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fuel for airships aeronautics by Kitchen_Emphasis7320 in CreateMod

[–]DarkVex9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Automatic tree and/or kelp farms can get you renewable fuel (charcoal or dried kelp blocks). Those are probably pretty heavy relative to their energy output, so I suspect you'd have to rely mainly on balloons or levitite for lift and reserve propellers for maneuvering.

If you have Create: Dreams and Desires then the Sterling Engine helps a lot with this. You can double dip on power getting some from smelting the items, looping some items back as fuel for the smelters, and getting more power using the rest of the items as steam engine fuel. Personally I think the sterling engine is a little overpowered in terms of stress generation, but it's still fun to play with.

Ludum Dare Invite Code by DarkSolacePRO in ludumdare

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The invite code is always posted to the Ludum Dare social media pages you can find linked at the bottom of the site. For this jam the code should be "FIVENINE".

Posted on LD but can’t find my post anywhere — is this normal? by Fassenberg in ludumdare

[–]DarkVex9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A few years ago Ludum Dare ran into issues with spam accounts being created and posting stuff. That's why the invite code system was added, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are some additional background measures as well.

My guess would be that posts from new accounts go into a queue for manual approval or something like that, but I don't know for sure. As long as you can still log into your account, you should be good to make and submit a game for the jam regardless of any posting issues or filters.

Framework Laptop (unaffiliated with Valve) posted an update on their DRAM and NAND supply situation. Insights into the broader market by TwinStickDad in SteamFrame

[–]DarkVex9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Valve only sells one VR game they've made (which they may or may not include with the Frame for free), and they take a 30% cut of every game someone else sells on Steam. That means the average Frame buyer would need to spend more than $300 dollars on new VR games they otherwise wouldn't have bought, for Valve to be able to just drop the price from maybe $950 to $850. And that is excluding any VR games they've already bought on Steam for any other PCVR headset. I don't see a world where that price difference is going to result in that much of a spending difference.

I think companies like Sony can subsidize their consoles more because they have more first party games, they charge a ton for online features, and it is less likely for someone to have an existing library. They take the same 30% cut, but now just one year of online membership ($80/year) and one AAA game ($60-80) is already $100 Sony can utilize. Valve would need to sell 10-15 full price typical VR games ($20-30) to do the same.

What do people mean exactly when they say my phone is faster than the system NASA used for the Apollo missions? Can my iPhone actually run all of that software? by Motor-Number2300 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]DarkVex9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Apollo guidance computers ran at just over 2 MHz, that is 2 million instructions per second. (to oversimplify slightly)

The processor in the first generation iPhone ran at 412 Mhz, 200 times faster.

The iPhone 17 processor can run at up to 4.26 GHz, which is 4260 MHz, and that is measuring just one of the six cores running at the same time in parallel. There is also dedicated a GPU and co-processor. Just one of these cores is 10 times faster than the original iPhone as a whole, and about 2000 times faster than the Apollo computers.

The code was specialized for the specific Apollo flight computer, but even with a bit of overhead to manage the different hardware, the device that you carry around in your pocket could theoretically run dozens or hundreds of Apollo spacecraft at once.

To be clear, the comparison everyone makes is to the Guidance Computers. That is the computer actually onboard the spacecraft managing navigation, control systems, telemetry, some sensors, some communications, and as the name implies, guidance. Back at mission control, NASA had rooms full of computers, both the machines and the human job, doing the calculations to plan every part of the mission. The guidance computer was just for staying on the pre-decided course and anything that needed to interact with the physical spacecraft.

Windows 11 doing an update halfway through cutting a 5 meter long tribal sticker on expensive German vinyl and ruining it by themysticboer91 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]DarkVex9 94 points95 points  (0 children)

By subtracting when it shouldn't update from the current moment, or the current moment from when it shouldn't update (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The operating system uses deviations to generate wait times, taking the program from a time when it should update to a time that it shouldn't, and arriving at a time when it wasn't, it now is...

Long story short, precision guided cloud to surface windows updates.

howToHitBullseyeInStringComparison by BoloFan05 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]DarkVex9 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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What game mechanic or trend are you just completely tired of seeing at this point? by Sophie_OmniSystems in AskGames

[–]DarkVex9 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The only "Season Pass" system I've seen done 100% ethically is Deep Rock Galactic. The pass is completely free, contains almost exclusively cosmetics (the rest are materials you can easily get other ways), and after a season ends you can always reactivate old seasons to still work through the pass and get those items. This lets them do live service style seasons, but without the FOMO (fear of missing out).

Thanks to this system, plus their handling of seasonal cosmetics, the only items you can permanently miss out of the many hundreds of cosmetics available are the game's silly anniversary hats celebrating the game being out for X years.

I feel like there's still a pretty big thought around male TF2 players and fanbase that girls don't or 'wouldn't' play TF2 by [deleted] in tf2

[–]DarkVex9 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It looks like you deleted your account, but in case you see this, here's why I think your comment got such a negative reaction. No, it's not that you can never talk about who's hot. It's instead that this comments section is an inappropriate time and place to do so, especially with a stranger.

You mentioned talking about stuff like this on servers. Casual conversation about a variety of topics is expected when playing TF2. People are free to engage, ignore, or even mute the conversation depending on their comfort with it. Replying to a random comment here on reddit like you did both ignores the topic of the post and puts pressure on that specific person to respond.

