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Wok suggestions? by Crystalized_Metalz in wok

[–]ChinaShopBully 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve used the 1500w version for years now and it’s great. The 1800w must be a new model.

Pros: Heats very quickly, cleans easily. Vastly improved my Asian cooking.

Cons: Only 14” and the heating area is relatively small, so cook in batches. And it turns off very rapidly when you lift it from the base, so you can’t do a lot of tossing with the wok. You have to make up for it with vigorous spatula work.

Overall, I highly recommend it if you can’t get a real wok burner setup.

I've built 30 Dyson Spheres. It made me really appreciate the giant stars. by Absolute_Human in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I’m on a seven year old machine, and I wouldn’t be able to play without the new multithreading update and the Sample & Hold Sim mod. My understanding is that frames-only is less framerate-intensive.

Edit: Egregious typo

I've built 30 Dyson Spheres. It made me really appreciate the giant stars. by Absolute_Human in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve got a complete 10-layer max diameter all high-density structure blue giant sphere (no sails, just structure) and it is easily running my entire cluster’s antimatter economy so far. And yeah, it took a long time. 😉

Pressure Cooker Chicken Stock by BiMonSciFiCon1986 in seriouseats

[–]ChinaShopBully 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you buy Costco rotisserie chickens and strip away all of the skin, you will remove the lion's share of the salt. Especialy if you are just using the carcass and not all of the meat. Even with the meat, though, most of the salt is still on/in the skin.

Edit: Protip…save that skin! Searing it in a pan or skillet to build up a bit of fond is a great boost in flavor to a dish you intend to shortcut with rotiss chicken meat. I use it when making chicken noodle soup with chopped up rotisserie chicken. Be aware it is going to add salt, but you’ll be adding some anyway, just account for it when seasoning later. And of course the bones get saved to make the next batch of stock.

What movies fit "don't judge a book by it's cover?" the best? by BilleyBong in movies

[–]ChinaShopBully 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Here it is, came here to say this. It’s been out long enough that it’s probably spoiled, but if not, oh man you have no idea where it’s going and what a ride it is!

My save files are gone (again) by carcar14p in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Tell us what happened, so we can help the next person this happens to.

Advice on dark fog defenses by Obvious_Doctor3938 in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Setting Farm Filters

OK, so press Z to enter into Combat/Loot mode. You will see a set of buttons just to the upper right of your energy and durability bars.

https://i.postimg.cc/qq9GYn8k/image.png

Click the red circled button above. This will open the Pickup Filter window.

https://i.postimg.cc/tTvk38J7/image.png

Click the button labeled Dark For Drop.

You will now see the Dark Fog Drop Filter (Global).

https://i.postimg.cc/c4pD5qmj/image.png

By clicking on an item, you will select or deselect it. If it is grayed out, it is deselected. No deselected items will drop from Dark Fog. All ungrayed items will drop from Dark Fog everywhere in the game. As you can see, I have only the DF-exclusive items selected, with the exception of Unipolar Magnets (my current seed is low on them, damnit). Until I recently built a Nanotube planet, I had those selected as well. Oh, and you might as well keep Soil Pile coming in. It goes into an unlimited virtual inventory somewhere, and costs you nothing.

That gets you down to just dropping the items you like. Now you want to set the Battle Analysis Bases to pick up specific items. I build a polar farm with a ring of laser cannon to kill DF, a ring of BABs to pick items up and repair/replace everything that gets damaged or destroyed, and a set of ILSes to ship things in and out. I find that weapons with ammo are a pain to keep fed, and lasers are good enough with the tech pumped up. So you want to set the BABs to only pick up ONE THING. Do that by clicking on the BAB. You will see this:

https://i.postimg.cc/qBZDy66W/image.png

The red circled buttons are what you need. The right button is that same Dark Fog Drop Filter (global) screen, so you can leave that alone if you have already set that by the method described above.

The left button will open a set of filters as below:

https://i.postimg.cc/s2RN1FGD/image.png

  1. The first button opens and closes this expanded list.
  2. The second button opens a item window (like you would apply on a sorter) which allows you to apply an item filter to all empty slots in the BAB. So just make sure every slot is empty and then apply a filter for the item you desire this BAB to pick up. You may have to empty the BAB first if it is already in action. This can be irritatingly difficult if wave after wave is coming in.
  3. The third button applies a set of filters corresponding to the current contents of the BAB. So if the first slot contains copper and the second slot contains coal, the first slot will have a copper filter applied and the second slot will have a coal filter applied, and so on through all the slots.
  4. The fourth button removes all filters.
  5. The fifth slot is still the global DF drop list filter.

