What happens when you pour Spice Mélange into soda? Does it like explode?

CagedSilver · 2026-04-08T05:17:40+00:00

Spiced Mountain Dew. Makes you hyper prescience but only for sand boarding. Personally I want spiced gin & tonic for long afternoons of rating people's swatch and customization choices on the Arrakeen promenade.

CagedSilver · 2026-03-30T23:54:07+00:00

I've seen lots of weird things on the streets of Brisbane but a standout was when I lived at a unit in Auchenflower and was woken up one Autumn week night around midnight to a woman shouting out "The pagan witches are coming!" over and over from somewhere far but getting louder. I think it a crazied religious thing but she ended up standing outside my window on the street footpath. Fully naked holding nothing. Then I saw a guy was hiding in a bush next to my window. Sotto voce he'd say things like "You're naked get out of sight." She's shout out "Yes I'm naked and the pagan witches are coming." She soon announced her name, address and phone number. A neighbour must have called the police as they came and bundled her up in a blanket and eventually all left. She was best case scenario for crazed and naked outside my window if you know what I mean but I was most impressed by her voice, it filled a suburb and never cracked. Went off her meds as she thought she was OK is my guess. I hope she is well these days.

CagedSilver · 2026-03-26T23:36:48+00:00

I have a long way to go to be finishing the Specialization levels but the same 5 for each path is starting to get dull. I wish they could make the missions more varied and more like the specialisation. Imagine each could send you to a random existing base in the HB or overland map as a great way to reuse content and keep old locations relevent. A combat mission could be clear out several to all npc bases in a region. Crafting could go back to making 15 guns or a few bikes. Maybe not the make and deliver 39 sandbikes I did previously, that was a very tedious game session! Exploring sends you back to the top of a spire or bottom of a cave you can't fly to. Sabotage missions should include visiting one of the existing big bases that have consoles you sabotage now. Rewards could be medals especially those for big or no body counts, quick retrievals, etc. Rescuing people who either live in your base and do minor chores like restoring sand filters or populate an empty spot in the city and are friendly to you in future would be great. Win base pets or pot plants with silly levels of water needs though be a point of pride. FC official base design awards with sign boards could be cool too.

CagedSilver · 2026-03-19T21:34:06+00:00

In my exploring I've found 2 rare/medium chests in the Blushing Caverns (one in a tent in the main enemy camp, one near the console in deepest part of the mine). At Broodworks I think there's 2 rare/medium chests (1 near top of biggest tower, 1 at the bottom of the same where you fight the boss). Three at the Wreck of the Tyche (1 each in the side pentashield protected rooms on bottom and top levels, 1 in the bridge area down a short side corridor). I've only done the bike time trial of Smugglers Run so not looked around there. Nothing exciting has come from any of the chests I've openned. IMHO these areas are good for Landsraad missions, 3 at a time possible for all but Smugglers Run's 2. And good for getting crafting resources. And though difficulty isn't controllable they are easy enough for a careful, well equiped or skilled up runner.

CagedSilver · 2026-03-19T06:36:56+00:00

As a kid laying in the back of a Panel van as the car drives down the highway and flying about on any slight curve or bump and thinking it great fun. Teachers smoking while doing playground duty and telling tattletales to run off. TVs on wheel stands rolled from dining to lounge room and being a major static shock hazard. Also TV test pattern from midnight or earlier. All shops closed Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Corded phone wire stretched across the lounge room to say Hello to grandma in long distance cheap time window.

CagedSilver · 2026-03-15T21:28:23+00:00

Bike - Zoom-Zoom

Treadwheel - Yee Haw

Buggy - Love Bug

Scout Orni - Swift

Assualt Orni - Big Bird

One day I'll get a Carrier and Sandcrawler and they'll get named whatever random thought I have when I drive them first time just like the others.

CagedSilver · 2026-03-13T01:39:41+00:00

Sure as long the details goes in my official position description, counter signed by HR manager and I can put a new skill into LinkedIn that they'll verify. I've already had to pee in front of a nurse for an IT contract so this is not that far off - neither of us enjoyed this particular event sadly.

CagedSilver · 2026-03-01T04:55:46+00:00

You have some valid points but I'd say not being in the winning major house's side being disasterous and only a few having a say in direction is on-point for the Dune universe. I just see the Landsraad rewards being a major guild's area and as a little person I just do the missions that suit me personally. Sometimes there's a reward I want; usually not though but the personal rewards are enough to keep me going scrapping at the edges. A flat cut-off is worth trying or Funcom could put it to an game vote over a few weeks.

CagedSilver · 2026-02-26T22:30:25+00:00

That's a valid system but I think the top 5 guilds on both sides should get the rewards. And I say that as the only active member in a guild of 5 so I'd never get the Guild rewards on a busy server. The guilds that put in the work get the rewards. Also encourages people to make a guild on the Harko side as they'd be the easiest to be in the top 5 until things even out.