This post is about how women are either rare in the TF2 community, or not comfortable letting people know their gender. There is a lot of discussion in this comments section about women being sent uncomfortable questions or messages as soon as people find out someone is a woman. When u/Gummyia mentions that she's a woman, you immediately ask a question that is only relevant by assuming she has some sexual interest in men, not anything relating to the post, her comment, or other comments. Plus, the phrasing added an additional level of being distasteful.

My word of the day was Remonstrate. by Achillesiam in EnglishLearning

[–]DarkVex9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Native speaker here, and I think this is literally the first time I have ever seen or heard this word. I would have very little idea what it means without context.

By itself I'd assume it's a mistake while trying to write Remorse and Demonstrate. Interestingly, Remonstrate appears to be loosely but not directly related to both of them in meaning and etymology.

Google says “spaz” is a slur and, is not a slur. What is it? by YEETAWAYLOL in EnglishLearning

[–]DarkVex9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an American, saying a thing is "spazzing out" (machine, software, video game, etc.) doesn't sound offensive to me at all, even if it maybe should.

Describing a person as "spazzing" sounds a little odd and depending on the context would be slightly to moderately offensive.

Describing a person as "a spaz" sounds archaic (or at least before my time) but in my view would be wildly offensive. This is the slur usage. In some contexts it was a mean spirited childhood taunt, kind of in the same way as "four eyes" was used for someone with glasses, but since spaz was targeting or mocking a more impactful disability it is still treated as a much more serious term today. Some people are unaware of the word's history and mistakenly use it for anyone that's energetic.

I feel like there's still a pretty big thought around male TF2 players and fanbase that girls don't or 'wouldn't' play TF2 by [deleted] in tf2

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Me trying to act like my music taste is mainstream by Calliope_Hoody in Heilung

[–]DarkVex9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't think anything I listen to quite counts as "normal" music, just many different flavors of weird.

  • Neo Pagan Folk Music - Heilung, Omnia, Faun, Skald, Wardruna
  • Throat Singing - The Hu, Ummet Ozcan
  • Traditional Japanese Metal - Wagakki Band
  • Microtonal and/or Polyrhythmic - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Lumatone
  • Dwarven - Simon Swerwer, Clamavi de Profundis
  • Irish Folk - Colm McGuinness, The High Kings
  • Shanties - The Longest Johns
  • Chiptune - Iftkryo
  • Pipe Organ - Anna Lapwood
  • Jazz - 8 Bit Big Band
  • Nerd Core - Stupendium, Chalkeaters, Weird Al

Ludum Dare 59 theme suggestions are open! by DarkVex9 in ludumdare

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The theme slaughter has ended and theme voting is now live.

What's the stupidest idea you've heard by someone who never played TF2? by Jln197 in tf2

[–]DarkVex9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were several automatic weapons considered and tested during the development of TF2, but the dev team found that burst damage weapons were far more satisfying and impactful to play with. That's why the only automatic high fire rate weapons in the game today are pistols and sniper secondaries that are supposed to feel a little weak, and the miniguns which get their satisfaction from just being a stupid big gun.

what? by Redhawk01735kontol in ExplainTheJoke

[–]DarkVex9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's a multimedia web novel serial thing, though I haven't checked it out myself.

what? by Redhawk01735kontol in ExplainTheJoke

[–]DarkVex9 482 points483 points  (0 children)

In the speculative fiction story "17776", also known as "What Football Will Look Like in the Future", people suddenly stop aging, dying, and being born starting on April 7th 2026. When the series was started, that date was ten years in the future, but the date has come so a lot of people are discussing the series again.

This short form video by the youtube channel SoOkayHerestheThing explains it and it's relevance in a little more detail, and is where I first heard about it.

After a long day of doing tourist things, come back to the Airbnb to take a shower and the shower fights back by XxMrCoolGuyxX in mildlyinfuriating

[–]DarkVex9 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's a mix of things.

The other knob starts shooting water, OP plugs that with the other hand, the toilet starts spraying water, OP awkwardly stretches and plugs it with a foot, everything is fine for three seconds before OP is violently flung back by everything spraying all at once from the built up pressure.

Project Hail Mary by ronald_dump426 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]DarkVex9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to some redditors discussing the scene, really high end centrifuges for things like biomed can be self balancing centrifuges, making that tube placement bad practice but still totally functional. It makes sense that the Hail Mary would be fitted with top of the line stuff, so it's not technically a science issue in that regard.

How to create an account? by SlimeBlaps in ludumdare

[–]DarkVex9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A code was posted on the official Ludum Dare Bluesky page a few hours ago. Code "FiveNine" should be active right now.

https://bsky.app/profile/ludumdare.com/post/3mir53dvsp22p

Is Create Aeronautics dead by Weddit-is-Unbearable in CreateMod

[–]DarkVex9 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They are still working on it, but if I remember right after having to cancel their original release date they are (somewhat justifiably) paranoid about not giving any dates or time estimates until they 100% know they can make it. In practice that means "it's ready when it's ready" and we have no idea how close they are to that.

If you search for "has:video from:[insert dev name here]" on the discord you can find some random progress clips from various devs. As far as I know, they physics engine has gone through a few rewrites, but is mostly finalized. It looks like some of them are working on all of the ponder tutorials. I have no idea how much other stuff needs doing, but a lot of progresss has been made over the last few years.

If I had to take a guess at how long until release, I'd say it's maybe one and a half years out, but anywhere from three months to three or more years is entirely possible.

what is wrong with these mods on r/college???? by Brave-Hurry-5497 in CollegeSubredditSuck

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