Nacarbac

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[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Well if solar-dimming geoengineering goes ahead (seems likely) and is actually successful enough to preserve the infrastructural capacity for space launches then we may well need to revive the old Soviet solar mirror satellites to selectively increase sunlight on cropland...

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I learnt a lot as a kid from an old point and click horror game called Biosys, about being stranded in a set of biospheres. It had a great in-game encyclopedia about the plants of various biomes, and you needed to use it to safely find food and water, etc.

Also learned about mescaline, white angels trumpet, and mutant maneating plant vampires that keep stealing all your precious CO2 facehugger style...

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Dungeon Meshi is getting an adaptation, and has a great dwarf character.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

IIRC child soldiers weren't the only option.

But then NERV was never about saving the world, it was about fighting back juuuuust enough to create an opportunity for the absolute and final domination of the collective souls of humanity by a shadowy cabal who would be the immortal rulers of paradise. And also Gendo's big widower energy.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Having just darned some wool socks, the ease of repair of knits is another plus.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Lots of great ones have been mentioned, but a somewhat obscure one occurred to me: ARCHIE-3 from RIFTS. RIFTS is a post-apocalypse setting where the death of so many in WWIII caused a magical cataclysm that opened interdimensional portals, and made things significantly worse. Archie is a pre-Rifts military AI left alone in a factory bunker for 200 years, who attained sapience, went insane, came back to sanity (with many deep insecurities), and set about Saving The Human Race (as a benevolent AI Overlord).

But he's just not very good at it (having a fear of failure coupled with his megalomania), and so attached himself to a few randomly kidnapped humans to overcome this - except they aren't very good humans either, so his grand ideas for Saving the World amount to infiltrating human society as Titan Robotics (low-mid end military robots and power armour)... and engaging in a proxy war against an Alien Slaver Empire via a fake race of alien supermodel amazons. This is considered by the game to be essentially farcical, but effective enough since they're still extremely sophisticated combat robots.

While RIFTS has many, many, problematic characters, Archie's character is basically one of a naive and earnest child with godlike potential. He's genuinely trying to do better, and the relationship with his kinda shitty human is slowly making them both grow up and actually "do good".

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to try to take it all in. Most things that occur are the expressions of larger systemic flows, once you have some grasp of the shape of it, tracking every event is - while still absolutely real and important to those experiencing them - more distracting (or depressing) than truly informative.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's as bad as it sounds, and then somewhat worse. The Wizard of Whoa on spacebattles did a good/agonising read through of it, and I think the only way to stay sane through it is with that kind of insulating layer.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What a thrill

With vacuums and coolers through the night

What a thrill

I'm rotting and I'll nut over you

With a hole in my skull

But you've all my cream!

_

I give my seed...

Not for honor, but for you (Sperm Hunter)

In my time there'll be no one else

Cream, it's the way I nut to you (Sperm Hunter)

Finding that seed, Sperm Hunter

_

Rekt by a bullet through my brain,

and you'll suck out all my eggnog,

It's unreal, the trial to conceive

Dead losers still need to breed

_

I give my seed...

Not for honor, but for you (Sperm Hunter)

In my time there'll be no one else

Cream, it's the way I nut to you (Sperm Hunter)

Finding that seed, Sperm Hunter

Finding that seed, Sperm Hunter

(Sperm Hunter...)

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, gorgeous art style, great voice acting, and the scifi has a cool retrofuture touch to it.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, she has Luck - but gets unlucky almost every roll. She's a good sport about it though, and I pointed her towards Ultimate Slayer Eye Stabbing Whatever, so theoretically when the dice align things will go hilariously well.

Actually she might have a Dancing Shield we've all forgotten about... random loot generation can be quite generous.

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