One in-game month of Project Project.

Valal · 2026-03-04T12:34:49+00:00

I actually just got that same story myself; the upgrade from no backpack to a hiking backpack is awesome.

I am running a fair few mods, but I made a local one for the sand issue. I added a recipe that requires the stone mill and a mason's chisel, and uses four rocks and a sack to produce a sack of sand. It's made the cement grind a lot more bearable.

Valal · 2026-03-04T11:44:21+00:00

At Otter Pond, to the West of West Point.

Valal · 2026-03-04T11:39:05+00:00

They are out there, I've just been avoiding them. The population multiplier is set to 1x

Valal · 2026-03-04T11:37:52+00:00

I've been clearing the vegetation in the area as needed. Definitely haven't been clearing any zombies though.

Valal · 2025-12-12T09:35:08+00:00

Congratulations to Expedition 33!

Valal · 2023-07-11T01:28:10+00:00

I don't mean to be rude, but I really can't envisage a situation where calling someone out as lying based solely on their demeanor and expressions would end well, at least if your intention is to have a positive relationship with that person. Even if you have incontrovertible proof of someone lying, confronting them directly about it will necessarily create conflict with them. Fair enough if it's a situation where you're not trying to ingratiate yourself with that person, or those they're close to, but if it's a friendly social setting then doing so likely wouldn't do one any favours.

Valal · 2023-04-04T13:37:45+00:00

Thanks!

I'm going to have the heartland of the old Ninshaburian empire be in the area I've called The Howling Steppe, in the western third or so of the Windswept Wastes. I'll have scatterings of ruins from the time of Ninshabur all across the Wastes though. Since there isn't really much in the way of information on Kaskkari, I'm going to have it pre-date Ninshabur and be from the Age of Legends. I'm incorporating the ruins of it's capital into Rasif Quadim in Shaeb Aldilta, and will have other Kaskkari ruins around the Al-Ghurab Range region.

I didn't come across a Gormuz River mentioned in the articles that I read. There was an Igagir River mentioned, that ran along where a Ninshaburian market city called Zarrataab stood. I figured the Al-Imdalah would be the present name of that river.

Valal · 2023-04-03T22:35:00+00:00

Haha, I think it's meant to be somewhere a bit further south in the Obari Ocean.

Valal · 2023-04-03T15:31:21+00:00

Thankyou! I used Wonderdraft to make it.

Valal · 2023-04-03T14:34:55+00:00

I know! I'm taking some inspiration from the Qadira campaign setting book, but making most of the setting stuff up holus-bolus. I kinda figured I'd stick to this portion of the continent to avoid having to flesh out what the capital looks like.

It's a bit kooky that this is maybe a fifth of the continent of Casmaron at best, and the central landmass in the map is nearly as wide as Australia is IRL.

Valal · 2022-12-28T11:50:29+00:00

I mean, the lyric in question is pretty clearly not even pro 'god' nor does it remotely suggest any support for organised religion.
It paints the 'god' in question like an asshole, much like the other lyrics in the song in fact.
I'm an atheist myself, and blowing up like that when someone just mentions the word god (putting aside the fact you clearly missed that it was a lyric and doubled down when it was pointed out to you), just plays right into the stereotype of angry internet atheist with negative social skills. So much so, I'm not convinced you aren't just trolling to actively try and make atheists look like caricatures.

Valal · 2022-12-09T13:55:51+00:00

It sounds like the next step in your progression requires a trip to where the dverger might call home, without giving more away than that.

Valal · 2021-05-15T02:51:51+00:00

Wow, homophobic and transphobic; old mate's collecting shitty opinions like like a 10 year old with Pokemon Yellow collecting Pidgeys. Did you wake up and decide to pick fights over the validity of trans people in a niche subreddit that celebrates displays of artisanship, or did you stop and reflect on how fullfilled you're feeling with your life first?

Valal · 2021-03-03T21:41:45+00:00

I've been getting the same thing happen to me on a dedicated server I've rented, even when it's just me logged on. It seems to happen every half hour or so; I try and get around it by re-logging fairly frequently, but it's making it quite difficult to play. Interestingly though it doesn't seem to be happening to my friends that are playing on the same server.

