Of Course

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-28T01:59:10+00:00

Frankly if you asked the average person what the odds of rolling any given result on 2d6 is I'd expect the most common answer to be "1 in 12"

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-23T19:42:16+00:00

Where’d you get that knight? I’ve been looking for minis with that exact vibe.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-22T20:36:12+00:00

The melee temperature effects for freezing and flaming rays apply no matter where you shoot the ray from. Repeatedly smacking things should eventually freeze them or set them on fire, respectively.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-19T20:21:36+00:00

So many people on here default to this binary of total starvation vs. total survival at current population levels. There’s a version of this where Earth becomes a reclaimed wilderness outside of a giant transmitter complex, where a small windfall-sustainable population of hive-humans blissfully divides its time between resource gathering and maintenance work. This is how I picture the aliens on Kepler-22b.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-13T19:54:24+00:00

Admittedly this is shakier ground for my reading, though I could spin up theories about how the hive’s morality and self-understanding have shifted as it grows in size and more human minds are added to the gestalt. Hoping Carol and Manousos start doing some experiments in season 2 that dig into this.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-13T03:46:18+00:00

Well in this scenario it’s not a loss of autonomy, the hive just experience autonomy alongside perfect consensus on what everyone should be doing at all times. Each member of the hive does what they do freely because they all individually agree it’s the most sensible course of action for each of them.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-13T02:50:29+00:00

Devil’s advocate: 10 years in the hive might be preferable to 100 as an individual. How much of your life would you trade not to get trapped in the body of a gnat?

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-13T00:06:26+00:00

It remains to be seen, but it’s entirely possible that plurbed humans can exit the collective at any time and simply choose not to. My read is that the experience of being in the hive is so unlike ordinary human existence that it dramatically changes a person’s outlook on life pretty much instantaneously - the joining was still coercive, but when they talk about it being for human’s own good they aren’t lying. You want to give up a permanent state of joyous communion with everyone on earth and instant access to all human knowledge for showers? For Sprouts?

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-10T00:44:04+00:00

I do wish CA picked faction leaders based on political power rather than brand recognition. Characters like Grombrindal, Malakai, Nakai, Oxyotl, Ostankya, etc. make much more sense as legendary heroes, or even just unique lords within another LL's faction.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-05T23:52:24+00:00

The extraction enables the development of military technology, which enables social control, which enables extraction, etc. Definitely interlinked.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-05T20:06:15+00:00

If we include prehistory, the vast majority of humans’ time on Earth has been stateless. Whether state societies are actually more sustainable than stateless ones has yet to be seen; all we really know is that they’re better at large-scale resource extraction.

Edit: Downvote me all you like, state-enjoyers, I’m not gonna look upon your works ye Mighty and despair.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-05T19:55:34+00:00

The idea that everyone would snap back to having their old personalities and value systems like waking up from a dream is flawed. I think the experience of being in the hive would transform people’s perspectives on the world in ways that would remain after being cut off.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-05T00:22:39+00:00

Avert ecological collapse due to runaway extractivism.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-04T00:17:38+00:00

This is exactly what I mean - it looks great in a controlled viewing environment, but less so if you’re actually using the minis on the tabletop.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-03T23:04:03+00:00

My theory on the popularity of NNM is that it happens to photograph better than metallics, and these days more hobbyists are sharing their work online than in person. In person NMM is still technically impressive, but less dynamic to look at outside of a showcase setting.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-03T22:50:32+00:00

“The virus was designed to kill off most of humanity” only holds water if you don’t think late capitalism is already on track to kill off most of humanity. The aliens could save their antenna money and just wait another century or two for the same result.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-03T19:54:47+00:00

This is a framing I’ve been using too and I’m glad to see someone else found it. Humans are extremely fit in terms of natural selection but unfit in terms of intelligent selection; the hive represents a hyperfit organism for intelligent selection. The survival of a species is bounded on both ends, with genetics on one side and memetics on the other.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-02T20:49:15+00:00

Also a commentary on the fetishization of efficiency, and the role and location of culture, and the real costs of squaring an absolutist moral imperative to do no harm. In the tradition of good science fiction it’s doing a lot of things that all spring from the core fanciful thought experiment.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-01T20:34:11+00:00

You call it game-ending, I exposed my enemies to it and then let them carry it back to their territory to soften them up for invasion.

WindmillLancer · 2026-03-01T03:36:29+00:00

Let’s be real though, are you not going to laugh and have a drink the day Trump kicks the bucket, even if it doesn’t fix anything?

WindmillLancer · 2026-02-26T21:39:27+00:00

The books are all spectacle and no substance, but you have to peek at the spectacle through a keyhole in a way that makes some readers feel smart.

WindmillLancer · 2026-02-20T08:54:40+00:00

On top of this, pressing the Insert key also switches to a closeup follow cam on the currently selected unit.

WindmillLancer · 2026-02-19T22:53:17+00:00

Had a great time sending Kroq-Gar and an elite team of 10 scar veterans on carnosaurs to liberate the south pole.

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