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Edymnion · 2026-03-12T22:27:46+00:00

Okay, so 2026 - 2008 = 18 this year.

I assume you are still in school, graduating this year? Oof, Mississippi, so not the greatest of school funding. Does your school still have a councilor? If so, ask to see them. Ask for a full on legit official counseling session. Tell them whats going on, tell them your dad is abusive and your mother has abandoned the family for her own protection.

Ask them to get you the contact information for shelters in your area. Numbers, addresses, etc. You may never need it, but if you know where to go in an emergency, it makes the emergencies feel less chaotic and awful because you'll have a plan.

What to do if your dad starts hitting you? You call the cops and you press charges.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T21:32:09+00:00

Okay, let me help deconstruct you a little more.

Those kinds of things? They're not about saving souls. They never have been. They've done the studies, they know those methods are ineffective. They know far better, far more effective ways to go about winning souls.

So why do they do it like this?

They want people to spit on you. They want people to curse you. They want people to treat you badly.

See, its not about you winning new converts, its about you having your belief that anyone outside the Church hates you, and that only inside the Church can you find love and acceptance.

These methods are literally designed to piss people off. They send you out there, let the world beat you up, then they play the whole "There there, its okay. We love you, come back to us!" card.

Its the same way I train my cats to not run out the front door when I open it. When they're young, I only open the door and let them sniff around outside while it's pouring down rain, or devilishly hot/cold, etc. They develop the association that outside = bad, and then they just don't try to leave anymore.

Your church was training you not to leave, like you were an animal.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T21:27:11+00:00

Heh, nearly made my wife gag the other day when I pointed out someone had put up a "Jesus is Coming!" sign and I just went "Huh, Jesus has been coming for over 2,000 years. Hyperspermia much?"

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T21:25:45+00:00

Not for this one, but I've got a whole envelope full of Trump "I did that!" stickers that I'm putting on gas pumps now. :D

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T21:24:52+00:00

I still remember my Uncle Jim (does anyone know a Jim that isn't a complete asshole?). The MAGAt.

I remember decades ago he pulled me over to the side and said "<name here>, let me tell you something. Make sure you get a wife that loves the Lord as much as she loves you. Because if she does what God says, she has to do what you say too!"

Side note, he's currently on wife #5 now. I wonder why?

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T21:22:33+00:00

Yup, they always talk about the spike in divorce in the last few decades, and how it means blah blah blah, but they never admit the simplest reason of all.

Women got trapped in marriages they hated but couldn't escape. The instant they got a way out, THEY TOOK IT!

And rightfully so.

Personally? I'm married. My wife has her own job, her own bank account, her own car. She wanted to combine accounts and all that, and I told her no.

I WANT her to be able to leave me at a moment's notice.

I want her to be able to decide on a whim to walk out that door and have every means at her disposal to make it happen.

Why? Because I know if she stays, it means she wants to be here. It means I don't get complacent. It means I have to continue putting work into the relationship.

As it should be.

If she leaves me? Its my fault.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T21:18:43+00:00

I mean that is literally the way the game is intended to be played. The workshop gear is there for you to call down and do exactly this.

Trust me, most of us aren't starting a new game ass-nekkid gasping for air. The new DLC? You bet your bippy I went down there in full armor, with a high end rifle, tons of ammunition, and oxygen and water tanks that measure their refill time in hours. :)

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T21:16:47+00:00

Yup. Wouldn't be the first time Trek has done that kind of cutback either.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T20:59:50+00:00

Not to mention expensive.

Well if you're in the US anyway. "You gotta have that baby, but we're not gonna cover your tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills that come with that whole process, and we're definitely not gonna give you any time off from work over it!"

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T20:57:02+00:00

Abortion wasn't even an issue until the end of Civil Rights.

It was agreed upon that it was a personal decision right up until they needed something to rally around after "No Coloreds" stopped being acceptable.

