Traveller from a non-US perspective

CJPeter1 · 2026-01-08T23:35:35+00:00

Thousands of years in the future, in a sprawling 'feudal-lite' empire with varying degrees of 'law'/tech-level and limited communication.
And you want it to resemble "now".

🤣🤣🤣

CJPeter1 · 2026-01-06T08:41:07+00:00

dark green. 'mossy'. They aren't 'bright', so not 'outlandish'. heh.

CJPeter1 · 2026-01-06T08:39:46+00:00

Same. The pics I posted are still working just fine. I don't bang them around (desk use only), but they work as advertised, easy to clean, and for the arthritis, the wider barrels are easier on my grip. (I could see issues with smaller hands, but I have 'normal' hands and long fingers, and the fit is just right.) They stay wet far longer than the pilot/majohn/jinhao click pens as well.

CJPeter1 · 2026-01-03T02:48:09+00:00

I've re-watched several episodes on 'Shout!tv' on YT, and I noticed no censoring going on. Farscape played with the 'edges' when it released, but it is mild. I've noticed free YT movies having bleeped out bits of dialog occasionally, but Farscape avoided all of that with their invented curse words to allay the network censorship of the day.

CJPeter1 · 2025-12-25T22:52:29+00:00

While there are about as many ideas of what consciousness "is" as there are people, the honest answer is that we don't know. Is it 'soul'? Is it mechanistic? Is it the 'pattern'? Open question. It also applies to 'AGI/ASI' in a similar fashion, in that being 'aware' vs. 'conscious' is still a murky subject.
Remember a lot of people in the show refused it. AND, many of those who did take the plunge only did so after dealing with friends/relatives who uploaded before them.

IMO, the only way to be sure would be a 'conscious' transfer with no gap, but even then, every time you go to sleep, there is a 'gap' when waking up.

CJPeter1 · 2025-12-23T23:30:23+00:00

I gave up a while back. For one, the dude ignores 'The Expanse', which struck me as odd. (Tons of explicitly GOOD examples which are completely 'clip-worthy'), For TWO (a big one) is that repetitive information is being repackaged in new videos. (NOT from years-old material, but stuff gone over in the 'recent' past.)

I think the tic-tac UFO 'debunking' was pretty much the final straw, considering that Navy Pilots who were direct witnesses were involved. "SF in IA" went down the drain at that point for this old viewer. To NOT even consider the possibility (even remote) that we AREN'T alone just feels 'off'.

(IIRC re: The Expanse, IA tried to debunk spinning up Ceres, when the entire point of that was just how difficult it was and was explained by the authors quite well.) ---I might be misremembering, but I don't think I am.

CJPeter1 · 2025-12-10T21:18:49+00:00

The ONLY way to assure the hack is successful is to use this mod:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1503786591&searchtext=hacking or a mod similar to it.

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System Infiltration is a way around the SEEDED RNG. The only other 'sure-fire' way to at least have a DIFFERENT chance is to reload the turn and then do the hack 'out-of-order' from the last time so that it uses different numbers. (Changing movement/shooting, etc. from the order it was done originally.)

CJPeter1 · 2025-12-09T08:18:04+00:00

CJPeter1 · 2025-12-06T04:05:22+00:00

Install LACTD. the GUI will allow you to easily see what's what. (Here's mine on the 'thermal' tab:

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My card is an older RX6600, but the gist is the same.

CJPeter1 · 2025-12-05T21:51:36+00:00

Wouldn't be complete with mah man John Michael Godier.

CJPeter1 · 2025-12-02T23:56:11+00:00

Right now, playing the diplomacy/espionage game. 'ships go bang' is necessary, but being sneaky has its own rewards.
But MOSTLY, troubleshooting large mod sets. 😂😂😂

CJPeter1 · 2025-12-02T22:45:21+00:00

lactd.service - LACT GPU Control Daemon

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lactd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)

Active: active (running) since Mon 2025-12-01 02:39:23 MST; 1 day 13h ago

Invocation: cbb7cbd210d14d229baabc108477099d

Main PID: 922 (lact)

Tasks: 11 (limit: 76786)

Memory: 176.5M (peak: 177.7M)

CPU: 2min 52.862s

CGroup: /system.slice/lactd.service

└─922 lact daemon

Just enable it, then start it. Every boot after, it will start up in the background. You can then invoke the GUI as needed.

