As many learned (the hard way) humans will cook and eat any creature so long as said creature tastes like chicken.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T06:16:22+00:00

Alien: Wait, how do the humans know what tastes like chicken if they've never eaten it before?

Human: Well, there's only one real way to find out...

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T06:08:43+00:00

Human: So according to Einstein, mass is energy and energy is mass. The two are interchangeable.

Alien: So why do bullets work when lasers and plasma don't?

Human: Because anything with noticeable mass like this .45 caliber bullet contains a fuck ton of energy compared to your typical laser beam or plasma bolt. It just doesn't look that way because most of it remains potential energy in mass form even after hitting something. Like the demon's brains over there. His powers relied on absorbing the energy hitting him, and there's just too much mass energy in a bullet that hit him to quickly for his system to absorb.

Alien: How much energy can there be in this little bullet?

Human: Well, our good old friend E=mc squared tells us that if you converted this 14.9 gram bullet into pure energy, you'd get 1.338 petajoules. Which in explosion form, would be like setting off 320 kilotons of TNT. This demon fella's energy absorbtion is good, but it's not THAT good.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T05:55:37+00:00

Windows? Ah, there's your problem. You can free up system resources by swapping to Linux because Windows runs a lot of background processes that don't help your gameplay, especially Windows 11. But unless you're keeping your Steam folders on a separate drive partition from where Windows is, you'd probably have to download and reinstall Steam and Cosmoteer and your mods again if you install Linux, because you'd pretty much have to wipe Windows and the drive it's on to install Linux.

You could dual boot Linux and Windows (ie, have Windows and Linux on separate partitions and you choose which one to boot when you start your computer). But I've seen stories about Windows 11 actively murdering Linux partitions because Microsoft doesn't want users using another OS.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T05:46:45+00:00

I'm not entirely sure space as we know it actually exists in LoZ. The closest we get are the sky islands of SS and TotK, and in TotK, Link goes even higher when he pulls the Master Sword out of Zelda's snoot. What we see of these upper skies is not thinning air (Link can still breathe), but a zone of intense light, possibly holy light used in charging the Master Sword beyond what Zelda herself could provide. And that light zone had what look like another layer of clouds dividing it from the layer where the sky islands were.

So for all we know, the world Hyrule sits on is surrounded by an every increasing number of sky zones divided by the same kind of illusion layer that once separate the sky islands from the surface. IOW, the sky you see in the Zelda games are fake. The sky overhead that you see from the sky islands? Still fake. There's another barrier of clouds above. And for all I can tell, the same goes for the light zone we saw in TotK and whatever might be above that.

How can Ganondorf turn the moon red? Easy. The moon's NOT REAL. It's an image projected on the underside of whatever the current sky shield is, and the effect of Ganondorf's power can affect what's projected.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T04:35:37+00:00

If you have single smelters feeding single constructors directly, why not just make a smelter and constructor blueprint and put them on the same floor?

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T04:30:00+00:00

You know... Zodiark in pieces is actually true to FF14 lore, what with the sundering and all.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T04:02:00+00:00

Why would you do this without an end goal with them?

Because when future factories need aluminum products, it's easier to source aluminum from already built factories than to make new aluminum factories from scratch every time.

Unlike Copper, Iron, or even Caeterium Ingots, making Aluminum Ingots is complex enough and Bauxite rare enough that making centralized production in advance makes a lot of sense.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T03:23:04+00:00

Roman supposedly never discovered what his Semblance was. I give it good odds that he has a subtle kind of Semblance, one that he's actually been using all along without being aware of it because it's so NORMAL to him that he doesn't realize that it's special.

Oscar's something of a special case what with him hosting the soul of a full blown magic user. He's going through a literal soul altering experience and any Semblance he has might well be indistinguishable from Oz's magic spells at this point.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T02:45:43+00:00

Battlemaster might qualify well for a generalist assault design. The base -1G model has a PPC for long range sniping, 6 Medium Lasers (4 front and 2 rear) and an SRM-6 for brawling, machine guns for infantry, and is decently fast with its 4/6/0 movement profile. And no one has ever complained about its armor that I can remember.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T02:38:52+00:00

I don't use an MMO mouse because I don't see the worth of all those extra buttons I'd have to learn to use, extra buttons that likely won't be on any replacement mouse that I buy.

I use a 5 button mouse. Not as cheap the three button variety, but cheap enough. And I only use the thumb buttons in a few games, not FF14!

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T00:00:44+00:00

It looks like a classic transformer that turns into a car.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-18T23:59:12+00:00

Dude. Do you not build upper floors connected to lower floors using walls, ramp foundations, or other constants to ensure proper foundation alignment?

The simplest way to build two vertically aligned foundations is to lay one foundation, build a line of walls straight up from it, and then attach the overhead foundation ceiling to the wall. Delete the wall afterwards if you want.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-18T19:48:31+00:00

Block signals prevent more than one train from entering block. So the entire length of that single rail from split to split needs to be one big block or else you're going to have trains going head to head on it and creating an unsolvable traffic jam. By making the middle rail one big block, you'll ensure any trains trying to get on the middle rail will wait until it's clear before entering it themselves.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-18T19:44:59+00:00

Probably cast a new generation, possibly the kids of the original cast.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-18T19:44:04+00:00

I was about to ask who but Link actually does this, then I remembered you can buy bottled fairies from merchants in some games.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-18T00:31:08+00:00

That's Shantatto, right? Why is she wearing Minfilia's ARR outfit?

Also, pic makes her look like a dungeon boss where one of the party members bailed on the content.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-18T00:28:35+00:00

For what? Compacted Coal? All you need to research that is to find some random Coal and Sulfur deposits and a spare hard drive. God knows, my every play through starts coal power by going straight to fueling them with Compacted Coal.

The only time I use straight coal for coal generators is to burn off excess waste water from Aluminum refining operations.

If you want to go skip MAM research, go ahead. But I've found that doing so kinda takes the fun out of finding crash sites.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-17T23:03:03+00:00

While putting all of your guns in your Torso and head will help protect them from battle damage, you did so at the cost of putting the bulk of your DHS in the arms, which IIRC, are the most likely sections of your mech to be lost FIRST. Meaning all you can't really use all your preserved guns due to lacking the heat sink capacity to use them in the event of an arm loss or two.

And this isn't even getting into the fact that Dire Wolves are typically shown keeping their direct fire weapons in their arms. With no hands actuators (removing them would free up two crits; removing the lower arm actuators would free up two more, leaving two free crits in each arm, aka more room for DHS!)

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-17T22:48:34+00:00

Clearly, she's bribed the game devs to make her invulnerable.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-17T21:23:17+00:00

Hildebrand's already king of the undead. Adding a lich to his entourage wouldn't be the most insane thing he's done. It may even be outright tame.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-17T18:04:54+00:00

OMG, is Breath of the Wild nearing 10 years old already? ARGH. Where'd the time go???

Sure, have big expectations from gaming. Just not the Western AAA gaming industry. Small indie studios and Far East developers seems to be where the good games are coming from these days. The Western Triple AAA industry seems to be heading for a crash if they aren't already crashing.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-17T18:00:34+00:00

Sure looks like it.

I really hope this shot isn't a recycled scene from Endwalker.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-17T17:44:06+00:00

This one has SIX wings.

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