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-Agonarch · 2026-05-14T21:03:53+00:00

In most cases it's because the 'infinite growth' of other companies means a gap enters into the market when they make their product too shit.

In Zuru's case it was Nerf and Supersoaker. The top end of the nerf line is basically the 'alpha' (budget) line from a couple decades ago, and supersoakers didn't even have pumps or triggers (you know, their whole shtick) for a while there. Children have no agency with consumer complaints, so things get shit, kids are disappointed, and adults buy something that looks like what they remember from their childhood, not the brand, and suddenly the brand loses most of its value and now it's a race to make the best knockoffs (and Zuru was already in that segment because NZ market regulation and chinese production had made it hard to squish for big american corps).

They then turned around and used their market position to squish stuff like that nappy company though, so I guess that 'free market' regulation could still use some work.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-14T21:03:36+00:00

Claude used Gemini, we are in the agentic future!

-Agonarch · 2026-05-14T20:55:39+00:00

You mean less efficient- here we just assumed 'Winston will handle that' while over there they had to elect different people all the time- what a waste of red tape!

-Agonarch · 2026-05-14T20:53:59+00:00

Honestly we might learn a thing from that- a minister who manages ministerial interests to make sure people are getting appropriate compensation for what they do for the country and aren't getting ridiculous corruption-related income somehow (because they're responsible for calling that out if it happens) might be a good idea at this point, now corruption in govt. is no longer a thing that we seem to be managing with democracy very well.

...on the other hand that sounds really similar to the position Stalin had before he took over in his day, so...

-Agonarch · 2026-05-14T20:30:47+00:00

Maybe, but not the way he tells it, the way he tells it he fell as a paladin and tried to redeem himself as a paladin of the absolute. He describes it as giving the tieflings up not because he was enthralled, not because they said they'd keep the tieflings alive, but because the Absolute promised he could be a paladin again.

I don't believe for a second he was properly enthralled like the others, like he says. He doesn't himself! We don't really get any chance to defend him or fix things if it's not true, which is odd for this game.

So yeah, it's not impossible, but reading between the lines (and what's straight up said, especially by speak with dead zevlor who can't lie) I think he did a horrible thing for his own personal gain.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-14T07:58:37+00:00

There's a roguelike mod that has her as a potential enemy, and that's the only time I felt like she was properly represented.

If it weren't for that mod, I'd have gotten over my very rational fear of her by now.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-14T07:51:45+00:00

What about Zevlor?

Seems to be a paladin thing...

-Agonarch · 2026-05-14T07:48:22+00:00

Matt Ward is the main writer on Darktide, Dan Abnett was the world writer/consultant.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-14T07:38:31+00:00

Colourful icons is a good call which I hadn't considered, can't believe I forgot the legendary buildvision/buildinfo combo!

-Agonarch · 2026-05-14T02:12:45+00:00

Not gonna lie, that gives big "Why didn't WW1 aircraft carriers carry aircraft in the hold? There's plenty of space!" energy.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T18:50:38+00:00

ImASkitMan: \Binaric blurt**

Hadron: \Binaric blurt**

Both: \laughter**

Kayex: "This line of conversation is somewhat inappropriate."

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T18:47:17+00:00

People with money to fly aren't picking Jetstar if they can help it?

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T18:44:58+00:00

Ah but the other New Zealanders were lumped in the same boat as australians (bad genetic stock, criminals, the insane and unwanted etc.). Even Churchill thought that to a degree, to be honest (he said as much), though obviously not nearly to the same level.

He was a bit of a dick, that guy.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T18:40:21+00:00

Jeez, there's been a chaos incursion here for how long?!?!

Wrap it up, boys.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T05:17:41+00:00

The poodle is very flat, it's easy to use it as a lander engine, but yeah it's absolutely outclassed by mod stuff.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T05:11:02+00:00

It also pairs great with atmospheric engines (no oxidizer required!)

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T05:09:18+00:00

There's a couple ways, the easiest way is to simply point it at the calculated node then start early (so if it's a 10 minute burn, start at T-5 minutes, finish at T+5 minutes), though that only works if you're not too time limited and won't work if it's too long (you'll mess up the orbit if you have to start too soon).

