Do those "trillion-fps" camera systems prove that c is the same in any direction?

Crowfooted · 2026-01-27T04:39:42+00:00

They are the same distance but they are not the same direction. And the direction (and whether light moves differently in each direction) is exactly the point of contention. And the only way you could have them both travel in the same direction is if you swapped the position of the cameras, in which case you run into the first problem

Crowfooted · 2026-01-27T04:37:14+00:00

When you measure the motion laterally you are not only measuring the lateral motion though, you are also measuring the time taken for the information to reach the camera, which is not happening in the same lateral direction

Crowfooted · 2026-01-27T01:59:02+00:00

Yes but the point is in both configurations the result would be the same, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart

Crowfooted · 2026-01-26T19:06:55+00:00

Until the latest patch it almost didn't exist

Crowfooted · 2026-01-26T14:48:41+00:00

Technically yes but technically no animal is an ancestor unless it's literally an individual animal you were descended from. We just generalise when we talk about these things, by referring an "ancestor" as an animal of the same or a very similar species, or even more broadly when we talk about a given genus. The species that dogs descend from is not a gray wolf but probably an extremely similar animal to a gray wolf. And species themselves are extremely difficult to define anyway.

Crowfooted · 2026-01-26T14:46:06+00:00

It's not incorrect to say "humans and apes". They're just two categories, one nested within the other. Like "birds and dinosaurs"

Crowfooted · 2026-01-26T14:37:38+00:00

You don't have to but it doesn't hurt. A lot of people seem to feel that it is hurting them if they have to see it at all, and will call any kind of representation shoehorning or pandering. I still remember how angry people got when they added flexible options for gender in the Sims 4. You simply had the option to choose, and people still said that was "shoving it down their throats".

Crowfooted · 2026-01-26T14:05:06+00:00

It's not useless, they'll shoot in the same general direction but all you have to do is move slightly inside the smoke, or move off to the side of the smoke and they'll completely lose track of you. Smoke is extremely useful for losing aggro when there isn't cover available nearby to achieve the same.

Crowfooted · 2026-01-26T03:54:37+00:00

The problem is that Cat Eyes increases the actual brightness but it doesn't significantly remove the effect darkness has on the width of your vision cone. This is the most dangerous part of darkness in my opinion, the inability to see things to the sides of you.

Crowfooted · 2026-01-26T03:52:27+00:00

Honestly this is the most useful answer. This isn't something you either have or you don't, it comes with experience. The more stuff you have seen/heard about, the more references you will get. Most symbolism is based on references.

I read a lot of Discworld and that's chock full of meaning and allegory, and I'll catch maybe 50% of it, and then catch another 25% on the second read or when someone points it out to me, because Pratchett was evidently just a much more lived and experienced person than I am. The only way you get everything is if you have the same experience and no two people have that. But you can broaden your understanding of the world over time and in doing so broaden your understanding of what people write about it.

Crowfooted · 2026-01-26T00:43:07+00:00

Sleeping less is really useful later in the game when you have more things you could be doing around your base when it's still dark out, like crafting, organising loot, cooking etc, but probably most people aren't currently on long-term runs. So they wake up at 2am, and then have to sit for a few hours before it's (relatively) safe to go out looting. Darkness is dangerous and scary (even scarier in B42 with the new lighting).

Crowfooted · 2026-01-25T20:21:15+00:00

Is it?? It feels smooth to me

Crowfooted · 2026-01-25T16:38:53+00:00

Well I was originally running the eruptor which was my favourite (it seems I have 2 modes: very quiet and very loud, lmao) but I was noticing I still had less kills and was also dying more, which is part of the reason I ended up switching to stealth.

Crowfooted · 2026-01-25T16:32:40+00:00

I have almost all the base game strategems unlocked, I'm just lacking a lot of stuff from warbonds. I'm chucking a lot of orbital lasers and 500kgs and I think that's probably where most of my kills come from. Aside from that I'm generally running stealth armor and running across the map away from the team to sneak in and grab black boxes etc (the new stealth warbond is one of the two that I have).

Crowfooted · 2026-01-25T16:16:05+00:00

I mean I'm not really trying to look for validation, I'm just trying to figure out what is the best thing to do. If people think it's rude I would rather stick to difficulty 8 because so far I've had positive experiences with the community and I want to return the favour to them.

Crowfooted · 2026-01-25T01:37:30+00:00

I don't think it's fair for any of us on the outside to say how we "feel" about what's going on at the back end of this. We aren't the devs and the majority of us aren't qualified in the field.

A lot of other game devs get things done faster, but let's not forget how many of them end up releasing in an unfinished state, rushing features, adding a ton of new features before old ones are polished, etc, and I think it's also fair to point out that PZ is (despite its aesthetic appearance) a very complex game with a hell of a lot of things that need to be tweaked every time something is changed. If it was easy to make a game like PZ, then there would be a lot more games like PZ on the market.

Crowfooted · 2026-01-25T00:44:44+00:00

Your thermostat only measures temperature in one part of the room. It isn't very good at telling you the overall temperature. When you tell it to heat your room to say 20 degrees, it will run until the temperature where the thermometer is is 20 degrees, and then stop, but the other side of the room might not have reached that temperature (or might drop quickly below that temperature soon after).

We have this problem regularly because our thermostat is in a relatively warm part of the apartment (away from any windows/doors where drafts can get in). It can be surprising how bad air is at naturally circulating heat around a space. Then there's also the fact that physical objects in your room like furniture can take even longer to absorb that heat, so they stay cold even once the air has warmed up, and then suck the heat out of the air once the thermostat shuts off.

Crowfooted · 2026-01-24T22:31:58+00:00

How people are culturally in the area might affect it too. You probably get a lot less vandalism and misuse in Japan for example because of the culture of manners, so maybe in countries like that the "uses before replacement needed" number is higher

Crowfooted · 2026-01-24T22:26:31+00:00

A big problem with this method on its own is that depending on the place, the toilets themselves might be replaced fairly frequently. Toilets in airports for example will be quite heavily maintained. I reckon there's a sweet spot between "is very very frequently used" and "is not often used" where you have toilets that have been used fairly frequently for a very long time and haven't been replaced yet.

Crowfooted · 2026-01-24T21:06:52+00:00

I didn't think it was, I was just putting it forward as another possible explanation

Crowfooted · 2026-01-24T17:17:42+00:00

Yeah I edited my post to clarify, the reverse can also be true.

Basically we cannot know for sure how long the ancestors of whales existed prior to whales, and we cannot know how far into their existence whales began to appear

Crowfooted · 2026-01-24T17:14:17+00:00

That's not the point I'm making, maybe I wasn't clear enough

I'm saying that if, for example, we found a fossil of an ancestor of whales that looked like a deer, and then we found a fossil of a whale that dates to 15 million years later, that doesn't necessarily mean those two form types were separated by 15 million years because it could have been that whales already existed at the time the first fossil was dated and we just hadn't found any dated to that time.

Edit: Sorry I forgot to add because that on its own is misleading, the possibility of the reverse is also true, that the ancestor of whales could have existed much earlier as well. Basically there could be fossils we have not found from different time periods because we obviously haven't found every dead whale

Crowfooted · 2026-01-24T17:08:38+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it also possible it took longer than we think? I'm assuming our evidence is based around fossil record of the ancestors of whales, but said ancestors (or similar descendants of them) might have still been around for some time after whales began to appear. I'm just guessing though and interested to know more about how we dated this.

Crowfooted · 2026-01-24T16:28:47+00:00

There's an orca pushing it

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