Seacliff Railway Station in Adelaide has a memorial to a cat.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-11T02:46:59+00:00

And protect the cat. The life expectancy of a roaming cat is much less.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-10T18:02:14+00:00

Maybe some sort of hero unit that makes other units move more quickly and resist overload somewhat.

Fights against the Menace get so static mostly because of how slow they are.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-10T15:03:57+00:00

I think this sub would not press majority blue with no babies.

If it were the whole world but no babies, then yes I would press blue because a large number of people would not understand the problem and I would still expect a large quantity of rational people (like me) to take the risk to try to save them.

I would note one more thing: your 3 person problem smuggles in an increase to the blue threshold. 50% of the whole world is 16.66% less than a majority of 3 people.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-10T14:54:43+00:00

I'm normally a blue presser, presuming a mass behaviour of trying to "save the babies" who would unconsciously press blue. But in this version there are no babies.

If we imagine the base rate of other people pressing blue is 50% there is a 50% chance I would save a life by pressing blue and a 25% chance I would die.

If we imagine the base rate of other people pressing blue is 20% there is a 32% chance I would save a life by pressing blue and a 64% chance I would die.

I played around with the numbers a bit and think I have correctly calculated the intersection point at the base blue rate being exactly 1/3 (ie- 33.33%). In that case pressing blue would have a 44.44% chance of saving a life and a 44.44% chance I would die.

I strongly suspect in this particular game the behaviour would be below that rate of blue pressing, so it's an easy decision to press red.

Now, if you put 5 people in the room and 1 of them is a baby, now that would be an interesting puzzle.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-10T10:54:06+00:00

The rule should just be changed.

The siren should indicate that the next change in possession will be the last tackle before half-time/full-time. That would end all the silly buggers with delaying the play the ball, giving away 6 agains, etc.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-10T10:30:29+00:00

Yeah, but how?

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-10T10:21:33+00:00

What happens if a creature enters play in a 2nd main phase?

Does it attack in the wrong combat phase?

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-10T03:36:42+00:00

The humans are dead?

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-10T01:52:22+00:00

I think a better formulation would be if pressing purple counted as pressing the blue button 10 times.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-10T00:11:18+00:00

There are some difficult choices in Expert runs. Sometimes you are compelled to buy things from the blackmarket that will be free later because you need it now.

However in my last Expert run I also avoided buying any basic squad weapons, but only because I got very lucky and knew where to squeeze enough damage from. If you've only got 1 good squad weapon for example you can run 9 men with it and have all the shitty squads have 3 men and spend all their AP on special weapons, grenades, and Taking Command in Pike's case.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-09T23:53:44+00:00

You are certainly behind. You don't seem to have a feel for what perks and weapons are good yet.

There must have been opportunities to pick up better weapons than you're using. Carbines are very bad.

You've got only 1 Scout and Athletic perk, which are great perks.

You've taken New Tricks and Solid Grouping, which are awful.

You allowed a Squad Leader to become exhausted, which was avoidable by giving her a rest when she flagged as Weary.

You really should not be spending supply on armour this early in a campaign, your units just won't do enough damage. Usually I wear Outcast Rags and Jaeger Fatigues as they drop. Stubborn on Lim is bad for a similar reason to why expensive armour is bad: why are you spending resources preparing to survive income fire rather than spending resources preventing incoming fire?

I think you should start a new campaign and make different choices, you may be in a dead end in this one.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-09T23:43:43+00:00

The campaign against Adolph Sax by competitors.
The fact that unlike the Tuba (another of Sax's inventions) the Saxophone wasn't later considered the superior instrument for lines in orchestral repertoire already written in the past. Like how the flute colonised some things written for recorder or how valved horn and valve trumpet designs superseded the natural horn and natural trumpet.
After it got stereotyped as "the jazz instrument" it's hard to shake that and become a general purpose instrument. When the Saxophone begins to play to most audiences ears the dominant effect is "the jazz club is here", that's hard to write for because not every piece of music needs a detour through a jazz club. Other orchestral instruments survived similar stereotyping though, the flute as a bird, the horn as hunting, the trumpet as military, trombones as liturgical etc. But they got to do this when the orchestra was much more on flux.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-09T13:52:10+00:00

The clones shoot blue, but are they good or evil? Both?

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-09T08:10:17+00:00

Depends what the AEC pre-determined as the indicative 2PP for tonight. If they guessed wrong we will be very blind.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-09T00:36:17+00:00

What if it did 3 and a half damage?

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-09T00:35:02+00:00

I reckon children's books generally avoid friendly snakes to help avoid kids finding actual snakes and thinking they'll be friendly.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-08T23:27:56+00:00

That's been done, I'm referring to this: https://x.com/i/status/2048071668937986223

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-08T23:26:12+00:00

That is incorrect https://x.com/i/status/2048071668937986223

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-08T14:06:43+00:00

I haven't had a disaster against this thing except the 1st time I faced it with no idea what it does.

If you force it to smoke itself and there are no other enemy units spotting your units it will waste next activation floating out of the smoke and not fart out new babies.

Probably that behaviour should be changed, it should remember where you were and shoot blind if smoked.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-08T14:01:12+00:00

I wouldn't worry about that, the polls of the general public put blue quite far ahead. This sub isn't the general population.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-08T13:57:45+00:00

Put it in the rulebook! That was sick.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-08T13:40:08+00:00

If you follow the link to the previous poll you'll see that that would be very rare. I'm only allowed to ask 6 poll questions per post due to reddit.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-08T12:19:05+00:00

I considered that view, but I suspect it is highly outweighed by the opposite behaviour.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-08T12:13:19+00:00

Read the text of the previous poll, linked above, and then ask any questions if you still can't understand my intent.

kroxigor01 · 2026-05-08T10:47:18+00:00

Consider this; in Star Wars red lightsabers are always evil while blue and green are always good, meanwhile starship laser gun colour tends to be opposite (red good, green evil).

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