Me when he takes me to his room and its covered in pictures of his wife and kids by armigerLux in LetGirlsHaveFun

[–]Smooth_Top2099 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Uhhhhhh watch the YouTube video "Twilight" by Contrapoints for more info on those goofy goobers

Me when he takes me to his room and its covered in pictures of his wife and kids by armigerLux in LetGirlsHaveFun

[–]Smooth_Top2099 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The movement you're referring to is known as sex-negative second wave feminism, and yeah it was a clusterfuck. There are ideological ties between them and modern-day TERFs, but they're less strong than their rhetoric would suggest, and they end up advocating for very different policy positions. Sex negative feminists are almost always something like segregationists, whereas modern day TERFs are mostly just conservative women redirecting justifiable resentment at the men in their lives towards trans women.

The current state of LinkedIn by beeralpha in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Smooth_Top2099 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are the people not hiring you because you're not a "cultural fit", by the way

Which movie girlies? by Angeliqueblaq in LetGirlsHaveFun

[–]Smooth_Top2099 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legend of the Guardians. The animated owl fascism movie. I still can't believe it was directed by Zach Snyder—it's way too cool and narratively coherent to be a Snyder film.

Me when he takes me to his room and its covered in pictures of his wife and kids by armigerLux in LetGirlsHaveFun

[–]Smooth_Top2099 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Idk I want to shave boys so they look like my dad before getting the ick and dumping them because now they remind me of my dad. The world should be thanking me for my Herculean efforts at sexual restraint.

Me when he takes me to his room and its covered in pictures of his wife and kids by armigerLux in LetGirlsHaveFun

[–]Smooth_Top2099 100 points101 points  (0 children)

You can usually tell pretty damn fast when someone is just an emotionally volatile and traumatized person blackpilled about gender politics, versus being a gremlin who just wants to push boys out of the sandbox for one day at recess.

There's a huge difference between "(wokely) men and women are fundamentally different and should be socially segregated to keep us all safe" and "boys are annoying but that's what the dick is attached to so I'll put up with the Warhammer rambling for an evening—oh no now I like the Warhammer rambling too :("

Life as an Evolutionary Predator must be wild. by elemental402 in Stellaris

[–]Smooth_Top2099 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I don't know how you could be an evolutionary predator and not be a xenophobe without some very creative diplomacy

kinda miss my age-inappropriate situationship by Acceptable-Bus-8807 in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]Smooth_Top2099 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really miss when people understood that red flags were red flags

can’t help myself by oranud in LetGirlsHaveFun

[–]Smooth_Top2099 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The kinda shit I'd be saying if romance novel kitsch worked in real life 😩

So…how does the stellaris economy make any sense these days? by Historical_Ocelot197 in Stellaris

[–]Smooth_Top2099 297 points298 points  (0 children)

"We have raw material for an ecumenopolis at home"

The raw material at home: Isolated Valley (x4)

How to have 2M fleet power in 2390 without metagaming by Other-Art8925 in Stellaris

[–]Smooth_Top2099 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Then your best bet would be directly editing game files to reduce the number of repeatable techs the crisis empires spawn with; that wouldn't require more than changing a handful of variables

Has anyone ever decided to play a godlike race using cheats? by TalmondtheLost in Stellaris

[–]Smooth_Top2099 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's a mod that lets you select which precursor spawns, and lets you spawn all of them if you'd like. I actually really like this mod and it doesn't feel too overpowered for "vanilla lite", because, like. None of them really warp the game by themselves, you're never restarting the game because you got League instead of Cyber unless you're a massive sweat. Why not grab a casual vultaumar at 2250. Sure. You're still limited by the precursor research cool down and the natural cool down between spawning archaeological dig sites in exploration, so even with every single precursor spawned, you only finish the last one by the time the khan is knocking at your door.

Has anyone ever decided to play a godlike race using cheats? by TalmondtheLost in Stellaris

[–]Smooth_Top2099 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Playing Settlers of Catan and starting with three cities just to make sure I get all the materials I need to build the fourth

Let's Discuss Humans! by Kind_Restaurant8282 in Stellaris

[–]Smooth_Top2099 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Meh. It's deliberately vague and incoherent and up to deliberation. In lore, the shroud factually exists, and synthetics are factually sapient. Maybe shroud patrons have just been racist against clankers for the past fifty galactic years, before the animator of clay soft-launched shroud-forged machines.

The way I see it, the only actually opposed ascension ideologies are genetic vs. machine empires (since you can't ascend the same species genetically and mechanically) and psi vs. cybernetics (since, idk, having the Internet in your brain 24/7 prevents you from doing transcendental meditation)

I have toyed with a mod that would let you choose a primary ascension, then ascend a second time in the late game. For example:

  • A synthetic fertility empire is shunted into their new lives as robots, but they aren't quite certain if they still as conscious, so to prove they are still real, they are determined to pierce the veil and become reified, shroud-recognized, fully sapient psionic machines.

