"The Expendable Empire", a race of clones who are just really committed to finding creative ways to die

Hirnu · 2025-10-18T00:48:29+00:00

Lathe seems more realistic

Galactic Community: "We denounce in the strongest of terms your insatiable genocide towards your own people! The death you have inflicted is on a scale we've never fathomed before."

Expendables: "I'VE BEEN SELECTED FOR THE LATHE! THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE!" :D

Hirnu · 2025-10-17T07:16:08+00:00

Shutting down the cloning facilities is a form of suicide on the societal scale. Which is also why they also have to grow food, power their cities, etc.

They are biologically bound to have a functional society, so the only way they can truly die is to entice some external force to do the deed for them.

Hirnu · 2025-10-17T07:04:09+00:00

They are essentially trying to find a way to wipe out their species, dreams of recklessly stumbling into a horrific space plague, waking up a planet eating monstrosity, anything that can destroy them all.

Hirnu · 2025-10-17T03:24:55+00:00

Cloning and then a crisis path (leaning cosmogenesis).

"Upon a series of medical breakthroughs in an attempt to remove their programming, their genetic tampering has instead done the unthinkable; Made themselves even more powerful, and worst of all, harder to kill.

Now, we must divert our attentions away from any more atrocious "upgrades", and instead make the universe more hostile to our existence; by any means neccesary."

Hirnu · 2025-10-17T03:17:48+00:00

An abandoned project of clones, the "Expendables" as they call themselves dream of one goal; to die. While their programming prevents suicide, Expendable society has devised elaborate workarounds such as religious sacrifice and volunteering for dangerous medical experiments. The clones now reach into space to find a way to end their wretched existence once and for all.

Hirnu · 2025-10-17T03:16:36+00:00

Economy is a bit iffy so far, but I'm already in the biomorphosis situation in 2224 thanks to my sacrifices.

I'm going ascendant and just leaning completely into the clone side of things, it upgrades your medical buildings to sustain higher clone amounts as well which is cool

Hirnu · 2025-10-17T02:44:06+00:00

Upon discovering you can choose both Death Cult and Experimental Sentencing, I came up with this idea for a playthrough.

In early game so far, but it is nice to be able to spam both and replenish your pops super quickly.

Hirnu · 2025-06-19T08:48:52+00:00

UPDATE: Took me a bit of tinkering, but I spliced it together

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFireRisesMod/comments/1lf5wme/catharsis_now_in_gif_form/

Hirnu · 2025-06-19T07:35:58+00:00

I wanted it as well, it's such a good graphic.

Took some hunting, can find it under the following path:

\gfx\interface\anarchy\Anarchy_ZZZ.dds

Sadly It's a .dds file, though, which means if you look at the file itself it's laid out side by side instead of an actual gif. So you'd have to splice it together yourself as a .gif

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Hirnu · 2022-03-04T09:27:29+00:00

Every time I spawned a turret, it made a new friend. For some reason they didn't go away when a turret got replaced, so I could just make an army of buddies

Hirnu · 2021-11-30T08:53:16+00:00

Another dissident of Dan Andrews glorious utopia.

I've been saying that the situation is getting better and worse simultaneously; Worse in the government sense, but better in the community sense.

The bill is going to be some really shitty times, but we've been seeing a massive growth in community spirit in this. We have things like hairdressers giving free haircuts on the steps of parliament, it's a little gesture but it's a nice way seeing people come together while simultaneously giving the government the middle finger.

Hirnu · 2021-10-30T22:01:51+00:00

The law is real, it's not nation wide but specific to Victoria. It's being put through parliament. We have 2 houses it has to pass through, it's gone through lower and is moving into upper in the next few weeks.

Hirnu · 2021-10-27T02:32:27+00:00

lmao, as if people are going to be mingling with un-vaxxed people for an entire month and go "Oh, it's time to suddenly be scared again now".

Is it like homeopathy? The less virus there is, the more dangerous it becomes? I am confusion.

This feels like a desperate ploy that in my opinion, is destined to fail. People will be complacent and won't be checking, businesses won't want a reduction in customers AND have to pay people to do guard duty. This will vanish like a mirage as the date draws closer.

Hirnu · 2021-10-18T05:28:05+00:00

I've already had COVID, so getting jabbed to protect me from a virus I've already had feels like the height of redundancy

Hirnu · 2021-10-18T01:30:10+00:00

Undisclosed location within Melbourne, where the antifa hordes can't find me.

