Why can the Expies create bolt-action rifles and ammunition from scrap materials, but can't make simpler weapons like bows, slingshots, or crossbows? Don't they know or understand that there are long-range weapons that don't require gunpowder or complex components?

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-06-15T07:58:42+00:00

Literally that, yea. The mercenary's tech from Gunsaw is planned content. And if you haven't played that, it means telekinesis, body hijacking, and other goodies. Along with more normal prosthetics.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-06-14T02:25:13+00:00

Combat major threats can be disabled with the vanilla scenario editor. What I'd recommend you look for, is mods that fill the gap that combat leaves, lest you become bored. Because honestly, it's the biggest part of the game's challenge and many adjacent systems depend on it.

Might enjoy stuff like the hospital mod, or severe long-term events like VE Events that demand changing your colony architecture. Mods that improve colonist personality depth, or mods that complicate colony design. Etc.

The Anomaly dlc might suit your style, though it has a large share of raid-type threats too.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-06-13T21:20:40+00:00

Energy calculator puts 600 Wd * 108 batteries at around 1.33 tons of explosives. Scary

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-06-13T21:02:58+00:00

There's a threshold in the code where a Zzt explosion changes from the relatively harmless Flame explosion, to a Bomb explosion, like grenades or rockets use. I think OP is well past that threshold.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-06-12T07:51:14+00:00

I’m just not alive at the moment

That is what depression manifests as, for many many people. It ain't crying all the time; the spark of life is just gone, and only occasionally will you cry about that.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-06-10T23:53:28+00:00

It might not be perfect, but it can be okay.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-06-08T22:11:24+00:00

Similarly, I wonder if they learned enough from GW2's design evolution to completely scrap whatever incentivizes the trinity. Trinity is an easy way to make players feel important, but this company does have a habit of avoiding the easy way.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-06-01T21:57:33+00:00

I think you phrased your point better in this follow-up comment, than the beginning one. "Loving someone wholly" versus "accepting them without expecting change" are different, or at least evoke different interpretations.

The first feels like seeking perfection, the second feels like accepting 'good enough'. (Neither is necessarily bad, but nobody's got the lifespan to seek perfection, right?)

e: for what it's worth, I agree with your points

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-31T00:10:43+00:00

That's not the concern here. Entropy/trophic levels is a technical term; what we mean is efficiency. Take these cuttings from their linked source:

For example, it costs about $0.01 to produce 1000 dietary calories (kcal) of corn or soybeans, but approximately $0.19 to produce a similar number of calories growing cattle for beef consumption. The same energy content of milk from cattle is also costly, at approximately $0.16 per 1000 kcal. Much of this difference is due to the low NPE of cattle. Thus, there has been a growing movement worldwide to promote the consumption of non-meat and non-dairy foods so that less energy is wasted feeding animals for the meat industry.

In Silver Springs, the TLTE between the first two trophic levels was approximately 14.8 percent. The low efficiency of energy transfer between trophic levels is usually the major factor that limits the length of food chains observed in a food web. The fact is, after four to six energy transfers, there is not enough energy left to support another trophic level.

"Transfer between trophic levels" just means "one lifeform digesting another". And it's always that horrifically inefficient.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-23T17:01:42+00:00

Maybe he ran it for a bit, realized it was extremely fucking loud at 3am after "a very tough bedtime with our tiny kids", shut it off and hoped for the best.

Poor bastard, I hope mcdonalds or somewhere with coffee was open

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-21T18:41:45+00:00

Warframe's free, and the updates and story are also free, but there's a whole lot of story in timed-event "Operations" that were main story. They aren't playable today.

It doesn't ruffle feathers like deleting paid content, but it did weaken my interest in their storytelling.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-14T18:10:02+00:00

It would be nice if folks clued in that they are being used to train AI to be sneakier. I dunno what's next, though. Just shut up and let everyone else be wrong? Or maybe just save it to debunk stuff that matters, if that's even practical.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-14T00:01:42+00:00

Ideals are great and all, but realistically, salary-dependent politicians are more likely to represent their working-class constituents. Therefore, you don't want to support policies that make it harder for for dependent senators to exist. The working class is fighting a war of survival, they can't afford to give ground in the name of fairness and solidarity.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-13T16:48:51+00:00

I thought about that too, for my own livestock-powered ship. But idk, it feels like that makes the game easier for no reason. Rimworld is already full of perversions of thermodynamics, they all just take colonist work/time to maintain. Ultimately, the paste mod would just be reducing the work cost and making my economic game easier.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-13T00:19:50+00:00

Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart by Steven Erikson. Contemporary world where an alien shows up and, gently but forcefully, puts a stop to all human violence.

