Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Someone stop me before I buy 64,000 LEDs to install a Las Vegas Spherelet on my lawn.

One day I will stop responding to doomful predictions on social media with "Pathetic Earthlings - who will save you now?"

But it is not this day.

(And while I would hate to lose the readers, in my subgenre, one can consider "banned by the CCP" a sign that one's doing something right.)

On another note, my writing is seeing a lot of traffic from sogou.com recently, which seems to be a Chinese search engine?

Mistake me not, I'm happy to have the readers, but I do wonder if this is the first step towards being banned in China (again).

#eldraeverse

This and other stupid-ass memes brought to you by the sort of people who, in the comfort of their warm caves, composed speeches decrying those who considered insane and useless notions like cooking, hot baths, and turning rocks into easy-shape-better-than-rock-stuff "fire bros" who were dangerously arrogant and bent on destroying the caveman way of life in the name of fire for fire's sake.

"But I never thought that fire would cook _my_ meat!", cried Zog, regretting his membership in the Make-Fire-Cook-Antelope faction of the tribe (while on fire).

I am always a mite disturbed when people advocate the banning of fascist literature on the grounds that reading it will turn people into fascists, like some dreadful contagion.

Gentles all, have you _read_ any fascist literature?

It's badly-written puerile shit that couldn't convince anyone whose brain hasn't already been eaten.

Far from banning it, we should put it on a big shelf in libraries labeled "CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT THESE MORONS ACTUALLY THINK?" for people to point and laugh at.

trolling people by referring to roughly 2/3 of the globe as "unceded English land"

Everyone wants to dismantle capitalism, but no-one wants to mantle capitalism.

In, I hasten to add, a purely Elder-Scrolls-metaphysics sense.

I SHALL BECOME IT IN EVERY ASPECT.

AND IT, NECESSARILY, SHALL BECOME ME.

Among the many things I have learned in life is the vital importance of not confusing a tsunami with a tsundere.

Or vice versa.

@nyrath @Hcobb @isaackuo @MeiLin

(You can patch this with some notions like "every colony sends out n expeditions of its own then suddenly gets permabored with the whole idea of expansion", but like you say, it only takes one defector to blow up the whole thing.)

@nyrath @Hcobb @isaackuo @MeiLin

Applying the same principles to growth-obsessed societies/peoples suggest to me that GFGS civs are acutely vulnerable to breaking down into civil resource wars - and, if you're using relativistic transports, probably the kind of civil resource wars that leave nothing behind except the Cancer Emulation Is Not A Viable Strategy Memorial Stellar Graveyard of 3162.

@nyrath @Hcobb @isaackuo @MeiLin Actually, while I contemplate cancer analogies for growth-for-growth's sake, it occurs to me that there are obvious modes of failure that apply to tumors which also apply to GFGS civilizations.

Necrosis, in which logistic problems starve the center; and cancer-gets-cancer, in which attacking your neighbors to expand into their territory provides better returns than trying to expand into the now-distant margin of the tumor/sphere.

(Step two, for those not paying attention, is the part where you conclude consciously or subconsciously that your immense caring grants you an exemption to all the ethical rules standing between you and the full fascist fucknuggetry you just thought of.)