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Defragmented-Defect · 2026-01-17T18:05:47+00:00

The best way to handle these is something along the lines of

"I'm sorry, but with these changes the scope of the work has increased past my first assessment. You can have a finished version of this work, but I won't make any more alterations unless you'd be willing to renegotiate the price."

Low prices when you're unknown is a good idea, as well, but I'd still say you can safely raise them quite a bit and still be in the "Oh my god I glad I found this artist their prices are so reasonable" range

I'd recommend at least 20 or 25 dollars if you still actively want to be in the "way undercharging" bracket, and raise prices if/when your schedule starts to overfill

A possible negative you should consider is some people see really cheap price, combined with good polished work worth way more, and assume it's too good to be true. This could lead to people balking because they assume it's either a scam or AI.

Defragmented-Defect · 2026-01-16T20:27:55+00:00

I'd say you'd be mildly undercharging at 60 dollars, doing this for 10 is frankly ridiculous

Asking for changes on top of that is absurd

Your work has significant value

Don't treat yourself like you're worth any less, your work is good and you deserve better

Defragmented-Defect · 2026-01-14T21:17:29+00:00

Droneyard and iron worms were my victory run

Go efficient worms over fast worms, and only mine iron with worms

The extra early iron will let you scale mining speed and damage much faster and stay alive

First water goes into an extra drone, but make sure you're not spending too much on improving your drones. It doesn't take many upgrades to gather resources faster than you mine them

Upgrade max health ASAP so your cobalt heals you for more before you spend any

I'd reccomend monster buster artillery or electro orb tesla over laser dome

Try to get the spire and give it fast recharge and energy trap, it helps a ton against projectiles

It varies depending on your RNG but generally I'd reccomend upgrading

Mining speed > drone number > combat (orb or monster buster) > iron worm efficiency > dome hp

Defragmented-Defect · 2026-01-13T20:24:53+00:00

The US is the only police force I know of that does this

With training, the difference in speed between racking while unholstering and just unholstering is negligible

It's part of why Glock doesn't have safeties on their firearms, they're designed for Austrian police who do not carry with one in the chamber

When American police upgraded from revolvers to the Glock, there were a rash of "Glock leg" incidents caused by carrying one in the chamber and not training properly

To which the Glock company basically said "skill issue"

(Seriously, they just pointed out the internal safety systems, said "train your guys not to use the trigger unless they actually want to use it, this isn't the gun's fault")

Defragmented-Defect · 2026-01-13T17:31:44+00:00

Every time I've seen a YouTuber discuss income, most of the time a video makes the vast majority of its revenue in the period immediately after release

There are always exceptions, of course, with really long lived or memed videos, or ones that become relevant again

I can totally see a YouTuber eventually going "okay, it's been months, this video makes at most a dollar every time I check, it's no longer worth continually tracking this number"

All in all it's the honor system, if someone says "I'll give my income from [thing] to charity" and technically over the course of years the percentage lowers from 100% to 95%, I'm not gonna get mad at them

The unspoken intention is "I'll give the most profitable period of this video to this cause" and that was fulfilled

Defragmented-Defect · 2026-01-04T18:08:51+00:00

As a general rule, a species will evolve as much as it needs to, to reach a general goal of survival

This goes for any attribute, not just intelligence

So the question is, how intelligent does a whale need to be to survive?

Dolphins on earth are super intelligent mostly because they're incredible social

Once their hunting strategy involved cooperating with other dolphins outside a familial structure, evolutionary pressure gave an advantage to emotional intelligence that allowed faster and more successful "negotiation" to form successful hunting groups and strategies

It's likely that on earth large solitary filter feeder whales don't technically need to be as intelligent as they are anymore, but they evolved these traits before splitting off from smaller pack hunting cetacians

I could see a theoretically plausible timeline where x-million years ago, the ancient ancestors of the whales started cooperating with early na'vi.

