Specifically it was stalagmite crystals and unipolar magnets. Those were probably in different systems but both were pretty heavily guarded. My home system was pretty much dry of basic materials, I think I had a handful of mines still going on one of the planets. But I couldn’t produce graviton lenses fast enough to keep up with the demand for raw materials.
I have a universe with the dark fog swarms turned on, and I’m at the point where to get to the most critical rare materials I need to eliminate them from around the stars they’re orbiting. I’m bottlenecked in producing the fleet to help me take them out because I don’t have any of the stuff on that planet. I got them 99% eliminated before I had to retreat but by the time I got back they were mostly rebuilt but I was still a ways off from fully resupplied.
So I gave up and went back to a peaceful universe. I found a planet tidally locked to its star and got to the point where I was literally just waiting while swarms and swarms of Dyson structure components launched. Like I literally left it running and watched a movie more than once.
So I stopped playing and am really in to planet crafter now but I’m getting towards the end of that. …I think. Honestly I thought I was towards the end more than once already.
I always turn the enemies off. I just want to automate. But the tech tree existing for weapons and being useless really bugged me so I got really in to Dyson Sphere program. But enemies have been added there too.
A guy I used to know, around 2016 started a weird descent in to conservative politics. It was understandable at the time, Clinton was genuinely an unlikable candidate and he was a morally dubious guy. So it at least made sense at the time. By 2017 he seemed to regret it and we all moved on.
Then in 2020, holy shit. It took literally nothing to bait him in to a political diatribe half a notch up from gibberish. He had invented so many straw men to argue with that the second you mentioned anything even conceivably political, he’d launch in to a bizarre assault on the left.
Thing is, he’d accuse me and others of loving Joe Biden even though x, y, z whatever nonsense he wanted to argue about. He’d even make up quotes. Things I’d supposedly said about Biden that proved I really liked the guy.
I’m so far to the left that Marx might think I go too far. I don’t, and never have, liked Joe Biden. Joe Biden handed Clarence Thomas a seat on the supreme Court and openly defended him against his sexual assault allegations. He went to bat for that guy in a way that really makes no fucking sense, politically or personally, unless Joe Biden had done it too.
I can’t name a Democrat I actually like.
So every time I see comments like this, I’m reminded that conservatives just have a forest of straw men they’re arguing with, and any opportunity the bullshit that lives inside their head can find to spill out in to the real world they’ll take. Regardless of how idiotic it makes them sound.
What about the indigenous people there?
“So much wilderness.”
That somebody else, already there: am I a joke to you?!
Just another measles outbreak to add to Kennedy’s resumé nothing to see here
The thing is, even the IgNobel prizes are for actual contribution. Trump doesn’t even deserve THAT.
Why am I seeing so many comments with the word removed? Is there some filter in this instance tagging very specific words?
They’re usually lumped together in a section on the bill but broken out by fee.
Having taken the calls from people wanting information on the fees, I’m sure the only reason they do tell you what they all are is to cut back on the swarm of angry callers wanting to know why their bill is so high.
ISPs are doing the opposite.
They advertise a price and stack an assload of fees on top. A few of those fees are out of their control, but the majority are fees they themselves are charging.
69.99 a month for 100 Mbps suddenly becomes 170 dollars after taxes and fees.
If you happen to live in an area where Google fiber threatens to compete, suddenly a plan appears where those fees magically disappear, and you get a decent rate for gigabit Internet.
I will fight you on that.
The US was subjected to opioids the exact same way the Chinese were.
Powerful capitalists fucking throwing it at people to get them addicted.
OH NO YOU DIDN’T.
[Jawa noises]
I learned after a few months of game pass that most of the games that looked interesting actually weren’t. It’s no big loss, and it’s cheaper to just buy the few games I actually want anymore. Doubly true now.
So give the Republicans the government they actually want?
Public companies have a hard wired compulsion to increase value for shareholders. Every single decision is made with profit in mind. In the best cases you get milquetoast, inoffensive material everyone can enjoy. Ultimately, this leads to a relentless and aggressive pursuit of endless growth at any cost.
Private companies can take a loss here and there, they don’t have to report a bad quarter and so they can plan ahead. Which allows them to do two, non explains things. That approach allows them to build a robust and loyal consumer base which is quite valuable. So they’ll sell it off again and let the public companies milk them dry. They can also get up to some horrendously evil shit behind closed doors in a foreign country where the laws only apply to people who aren’t the ruling family and never have to answer for it. Though that kind of thing is usually reserved for like, chemical manufacturers and labor intensive luxury food markets. It may be that the Saudis are just diversifying and want a propaganda mouthpiece. Or one of the royals REALLY likes FIFA.
Hard to say.
“remember in 2001 when we sent you on a pointless crusade against a nebulous idea? We’re doing that again but harder.”
I don’t even know how you’d deprogram just that one guy. They get to a point where thinking critically about the crazy bullshit they’re screaming about just isn’t possible anymore