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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe you could abuse the EURion constellation somehow?

BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ehrm, sorry to interrupt here, but ehrm... Doesn't mr. Putin have some problems with refineries having been exploded by Ukrainian drones?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I should map out the rest of the world at some point! It's on the to-do list. I'll get to it eventually.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, for the Polti, most of their planet is unexplored. They live on a small archipelago, where they know all but the largest island (Shensha, where the Choud live). The rest of the world? They're completely unaware. This is an advantage of setting your world in the stone age.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Winston Churchill, famously not a conservative???

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I guess these people prefer Sparta over Athens.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Among the Polti, the test of manhood is to hunt and kill a Dedekurr without help from others. A Dedekurr is a flightless bird. Think less Dodo, think more Ostrich. This isn't easy! Many Polti boys fail, even after multiple tries. It's not unusual for boys to never succeed, and remain boy forever.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well, not so fast. Who decides who gets to vote for the speaker-elect? This is an interesting chicken-and-egg problem that has occurred once before, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_S...

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Broad Seal War - Wikipedia

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why does this look like former communist bloc propaganda?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hold on, didn't the lab accident involve pneumonic plague instead of bubonic plague?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Older spellings as far back as the tenth century, with this empress: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophanu

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Theophanu - Wikipedia

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I suppose Tell Aviv has gotten so full with US military planes that they had to move these back to the US.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Given that Tiffany as a first name was essentially unused pre Breakfast at Tiffany's, I suppose you can exclude the number being reused as a consequence of an old lady dying.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something like eleventeen? i.redd.it/4661pdeo360b...

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Given how quartz is a mineral with such a diversity of ways it looks, perhaps a mini-cup to figure out which quartz is the best?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For me: factory default after not picking an option, mostly ignored it afterwards.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Isn't the whole point of this guy that he loves to be on screen? Have they not considered that that may become an issue?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I suspect that'll move Vance's chance of winning in 2028 from slim to none.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

With only the gods being able to use magic, it doesn't play a role in warfare. If some god(dess) were to incarnate, and use magic in warfare, they'd pretty much revealing themselves as deity. The battle/skirmish would promptly end, as nobody would want to be seen as fighting the gods.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow! For comparison: the nearest pump to me charges €2.40/L, which, after unit and currency conversion, works out to $10.20/gal.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is that high or low for the US? To me it seems very low, but then again, I'm from Europe.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The thing that surprises me is that these people decided to stay on this site. If you're so opposed to the people in charge, why not leave? We all did that when Musk took over Twitter.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Both of them are lying, at least one of them is also wrong.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This could have been prevented by withdrawing all diplomatic personnel from Iran. Why do we European countries still have open Embassies there?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Or maybe it's a misspelling of Sapphonification?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To gently point out to the maker of the graph: for someone like me, with colourblindness, the lines of Mexico and Canada are indistinguishable, which is made worse because they overlap a while.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was a really easy choice. Now, if this would have been Quartz vs Halite, I would have had a very hard time choosing!

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, Morgoth technically is a member of the Valar...

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But did he also make an genAI image of the deputy getting shot at?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh, yes! They have a noticeable lack of refining capacity. And the only major import route that's not blocked somehow is with Russia across the Caspian. Importing through there isn't really an option, due to Ukrainian drone-strikes.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aren't goats supposed to have noses?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The groups of Choud that take canoes to Tesham tend to have been mostly defeated by other Choud, it's often a desperation move. So you end up with a small group of weakened Choud against a large group of unified Polti men.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Between the Polti and the Choud, the weaponry isn't all that different: mostly stone-age spears. There are some differences, though. Due to their constant warfare, the Choud are better trained but also more likely to have medical issues due to earlier fights.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Polti have not developed weapons due to a specific threat, but have have gotten to a weapon for other purposes: the spear (wooden shaft, flint point). These are used mainly for spearfishing, but also hunting Dedekurrr, and also also defending against the Choud, unfortunately.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think you may have made a slight error here: the 10 is for the number of Johns having received a physics price, while the number of physics prices to a John is 11, due to John Bardeen getting the price twice.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the latest ice age all these islands formed one landmass, thus it is generally presumed that all the people living there have a common ancestral population. The reasons for this great cultural divergence are one of the unsolved mysteries of Neminnar.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Choud, who live on nearby Shensha, are very warlike. The whole island has been in a state of near-constant warfare amongst the various tribes since time immemorial.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Polti, who live on Tesham and the smaller islands of Neminnar, are a very peaceful people. They do never fight each other, nor do they fight the Selli, who live in the inlands of Tesham. The Polti only fight when attacked by a Choud raiding or settlement party.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The edit button will be added the day after you make your last typo.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How does that match with regular expenses, like rent, mortgage, utilities, insurances? Are those also (bi)weekly? Or does it end up as a mess where the timing of your income and expenses mismatches?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Huh. Are weekly/biweekly/four-weekly payments still common in the US? (Here in NL it's technically still possible, but pretty much everyone has switched to monthly.)

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is this game intended for two players, or for any natural number larger than one players?

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But those last two are very rare, now that the Dedekurrr has mostly been hunted to extinction on the more inhabited outside of Tesham, and Choud incursions are generally quickly dealt with. So I'd rate travel as pretty safe. Vagabonds, peddlers, and bandits? These just don't exist.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The main hazards when travelling on Tesham are getting lost, and sudden bad weather. Rare hazards are accidentally aggravating a Dedekurrr (best climb a tree, they can easily outrun you), or running into a Choud raiding party (hide, and when found accept your fate as a slave).

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Threatening Turkey. Interesting move.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, be at peace with Ukraine. I suppose they'll just end up being at war with themselves.

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BlueishMage @blueishmage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's not unheard of, John Quincy Adams did it!

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