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All in a day's work, citizen.

Huh. Like, angry-angry, or just more vocal?

Did the WTF thread get derailed by angry vegetarians (aka Yoink) again? Glad I missed it.

Sure, if you like the taste of sawdust and 3-day-old beans.

Chipotle is leagues ahead of Taco Bell in every way except price. They use actual meat in their food, for one.

Now I'm craving a Chipotle burrito. Dammit.

Harlan rolled his eyes, grinning.

Hell, it's about time.

1: Fusion power doesn't explode. The containment vessel might pop, but that's barely an industrial accident.

2: If it did, the fact that it encourages you to build an external power annex is actually just cool.

If you claw your way to fusion, maybe you deserve to be able to stay there. Just make it require "superconductor filament" and lots of other stuff first, so it clearly demands you reach the top of the tech tree.

You don't research things by producing large quantities of multi-colored beakers. You can't run large-scale steam-power generators from a tiny pool. I doubt we'll ever have man-portable fusion generators. You can't carry around 9999 steam engines or power poles.

It's a game, dude. A fusion containment field breach is nearly always a Very Bad Thing in fiction.

In any case, the original ideas came from someone complaining that fusion power involved no sacrifice in this game, unlike every other power source. I merely offered ideas on how to counterbalance the extreme amount of energy a fusion power plant would (presumably) create.