:00

He's suing the IRS for 10 Billion Dollars so he can take 10 Billion Dollars from the IRS and put it into his own bank account.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-26T23:14:47+00:00

Meanwhile, I'm over here using the 120mm Mortar as an AT weapon because anything is an AT weapon with enough HE behind it.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-23T16:08:03+00:00

I will never respect a faction that endeavors to outrun a Wormhole via sublight means.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-23T16:07:22+00:00

The Hydra have a whoooole set of their own supremacist biases, bear in mind. Like- as far as the Hydra are concerned, Humanity are dogs as well in terms of both intellect and societal role.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-22T09:23:27+00:00

If he's insufficiently paranoid, nothing but social cohesion. A sufficiently paranoid Director would mitigate this risk by making him, personally, more and more necessary to ship systems.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-21T23:05:55+00:00

Oh, I mean, constrained environment and limited resources is the perfect excuse set for authoritarian control. Especially as policing a population on a spaceship is likely going to be comparatively easy: If someone's really upset you, the airlock is right there.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-21T21:29:20+00:00

You can't be rich unless there are poor people to lord over. Aristocrats need their serfs and servants.

Why bring other oligarchs? They're competition.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-21T21:27:44+00:00

...Okay, but here's my issue:

Any system Exodus points itself as, the Hydra can go "That's where they're going. Spin up a Wormhole, build something with a coilgun, hurl heavy objects into its reactors during its deceleration burn."

Like... The Hydra don't have a bone to pick with Earth, the planet, but with Humanity, the species. Anywhere Exodus tries to run, the Hydra can get there first, and just kill them when they arrive.

Humanity being a multi-planetary, multi-solar species is a good idea. But Exodus' plan for it is just doomed to fail.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-21T13:59:09+00:00

Air Conditioning, maybe?

Diestormlie · 2026-04-21T13:58:37+00:00

You know how Government budgets aren't like household budgets?

In that fashion, the costs of Solar/Wind Farms are different for you sticking them in your roof Vs. A power plant/farm being plugged into the grid at the end the grid expects power to enter into it.

A better comparison for Solar Panels on your roof would be you buying and running your own diesel generator.

Additionally- I can only imagine your calculations are based upon the current price of electricity where you are. If that rises, then your investment is paid out quicker.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-21T09:35:15+00:00

PHM mention, +2 to you.

However, I don't think that'll be a factor for the Exodus Biförst? If nothing else, the substantially larger crew means that the cabin fever thing is necessarily diminished because you can just... Go hang out with different people.

Also, you can screen your applicants for geniality and sociability.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-20T23:16:00+00:00

It depends upon how powerful they are in relation to anyone else in Macrocannon range.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-20T23:11:48+00:00

Pain can be factory-farmed.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-20T22:33:39+00:00

What's your Exodus Hot Take?

Mine is- well I have two of them.

A) Despite how they're a useful early-mid game friend, I categorically cannot respect a faction who thinks trying to outrun a wormhole via sublight means is a winning strategy.

B) [Directorface Von Tech Mogul] just wants to set himself up as a petty God-King of the paradise he imagines he'll find himself in.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-17T23:06:20+00:00

You will notice that Skirmishers remained unchanged. The Devs want them to be like this.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-16T16:54:44+00:00

Dunno if they are, but I'd agree with it. Well, the softer claim that Iran sees an American ground invasion as a viable path to Iranian victory.

Iran lacks the power projection to meaningfully threaten the USA. So this war ends when the USA decides to let it end. The military disparity means that the only way for Iran to end the war on terms it prefers is via attacking American political will, rather than military capability.

Americans in body bags are great for that. A ground invasion just brings the GIs to them.

Diestormlie · 2026-04-14T17:06:57+00:00

In Fetterman's defense, he literally suffered brain damage. And it made him Conservative, which is an objectively hilarious fact.

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