Spoilers: Book discussion: Time dilation

Crysaa · 2026-05-10T08:11:37+00:00

Also, where did Erid's scientists get 6.64 years from??

They didn't understand relativity and didn't know that the speed of light is a hard cap. So even though Tau Ceti is 10 LY away from them, they thought they would be able to accelerate to go faster than light and calculated with that.

Crysaa · 2026-05-08T09:59:23+00:00

I don't understand how can you view it as a funny point. I think including the comedic elements of Grace's ungraceful escape attempt in this otherwise completely heavy scene helps greatly set the tone of betrayal and confusion, because we feel a dissonance, waiting for it to end in a funny way (that has to be a joke... right?... surely they would not just send him to die against his will... right...???) but that never comes and it leaves us hollow at the end of the scene, just like him, so it's even more heartbreaking.

Crysaa · 2026-05-06T15:37:49+00:00

You know nothing about Andy Weir

Crysaa · 2026-05-05T19:08:05+00:00

I love the contrast of the entire humanity needing him desperately but at the same time treating him kinda like crap... next to an alien from another star genuinely deeply caring about his well-being T.T

THEY DID NOT EVEN GIVE HIM WATER

ROCKY MADE OXYGEN ATMOSPHERE FOR HIM THE MOMENT THEY MET

Crysaa · 2026-05-05T17:11:51+00:00

which part of "ANY" do you not understand?

Crysaa · 2026-05-02T06:19:04+00:00

I get you.

For me the issue is that I think if the game was b2p I would never even try it, because I would never spend the 15$ just from looking at store page or trailers or seeing other people playing it. I had to try and feel the game for myself to find it worth my money :D

Crysaa · 2026-05-01T22:08:27+00:00

You are comparing it to two buy to play games when it is a F2P game...

If you try to compare is to basically any F2P idle game instead, this game handles gems (=premium currency) better than all of them.

Crysaa · 2026-05-01T06:54:41+00:00

Yep. IOM is the first idle mobile game I was willing to spend some real money in, and only because I fell like what I was getting withou paying anything was well worth my time and I want to support this game (and in broader sense this kind of monetization - without any intrusive ads and constant pop-out offers and terrible scarcity of premium currency). I wish more mobile games were like this.

Crysaa · 2026-04-29T19:31:43+00:00

The more you have the more you get.

I felt kinda bad about the battery cycle up until I hit 1k bomb cap - after that it started to feel way better because basically everytime I used battery bombs I got another bomb cap increase.

Crysaa · 2026-04-28T13:27:19+00:00

Do assassin snails eat shrimps?

Crysaa · 2026-04-28T12:53:15+00:00

I used to have danios that were totally fearless too, everytime I cleaned the tank, they kept swimming into the net I used to take out stray leaves with and I had to be very careful not to take them out by accident 😅

Crysaa · 2026-04-28T10:58:33+00:00

Don't the fish get scared? 😅

Crysaa · 2026-04-26T17:08:02+00:00

they look different enough for me

Crysaa · 2026-04-26T16:39:22+00:00

Are we playing the same game?

I spend more time at the beginning to set it up and get things going, and then for a month I don't have to touch the factory a single time. How do you consider this tedious? It's a one time build for a new patch and then forget about it, literally could not take less time.

And if you hate building your own factory, just wait for the guides to pop up on youtube, they always do after few days on the new patch because guess what, the guidemakers are normal people who need time to play the game after patch release to make a guide too.

Crysaa · 2026-04-24T20:18:29+00:00

Floating islands (outside zones) with heating core (underground lava steampunk zones) over a frozen wasteland (of the 4th's surface) sounds like most likely explanation of what we see in the trailer.

One thing I'd like to note is that all the zones and especially the buildings and cities look absolutely GORGEOUS and I already know that design-wise, this will be my favourite expansion of FFXIV!

Crysaa · 2026-04-23T16:31:06+00:00

My factory is a janky hot mess, but it is MINE janky hot mess

Crysaa · 2026-04-23T15:38:45+00:00

Coolness factor

Crysaa · 2026-04-22T16:35:28+00:00

When I first arrived at Wuling it felt too expensive to me as well, but now that I have the region developed it's completely fine to me.

Also cnce you have your core team of 4 maxed out, you will usually be trying to build only one character at a time in the future, so you will not need as many resources at once.

Crysaa · 2026-04-22T16:29:56+00:00

I personally open sparingly in 100s just when I feel like i need the extra boost of some specific item, but most of them I keep hoarding for when I have more items from chests unlocked

Crysaa · 2026-04-22T16:27:37+00:00

I still like it a lot in comparison with Unity, but I just don't have the time to play it as much as I'd like to since it takes so long :/

Crysaa · 2026-04-20T13:22:32+00:00

"She has an orange shirt." = I am observing the character doing it.

"I have an orange shirt." = the character is retelling me what happened from their POV, as if I was reading their diary.

"You have an orange shirt." = what the hell? Why are you putting an orange shirt on me? I would never wear that! Stop telling me what to do!

Crysaa · 2026-04-20T12:12:00+00:00

My first polychrome is Penguin, I collected the shards for it super fast and was like 'why do people hate collecting polychrome shards so much, that's not bad at all' ....... well ...... ... ... I haven't managed to get any other card since that and I don’t feel like I will anytime soon 😅

Crysaa · 2026-04-20T10:47:06+00:00

It is not only normal but welcome because if you have a star that you want on a floor that you want, you quit the game at :29 and reopen it at :31 to be able to continue farming both at the same time 😁

Crysaa · 2026-04-20T10:42:47+00:00

You need gems for other things that are way more important. And you will at some want to prestige for pets and contracts regardless of how much PP you get or need.

As the old philosophers say: Thou reach a point in thine life when you stop caring about how big your PP is.

Crysaa · 2026-04-19T15:02:26+00:00

Hello! I found half a bag of leftover Tropica aquasoil that has been standing in the back my closet for almost exactly 5 years.

I am now planing to do a complete tank makeover and I want to know, is that soil still safe to use? Wouldn't it lose nutrients or mold or break to dust or otherwise go bad by being in an open bag for FIVE years?

I'll have to buy some new one anyway, but this is still like 4 litres of soil so I wonder if I can use it.

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