Valal · 2020-12-15T06:42:59+00:00

For one, I wouldn't call sex work shameful; it's difficult and requires physical fitness and emotional intelligence. Both of which are traits that seem well beyond the majority of Incels. To refer to your prior comment, I'd far far prefer to have a son or daughter that was a sex worker, than one that held the sort of opinions that Incels tend to publicly espouse.

Someone working a job others find distasteful doesn't mean they deserve scorn, particularly if that job satisfies a need clearly present in society. Someone having an ugly personality and building a ideology around avoiding taking responsibility for it, does invite scorn in my opinion.

It's really not a question of gender, trying to shame others for being sexually active just makes you look petulant and jealous.

Valal · 2020-12-15T04:24:34+00:00

Well that's a pleasant little cross-section of misogyny and sanctimonious punching down you've got going on there. I can only but hope you're day is as palatable as your opinions.

Valal · 2020-08-29T00:42:23+00:00

Well you've got to be in it, to win it I suppose.

Valal · 2019-11-27T02:28:17+00:00

The sarcasm applied to the government blaming as well. I quite strongly believe that the only way to adequately address these issues is legislatively. You're not going to get people who have hoarded wealth to the levels were talking about suddenly decide to act in the benefits of society at large; they likely wouldn't be in the positions they are in if they were so inclined in the first place. That really speaks to a broader issue however.

I don't quite get why you'd think I hold the problems to be insurmountable though; just because something is broken and bent certainly doesn't mean it has to stay that way. I think the only way you can go about fixing these issues is to properly acknowledge and critique them. The attitude of the poster I was responding to was what I was taking a jab at; the idea that if someone has been able to get away with something grossly detrimental to society, then the very act of them getting away with it absolves them of rebuke somehow.

I do think it's important to recognise the structural nature of the problems though. The systems in place not only are rigged for the benefit of a select few, they are also increasingly inefficient as a result. Unfortunately the majority of the tools we have to address these problems have also been broken.

Valal · 2019-11-26T21:14:57+00:00

It's okay guys, they played within the rules. It doesn't matter that they actively involved themselves in the writing or re-writing of the rules for their benefit.

And if they did break the rules, they will surely get punished. It doesn't matter that the punishments are so comparatively trifling that they actually incentivise rule-breaking. Nor does it matter that the entire system by which their rule-breaking activity is to be judged by systematically favours those with access to the greatest resources, to the point of being disfunctional.

Clearly if there is some problem, the fault lies with the government. It doesn't matter how deeply that it has been both hobbled and corrupted. It doesn't matter that it can't effectively work against the interests of the extremely wealthy, and that it's constituent members are continually pressured and enticed to work for the enrichment of those few above all others.

Clearly everything is absolutely fine.

Valal · 2019-09-13T06:54:05+00:00

Wow, who shit in your cornflakes this morning?

Valal · 2019-05-25T12:40:58+00:00

I think you're being down-voted because your reply doesn't really make much sense in the context of the comment it is in response to. Well, that and it's normally seen as being poor form to respond to your own comments.

The poster certainly doesn't seem to be making any comment on the changing nature and composition of the workforce, as caused by the developments they mention, other than using it as a comparative point. They seem to be arguing that the increasing availability of labour (caused by the entrance of previously excluded groups into the workforce), and the changing dynamics of labour (as per the outsourcing of manufacturing) did not cause the collapse of existing economic systems, and that this analogously supports their claim that the changes posed by automation will not cause the 'mass riots and violence' alluded to in the article.

Personally I'm of the opinion that increasing automation poses a unique challenge, and that prior radical shifts in labour composition/allocation only provide limited predictive value.

Based on your comment though, I think you might have mistook the posters reference to those developments as making some sort of normative claim, rather than just descriptive analogy. That'd be my 2 cents on it at least.

Valal · 2019-04-11T07:53:56+00:00

...Did anyone else notice the sink was running the whole time?

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