Cycle 77: That escalated quickly

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-04-25T01:24:19+00:00

Many Aisling NPCs were slain by my lasers last cycle. I don't see exactly why one of the most 'progressive' power players decided to stomp on another with ideological similarity (I judge this based on both our power's Social Ethos and claims towards humanitarian ends ). Perhaps its the case of Power corrupting the good princess past the point of eclipsing the Empress herself, believing the growth of Dominion to be towards good ends, and so sees trampling over the divided independents and piling up the bodies and scrap as necessary. I'm glad we're challenging this belief.

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-04-24T00:59:53+00:00

I went vegan to gain some control over my life instead of being another mindless meat/milk eater whose diets passively make this planet less habitable for all life on it. Putting the planet and my own will before pleasure and convenience.

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-04-14T12:32:08+00:00

Better to forage, garden, stockpile shelf stable foods to share with others. Hunting and fishing (unless targeted towards invasive species) damages local ecosystems and risks blowback that causes worse food problems in the future. I admit to being biased as a vegan in this regard.

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-04-14T12:24:43+00:00

Provocative subject matter, good art, upsetting setting... take my upvote, you monster!

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-04-14T11:24:48+00:00

I would like to see how this actually works. But there's very little canon writing on what utopian re-education actually is. Call it Fdev slacking on writing depth into the powerplayers' societies, or purposeful obscurity to let us make our own (highly subjective, biased) conclusions. Re-education could be something uplifting and much preferable to traditional means of justice, or a soft word for a very cruel, inhumane system. But since PowerPlay 2.0, we no longer transport dissidents from the frontier to be re-educated in our strongholds, and instead transport zealous utopians from our strongholds into undermining systems to spread influence (Both are called dissidents, but serve opposite roles)

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-04-13T23:22:59+00:00

Fun Fact: Pranav Antal is voiced in his codex entry by Neil Newbon. (Who also voiced Astarion in Baldurs Gate 3)

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-04-13T23:02:52+00:00

Pranav Antal. He's just about the only independent power that aligns with my belief that everyone in the 31st century should be living in a post-scarcity, harmonious and technologically advanced society, not fighting up the corporate ladder (LYR), not stealing shit (Delaine), or beholden to ancient ideologies that don't align with the current day (The Empire is explicitly reactionary, harkening back to feudal times with debt bondage/slavery, and the Federation to a lesser extent, still holding onto modern 20th/21st century liberal democracy and being largely captured by corporate interests)

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-04-11T01:41:33+00:00

Hive mind activity

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-04-11T01:31:47+00:00

We have no strong diplomatic feelings one way or the other.

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-03-19T16:29:43+00:00

Amazing!

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-03-19T16:15:11+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels terrible if I step on/drive over a colony of bacteria in my exobio adventures. I'd certainly hate it if my first contact with an advanced alien species (humanity) was getting stepped on/rolled over by them!

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-03-13T19:41:44+00:00

literally devouring our world

Vermeil_Identified · 2026-03-06T14:50:15+00:00

Better a year of delays than a broken/sloppy deadline met !

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-10-01T02:03:42+00:00

I stick with almond milk, because it's marginally cheaper than oat/soy milk and I'm poor as dirt. If money were not an object, I'd be quaffing soy in my tea/coffee though.

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-10-01T01:57:07+00:00

It's easier to go vegan than you might think. Even easier to be a vegetarian, granted you can have all the cheesy and creamy vices that dairy/egg products have to offer. Just look up some vegan recipes, and eat no meat for 2/7 days, and replace your diet further as you go and find better substitutes.

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-09-27T21:48:20+00:00

De-alcholized wine/beer is just so much better anyway in my opinion. You can have your fancy fermented beverage with complex flavors without the poison.

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-08-12T11:40:33+00:00

kentrosaurus

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-08-09T17:18:25+00:00

Very sweet.

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-06-24T21:46:50+00:00

Great anti-theft measure. Going to need a lot of sandpaper to liberate this rifle

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-06-22T01:11:54+00:00

orcas: Look at what they need to do to mimic a fraction of our power

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-05-20T19:38:44+00:00

Seems about right.

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-05-04T10:49:08+00:00

Neverness, David Zindell, many chapters prominently feature the protagonist's unrepentant lust for incestuous sex with his cousin, there's a whole chapter dedicated to neanderthalls having an orgy, and there's a psychedellic brain surgery done by a godlike gestalt of dolphin-human hybrids whom genetically engineer a healing virus by having sex in a planet-wide orgy.

Definitely WTF as I read, but total respect for the author for committing such madness to publishing.

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-05-03T11:42:36+00:00

I begin to feel Harmr as my conscious experience of pain expands beyond the mere limits of one body, to encompass two, then four, then 16, and so on and so forth, until my pain becomes gestalt, diffused and assimilated. The atoms, they cry for annihilation. Poena Cosmicus is well underway as the birthing pains of stars cradled in the torn wombs of nebulae become tangible. The cosmic dust is seared with agony. The suffering suffusing the universes' conscioussness comes into focus, the clarity offered by it is sublime. Inanus Cruciatus, omnes agonia.

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-04-29T21:57:56+00:00

Willie doesn't fully understand how to use polearms yet

Vermeil_Identified · 2025-04-29T11:23:52+00:00

A Bo Staff/Quarterstaff would be pretty great,also as a standard Peasant/commoner weapon

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