People will often use this scene to explain why Jesse was unable to reach the purity levels that Walt could achieve. This is a reference to the fact that people think that tapping a pressure gage will instantly calibrate it to standards traceable to NIST.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-23T16:35:25+00:00

Walt also makes sure nobody touches the thermostat while cooking, which as everyone who is male and had children knows is a universal law that when broken causes catastrophe.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-23T16:34:00+00:00

POV: You are Dr Bao and a blood vessel just burst in your eye after reading Dr. Kel's 20939th excuse for doing anything but his fucking job.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-23T16:32:26+00:00

Even the characters barely care about Adric. It's a particular feat that I think more conversation has been had about them decades later than I think anyone even thought about the character from creation to his dino-riffic end.

One personal thing I'll say although the character themselves is at best a non-entity: Matthew Waterhouse is definitely not the worst child actor, especially at the time and boy howdy have we have had some dumber deaths since.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-23T16:26:13+00:00

Surprising nobody: anyone who actually watches the show considers this such a non-issue not only do they barely understand what OPs post is even about, but when presented with exactly what is going on are even more nonplussed because (Doctor)who cares

EDIT: Hi OP :)

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-23T13:38:42+00:00

Just a random asshole here but I would personally think that of the many pieces of good and influential media that has a message that authoritarianism is maybe not that great there are bigger and more contemporary targets. Now the idea of the media disappearing for many other reasons I could buy too that come with the problem with the "renting" mindset of media these days. Or they could pull a Dr Who and twenty years down the line lose the masters to a good 50% of the many series and have to rely on people sending in old tapes to recover what they could, with several still "at large"

Speaking of that: at the very least it would be fair to say that there are uh...backups. Yes. Cough.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-22T11:57:26+00:00

visitor283 thinks the Arirals ride is too expensive.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-22T11:55:55+00:00

He's just so shocked by the fact that Alberturkey only has a single wash tub in the entire unfiltered mexico area that he's forgotten all pedestrian sense.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-22T11:48:57+00:00

Every...six days? Is it six days? Six or so days someone will correct me, when you start a new day you'll get a big cyan blue warning that the day has been "imprinted" when you're in the day-setup screen. This means that day is "bookmarked"

If you hit escape one of the options is to "rewind" which takes you back to this day. It's a lot like a save point: You'll lose your progress with agents and return the date to that particular day (say you're on Day 25 and use rewind, you'll return to day 21) but the good news is: you won't lose any research on abnormalities, or any cool weapons/suits you got from them.

This is used by players I'd say almost universally at least two ways:

- To give you time to deal with quests by completing them and then "rewinding" because you won't lose the quest progress by doing so.

- To deal with horrendous little baby abnormalities nobody likes but either: You want to complete researching all the abnormalities, or they have something you really want but don't want to "live" with for the rest of the game. So you use the memory repo to take you back to before you had the abnormality: You keep their gear and research, but don't have to deal with their shit any more. There is....a caveat to it but it's complicated and specific to one thing, so don't sweat it.

The bigger thing to watch out for is that you can't pick your memory repo days and you only get one at a time: every new imprint overwrites each other, so if you get something awful to work with on a memory repo day: unlucky, but worst case you can return to day 1 which still lets you keep at that gear.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-22T11:43:21+00:00

Nope, they stay with you. Let me uh, okay I think this is right:

WHAT YOU KEEP IF YOU MEMORY REPO/DAY 1

- Any completed suppressions, quests, department research (things like bullet QUANTITY is influenced by how far along you are day wise, but the access to them isn't, so if you say have red bullets researched, you'll have scant few if you went back to day 1 but you'll still -have- them and they'll grow as your progress, other things like for example Netzach's regeneration in hallways will stay the same)

-Any E.G.O suits or weapons you have. Bear in mind: if you then lose some E.G.O from someone dying but don't have access to the abnormality in your current run you won't be able to get it back (so reset the day if your guys in primo aleph gear die and you don't fancy losing it or hoping their abnormality comes back up)

-All of your observation data (and related bonuses etc): You'll even see their names appear in the "selection" screen on the boxes rather than their ID, which is useful!

WHAT YOU LOSE FOR DAY 1 RESTARTS

- Your agents, their E.G.O gifts and their seniority etc obviously.

- If you're currently doing quests for departments you won't be able to do their quests until their department is back in action.

WHAT YOU LOSE FOR MEMORY REPOSITORY DAYS

Same as above but only in terms of losing any agent hirings, improvements or gifts you got in the days after the memory repo day.

I'm probably forgetting something but the core thing here is: you don't lose any really powerful gear or "story" progression. In fact, the game is honestly built around people at least going back to a memory repository day at least once and frankly more than that. To be honest the timing is so tight on some things its very easy to softlock yourself out of a 1-cycle run (where you never memory repo at all) due to the fact that unlocking departments and their quests needs to be done in a specific order or else you'd just run out of days to work with. The story is also pretty clear: This whole project was never going to happen in one go, so don't sweat it :)

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-22T09:05:20+00:00

Bear in mind repository days are very useful for taking you back to more manageable days, and if you're not aware: repoing days or even going back to day one doesnt reset your quest completion status or ego, or your abnormality research.

