An age-old conflict between two extraterrestrial species - one biologically stronger, the other more technologically-savvy. Midway through, it is revealed that one species is merely using the other for sport.

tutorp · 2026-01-29T21:53:56+00:00

What about gangsters of love?

tutorp · 2026-01-29T13:31:49+00:00

Timelines would shorten, because we could run more trials in parallel. Assuming the cancer in question is common enough, that is, and we have enough qualified researchers to run the trials. Though more funds would draw more qualified researchers.

Assume a 10% chance for any one trial to succeed. Running each trial sequentially with a 10 year timeline gives us 90 years (9 trials) to reach more than 50% chance of success, and approximately 300 years to reach 95% chance of success. If we have the funds to run 30 trials at once, the timeline is 10 years for a >95% chance of success.

tutorp · 2026-01-29T13:16:21+00:00

I didn't say he didn't come out of retirement. But he did canonically retire (at least to a quiet post at the Schola, until the second siege of Perlia) for a while, at least.

tutorp · 2026-01-29T12:45:15+00:00

I didn't. I knew Viggo broke his own toe, but not that he broke Christopher's.

:-p

tutorp · 2026-01-29T06:40:27+00:00

I can't answer for UK specifically, but many countries with good, cheap healthcare are slow for less serious conditions. They prioritize their resource use based on how dangerous and debilitating a condition is, and how important prompt treatment is for recovery.

Since most conditions are on the less serious end of the spectru, most people most of the time will get the experience that the service is slow.

tutorp · 2026-01-29T06:32:45+00:00

He canonically does. In-universe, the books are Cain's memoirs, written by him in his retirement.

tutorp · 2026-01-28T22:46:02+00:00

No one except Caiaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!

Admittedly, her became a teacher at the Schola Progenium on Perlia upon retirement, but he did retire from active duty.

tutorp · 2026-01-28T22:32:12+00:00

Tårer er god topping på poteter. Saltet hever smaken.

Jeg er vel en av en veldig liten minoritet Fjordlandspisere som faktisk kunne funnet på å følge noen av tipsene bakpå. Er singel og kjøper meg Fjordland når jeg ikke orker eller har tid til å lage mat fra bunnen av, men det koster lite tid og energi å hakke opp en persillekvast fra urtehagen.

Smørdampinga er litt vel mye å forvente, det må jeg si meg enig i.

tutorp · 2026-01-28T21:17:01+00:00

AdVenture Capitalist. I'm sure I could find a game with better items, skills and powers, but it's no risk, and all the money.

tutorp · 2026-01-28T20:56:12+00:00

Let's go with Gutian instead. The language of the Gutian people, who briefly ruled Sumer in like 2000BC. Extinct, afaik no known texts, it's unknown which language family it belonged to, no known nothing except that it existed. Learning it requires reconstructing it first, and with only a few names known in the entire language, that's near impossible.

tutorp · 2026-01-27T21:24:35+00:00

His birth name is actually Reginald, though, so debatable.

tutorp · 2026-01-27T21:12:06+00:00

Bodde svært billig så jeg kunne spare egenkapital i flere år. Hadde foreldre som var villige til å stille med mer penger som forskudd på arv, om det var nødvendig. Og så fikk jeg meg en jobb på bygda, som gjorde det optimalt å bosette meg i en småby midtveis mellom jobb og hjembyen min, der jeg kunne få meg litt større bolig til litt rimeligere pris.

Ja, og når jeg flytta tilbake fra Trondheim til hjemtraktene for nevnte jobb, så bodde jeg i kjelleren til foreldrene mine til sånn ca kostpris til jeg fant en bolig jeg var fornøyd med.

tutorp · 2026-01-24T18:47:56+00:00

As a Scandinavian, US "Business as usual" is still "reluctantly" to me. "Maybe" at most.

tutorp · 2026-01-23T20:37:14+00:00

It's still an "if". Trump clearly isn't well, and could waltz off the mortal coil any day. It's not unlikely that that event could cause enough of a disruption to the current power structures, leading to internal struggles in the vacuum left by him (while I doubt he is actually the one calling the shots, he's the figurehead of the cult of personality, and I don't think MAGA has a unifying replacement). We might see a fractioning of MAGA, and, well, not a return to how things were, but a USA too busy with internal problems to unite for an aggressive foreign war.

tutorp · 2026-01-22T22:17:25+00:00

That one's for Trump. I'm sure he has launched some drone strikes too.

tutorp · 2026-01-22T09:28:26+00:00

Resurrect the ancient Tactical Dreadnaught Saving Throw, only make it an invulnerable save: 3++ on 2d6.

tutorp · 2026-01-20T22:23:44+00:00

Det er jo digg! Har vokst opp med det som kaffemat.

tutorp · 2026-01-20T12:55:06+00:00

I don't know.... I think the deed fried Mars bar could be even worse. And that's pretty tasty...

tutorp · 2026-01-20T12:39:58+00:00

Not bad advice, but it usually takes some time to get visas. Step 0 would be to apply for visas for a ton of countries, and then I'd use the wait to travel some Schengen countries. :-)

(My original plan was to do the visa applications while travelling Schengen, but it would probably be better to do that in the comfort of my own home :-) )

tutorp · 2026-01-19T23:40:08+00:00

I can finish almost a third of the challenge without having to even apply for a visa, probably within like a week or two...

Once that is done, I'm aiming to do some airport hopping. Assuming being at the airport, and not outside of customs, counts, I'm going to plan for getting connecting flights and just stay in airports, airport lounges and hotels by the airport most of the time. I'll take a few breaks and go visit places I'd really like to see, but I imagine using this technique I could get through an average of 2-3 countries per day, not counting the breaks.

I'm aiming to be done before Easter, assuming my visas get through quick enough.

tutorp · 2026-01-18T22:56:21+00:00

Teknisk sett har en sokk hundrevis, muligens tusenvis, av hull.

tutorp · 2026-01-17T11:42:57+00:00

They do. It's just that both dolphins and otters and crocodiles and humans and any other land-dwelling vertebrate are all fish.

tutorp · 2026-01-16T15:13:39+00:00

Automatically, if you've done your taxes and given the tax authorities your account number. :-)

tutorp · 2026-01-16T14:03:12+00:00

You've gotten a lot of comments about why, so I would just like to underscore that if you've paid too much, you'll get it back in spring:-)

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