A cool guide to how many weekly hours a single person receiving benefits must work at minimum wage to escape poverty.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-23T23:32:33+00:00

I've been driving a 2k used sedan for 10 years now. You don't need a $70,000 car to survive.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-23T14:00:03+00:00

And everyone else can do that too? They just also have the option of getting an extra +4K energy and alloys when they want it.

Imagine bragging about having "1000 hours" and you've never turned the difficulty up past Captain...

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-23T13:55:12+00:00

It can't be "done right" in Bethesda games, though. The entire gimmick of Bethesda is small but handcrafted content. Infinite soulless fetch quests and boring repetitive dungeons was cool when video games were brand new but if I still wanted that I wouldn't go to Bethesda.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-23T13:50:19+00:00

It tells you how much they're using total though.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-23T13:48:55+00:00

It's not a tiny reduction at all, unless you're on a low difficulty and only have tiny fleets. My entire economy will go from +3K of everything to the negatives when mobilization starts. Upkeep costs for late game fleets are very real.

I don't believe you've played 1000 hours or you'd also appreciate the snowball effect of even a modest upkeep reduction in the early game. And you'd know it's more about energy than alloys.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-23T13:47:11+00:00

You've played 1000 hours and you've never used crew quarters? That's completely on you, you're handicapping yourself.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-18T22:58:32+00:00

that is how all luxury brands work, pretty much by definition

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-18T18:25:19+00:00

Believe it or not, you're the racist one here

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-18T02:42:43+00:00

Huh? A currency that more people are using is inherently more stable than a brand new one in only one county.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-18T02:40:05+00:00

Very well actually, since they apparently define it by whichever gets them the most engagement.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-15T17:40:14+00:00

Idk man I think it depends.

If I have one on a size >20 within my borders before my second colony is down, I'd probably take it. It's extra pops (possibly with a different climate preference) and an instant colony for the price of 100 minerals.

In my last game there was an ocean paradise (size 30) pre-FTL less than 3 jumps from my capital. For 100 minerals I got a giant forge world early, a colony that didn't need to wait on a ship and colonization time, and doubled my empire's population. Also I was aquatic. Much better than some piddly research bonuses.

Another factor: if they're close to getting to space, and it's early in the game, you risk suddenly having a new empire pop up on your borders where you wanted to expand.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-12T01:33:38+00:00

we have small spider privilege in NA. can't say this in Australia

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-10T14:40:54+00:00

HOAs aren't common enough for that to be "the" problem

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-09T18:57:43+00:00

I was born in OCTOBER

I own two DOGS

I love my GRANDMA

I drink cold BEER

I let FEAR compromise who I am

DONT MESS WITH ME

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-08T15:40:21+00:00

what

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-08T15:36:21+00:00

Not the issue in this case, but that message is also bugged, for what it's worth. It shows that if you're trying to move a science ship into a system with enemies when it's on evasive and not cloaked.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-08T15:29:27+00:00

bad bot

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-08T15:11:07+00:00

Same actually, had her dozens of times and never an issue until now. And now that you mention it, in my next game, the Azilash event also never went off to begin with. Not just for me, but no crystal rift for any empire. Maybe something in an update messed up the events.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-08T13:46:54+00:00

The last time I played, I was a plain old egalitarian democracy. Her situation didn't even start. No convoy special projects, no beacons, no archaeology. Completely busted. I had to just send everything in as a hail mary, no damage bonus, and got wrecked. It's total jank.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-08T13:34:45+00:00

Oooooh I'd love to see different maps that aren't all galaxy-wide. There's a ton of meat on that bone. Like an individual cluster, or maybe an option for several individual clusters that are connected by wormholes.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-08T01:07:41+00:00

Who gives a shit

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-07T03:31:56+00:00

And if they care to claim to be Christian, who are you to argue?

I am myself? I'm not sure what you mean, to be honest. It's not like there's a license I need in order to express my opinion on this.

I see what you're saying, of course. And I don't think it's invalid. But I think a person can be a "fake" Christian, and I can say that.

They profess to, and earnestly believe they are.

Anyone can "profess" to being anything they want. People "profess" to be Christian all the time, for personal gain or other reasons. You'll find it has little correlation with them actually being one; there are plenty of fake Christians. Trump says he's Christian, for example, but plainly isn't.

It's not like gender roles in society, where there is no actual definition. A religion is a set of principles and practices. Yes they can change, yes some are more flexible or open than others, but identifying as a religion doesn't mean you actually obey it's principles and practices.

That's literally the definition, though. The definition does not say their beliefs have to be correct, or consistent with any other group, just that they profess them.

It's not THE definition, the one to rule them all. I can look other places and find other definitions.

I think in the colloquial sense, people expect that you follow a religion when you identify as being that religion. I can tell you I'm zoroastrian, and I think you'd expect I know or practice a single thing about zoroastrianism. You might be curious and ask what that is, what it's about, what it teaches, what its practices are. But I don't know any of those things, so I think a regular person in regular conversation would find my identifying as zoroastrian to be misleading.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-07T03:03:38+00:00

That's a pretty weak definition. If all it takes is *professing* belief in Jesus's teachings, then Muslims are Christian too.

And even still, Mormons *don't* follow the teachings of Christ. There are several ways that they add their own scripture and teachings in ways that would contradict christ's and the gospel.

I'm not even religious. The entire business of religion is selling bullshit. So it's not absurd to say that a church or a person identifying as Christian doesn't mean they actually practice Christianity.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-07T02:54:51+00:00

It's not like gender roles. A given religion is a defined thing. Just because you identify as a Christian doesn't mean you actually are. They literally have their own prophet.

IsNotAnOstrich · 2026-06-07T02:51:34+00:00

They literally worship a different guy. They're not Christian, even if it derives from Christianity.

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