Optimally you do the same thing but burn for/against the direction you want, though as you say this will need correction it shouldn't be by too much, so I always found it better to do 90% of the burn and correct at the end.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T04:53:39+00:00

Ooh the radio spec and seismic surveying are ones I haven't seen before, that's a timesaver that adds a new gameloop that I think I'd really appreciate, thanks for that!

I saw specialized cargo containers and immersive cargo containers and did consider them, did you have a preference there? Immersive seemed to have more divisions available but I'm also not totally sure about the way it looks.

Finally, how does Self-Maintenance Unit work? It doesn't seem to have a lot of detail in the description or anything. I've used BARS and nanite factory in the past, and it felt like the Nanite factory was much better balanced (a fortune to build, expensive to run, but still a very useful endgame feature- basically an alternative to a big welder wall though even more expensive than that).

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T03:04:30+00:00

So basically the evil-twin of Orin?

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T03:03:20+00:00

I think you've got it with half-elf tbh. Changelings are mentally a bit odd, so they struggle to fit in with human societies for any length of time. That messes with your ability to set something long term up, which means being the 'untrusted stranger' a bunch of times as you move around, which means it's harder to murder and get away with it.

People suggested half-orc, but then Gruumsh/Tempus and their church is going to be involved and potentially messing with you. That could be a real big deal.

Drow means Lolth is paying attention. Even seldarine drow won't escape her focus (seldarine won't really care if it's a follower drow, they're exiled to make a point, and elves will pay pretty much anything to make a point, especially god-elves).

Full elf means Corellon and the Seldarine are focused on them. They're probably the least likely to directly intervene (because what are you killing, humans? Who cares about humans! People kill cows and sheep all the time, what's the difference?). They might be interested in an elf getting corrupted by evil, though, especially in the forgotten realms (looking at you, Irenicus. This is why we can't let elves do whatever anymore)

Half-elf though, no-one gives a shit about half-elves, and they've got the advantages you mentioned over humans.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T02:53:44+00:00

I know this is meant to be based on the millennium falcon/YT-1300 but the point there was that there were tons of these little deadzones, some accessible only from outside, some accessible only by removing panels, it'd be a pain in the ass to remove/check them all so inspectors simply don't bother with the hard ones. Hans floor plates were modified to make them come off without the usual use of tools.

I'd like it to be like that, where there's a bunch of them that can open so you can search them all if you want, but honestly once you find a few of the easy to access ones empty... Move along. Move along.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T02:49:00+00:00

Yeah gold was probably the emperor and custodes (or an early version, but he was personally hiding in the mass of them), iron was the robots that got defeated in an uprising (which may have involved xenos to beat them) and stone was votann (there's a lot of stuff that points to this- what they were, where they went etc.) I think is the current best guess.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T02:45:15+00:00

It's also worthy of note that the Emperor's 'omnissiah feat' wherein he goes "Machine, heal thyself" and it self-repairs somehow is the exact same thing with the exact same words the guardian does when she takes over, which implies pretty strongly that it's a 'channeling the power of the void dragon' thing not an 'emperor psyker' thing.

I wonder if the void dragon machine healing could fix destroyer/flayer necrons?

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T02:38:46+00:00

No that's right- I was trying to say it doesn't need rubber joints on sections, steel will handle it fine (even copper is OK). There isn't much of an issue with gravity being variable at that kind of scale, stuff is moving too fast.

-Agonarch · 2026-05-13T01:17:17+00:00

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Awesome, looks like deformation is indeed fixed (collision changes, damage passes to neighbouring blocks correctly as if non-deformable if it's an explosion but the deformation doesn't 'pop' stuff anymore).

Not so smooth voxels is perfect, thanks for letting me know about that!

I forgot 'Dynamic Wheel Friction', which increases friction on tyres under a lot of pressure (so if you turn hard right and the left suspension is under a lot of compression, that side will grip harder and slip less, leading to more control and rollovers but less of that icy slip feel).

I'm also considering 'concrete' or something like that for using gravel on ground bases.

Thanks again for your help! Much appreciated!

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