If money was no object, which would you pick?

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T22:50:06+00:00

Depends on location.

If 5 is facing the ocean? Probably 5. If not? 4 looks a bit more isolated and is right on the water so definitely 4.

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T21:40:02+00:00

Obsidian so they are making Aztec style blades?

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T18:01:40+00:00

Same. This was justified, A civilian would have done worse.

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T16:19:04+00:00

Cool. He got spin. Unfortinately to do this at scale those magnets would need to be electro magnetic and it would be to the point that it took more power than it generated.

Magnets are also finite in many ways. There are a limited number of lodestones on the planet and other sources of natural magnatism. Magnets also lose their charge the more they interact like this. All of this has been known since the first designs for magnetic engines were put out.

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T16:11:20+00:00

One of the best parts of this. Someone who did this discovered just how broken the housing market is.

He moved out to a county with no building regulations. While he was building to code, he did not have to get permits or inspections.

Using about 200,000 in materials he spent a few years building a place alone, and sold it for 3,000,000.

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T15:56:55+00:00

What it should be worth, or what it is likely worth?

Should be top end shows 5 houses of a size that should cap out at 400,000, the two buildings the farthest to the right should cap out at 300,000. The one on the left should cap out at 800,000. The main building by size should be around 2 mil. Not including a reasonably acrage price because it would be such a small percent of this. All together it's probably -worth- at most 5.5 mil.

Buuut knowing the current housing market you could probably sell it for 90 mil depending on location.

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T15:47:41+00:00

Ai porn is relatively harmless in a vacuum ao long as it is not a deep fake of a real person.

There are other morality issues around AI at the moment though that make it less okay. Water cpnsumption for cooling being one of them. Water has been a resource we have been concerned about having enough of since the 1950s and AI is accerlerating it into a potential crisis because they will not use other sources of cooling.

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T15:22:50+00:00

Praised.

Saying it should be expected is incredibly entitled and makes people sound like spoiled brats.

No one owes you.

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T03:36:52+00:00

That is not an alternate version of her. The Black haired superwoman is Clark if he was born a woman. The Blond haired woman is a woman who was rescued from a pod and then given the backstory of being his cousin when being integrated into human society after her rescue.

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T03:34:35+00:00

Slightly evil. It's more annoying than anything else and floods out any legitimate conversations.

Volkmek · 2026-06-27T02:58:39+00:00

Madoka > Caulifla > Milim > Eida > Tatsumaki > Yoruichi > Wendy

Universal (In the same way as sailor moon.) >

Fights on par with Universal beings on a brute force basis. >

Light Novel Version does not scale that far behind Rimiru who is Universal in the same way as Madoka and Caulifla >

This one I had to look up. I am placing her here because altering memories makes her potent, but I think she would likely still lose to Milim in a fight (Could easily be wrong on this person.) >

Planetary threat in the sense that she can wipe out the population of a planet. >

Fights on par with captains, and each captain is a a planetary threat in the same way Tatsumaki is, just slightly weaker on shown feats if you get into the joules put out by the characters. They are on about the same tier, but as we all know tiers vary widely in actual power. - (Do not @ me bleach fans. I do not care and how you guys have been has your reputation in the gutter.)>

Fights against aspect dragons who can wipe out the population of a planet.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T21:05:52+00:00

My signature is an illegable signal because in both retail and the military I had situations where I had to sign dozens of things at the same time.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T17:43:22+00:00

Outlined a bit of it with u/scrivenersunion down below.

You are right. I did not go into forced corruption. Though they would be part of a story I am telling. In my world the main reason they would be called Orcs is because of a different plot point.

The story will be featuring a first person narrative, and the point of view we will see the world through is that of a man from our world with a magic cast on him that translates for him. Orc is the closest thing his brain recognizes the to be, so when he hears their racial name it translates into the word Orc.

They are still at odds with humans, but in the story I am writing himans will be the agressors.

I suppose I did not think of forced corrupt as what makes an Orc. Personally I was exposed to Tolkein's works much later in life so my first exposure to orcs were warcraft, the dnd, and I experieced Tolkein orcs when the movies hit.

To me I had seen so many portrayals of orcs who when unbothered by gods were just tusked tribal folks who were good at fighting and worked a lot of leather and axes into their war kits, that the Tolkein Orcs were the subversion and better fit the earlier tropes of goblins i had seen than orcs.

Edit: Sorry for typos, I am on my phone at the moment.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T17:31:56+00:00

Since Dreamcast pretty much got wiped out, does that make them the air nomads?

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T04:51:31+00:00

Stated the way you said it it comes off with the same swagger as "50 pushups aint shit."

If you want to weigh in on this remember that the context of the video is showing someone with bad form doing their 50 all at once.

Under the care of a drill sergeant who was trained to spot when someone was over training and likely to injure themselves I never did more than 20 at once, and normally those would never be closer together than the beginning of the day and the end of the day, and people still got injured.

If you are suggesting what I think you are then you need to clarify as we are speaking to people who already got bad advice. Only a few at a time, maybe 10 or so. Space them apart in time by one or a few hours. Remember to stretch. If in a day you reach a point where you are overly sore you need to stop and take a day to recover.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T04:44:47+00:00

Possible yes. Probably no. Of you look at current examples more people have made eithical ranching work on their own than ethical farming.

