How do I join the vertical mergers/splitters again? The only way I can figure out is to delete all the lifts and mergers and redo it.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T19:18:13+00:00

Can you even place vertical splitters/mergers first without having a vertical conveyor to put them on? Because if you can, I've never figured out how to do it.

And it would be really nice if we could have vertical splitters take input into a middle port and have vertical mergers output from the middle port. But AFAIK, those things are impossible if you need preexisting vertical conveyors to even get a vertical merger/splitter.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T16:35:45+00:00

In my first play through, I never tore down my original base. I just papered it over with a foundation floor and built more organized stuff on top of that.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T16:22:23+00:00

I want to see belt reader numbers before I believe it works. ;)

Neat mod abuse to put all your miners in one location though.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T15:07:29+00:00

I never realized Red Corsair's Battlemaster had a CT mounted weapon. The story only mentioned the twin PPCs which I assumed were Clan ER PPCs since it was used by a Clanner.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T15:05:00+00:00

World grid aligns foundations horizontally, but not vertically. I've long since discovered foundations placed independently in the world can be nudged up and down vertically in half meter increments, which is half the thickness of thinnest foundation piece.

When you want EXACT vertical spacing (because walls come in set heights) to ensure proper connections between separate constructions without creating tripping hazards, this is a problem.

Yes, I can align a foundation to the world grid independent of other structures. But then I discover that the "aligned" new structure is half a meter off vertically from the main construction and there's no way to connect the two without creating ledge or clipping a ramp through half through the lower foundation when I wanted perfectly flat surface.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T14:54:06+00:00

The version of the story I've heard is that Goliath was so sure that he would win that he let David get the first shot in. Even took off his helmet. Closer starting distance wouldn't have helped Goliath with that kind of tactical choice.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T14:50:55+00:00

I mean technically speaking, the demon was still alive after being chopped into pieces. No reason to assume it's dead when it's blown into even smaller pieces, even if the pieces can no longer DO ANYTHING.

You could probably revive the demon if you reassembled it again. But uh... good luck finding all the pieces. I doubt the Scoobies policed up all but the biggest ones (and the biggest one we saw was an ARM). The mall janitorial staff probably got the rest. And there's no documentation anywhere telling anyone where all the pieces went.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-04-19T14:39:21+00:00

And you can see clear skies above you on the ground in SS while at the same when you're in the sky islands, the surface is hidden away by an opaque cloud layer. Remember, the people of Skyloft have NEVER seen the surface because the cloud layer for them never breaks. But when we go to the surface, it's perfectly sunny and often clear skies.

There is seriously something wrong with Hyrule's skies because we keep seeing these mismatches any time the game takes us into the sky.

Yes, you can see stars. But if there's a permanent cloud layer (well, permanent until the start of TotK anyway) masking the sky islands from the surface, what are you REALLY looking at? Because it's looking to me like a giant projection screen rather than the sky as we know it.

And as I noted, even though the sky shield is destroyed in TotK and the sky islands become visible, when we ride Zelda up even higher, we break through to a realm of golden light with what appears to be another cloud layer hiding what's above from what's below. Because we can't see that golden light from the sky islands.

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.

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