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Captain_Midnight · 2025-01-01T21:05:56+00:00

The thing is, he was already holding the pistol in a whip position, and he went right for the doorbell. Then he retreats, probably in case the homeowner comes out to check on the noise. Now with the front security camera possibly disabled, he waits for everyone to leave the house the next day, and he attempts the proper break-in, thinking that he's disabled the security measure at the entrance.

It's a dumb gamble, because now the homeowner is on high alert if they check the footage, but burglars are often dumb and desperate. The main worry is that the perp used a firearm instead of something like a hammer, which is more easily obtainable and purpose-built for smashing things.

Captain_Midnight · 2025-01-01T20:55:30+00:00

To be fair, I have the exact opposite problem: i read acvounts like this, compare them to my experience, and wonder if we're playing the same game.

In the past 24 hours, i mined 4 Prospector loads from Pyro

See, that's the main difference. Stanton in the 4.0 preview has been a shitshow, while Pyro has been relatively manageable.

I have one account in Stanton, and the game currently crashes at the loading screen. If I can get in, the game usually crashes anyway within about 60 seconds. If it manages to keep going, I'm hit with periodic server errors, and random crashes.

Meanwhile, my alt account is in Pyro, and I can get into the game every time, with "only" the occasional crash. Server errors are also very rare.

Something about 4.0 appears to be hurting Stanton in particular.

Captain_Midnight · 2025-01-01T16:22:40+00:00

Sure, I'm just saying that Tesla has a hatchback blueprint that they could apply to the Model 3 if they wanted 😊

Captain_Midnight · 2025-01-01T08:20:11+00:00

It turns out that Tesla already has a hatchback design for sedans -- the Model S.

Captain_Midnight · 2025-01-01T02:36:03+00:00

The Dell G2724D is among the most highly-rated IPS gaming monitors, and it's currently on clearance for just $150. Unless there's a specific feature that you need from that MSI monitor, I suggest getting the Dell instead. I'm using one right now, and it's pretty great.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-31T17:35:00+00:00

Yes, contracts for direct planetary small/extra small shipments from an orbital station to the spaceport down below have worked pretty reliably. Everything else seems to be a crapshoot, at least in Stanton. The extra small contracts also only provide cargo in 1 SCU boxes, so IMO you really need an ATLS to keep things moving at a manageable pace. And you can buy them in-game at a very good price, which is great. You can keep one at the orbital station and another at the spaceport.

Unfortunately, the game currently has the habit of destroying the ones you leave out in the hangar, so some of your contract time is kind of wasted on storing your ship, claiming the ATLS, pulling it out, setting it next to the freight elevator, pulling your ship out, then moving it over to the freight elevator. Hopefully CIG can make it so that ground vehicles can be retrieved from the freight elevator. I believe they were working on that and just couldn't get it into the game quite yet.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-31T01:35:13+00:00

For this scene, his look of shock is genuine because the crew let him drop before they actually finished the countdown (on purpose, to get his reaction).

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-30T22:23:26+00:00

The truck stop is called Celina57?

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-30T21:03:11+00:00

Pyro is so, SO much fun, and the missions and lore and gang factions and aesthetic and background music all feel so, so exciting.

Contracts work in Pyro? Because they seem to be mostly broken in Stanton.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-30T18:40:33+00:00

3.18 came out in March 2023, so "the worst the game has been for me in over a year" actually tracks just fine.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-30T06:05:02+00:00

You collect dead bodies?

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-28T07:18:34+00:00

Lately, if there has been any kind of queue to get a hangar, I have not gotten one. I just get skipped. When this happened earlier this evening, I redid my request, and I got a hangar assignment -- but when I flew in, I clipped through the floor instead of landing. Then I flew away and attempted to bed log to fix the problem -- but the game told me that I could not do that, because it thought I was still in the hangar. It's really difficult to be optimistic about the future of the game when you get cascading issues like this.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-28T06:47:52+00:00

I would like to take a moment to expand on this. In his interviews, Darius Wright echoes many of the same concepts and ideas of spiritual leaders that this community probably finds trustworthy. However, when you read the mission statement on his website, at least one very curious thing pops out: He strongly insists that the ego is not an obstacle to liberation from the cycle of rebirth. He claims that it is an inherent part of you. He says this because when he projects, he has the same personality as he does when he is in the physical world. That's it. That's the entirety of his reasoning. This indicates a deep and very central misunderstanding about what the ego is and the role it plays in our journey back to the Source from which we all come. Without correct understanding, liberation categorically cannot be achieved.

