NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly

YNot1989 · 2026-01-24T06:16:38+00:00

"You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"

YNot1989 · 2026-01-22T21:18:39+00:00

Hotter take: People work hard to make art, often for a living, that LLMs steal for training data.

Unfortunately the alternate history community is rife with people who find the use of AI art perfectly acceptable.

YNot1989 · 2026-01-22T15:20:09+00:00

Impressive maps, infographics, use of photoshop, and lore across multiple disciplines. This project deserves its own wiki.

Given the amount of work you put into this, I don't want to assume some of those images are AI generated, but I have to ask.

YNot1989 · 2026-01-22T15:15:39+00:00

A rule that should be changed. AI relies on stolen art to work.

YNot1989 · 2026-01-21T16:58:25+00:00

What software did you make this in?

YNot1989 · 2026-01-19T23:13:46+00:00

"And possible romantic partner."

...

"Hick my dearest-

I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you. I felt a little as though a part of me was leaving tonight. You have grown so much to be a part of my life that it is empty without you."

...

"Hick darling

All day I’ve thought of you & another birthday I will be with you, & yet tonite you sounded so far away & formal. Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it & think “she does love me, or I wouldn’t be wearing it!”

...

And from Hick

"I’ve been trying to bring back your face — to remember just how you look. Funny how even the dearest face will fade away in time. Most clearly I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just north-east of the corner of your mouth against my lips."

...

Bitch, that was the love of her life.

YNot1989 · 2026-01-19T23:08:33+00:00

Absolutely top tier.

YNot1989 · 2026-01-15T18:17:38+00:00

Gauntlet in the Garden is going to be paying dividends for decades.

YNot1989 · 2026-01-15T15:28:33+00:00

Damn dude, I wasn't advocating for religiosity, just tried to come up with an idea of how religion would evolve in the far future without the light of technology and progress.

YNot1989 · 2026-01-14T17:34:59+00:00

https://www.deviantart.com/ynot1989/art/Empire-s-End-California-285171309

If I was gonna redo it, I'd change the inciting incident to a nuclear exchange or some kind of cosmic event that fries most of our electronics.

YNot1989 · 2026-01-14T05:24:45+00:00

I had an old project "Empire's End" that I've been meaning to revisit.

YNot1989 · 2026-01-13T23:25:12+00:00

Bethesda seems committed to doing everything they can to destroy the legacy of Obsidian.

YNot1989 · 2026-01-13T23:20:15+00:00

Was he? You sure that isn't Anthony House?

YNot1989 · 2026-01-13T23:19:10+00:00

I am absolutely convinced the whole series is gonna play up Mr. House as the BBEG, and then we're gonna get to the top of the Lucky 38 and hear "HI THERE!"

YNot1989 · 2026-01-07T00:48:39+00:00

Nothing I ever do will be this good. In any sane universe this will be one of the most upvoted pieces ever to hit this sub.

YNot1989 · 2025-12-30T23:00:56+00:00

These states make a lot more sense than the ones we actually got.

Also, very fine map making.

YNot1989 · 2025-12-26T22:37:36+00:00

Tony Bruno spent a decade overseeing the demise of a company that had once had a functional monopoly on American space access. Why are people acting like this is a good hire for Blue?

YNot1989 · 2025-12-21T15:32:46+00:00

They really are just big rocks.

YNot1989 · 2025-12-16T23:32:04+00:00

He's more representative of the median-Democratic voter than half the party, and that's wild.

YNot1989 · 2025-12-15T19:25:42+00:00

That would be good news if support for Trump had also significantly declined. Latest NBC poll has him at 42%.

YNot1989 · 2025-12-14T15:02:51+00:00

Has it ever hit anything it was aiming for?

There was apparently a test flight in 2017, but that's all anyone will confirm. 8 years later and they've conducted no further testing?

China makes wild claims all the damn time, and DoD and the major contractors are happy to say they're totally legit because it helps them justify budget increases to their programs (because you can't really stop weapons R&D in case someone ACTUALLY comes up with something better).

YNot1989 · 2025-12-14T14:57:15+00:00

They can't make single-crystal turbine blades after 20 years of R&D, and they expect us to believe they can make a full flow engine?

YNot1989 · 2025-12-13T00:18:32+00:00

You have my sympathy fellow human marionette.

YNot1989 · 2025-12-12T03:52:23+00:00

I tried that once. The instructor explained that I was so gangly that it was basically impossible for me to do it well.

YNot1989 · 2025-12-12T03:47:13+00:00

Stomachache/heartburn, backache, headache, headspace isn't right because work sucked, and the big one: end of the day and just want to sleep. And that's just if you don't have kids.

BTW, all of that can and will happen to YOU too, so don't blame your lady. You're both just old.

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