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The Council of Brain Bugs has decided that it is necessary to cripple the modern United States as a political entity for 10 years. To reduce the US to a state where it could not practically support a major foreign intervention for roughly 10 years. However, this operation is not a high priority...

Adventurer Conqueror King is a pen and paper RPG published in 2012 that I recently became aware of since the author is doing a promotional tour for ACKs II, his new addition coming out soon. I was drawn in by its focus on simulation, and high level play. As designed, the game assumes one starts...

My complaining about Starfield's various issues was morphing into an idea for a totally different Space advanture game, so I figured it would make sense to move such musing to a separate thread, since it increasingly has very little to do with Starfield itself. Preliminary Game map: First...

I discovered that the Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader Rule book from 1987 is available for free online, and figured this is something worth sharing with people. https://archive.org/details/warhammer-40000-rogue-trader-1987-1e-rulebook-gaw00151/page/n1/mode/2up Besides an interesting find, it...

Every now and again, I feel the desire to work on a Leman Russ design. When messing with drawing diagrams, I came to the (obvious) realization that everyone comes to looking at the actual models, that there's barely enough space there for the gun and the one crewman shown, let alone more...

40k is a common topic of discussion in what ifs and vs. A lot of arguments however come down to questions of what equipment can actually do. Thus, this thread, with a goal of discussing "reasonable" stats for 40K equipment, to hopefully in the end act as forum headcannon for future discussion...

Was recommended this article over twitter, seemed a good food for thought. https://www.elidourado.com/p/heretical-thoughts-on-ai In summary, the main thrust is that 1) We have not seen big productivity improvements from computers, and we might not see much from AI either. He then thinks...

What sized 40k force would you say would have a 50/50 chance of winning against an American Armored Brigade? A Armored Brigade Combat team has roughly 5,000 men, with 87 Abrams, 152 Bradley IFVs, 18 M109s and 45 armed M113, and roughly a 1,000 infantry. Engagement is roughly a meeting...

As part of my Dunbar's State project, I realized I needed a theory of Property. A human scale society needs some idea of what someone can reasonably own, why, and what practical forms that ownership can take. The initial reason I realized I needed such a theory was for colonization purposes...

Constitution Of Dunbar Purpose of Project My goal is to lay out and explore the constitution and functioning of a Global State set up to run on human scales. This is the source of the title Dunbar, in reference to Dunbar's number. I will lay out some principles and goals guiding this project...

Sargon Came out with a video, where he goes through the left gleefully talking about replacement, where he then goes on to lay out that diversification is intrinsically connected to replacement.

I've been thinking on this. Its obviously on a first step anti Libertarian, but and as any policy implemented, can be implemented badly, but I've been thinking about the principles behind it and its justifiability. The basic idea is a Wealth Cap at a fairly high level, for both corporations and...

Video of a lecture by John J. Mearsheimer to Yale University in 2017. The title is pretty self explanatory of the topic. I debated here or War Room, and decided this was probably more of Philosophical lecture than a military lecture, as much as it relates to current events. I found out about...

An interesting blog post from the blog "The Scholar's Stage" which has a ring of truth to me, but I haven't thought about it all that much yet. https://scholars-stage.org/thoughts-on-post-liberalism-i/ Certainly not a wholly unique idea, the difficulty that the loss of the frontier may play...

History doesn't repeat, but it does sometimes seem to rhyme. I was struck by this reading a short essay discussing the topics, well, discussed in a dissident right wing journal in the Soviet Union during the 4 short years, 1971-1974, it was allowed to run on the outskirts of Moscow before the...

"The history of the world is but the biography of great men" This is a quest, of sorts. The idea of this exercise is to map out a potential future history. Players will write up a short description of a "hero of the age", the next roughly 25 years of history. The description should be at least...

Thought some people would find the history of this Island Fortress interesting. Its always a bit shocking to find just how much pounding well built reinforced concrete can take.

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/tetlock-and-the-taliban

I became aware of this book through, bless his heart, Adam Friended's recent rabbit holing of MMT. Apparently, its actually a fairly big book, and seems to be the source of several strange arguments I'd been seeing but didn't know the origin of. As far as I can tell, the core argument of the...

A blog post helped clairfy my thinking on the nature of the problem. This seems to be one of the issues "the right" is dealing with. I don't have any solutions either. But, I think this at least to some degree clearly highlights the issue. "Liberal technocrats give us literally no reason at all...