Cyrus Draegur

Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader. Friendly neighborhood shameless degenerate. Winged caniform synthetic biped techno-lich. Mostly Harmless™. Poly-Panro-Demi It/They/He

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  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzOxygen
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    1 day ago

    Sol 3 is a Class-14 Deathworld on what used to be a thirteen-point scale until they found it.

    Not only is the planet very geothermally volatile with active volcanic systems AND feature violent and chaotic weather systems…

    “Earth” is the deepest gravity well they’ve ever witnessed chemical rocketry successfully achieve orbit from.

    The biosphere is teeming with pathogens, so much so that the sapient population’s own bodies rely on symbiotic microbial colonies in order to digest nutrients among other tasks.

    And the macroscopic fauna are ALMOST as scary as the microscopic stuff: every biome packed with highly adapted predators.

    At the top of this complex carnal carnival of carnivory, the “humans” who live there are unstoppable pursuit and persistence predators highly naturally gifted in ranged combat that historically used to just WALK their prey to death. The animals which ancient humans consumed could sprint to temporary safety, but humans will catch up, ALWAYS catch up, and the prey will still be tired when they have to sprint again. Eventually the fatigue outpaces them, and humans catch up for the last time. Just walk right up and bash them with a rock, they might not even have to throw it: dinner is ready!

    Furthermore, it’s not just the highly volatile oxygen that all the animals there breathe… Sol 3’s atmosphere also even contains a constant background presence of radon. The biosphere is passively resistant to some levels of radiation. One of the cities was consumed in the fallout cloud of an exploding nuclear fission reactor(they STILL use water to cool their municipal fission reactors even now!), and although the humans fled, the animals that stayed there are FLOURISHING. Deformed and mutated, but thriving.

    NOBODY SANE CHOOSES TO GO TO SOL 3.






  • … on the one hand i was making a memetic reference to a batman comic that made the rounds on the internet a little while back,

    on the other hand, in order to troll properly it has to be something that actually gets under the skin of the intended audience and gets them REAL good and outraged, and abusing their religiosity is a deliciously tantalizing vector for ruining the day of a theocratic fuckwit. Just the filthiest bastardized blasphemy possible. They might even escalate to physical violence, as many religious zealots are wont, at which point putting them down with lethal force becomes entirely justified, since at that point they’re already murderously feral.

    so it has merit. But I can’t even imagine how i’d stomach wading into such an environment even just to document the fallout.








  • I was gonna pick 7 but holy shit I can sit next to SATAN? HELL YEAH #3 ALL THE WAY Maybe I can talk him into taking this whole plane straight to hell. I’ll end up going with it but my eternal suffering is worth sparing the earth the misery of these absolute scum. I might feel bad about Hulk Hogan though. Yeah he’s deranged and chose the wrong side, but I feel more like he’s lost and confused rather than as overtly malignant as the rest of these dipshits.

    edit: ok yeah if the hulkster burns too that’s actually good for the world.





  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldWe deserve better.
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    26 days ago

    Removing the other by choking it to death via atrophy of no longer being able to win is how you get the remaining party to split along conservative/progressive lines. The resulting progressive faction will be more willing to do ranked choice. If we allow the Republican party to continue to exist - or worse, win - it will remove democracy as a whole and then you’ll get the opposite of ranked choice.

    It’s not about supporting the lesser of two evils. Period.

    It’s about punishing the greatest evil through every means available until it FUCKING DIES.