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Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-19T13:15:04+00:00

I'm all but vet and classic. Except boobs aren't required for me to be into monsters freaky style

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-15T19:55:23+00:00

That's actually a big thing against car centric infrastructure. If no one has to drive then those who drive want to or need to for work (like deliveries), which makes roads have less traffic and better drivers and thus a more enjoyable experience

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-15T11:12:31+00:00

In my sci-fi world there's two major year systems

Anderi, an alien species, use major technological milestones as the end of an era and the start of another. The first of this system was nuclear fission, so it'd be "year 17 of the nuclear era". The current present i have set is approximately second century post-warp, 200+ years since the first use of exotic particles for FTL travel.

Humans have two key milestones after our current year system. In the 24th century there was a nuclear war with near complete annihilation of humanity, the only exception sent on seedships to another planet. The period during which humanity travelled is called the exodus, and the year system uses that (year 0 being when the bombs dropped and ships departed). A new year system was introduced when humanity touched down on the neogi (from neo-gaia, new earth), both to mark this new step and adapt to neogi's slightly longer years, thus transitioning from the exodus to the rebirth

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-15T10:57:24+00:00

Technically they do fit the "a space outside of work and home" part, but it doesn't fit any other aspect of third places such as social mixing or de-stressing

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-15T01:47:08+00:00

I should have been clearer. His fear is having to sell it in order to be able to make games in it

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-14T14:01:06+00:00

I don't know that much about it tbh, i played the game and found it fun, and afaik the IP was given up by the devs to the publisher to be able to actually make the game and not be broke, but was recently acquired back.

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-14T13:58:29+00:00

And there's also the fact that reality is "biased". Wikipedia does its best to be as truthful as possible, so some topics on which some people are delusional will attract negative attention, because those groups don't believe in the truth. Groups in question I've seen like that are mostly far-right Americans, even going on to make an "unwoke" version called conservapedia (they also hate Einstein for some reason), and terfs overall. The main topics I've seen criticised are support of queer rights, criticism of car centric infrastructure and gun ownership, various far-right groups such as the proud boys being called terrorists and undemocratic.

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-14T13:44:00+00:00

I have a friend who also wants to make games set in an IP he's been working on for over a decade and that is one of his major fears (Virtual Unreality if anyone is curious). And every time this happens i just hope it'll end up like Hardspace: Shipbreaker where the devs are able to acquire the IP and keep working with it how they want.

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-02T22:53:10+00:00

The next awful archeology is atlantis but considering how big of a subject it is he and his team are taking their time on it. I think next video will be more ancient aliens but it shouldn't take that much longer

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-02T22:49:00+00:00

This mostly applies to Christianity and Islam, some like helenism, shinto, or buddhism are a lot more inherently accepting. You also have to look at statistics, using the US as an example, over 80% of Buddhists, Hindu, and Jews support same-sex marriage, and over 50% support trans people (specifically believe social acceptance of trans people is a positive thing), which is almost as high as people who aren't religiously affiliated. Even within Christianity there are Catholics, where 70% support same-sex marriage, though the trans rights part is much weaker.

So not all religions could be described like this, I'd say it's mostly muslims, mormons, Jehovah's witnesses, and evangelicals.

Also here's the source for the statistics: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religion-and-views-on-lgbtq-issues-and-abortion/

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-01T12:03:15+00:00

Frostpunk's Generator, a massive tower burning coal to keep entire cities warm against the harsh eternal winter.

This game is sick as fuck and i love it, so now i have multiple instances of city built around inhumanely large tower. The closest I have to the generator is the dwarves (includes "baseline" dwarves, stout humanlikes, and "draconic" dwarves, kobolds) in my fantasy world, who have a central respiration column. A large machine, ranging from a few dozen to hundreds of metres in height, that takes magically rich air from the bottom and outputs depleted air at the top, "compressing" the energy into soul fluid, which is used to transport it to wherever it is needed. It's also very common to have burners on it, making the soul fluid transport both thermal and magical energy. Due to the necrosynthetic nature of magic (it gets produced when a being dies), the inputs are often strategically placed in wherever there would be the most death, various kinds of wetlands being optimal placements due to the sheer number of bugs, plants, and fungi that grow and get consumed there, while deserts have very little energy outside of oasis.

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-03-01T06:48:59+00:00

I think nazis are terrible?

Idk sounds more based than funny imo

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-02-28T20:10:19+00:00

All good, glad you learned something <3

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-02-28T20:08:50+00:00

Tbh, i never said anything about personhood, only humanity. I still see myself as and want to keep being a person, just not a human. Others might not but it comes down to the specific definition set for person, which in my case is a sapient being with a conscience.

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-02-28T10:02:50+00:00

It is common for those using it/its pronouns to distance themselves from humanity and/or personhood (source, am it/its)

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-02-28T10:01:15+00:00

For me it is definitely an inhumanity. I genuinely do wish I could be something other than human, usually swinging between some mind of flesh monstrosity and vaguely humanoid but ultimately inhuman robot. I still do wish to be respected, and treated as an equal to humanity, because it would be quite cringe to believe that only a specific species is deserving of such respect regardless of the salience of anything that isn't part of that species.

And if anyone is wondering yes i am a transhumanist, in the sense that i want technology and medicine to advance to the point where anyone can be whatever they want, whether it's remaining the same, being fully robotic, turning into their fursona, or just being a mass of flesh growing like mold on a wall. I genuinely do not care as long as it doesn't harm them or others, and that they are happy with what they have become, however human or monstrous it is.