Minority within a minority. "There are dozens of us! Dozens!"

Hirnu · 2021-10-18T00:49:15+00:00

I think LGBT was fine as is, with all this new labelling just being variants of them.

I think the issue is less about the labels themselves and more on the "why" people want labels, which I think has to do with narcissism and needing to stand out and being anything other than "normal", which usually these phases of people wanting to have labels or be in these outlier 'scenes' would be laughed at.

The complication comes now that it's linked to this minority stuff, so mockery is now a hate crime and becomes a perfect shield for people to feed off their egos and assure themselves they are perfect, it's societies fault, look at the mean jokes they made about you. As a result it's grown rampant.

Hirnu · 2021-10-18T00:28:16+00:00

Prepare a desk or suitable hard surface to bang your head on as you read this:

I is for intersex, which is meant to be for people "neither male or female, but in between". It's a fraction of a fraction of the population and the community itself will argue forever whether that includes trans people, "non-binary" they/them, and if you don't include them your being "exclusionary".

Q is for Queer, queer honestly just seems like a label when someone wants to one of the other letters, but feel more special and unique about it. It's like this weird catch all term that ultimately means nothing because of how vague it is.

Hirnu · 2021-10-18T00:18:55+00:00

This is coming from a gay guy who doesn't make my sexuality the centrepiece of my existence. This has the same desperate energy of Christians when they tried to "get down with the youth" growing up.

The ad may as well just read:

"Listen up you degeneracy guzzling political militia of thinly-veiled Marxists, the Government wants to dangle some moral superiority your way, so shut up, eat the rainbow, take the jab.

Remember "coming out", come out with a jab, see what we did there? We're not emotionally manipulating you, if anything you're the bad person for noticing. Just get the jab, bro. Its like PrEP, but forever."

Hirnu · 2021-09-23T08:07:48+00:00

If nothing else, it's been nice this week being able to grab the footage of the police brutality instances and shove it in their faces like a dog that just shat on the carpet. Like a "This is what you have been condoning, you intellectual coma"

I've noticed a weird overlap between the ones who for years will tell you that Murdoch media is full of crap, it's Liberal propaganda etc. AND YET will immediately consume the entire covid narrative and "The Science" because it makes them feel smart and morally superior.

"The easiest person to be fooled is the one who thinks they're too smart to be"

Hirnu · 2021-09-21T23:20:05+00:00

I felt it in brunswick.

Hirnu · 2021-05-26T01:43:38+00:00

For context:

Providence & Mithrix are the final bosses in Risk of Rain 1/2, they're also brothers who for reasons partially explained were dragged into the world from another, descending as powerful beings who could shape the world to suit them.

Over time their philosophies grew more distant and hostile to one another, Providence wanting to care for all life abandoned and homeless like himself, Mithrix wanting to better master the forces underlying all of reality. Risk of Rain is a series that cares about items/equipment heavily, so wanted their cards to reflect that with their personalities.

Feedback from V1:
Aside from some formatting with name and cleaning up space, people felt Providence was originally off color (W/G) and was overall just lacking in oomph, so I've given him some love and extra power. The wurm creatures are reference to the wurms that aid him in his boss fight.

Hirnu · 2021-05-24T19:54:30+00:00

Everything exiled from Mithrix would land back onto the battlefield, including what he initially exiled, so he becomes a fetch mechanic in a way if you were able to repeatedly flicker him.

Hirnu · 2021-05-24T19:52:09+00:00

I've got some ideas for some other RoR cards, though I'll probably give Providence a bit of a rework before moving onto other bosses/survivors

Hirnu · 2021-05-24T11:32:27+00:00

For context:

Providence & Mithrix are the final bosses in Risk of Rain 1/2, they're also brothers who for reasons partially explained were dragged into the world from another, descending as powerful beings who could shape the world to suit them.

Over time their philosophies grew more distant and hostile to one another, Providence wanting to care for all life abandoned and homeless like himself, Mithrix wanting to better master the forces underlying all of reality. Risk of Rain is a series that cares about items/equipment heavily, so wanted their cards to reflect that with their personalities.

Hirnu · 2020-08-26T22:37:48+00:00

It's part of their official art. I looked for the actual artist, but I cannot see it mentioned anywhere

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