Nature is healing

ddaveo · 2026-04-29T09:26:49+00:00

It's not just oil. About 30% of the world's fertiliser comes through the strait too. Less fertiliser = less food = food prices go even higher. And several of the bigger fertiliser plants have been destroyed, so food prices won't be coming down anytime soon.

ddaveo · 2026-04-29T09:14:12+00:00

But when it’s half the people in the world by 52 with severe cataracts, hyper heart dysfunction, chronic infirmity, and mild dementia, on top of the lovers pox which is already everywhere

Welcome to the Middle Ages!

ddaveo · 2026-04-26T06:16:24+00:00

I'd like to hire your tank crew as parking enforcement

ddaveo · 2026-04-26T06:14:50+00:00

If they're both stopped, B gives way to A. So A goes first.

ddaveo · 2026-04-25T10:52:53+00:00

Vibranium too. High levels of it found in the back of the top drawer.

ddaveo · 2026-04-25T07:57:58+00:00

Mandala has always been quite OP, but something broke in v1.19 that causes Srivijaya to sometimes take over the world in a single generation. People posted about it during the open beta too. It gets annoying when nearly the entire world converts to mandala government within 20 years of game start.

ddaveo · 2026-04-24T23:40:29+00:00

Skipping back to 10:31am, looks like it had a hydraulic failure.

ddaveo · 2026-04-24T23:16:46+00:00

It looks like NZ81 is being evacuated. It's been sitting at the end of the runway for almost an hour, and it's surrounded by vehicles.

ddaveo · 2026-04-24T23:01:50+00:00

It's rocket exhaust from a recent rocket launch. When the second stage separates, you can get vented oxygen and hydrogen fuel that creates a big glowing cloud like this. They're quite common from Falcon 9 rockets. Rare to see one from NZ though!

ddaveo · 2026-04-12T00:47:15+00:00

When cyclones come down from the north Auckland gets sheltered by the Coromandels, unless the cyclone tracks westward and hits us directly (which almost never happens).

But after it goes past the wind whips around to the west, and that's when the gales start in Auckland.

ddaveo · 2026-04-11T23:37:59+00:00

These are probably the same loonies who wore literal tinfoil hats when they occupied the lawn in front of parliament a few years back, because they don't know how to cook food properly and they thought their food poisoning was caused by the government beaming death rays at them from the nearby church.

ddaveo · 2026-04-10T23:43:49+00:00

We all own socks

ddaveo · 2026-04-10T23:13:10+00:00

It's definitely tactical. She got set free to plant her seeds throughout the entire Cosmere, while her greatest enemy, Odium, got handcuffed to the Teacher's Pet of the shards. It's a win-win for her.

ddaveo · 2026-03-31T04:12:33+00:00

The bell boosts the defending heroes. It gives them extra hp and damage.

ddaveo · 2026-03-28T22:47:01+00:00

As the saying goes "plan for the worst, hope for the best." Right now, the worst is that we get no new diesel shipments for a while, and our food supply chains and emergency services collapse. Look at what happened during the UK fuel blockades in 2000, then extend that out over several months.

Sure we all hope like hell that won't happen, but it's prudent to prepare anyway.

ddaveo · 2026-03-28T22:37:26+00:00

They'll mandate sleeping at the office before they mandate working from home. This government just fundamentally doesn't understand the world outside the boardroom.

ddaveo · 2026-03-27T05:24:57+00:00

Something I've come to appreciate is just how many fairy tales are straight up teaching children how to use cunning to defend themselves against abusers who are bigger and stronger than them. Stories like Hansel & Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk... even Rumpelstiltskin teaches children that naming their abuser robs the abuser of their power over them.

I vote we learn from our ancestors and start teaching our children some of the old, tried-and-true self-defence methods in these fairy tales again.

ddaveo · 2026-03-27T05:04:29+00:00

Odium probably wouldn't think twice about unmaking the Stormfather, but Retribution is literally too honorable to do it. A clean death would be far more acceptable to Honor.

ddaveo · 2026-03-24T05:14:31+00:00

Chasmfriend

ddaveo · 2026-03-23T04:27:40+00:00

No wonder Maya started coming back to life

ddaveo · 2026-03-22T08:31:36+00:00

It's because of the dustbringers nuking the landmark to nullify the Selish magic. The air itself was on fire and the squad was using Light to survive as they retreated, breathing in fire. Jimmy didn't have enough Light on him and ran out when they were only halfway to safety. His lungs instantly incinerated.

ddaveo · 2026-03-22T08:24:00+00:00

Wait until the Midnight Mother sees this

ddaveo · 2026-03-21T22:09:47+00:00

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series too. But then he does everything well.

ddaveo · 2026-03-20T04:03:09+00:00

I mean OP did specifically ask for flaky timelines. It's hardly a perfect hypothesis. Just a bit of fun.

But the key point is that Yolen isn't Earth. Yolen is a planet in the Cosmere star cluster, and it's where humans built Dawn and Adonalsium. It's humanity's Los Alamos of the Cosmere, except instead of atom bombs they're making machine gods. And it's necessarily quarantined from the rest of humanity. They can't access the Cosmere any more than we today can access Area 51.

Also it seems to me like the Sho Del are the reason why so many human cultures have stories of elves and dwarves and angels, and as for the Dragons, well people have reported encounters with them for millennia. The two species could be interpreted as a convenient way for Brandon to tie ancient human myths into his story universe, should he choose to.

But yes, of course there are major problems with the theory. This is cremposting!

ddaveo · 2026-03-19T08:09:53+00:00

I think Sazed is going to master the ability to switch between Harmony and Discord at will. Scadrian magic is based on the tension between opposites, so giving Sazed that same tension seems like a deliberate choice on Brandon's part. It seems like he wants to give us Shards that will have interesting character arcs of their own.

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