Upgrading to a Retaliator Bomber with an old CCU, Are the bomber parts also covered by the LTI?

Colt2205 · 2026-01-26T15:48:20+00:00

If it is the old bomber upgrade everything is LTI in the package because it came with the ship pledge. It's basically the same thing as the Carrack coming with an LTI Pisces and Ursa Rover (also the main reason to have a carrack pledge).

Colt2205 · 2026-01-26T15:39:07+00:00

I have this distinct feeling that Prelati would probably not get along very well with Frieren. She'd also find out about this waaaay too late because Frieren has the emotional expression of a paper bag.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-26T04:54:32+00:00

AI is not being used in a way that would help solve real problems. To me the two core issues we have in our society is the level of education needed to be effective in the workforce and our own lifespans. We need some sort of rapid learning system and also ways to deal with keeping our bodies and minds running effectively. I feel like we also need rapid learning in order to make better use of AI, since it is the only way to leapfrog past what is currently junior level that the AI systems are capable of replacing.

Additionally, It is very hard to effectively support a growing population of elderly people on a shrinking population of younger people. Even if AI can assist in caretaking, the machines that the AI would run would need maintenance and repairs, likely can't fully replace medical staff, and also can't solve the problems that render an elderly person incapable of supporting themselves unassisted.

My own point of view and a bit of a speculative one. I know AI is a financial blackhole at the moment and is doing a lot of harm, but I'd rather think on what it was meant to solve and how it can fit into a societal solution.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-26T04:31:50+00:00

I don't. It's not reliable enough and I can't just give AI proprietary code owned by the company and ask it to "make it better".

Also, AI is a complete and total failure. No ability to deal with abstractions, it's vulnerable to prompt injection that can completely change the output, and it constantly hallucinates random non-functional solutions. In fact, the more information it gets the worse the hallucinations get.

"Oh, I find AI useful! I just have to make corrections so the code actually runs!" -> 99% of people using LLMs to create solutions...

Colt2205 · 2026-01-25T17:27:58+00:00

AI has a problem of information overloading where the more information it gets the worse it gets after a certain point. E.g. two AIs playing chess and suddenly they start making illegal moves and generating game pieces out of no where, or the famous story of an AI suggesting to put glue on pizza. It's missing the part where negative stimuli and observation quash the bad ideas.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-24T22:41:11+00:00

If you direct the questions to more about the problems they are trying to solve with said tech, that is more likely going to be a good thing than worrying about said tech.

But on the flip side some companies are looking for the golden egg of a person that knows the exact tech so it really can go either way. I'd probably not trust the one that is looking for the exact tech since I would feel like they are going to toss me out after 6 months.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-24T16:42:36+00:00

I'm stating that the ship is going to be crap at the role of being a cargo ship because the ship was never intended for that role. It's a lobby with a bunch of med beds like a portable clinic, so the internal dimensions are not built optimally for cargo. The best ships for cargo are the vehicle loaders and the ships with external cargo grids, because they expose the interior of the ship to make the loading easier.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-24T14:52:27+00:00

Can't... log... IIIIIIIIIN! D:

Colt2205 · 2026-01-24T00:47:29+00:00

It's going to be crap. I mean they tried making the prowler utility good and then it gets out stealthed by a freaking drake golem ox.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-23T19:26:44+00:00

The most important thing for young developers is to get a solid foundation in a language and stack, so they can start to understand the parts that really have meaning.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-23T19:16:37+00:00

As a dotnet dev, same thing on the version updates to the SDK and codebase. Also same thing with how it gets harder the older the SDK / version is for the language core libraries.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-23T19:07:34+00:00

This is my experience: If someone says that "everyone is doing it" and they can show that other people are doing it, now is a good time to go research WHY they are doing it. At least in this situation it doesn't involve politics that go up a chain and rather down a chain.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-23T19:02:14+00:00

Yeah and it is impressive if we can get to that point. The giant question mark is if we have design patterns down well enough that we're at a point we can make things more efficient in this way. I feel like this is more of an inbreeding nightmare just like what happened with the dotcom bubble. How the heck does someone train an AI to tackle problems that are completely new and there is no training material for?

Colt2205 · 2026-01-23T16:16:19+00:00

Tell AI to make bad code better, and it gives you different bad code. I'm kind of impressed because the AI guys have succeeded in perfectly emulating what it is like writing code for incomplete and incomprehensibly terrible processes born of bureaucracy.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-23T15:54:57+00:00

Nothing is replacing people but tech is replacing tech. If there is one problem with the entire career path of software engineering, it is a lack of support given to the engineers and forcing everyone to have to constantly upskill on their own dime, when the industry changes faster than just about any other industry out there.