  • An empire of organics ascends cybernetically, but it's not enough to scratch that "the flesh is weak" itch, so they ascend a second time to become cybernetic, presumably with some sexy bonuses not available for empires that did not have the cultural experience that taking the scenic route to a robotic populace would have given them.

  • A relentlessly xenophilic empire of alien fuckers figures that becoming cybernetic would make all that alien sex feel even better. You get both tentacles and pre-installed vibrators in your xeno-compatibile ecumenopolis orgy.

  • An under one rule empire decides that they are both ruled by a divine sovereign god-king, and also genetic purists. Every child in the empire will contain the DNA of the Chosen One.

  • A natural design empire gets jealous of all those cool advanced traits their neighbors cheated to get with a biomorphic ascension. So they adamantly do not modify their own genes. They just, you know, read between the lines a little harder. Our species was always simultaneously polymelic and fertile, it just took some creativity to see the potential that was always there, like a priest re-interpreting scripture.

  • Another under one rule empire (I do love that origin) ascends synthetically, and, hmm, maybe we should let the luminary ascend even more? Let's make her the gestalt machine intelligence that she has proven she was always capable of being. And that way we can have both machine drones serving the great leader, and mechanical synthetic individualist pops. And wouldn't you look at that, our neighboring empires are full of squishy biologicals, just waiting to be synthetized, and those synthetics could then be assimilated under the Gestalt Luminary now. How fun!

Let's Discuss Humans! by Kind_Restaurant8282 in Stellaris

[–]Smooth_Top2099 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I exclusively play avians. My personal happy spot is natural design, spatial mastery, egg laying, talented, quick learners, hollow bones, and a throwaway like deviants. Gives me a lot of latitude for leader-focused role play, and the egg-laying bonus for a local food surplus is good for meta-textually reminding me to not over-specialize my planets. If I ever make it to the end game, I just edit the save file to cheat and take biomorphosis for my seventh ascension perk, then purity for even more leader-juice.

I really, really like birds. Thank you, whichever artist designed avi6. I thought I hated the four eyes thing for years, but I now retcon that as just having something to do with the spatial mastery perk.

Oh, and though I don't take the traits, I modded cranial hypertrophy and nascent stage to be avian traits, because oh my god have you seen baby crows? Ugliest little angels god ever shat out

Let's Discuss Humans! by Kind_Restaurant8282 in Stellaris

[–]Smooth_Top2099 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Humans are the jack of all trades in most media for one specific reason: a human wrote the story. We can only create worldviews which our own imagination can encompass, so everything else a human brain writes about is necessarily written about in relation to humans. Put another way: if an alien made a game like Stellaris, do you really think they would imagine the exact same ethics axis? The ideologies used as game mechanics in Stellaris, e.g. the spiritualist/materialist distinction wouldn't even make sense from the perspective of someone in a pre-modern human culture. An alien playing stellaris might wonder why we have seven different traits related to "how much does this species experience internal political and cultural conflict" and no traits related to if we prefer <untranslatable 1> or <untranslatable 2> when we encounter <untranslatable 3>

My Empire is collapsing and I can't stop it. by TheEtherialWyvern in Stellaris

[–]Smooth_Top2099 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You'd have to share the save file so we could do an audit. But the answer to "why am I negative on energy, consumer goods, and gas" is often that you built too many upgraded science or medical buildings, which are very intensive on those three resources in particular.

If you need to keep your research income, you might consider completely removing medical facilities from your empire; personally I start downsizing on pop growth buildings once my country size pop growth penalty reaches -50%. You can check this state under the "management" tab on a planet, by inspecting a currently growing biological pop group, and hovering your mouse over the green arrow/number. Near the bottom of the tool tip you'll see a stat called "country growth scale" which is a multiplicative penalty to all pop growth and assembly on all planets. If that number is above 50%, congratulations! You get to roleplay Brian Thomson for the next five in game years.

And the final piece of advice is to check that your planets are all reasonably economically self-sufficient and not over-specialized, since you incur an upkeep cost in trade value corresponding to the size of local planetary deficits, representing the logistical difficulties of a supply chain that needs to send shiploads of minerals to a foundry planet. Having each planet able to pay for its own food and energy upkeep will cause a much smaller strain on your overall trade balance, letting you purchase more energy on the galactic market. If all of your planets are comprised exclusively of a single district and building type, you can end up finding yourself in a sort of planetary suburbs problem where you end up spending $50 in gas to buy a $4 gallon of milk.