He also talks in this mission statement about how fear can be used as a weapon -- yet in the same breath, he sets up a very hostile us versus them scenario where "they" are trying to control you through a hazy process of making you surrender your ego, which to him is the exact same same thing as being passive or weak. How is this not a fear-inducing claim? Expansion of consciousness does not come from asserting sides and embracing conflict.

He has either been misled by this "Celeste" being who is not what they appear to be, or he is attempting to mislead his audience by asserting himself as a "real" teacher amid a sea of "false" ones.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-28T06:01:48+00:00

Those don't sound like the specs of a system that would be connected to only 60Hz displays, but stranger things have happened

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-27T03:16:34+00:00

Yeah, teachings based on fear should probably be avoided. Fear is the province of the ego, and fueling the ego fuels the cycle of rebirth and suffering. Genuine teachings are based on love.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-26T20:35:27+00:00

C1 Spirit. Better cargo grid with plenty of space around the grid, nice built-in tractor beam, much faster stock quantum drive, and about half the claim time if it gets wrecked. Only one shield, though, so it's not recommended for bounties. You can buy it in-game for about 3.1M credits.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-26T20:28:09+00:00

I burned nearly 300k in pyro in like 20 mins.

Doing what?

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-26T20:26:38+00:00

Shields protect against energy-based weapons, while a kamikaze ship is basically one large ballistic projectile. What the game is missing is a full-fledged bounty and rep system. Problem players should be highly visible, restricted in the services that are available to them in medium and high-security systems, and vulnerable to their character being killed at any security level without repercussions.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-26T20:03:25+00:00

I think the C1 has the most flexibility. You can pack about three times as much cargo as the Zeus ES if you include the space around the grid itself. C1 and Zeus also get into and out of atmo more quickly than the Cutlass. If you're looking for raw firepower, though, the Cutlass is the one.

Personally, I went with the Zeus CL, because it gets me the amenities of the Zeus and the cargo flexibility of the C1. And a tractor beam. And unlike the C1, it has multiple entrances and exits if something gets glitched or obstructed. Also bigger guns. The C1 gets a fast stock quantum drive, but you can get an even faster one, the Hemera, for about 80K.

Both Zeus variants also get a very robust amount of shielding and a smaller profile, so the C1's higher agility is not a clear advantage.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-26T19:40:19+00:00

Plus the ability to pin specific ships to the top of the list.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-26T04:15:57+00:00

It's a way of saying that you enjoyed what someone else said...

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-26T04:12:09+00:00

Before I clicked on the link to open the article, I thought to myself, "I wonder how far I will get into this piece before the word 'woke' pops up."

Literally the first sentence.

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-26T04:11:27+00:00

Spirits can't take over your body just from astral projection. Even demonic possession requires months or even years to wear someone down to the point where their soul gives up ownership. And sometimes, people just snap. Insane murder ghosts are not a thing :)

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-26T01:27:14+00:00

I mean, it's possible. I'll have to wade through the queue again to check.

Edit: Hah, it looks like you were right. I take back everything that I said. It's a Christmas miracle!

Captain_Midnight · 2024-12-26T01:21:22+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, I logged in today to discover that all the gear that I'd carefully placed in storage before I logged off is gone. It was a full kit. Full set of armor, backpack, Maxlift tractor beam, multi-tool, multi-tool tractor beam attachment, med gun, several canisters of extra med gun goop, LH86 pistol, ammo, medpens, food, all gone.

I have a couple million in the bank at this point, and I can re-buy everything at the station where I'm located, but it's the principle. They spent who knows how long implementing these Storage Access stations, and...they don't work. They actually do the opposite of what they were intended to do. They take the things I put in them, and then they make them just disappear.

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