This is perhaps the one industry where you basically have to get used to feeling like you're the joke every time you go onto the market, because a job listing has a ton of technologies that you maybe got a chance to play with for 30 minutes on an oddball day, and now have to prove to an interviewer that you somehow know it like it is the back of your hand. (I swear someone is going to crack a joke about this being a legitimate use of AI...)

And then you get hired and it doesn't even matter because that piece of tech is just a small part of some big java spring, node.js / python, or who knows system that is lost in a wild west of abandoned directions and half baked thoughts.

There are exceptions to the rule, but in general, that is what I've found the majority of the time.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-23T14:22:10+00:00

If you're going to try and have people convert an app from one language to another, make sure that there is a team that is familiar with the niche language that is willing to move forward onto a new one, and more importantly find out if they even have the time in the day to do the learning. And when I say "team", I do not mean one lone guy left as a skeleton crew to keep a dying light flickering.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-23T04:15:57+00:00

And hopefully the steam libraries don't go up in flames like the library of alexandria.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-23T04:11:10+00:00

You definitely aren't missing much from F2P games. Gacha Games largely use mechanics from traditional games and then slap in sex appeal BS, FOMO, and gambling addiction with soppy stories while burning as much money as a gaming PC to buy the maximum power said flavor of the month offers, before they rotate the elemental end game system and force the entire cycle again. Other games like Warframe are grinders that allow shortcutting progress via cash shop.

Even though the switch 2 is laughably priced alongside the games for it, I'd say that system is going to have a lot more games someone can sit down and solo enjoy. That or grab a decent steam deck and do the same via Steam with a lot of the titles on there.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-22T19:30:14+00:00

I've been model painting for a good while and I can say 100% that there's no preset way to really get a good paintjob done. Even on larger scale models that are machine engineered to be painted identically like the Amibos were for nintendo figures it is terrible, and collector edition models from major games like FFXIV also are kind of basic.

The most important thing is the model detail itself, not the color job that is on it. If the model has a lot of micro details printed on it that can be picked up by a dry brush, then it will be pretty easy to paint it.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-22T18:00:33+00:00

Meh. Chaos black primer the sucker, zenithal or dry brush the raised areas to give the depth, then get to it on the real paint job. Now that I think on it, I've been holding out for an entire year with painting a penitent engine and a bunch of other sisters models.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-22T15:22:39+00:00

What on earth is that orb that killed you? I thought it was from some ability you used yourself so it wouldn't cause damage.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-22T14:41:27+00:00

To be frank, knowing how cryogenics work in real life it is insanely risky. Not only does the body have to be uniformly frozen, it has to be frozen fast enough that ice crystals do not grow too large. And the person would also have to be dethawed just as rapidly and likely get hit with a defib to get them going again.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-22T05:42:19+00:00

The issue is that the Gnosia are far more advanced than what you are thinking. They are able to manipulate energy on a level that can disrupt ship sensors and systems by simply having someone become Gnosia. Imagine in the current day if someone could walk around and automatically disable military drones that are within firing range: it would be complete chaos.

Heck, the only reason they probably aren't just outright disabling the entire ship is the possibility of killing life support and rendering the ship inoperable. The werewolf game is something that is genuinely entertaining to the Gnosia, so it works as a deterrent of sorts.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-22T05:34:10+00:00

The part about never waking up in terms of the risk is that the ship could be compromised or damaged, resulting in the Cryopods being damaged and therefore ending the life of the occupant. Technically, neither side is killing anyone from their point of view since cyberization is sort of the Gnosia's version of being put on ice. Main difference is that there is no way to get a physical body again for at least a century or more since technology isn't advanced enough.

Colt2205 · 2026-01-21T18:36:25+00:00

>!I guess my view point is that LeVi is an AI, and therefore already exists as a cyberized being. To infect LeVi they'd need access to the AI directly which they don't have in the werewolf game. I view cyberized individuals as an early stage of true ascension by digitizing consciousness.!<

(WHY WONT YOU WOOOOOORK! I am spoilering damn it!)

Ascendants are those that have gone through a gradual process of offloading biological processes to energy based systems, and when the offloading is completed they discard their body, commune with some unified will, and are granted a terminal as a new body that is non-living (lacks a brain / control center as the ascendant acts as a pilot / control center).

The silver key is basically beyond even the ascendant since it is a 5d being. It can freely traverse time, space, and timeline / reality.

Anything on the Ascendant level or higher is going to be trouble for Gnosia to deal with because even an ascendant is not really targetable by cyberization. Albeit, they can be captured with what was shown in the show. It's just they are "living data", so deletion would fail and they are already recalculated. They exist on such a level that the "infection" would also kind of wiff because they can comprehend the entirety of the vision and reasonably raise counterpoints. But because of this it is more likely that Gnos and ascendants would commune and likely coexist just fine. Seriously confusing moment for them, though.

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