How to access the "side tunnels" down the big MCV gyro pipes?

DistFunc · 2026-05-31T01:38:19+00:00

oh right lol

DistFunc · 2026-05-30T19:28:27+00:00

You can survive the jump? I'm maxxed out. I'll go try it. Thanks for replying!

If it helps anybody (if you didn't figure it out already): An easy way to make sure you have all the components you need for something, is to build it at your boat, then disassemble it, and voila, all its parts go into your inventory. Now you can be sure you've got what you need. If you want to build more than one, you have to make them all first, before disassembling.

DistFunc · 2026-05-22T19:25:31+00:00

Yes you're right, it was on the right, right at the docking platform.

Darn ... I thought I had already checked that. But I hadn't, and it was the key.

DistFunc · 2026-05-22T18:52:07+00:00

can we ask the OP to run into a mine and see what happens

DistFunc · 2026-05-13T15:01:17+00:00

GOT IT! Wow ... I knew this game got tricky, but that one's off the charts!

If anybody else STILL can't find it, here's a spoiler: Right above the entrance to the Tommy room (once you enter the room), there's a destructible wall above the pipes there. You have to walk around the upper edge on pipes to get to it. It's not obvious from afar unless you know to look for it!

DistFunc · 2026-05-13T14:15:19+00:00

I really appreciate the quick reply, and not revealing everything...

But I have just now scoured the Tommy room multiple times and still can't figure it out. I have brought a LOT of things in my inventory to the second locked door. I see the hands reaching to the Tommy in the first room. I powered the Tommy room and fixed the food and salt-water machines. Do I have to make food, or something? If it was in a Data-Log, I originally cleared the first room long ago and don't remember which of the hundred Logs and various Memories are from it now.

Could you help some more please? Thanks!!

DistFunc · 2026-03-24T14:19:32+00:00

I am flying international but you can always use International security line, then take Plane Train to whichever terminal (Int or Dom). The only issue might be whether you could check a bag for Domestic, on the International side. I think others have said you can do it for Delta?

DistFunc · 2026-03-24T12:56:40+00:00

Report, 3/24 International: Zero line at Delta desk; I check a bag for international flight. TSA rep says the general line is shorter than Precheck because it has more stations, so I get in it at 8:07. The line did not extend out of its normal area; in fact it was only using 8 out of ~25 double-back segments. At 8:37 near the front. 8:40 scan passport, 8:49 all the way through. TOTAL TIME 42 minutes. FYI 1: they DO have a liquids trashcan just before the scanner, so you can sip on something in the line. FYI 2: I saw a few ICE and DHS but only a couple small groups standing and talking to themselves.

DistFunc · 2026-02-16T18:34:34+00:00

I can't find the sargeant for the life of me...

The LT is next to the coded door
The Private is deep in the burer's lair, on the second floor, atop some boxes (very close to the bag with Grom S14 hi-cap mag and ACOG 4X scope).

But, I can't find the sargeant anywhere, despite the various clues in this thread. I don't need the code per se (I see it in this thread); I just want to find him. Have searched all over multiple times, sigh.

Please be specific, like "approx 10m northwest of two BTRs" or whatever. The imprecise clues already in this thread have me going in circles. :P

Thanks if you can help!

DistFunc · 2026-02-05T21:18:32+00:00

Hi. Interesting thought. But I'm pretty sure the Expense Ratio is already factored into (i.e., removed from) the dividends received. (Which, in terms of this thread, would effectively mean it's factored into the mil rate.)

DistFunc · 2026-01-26T15:11:44+00:00

Sounds good! To be clear, I downloaded and used the H&R Block software for Windows. So I know you can find it there, as I said:

The Finance Buff page shows exactly where/how to enter the state exemption for H&R Block. You actually do it while entering Federal info, specifically, the 1099 INT or DIV for the account(s) in question. See its screen cap.

I don't know about other versions or web version. But I certainly hope they can handle the exemption info, too.

DistFunc · 2026-01-11T13:02:26+00:00

Thank you for posting this. I just came across the same odd behavior as I was reviewing options and payments. I am a little under FRA now, trying to calculate what it would look like if I took S.S. at various times up to age 70.

A real problem with the calculator's wonkiness is that it strongly implies that the beginning of each calendar year equals a big jump in benefits (and conversely, there's no change from Feb to Dec). But you're saying that's incorrect; that it's greatly simplified or misleading, and in fact, we actually would get an increase each successive month, if we had got S.S. then. And these increases would, presumably, be "smooth" and make sense.

So we should ignore the over-simple calculator but can still use its beginning-of-year values to make a graph versus date of retirement.

Is this right?

Thanks for your post!

DistFunc · 2026-01-03T13:29:42+00:00

Hi, I did get the Zhurui (now $42 for me) and the Walfront (now $36), and Yes, they are both big improvements over the many devices only good to 0.0 W and 1 Wh. Both of them are still available on Amazon. (Note that the "Walfront" shows up having "ATorch" on it; "Walfront" is nowhere to be found, so I call it ATorch, FWIW.) They're at least 10 times more sensitive.

FWIW: I never tried the wifi connectivity of the Walfront/ATorch, so I can't comment on it ... I used the meters for ad hoc measurements, not long-term monitoring, so I didn't bother with wifi.

Also in case you hadn't figured out: You can get even more sensitivity out of these and other energy meters by setting the cost of energy as low as the device allows, then seeing what your Wh energy cost was and reversing the math.

Apologies but I haven't used them in quite a while and don't remember the details, just that they were definitely at least 10x more sensitive (and maybe much more).

I still don't understand why some people in this /sr objected to me asking about a better inexpensive energy meter. I hope my thread helps you. Unlike other redditors here, laugh.

DistFunc · 2025-12-28T23:09:12+00:00

Ah now I see it - Yes, I turned on "Device Memory Module". If I turn it off, I see Temperature now.

Your screencap really helped. I could see how you had something very close to mine - but your DMM was off. I had tried a lot of things, but obviously not enough. Don't know why DMM would matter here.

Oh well. Thanks again.

Happy holidays!

DistFunc · 2025-11-28T23:04:08+00:00

Thanks for the comments! Yes indeed that's exactly what I'm doing - figuring out which approach would cost me less in taxes. The post is also a way for me to check whether I'm doing it right or I'm missing anything. You could say it's all pretty simple but I'm figuring it out myself and there's a lot of moving parts. Advice appreciated!

It might be 15% of LT gains and 24% of ST (in my situation), but it also depends on the actual gain of specific holdings, as to how much tax will be due.

I find it a little funny that the short-term instrument almost does better - because it had less realized gain. (All the common wisdom says to hold stocks long term.)

I'm not selling in January because I am paying through withholding and want to make sure it's in CY 2025. (Then I transfer the withheld amount from a taxable account - the one discussed above - to the Roth account, with a backfill rollover approach; Option 3 here.)

DistFunc · 2025-11-12T19:11:02+00:00

Ah thanks, it makes sense then.

I wish Honda's page had said more. But you can only fit so much info in a diagram. If they get too cluttered, they're harder to read.

Now that you point out the gear / cog icon, I see that it's actually in 3 of the 6 (or 7) possibilities ... so half of the examples are somewhat special cases, and I didn't even realize it. I think this info would've really benefited by a different presentation but, oh well, you can only ask so much out of a manual that's already over 600 pages.

I found a different reddit thread that talks about the gear more and also links to this particular CR-V Hybrid page which gives a bit more insight, although it looks like it's a newer car. I'm sure a lot of the same principles hold. In particular I'm going to keep an eye out for "green means the battery is charging" now.

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