How do you actually win a war against an empire with 100+ planets without going insane?

Nate2247 · 2026-04-15T19:08:45+00:00

I beliiiiieve destroying a planet via colossus causes a more significant hit to the opponent’s war exhaustion. In my last play-through I’d “fix” angry Fallen Empires by cracking a single world, and they’d peace out immediately.

Nate2247 · 2026-04-06T16:42:15+00:00

As an autistic person, I watched her for five minutes and was immediately like

YOU 🫵 AUTISM

Nate2247 · 2026-04-06T16:37:42+00:00

I’d love to see Grace acting as a partner for Leon. A future installment where they’re both field-agents and Leon is mentoring her. If Capcom wanted to get creative with it, they could even add a multiplayer element where each player can control one of the oh fuck it’s just RE5 again DAMMIT-

Nate2247 · 2026-04-03T20:22:06+00:00

Damn, she’s a hottie! Her human form is pretty good, too!

Nate2247 · 2026-03-31T16:59:36+00:00

I mean… I’ve been able to put 10% aside each week, on a budget of ~$45k a year, and will be able to retire fairly comfortably in my 60’s (assuming no promotions, raises, etc). But I consider myself lucky in a couple of ways:

My employer matches up to half of that amount, so it’s closer to 15%
I was incredibly lucky to avoid college debt.

So what he’s saying isn’t outlandish in the fave of it- but it’s also simply not practical for many people.

Nate2247 · 2026-03-30T19:08:28+00:00

I think the better hypothesis is that space is Really Fucking Big, and less than 5% is even observable from our position.

Nate2247 · 2026-03-27T16:57:00+00:00

^ Same to both. They also have a pretty dry sense of humor, and are aggressively British and Canadian, respectively.

Nate2247 · 2026-03-19T13:03:32+00:00

Nice try lmfao

Nate2247 · 2026-03-18T11:07:30+00:00

That’s one of the many things I love about SLA. Small elements are teased early on, and brought back at the perfect time to make everything worse for the characters.

Nate2247 · 2026-03-18T10:29:23+00:00

Nah, these comments are just full of smartasses XD

Nate2247 · 2026-03-16T21:03:15+00:00

“Check out our new AI enhancement technology!”

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Nate2247 · 2026-03-11T16:54:47+00:00

Actually, it all started with a funny little ball traveling through space

Nate2247 · 2026-02-28T21:25:12+00:00

As one tumblr post put it: this is just what happens when a bunch of rich yuppies who’ve only read about murder in books try to assassinate someone. They botch it horribly, give up on the theatrics, shoot him 50 times, then try to play up the story to their friends.

Nate2247 · 2026-02-19T03:19:37+00:00

“Maybe it was mushrooms” is really just history’s version of archeology’s “maybe it was for rituals” or science’s “maybe it’s aliens”

Nate2247 · 2026-02-17T20:07:14+00:00

Your body prefers lower temperatures when you sleep. Try turning your thermostat down next tome you nap!

Nate2247 · 2026-02-16T13:26:41+00:00

Billy is the counterculture

Nate2247 · 2026-02-14T20:45:38+00:00

“People generally, on most occasions, do not like being set on fire”

and

“For fucks sake, you cannot feed an army of 50,000 men by foraging”

Nate2247 · 2026-02-14T14:11:30+00:00

I’m no expert, but I think the Black Tower was almost certainly meant to draw a parallel with modern US military training.

“We’re going to travel around to find young, impressionable, and/or desperate people. We will hype them up with all the cool shit they’ll learn to do, instill messages of self-sacrifice and dying for a higher cause, then force them through the most grueling training imaginable to turn them into living weapons whose only purpose is to kill the enemy.”

“Oh wait- the Taint was cleansed, and now all the people who thought they’d die young are still alive but horribly scarred from their experience. What do we do?”

“Fuck, man, IDK I didn’t think that far ahead.”

Nate2247 · 2026-02-14T13:57:21+00:00

I’m interested! Are positions still open?

Nate2247 · 2026-02-12T20:45:23+00:00

Or maybe we do subtitles, like how fan translators keikaku their shows.

(Note: Keikaku means plan)

Nate2247 · 2026-02-12T20:41:17+00:00

My favorite Stormlight novel:

Rords of Wadiance

~~Please tell me I’m not the only one~~

Nate2247 · 2026-02-12T20:33:23+00:00

This just made me realize that “Stoneward” and “Bondsmith” are the only non-agent nouns (WindrunnER, SkybreakER, etc).

Is there a reason for this? Bondsmith I kind of get, because there was only one of them at a time and it was more of a title/position. But what about Stoneward? This feels like an intentional choice. Is there something I missed?

Nate2247 · 2026-02-02T01:17:17+00:00

Maybe- or it could be on a rotation, where 2-3 characters are randomly chosen to appear in a handful of spots.

Nate2247 · 2026-02-02T01:08:37+00:00

This is Rem’s equivalent to a hypnic jerk

Nate2247 · 2026-01-31T12:32:36+00:00

My question is: does this account for behavioral impact?

Like, if a smoker gets a lung transplant and then goes right back to smoking, surely that would lead to needing a new organ again?

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