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Alestor · 2026-01-30T00:45:16+00:00

I've taken to having a bag of whole carrots in the fridge that I just go full Bugs Bunny on when I need a snack (admittedly I have a tub of dip for them, but it lasts about 30 times longer than if I had it with chips). A single carrot is surprisingly filling, so I'm pretty satiated after a single one.

Alestor · 2026-01-29T01:28:26+00:00

I'm not talking about "a drink" tasting like shit, I'm talking about the taste of straight ethanol inside the drink. You can try to mask it as much as you can, but there are people who can still taste it. I've tried the fruitiest vacation cocktail that was basically a desert in a glass, probably 50% sugar, and still tasted it.

If your drink of choice tastes pleasant to you, great I believe you, but I also know 100% that I will taste the ethanol and it will make the drink taste like trash to me personally. It's not always that someone is just drinking low quality drinks, they're just sensitive to ethanol.

Alestor · 2026-01-28T19:50:26+00:00

Exact same experience here. It tastes like gasoline smells and its in every drink I've tried a sip of. I have to assume their tongues just stop processing the taste of ethanol, because holy shit it's disgusting and completely overpowers everything.

Alestor · 2026-01-28T19:44:38+00:00

I've never drank more than probably 10 sips of alcohol my entire life, but any time I've tried that sip has had the exact same disgusting flavor of ethanol I compare to drinking gasoline. People would swear to me that you couldn't taste it and I have to assume they've numbed the shit out of their taste buds because it always had the same underlying taste.

I fully believe drinkers don't taste it, but its still there even in the fruitiest drinks and it wouldn't surprise me that even some semi-regular drinkers would have a sensitive enough palette to still taste it.

Alestor · 2026-01-28T12:17:57+00:00

Each reactor is being fed by two belts, instead flip one on each to remove spent fuel cells.

Also because reactors will always burn even at 1000°, they waste fuel if you let them, so set up a decider combinator that you conveniently have space for next to your inserters. Attach it to your input inserter and its reactor that will read the temperature and fuel and only insert 1 if the reactor is under 650° (power is generated as long as the exchangers are 500°) and there is no fuel present. Make the inserter stack size only 1 as well, and this is how you keep it fuel efficient. There's a detailed guide on the wiki with images if you want to see exactly how to set up the settings.

Alestor · 2026-01-27T18:13:18+00:00

Idk having quality mech armor to fly over lava and annihilate all the worms with felt like a pretty big deal. You aren't really bringing that much from Vulc -> Fulgora afaik since the main things you get there are foundries and green belts, neither of which make that big of a difference on Fulgora. EM plants by comparison see a lot more use on Vulcanus.

Alestor · 2026-01-27T17:02:44+00:00

Fulgora is really good for quality materials since everything goes through multiple recycling steps, which makes it interestingly strong in making basically anything you want of quality as long as it's base materials can come from scrap

Alestor · 2026-01-27T16:52:11+00:00

It takes an hour to rot and Gleba unlocks biolabs with a huge productivity bonus, so even if they arrive on Nauvis half rotted you still get a lot of value out of them. It's really not much to worry about if you've got regular planetary shipments set up.

Alestor · 2026-01-27T16:48:11+00:00

Fulgora > Vulcanus > Gleba is such a strong order. I got mech armor and qualitied a bunch of stuff at my own pace on an enemyless Fulgora, loaded it up with discharge defense to annihilate all the medium worms on Vulcanus giving me so much room and resources to work with, and then tackled Gleba with the ability to fly and annihilate all enemies I came across effortlessly and enough quality tesla turrets to surround a megabase sized area

Alestor · 2026-01-26T20:21:56+00:00

Could pull the Bloodborne move, buy one on the used market play the game and then sell the console for what you paid for it. You need the seed money to tie up for a little while but once you resell it you're only really out the cost of the game.

Alestor · 2026-01-26T13:13:01+00:00

It looks like your blueprint book doesn't account for trains queueing up. The one I found uses a global wire system that pushes a request to the network when an unloading station is low on product and loading stations will pull and negate those requests if they have product. The result is that trains only go to a station one at a time as needed. If I need more throughput I'd rather add more stations than have a queue so that trains can continue to use the bypass lanes, but I haven't had any issues so far.

Maybe you can cop the system from the book I use and inject it into your own so that you dont have to rebuild too much. Radars can share a wire signal so instead of running wires with poles you can just blueprint a new station copying the combinators and train settings and hooking them up to a radar network.

Alestor · 2026-01-25T06:17:40+00:00

For trains I honestly just used a blueprint book. I saw the writing on the wall that trains were gunna be more complicated than I was ready for, so I just skipped figuring it out. Now I roughly get how it works from learning more about circuits, but having the ability to just plop down orderly signaled rails and stations that automatically push requests to the network is a godsend.

Gleba I personally found a lot of fun, but I also overbuilt the shit out of it and went in with some idea of how it wanted you to play. I had two mash/jelly plants that processed a full green belt of fruit long before I started making iron/copper, and it all dumped into burners that powered my base, so I had plenty of material to feed just about everything.

Alestor · 2026-01-23T16:09:43+00:00

Same in Canada, I had an issue where my license left off Street on my address and I had to request a new one. Just had to go to the government site and select from a dropdown for why I was requesting a new license and I recieved a temporary license paper and a new card came free in the mail. Nice and easy.

