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I did core mining on all of my outpost bases and on Nauvis, with one exception. My cryonite rod outpost was one of my first and I didn't dive into outpost core mining yet. It's easily my least hassle outpost, happily consuming the cryonite patches I have set up while ensuring delivery of...

Since I learned that you can actually build around the star, I moved my beam emitters and solar farms to orbit the star, creating something of a dyson.... patch. I've now got 6 beam emitters with 20 injectors each. I just finished clearing another moon, this one has 67% threat which made the...

Just scrounge up whatever power you need however you can. I built tons of solar panels but nuclear is fine too if you prefer and have a good source of uranium. Once you get space elevators, solar in space is A+++ since you can transmit it down to the surface. I'm probably going to build a space...

Scaling up is kind of a mistake I've made a ton. A key thing Space Exploration drives into you, especially during the space science stage, is that it's better to have a small amount of production and bounce between all the different things you need to do. I find myself finishing a new science...

Finished my biology science. Trying to figure out how to make and host decent images, work in progress. Bio science is the hardest of the four sciences in terms of internal logistic complexity, easiest in terms of external logistic complexity and hardest in terms of value of input since it...

Anyone doing a playthrough for the DLC with some try hard rules like no spirit summons, jewelry etc? Anyone play the game before like that?

I read a lot of... less than stellar fiction. One way writing can be mediocre is each character not having a unique voice with their own lexicon, way of speaking, etc. Shit this is true even in great writing. The Count of Monte Cristo suffers from this where even the most modest of characters...

The number of easy wins DPG passes up every year is astounding. If they ignore an unpopular server that would be popular with some small rule changes, it'd be very inline with previous actions.

Finished my first space science, energy. I have one of these double-blocks for each of the space sciences. Each quadrant produces one of the sciences and they meet in the middle. I'm not sure if this is a great design. The amount of different ingredients is staggering and my approach was to...

Back from vacation. Just automated spaceships for the first time. It's something I've been looking forward to doing for a looooong time and it was just as goofy and satisfying as I thought it'd be. The below spaceships are pretty dumb and unoptimized. The circuits largely follow this guide...

The details around this are pretty funny. Factorio's optimizations are ridiculous and they are bottlenecked by the size of the CPU cache, even to the point where the CPU is often idle because it's waiting for memory to be loaded into the cache. The 7800X3D has a monster CPU cache so if it can...

A kunark start is something new, but I was hoping for them to try something else too. I still think doubling the spawn rate in most earlyish zones would be fun.

Ah, yeah they might all be in The Classics 97.3 I'll have to double check what I recovered.

That reminds me, I recently recovered a hard drive that had all the old threads I scraped in the last days of fohguild.org. I don't know if @Lightning Lord Rule ever got those from somewhere else when I distributed them before or if anyone even wants them now.

Karlach is a golden retriever in the body of a giant devil woman. She was dealt the worst hand of any companion before the game starts and suffers throughout into a tragic ending. Despite that, she wags her tail any chance she gets and doesn't mind giving a male Tav the orgasm of a lifetime.

For players on a persistent multiplayer server, do pals work correctly after you log off, or do they still immediately spiral into starvation and depression?

I just checked my ass for made up statistics. People who romanced Karlach are 320% more likely to be in healthy relationships than people who romance any other character.

I wonder if I should wait for the next release which might be out in a couple months. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/asus-adds-amd-ryzen-zen-5-granite-ridge-cpu-support-for-its-x670e-motherboards#:~:text=According%20to%20other%20leakers%2C%20the,%2Dcore%20105%2Dwatt%20CPU.

I'm thinking about getting a new PC and am intrigued by https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d.html , anyone have a compelling reason not to go that route for a PC intended for gaming?

article: https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/dei-backlash-diversity Not to derail this thread but I think a big part of the DEI push was a political side effect of the BLM movement and other related movements that were invested in heavily (and successfully) for the 2020 election. That investment...

Why would you ever think this? A <$1000 home theatre is getting better every year and won't stop. This shitty 85" TV is $900 https://www.amazon.com/TCL-2023-Model-Accelerator-Streaming-Television/dp/B0C1J3CGLV That plus a cheap speaker system, a couch from the side of the road and a six pack...

2.99 feels right because the value of movie experience is declining every year along with ticket sales while AMC is holding onto tons of theatres they can't fill. They're probably losing too much money and have too much inertia to adapt to 2023+ market conditions and other more agile theatres...

Kinda weird to hear the narrative designer say that high level narrative building is vomit inducing. Glad to hear they switched to UE5 a year ago. Wayyyy better than hearing they're making the switch now or plan to in the future. Super hyped for this game. They should release it when it's...

Anyone who learns what is involved in leveling the artisan's prize and chooses to max it out deserves all the punishment they receive.

2 episodes in, love the show so far.

I finished system change / system universe book 1 and started reading Ripple. I enjoy it so far! I'm a bit tired of Travis Baldree though, I've listened to so many books (probably 20+?) he's narrated and his range for different voices just isn't that high. It's funny because I had a conversation...

Not sure if I missed it or my de-emojification settings held but I'm glad to have not noticed any april fools horseshit this year. Thanks amod for containing yourselves.

I almost jumped in at least 3 times over the years. I always watched a few vids and decided the combat wasn't for me.

What moonarchia said, with the exception that once you're geared, leveled, aa'd you can get a set of free to play, non-prestige gear and do non latest expansion content. I do this throughout the year, for anniversary stuff or fooling around

I went with system change. Fun so far. Different start for litrpg than I've seen. What's funny is I'm enjoying the verrrry start of the ability bloat that got so tiresome in defiance of the fall. Im a sucker for this garbage.

Now i have to decide what to read next. Options on the table: Finishing book 1 of azerinth healer Read the last few books of the ritualist Path of ascension The Land Reborn apocalypse System Change Any other recommendations along the same lines are welcome.

Just finished DotF12. I hope the author moves on from the ridiculous cultivation word salads, but i also don't know how you can really keep a litrpg / cultivation book going on for so long without it getting repetitive, bland or losing the progression. This book was more extreme in this then...

My favorite overdoing, stupid, implausible server idea. I'd love to see an mmo that embraced the guide type system of player run events based on server politics with some kind of (probably doomed) system from a mega guild taking control and turning the benefits into DKP expenditures. "Confirmed...

Peak vanilla factorio After playing space exploration with wide area beacons, the aesthetics of efficient beacons looks terrible to me.

another planet down... and my beam emitters in orbit around the planet near the star

I read the first book a few months ago. What parts of the book(s) does season 1 of the show cover? I'm not sure if I want to be spoiled on it or not. Not sure if I'll read the next books.

Wouldn't be surprised if Larian published this as a way to influence negotiations on future DLC / game for WOTC and how much the IP royalty payout is. The creation of a campaign builder + Dungeon Master game in the DnD universe (basically another try at Neverwinter Nights) could be a huge cash...

Yes I use the same blocks in space. There's a built in tool in the SE mod to convert between space/surface trains which makes it easier. A key limitation in space is that you start with space belts that as fast as blue belts but have short underground lengths, so some of my very compact train...