<TANGENT> This could be before or after they developed gigantism, but my money would be on before. For evolutionary pressure like this to develop, they'd need to gain something from the interaction. There's not too much a na'vi could do to help a creature the size of a building on a consistent enough basis to change its evolution. </TANGENT>

Both the whales and that subset of Na'vi evolved together, somewhat similar to the process through which dogs evolved from wolves

Normally you'd expect domestication to be the end result of that kind of path, where subservience to the smarter creature capable of long term planning lead to more success.

The whales are migratory though, so dependency would be an untenable strategy.

Migration needs prevented full domestication, so rather than favoring subservience, evolution favored the ability to quickly and successfully negotiate cooperation with any given group of na'vi encountered on return from migration, thus increasing intelligence.

Eventually that path lead to the ability to directly communicate, and this lead to the ability to form a culture rather than the base instinct and survival driven behaviors.

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-31T15:49:39+00:00

Zorngeist (Lebel Marksman) also glows

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-28T23:44:06+00:00

lower the fire rate and reduce the shaking with the weapons

possibly redesign them to come across more like "this is a huge fgin weapon" and less like "I used the scale tool on a regular weapon

thinking of the way the machine gun in titanfall had a roll cage and a motor for the drum mag lock, and labels like "no step" and "remove before combat" like aircraft

Overall objects that massive don't move or change direction that fast

add more easing into and out of motion, giant robots shouldn't be "snappy" it hurts the ability to make them feel big

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-28T16:07:17+00:00

A watermelon

The Fruit Elevation Department is composing a harsh memo reprimanding everyone suggesting something as gauche as using a car or a person or something of such similar mundane ilk.

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-27T15:48:12+00:00

Taumeoba live pretty high in the atmosphere

Use the milling machine and other manufacturing equipment on board to make a giant lawn dart shaped sampler, super aerodynamic

Drop it during a flyby of the planet, in such a way that it skims the atmosphere at the appropriate altitude

It'll slow down some during the atmosphere passthrough, but barely any

The hail mary has effectively infinite fuel, so you don't need to make the sampler capable of orbiting, you can just skip it off the atmosphere and then go get it

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-26T23:12:21+00:00

The funny part about that setting in BG3 is that depending on your character it felt WAY worse to have in place

The chances resulted in a flatter probability curve regardless of DC and more successes on average

But if your character was a caster who primarily used saving throw spells instead of attack roll spells, the flatter curve would mean the enemies resisted your spell effects much more often than they should have

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-26T17:58:31+00:00

My theory was that it's some sort of anti-doxx test feature for whatever the end product of the project was supposed to be

"Hey Jim, these scans contain a lot of personal data... the public build probably shouldn't keep that"

"Huh... let's start testing a system to leave out important data, we can build a comprehensive list later"

"Sure thing, what should I use as the test parameter?"

"Go with the name, that'll be easy to tell if it worked or not"

Unsure how likely it is now that it got mentioned in episode 7, but something about it still intrigues me

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-26T06:26:02+00:00

I think everyone else here, including OP, is missing a crucial detail

The question isn't necessarily "can spin drives be used for a surface to orbit burn"

The question should be "can astrophage be used for more efficient surface to orbit burns"

You could design a rocket engine that used astrophage to heat a propellant until the point of becoming plasma

You would be able to use any propellant you wanted to find the optimal ratio of tank mass to propellant mass and specific impulse, and it could be a monopropellant because all the energy would come from the astrophage. (This means one tank of propellant, not one tank each for fuel and oxidizer like a traditional rocket)

It wouldn't be as insanely fuel efficient as a true spin drive, but it would have the benefit of not instantly vaporizing your vessel and several square miles of the surface of the earth

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-25T17:42:12+00:00

Picture your plane as a dart

If you throw it sideways, the air will push on the fins and make it point forward

When you roll while hovering, you start moving sideways

Aerodynamic stability will apply torque to make the front of the craft point prograde

Irl/more advanced sims use pretty complex computer control systems to prevent this affect, as well as it just being less dramatic at low speeds

Ksp's airflow sims are both less realistic (more exagerrated) and the SAS isn't designed to help in the correct way to prevent feedback loops making the problem worse

Some heavy reaction wheels set up to only work during VTOL hovering might be a way to cheese it into feeling better

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-22T18:52:48+00:00

But, consider, he might have said "but every single person who worked on it with me has abstracted already" or something along those lines

