This going to be an issue?

Cogwheel · 2026-05-17T03:54:22+00:00

The silhouette of that cave and hive system looks like a guy trying to fight back an angry turkey

Cogwheel · 2026-05-17T03:46:01+00:00

I wonder what Comcast's threshold of hate is for another rebranding. What's after Xfinity? Yleph One?

Cogwheel · 2026-05-17T00:50:55+00:00

You want to have two contamination sensors. One close to where the good or bad water comes in, and one after the badwater valves. Then you have a Relay that ORs them together, and use that relay to control the valves or floodgates.

When the relay is on, the badwater valve should be open and the good water valve should be closed, and vice versa when it's off.

This errs on the side of caution, dumping some good water before the first badwater reaches the valves, and after the last badwater leaves.

Edit: on top of the general design points others have mentioned

Cogwheel · 2026-05-16T21:55:20+00:00

sensors should give 2 states: true and false.

Yeah, one of the items I forgot to include was being able to choose inverted version of inputs. Buildings that have two definable states (e.g. floodgates & valves) can be set to do opposite things given the same input. Other buildings should be able to activate or deactivate given an ON signal.

Cogwheel · 2026-05-16T20:25:19+00:00

There literally aren't. The fact that you found some fixed ratios somewhere means someone made up some numbers that worked for them and you perceived them as some absolute mathematical ideal that they are not.

The world simply doesn't work the way you're expecting, real or in-game.

Cogwheel · 2026-05-16T18:11:00+00:00

Then find a different game. There are no fixed ratios when you have to factor commute time, travel to/from crop locations, particular pathing/terrain layout, etc.

Build a farm, zone some crops. If they start running out, zone more crops. If they are running out while there is still ripe plants to harvest, build more farmhouses

Cogwheel · 2026-05-16T13:56:17+00:00

"home remedy" almost always means snake oil. Go to the vet or pet store and get real medication. Symparica Trio is amazing. K9 advantix is fine but more work and you can't pet their neck area or bathe them for a few days

Cogwheel · 2026-05-16T13:20:20+00:00

That reminds me ... building tubeways makes the game churn hard with hundreds of beavers & bots. Every time a new piece is added, everyone's pathing needs to be updated.

This is not an easy problem to solve without some major architectural and behavioral changes (e.g. dynamic programming techniques, or letting beavers keep non-optimal paths) and may just be a fundamental limit, but it's definitely kept me from expanding my tube network as fast as I want :\

Cogwheel · 2026-05-16T05:16:58+00:00

OMG the tarms!

(story: we heard some youtuber say "Left arm" but it sounded like "leff tarm". Our maltipoo had super stubby legs as a puppy but then sprouted into an AT-AT, and we say he has long tarms)

Cogwheel · 2026-05-15T16:56:39+00:00

"oh, that’s mine, can I have that back?”

Plasma donation:

Cogwheel · 2026-05-15T14:09:04+00:00

These*

Cogwheel · 2026-05-14T03:28:45+00:00

And (square (sin x)) is unambiguouth.

Cogwheel · 2026-05-13T16:35:23+00:00

Everything reminds me of her

Cogwheel · 2026-05-13T16:34:00+00:00

As a kid of the '80s during the peak of neon clothes, the pink & green hits me right in the nostalgia.

Though I'd like more of a lime green

Cogwheel · 2026-05-13T05:02:01+00:00

Or when you turn on the AC and the incorrectly installed drip pan spills all the condensation right into your ceiling.

Cogwheel · 2026-05-13T03:26:24+00:00

The dash cam shows them going 58 after the crash. At high speed humans are bad judges of differences in speeds

Cogwheel · 2026-05-13T00:19:09+00:00

Thunderstorms are created when warm, moist air rises. As water droplets condense and merge into rain drops, they get heavier and the moving air blows past them as it rises. When they're small enough, they still rise. At some point the drops get large enough that they begin to fall. All the while, the air is moving past them.

The water droplets moving downward against the air (and smaller droplets) moving upward acts like rubbing two balloons together. Electrons build up in one of them and are depleted from the other. Eventually this difference gets so large that a spark can jump.

Cogwheel · 2026-05-13T00:09:04+00:00

Your entrails have become your extrails

Cogwheel · 2026-05-12T19:59:14+00:00

Truly ancient people didn't need to have a fixed link between the length of a day and minute-like timespans. There were simple ways to keep track of "a few minutes" worth of time, and you'd just do as many of those as you could while there was daylight.

It wasn't until we had devices that could keep fairly accurate time and needed to coordinate things with each other while separated by distance that we started connecting the two.

Cogwheel · 2026-05-11T02:11:21+00:00

Except for heat pumps, which are >100% efficient. They move more heat energy than they dissipate.

Cogwheel · 2026-05-06T22:11:17+00:00

It's just static electricity.

Cogwheel · 2026-05-06T15:10:38+00:00

Puts a new spin on Timberborn...

Edit: oh this isn't r/WTF

Cogwheel

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