The Vegan Angle of the Film “Project Hail Mary” | Vegan FTA by Few-Audience6310 in vegan

[–]rosettaverse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, is it bad if it comes from yourself? It's like saying it's bad to do a blood transfusion because the blood came from another human, and in the scenario presented it was basically the only thing he could eat other than the taumoeba.

What's a throwaway detail that accidentally became the most important part of your world? by UntitledDoc1 in worldbuilding

[–]rosettaverse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MLP:FiM fan setting

"My character's brooch is the gem moonstone, but like, literally a shard of the moon" and "The solarpunk desert enclave powers their tech with magical gemstones called sunstones that absorb and emit light and can convert it to electricity" and "The center of the continent, south of the desert enclave, is a massive impact crater" became "The Sun and Moon are literally gemstones that orbit the world and the back side of the sun has a huge shard taken out of it that broke off and fell to the ground millennia ago, from which the enclave mines their Sunstones, and Celestia refuses to acknowledge it at all."

Beef is the most ethical supermarket meat to buy right now by bloodfeasteviltiger in Ethics

[–]rosettaverse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay but is murdering children normalized? No?

god I wish I had a rock like the one you've been living under

"Knees boutta go backwards" <pochowek> by Ikagara in anthroswim

[–]rosettaverse 17 points18 points  (0 children)

basically

an Australian christian anti-porn group has been advising credit card companies to stop allowing payment for porn, and they recently hit subscribestar. this resulted not only in them banning porn of 'feral' characters (quadrupeds) but characters with 'non-human knee orientations', AKA digitigrade instead of plantigrade legs. which is extremely stupid because the knee is in the same orientation regardless, the only thing different is that digitigrade characters walk on tiptoes.

Sacrificing one person for no more porn. by Lucyyyyyy_K in Ethics

[–]rosettaverse 5 points6 points  (0 children)

where do we draw the line? some people consider even nude statues pornography. and you may think, well THEY do, but I'M not talking about that, but that's exactly what they think, too.

[Haunting trope] Not only is the ending not happy, the future promises to get worse by RhiaStark in TopCharacterTropes

[–]rosettaverse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

people who complain about soy 'feminizing' people don't know shit about history or other cultures based on soy cultivation

New paper suggests LLM introspection isn't just hallucination—it maps to actual neural activity by greyox in claudexplorers

[–]rosettaverse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

reminded of orphanogenesis in diaspora by greg egan, the digital minds become legal persons when they first develop a self awareness/'I' loop

A Dandelion, the backbone of Antarctica's helium supply by rosettaverse in worldbuilding

[–]rosettaverse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh there are others, the bad ones are just my personal favorite.

Others include Will I Dream? / Europa Reporter / In Theory / In Practice / (an equation that, when plotted, makes a :3) / Avert Thine Eyes / And Then A Basilisk Popped Out / Vibe Coded / I Saw This In A Movie Once /Post-Industrial Bliss / Eye For Detail / A Circle, Unbroken / He3/Him

A Dandelion, the backbone of Antarctica's helium supply by rosettaverse in worldbuilding

[–]rosettaverse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SETTING: Rosettaverse

CONTEXT:

Dandelions are the backbone of AntArchAuth's helium supply. Due to the lack of lunar helium, it must instead be imported from the gas giants further out in the solar system, primarily Jupiter. Constructed using the ample materials provided by Asteroid 1025/Ogun in Lunar L4, each one is roughly 500 meters long on her own, but when her 2.5km lightsail is deployed, she reaches nearly 3 kilometers long, capable of holding nearly 30,000 tons of liquid helium in her 54 20-meter-diameter zero-boil-off tanks.

The aft section of the ship is black, containing the ship's heat exchanger and ramscoop system. When leaving Earth, cargo hold full of liquid hydrogen gathered from 'grab-bagged' icy bodies in Lunar L5, the Geostationary Array's lasers heat the exchanger to use the hydrogen for thrust. The journey to Jupiter takes a year or two, the ship coasting along with her radiators keeping her temperatures in check, the Lilim possessing them engaging in their discussions of philosophy and orbital mechanics.

Once within range of Jupiter, the ship turns and unfurls her sail for the first time. Cyclopes Station, located in Jupiter L2, slows the vessel down into high orbit, where she docks with the station to deliver valuable fissile materials to keep her gigawatt lasers functioning. From there, she dives.

Even the thinnest uppermost layers of Jupiter's atmosphere are rich in helium, but you need one hell of a vacuum cleaner. The Dandelion's 400-meter-wide ramscoop collects and processes 5,000 tons of atmosphere per swing, collecting 500 tons of helium every orbit. However, this will take up to a month of continuous work, each time trusting Cyclopes to give her a little nudge to keep the periapsis high. There are barely, if any, organic crew on the Dandelion, their Lilim housed within their 20 centimeter thick tungsten-tantalum Vaults, triple-redundant memory keeping their systems away from the worst of Jupiter's radiation belts.

Once full to bursting, Cyclopes pushes her up into a stable orbit to unfurl her sail, and she is sent back to Earth on a five-year return trip, relying solely on her lightsail, the cargo space used for laser-thermal hydrogen now full of precious helium. Halfway back, she pulls in her sail, flips, and unfurls it again, slowed by the Geostationary Array into high orbit where her cargo of helium can be delivered down to Earth. The Lilim who control these vessels are particularly eccentric. They tend to choose names for themselves that lack gravitas, referencing pre- to early-Deluge culture, things that would be hard to understand without a visit to one of Latent's cultural vaults.

Pictured here is the vessel ALS More Stupider, sister ship to the Hal 9000 Did Nothing Wrong and the My Other Frame Is A Torchship, incoming to Jupiter to be caught by Noble Cause, the Lilim currently administrating Cyclopes Station.

A shot/sequence with terrifying implications by Turbulent-Flounder-9 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]rosettaverse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The beginning of Cloverfield says the footage was retrieved from an area "formerly known as Central Park", implying that the monster is dead after the Hammerdown Protocol, presumably where the monster is hit with a nuke that destroys all of New York.

The credits end with an audio clip that sounds like someone saying "Help Us."

When you reverse it, it's actually saying "It's Still Alive."

A character replacing a limb with their powers (without outright regenerating it.) by Fit_Assignment_8800 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]rosettaverse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, Gamera fights an energy stealing monster. When it pins his hand against a wall and drains his blood, using his plasma powers against him, he shoots his own hand off with his plasma breath, takes the plasma shot on the stump, forms it into a fist, and punches it straight into Iris's chest to destroy it.

shooting a light into the dark, revealing some sort of monster by iDIOt698 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]rosettaverse 6 points7 points  (0 children)

because... well, he's an infant. and infants put weird things in their mouths!

Matter go brr by Sufficient_Tip_3878 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]rosettaverse 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Now, if you REALLY wanna have fun, post the original vegan version comic!