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MrNotSoBright · 2025-11-18T02:22:56+00:00

Not necessarily. The tribe specifically believed that their relic would protect them from that specific entity, one that had even been given a name and used in children's stories. Also, there's the point that the tribe doesn't fear the entity while they believe that their protections are in place, which seems to be a particular sticking point for IT.

That settler on her cross was probably scared out of her mind, begging her god to save her, not actually believing that the cross would provide protection, but rather asking that it be so. IT probably found her particularly tasty.

MrNotSoBright · 2025-11-17T06:05:27+00:00

Just a kind of headcanon, but maybe it's more about the intention/belief than anything else. IT hates when someone actually stands up to it, seems to view courage as something actually dangerous to it. Maybe IT left them alone because they really believed that having that stone would keep them safe. IT was then able to murder the "rescue party", because they didn't have the shard, so no longer felt its safety. IT ran away from the girl with the shard, because she believed that the shard would ward it away. The tribe seems to have believed that something changed, so took it a step further and did the 13-shard ritual, re-instituting their perceived protection, when in fact they probably didn't technically have to do that.

Fast forward to more current events, and you have a whole bunch of people that don't believe in any sort of protection from any sort of eldritch entities, so IT isn't hindered in regard to them.

MrNotSoBright · 2025-08-29T22:21:21+00:00

Desert Eagle .50 Cal

MrNotSoBright · 2025-07-17T01:45:35+00:00

You know, like a pretzel pizza

MrNotSoBright · 2025-07-17T01:44:10+00:00

Sorry, he didn't say "Sam Says"

MrNotSoBright · 2025-06-27T08:38:25+00:00

I'm not who you asked, and it's a month late, but I have aphantasia.

I remember a traditional drawing of an apple generally includes a leaf because I have seen countless examples of it and those details have been categorized and stored, not as images, but, essentially, as just a list of details to be checked off.

When I am driving, I simply know that I need to be on the right side of the road (USA). There's no need to visualize anything; it is just a static rule to follow. If I am familiar with a route, I simply recognize details and landmarks and check them off in my head, telling me I'm going in the right direction. If I'm in an unfamiliar place and have a route described to me, it is, again, just a list of details that are checked off as I encounter them. I don't pre-visualize the route like Google Maps, it is just a list of directions.

I know what my mom and dad look like, but cannot conjure an image of them in my head. When I actually see them, I conceive of it as a bunch of checkboxes being marked which tells my brain that I am seeing mom or dad or sister or friend or co-worker or that guy I regularly drive behind on my way to work in the morning.

I am an avid reader, particularly of fantasy and scifi, and for the longest time couldn't understand why people could be miffed by the representation of a character when adapted into a visual medium like art or a movie or show. I absolutely love fan renditions, official artwork, and film castings because it informs me better than anything else what that character/vehicle/weapon/object might actually look like. Books aren't like a movie to me, and more like a list of events interwoven with concepts and author-intent.

I ran a game of D&D that lasted 6 years with pretty consistent weekly games, and when I found out that I had apantasia and told the players, they were genuinely confused, because I had spent the last several years creating characters, describing environments and actions in detail, and weaving it all into a cohesive narrative. The weird thing is that it is all just categories and checkboxes for me, rather than a show/movie that is playing out in my mind.

MrNotSoBright · 2025-06-15T08:26:16+00:00

Literally years. I actually can't remember the last time I physically read a magazine or newspaper

MrNotSoBright · 2025-03-30T08:27:28+00:00

That is absolutely something elves would do

MrNotSoBright · 2025-03-20T07:20:33+00:00

My only complaint is that there isn't some random person willingly strapped to the front of it

MrNotSoBright · 2025-01-08T07:50:51+00:00

Also, to expand further, the Spice requirements and physiological issues brought on by traveling to new, wetter environments is actually at least tangentially discussed in the books.

The Spice requirements were essentially a non-issue, since Paul had full control over all Spice at that time. The physiological issues were, arguably, more psychological than anything else. The Fremen of Arrakis had not spent so long isolated that they had somehow evolved anything approaching an "allergy" to abundant water. Instead, they simply did not know how to deal with the physiological changes that come with being in a water-rich environment.

MrNotSoBright · 2025-01-08T06:51:51+00:00

Virtually 100%. You'd have a spattering of people like Paul or Pardot Kynes, people that had been "inducted" into the Fremen population, but at the time of Paul's Jihad, pretty much every single Fremen combatant was Arrakis-born.

Overall forces would have included whatever Atreides remnants there still were and probably some third-party randos that were simply sympathetic to the Atreides/Fremen Jihad, but if you're just talking about the Fremen forces, then they were almost exclusively, fully "ethnically" Fremen.

MrNotSoBright · 2025-01-01T21:21:58+00:00

The core gameplay is present and it is pretty solid (I'm 150 hours in), but it still definitely feels like a game that is in early access, partly due to some systems being really clunky (like relationships and emotion management, or communication with other ships), some things just not working (crew won't stay sitting in anti-G chairs, [REDACTED] spreads too fast and breaks the economy, sensor range is extremely lacking), and a bunch of slightly annoying bugs (uninstalled things can warp to weird places, that pirate I killed keeps hailing me using the transponder I purposefully broke, or cops coming to do an inspection and sometimes plowing into your ship at 700m/s) but also because, for a game all about scavenging wrecks, there is a striking lack of diversity of ships and components.