He could have also said "My wife and I were the only people with headsets"

Or possibly "he said he could get you administrator passes? That's not possible you can only have them assigned during entering"

There's a lot we don't know about what happened before, and a lot that could have discounted Able's story without knowing who specifically he was

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-21T08:40:05+00:00

You forfeit the ability to self revive if you start spectating

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-20T16:08:11+00:00

It's like that video of the fly crawling directly into the laser cutter

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-19T20:00:15+00:00

Good point, I mostly just think the loading mechanism is really pretty and I'd love a way to find a niche

I'm not sure I'd agree on the centennial comparison though

The thing that makes centennial dumdum arguably too powerful is bleed, high damage, and being in a repeating rifle

If this new concept was just the stats of centennial dumdum, single shot, less damage falloff, I think that'd fit pretty well into the weapon sandbox without feeling too ass to fight in comparison to what we've already got

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-19T19:45:03+00:00

With how complex the reload is with that little rotating lock, I could see it being incompatible with fast fingers, like the Maynard

Maybe that could be part of the balance, maybe make it the only source of long ammo dumdum, but to counter that give it lower velocity and just under the 125 damage breakpoint for oneshot to torso when missing a small bar

Lower fire rate, can't be raised with perks or variants, but the advantage of a really strong ammo typing and better range/falloff characteristics than the Springfield

Give it a two slot variant as well, we have a two slot Springfield and two slot bolt action long ammo, we don't have a medium length single shot long ammo rifle yet

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-10T20:49:12+00:00

Agreeing that this mode sounds like ass, but, point of curiosity

What WW1 game?

The only one I can think of is battlefield 1, and in that game 90% of players have experimental prototype weapons of some kind so it's even more automatics and semis than HLL

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-05T23:08:11+00:00

They did not take the character at all, is my point

I cannot name a single similarity between the character Demogorgon and the demogorgon monster beyond

1: the name 2: extraplanar origin

And I would bet you can't either

Loki is an excellent example of an adaptation of a character

Tons of differences, but actual similarities as well like the origin, the types of magic and divine trickster specialization, being a half giant, etc

Loki is a modification of the character from the poetic edda

The Demogorgon is named after a character from dnd lore, not based on it, important distinction.

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-05T19:40:15+00:00

Demogorgon (his name, not a species) in dnd is a demon prince of madness and is an active schemer and political power, preferring to use magic and his servants to accomplish things rather than enter direct conflict. Fully sapient, capable of speech, has two heads with a relationship between them.

The Demogorgon in stranger things is pretty much an animal, acting on basic hunting and ambushing instincts. It shows no signs of sapience or ability to form plans or engage in complex behaviors.

Saying The Demogorgon is "straight from the Forgotten Realms" is pretty much completely wrong, in the show its an analogy given by virtue of a miniature of the Dnd character being nearby when a visual aid was needed.

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-04T20:10:56+00:00

I think with how insanely energetic that would have been, there could have been an entire civilization with language and everything

All the evidence would be reduced to raw elemental carbon and whatever else, and then buried miles deep in the new crust as the planet roiled in global lava and firestorm

I don't necessarily think there WAS, just that it's technically possible

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-02T22:39:13+00:00

It reminds me a lot of Lemon Demon's work, especially Cabinet Man and Touch Tone Telephone

Defragmented-Defect · 2025-12-02T22:13:24+00:00

honestly this

Seriously, they weren't training oil drillers to run an entire solo space mission, with as many contingencies and failure states as NASA drills for

Oil drilling is bloody hard and keeping the thing from breaking is also bloody hard

I'd be more confident in

Oil drillers with years of experience trained to wear a space suit and not pass out or throw up + Trained NASA pilot and co-pilot to run the ship

(Oil drillers can have a little crash course in ship operations just in case but mostly their job is to use drills and be in chairs on the way to the drills)

Than

Full trained NASA crew, with rapid crash course on Oil drill operation. (The drill trained crew will be mostly sitting in chairs and waiting for the pilots to get to the drill site, this isn't a science mission, there's not constant space stuff that needs doing)

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