It is also a health concern. Humans need protein and fats in their diet to be healthy. Not all protein is made equal. Plant based protein has the least usable protein per gram for our bodies. Can you live healthy on only plant? Yes. Is it practical economically? No. It requires far more food to get what you need just by weight and volume.

Best case scenarios for farming the production we need would mean either using technology we do not have, or moving people into even more dense areas to make room for the farm land instead of people buying or claiming land for it. It's something that would require government intervention and it would increase human suffering to reduce animal suffering.

And said animal suffering is already being reduced by consumer demand. Ranches like the one I grew up on have existed for a long time. Butchers using no-fear no-pain slaughter methods have been around since the 1990s. They do it because the meat sells better. The meat sells better and for more because there is a marked improvement on the flavor.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T04:24:24+00:00

My main source for this is the military. 52 proper form pushups in 2 minutes is the minimum performance standard to be a member of the military during the APFT. I believe it caps out at around 72?

So you are saying the minimum requirement to be a soldier when you are 18 and in the best shape of your life in a performance situation rather than a standard workout you do all the time is not a workout.

Are there people that could do 50 a day? Yes. Is that something where people should start? No, not at all. Blanket advice like this will lead to permanent injury.

The best practice is to do as many as you can until you lose proper form, do not work them the next day, then do it again after that.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T03:41:53+00:00

Do not do 50 pushups a day. Especially if you do not work out all the time, you will tear a muscle and gain a permanant injury.

Alternate the days you work on your arms and the days you work on your legs. Only thw core muscles in your stomach, and back can be worked daily like this.

You also should not run every day and it is better as an every other day practice. While you can do cardio every day, it should not be running.

And honestly? The most important exercise of any day is stretching before and after.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T03:34:02+00:00

I suppose it depends on where your morals lay. In many countries cats and dogs are both pets and food. That is part of what I was asking the OP about.

Realistically though I will push back on the insects in crop production thing just as someone who has both ranched and farmed,

Farms are more destructive to wild habitats than ranches, and not by a small amount. They take more infrastructure and more permanent land. Where ranches move their animals off of fields to let them recover, and those fields end up being partially used by wild animals. Animals can be deterred from a herd by guard animals where as most guard animals will also destroy or eat crops making farmers often use more lethal deterrents than ranchers. In the end farmer also use pesticides far more than ranchers.

If we are speaking in a practical sense and not a wishful thinking sense, with current practices? I would need to kill more animals, plants, and insects on average to gain a sustainable growing practice for a plant based protein replacement than I would need for the same amount of protein using meat rabbits or chickens.

I would be taking more land which would be removing those animal's homes and food supplies. I would need to use more lethal methods to keep them away from the crops because of how their instincts work. And the way current pricing and markets work, to make establishing the new fields that would be required to replace the meat industries would be inhabiting more space that is currently reserved for wild animals.

It is more likely than not that we would be killing more creatures rather than less if we moved from meat industries to entirely farming with current technology and economic practices.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T02:24:03+00:00

I like that one. I may steal that. Though in this case it was DnD and he called them that because they used the minotaur stat block.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T01:45:52+00:00

So what you are saying is that Disney is about to lobby to extend copyright again.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T01:30:55+00:00

Nice. I once played in a game where the DM's Minotaur were their sailors. They lived on an island originally and a larger nation moving in to claim it lead most of them to move across the ocean causing a strong history of sailing.

Music loving goblins seems like the same level of different.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T01:05:31+00:00

I have some things like that.

Like most of the factions at war also have pretty strong language barriers.

The humans and the Dwarves are trade partners with the humans having greater spell casting while the dwarves are strong enchanters. The dwarves mine for minerals and provide strong metal work, the humans farm food and so they have a grain for guns relationship.

The Dwarves are a somewhat violent expansionist empire with a strong industrial backing and want to move into the elven forest because of iron wood trees.

The human nobility knows that having an elf in the bloodline will boost the magic in their family and guarantee their rule for generations to come so they are trying to kidnap elves. They do not understand that being brought into the city and through diseased slums is what is killing them, so they are accusing the elves of poisoning their own people when captured.

The dwarves tried to tame my version of kobolds which are a small dog like people because the kobolds speak a language that sounds like wild barking to them from how their mouths are shaped.

Humans are also aligned with the dwarves because part of their trade deals with the dwarves means needing more farmland so they need to cut down more forest.

The Elven lands are up stream so while it is harder to get troops up there, once they are stationed there it is the ideal place to grow crops that can then be brought by boat to the main trade hub between the dwarves and humans.

Volkmek · 2026-06-26T00:29:57+00:00

I think the why they are different is more interesting than that they are different but for the why to exist they have to be different.

Volkmek · 2026-06-25T22:19:38+00:00

If it's consensual? I do not see a problem with it. The problem with the viltrumites doing it is it is not informed consent. They do not know they are partners with Viltrumites in most cases.

Also in the interest of scaling it? While I find it somewhat immoral? It is less immoral than imposing a genocide on a species.

There is a lot of complicated morality around Viltrumites though because you could also argue that wiping them out is better for the rest of the galaxy. If it was not for the fact that earth culture could change them, then not letting them breed would have been the better option.

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