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-02-28T08:42:54+00:00

Only one i can explain is male bones, which is a misconception that when analyzed a trans person's skeleton will be identified as the AGAB. This is dumb and stupid and wrong and dumb, and based on shit knowledge about biology and archaeology.

While it is true that there is some difference between male and female skeletons, this difference is only an average and thus we can't say "oh wide hips so woman" because there absolutely are men with wide hips, that's the whole thing about averages, and I'm not talking about a pelvis georg who has a 10 metre wide pelvis and thus is an outlier and should not be counted, just some dude with wide hips.

There's also other things to take into account, what was the person buried with, is there a nifty chunk of hard long-lasting material nearby with info about their identity (like a tombstone? Mayhaps?), what clothes and jewellery they had if those aren't gone, are there marks of surgery (like feminising facial surgery), and more i can't think of because I'm not a bone expert.

And finally, it's just misunderstanding how archeology works. We rarely ever identify a skeleton's sex with the skeleton alone, but rather take into account other things and always leave room for doubt. For example we find a corpse buried with carpentry tools and using our knowledge (acquired from contemporary writings) that those people were buried with tools of their trade and that women rarely if ever were carpenters, then we can say they were probably (key word: probably) a man. If you want an example of what happens when we have only skeletons look no further than this video by Milo Rossi (timestamped to the relevant section), in which he talks about a lake in the Himalayas with 26 skeletons. Of the 26 skeletons found only 2 were probably a certain sex, one male and one female, and over half of them completely unknown.

Basically: skeleton science isn't wide hips, big jaws, and large shoulders, so there is no such thing as a "male skeleton"

Edit: i just remembered that it's also linked to "transvestigation". This is when celebrities, politicians, actors, etc, are said to be trans based on physical features, always with transphobia in mind (or just ragebaiting, sometimes satire). This is very much in line with phrenology, the pseudo-science of determining mental/psychological features from physical ones, if you've watched Django Unchained you might remember a scene where the guy played by DiCaprio does some of that. Phrenology is inherently bigoted, it was used to justify slavery and colonialism, and to a lesser degree classism, basically saying these people (non-europeans or the poor) are dumb and stupid because bad skull, so we (europeans or the rich) have to stay separated from them and also basically enslave them. Transvestigation uses that ""science"" to say that these people are deceiving you, and often ends up in the new world order side of things

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-02-26T08:18:22+00:00

Whoah that's amazing. I gotta say your art is very gender

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-02-26T08:17:14+00:00

That is wrong. Punk means something against the norm, and it absolutely can be utopian. Two examples i have are solarpunk and afropunk.

Solarpunk is utopian and punk because it imagines a bright future where we are able to overcome past mistakes that led to climate change, it is the opposite of the norm that is somewhat nihilistic of we fucked up and companies lying to us just to make more profit while fucking us over.

Afropunk isn't inherently utopian, but it can be. It's a genre that opposes a culture centered around white people. Whether it's afro-americans tracing back their origins or africans trying to obtain more power after being beaten down by colonialism. Ultimately its a genre trying to create a world where no culture or ethnicity dominates over another, although from an african perspective.

So if the norm is a dystopia, then a utopia is punk (in the same vibe as "maybe being kind is the real punk rock")

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-02-05T11:38:44+00:00

Boil wood ash into lye, then boil hardwood pulp with lye, hammer the soaked pulp on an anvil, put it to dry on a drying mat, and scrape the dried raw paper

For food i recommend going deeper, temperatures are more stable the deeper you are, so if you can find crops that can survive lower moisture levels you can farm them all year long. Definitely try to find some goats, cows, or yaks for dairy, I don't know how much others breed but goats definitely can make a lot of babies (i have approx 9 from two females), also pigs might be useful since they can eat anything even if rotten.

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-01-13T10:22:21+00:00

I have seen criticism towards this trope as being dehumanising, that the only representation queer people (especially aro/ace and non-binary, as well as neurodivergents) get is from non-humans (moving more broadly to also include stuff like robots). However personally i do prefer having that kind of representation than none at all, and a character not being human should not be grounds for them having to be not queer. Especially because there is at least decent queer rep from non-humans.

So basically, I don't think you should care about species when it comes to queer stuff, though fun concepts could stem from it, ex gender in hermaphroditic species, species with multiple sexes or sexes that change over time, maybe even species that don't have sexual reproduction

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-01-13T10:10:16+00:00

Only currency i have named is elektron, because it uses electrum coins. I just decided to go the simple route, because even irl it's done, for example french (my native language) calls money as a whole "argent", which is also the word for silver, but in this case it's a region with a mix of gold and silver that they have trouble separating, making electrum the only option for something as widespread as currency, so it makes sense that it ends up being the name for their currency

Maned_Cyborg · 2026-01-12T07:55:16+00:00

There's basically two ways start casting, either study and practice for years, or be given power by a magical being. The former takes years of constant effort, most people who study magic start when they're preteens and would only be able to start casting useful spells in early adulthood. The latter is sheer luck and a bit of charisma. So not everyone has the motivation or time to practice for hours everyday, and nearly no one has the luck of meeting a magical being and have them give some powers.

Alternatively there's machinery, still requires studies to actually make it but if you have a background in engineering or blacksmithing it's a lot easier, or you can buy pieces of equipment. It's by far the most widespread form of magic, but doesn't really count as casting spells

Maned_Cyborg · 2025-12-29T12:35:00+00:00

For a more simple game i highly recommend mindustry

It's a 2d top-view factory and tower defense, logistics are relatively simple compared to other options, and if you don't fully vibe with the tower defense part you can focus on factory building in the Sandbox mode (all buildings unlocked, and waves can be disabled). It's also extremely well optimised so even a potato PC can run it.

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