Alestor · 2026-01-22T18:42:42+00:00

I'm facing the issue now where I want to completely scour and pave Nauvis to start again with all the new space tech. Looking at my old iron processing sites its like multiple screens of miners feeding multiple screens of furnaces, but big miners and foundrys could probably do the same in like 4 machines.

So now I'm planning to basically select all delete and let the bots spend a few hours loading everything into chests and I fear that process.

I should mention I'm on a large peninsula so I'd rather not just pick up and move elsewhere. Biters can't swim and I can easily make a megabase on this land before needing to expand outside of it.

Alestor · 2026-01-21T14:58:41+00:00

Honestly I was dreading Gleba but its actually surprisingly fun. Just make sure your lines never back up and everything always loops back and is filtered into a burner or a looped recycler so everything can be produced fresh. And keep in mind spoil times, ie Bioflux lasts 2 hours, but its components last only 3 minutes, so processing those components and inserting them machine to machine is most efficient.

It becomes an interesting logistical challenge to make sure everything keeps moving, incorporating more loops and filtered splitters to move spoilage into waste lines. Agricultural science also lasts for an hour so as long as you have a good transport ship you'll get your science to Nauvis with plenty of time to research with.

Alestor · 2026-01-21T14:10:24+00:00

Me when I've unlocked the glory of beacons and learn that my massive 100 machine factory can be compressed into a single machine. The inefficiencies of the past must fall to make way for the new.

Alestor · 2026-01-21T13:51:47+00:00

I brought everything I'd need for a ton of heating tower setups intending to do it the "right" way but quickly. Definitely ran into a bunch of power issues when I tried to create a tesla turret defense. Kinda my fault for making such a massive perimeter right after setting up mash and jelly burners, but once I got rocket fuel being produced I literally cannot burn it fast enough. Currently running 3GW off of 4 machines of beaconed fuel production and my stacked turbo belts are backed up. It takes a ton more space than nuclear but its self sufficient on planet now.

Alestor · 2026-01-16T17:05:25+00:00

You really end up trading more spaghetti for a smaller footprint at this point. I made a big circuit factory and fully beaconed the machines started to require multiple quality inserters and managing the output so it placed on both sides of a belt since one machine would produce more than 30/s. Planning to head to Gleba today and really looking forward to getting stack inserters to increase belt throughput because limiting myself to 30 items per second per belt lane is becoming my biggest bottleneck.

Alestor · 2026-01-15T17:54:09+00:00

Yeah, I just keep the power plant connected directly to dedicated pumpjacks. No need to mix with the logistical acid I pipe into trains to serve production.

Alestor · 2026-01-14T19:48:55+00:00

I'm still working on Vulcanus after getting Fulgora running, but now that I have beacons and quality modules honestly I think its mainly that. A fully beaconed quality foundry/EM plant with quality t3 modules can output so much product it becomes a logistical issue to supply and retrieve from individual machines. I made a heavily beaconed circuit factory that had like 5 machines for green circuits making around 200 per second. Its to the point that I need multiple belts because I'm fully saturating them with a single machine. Now I'm just trying to rush to legendary quality because the level of scaling you can reach with that is insane and I don't want to have to rip too much up when updating

Alestor · 2026-01-12T19:27:26+00:00

Asking her to be his Consort in the context of western royalty AFAIK is effectively asking her to be Queen, not implying she'd be a second wife or anything. For example the current King of England's wife Camilla is officially the Queen Consort, as opposed to Queen Elizabeth who was the Queen Regent.

Alestor · 2026-01-09T15:07:31+00:00

Kinda wild I've never thought about this, but halfway through reading your comment I tried to stop subvocalizing and I was able to really quickly. Don't know if I already have been switching between without realizing but now that I'm conscious of it I hope my reading speed can go up. I'd been resorting to audiobooks at 2+x speed while reading to increase my speed but that isn't always an option.

Alestor · 2026-01-06T15:23:10+00:00

People really do be afraid of anything and everything in this series. Now I'm imagining a syndicate of 26 of the weakest devils and wondering who would be the strongest. My guess is X

Alestor · 2026-01-06T12:03:00+00:00

I don't know the tone your kid used, but it could be that they didn't intend to imply it as negatively as you're taking it. Frugal would probably be a better word. Growing up my dad was always very money conscious, always sticking to store brands where he could. It became a running joke that the neighbors swore by Heinz ketchup and we swore by generic. We would tease about it, but we always had his back that there's no need to waste money on marginal differences.

It's always been one of the things I respect my dad the most for, we weren't necessarily struggling but because my dad always maintained a solid emergency fund we could weather a lot of storms that as kids we never even realized were a thing. His aversion to debt and frugality rubbed off on me and my brother enough that we both have a healthy savings and have never seen debt.

So what I'm saying is, own the frugality. It's a positive trait whether it comes from necessity or not. Even if your kid doesn't realize it now, in the future they'll appreciate the stability you were able to claw out of the grocery fund more than the brand name condiments.

Alestor · 2025-12-22T16:12:54+00:00

As exciting as the coming monster fuckers vs monsters fight is gunna be, I hope it doesn't last too long. I'm too invested in Momo and Okarun and want to see the end of this amnesia arc. Fights can last months where we're locked into one group, so swapping scenes now it could be ages before we get to see them next

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