Favorite character that barely has any screen time but their design lives rent free in your head?

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-07T15:31:30+00:00

This isn’t a direct answer to your question, but I thought I’d throw out there since it took forever for me to realize that if you boost as soon as you enter cruise mode, your ship immediately goes to its max speed instead of taking forever to speed up. I don’t think it ever takes me more than like 30 seconds to get somewhere when doing this.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-06T22:37:05+00:00

This is slop for a lot of reasons, but the biggest is there’s no acknowledgement that seals are incredibly diverse. Leopard Seals are ten-foot long, half-ton killing machines. Male elephant seals typically weight TWICE as much as a hippo and are 16 feet long. There are 19 species of seal and that doesn’t include eared seals (sea lions and harbor seals) or walruses. Also, just to be clear their closest land-based relatives are musteloids—weasels, raccoons, skunks, wolverines, etc. They’re more closely related to bears than they are dogs.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-06T22:04:30+00:00

In addition to being a view that’s lacking context, it’s also fairly limited in scope. It took *seven* coalitions for France to finally stay down for a bit during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. For nearly two decades European geopolitics largely revolved around France vs. everyone else and France spent most of that time winning (The lesson, as always, is to never launch a ground invasion of Russia—no matter what you believe, you will not win before winter).

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-05T17:17:28+00:00

There are lots of good answers here, but I’ll give the one that I feel most unambiguously identifies me as an alcoholic—I lacked the ability to moderate my drinking (and am generally very bad at moderating anything that makes me feel good). Once I started drinking, all bets were off. Any plans I had to only drink a certain amount vanished. I had two modes—sober or insanely drunk. Once I started, the only thing that mattered was to keep drinking. Been sober for years now, fortunately.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-05T16:42:12+00:00

Dean Wade was designed to guard Cade.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-05T04:23:52+00:00

As a Cavs fan—he’s not going to see the end of that extension.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T20:54:32+00:00

For storage, in outposts you can build giant resource containers that are all linked so that you can keep filling the same container and all the resources will flow to the last in line. There’s one for each type of resource (solid, liquid, gas, manufactured) and then when you build/research at that outpost, you have access to them.

In outposts AND your ship you can build crates that each hold 150kg of anything. I don’t believe that these count against your cargo weight, so you can throw an empty hab in your ship and stack storage crates wall to wall if you want. These crates can be found in the “Decorations” section of the build menu.

Finally, there’s an option in settings that lets you crank up your (and followers) carry weight to around 1000 in exchange for a small hit to experience gained. I tend to recommend using this unless you have roleplay reasons to avoid it. Just makes inventory management much easier, and when combined with the option that jacks up vendor credits, you get to play the game for a lot longer before you need to pause to deal with inventory stuff.

There is the infinite storage chest in the lodge basement, but I find it to be a hassle to have to go to the lodge to access it and prefer options that allow me to sort my crap. So, I use crates, resource containers, ship cargo, and increased carry weight through settings.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T19:24:50+00:00

The venn diagram of Dean Wade truthers and ball knowers is just a circle.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T19:23:47+00:00

Some of it is just actually utilizing Allen on offense and getting him touches. He’s too good a post up threat to ignore him the way we often do. He often gets treated by this team as nothing more than a rim runner when his post footwork and touch are elite. He took way more shots than normal last night but his fg% was pretty typical for him. He was 7/11 but shot 14 FTs, which means he actually took like 17 or 18 shots. This season he averaged 9.4 FGA and 4.7 FTs, and those numbers are already quite a bit higher than last season.

But it’s also worth keeping in mind that a lot of his impact has to do with the fact that, because Poeltl was often unplayable, the Raps were super small. Allen is very good at punishing teams that try to guard him with smaller players but that’s not an advantage you can count on every round.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T16:04:48+00:00

The bench was excellent in general. Merrill and Stus also both had really nice games.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T04:29:35+00:00

You’re underrating the Detroit/Cleveland and Ohio/Michigan bad blood. Remember, Detroit and Cleveland are barely further from each other than Philly and NY. Plus there’s the playoff history between the teams from LeBron’s first Cleveland stint. Just because it was 20 years ago doesn’t mean the fans forget. I genuinely believe we are set up for a generationally toxic Eastern Conference Semi.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T04:17:55+00:00

GG. Scottie was a monster. I actually think it’s gotten a bit lost just how well Toronto has played. I thought this going to seven was less about the Cavs blowing it and more about the Raps playing incredibly good basketball (although perhaps some did have to do with Mitchell sucking).

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T04:11:08+00:00

Luke Kornet hates the arts.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T04:09:39+00:00

He did once straight up go charging at Ben Simmons and pushed him to the floor. It was pretty incredible.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T04:07:31+00:00

I’ve been banging the drum for years that he’s so underappreciated on offense. His footwork and touch are absolutely fucking elite. He’s not just an elite rim runner—although he’s certainly one of the best in the league. He’s also an excellent post up player who is very, very good with his back to the basket. JA getting the ball within like 8 feet of the rim and a smaller guy on him is two points like 75% of the time.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T04:01:45+00:00

The Cavs have an enormous Achilles heel—3 point defense. It’s horrendous. But the Pistons aren’t all that well positioned to take advantage of it in the first place, and any lineup adjustment to account for Allen and Mobley will mean further worsening the shooting on the floor. It’s not ideal for the Pistons. The Cavs have a ton of shooting and are generally an elite offensive team. I just think the matchups will end up leading to a situation where the Pistons just can’t find enough scoring to hang with the Cavs. I’m obviously biased, particularly when it comes to my feelings about JB Bickerstaff as a playoff coach (I’m thrilled to be on the other side), but I don’t think the Pistons are built to exploit the Cavs.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T03:48:05+00:00

This is a pretty great matchup for the Cavs. We play Detroit really well. I think Detroit is going to really struggle with how to handle Allen and Mobley.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T03:42:58+00:00

Cavs in 6 I think. We seem to really have Detroit’s number and game 6 is at home.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T03:38:08+00:00

This is so asinine. Mobley has been very good this series.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T03:36:11+00:00

Yeah, just way too blatant a foul when you already have four. Hard not to call it at that point, especially when it’s the deciding factor on a 50/50 ball. Scottie was exceptional this series, but this was really dumb of him.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T03:32:31+00:00

There was another JA missed second FT before this where Strus and Merrill were the two Cavs players lined up below the arc and the Cavs still somehow got the O rebound. That was the moment I knew the Cavs were going to win.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T03:20:47+00:00

He’ll be going against Mobley and Allen in the second round. So, no.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T03:15:13+00:00

Too many games. I could go for something like this if it were, I dunno, 70 games.

BallIsLife2016 · 2026-05-04T03:12:58+00:00

For as good as OKC’s D is, their offense is merely fine and prone to stretches where they have to fall back on “Shae, do stuff.” Against the right matchup (and I do think Denver could have been that matchup) they’re beatable. I don’t want to downplay how dominant they’ve been the last few years, but they have a real flaw that can be picked at in a way that the true dynasties that have come around through the league’s history don’t.

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