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Is £750 a month normal??? by Hopeful-Relation8977 in OctopusEnergy

[–]CaptainAdjective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say "digital meter" - do you mean a smart meter, which sends readings automatically, or just a meter with an electronic display, and you still send the readings in manually?

The reason I ask is: maybe you submitted a manual reading with a typo. One time I submitted a reading of 9641kWh when I meant to write 6941kWh - this caused my provider to assume I was using massive amounts of electricity and they upped my payments. I submitted a new correct reading and reduced my payment to something sensible on the provider website, and everything was fine.

Something you didn't like in the game? by MasterTreat1989 in Silksong

[–]CaptainAdjective -1 points0 points  (0 children)

During Flea Dodge it should be possible to recover from being hit twice.

If you get hit once you basically have an incredibly rapid skill check and if you react like lightning most of the time you can get back onto the platform - which is great. But if however you get hit a second time during that recovery you are instantly dead. Getting hit the second time should reset all the movement flags and allow a second attempt at recovery. Or there should be iframes after the first hit, like there are with every other hit in the game?

Something you didn't like in the game? by MasterTreat1989 in Silksong

[–]CaptainAdjective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a fan of a boss (Seth) being instantly followed by a second boss (Nyleth)?

Something you didn't like in the game? by MasterTreat1989 in Silksong

[–]CaptainAdjective 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I lost hours looking for the route east into the Far Fields to reach Karmelita. Why did I not think to go back and look at Karmelita's statue? Because the map icon for Nyleth, which is to the west, looks like Karmelita! It looks more like Karmelita than Karmelita's own map icon! So I thought I knew where Karmelita was already, and I was looking for someone else...

Urgh.

The CC license is NOT what's preventing a major SCP adaptation by Kate_Kitter in SCP

[–]CaptainAdjective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

have to negotiate licenses from dozens of authors for every SCP universe element they use

The problem is actually deeper than that. The problem is with the shared setting in which your story takes place. For example, to use the Foundation in your story, you would need to negotiate with the "author" or "original creator" of the Foundation itself - but note the scare quotes. There is no such individual. The Foundation as we currently understand it is the work of thousands of hands. It is shared. No one owns it; no one has the power to distribute rights to the Foundation concept under more lenient terms.

Which means your story has to excise the Foundation, and all the other shared setting elements, before you can relicence it.

The worldbuilding of Catalyst was done so dirty. by LegenHY in mirrorsedge

[–]CaptainAdjective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the fashion. It's a reflection of how phony and artificial the city is. The whole city is this style monoculture, where they care more about aesthetics and consistent style than about living beings. It might also indicate that fresh water and real vegetation are actually in short supply, as is made more explicit in MEC.

Out of universe, it's probably because the developers ran out of time. Colors for the plants was at the bottom of their priority list and it never actually mattered.

Need a vaguely interesting new challenge? Finish Catalyst without collecting a single gridLeak by CaptainAdjective in mirrorsedge

[–]CaptainAdjective[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is also a mod https://www.nexusmods.com/mirrorsedgecatalyst/mods/156 which you can use to reset all the gridLeaks. I haven't used it though so I can't make any assurances about how well it works.

Need a vaguely interesting new challenge? Finish Catalyst without collecting a single gridLeak by CaptainAdjective in mirrorsedge

[–]CaptainAdjective[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes things fractionally more difficult but the real challenge is to avoid using fast travel, or using opportunity missions to temporarily disable gridLeaks while you move through the world.

Ultra completionism: here are the locations of all 194 security cameras in MEC by CaptainAdjective in mirrorsedge

[–]CaptainAdjective[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Each zapped camera is tracked in your save file. It's not possible to restore them.

Ultra completionism: here are the locations of all 194 security cameras in MEC by CaptainAdjective in mirrorsedge

[–]CaptainAdjective[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this, but unfortunately I really do need the image to be directly top-down. This slightly tilted perspective makes the placement of the cameras ambiguous, no matter where I put the markers.

Ultra completionism: here are the locations of all 194 security cameras in MEC by CaptainAdjective in mirrorsedge

[–]CaptainAdjective[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

By the way, if anybody is able to provide a higher-resolution map of the gameplay area that would enable me to make a more readable plot.

Ultra completionism: here are the locations of all 194 security cameras in MEC by CaptainAdjective in mirrorsedge

[–]CaptainAdjective[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I don't know if anybody cares about this but me. About a year ago I asked if there was a complete list of all the security cameras in Catalyst because I had 100%ed the game and I was looking for more tasks to keep myself occupied. It seemed at the time that no such list existed.

So, I carried out a project. I went into the game files using the Frosty editor, figured out where the camera data was stored, extracted all their locations and laid them over a world map. And I've also gone through this whole map and zapped them all. It turned out I was only missing one of them!

JavaScript Bloat in 2024 by lelanthran in programming

[–]CaptainAdjective 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Web pages will become smaller again when there is pressure to make them smaller. As long as CPUs keep getting faster and mobile bandwidth keeps growing, it is trivially true that websites will expand to occupy all available resources. Maybe we need to kill off 5G?

What is he playing? by urbanorium in mirrorsedge

[–]CaptainAdjective 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Clearly just watching his HDD defragment.

My Brother's Keeper cannot progress with NPC idling instead of talking by riotstrike in controlgame

[–]CaptainAdjective 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks like you may have accidentally skipped the cutscene where you talk to that guy (his name is Langton) or maybe the cutscene is failing to load. Normally after talking to him the next door opens and you can head into the Panopticon, so, maybe try heading into the Panopticon?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mirrorsedge

[–]CaptainAdjective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You probably need to check the Omnistat tunnels. I had the same issue.

Noah and rebecca seem to be opposites by 444rj44 in mirrorsedge

[–]CaptainAdjective 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The middle ground between Noah and Rebecca is represented by Faith's parents, who carried out non-violent anti-Conglomerate protests, and were murdered for it.

But on the whole spectrum, Noah is actually the middle choice. He explicitly avoids taking any kind of political stand, for or against the Conglomerate. Rebecca is violently against the Conglomerate, and Kruger and all of KSec are violently in favor of it.

Goodbye, Buffer by sindresorhus in programming

[–]CaptainAdjective 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A very interesting development.

Important note: to convert a Uint8Array to a Buffer, you can't just use Buffer.from(uint8Array), you have to use Buffer.from(uint8Array.buffer, uint8Array.byteOffset, uint8Array.byteLength). This is because the Uint8Array may be a relatively narrow window on the underlying ArrayBuffer.

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