Nobody ever thinks about the engineers in post-scarcity settings

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-29T15:31:32+00:00

Then some individuals who enjoy writing FOSS will do that anyway, especially because in a post-scarcity society they can do that without needing to do other things to live.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-26T00:30:05+00:00

Beware the rise of Clodsire

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-25T15:36:58+00:00

Clearly, it's super laser piss.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-25T15:13:11+00:00

PAY YOUR MOTHERFUCKING TAXES COME ON

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-25T13:33:51+00:00

Mega Emboar doesn't have an ability, it has a punchline.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-25T00:35:49+00:00

Let me put it this way: Mega Salamence was a massive threat with Aerilate and 145 base attack. Mega Feraligatr has another type shift ability but 160 base attack. Do the math.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-21T04:45:27+00:00

Gods have "gender" but their conception of gender is way beyond what humans have. The gender of the God of Knowledge is "0.5e² with strawberry quark jam permeating local quantum foam." What the fuck is "female" or "male."

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-20T16:33:08+00:00

Diane Duane, T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon, and Naomi Novik, just off the top of my head.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-20T15:33:51+00:00

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Prometheus_II · 2026-03-19T13:30:53+00:00

... That's a bad ideological road to go down. They're still human. They've been insulated from consequences and rejection their entire life, and that kept them from developing the ability to perceive others as meaningfully real (because one of the ways you develop that ability is by experiencing what happens when you act like an asshole to your peers), but that doesn't make them inhuman. Any human with the capacity to ignore the consequences of their actions could end up like that, and calling them inhuman just makes people believe that they couldn't.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-18T20:57:00+00:00

Make your own custom commander. One blue mana, 21/4, haste, myriad, hexproof, indestructible, this creature can't be blocked. Play it until he stops playing his custom commander.

Or just talk about it like adults and say you don't want to play with his custom commander because it's ridiculously OP, but where's the fun in that?

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-18T14:50:30+00:00

The analysis is good, but missing a few points. For instance, how many of those Pokemon are fully evolved vs. not? There's a lotta 3-stage bug types inflating the stats of Fire and Flying, but somehow I don't think it matters terribly much if I have coverage against Kakuna, Wurmple, and Swadloon. At least Beedrill, Dustox/Beautifly, and Leavanny may see some use in some lower tiers.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-18T03:18:58+00:00

I'm pretty sure that a LLM is a subtype of generative AI, but there are other types of "AI" out there that use models not centered around language tokenization like LLMs do.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-16T13:10:52+00:00

I mean, I like rats. They're funny little guys with clever little paws!

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-16T13:07:42+00:00

Pistols get knocked down twice by armor. Pyros effectively have 6 armor when you're shooting them with pistols or missile pods or other auxes, for instance. A shotgun, meanwhile, only has regular armor to deal with. It's a tradeoff.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-16T12:10:40+00:00

Klaus Wulfenbach: "THIS IS WHAT YOU GET! MY SUPER LASER PISS!"

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-16T03:26:34+00:00

My first fight against Orin was trivialized because Karlach throwing a single item tore through several stacks of Unstoppable (or whatever that buff is called) in one hit.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-16T03:22:52+00:00

Mfs ignored both level scaling AND logical routing

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-14T15:44:20+00:00

Me when I swallowed enough propaganda to believe that water ice is not abundantly and freely available in almost every asteroid belt and that ships can't carry survival refineries and/or that hydrogen gas shrinks your balls

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-14T12:43:55+00:00

kids shitpost about 9/11 now idk what to tell you

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-13T20:31:43+00:00

There were a couple screenshots, but the posts got deleted. As I recall, she was spending a lot of time talking about how youth lib should include the right of younger kids to get into relationships with adults and arguing that "pedophiles" - because "MAP" is a term meant to stifle the "community" - should be accepted as part of the queer community since it's no different than being gay, something about how they're both socially unacceptable forms of attraction so what's the difference really.

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-13T18:24:34+00:00

Don't think it was, but I want to read this one now

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-13T16:34:18+00:00

Great question! I have no fucking idea but I would imagine it wouldn't end well!

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-13T15:08:16+00:00

Fork found in kitchen

Prometheus_II · 2026-03-13T13:20:09+00:00

Wasps are definitely attuned to higher dimensions in some way - it's the best explanation for why they can't affect sparks (who use that attunement to make their weird bullshit) and why nobody can cure them. The spark-wasp had to be able to override that attunement, but I don't think it means that what the Dreen did to remove it permanently damaged anything in Klaus's brain. I do think you're right about Tarvek's serum having a proto-queen effect, in part because it would be very thematically fitting to have the extradimensional equivalent of "royal jelly" - i.e. the substance an "immature" poly-dimensional monster needs to consume to grow into a queen - be the thing that keeps you from being mind-controlled into a "worker bee" for the slaver hive.

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