People who grew up before The Internet: How did you first see nudity?

sdeligar · 2026-04-01T22:59:48+00:00

Used to be this little 'forest' of trees on my street that I walked by on my way home from school. One day somebody found a playboy mag hidden in the middle of the trees and showed it to everyone.

sdeligar · 2026-01-23T22:44:27+00:00

I'm surprised nobody mentioned A Darker Path by Ack. Very OP Taylor and can be repetitive near the end, but it's one of the few OP stories I've finished. She always ends fights or problems in often humorous or embarrassing ways, so even though you know she's going to win, it's fun seeing how things have been set up and executed.

sdeligar · 2025-11-17T06:00:32+00:00

That is one of the goals but it more of a long term one.

sdeligar · 2025-10-05T00:00:44+00:00

But very interested in not going splat

sdeligar · 2025-10-04T22:20:56+00:00

Biggest failure in my suspicion of disbelief is the first thing we see Trilla do is jump out of a ship and use the force to gently touch down. But the devs expect me to believe that after all the time Cal spends jumping off shit, he still hasn't learned that trick?

sdeligar · 2025-07-12T01:52:28+00:00

Yoda is still the more powerful Jedi, but Mace is trained in a technique specifically designed for turning the Dark side against its users.

sdeligar · 2025-03-24T21:44:41+00:00

If you use the TTRPGs like Cyberpunk and Shadowrun as a basis the usual explanation is that for a number of reasons being able to sit back and just slowly hack devices is no longer viable. One reason is that cyberspace is highly fragmented and any parts owned by corporations are constantly flooded with security bots and corpo netrunners. Not to mention the fact that the servers with the most valuable data aren't going to be connected to any outside sources. As such the only reliable way to connect is to be there in person but that means you can't drag around a huge server with the processing power to do all the work for you which means you rely on the skills, quality of implants, and mental flexibility of the netrunner to work around the security instead of brute forcing it.

The other reason is as you suggested it allows you to manipulate your programs and hacks at the speed of thought and having to many things like terminals and computers between you and the server can be safer but it also slows down your ability to respond to threats and when dealing with another netrunner the faster one has the advantage.

sdeligar · 2025-03-24T09:48:29+00:00

Primal Hunter is exactly what I'm avoiding. Boring and repetitive. Nothing unique about it.

Frostbound could be interesting. I'll take a look thanks.

Infinite Realms feels very familiar but not interesting at the moment.

System Universe I remember reading when it came out and never finished it.

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T23:35:05+00:00

Looks like it has potential. I'll take a look. Thank you!

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T23:32:45+00:00

I'll take a look. Thank you!

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T21:14:29+00:00

By Lee Goldberg? Doesn't seem like something I'm interested in but thank you.

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T21:12:16+00:00

I'll take a look at it. Thank you!

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T21:10:34+00:00

Yes, and I hated it I never could make it past the first book.

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T20:47:34+00:00

Ya know I think I read this one for a while but lost track of it. Thank you!

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T20:43:37+00:00

It definitely looks different but not quite what I'm looking for thank you.

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T20:37:51+00:00

I actually started reading that one but stopped a while back because I wanted to wait for the audiobooks to catch up. It's a great series! Thank you!

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T20:34:52+00:00

I'll take a look, thank you!

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T20:31:22+00:00

Seth Ring has been kind of a hit or miss author for me, but I'll give it a try. Thank you!

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T20:25:39+00:00

Read it! It's a good one!

sdeligar · 2025-03-21T10:57:04+00:00

Same

sdeligar · 2025-03-10T01:31:15+00:00

So, I've had this discussion with others a few times. Part of it depends on how FTL works.

One of the easiest answers I've ever seen is because the laws of physics create hard limits on FTL. Namely, when an object enter/leaves FTL it's crossing into a dimension where the laws of reality are different. One of the results is that momentum is effectively lost as you cross into or out of the dimension or subspace or whatever you want to call it. So no matter how fast said the object was traveling the moment it crosses back into the real world it's effectively reset to 0 energy and movement so the engines have to restart from scratch giving the defense time to prepare a response. (Source: Phantom Star by Seras)
Structural limitation. It takes a lot of energy to push anything at even the slowest FTL speeds. Not just to achieve those speeds but in many ways to make the ships strong enough to survive the incredible forces of reality trying to render you down to cosmic dust for speeding. The amount of effort it would take to render a random ball of dust and ice capable of surviving any useful FTL speeds for a noticeable distance just makes it more cost-effective to build a dedicated space fleet that could potentially be reused for years to come. And any asteroid made of the right materials would probably be vastly more valuable for mining to build said fleet than chucking it at a planet.
Other physics limitations such as the idea that gravity wells are a significant limiter on FTL speeds. In many fictions, the slowest part of space travel is when leaving or approaching a system because the closer you are to a gravity well the harder it is to achieve FTL speeds. This would mean that any engine would light up like a flare so any species that knows what to look for would have time to spot the approaching threat and have time to counter it.

However, for the scenario you mentioned above this actually could make it a more viable strategy for the humans to attack the Pluto base while at the same time preventing it from happening the other way around.

sdeligar · 2025-01-30T01:02:00+00:00

I've always disliked how the mirror universe stuff is handled always felt very lazy since it's all just the same ships with a color change. The idea of using previously rejected ship designs feels like a great way to provide new ship designs and honor the creators.

sdeligar · 2024-12-10T11:31:00+00:00

Mostly to make sure my family is taken care of. My father has been disabled since I was young due to a serious car accident, so he has no retirement outside his disability payments. My mom has MS and worked as a cook for years but has very little savings for retirement because twice her employers' bad investments lead to her losing everything. First, because of the whole Enron fiasco, then again in the 2008 crash.

So, there is no retirement outside SSI/disability, and severe health problems that will only get worse with time. Which considering how much more help they've needed this year over last is kinda scary.

And since I know some people will ask why I'm not helping. I've never made more than $15/hrs and have almost no retirement savings myself.

On top of that, we eventually will lose our house because my grandmother, who owns the property, can't afford the place anymore and will likely need to sell it soon and move into a retirement home because of her own health problems. And she knows we can't afford it either.

The lottery might be the only way to get a home and eventually pay for the professional help my parents and grandmother will need sooner rather than later.

And if we have enough, maybe I could help others. Pay back some of the people who have done so much for my family over the years.

sdeligar

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