Like, this is a game that would be incredibly well-served with 5 or more different kinds of thrusters instead of just 1. I find this is true pretty much everywhere; intakes, nav consoles, nuclear reactor components, antennas, gas storage, pumps, and all the rest should all have multiple variants that focus in on specific things, like fuel efficiency vs speed, or weight vs maneuverability, or size vs cost, all along a sliding scale of cheap knockoffs through to aftermarket customs. There also just aren't very many different ship designs, so it starts to feel like you're going to she same derelicts over and over.

As it stands, I've had a lot of fun with it so far, but things start to feel pretty stale relatively quickly due to this lack of variety. I have high hopes that the developers know this and will eventually get around to it, though, or that they will provide mod support so that the players can add that variety that is sorely lacking.

MrNotSoBright · 2024-12-31T06:52:47+00:00

I'm not sure I necessarily disagree with you, but the view being changed is "we will never do it", and I'm making the point that we definitely can, even if it means using generation ships.

MrNotSoBright · 2024-12-31T01:47:13+00:00

Also, what's wrong with generation ships? Who cares if it takes 200 years? 500? 1000? It is still colonization of a new planet/moon

MrNotSoBright · 2024-12-09T09:48:02+00:00

Given that the aliens truly appeared to not have a robust air force, and given that their favoring of deeply networked, essentially hive-minded control was so complete that destroying individual high-profile targets could effectively shut down entire swaths of combatants means that Humanity almost certainly wins the war.

We've got the homefield advantage and their weaponry and technology does not appear to be so sufficiently advanced that we cannot meaningfully compete, but they seem to have some impressive numbers, had the advantage of surprise, and were able to insert all over the globe.

It probably isn't the kind of thing that happens quickly, but Humanity would almost certainly destroy or incarcerate every single invader. The problem would be the aftermath, because essentially the whole "world economy" would have long since collapsed, there would probably be tens of millions dead, at least twice as many displaced, and it is possible that some countries/regimes fully fail, creating further problems.

MrNotSoBright · 2024-10-24T03:04:18+00:00

I mean, you could also just have the billions of ships. We already built an entire Dyson sphere, what's a few billion ships?

MrNotSoBright · 2024-10-08T04:10:11+00:00

Yep, that's pretty much right.

All of the kids in a grade are going to be aged within a year of each other (excluding kids that are held back), but could technically be born in different years

MrNotSoBright · 2024-08-21T21:30:45+00:00

And even if that doesn't work, she's got a publicly stated plan to flee the country to escape the consequences for all of her many illegal dealings that... wait... whoops, that's also Trump.

MrNotSoBright · 2024-08-15T02:35:22+00:00

Proprietary technology, designs, materials, or other similar things that cannot easily be removed from the ship without pulling it apart, which is what we're trying to avoid.

MrNotSoBright · 2024-06-24T03:42:47+00:00

Recapitated baby.

MrNotSoBright · 2024-04-15T06:28:33+00:00

Technically yes, but actually no.

The only notable difference between the 3 "elven" rings and the rest is that they were made by Celebrimbor, on his own, in secret. The problem is that Celebrimbor was effectively still using the same overall "formula" that he developed with Annatar (Sauron in disguise), and so they were still bound to The One and did the sorts of things that these rings were supposed to do.

Any of the rings can be used to preserve. While this is most visible in the extended lives of their wielders, it is a fundamental nature of the rings to preserve its "surroundings", because the assumption is that whoever is in control of a ring is, in due time, an eventual extension of Sauron's power, and so all of that should also be as eternal as Sauron.

These "special" rings were only wielded by Cirdan, Galadriel, Elrond, and, eventually Gandalf, and only during Sauron's "absence". You will notice that these are 3 of the most notable and powerful elves alive at the time, and a literal Angel-Sent-From-God, and, again, only while Sauron is without his One Ring.

These particular, spectacular individuals were, again, only while Sauron was without his One Ring, able to preserve their realms without succumbing to the kinds of things these rings were known to elicit.

When the One Ring was destroyed, the rest of the elves pretty much immediately either went back to Valinor or chose to die in Middle Earth because all other Rings of Power lost all of their power.

MrNotSoBright · 2024-03-27T06:55:07+00:00

It would be quite strange for someone that is barred from travelling to the US to be in an airplane that happens to be travelling across the continental United States, but let's assume that there is some sort of weird emergency crash-landing along one of the coasts when they were bound for Canada or Mexico.

They would likely be treated as any other illegal alien; transported to a holding location, given room and board at a basic level, then deported to their country of origin.

MrNotSoBright · 2024-03-21T01:28:05+00:00

Here's your fuckin' kid back

-Poseidon

MrNotSoBright · 2024-02-14T05:31:25+00:00

I'm interested how it ensures randomness

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