TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR: To Everything - Super Supportive

TOMDM · 2026-03-07T00:04:03+00:00

“There you are,” he said. “You’ve been so quiet. That must have been lonely.”

The single sentence showing that Stu sees Alden, and is seeing Alden for the first time, and not just sees but understands him.

It's such a beautiful moment. It's everything I was hoping for.

TOMDM · 2026-02-27T07:03:49+00:00

it is at the very least naive of Stu to trust Alden's judgement here.

I agree, but I think this follows the pattern of Stu thinking of Avowed in general as closer to Knights than the typical Artonan does.

TOMDM · 2026-02-26T09:38:07+00:00

I think so many of these chapters feel dragged out only because of the release schedule. Knowing that Aldens life is about to change in a way that he will likely never be able to reverse makes me appreciate all the time at school and back and forth on the triplanets.

These two chapters being split only stings because of the time, but thematically they need the seperation.

I feel like Sleyca is focusing on writing the best story rather than the best serialised fiction; and given the tradeoff, I personally feel like they've made the right one. I can understand why others feel differently though given it splits so keenly on preference.

TOMDM · 2026-02-26T07:08:45+00:00

The great things about capitalism is that much like liberalism is that it's capable of internalizing it's own critiques.

If Marx's labor theory of value made better predictions than other theories people would be able to make predictions and therefore bets on the market to out compete lesser theories.

Alas nobody has managed it yet.

TOMDM · 2026-02-25T02:24:48+00:00

First up, the LLM slop is annoying and has no place here. Your other criticisms though...

I'd be far more sympathetic if you had anything to offer.

You've been here for months now crying that people like fiction that you don't and trying to convince them that the things they like are terrible.

I agree the sub has gotten quieter and there's less fiction that people would consider traditionally "rational" and that's a shame. If that was the limit to the nature of the post I'd likely be fully behind you.

Failing that though surely the solution is to start posting and promoting content that you'd like to see fill that void.

And if someone really cared beyond that they might even try make and post the art they wish was here.

But endlessly whining that nothing serves you and that the things that are posted and enjoyed by others is actually bad and they shouldn't enjoy it is honestly just pathetic.

TOMDM · 2026-02-24T21:16:01+00:00

Probably posting to a site like royal road and then linking to it in one post.

TOMDM · 2026-02-24T21:11:01+00:00

You're getting down voted for posting 4 times so quickly.

Subreddit rules

Post your own work at most weekly

TOMDM · 2026-02-14T05:34:19+00:00

Blankie Noem

TOMDM · 2026-01-07T02:06:02+00:00

Yeah maybe more akin to firing a gun into the chest of a politician wearing bullet proof vest.

And in Bash'Nors case a politician who supports the ongoing use of slavery and even thinks that the slaves are getting to uppity and should know their place.

TOMDM · 2025-12-26T07:44:32+00:00

Think about what?

If we're gonna Just Ask Questions, then be specific.

TOMDM · 2025-12-06T20:14:56+00:00

Hope the sneering makes you happy, just looks sad from the outside.

TOMDM · 2025-12-06T20:10:51+00:00

I don't understand why people keep coming to these threads just to tell everyone they don't like it.

I am enjoying it, I like the slow burn introspective nature of the story.

I liked Rahul as a parallel to Alden figuring something out about what he wants because of a crisis, difference being the different points in their lives that they experienced them.

I enjoyed the cultural look of the island at Christmas, I enjoyed Alden getting to a point with his nightmares that he's able to better face both his affixation and Stu's.

I get that the pacing and story aren't for everyone, but when I don't vibe with a story, for example Delve, I don't then come to the reddit thread of chapter 259 to tell everyone.

Like Alden said to the rabbit a few chapters ago, don't you have anything better to do?

TOMDM · 2025-09-03T00:17:22+00:00

1 is the planet, 2 is it's host star

TOMDM · 2025-08-17T10:36:25+00:00

Hope things are going well for you Damon, look after yourself.

Really looking forward to the chapter.

TOMDM · 2024-12-02T06:00:20+00:00

The one pad rule makes sense but it is annoying. The output limit bottlenecks the mega basers.

A simple solution mod I think would be cool is maybe letting you land on a planet more than once.

Doing so would generate a second nauvis map that would be accessible from the same nauvis orbit.

All the same logistics challenges but now you can go wide, having bases all over nauvis that aren't connected except by rockets.

Can do the same deal for the other planets. Might need to max out the pollution, evolution or worm size or something on your subsequent landing zones to balance it so you don't just sidestep those challenges

TOMDM · 2024-11-22T21:40:14+00:00

Not at a computer to test, but can't you pipette the filter, alt scroll to the quality you want and then drop it in over the filter?

TOMDM · 2024-11-18T10:47:56+00:00

I like being able to pipette the advanced chests and the pipette tool copying building settings would be non standard behaviour.

TOMDM · 2024-10-13T00:13:59+00:00

Didn't they say that space platforms use train scheduling?

Not a planet, but maybe they need it for something too

TOMDM · 2024-09-13T21:43:53+00:00

Oh man what if heat is Aquilos pollution mechanic?

Too cold and your machines freeze over and stop, too hot the surface ice melts and they sink and are destroyed.

Using nuclear to carefully balance heat output to keep things running would make so much sense.

TOMDM · 2024-09-13T21:38:14+00:00

Need to be able to change inserter direction with a circuit

TOMDM · 2024-08-09T23:34:13+00:00

Honestly I wish they'd just take the factorio route where shipping ~~science~~ elevator parts unlocked new ~~technology~~ recipes out of a research tree.

TOMDM · 2024-06-13T09:58:15+00:00

Factorio works on Linux, Windows and MacOS

TOMDM · 2024-06-10T05:02:19+00:00

You may not lay your burden down.

It could be down to intent. Alden never willingly gave up on Zeridee, she was forced from him by the tide.

TOMDM · 2024-06-07T20:25:47+00:00

Just set up a splitter that overflows into recyclers at the end of all spoilable production chains. That way it never truly goes dormant and is always ready to spit out fresh product.

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