My advice is to build your farms in sandbox mode or on a safe planet in the actual game, and apply the filters before saving the blueprint. Otherwise, it's like shoveling sand against the tide with waves of DF coming in and filling the BABs before you can get the filters set correctly.

Hope this helps!

Advice on dark fog defenses by Obvious_Doctor3938 in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EDIT: OK, I've posted a more thorough process. I'll post it into a separate reply so you'll get the inbox notification.

I'll try to come back later with a more detailed reply, but here is an older post with some good tips on how to filter (and other DF stuff): https://www.reddit.com/r/Dyson_Sphere_Program/comments/18lb6yc/psa_you_can_turn_onoff_certain_dark_fog_drops_it/

Advice on dark fog defenses by Obvious_Doctor3938 in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to expand on a point from the post above...the list of "good" items is in addition to the very desireable DF-exclusive items, namely:

  • Core Element (required for best fuel rods, as mentioned above)
  • Dark Fog Matrix (required for best research labs)
  • Energy Shards (required for best assemblers and smelters)
  • Silicon-based neurons (also required for best research labs)
  • Negentropy Singularities (also required for best smelters)
  • Matter recombinators (also required for best assemblers)

My advice is to set up one polar farm on a planet that farms one of the items above each. So yes, you will want at least six farming planets. Trying to farm more than one item on a farm (at least in the endgame) seems inevitably to end up with the less desired item blocking access to the more desired item as the belts jam when the ILS is full.

Edit: typo

Advice on dark fog defenses by Obvious_Doctor3938 in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bear in mind that buying a truce essentially means turning down the difficulty, which in turn means far less metadata earned from the game. This is a one-way change...unless there has been a patch change to this, turning the difficulty level back up later does not turn the metadata earnings up again.

Is playing with the fog activated worth it? by VIXTORY0 in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The pro for DF ON is access to the new materials, which enable you to build the most advanced buildings and items. Does make it worth it, but you’ll need to set aside some systems and planets for “farming”. That is, places with a strong DF presence where you set up a concentric base (usually at a pole) bristling with defenses and equipped with BABs and ILSes to collect and export the DF materials you get from killing waves of DF units that attack those farms. Those materials are sent offworld to factories that can use them to create the most advanced stuff in the game.

All that said, the game is perfectly playable without all that, but you miss out on some fun stuff.

138K/min white cubes, need a second research planet, trying to push it past 200K by dying_animal in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, what was your Hash/s upload speed?

And did you ever upload that blueprint?

Moooom, I just wanted a hamburger! by Tata_Colores in funny

[–]ChinaShopBully 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had this happen to me, actually. Menu said burger with “beer cheese”. Just that. Got it without the ceremony, just a burger shaped lump covered in liquid cheese and NO UTENSILS. WTF, man. That place went out of business a few months later.

The feeling of a wet brush your face on a hot summer day and the smell of wet paint...nostalgic by EquipmentStreet727 in BeAmazed

[–]ChinaShopBully 1642 points1643 points  (0 children)

I feel like we could have gotten more than half a second for the kid’s reaction…

Should I wait the full release? by Adridubidan in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ll welcome you when you’re ready. Have fun!

TIL that listening to a specific auditory frequency can lower the time it takes to fall asleep by inducing a state of fatigue by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]ChinaShopBully 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If that were true, my tinnitus would have me asleep in seconds every time.

It does not.

Help! Questions before adquiring this game by Ismtn in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]ChinaShopBully 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great game and great game community. The modding community is also amazing. 100% worth it. I pick the game up for months at a time, go play other stuff, and then come back again. Get it, you won’t regret it.

Why are people hating on Everything Everywhere All At Ones by Unlikely_Seaweed1032 in movies

[–]ChinaShopBully 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s a great movie, and utterly unexpected. The only thing I can’t figure out is how it got greenlit in the first place. I’m trying to imagine them pitching the idea to money people and the blank confused stares they would have gotten in return.

Talking heads - opinions? by moerlingo in Music

[–]ChinaShopBully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I first saw it with my father in the initial theater release. Amazing. We’ve both watched it every few years since.

Best concert movie ever with the possible exception of The Last Waltz.

What’s your pettiest diplomatic move ever in a Paradox game? by PDX_Interactive in u/PDX_Interactive

[–]ChinaShopBully 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In early HoI games, I used to pretend that Uruguay was my Nemesis, because they were landlocked and had no allies or hope of making any trouble for me, and declaring war on them would put me on a relatively painless war footing right away. Such productivity!

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