valergain 🌹
@valergain.bsky.social
Definitely an Elf IRL| Marxist | RPG and GSG enthusiast| (he/him). Profile picture by @iara-art.bsky.social
One thing I always really loved about Traveller was it didn't have near instant FTL radio, and introduced a lot of logistical friction. All of a sudden it makes sense why smaller powers can challenge the big empire, and the big empire being too big to govern.
February 18, 2026 at 10:43 PM
One thing I always really loved about Traveller was it didn't have near instant FTL radio, and introduced a lot of logistical friction. All of a sudden it makes sense why smaller powers can challenge the big empire, and the big empire being too big to govern.
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society: what happened to all the hard drives?
sam altman with a suspiciously hard drive shaped stomach:
sam altman with a suspiciously hard drive shaped stomach:
February 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM
society: what happened to all the hard drives?
sam altman with a suspiciously hard drive shaped stomach:
sam altman with a suspiciously hard drive shaped stomach:
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The idea that to be a good citizen required curiosity about the world was a positive force. Now we just have ignoramuses crowing about "Western civilization" while knowing nothing and wanting to know even less.
February 18, 2026 at 3:34 PM
The idea that to be a good citizen required curiosity about the world was a positive force. Now we just have ignoramuses crowing about "Western civilization" while knowing nothing and wanting to know even less.
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The Rent Is Too Damn High Guy, the Leave Britney Alone fellow, every streaker at a bowl game 20 minutes after an Air Force flyover. We had our prophets and we laughed at them.
February 18, 2026 at 1:49 AM
The Rent Is Too Damn High Guy, the Leave Britney Alone fellow, every streaker at a bowl game 20 minutes after an Air Force flyover. We had our prophets and we laughed at them.
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Finally made my persona/self-insert character! Meet Spindle <3 (an elfling)
February 17, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Finally made my persona/self-insert character! Meet Spindle <3 (an elfling)
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i was never fully on board with the whole "butlerian jihad the computer must die" bit and i'm starting to feel vindicated in a monkeys paw sort of way
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 17, 2026 at 4:26 AM
i was never fully on board with the whole "butlerian jihad the computer must die" bit and i'm starting to feel vindicated in a monkeys paw sort of way
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im not a linux evangelist but people post on here weekly like "i miss when computers were more like the early 2000s and had basic software and i didn't have to pay attention to all the flashiness and complexity and updates" girl what you desire is running stable debian on a spare thinkpad
the replies to this are draining my life force man nobody knows the thing im talking about already exists no wonder you all conflate "the computer" and whatever big tech is doing as the same thing. i'm talking about FOSS. you don't have to use the tech bro evil computer software*
its capitalism that's corrupting the computer, making it into something twisted and perverse. there is a better way
February 17, 2026 at 5:41 AM
im not a linux evangelist but people post on here weekly like "i miss when computers were more like the early 2000s and had basic software and i didn't have to pay attention to all the flashiness and complexity and updates" girl what you desire is running stable debian on a spare thinkpad
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we still talk about you
February 17, 2026 at 1:12 AM
we still talk about you
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napoleon dunking on england even from the grave
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
February 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
napoleon dunking on england even from the grave
some predecessor let literally the most famous wizard in the realms stay at your inn for free ONCE and now every would be savoir thinks they can get free lodging. Typical really
February 16, 2026 at 6:00 AM
some predecessor let literally the most famous wizard in the realms stay at your inn for free ONCE and now every would be savoir thinks they can get free lodging. Typical really
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Is there any precedent for powerful people claiming that a nonsentient process has a personality behind it that only they and their fellow experts can understand and speak for and it knows everything and can do anything and wants to help and also it will destroy us if we dont give it what it wants
January 2, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Is there any precedent for powerful people claiming that a nonsentient process has a personality behind it that only they and their fellow experts can understand and speak for and it knows everything and can do anything and wants to help and also it will destroy us if we dont give it what it wants
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MEASUREHEAD - PINKNESS IS A RACIAL QUALITY THAT HAS TO BE EARNED THROUGH CENTURIES OF ADVANCED BALLISTIC WARFARE AND CULTURAL DOMINATION THAT THE GRAAD PEOPLE HAVE UNDERGONE FOR DRINKING AL GUL AND SMOKING THE DEGENERATE *TABAC* HERB... AND FOR EATING *POTATO*.
