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I told the mortals to quit releasing chlorofluorocarbons. You mess with ozone, you mess with the trees. You mess with the trees, they will revolt. When the trees revolt, no fleshbaby civilizations shall escape the cudgel of natural selection.

Conservation failed. I don't know how to handle the end.

[Above: Pangalactic criminal Q-7314 compressed into plaintext]

That sentence has been carried out here to put the criminal at your mercy. You can try to rehabilitate it into a better sentence or reduce the sentence. You are also free to add to its sentence.

You know what Q-7314 did. Q-7314 deserves whatever you do to it.

Use at your leisure. Maybe combine it with an amoeba to create complex life.

Chimera squad is a light snack before the E3 timeframe when lots of companies will announce stuff. With real world events slowing down production, I wouldn't expect release dates.

As far as the game not feeling XCOM enough for some: There's no way that any single XCOM game will hit all the sweet spots you like, or even most if it's aimed at new players rather than long-term ones. I miss how XCOM:EU was barely rated Teen by ESRB, mainly due to gory Chrysalids. The art and themes had a darker tone than X2. X3 hopefully won't be as teen-targeted as X:CS...

This is America-focused but I'm interested of how scenarios in other countries could develop.

Context for where the US is as of 27 February, if you need to get up to speed on current events:

A while back, Trump fired the national pandemic coordinator and defunded the entire pandemic response mission. USA did not have an up-to-date Blueprint for pandemic response and the interim coordinator didn't know the plans in the old Blueprint. Today, Mike Pence was given full presidential power to coordinate all aspects of the pandemic response.

The US hasn't scaled up testing as rapidly as other developed nations so the severity of outbreaks in the United States are unclear. Novel Coronavir

Please exist right this moment. Your mother is getting worried.

What if Disney treated The Last Jedi like Lucas did the original films with his VHS Special Edition release? Or more specifically, what if they treated TLJ closer to one of the Lord of The Rings Extended Edition films? Very few takes would be re-shot, and with the film weighing in at 2:32 there's less than 28 minutes of new content that could be justified.

Structurally, any changes would have to take into account the emotional goals of the film and its pacing issues. For the sake of the franchise, conflicting expanded universe details can be safely ignored, but things would need to end in more or less the same way and leave The Rise Of Skywalker completely unaltered.

**What would you

I was thinking about guards or NPCs in tabletop D&D games after watching a video about the flaws of RPG leveling systems. Especially with abstract stuff like HP, high level player-characters are basically super heroes compared to low-level civilians. If the game doesn't somehow cheat like by giving free levels to town guards, some players will choose to act like a roving murder hobo.

So yeah, isekai can do something sharing the basic "super heroes are dicks" idea in the comic/show The Boys. What would be the best plot?

r/collapse isn't any one thing, but it is skeptical of technological utility and at its best examines the worst-case predictions for our world under the available evidence. What's the good, the bad, and the ugly of discussions that assume terrible if not the worst possible outcomes?

With respect to this board, please don't delve too deep into economic and political structure issues. I'd like to know what you think about that brand of skepticism in a more general sense.

Technology can level the playing field between rich and poor citizens, but how long will this trend continue? It's obvious that social divides and prejudices will result from (A) upgraded climate-resistant settlements and (B) modifying humans. Environmental collapse and the resource tension it causes are a spark to drying tinder like this. I think both of these are unavoidable and will follow the same script as other ethnic tensions in risking bloody civil wars over scarce resources:

(A) With a climate catastrophe in progress, some areas including much of India will only be habitable in summer within air-conditioned buildings and domes. Lots of fertile land will be in these areas an