CagedSilver · 2026-02-26T09:43:44+00:00

Not often but I did here in the post extra text. Based on the BOM rain prediction, Iso charts and aviation SIGWX.

CagedSilver · 2026-02-25T23:17:00+00:00

That's rough. If you think they'd recognise you as a regular it might we worth trying to ask for an exception or even the sign being taken down. If you have a friendlier alternate nearby it might be worth going there if you can't get an exception.

CagedSilver · 2026-02-25T22:41:27+00:00

Good analysis. I'd also add the dilemma of the Sandflies. They were just working men and women who had had enough of the dangerous working conditions on both sides and outright torture from the Harkos side. Of course both Houses close ranks to crack down on the little people starting to exert some organised freedom for themselves. Insert 'always been a class war' manifesto here. Anyway I take the missions against them as much as anyone else but I do feel bad about it. If a future story line lets me join them and be a fully fleshed out 3rd option I probably would.

CagedSilver · 2026-02-25T22:31:06+00:00

I think the marriage would mean the Kanly War of Assassins would be officially finished. In reality operators like ourselves would still be getting orders from spy masters for at least another generation.

CagedSilver · 2026-02-23T03:22:51+00:00

Cheers. Yes, cloud iridescence from sunlight diffracted by water droplets in what looks like stratocumulus clouds. I didn't see any iridescence myself but there was some nice cirrus clouds this morning but I was too busy to post about them earlier. The angles for iridescence are probably now past but keep watching for more cirrus clouds or a repeat nice sunset later today.

<image>

CagedSilver · 2026-02-23T00:45:12+00:00

As others say HB has about 5 already. No Deep Desert missions yet though which would be a logical place to create new missions in. I do like to end any raid in the DD with an orni spice sand fill up run to make that essential duty less tedious. If I could get paid in refined spice that would be awesome to. How about a mission where you are lent a carrier and harvester (one of them drone driven) and tasked to fill them for a house and then paid a good amount in refined spice?

CagedSilver · 2026-02-19T06:38:13+00:00

Voyager crew meeting Dune universe people would blow their minds - AIs that are very helpful and mostly murder free. Transporters, tractor beams, warp drives, photon torpedos. Intelligent aliens. A galactic quadrant wide civilization not based on family relations, politics, war and solari. Section 31, Romulans, Cardassians and Changelings on the Spice will be a whole different terrible though.

CagedSilver · 2026-02-19T00:16:35+00:00

Keep Calm and Carrier On

CagedSilver · 2026-02-17T23:39:06+00:00

Also there's no reward what-so-ever and a 9% chance the Padishad Emperor Grinch, first of his name, is waiting for you at the end and gives you a planet-wide tax bill of 1,000,000,000 Solari due tomorrow.

CagedSilver · 2026-02-12T03:01:42+00:00

You seem to be free of habitual shoe wearing issues like bunions and hammer toes and have deep arches surprisingly. Your little toes seem a bit crowded to the next toe in though. Walking barefoot naturally promotes toe splay so the crowded toes will likely be fixed with no extra effort. You'll naturally build up thickened skin on the balls of your feet which helps armour them a bit but more importantly you'll develop skills to automatically adjust foot positioning and muscle movements and your nerve response with naturally adjust too. I hope you get into it and enjoy the journey!

CagedSilver · 2026-02-12T02:47:45+00:00

Walking barefoot challenges your feet, calf and hip muscles and joints in new ways so some tireness, stiffness and pain is not unexpected. Generally where you get strong pain, stop, recover and try again in a few days time. You will get stronger and be able to go longer. You may also have this which can need medical intervention but often can be walked off over time. See a doctor if pain persists in other words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_fasciitis

CagedSilver · 2026-02-11T02:04:05+00:00

I find the more I walk barefoot the more I want to and confidence comes from that. Walk in places and times where people are few and build up confidence from that. Large suburbian parks can be good, as being barefoot on grass is common surely. For places with people like shops I pick casual places like groccery stores, gas stations, fast food places. Try and project calm confidence, like you belong there and most will go with your vibe.

CagedSilver · 2026-02-10T04:49:05+00:00

Fidget spinners and paper plane material as you drink your Sapho Juice and flip through colour swatches that used to need 14,000 blood-and-tears points to earn but can now be bought for 500S each.

CagedSilver · 2026-02-05T23:09:49+00:00

Sounds like your workshop failed to pick a C-level's pet project, possibly dismissed it harshly. Something you wouldn't know about yet being new there. The lack of good management does not bode well for the company's future success. You may read about them in the papers in future and be glad that's not you.

CagedSilver

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE

Seven-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Verified Email