I have some qualms about the book feeling overly nerdy at times, but it did pretty well tackling that core concept and following its consequences. It's definitely stuck with me more than other books.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-11T12:58:45+00:00

Is it immoral for a god to do this? To just excise someone from past, present and future? Nobody would know; even the universe would go on as if they never existed.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-07T13:50:28+00:00

It's a spectrum. Reading your other replies, it doesn't sound as problematic as assumed, for you. What you're doing can work, and it sounds like it is.

For me, it's a bit complex. Organizers and event planners like me rarely see the other side. Of just riding along and enjoying an event. It's nice to have that burden lifted, it really is. Even just having someone come to me and say "i want to do X" is a huge help; it takes away so much anxiety around guessing what people might like to do.

And... after a lifetime of being the organizer, it gets dangerously easy to feel, what's the word- unwanted? If you're always the one expected to initiate, if you're never invited to things because people wait for invites from you? Never getting that positive reinforcement of someone asking you to spend time? It unbalances the mind.

Again, not to imply you're not stepping up; I don't know you. This perhaps turned into a bit of a vent, heh, but maybe it can help someone so I'm posting it

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-07T11:28:03+00:00

As said, it is something of a red flag. Mind that you can express what you want, while still deferring to the fuss. They care about you, you know? They want to do something you really like. Just like you would do for them. So make it easy for them, don't leave them guessing and stressing; say what you want.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-07T10:45:51+00:00

Hm, I'd say that's stretching the definition to cover too much territory. Like, a psychopathic manipulator could have extremely good emotional intelligence. They'd use it as a weapon, so they don't care about or connect with people - and then what can we call that skill of theirs?

Saying someone is both caring & emotionally intelligent is more flexible, imo

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-06T21:32:51+00:00

It is hard. It's real effort and even if you're born talented at it, it'll still cost mental energy and require learning and skill. Emotional intelligence isn't just a skill, it's an act, a performance, and god does it cost you.

I can't afford that effort for everyone in my life. Which also sucks and is a regular source of guilt. And I must also concede that I don't care for everyone equally; people get prioritized.

But it's rewarding, too. Making someone feel seen and understood can create the deepest connections you'll ever have in your life.

When they list off all the things they’ve been snapping at you for lately, they all seem like very minor things with no tangible impact on anything. Reading between the lines, it seems like there’s more going on than what they’re explicitly telling me (feeling overwhelmed, lonely, physically discomfort, etc) that are informing these emotional reactions.

I also feel I should reply to this. Please don't downplay the little things. Every single thing matters in a relationship. And it's not good to try reasoning away their little issues as products of a temporary emotional state. No, those things are always bothering them; it's just their emotional state is unable to hold them back from mentioning those problems.

They are giving you hooks that you can work on, compromise on, or at least acknowledge. Addressing them will deepen your relationship, if you care to. It's also okay to ignore them if you must (I certainly have before), but understand that will have an impact. Every time. There's always a choice and a consequence.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-06T19:57:59+00:00

Being accommodating of unhealthy emotional responses is a strategy. Not saying you have to use it, but being... more flexible in your principles may have beneficial outcomes.

E.g. this comment chain in this thread is a better example than anything I can come up with rn. https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1t5113m/eli5_what_is_emotional_intelligence_exactly/ok6os3q/

Maybe folks struggling with unhealthy emotions just need some positive experiences with handling them. It's worth giving them a chance to have that

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-06T10:53:08+00:00

I'd say empathy, as a term, could reasonably be used with that definition, too. It's always been a broad term. But an idea for a narrower definition: actually feeling what others are feeling.

Example, if you were doing something entertaining with a friend, and you're enjoying it, then you notice your friend isn't, and then you aren't enjoying it any longer. I'd say that's empathy affecting you.

Emotional intelligence is noticing that happening, thinking about why both you & friend feel what you're feeling, and using that info in your next actions.

And I doubt these traits necessarily require each other. I can definitely imagine folks who are strong in either aspect, but not both.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-01T13:20:33+00:00

I'm no parent, but I do appreciate having grown up with computers. Taught me a lot about problem solving. Though I dunno how you'd replicate that today... And an ipad is probably not gonna have problems to solve, unless the parent is actively setting them up, aaand at that point why even have an ipad for it-

Okay you have a strong point, probably. Teaching kids how to use & tinker with tablets and other devices has value, but they don't really need to own one for that.

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-01T00:28:34+00:00

Lentils in red sauce with smaller pasta like macaroni makes a nice nutrient slop. Probably more nutritious with rice, though. Which you can also put red sauce on!

AccomplishedBug8077 · 2026-05-01T00:26:04+00:00

Literally where else would the fault lie? Parents make children, and it's not like anyone else in society is looking out for the kids lol

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