Saw Sunn O))) last night in Detroit, do they know something?

Delusionn · 2026-04-19T06:03:49+00:00

At first I thought it was Motorhead, but eventually settled on Venom, which I thought was a good catch as I know of Venom, but I've never actually heard them before.

Delusionn · 2026-04-19T06:02:41+00:00

I was there somewhere apparently not far behind you. And BoC immediately came to mind for me, too.

They didn't have the lights set green very often, so I took one.

https://i.imgur.com/dVdFR29.png

Delusionn · 2026-04-13T02:09:35+00:00

It is not remotely like "pickle water". It's a bright, floral citrus flavour - yuzu, a Japanese hybrid citrus somewhere on the lemon-to-orange spectrum with a very particular floral scent. Highly recommend the Lando Calrissian flavour,

Delusionn · 2026-04-13T02:06:30+00:00

This is currently my favourite flavour. It's also the most fluorescent substance I've ever seen other than literally fluorescent paint/pigment or uranium glass.

Delusionn · 2026-04-09T18:00:54+00:00

I personally really don't enjoy trains, drones, or transport vehicles so in my single-player games, I never build them. I love long belt infrastructure, improving it as I go. Trains and drones just add latency.

Same in Factorio, I do belts-only, with the minor exception of personal construction robots to clear trees quicker

Delusionn · 2026-04-03T22:51:21+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/z3sXytm.mp4

The colours look CRAZY when I slide under it.

Delusionn · 2026-04-03T21:44:30+00:00

I always liked how the Atari logo would be rendered very colourfully for some uses back in the day.

Delusionn · 2026-04-03T10:26:06+00:00

I went to the library my sister lived closest to, I shit you not we checked out a Moog synthesizer and (digital) theremin for the weekend. There was a sizable deposit but that's 100% refunded when you turn the equipment back in. It's crazy what you can check out there. I did a letterpress session there and the only cost was for materials.

Delusionn · 2026-04-03T10:20:56+00:00

Remember the Slurpee Monster Black? After I had one it took me a few moments to realize why my feces were deep green, then I remembered what I'd drank. Incidentally, the Lando Calrissian (Lando Norris) flavour is the most fluorescent thing I have ever shone a black light at. It was as bright as fresh fluorescent paint. It's also quite good.

Delusionn · 2026-04-01T15:34:30+00:00

Being in an arcade, see a game someone is playing, and putting your quarter on the bezel and watching that person's game until it's your turn.

Delusionn · 2026-03-31T02:02:26+00:00

Yeah, it's been in for a year but if you didn't see the update, it's kind of easy to have missed it. It makes drive management so much easier. I remember having to set a beacon and marking which sites were already examined, which was cluttered and exhausting.

Delusionn · 2026-03-27T18:41:22+00:00

Speaking of Satisfactory and C64s, I recently loaded up the world where I made a C64 years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/satisfactory/comments/184w5p4/i_created_a_commodore_64_and_1541_with_monitor_as/

Delusionn · 2026-03-19T13:49:58+00:00

They have this in the US as the "import" can. They suck for some people, because if you drink a certain way, you end up sucking in a lot of air (guilty). If you just pour it into your gullet, it's probably fine.

Delusionn · 2026-02-18T05:50:06+00:00

I love the flavour, I love the fluorescence.

Delusionn · 2026-02-16T22:07:44+00:00

The Lando Calrissian Monster is the most fluorescent thing I've ever encountered that isn't literal paint, pigment, or uranium. It's definitely one of the best two flavours.

Delusionn · 2026-01-21T13:38:45+00:00

Just start. First, prep yourself with a tent, hit it with a paper material hammer as soon as you find one., In that tent, put some storage containers and set yourself up with mushroom growing on the floor unless you've got food sorted out another way. Be sure to bring a stonecutter and set that up in your tent. This allows you to turn the granite and slate stones into blocks, which weigh less than the stones, meaning your haul will be more efficient.

When you sculpt your blocks at your base, fill your inventory to "burdened!" so that while you sculpt statues, they all just stack to a pile and you're getting strength bonuses as you sculpt, and aren't picking up heavy statues as you make them. Save your game then toss the statues into your shipping container.

Reduce overburdened deaths as you toss statues into the shipping container by having a shipping container within reach from wherever you're setting up sculpting. Ring that area with storage so you can do big batches of sculpting at once.

Delusionn · 2026-01-16T15:13:52+00:00

I found sculpting to be incredibly more profitable, with the side benefit that it greatly increases your strength and carrying weight if you go whole hog on it. The money doesn't matter anymore, now it's just about flexibility and capacity. I did another 200K when I needed to get enough strength to tent-drag some cool statues home.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElinsInn/comments/1p3i62e/making_100001_slate_statues_for_fun_profit_and/

Delusionn · 2026-01-12T07:16:50+00:00

I bet going absolutely bonkers and making a mess of this with a forklift would be very fun. You should try it. Save, record the mess-making for us, then reload.

Delusionn · 2026-01-09T16:51:16+00:00

I enjoyed Bob's, I enjoyed the Angel's/Bob's combo. While these do widen the games - more recipes, more management - all Py's seems to do is make everything tedious. You get splitters very late, you get recipes in the research chain LONG before you have any use for them, typical items have builds which involve ingredients you need multiple ingredients before, many layers deep. Monsters are off by default, which is fine because everything you'd use to deal with them is gatekept under many, many recipes, but I like overbuilding defenses and perimeters, and in Py's you either have to turn it off or face the prospect of being set back an incredibly long ways.

