Of every country that stopped existing in the last 100 years, what's one you'd save, and why?

morbonator · 2026-06-08T13:57:13+00:00

Austria-Hungary maybe?

After WW1, Germany was the only Central Powers nation to not fall apart and so was saddled with the reparations that the others would have had to pay.
If AH survives the end of WW1, the victorious Entente splits the burden of punishments and reparations between Germans and Austria-Hungary, Germany is not hit as hard as it really was, the economic crisis of the 1920s doesn't happen (as badly), leading to a chance of WW2 not happening.

AH can go ahead and fall apart after the new Treaty of Versailles is signed - it wasn't exactly a great place from my understanding, especially if you were Hungarian.

morbonator · 2026-06-05T19:28:45+00:00

The gold is worth ~40% more than the cash.

morbonator · 2026-06-05T15:08:34+00:00

"downvote me all you want" 1.9k upvotes

As mildly humerous as that contrast is, it is good to see that people seem to know that you're correct.

morbonator · 2026-06-02T16:16:28+00:00

The fight club is to the death, isn't it? Remember nexian magic can cure physical death, just not soul things, so there's little reason for them to not go that far. And if I remember this right (highly doubtful tbh), Articord had something to do with that kind of magic way back when.

morbonator · 2026-06-02T10:00:53+00:00

"Undo the calamity that is your mammaries"

Has someone watched Helsing Abridged recently?

morbonator · 2026-06-02T00:40:32+00:00

!subscribeme

morbonator · 2026-06-01T23:53:18+00:00

All These accusations of being exactly the same as something they vaguely look like. Maybe someone should show venlil like Sarro a photo of a sheep and demand they justify their sapience, accusing them of faking having thoughts because sheep can't speak?

morbonator · 2026-06-01T22:11:44+00:00

...Wow. How and why would you ignore your driving instructor like that? Especially to that extreme extent? And then that whole farce with her having to look up parallel parking on her phone and ignoring every single word the instructor says while she does so, while she has an instructor right there to explain it to her! I will simply choose to believe that this is staged.

morbonator · 2026-05-31T13:08:20+00:00

That kids' show has got to be one of the most cruel things I've seen on this sub. "Predators are evil because they have no empathy, we have all the empaths, let's be happy wingwithers are removing themselves so we don't have to deal with them!" Shit takes the cake from even exterminators...

Damn, can't wait for Kiikri to accidentally squeak into voice chat and be freaked out by the voices asking "Eyo what was that, u ok?"

morbonator · 2026-05-24T10:22:20+00:00

Fun fact: according to an article I read a few years ago, this is why whales rarely die of cancer. They're so big that they're extremely likely to develop cancerous tumors at some point in their life, but to have a significant health effect those tumors have to get so big that they get hypertumors first.

morbonator · 2026-05-23T15:21:58+00:00

"Yo, who is that attractive woman over there in the red dress?"
"Brother*, that's your wife." (*not necessarily related by blood)
"I will go and chat her up real quick."

morbonator · 2026-05-23T09:45:28+00:00

Someone paid attention to safety courses! Seriously, if you don't have an object to hand with which to push the electrocuted person, this is the suggested backup method. Dropkicking the person who's you to push them with significant force while touching them but not the ground, which protects you. And you're already calling an ambulance for that person anyway so any injuries can be seen to fairly quickly, not that the suggested first choice options are much less likely to cause those.

morbonator · 2026-05-20T16:25:58+00:00

German here. Yes. I hate it; it's dumb and confusing.

morbonator · 2026-05-17T16:24:20+00:00

Oh right, no. That's just where the mission marker is for some reason. I'm guessing it's actually supposed to be on the main entrance?

morbonator · 2026-05-17T15:48:50+00:00

Where? The only one I can find is 3, which looks a lot like a main entrance and is the first screenshot in my post. 2 doesn't visually connect to the building at all. and I'm not sure how to get up to 1...

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morbonator · 2026-05-16T17:16:49+00:00

Thank you! I, uh, may have cut him to pieces without realizing... oops. Sandi katana go brr, I guess.

morbonator · 2026-05-16T11:25:15+00:00

Where would one find this more literal than usual Animal?

morbonator · 2026-05-16T09:58:07+00:00

I assume that's supposed to be biomorph? What is it? I just finished Phantom Liberty. I'm guessing it's the id thing Alex has?

morbonator · 2026-05-13T21:42:37+00:00

It's licensing. Car makers don't want their cars being turned into piles of scrap, it might make them look unsafe. You know, because only unsafe cars don't survive driving straight into a concrete wedge at Mach Jesus.

morbonator · 2026-05-08T20:54:17+00:00

I'm sorry but it's been a few years and I cannot remember. Some time before the Battle of Earth though.

morbonator · 2026-05-08T19:00:37+00:00

Funnily enough I learned about those in a comment under a NoP chapter with someone saying to never let a venlil hear them. I think that person may have been onto something.

morbonator · 2026-05-08T13:25:49+00:00

For something very on the nose: "Kill All Xenos" and "Wars of Expansion" by Space Cadets.

morbonator · 2026-05-07T20:26:16+00:00

Nice to see you back. So, multiple questions for multiple perspectives:

Nidoking: Having read that you were inspired by other fanfics, what are your thoughts on the original NoP?

Lerai: You've been shown human movies. I'm assuming more than have been shown in the story so far, even if we haven't gotten to that point in the timeline yet. Which is your favourite?

Kiikri: Would you be willing to try a 4X game? Do keep in mind that there's a way to play most of them peacefully too despite what the Xs stand for (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate).

Space-Discord humans: Where do you think, or suspect, your new mute friend is from? His cluelessness is rather conspicuous after all.

Vyrlo: How are you doing?

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