“AI Dumb, always,” aside, that sounds more like how I’d ask humans to start this project
* Find the list of cities & geocodes,
* filter by population,
* plot to map,
* zoom to region.
If I asked an enthusiastic drunk—my comparison for AI—I’d only expect slightly better output than the original.

“AI, threat or menace?”—tired
Actively lying on awards submission paperwork—inspired

The “New” Battlestar was closer to the Berlin Wall than to now, *and* he’s dim.

Gotta pump up those numbers!
One source is plagiarism, *three* is research 🤓

> Shovelling a box of black plastic take-out containers into the bonfire, pretending they’re actually the DVDs stashed in the trunk of the car

“Wellp, our job here is done.”

Right? I think this thread has some serious nostalgia blinders on. It’s terrible, yes - but also shit like this was 1990’s bedroom wallpaper.

Thanks! Looking forward to it!

Did you bike my zine to the post office?👀

Oh this is the weird algo-rhythm synching up, I was just looking at VOID1680 today and flipped through the random caller spark table addon. I’m a big fan of Long Time Listener Last Time Caller (group game), and being able to play a Night Vale emulator solo really piques me!

“Terrible player facing first thing” has always been canon

Giv’r hell.

There’s a lot of map space & some intricacy. Mostly abstract nature of “win over hearts & minds, occasionally by force”, and considering what 3 other factions may do leaves a wide open decision-space. committing to an idea without getting paralyzed is important for flow, but it can move quickly!

It follows the COIN series format, so each faction has unique goal & action sets; common comparison is “Root is a COIN-lite,” if that helps. each turn a card is flipped, first faction can choose the card or action, which limits what 2nd faction can pick.

I love it when a plan comes together

The Strange, if you do that overlapping playbook thing and say “it’s isekai,” I guess

I also love the factions in this game. There’s Mars Government & The Corporations, mostly aligned but jockeying stability vs profiteering.
Red Dust just want “Mars For The Martians,” very Che.
Church of the Reclaimer are weird; playing by different rules. Very Fremen, “degrowth & adapt, or die.”

Oh that sleeved Ship Mind is nice

It’s my understanding that Ronaldo was sent off for an elbow, not war crimes.

Wild but not implausible strat if that’s how it works. Given one side is completely willing to throw out the assumptions of ‘gentlemanly’ conduct assumed when things like the NWC were penned, it’d be fair play.