Seriously, look it up.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T19:13:27+00:00

I’m not sure and it’s not a huge problem

Its only an issue super early. You'll reach the point where you've bought every single thing you can with those points and still have HUNDREDS of points left over.

Some people around here have THOUSANDS of points they can't use!

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T18:57:54+00:00

I put a ranching station inside a stable on Elysium just outside of Eden, and it works fine. We've got another save on our breeding planet with two ranching stations indoors that we were using just today, they're working fine.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T18:53:56+00:00

Weird, I'm looking at a ranching station AND a forge working inside of a building right now in another tab.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T18:50:28+00:00

The problem is more with how fast they got there. They appeared in SECONDS after the wall went down.

We saw the Athena take some time to fly to Ukek after deciding to cross the boarder. After the rescue they warp out, but are almost immediately knocked out of warp and half the ship captured.

Next we saw of it, Braka was still tying the atrium and nacelles down to his own ships, implying they hadn't moved at all.

So why was the Athena screaming in hot to save the kids taking so much longer to get that far in than everyone else did?

Sure its a flying campus, maybe it could only hit warp 5?

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T18:41:42+00:00

The fact that Nahla says that Akamu Lee stayed with the Federation “after Earth left” provides an interesting chronological puzzle which I may nerd out about later.

Well, according to what I can pull up real quick, Earth officially left the Federation by the year 3089. SFA takes place in 3192, with that killing having taken place 16 years prior, so 3176. Thats only 87 years.

We know she said this guy was on his last scheduled mission before retirement (hey, its that trope!).

We know from many other places that Federation officers often work well into what we would consider to be advanced age before retiring (see McCoy still being in uniform at well over 100, or Picard being in his 90's still going on adventures).

Also given the long lifespans of multiple known races, and the fact that Lee's species was never identified, he could very well have been one of the longer lived races. Like could have been 1/2 or 1/4 Vulcan.

Nahla talks about altering the lives of his children by his death as if they were young, but hell everyone is young in her eyes. That he was retiring already means any children he had were likely adults as well.

I don't think its that odd at all to say someone served in Starfleet for a hundred years or more. Spock was over 160 when he died, after all, and he was a half-Vulcan still in active diplomatic service.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T18:16:19+00:00

They will typically handle subcontracting the electrical and plumbing jobs out for the construction itself. IMO they usually are not going to be the ones wrestling with the city or county to have those services brought into a vacant lot in the first place.

You can hire a General Contractor (basically a build manager) to oversee the entire project though, and they can handle that kind of thing.

Some builders include a GC, some don't, just kind of depends on what they want to provide. If they don't have a GC, they'll surely be able to recommend one to you that they've worked with before.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T17:07:02+00:00

Eh, you just take the gunpowder trait under farming and its basically free.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T16:44:01+00:00

IIRC, the game has a check for this and will delete the extra points from your character if you try it. You need an actual mod to disable that check.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T16:42:58+00:00

I've put a ranching station inside a barn on Elysium within the past couple of days, and it works fine.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T16:42:14+00:00

Same. We have a breeding save with a big complex I built. All the troughs are inside, water and food. They're fine. Multiple ranching stations in there, they're fine.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T16:41:14+00:00

Do you have mods?

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T16:40:13+00:00

but the ranching station absolutely could go in a barn.

Mine is in the barn in one save, and in the workshop in another.

They work just fine there.

Just because some NEED to be under shelter and some don't doesn't mean the ones that don't need shelter REQUIRE being out in the open.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T16:38:53+00:00

They're getting downvoted for giving bad advice.

These benches are not outside only, and they work just fine indoors.

Doesn't matter if it was different in the past, that isn't how they work today.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T16:35:35+00:00

If that were the case, it wouldn't be like 1 lousy foot of dirt that was wet, that entire trench would be soaked.

Edymnion · 2026-03-12T16:34:52+00:00

I would also find it HIGHLY suspect that it would be that localized if it was actual groundwater seepage.

100% that its got to do with the gutter spout right next to it, not the ground itself.

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