February 15, 2026 at 8:51 PM
MEASUREHEAD - PINKNESS IS A RACIAL QUALITY THAT HAS TO BE EARNED THROUGH CENTURIES OF ADVANCED BALLISTIC WARFARE AND CULTURAL DOMINATION THAT THE GRAAD PEOPLE HAVE UNDERGONE FOR DRINKING AL GUL AND SMOKING THE DEGENERATE *TABAC* HERB... AND FOR EATING *POTATO*.
You know I got Rum, Cola and watching Babylon 5 it's not a bad night at all if you think about it.
February 15, 2026 at 6:25 AM
You know I got Rum, Cola and watching Babylon 5 it's not a bad night at all if you think about it.
Just me and the statue of the wife naked
February 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Just me and the statue of the wife naked
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This is probably ok
February 14, 2026 at 9:31 PM
This is probably ok
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Being brought into the principal’s office and being shown that a bunch of 38 year olds on a website you’ve never been on approve of you punching a kid.
February 14, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Being brought into the principal’s office and being shown that a bunch of 38 year olds on a website you’ve never been on approve of you punching a kid.
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I don't want to own Dragon Age: Origins truck. Dragon Age: Origins truck should roam free across Central Europe.
But I want to see Dragon Age: Origins truck. To experience it. To know such beauty still exists in our world, crafted by hands not so different than mine, to know it is able to endure.
But I want to see Dragon Age: Origins truck. To experience it. To know such beauty still exists in our world, crafted by hands not so different than mine, to know it is able to endure.
February 13, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I don't want to own Dragon Age: Origins truck. Dragon Age: Origins truck should roam free across Central Europe.
But I want to see Dragon Age: Origins truck. To experience it. To know such beauty still exists in our world, crafted by hands not so different than mine, to know it is able to endure.
But I want to see Dragon Age: Origins truck. To experience it. To know such beauty still exists in our world, crafted by hands not so different than mine, to know it is able to endure.
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Diablo IV PC cooled with real human blood is still going strong two years later, says guy who won it
aftermath.site/diablo-iv-bl...
aftermath.site/diablo-iv-bl...
February 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Diablo IV PC cooled with real human blood is still going strong two years later, says guy who won it
aftermath.site/diablo-iv-bl...
aftermath.site/diablo-iv-bl...
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some people are stubbornly holding on to their beliefs and saying “that’s not how I remember it.” that’s okay because there is an easy explanation: you are wrong. I hope this helps you on your journey through life.
actually you don't need to remember the initial reviews because matty posted a bunch of them in the video. there were also more negative/hostile professional reviews, believe me (or don't, i guess).
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
some people are stubbornly holding on to their beliefs and saying “that’s not how I remember it.” that’s okay because there is an easy explanation: you are wrong. I hope this helps you on your journey through life.
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🚨Incredibly important information!
February 13, 2026 at 4:24 PM
🚨Incredibly important information!
In the 400s Europe entered a period known as the long night, which ended 1000 years later with the Renaissance.
Speculative fiction, loves having periods of civilizational collapse called the Long Night.
February 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM
In the 400s Europe entered a period known as the long night, which ended 1000 years later with the Renaissance.
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me when i go to the gym to work out and eat a sleeve of cookies an hour later
February 12, 2026 at 7:27 PM
me when i go to the gym to work out and eat a sleeve of cookies an hour later
Speculative fiction, loves having periods of civilizational collapse called the Long Night.
February 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Speculative fiction, loves having periods of civilizational collapse called the Long Night.
Missed this the first time around.
February 12, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Missed this the first time around.