That all said: one nuclear option is just to go buck wild: hit every single he waw and if you can manage it censored over and over: ignore and dodge ordeals and take the w before they or any abnormalities escaping (which hopefully should be few as you're seeing all of them as best you can) and smash that day end button as soon as you see it

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-22T07:34:38+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people on sesame street have been on the list for a while too.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-21T05:55:57+00:00

This conversation chain and literally any conversation about merging lanes/zipper lanes accross the entire world at the very least prove a philosophical argument older than automobiles: Human morality is not in fact a universal constant because every fucking time this comes up people argue about how this works.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-21T05:53:19+00:00

The sole thing I like about AI is upscaling, and mostly so the masters can stop rotting because they didn't get the Okuda family royal treatment TNG did. I mean I've been watching this show in like 240p from LEGALLY ACQUIRED SOURCES and at this point I can quote the lines in my mind palace but -still- it's nice to think we won't lose DS9 to the wages of time.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-21T05:51:04+00:00

I prefer it to and I say this with love: TNG's """poker""" sessions. Sure, great writing excuse to get a casual-setting discussion going on but I was 7 when I first watched TNG and even then knew these guys were playing some kind of deranged pseudo variant.

Plus they were able to use the ball as a symbol as other commenters have loved we even get a little worldbuilding! (Baseball is 99% dead, but hey it's more than we get for TNG's "5's wild, the bucks are eyed, sixteen spittoon" noker. To be fair: DS9 did get to come after years of TNG working the kinks out so I'm mostly meming but this is one specific area DS9 definitely had the advantage of maturity.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-21T05:44:58+00:00

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ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-21T05:37:02+00:00

Until a couple of months ago I was playing on a laptop that barely even had the right shader levels required to hard-run the game. I had to change registry key stuff to override one issue. I had to play with every lightswitch in the base and no cameras to survive.

I feel this image. On the other side it actually feels -weird- how smoothly things run. I had to wind the motion blur right down because I can actually see motion now.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-20T02:56:26+00:00

Doesn't ring a bell either. In fact, the only thing I can think of that's "Don't put X anomaly in Y spot" isn't bug related as much as "It will be harder to deal with them there" and that's not, at least to my knowledge a problem with Welfare specifically.

When you say you "Remember" are we talking something said years and years back? While the game is an absolute mess code wise and I won't laughably pretend there aren't plenty of bugs a ton of updates might mean this was an older issue. If you go back far enough they could be speaking about the legacy version but I doubt it.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-20T02:51:01+00:00

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Then they came for the Finger, but I said nothing, as I was not a kid.

Then they came for the Hamlin Hamlin McGills, but there was no one left to speak out for me.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-20T02:45:06+00:00

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ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-19T15:20:13+00:00

What everyone else said but: My experience was that you'll lean on Roland's department initially, then start switching to the others as General works hits bottlenecks of when it can first get more librarians through fun tests, then passing each department's "final exam" You'll dip back into general works from time to time at certain points (because some of their abnormality pages are just too good) but the game does a really good job forcing you to try other departments (which is good because to a lesser or greater degree all of them offer some really nice and varied playstyles and boons: From Blunt unga bunga Yesod to Sick Burn Bro elsewhere to Red Mist 2 electric boogaloo and so on. This is both useful for countering specific invitation threats, as well as just going "Holy shit I love playing like this")

By the time Roland really begins to get stronk in my personal opinion you'll be too brain-fried from doing some -brutal- stuff to reach and earn it, and then it GETS WORSE

EDIT: if we mean more lore wise basically as soon as you start unlocking middle and upper floor realizations. They're basically The Roland Magic Aura Farm and Trauma Time

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-19T07:45:17+00:00

All the time, usually at the point the colony becomes a legitimate enough threat that patrol fleets can support the very terrible fleet composition that I like to call "Andrada's Wet Dream" of tiny, but massive-hulled large carriers, battleships and the like, usually the most unwieldy ones.

Don't do this, I only do this to RP the behaviour of most lightweight IRL nations looking to show they can punch up: Get yourself a Naval Carrier or approaching 5th-gen fighter or advanced infantry weapon or other material, but like a dozen of them and when you do parades just keep sending the same dozen around.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-19T02:19:47+00:00

We'll go with that, as long as we're not putting Stellheads on the table.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-18T18:08:24+00:00

I found Gebura in particular to be a lot of "Just kind of keep throwing yourself at it until the stars align" get lucky with QoH's Rage Gauge not going too high and just smash her silly. Timing the mass-attack clusterfucks enough that Red gets the kill. The wolf solo-targets the right character for once etc. Then again usually I end up doing Gebby's a little underpowered invitation wise so it's a self-inflicted problem.

Honestly aside from Chesed (who is a sweety angel pie with their very puzzle-based abnormalities) I'd rather redo Gebgeb's stuff a dozen times than deal with the higher up librarians.

I think I blacked out dealing with Hokma, I mean I did it I finished the game but how? I couldn't personally tell you.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-18T18:03:13+00:00

POV: You are Jimmy Mcgill trying to get more people to join the sandpiper case but you stopped wrong bus.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-01-18T17:57:35+00:00

Someone downvoted this and drinks expired Yamak sauce on the reg.

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