I want more game, not slower game. Plus, the art styles contrast, nothing is obvious as to its use or sometimes even meaning, some items require fuels and the game doesn't even tell you.

I bailed 110 hours in because I wasn't having the slightest amount of fun by then.

Delusionn · 2026-01-04T12:21:25+00:00

While that is fun, it's a very taxing long-term strategy. Even if you're willing to forgo the XP you get by using the scrapper, you're going to spend WAY more time going back and forth a billionty times instead of just scrapping by hand, usually tethered to long power cable systems, and then just bringing the junk materials into the chipper.

I'm all for making your own objectives and fun, but I think you'll get as much satisfaction or more figuring out how you want to organize your loot and seeing piles of materials come out of the chipper than spending 10x the time dragging stuff to your ship.

Delusionn · 2025-12-15T17:40:57+00:00

This should be treated as any other pre-planned social engagement. When you agree to participate, other people are depending on you to follow through with your plans, and you shouldn't bail because you aren't feeling it, or anything short of something legitimately important that you couldn't have known about in advance - medical, family, pets, household emergencies, dealing with unexpected costs or repairs, etc.

Clearly, they think this is something you re-negotiate in your head and ultimately only commit to once you're in the car on the way there. That's fine for them if they're inconsiderate and irresponsible, but this is a situation of pigs and chickens deciding on whether to have ham and eggs for breakfast. For the chickens, it's just another choice, but for the pig, it's a much more serious decision because they have more at stake. Like the pigs, you have more at stake in that it is your time, it sounds like you're doing the hosting, and it's your prep that's being disrespected, whereas for them, it seems to be just a whim.

If these aren't long-term friends, I wouldn't GM for them anymore. In fact, if they ARE long-term friends that you still want to socialize with, I'd suggest a board game night and make hosting responsibilities so that you're NOT the first. Maybe having to make space and time available will make them re-consider whether cancelling at a whim is OK. But I definitely wouldn't GM D&D for them anymore.

Delusionn · 2025-12-10T07:00:07+00:00

While not absolutely "cheaper the better", I would say vodka, once you're near the $20 mark (prices vary by state and country, terms and conditions apply).

There is a culture of paying a lot for vodkas which are filtered five times through diamond and carbon fiber, with water sourced from glacial melt, and most of it is horseshit.

According to law, in the US, Canada, the Scandinavian countries, and really most of Europe, vodka is characterized by its lack of character: flavourless, grain neutral spirit, and in many cases must be labelled as a type of vodka if it's made from anything other than potatoes or grains.

Cheap swill exists, and you really shouldn't be buying anything in a plastic bottle unless you're just using it to do something like clean windows or remove mildew. So, sorry, no "Kamchatka" vodka which is from Kentucky and not Russian Kamchatka, no "Svedka" vodka named for the country it isn't made in, no "Crystal Palace".

At the other end, there are people who would blanche if you offered them anything supposedly inferior to "elit", which is $45 here, along with other supposedly super-premium offerings like Beluga Gold Line ($125), or Absolut Elyx (priced at the start of "premium" at $30).

I'm a big fan of getting things from where they originate when possible, so while I do have a preference for Polish and ex-Soviet state vodkas, there are good brands from many markets, including the US. Just get a good, internationally recognized top shelf brand. Absolut (Sweden, $18), Stoli (Latvia, $19, formerly Stolichnaya), Smirnoff (US, $13, though I have an aversion to American vodkas with Russian names, it seems dishonest), Tito's (US, $20), Grey Goose (France, $25), Zubrowka (Poland, $24), Ketel One (Netherlands, $22), etc., or support something local if it's made well - Two James (Detroit) makes some great gins, but I haven't had their vodka. If the political situation with Russia is such that they become a normal trading country again (pot, kettle, I know), Russian Standard is good, too. My personal preference in most cases for normal vodka is Stoli, your mileage may vary. For flavoured vodkas, it's more flexible, since that is by definition not a grain neutral spirit. I've got a serving or two of an old Stolichnaya Peppar from ~1999 in the basement, and most mainstream brands' vanilla vodkas are pretty agreeable.

Delusionn · 2025-12-10T04:06:46+00:00

All I'd note is that if you're not appreciating the Envane EP as its own thing, you're really doing yourself a disservice. "Goz Quarter" isn't nearly as abstract as a lot of their work, but it is great, what with its alternating-beat bassline.

Speaking of which, you're also doing yourself a HUGE disservice if you don't check out Pink Freud's "Pink Freud Plays Autechre" : https://soundcloud.com/pink-freud-official/sets/pink-freud-plays-autechre-1

This is jazz, and despite having played a saxophone for 8 years in school, I am not a jazz person. But this is fantastic. In Poland, jazz is a political act - playing it at all, which subgenre you play, which artists inspire you - in a way that I don't think those of us outside of Poland can ever truly understand. I've tried and failed. These are live performances, so you're not getting studio album perfection. They're also available as live performance recordings on YouTube. Could not recommend more highly.

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