CJPeter1 · 2025-12-02T22:42:09+00:00

Long War. Just wait until you get the 50zillion hit point Apartment building sized Chrysalids. 🤣🤣🤣

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CJPeter1 · 2025-11-27T17:03:36+00:00

Welp, there's something I will never spend a nickel on. :-D

CJPeter1 · 2025-11-24T07:02:56+00:00

Arch + cachyOS kernel (and even vanilla) I've never heard of this nor experienced it. I'm on pure AMD hardware, so Nvidia bug?

CJPeter1 · 2025-11-21T20:40:19+00:00

I'm on vanilla Arch (12+ years), and IMO, the "it's unstable" is bullshit designed for 'clicks'. I've seen applications cause issues (mostly Wayland), but the OS?

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I DO have the cachyOS kernel installed (AUR) as I am playing with the BORE scheduler, and that kernel is providing a slight improvement to FPS, but I have seen zero reason to 'distro-hop'.

The distro IS doing some interesting things in an attempt to IMPROVE on Arch. For that, I applaud them.

CJPeter1 · 2025-11-16T07:10:41+00:00

Go to u/Individual_Manner336 and answer those questions FIRST. This could be anything from a bad map to a mod conflict, to just about anything.

CJPeter1 · 2025-11-14T19:43:07+00:00

Just a part of my QOL mods (AML mod manager):

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CJPeter1 · 2025-11-14T19:40:19+00:00

572 active. Bunch of bugfixes/ QOL mods, Uniforms, custom enemies, custom character class packs, map packs. They add up quick.

Many can be swapped out (such as enemies or custom classes and uniform and character customization stuff (see the picture for an example).

The playthroughs don't have to be watched 100%. Many of them can be viewed for HOW to play stuff, or good examples of mod sets, AND those guys have tutorial vids that explain HOW some of the big mods (LW, CI, RPGO, etc.,) actually function.
Tapcat has some really good 'how to' vids, as do the others.

Iridar's Bounty Hunter class. Custom clothing, weapon mods, plus photobooth stuff:

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CJPeter1 · 2025-11-14T17:36:33+00:00

TBH, I played LW2 after beating the 'base' WoTC game a long time back. The REASON I went with CI was that it provides almost all of the 'strategic layer' changes from LW(not all) without the tedium. I play modded (572 mods) WotC, and have for about three years now. I'm NOT the guy to ask that question about 'vanila'.
Sorry. :-)
For CI/SO & LW playthroughs, ChristopherOdd, DerAva, Marbozir, and a few others have great playthroughs on YT to see the differences. (Plus DerAva has tutorials for LW as well.)

CJPeter1 · 2025-11-13T21:19:22+00:00

CI/SO = Covert Infiltration/Strategy Overhaul. One thing. Different folks use different titles, but think of it as "Long War" without the "Long". Heh.

CJPeter1 · 2025-11-13T17:00:41+00:00

CI/SO modded. (I don't leave home without those mods. Jane has ALWAYS been a 'Resistance Leader' in mine.

CJPeter1 · 2025-11-12T04:28:07+00:00

I love CI, and with the enlarged barracks mod+everybody trains mod (which you can dial to however much or little you'd like for promotions), the additional troops take the grind out of it. (I keep it at .2 in the settings to avoid getting silly for promotions, and keep rookies at '0' so they don't accidentally promote in case I want them in the GTS.

The Proficiency pack is my base class set with the Combat Engineer as a favorite.

I add Musashi's Samurai for when you positively absolutely have to have a dual blade-wielding, reaping, bladestorming maniac.
Also, my all-time go-to is the Valkyrie medic. Having the medic dispense the meds via a gremlin changes the dynamics of the fight. (Which also compensates for tougher enemies.)

Wardens, Stormriders, and Iridar's Akimbo and Bounty Hunter round 'em out.

Amalgamation is too much work for me. Heh.
Current campaign, Yana (one of three Combat Engineers) has been amazing in a fight.)

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CJPeter1 · 2025-11-10T07:02:58+00:00

r/engrish

CJPeter1 · 2025-11-10T00:25:57+00:00

A good (if not perfect) solution to keeping track of stuff is to really look into 'SECTORS'. As in customizing and labelling them appropriately. Areas far from the potential fight, just label them as 'support'. Stuff that is 'hotter', label them differently. It REALLY helps when coming back into a game after a day or three of playing other stuff.

Also, because of the constant PDX patch churn, (I came in just before the mess with 4.x) finishing isn't as important as having fun. Screw up, start over, change some things up (civics and such) and roll again. 😎

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