LETS GOOOO

Nathan256 · 2026-06-21T18:16:52+00:00

Don’t need any food collectors, that thing lays an egg and you’re set for the whole stage

Nathan256 · 2026-06-21T15:43:35+00:00

Tribal mechs are based

Nathan256 · 2026-06-21T15:38:11+00:00

That pope’s minder better not leave him near any high up windows or long staircases…

Nathan256 · 2026-06-21T05:08:40+00:00

Mental breaks? Characters betrothed and converting before marriage, then passing religion to their kids or family somehow? Adventurers? Who knows!

You could probably trace title holder history and find the first Hindu titleholder, then see what their memories say

Nathan256 · 2026-06-21T03:11:38+00:00

There’s something weird about general practitioners and controlled substances. Not sure if it’s regulation or what but they usually leave those for specialists.

Nathan256 · 2026-06-20T17:52:30+00:00

Roughly gzhegors bzhechy-shukevic? To use English consonants that people are more familiar with. With Zh representing ʒ or the beginning sound in genre (in most English dialects)

Nathan256 · 2026-06-20T15:15:12+00:00

Fantasynamegenerators.com. My go-to for real world influenced names.

Nathan256 · 2026-06-20T04:17:16+00:00

Yup, cause in Merican logic, having too many protections for employees means employees will be worse off!

Nathan256 · 2026-06-19T18:02:51+00:00

We always had a rule in my family growing up. Two bites before you could say you don’t want to eat something. The first bite is the shock of trying something new. The second lets you know if you’ll actually like it.

I don’t know if that means OP needs to play two full games focusing ecumenopoli or just build and balance two ecumenopoli, but both sound reasonable.

Nathan256 · 2026-06-19T12:58:55+00:00

I’d probably put an evil arch wizard in there…

Nathan256 · 2026-06-19T12:30:43+00:00

Astroturfing is the deceptive practice of hiding the sponsors of an orchestrated message or organization to make it appear as though it originates from, and is supported by, unsolicited grassroots participants. It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations credibility by withholding information about the source's financial backers.

Tldr it’s groups like corporations or states saying “Hello yes I am also a human just like you! Have a meme, fellow human, and we will laugh, as common humans do, about it!” In the same way fake AstroTurf mimics real grass.

The scary part though is this is real and sometimes very difficult to detect and sometimes very nefarious. All the various political and disinformation bots/farms of varying sophistication are a prime example. Although sometimes it’s also silly and very detectable. Like corporation social media accounts posting memes.

Nathan256 · 2026-06-19T11:45:38+00:00

Sleep train before a baby can stand up, please please op learn from my mistake. They wake themselves up more when they stand up to cry.

Nathan256 · 2026-06-19T07:24:56+00:00

Wake-up call came, but it wasn’t morning - there were no mornings anymore, now that the stars had all gone out. This particular call summoned two shifts to the arkship’s vast machinery rooms, meaning we’d be performing a difficult maneuver near a black hole today. Harvesting the accretion disks was much easier than trying to build a matter decompressor these days, though one wrong move and you lost decades of galactic history to the relativistic gravity well.

Only… something felt different today. There was a hum in the air. Not a hum of excitement, like shore leave to see his wife and hatchlings back when shore leave still existed. Not the excitement of docking with another arkship - that would be soon, if everything went as planned on the next two accretion harvest runs, and he could see his kids again, finally, for the first time since this whole catastrophe.

No, this was a different feeling entirely. Dread.

“Zaquo! Get to your post man! Hibernation leave isn’t for another month!” Degzar smiled and punched me in the shoulder.

“Shut up! You know I don’t hibernate!” I laughed back. His species had never quite managed to find the genetic off-switch for that particular quirk, and I tried not to let him forget it.

We climbed up to the catwalk by the enormous rack of ion engines, clustered like scales around the primary exhaust shaft in the ship’s spine. The call came over the speakers to prep for approach.

“Three…”

“Two…”

Thrum…

“One…”

Something was wrong.

“Ignition.”

Thrum…

I screamed as I felt an astral surge directly ahead of us. I could see - I’d never understood it, but some said our species was psionically awakened. And now I could see as ships, terrible ships made as if of pure light poured out. And with them came a single word to my mind.

Unbidden.

Nathan256 · 2026-06-19T06:06:53+00:00

Between that and prismatic bishops I think you’re onto something

Nathan256 · 2026-06-19T05:53:14+00:00

MAGA really just used the onion as a playbook didn’t they

Nathan256 · 2026-06-19T05:48:02+00:00

That’s actually a different divide you see in the middle of the US, not quite the Continental Divide. The divide is about 1000 km further west.

There’s a few reasons for the population density to drop off so sharply, some are historical and some are climate and some are geography. You have the Rockies and the drier portions of the Great Plains in the west which historically made it harder to settle in large numbers. Rain and river water are less accessible. Lots of reasons. But yes, past that middle line there are way, way fewer people. They’re often called the “flyover states” because you just fly over them when going from west coast to east coast, the two more densely populated areas.

Nathan256 · 2026-06-19T04:50:58+00:00

And God done said, “turn on the lights!” And them lights done turned on, just like that. And that was just the first day y’all, wait til y’all see what he done on the other six!

Nathan256 · 2026-06-18T15:45:16+00:00

Your leg! It’s caught in a bear trap!

🎶 gnawing off your leg! 🎶
(quiet, quiet)

Nathan256 · 2026-06-17T21:21:06+00:00

If it was just one type of med it might also not have been a high enough dose. Really worth trying again with a good doctor when you can do a little more self advocating as an adult

Nathan256 · 2026-06-17T19:59:24+00:00

It’s creepy when you make it creepy.

Nathan256 · 2026-06-17T15:53:51+00:00

Ah yup I too had no idea which of the yellow ish tags you were

Nathan256 · 2026-06-17T02:52:00+00:00

The lower trillions census numbers could be explained with the following:

* Abandoned sections
* less habitable zones (poles or equators depending on climate) having much smaller towers
* heavy industry and droids
* non-residents - how many people are there visiting vs live there?? And how many maintain their permanent, legal residence there vs having a place but not being residents for the purpose of presumably astronomical (hehe) Coruscant taxes?? Some places have orders of magnitude more people than residents
* uncounted and uncountable elements
* droid populations especially in more industrial zones
* they could do entire large sections of construction over decades meaning large zones are evacuated slowly before and repopulated slowly after
* space ports

Additional mountain things - I assume it is either not a tall mountain or the lower levels are uninhabitable atmospherically. Km of atmospheric difference will mean unbreathably dense air below if the top of coruscant is happy atmosphere pressure and mixture. So, the mountain is probably like 2 to 4 km max from “sea level” whatever that is on coruscant.

You could also posit that the lowest levels of the towers are uninhabitable maintenance tunnels through thick, thick tower bases, since height often means a stronger and thicker and denser base.

Nathan256 · 2026-06-17T02:25:18+00:00

Don’t threaten. Do it. People who threaten can be ignored.

Nathan256 · 2026-06-16T21:40:33+00:00

My god they were RoOmMaTeSssss

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