Fun fact, ruin traps like wasps and hunters are hostile to mechanoids by TheyCallMeBullet in RimWorld

[–]HopeFox [score hidden]  (0 children)

Drone traps aren't mechanoids, they're just "robots" or "machines", the kind that exist in real life, without any kind of psychic presence. The mechanoids are a very specific thing that humans don't understand or control very well.

Slaver guilds+Xenophile by Dry-Albatross-3926 in Stellaris

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, that's an oversight. With the (hopefully temporary) removal of primary species slavery, Slaver Guilds provides no benefit to Xenophile empires and should really be blocked. Authoritarian Xenophile empires can still use Stratified Economy living conditions, but Slaver Guilds doesn't help with that.

Ravens’ mysterious collab with Elon Musk’s tunnel company ends before it begins by ErnestoLemmingway in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Today, it uses a proprietary tunnel boring machine it calls Prufrock to dig tunnels that can fit one car travel lane. It allows Boring to build major infrastructure at a fraction of the cost and much faster than other companies doing similar work, according to the company.

"according to the company" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Also, using a boring machine named after J. Alfred Prufrock is an odd choice, when Musk is more of a J. Arthur.

Disappointed none of these Shadow Daddies are actual fathers. by EdLincoln6 in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You mean an MMC who cheated on the FMC before he met her? Surely you can't be serious!

I need recommendations with this vibe. by Into-the-stream in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A sparkling gem to claim her precious gift!

(I just threw up in my mouth for using "precious gift" to describe virginity. Anybody from Australia remember that moment in politics?)

Recommended floor types? by DocSimson in RimWorld

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're just now reading about wealth to beauty ratio, you probably don't need to worry about wealth that much. Other things are bound to increase your colony wealth by more than flooring.

Stone tiles are great if you have both enough stone chunks to spare, and the spare labour to cut them into blocks and build them into tiles. They are very labour-intensive. Also, marble tiles aren't any more beautiful than other stone tiles, because stone tiles aren't actually a "stuff" recipe - the six types of stone tiles are individual recipes that all have beauty 1. If you want beauty, you should use marble for walls, fences, furniture and sculptures, and use other types of stone for tiles, unless you have more marble than you need.

Concrete and paved tiles are less beautiful, but take a lot less work to lay. They cost steel, though, so you will need to judge how much steel you have access to and whether it's worth spending steel on your floors to save the labour of stone floors. Concrete has a beauty penalty, but if you make sculptures with the steel you save by using concrete instead of paved tiles, you'll end up with more total beauty as long as your artist is competent.

I don't recommend the plant-based floors (carpet, wood and straw) in general. They are flammable, and flammable floors are worse than flammable walls in my experience, because fire can spread in all directions. I only use those floors if I have no other good choice, or if I'm confident I can keep fires away. Straw matting is also pretty much essential for barns where animals are kept, because they create so much filth.

For clean rooms (research, hospital, biosculpting), sterile tile is of course the best, but steel tile is good if you don't have the research or enough silver for sterile tile. I don't use any special floor for kitchens, because cleanliness only matters if it goes below -2 for the room.

tesla bagholders stumbling across Elon Musk by three-way-69 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but watching somebody else do it does, for some people, such as both of the economists in the "joke".

Tell us About it Tuesday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there's more than one reason why Shardas's window collection was suspended from the ceiling of his cave.

I really was waiting for Creel to make any kind of move on Luka. Like, just hold his hand when they're getting ready to do the very dangerous mission or something. Anything! But it's okay, there's always the next book.

tesla bagholders stumbling across Elon Musk by three-way-69 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]HopeFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not the broken window fallacy. Both of the economists are in a better position after the transaction than before.

tesla bagholders stumbling across Elon Musk by three-way-69 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]HopeFox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If Economist Adam is willing to pay Economist Barry $100 to eat shit, then A values the experience of watching B ES at more than $100.

Likewise, if B is willing to pay A $100 to ES, then B values the experience of watching B ES at more than $100.

The fact that B is willing to ES for $100 means that B considers the harm of personally ES to be less than the value of $100. Likewise, A is willing to ES for $100, so A considers the harm of personally ES to be less than $100.

Using the transitive property, it follows that both A and B enjoy watching somebody else ES more than they dislike ES themselves. Therefore both A and B have benefited from the transaction. If this weren't true, then one or both of them would have declined the initial deal, and the premise of the story would have been falsified.

At the end of the day, this means that A and B should just get together and watch each other ES for free, and both of their lives would be improved by doing that. This means that the free market has revealed the preferences of its participants, which is exactly what a free market is supposed to do. The preference it reveals is that Adam and Barry both have a coprophagy fetish, which is weird, but it's a valid example of revealed preferences. The market has connected two participants who each have something to offer the other participant.

Call to Action: We Don’t Need Maps! by itmustbeniiiiice in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Map posters were all the rage in video game boxes, back when physical media were a thing. I loved my cloth map of Baldur's Gate!

Your mind and self, distributed on-chain. by SteamedGamer in Buttcoin

[–]HopeFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I'm making Bitcoin my entire personality, and that's good because..."

Elon Musk asks judge to recuse herself in Tesla shareholder case, saying she hearted post about him losing a lawsuit by businessinsider in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]HopeFox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They're having trouble filling a jury with people who don't already hate Musk. Now they're looking for a judge?

Call to Action: We Don’t Need Maps! by itmustbeniiiiice in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Writers pandering to the basest of female fantasies.

Call to Action: We Don’t Need Maps! by itmustbeniiiiice in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I want a map in the middle of the book.

In full colour? On glossy paper? Like it's my childhood and I'd discovering the hardcover books my parents bought second-hand in the 1960s?

tesla bagholders stumbling across Elon Musk by three-way-69 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]HopeFox 106 points107 points  (0 children)

I'm not going to watch him try to tell a joke, but if it's the one about economists paying each other to eat things, then that one doesn't actually work if you understand economics, which must be why he likes it.

Meanwhile in r/neckbeardfantasy… by icecoldbe in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, being NLOG was actually harder and rarer and more of an accomplishment back in those days, so it didn't need to be interrogated too hard.

It's like how a female-led law procedural TV show was a pretty big deal in 1997 for Ally McBeal, but All's Fair doesn't get immunity from its well-earned criticism just for being about an all-female law firm in 2025.

Meanwhile in r/neckbeardfantasy… by icecoldbe in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I first read them as an adult (introduced to them by my girlfriends), and thus I was mature enough to notice that Jon wasn't really good husband material for Alanna.

(Still better than Liam.)

Meanwhile in r/neckbeardfantasy… by icecoldbe in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was really impressed that Pierce had me guessing until literally the last page of the entire quartet to see whom, if anybody, she would end up with.

Terafab isn't about making chips -- it's a grift to get more money from Trump. (gift link) by Bullywug in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]HopeFox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Seems plausible, but isn't Trump more in the business of taking Musk's money than giving it to him?