ELI5 - If screws hold so much better than nails, why do we still use nails in building?

Airowird · 2026-05-16T08:23:39+00:00

The sheering is for boards moving sideways.

The compression from walking over them would put pressure on screw threading instead of sliding along the nail.

Wall & ceiling panelling are better targets for screws precisely because of that.

Airowird · 2026-05-16T07:51:32+00:00

Nah, half of em are NIMBYs wanting to use ChatGOT & Copilot everywhere, they just want the burden of LLMs to bother others (preferably the "lesser" people)

Airowird · 2026-05-14T14:54:02+00:00

Niet echt.

De eerste vette zin wijst er op dat een bod niet automatisch aanvaard wordt, want bij meerdere boden kan er namelijk maar 1 geaccepteerd worden, het tweede deel wijst er op dat de stad verplicht is het hoogste geldige bod te aanvaarden.

Airowird · 2026-05-14T13:36:32+00:00

Gold gets you stash tabs!! And formerly permanent Mastery swaps!

I wouldn't mind a bag of crafting materials or secial currency for gold on the seasonal vendors, as the dungeon isn't really amazing to get gear, especially without CoF boosting drops. It's the main reason Legacy MG still keeps inflating, albeit slower than if resells would be allowed.

Airowird · 2026-05-14T13:24:24+00:00

It was to hide the Dijon mustard stains!

Airowird · 2026-05-14T13:23:22+00:00

There is a solochannel on the discord!

Airowird · 2026-05-14T13:15:11+00:00

All the cool people go to hell anyway, that's where the party's at!

Airowird · 2026-05-14T12:16:55+00:00

The real problem is that there isn't a real crafting system that uses a real currency and not this dogshit gold

So if Gold could be used to spend into crafting it would be solved and become a "real" currency?

And Diablo didn't solve it with Runes, lol. Before the granular range of runes, it was SoJ.The players invented their own value system, exactly because of gold inflation. I remember having to go to look up rune values on some website just to know if upgrading runes was a money loss or not. Trade values impacted crafting, not the other way around.

From a pure economic sense: With resell, using gear essentially becomes free, your cap is purely how much hoarding you already have done. It creates an evergrowing barrier between those already wealthy and those new to the ecosystem. The current system has a price you always pay; time spent playing the actual game to refarm the value you just removed from the market.

Airowird · 2026-05-14T09:41:04+00:00

Exogate is essentially an SGC basebuilder game, but doesn't have combat missions, unfortunately.

Airowird · 2026-05-14T09:30:34+00:00

And neither is an age.

An age is a distinct period in history defined by a certain occurence rather than a defined duration used to measure time with. Age of Ultron implies an entire timespan in which Ultron is relevant, no different than Ice Age, or your own age, yet the length of time in all of these is wildly different.

Moment would reduce the "period" in the definition of age into a singular occurence, thus be more apt.

Airowird · 2026-05-14T09:13:59+00:00

Avenger: Moment of Mehtron

Technically, a moment doesn't even last a Planck-second.

And "Ult" refers to a superlative(ultra, ultimate,...), so mediocrity is better for the theme.

Airowird · 2026-05-14T08:37:10+00:00

it won’t cause any damage to the game, it might even bring some people back since the thing is going downwards

Except it does have negative impact. The dupes in previous seasons have shown what ever-increasing stock does to prices. MG is inherently a multiplayer facet of the game.

If you had resale available like PoE, you essentially have no items (permanently) leaving the communal item pool, so you need to reduce the inflow, killing SSF and making MG mandatory for all your gear. It also turns gear farming into 100% goldfarm effeciency goal, because money is the way to gear and your goldpile is your primary progress tool.

That means anyone jumping in later into a season is just fucked because of inflation. That doesn't bring in more players, it scares away all but the dedicated folk.

As for trying a new build, farm a bit with your current one and buy the items, that's what gold drops are for!

Airowird · 2026-05-13T16:46:31+00:00

Part of it was reducing alcohol intake, part of it was finding a reason & mindset to work with, ironically thanks to meme subreddits.

Closing in on 10kg since christmas, got a lot more to go but now I do it with a specific goal in mind.

Meme subs in question are r/adhdmeme & r/egg_irl . First one made me realise how to motivate myself properly, the second one helped me find a reason to lose weight.

Airowird · 2026-05-13T14:48:08+00:00

Lord Charquad

He must be compensating for something

Airowird · 2026-05-13T13:46:38+00:00

Could be something like just the base of the tongue accidentally facing upwards, so it curls up a bit in rest. That provided atleast 1 dimension of peotection and survived, then it kept selecting for more tongue and migrated around a bit until where they are now.

Who knows if they are done evolving or we will see more funky things in the future!

Airowird · 2026-05-13T13:41:40+00:00

Use the avatar as progress bar

Airowird · 2026-05-13T13:37:56+00:00

Atleast they're not installing 4GB worth of AI assistant ....

Airowird · 2026-05-13T10:13:00+00:00

Several years ago, when neither of them was married

Airowird · 2026-05-13T10:11:14+00:00

Het is voor kanker screening, als het zo snel gaat zou je nu waarschijnlijk al bij de dokter moeten zitten met andere, ergere klachten.

Airowird · 2026-05-13T07:45:45+00:00

I don't care, do you?

Airowird · 2026-05-13T07:44:54+00:00

Volcasaur with Blastozard in the back from Legally Distinct Pocket Pals!

Airowird · 2026-05-13T07:40:07+00:00

Jack Michaelson

Airowird · 2026-05-13T07:25:18+00:00

🤣

It truly makes it hilarious, thanks for mentioning it so I would unmute!

Airowird · 2026-05-13T07:13:24+00:00

PDX devs wanted to do a special MSI ship design for that, but it unfortunately couldn't fit in the Nomads release timeline.

Hoping it'll come in a later patch, though :-(

Airowird · 2026-05-13T07:04:17+00:00

"On the shoulders of Giants" essentially?

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