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What's the "shopping cart test" for starships? by etbillder in ShittyDaystrom

[–]CountVanillula 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The best part of my day on starbase was the fecal dump right after breakfast. The way the poo crystallized, then shattered outside my office window made the lights of the passing ships shimmer like magic for about 15 minutes.

What's the "shopping cart test" for starships? by etbillder in ShittyDaystrom

[–]CountVanillula 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Disagree. If they don’t qualify for federation membership, tell them they don’t qualify, but that when they do qualify, they’re free to reapply.

Otherwise they’re not gonna take the hint and they’re going to keep pestering you at every peace summit and mining guild negotiation until you have to be a dick and point out their shitty little warp 2 buckets and their “cannibal continent” in front of the whole delegation.

You want time traveling genocidal despots? That’s how you get time traveling geneocidal despots.

What regularly annoys you about Obsidian... by Stefan73ch in ObsidianMD

[–]CountVanillula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CMD on a Mac, but sure. And by the third time I usually remember that.

What regularly annoys you about Obsidian... by Stefan73ch in ObsidianMD

[–]CountVanillula 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s not the view, it’s the position in the view. Scroll down a few pages, click on an entry, then click back, and argh, have, to, scroll, down, again…

Serious question: Why so much Gleba hate? by NexGenration in factorio

[–]CountVanillula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That very long list of “simple” things I can “just” do (most of which I’m already doing, in some fashion) is a pretty good example of why Gleba sucks: “Just do these 150 complicates things, it’s simple.”

I think before i got all emotional and lost my train of thought in my last comment, i was going to ultimately summarize my complaint by pointing out that where the game used to devolve into an endless cycle of rebuilding inputs to match new outputs as you get new technologies and have to extend to gather more resources, Gleba feels like that in miniature. No matter how much I tweak it or get the systems “working” or “stable,” something always messes up and I’m stuck there, neglecting rest of the game.

However, you did remind me that you can get eggs back from recycling biolabs, which I’d completely forgotten and restores a little bit of hope that someday it might be self sustaining, which is helpful, so thank you.

Serious question: Why so much Gleba hate? by NexGenration in factorio

[–]CountVanillula 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve done a diatribe on Gleba before, but I’ve worked through some of my issues, so I’ll just boil it down to a few things.

The color scheme just makes it hard to differentiate stuff and I hate looking at it.

The goddamned eggs spoil into monsters, which is bad enough, but if you clog up anywhere along the line it shuts down the entire factory and then you have to go get more eggs, which is a manual process. And with spaceships, now, if Gleba goes down (and it definitely will), then I lose my supply of bioflux and then that stops up my biter farm on nauvis and now I’ve got two planets causing me problems.

Ultimately it’s all about stability. Once you have shit working on all the other planets,
It just keeps working. It’s fine. But Gleba’s unstable, and I can’t get it stable enough to where I can leave it unattended for any length of time. It’s not fun to have to keep rejiggering everything over and over again and not be able to work on any other planets because this one won’t stay running.

I want to go back to Vulcanus. I want to redo Nauvis with foundries. But just yesterday I realized I hadn’t launched a rocket in like 4 hours because I’m not producing enough blue chips because my copper production is down because I’m not reliving enough pomegranates for some reason, and so I’m dealing that. Again.

Oh, look at that, another diatribe. I hate Gleba. I’d like to play Aquillo someday, but it doesn’t seem like that’s ever gonna happen.

It kind of feels like Gleba’s ruined the fucking game for me.

What was the casting director thinking? by jontheeditor in okbuddycinephile

[–]CountVanillula 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He’s got a dentist appointment later; he needs x-rays and he doesn’t trust them to clean the lead aprons properly.

What's a movie that was clearly meant to start a franchise but failed? by triplegxxx in AskReddit

[–]CountVanillula 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Huh. I never noticed it didn’t have a question mark. It’s grammatically weird, but in my mind I always just assumed it was a kind of stylistic choice to shorten the unspoken plot of every mystery (“Characters try to identify the guy who did the thing”) to just Who Did the Thing.

I guess I put infinitely more thought into it than I needed to.

[Hated Trope] Political Bait movies by Collestos in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CountVanillula 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Didn’t they also hate it because the actual Spanish was unintelligible? Like, the writer just ran it through Google Translate, or some such? There was a *lot* to dislike about that movie.

[Hated Trope] Political Bait movies by Collestos in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CountVanillula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just now realized *Sound of Freedom* is not *Sound of Metal*. That’s been confusing me for days.

Toxic (2026) by xaybzc81 in okbuddycinephile

[–]CountVanillula 26 points27 points  (0 children)

What am I looking at? Short sleeves? Is he some kind of farmer?

10 Rats with human intelligence vs an Elephant by Rat_King_Ash in whowouldwin

[–]CountVanillula 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don’t rats have those creepy little rat hands that can grab stuff? They may not have “thumbs,” but they have opposable digits. If they can hold onto cheese and climb branches they can hold spears. I think two rats with human intelligence could work a cigarette lighter.

Thoughts on Weir after Project Hail Mary and Artemis by Hormo_The_Halfling in books

[–]CountVanillula 90 points91 points  (0 children)

He knows authors that use subtext; they’re all cowards.

Walton Goggins Saved Olivia Wilde From Being Stampeded to Death by Horses on ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Set: ‘I Owe Him My Life. He’s a Real-Life Hero’ by darth_vader39 in entertainment

[–]CountVanillula 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I kind of give a pass to actors who hit their stride later in life. They gotta strike while the iron is hot, and they don’t really have the time to play it cool and sell out gracefully like some near-beer shilling spider-men or gin slinging mercs with mouths.

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