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• Commented on Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check
  That's making a lot of assumptions about how easy it is to build AIs, especially stable ones. It might be easier to cart or create orthowombs at the other end then to build the suitable chip foundries....
• Commented on Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
  Considering that the Necrons are very good at monkeying with Dimensional stuff that doesn't include the Immaterium (they use pocket universes as sniping nests, FFS), they could really mangle ol Big C's hand if he stuck it in and they...
• Commented on Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
  They can mass-scatter planets with the higher grade Exterminatus systems - the two stage Cyclonics and similar, which are the tool of choice for handling things like Necron Tomb Worlds, but they prefer not to. Come to think of it,...
• Commented on Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
  Look up the Storm of the Emperor's Wrath sometime. He may be uncommunicative, but even in his current state he can say no to anything especially pissing him off. 11: Not to mention, there's other players that could handle him...
• Commented on Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
  If he gets too much of a problem, they can waste a Vortex weapon on him, and let the him and the Chaos Gods have their pleasure of him. Great old ones are nothing terribly to write home about in...
• Commented on Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
  GEoM; easily. He handled the frigging void dragon, and whole C'tan are what Great Old Ones have nightmares about at night....
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  Exactly; if these are just con artists trying for an easy mark, we'd probably scare them off easily by going full Sentinelese on them. I'd not shoot the ambassador; I'd introduce it to a certain german friend of mine -...
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  Or more likely we just drive each other loony tunes and try and gouge out our brain with sporks....
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  Yeah, and considering how fast bullshit can spread, I ain't willing to speed up the connection; slower idea propagation by the groupmind version of sneakernet can serve as a useful bullshite retardent; it gives time for folks to think about...
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  That implies our theories on causality are accurate....
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  Considering that the Sentinelese can make us fuck off with bows and arrows......
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  Groupminds take groupthink up to entirely new levels; it's bad enough as it is with the current low bandwidth connections. And frankly, given how easy it is to learn online about othered groups and how folks still are shites... I...
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  Yes to both, but more a dysphoria inducing hatebomb than rule 34 Considering that, as you mentioned, the GIFT has been conclusively disproven, yeah I ain't got no reason to believe that total transparency wouldn't stop the shitbeards - fuck,...
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  Looks more and more like an obvious scam the further it goes....
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  Yeah, that smells like a prelude to some kind of sabotage to me - smells like a ol' fish. Deffo tell the shites to go shove it....
• Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
  Tell the wankers to gtfo. I've had enough internet time to know that I don't want the collective id of Humanity to have access to my mind that I can't throttle. Also, I've read enough SF to be extremely wary...
• Commented on Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
  That story is an avatar of every single thing that is bloody disgusting about modern fandom, from the kind of pathetic, incurious consumerism that would think turning the universe into fucking computronium so they can vanish up their fucking ass...
• Commented on Defining space opera
  As they say on 4chan: Enjoy your cancer....
• Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
  You can use them for running wire, and they're pleasant pets....
• Commented on Holding pattern (part N ...)
  It's called not being an edgy little twerp....
• Commented on Holding pattern (part N ...)
  Nothing makes quite so glad about transhumanists being overly optimistic children with little idea about the realities of the tech they so hope for than reading their ideas of Utopia and the future. The ability to edit desires such as...
• Commented on Fantasy shibboleths
  For some reason, that brings to mind a fantasy setting with early guns, with Elves fielding lots of rifled-arm toting bushwhackers....
• Commented on Fantasy shibboleths
  BEoON is the worst kind of popsci antropology and it's frankly criminal how that kind of whig-history bullshite gets guzzled down unthinkingly these days....
• Commented on Science-fictional shibboleths
  Gulps Loudly...
• Commented on Science-fictional shibboleths
  Just how plausible is a 2020 crop failure anyway?...
• Commented on Science-fictional shibboleths
  Personally, I don't use it that much in my stories. In my current idea (slightly divergent timeline from our own, about... 70s or so change), it petered out about 5% ahead of how it is now....
• Commented on Science-fictional shibboleths
  Don't count your chickens before they hatch. Either on power, or what can be achieved with it....
• Commented on Science-fictional shibboleths
  Rolls eyes The current technical progression today, even once you filter out the distorting effect that perception of compsci has on it. Is quite freakishly fast. There is literally no reason to believe that it cannot fall back to the...
• Commented on Science-fictional shibboleths
  Also, waste heat. Can't forget that....
• Commented on Science-fictional shibboleths
  You understand my issues with nanowank entirely....