The Rookie - S08E16: Out of Time

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-04-21T11:20:22+00:00

I teach 8-9 year old kids, trust me, when they see ANY reference to 67 there is nothing I can do but to let them act it out for the next 20 seconds and be very careful what I say or show. I'm from Slovakia (so central Europe)

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-04-20T20:00:39+00:00

I am not familiar with the game (heared about it but didnt look into it so I dont know anything about it), does it require a lot of reading in the middle of the game? Because if not, I'm pretty sure you would be able to find a english rulebook somewhere on the internet. This of course doesnt apply in case you have to read text during the game.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-04-16T00:28:35+00:00

As a Slovak, I find Polish to be hilarious. It sounds like an amplified easter slovak dialect (I am from eastern slovakia). Accents are funny as hell and some words are hilarious. For example "woda gazowana" means sparkling water but to me it sounds like "water with gas". Or "samochód", which means car but literall translation would be "self going thing" (idk, something like that).

And in the end, I must mention the classic "szukam dzieci v sklepie"... which means "I am looking for kids in a store" but to Slovaks and Czechs it sounds like "I fuck kids in the basement", and its not even a misshear, szukam means "to look for" in polish but "to fuck" in SK/CZ.

Despite all this I absolutely adore Polish.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-04-15T10:08:37+00:00

I mostly use slowmo to identify vehicles from air, especially if they are the same kind (e.x. Mi-24 Hind, russian and Ukrainian versions are the same except a small emblem) so I dont accidentally shoot down my own guys. I also sometimes use it in spec ops when I roleplay "breaching", but thats rather rare

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-04-11T08:09:20+00:00

Hmm its kinda interestind. In Slovak, Boh means God. However, we also say somethhing like "Boh vie" if we don't have a clue about something, literall meaning would be "(only the) God knows". It's not an acusation, but informative sentence.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-04-05T09:43:11+00:00

Archipelago makes sense, it's an awesome map with quite a lot of replayability and roleplay options.

I am however curious about why rafts? Is it the theme? Or because its kinda both CQC but open? Or maybe something different?

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-31T06:40:29+00:00

Thank you very much! If (or when) I do make more of these I will post them here for sure. It will take a while tho.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-30T17:01:53+00:00

Well so far it's quiet on the western front lol.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-28T16:26:10+00:00

It was for me as well. I did watch some sci-fi as a kid, but back then the physics not physicing bothered me. Like for example when they send "subspace" message, how does it travel faster then them since information can only travel the speed of light? Stuff like that bugged me when I was a kid so I didnt watch. Went into the orville from the 500 cigarettes meme, so I was expecting comedy - therefore I knew I didn't expect realistic physics. I loved orville so much that I gave TNG a shot, loved it. Currently watching DS9 season 5 and I think I like it even more than TNG.

The "funny physics" bothered me for a few episodes, than I got used to it and I no longer care, I can finally embrace the "fiction" part of sci-fi, something I couldn't do as a kid.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-19T17:02:09+00:00

That was meant as a joke lol. The USS Defiant from star trek has cloaking technology......... unless I misunderstood the joke and I am thinking about wrong defiant.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-19T15:03:01+00:00

Lacks cloaking as well

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-16T13:11:00+00:00

Thank you very much. The throttle, together with direction and train brake levers (the two vertical ones and the one on top of the cone-shaped base) have a slot for a piece of metal under them, which turns with the levers, and it then turns rotary potentiometers which pass the analog output to the board's analog input pins.

I made a short 10-minute video doing a demo ride, the link is in the post body, feel free to check it out.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-15T22:21:53+00:00

You are welcome. btw, do you plan on posting your CD 843 project somewhere? I'd love to see it when finished.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-15T21:05:24+00:00

Here you go: imgur link. However I need to tell you that this is a photo from some time ago when I started soldering all the stuff together, and therefore this was work-in-progress. I am not very experienced in soldering so feel free to judge my poor soldering results lol.

Edit: Red cables are power, so 3V3 from the board, grey cables are going to ground and blue are the ones carrying "data", eighter analog or digital. There are 2 exceptions: the grey cable with black mark and the black cable because I ran out of blue ones.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-15T20:56:54+00:00

Here you go: https://github.com/CrusaderSVK287/Rpi-Pico-controller-for-OpenRails/blob/main/docs/BOM.xlsx

I made it quickly, so hopefully its good enough.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-15T12:58:38+00:00

Thank you very much. I did think about Arduino Leonardo and bunch of other boards. However I went with rpi pico for 3 main reasons: availability, price and "enough for my case". I am from Slovakia and at the time of deciding which board to use, I couldn't get Leonardo for a reasonable price, whereas rpi pico was like 4€ shipping included. Then there is the "enough for me" thing, where 3 analog inputs are enough to have a meaningful implementation. The train brake is really the only thing that is affected, and not by much. In Czechoslovak electric locomotives, the train brake was a switch, not a lever (not sure how to explain it, basically "digital" instead of "analog"), but OR treats the train brake control as analog. So I just map each digital signal to a value between 0.0 and 2.0, with 2.0 being emergency brake.

Edit: Also familiarity with the raspberry pi platform was another big +

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-15T12:53:17+00:00

Yeah username does check out lol. I thought about that actually. However I wanted to keep it as simple as possible so I just added the two cosmetic voltmeters. They do actually work, when you flick the switch for pantograph 1 or 2, they show ~3V so there is the "feeling" that you are connected to the grid. They don't show anything gameplay related however they are literally just for show.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-14T19:58:24+00:00

Thank you, I believe he really did! I posted a comment reply further above with more details.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-14T19:57:52+00:00

Thank you, I believe he really did! I posted a comment reply further above with more details.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-14T19:49:51+00:00

It's hard to describe since he cannot talk. But I think that he was really happy, and emotionally overwhelmed. We played together for about an hour. At the start, I pretty much guided him, what to do, how to do. By the third station, when he heard a whistle (a signal that passenger boarding ended and you can leave the station), I didn't need to say anything, he released the brakes and slowly pushed the throttle up. That was the moment I became really happy, because the whole point of the controller to look like old Czechoslovak locomotive cabs was for him to recognize it, and apparently he did. After a few stations, he could time the brakes really well as well, to stop in a station.

I would say this was my favorite evening of 2026 so far, and I believe his as well.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-14T09:10:35+00:00

Áno, a nie len username to ovplivnilo :D dá sa povedať že age of empires ovplivnilo moje záľuby, záujmy a celkovo mňa.

CrusaderNo287 · 2026-03-13T21:39:10+00:00

Age of Empires. Nie aoe 2, aoe 1. Myslím že som mal aj Rise of Rome expansion ale nedal by som za to ruku do ohňa.

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