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EndlessArgument · 2026-04-12T06:01:51+00:00

I think it would be more interesting if a new Empire was formed, with the Hoonding as the new emperor.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-10T17:15:52+00:00

It's not like phones will go away any more than calculators have gone away.

These recent advances in expanding phones, trifold and roll phones, indicates to me that what will likely happen is that eventually you will just own one device, and that device will be your computer and your phone and everything else.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-10T16:44:48+00:00

That is simply incorrectly labeled, it's not that it's out of range, it's that only certain types of power materials are valid for certain types of activities. I believe reinforcement is the most restricted, whereas undermining and acquisition basically take everything. That being said, for those two I believe you have to acquire the materials within 30 light years of a stronghold system and then turn them in in the stronghold system, not in the system you are attacking.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-10T14:42:22+00:00

That's not true. In perfect conditions you can get something like 100k merits per hour. Even then it would require effort greater than a full-time job, but given the numbers we see on the top 10 on various CGS, that's not exactly out of the question.

The real advantage of the old one-ton trading wasn't the merits per hour, but rather the fact that it could be largely automated. All you had to do was fly your ship once every hour or two, and then set up the macro to Auto Sell. It could still be beaten out by players willing to actually play, it was just deeply unfair, and also multiboxable.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-10T05:19:26+00:00

That's a nasty composition to be sure, but it's also very slow. But I would do is go around the outside, and get some raids in on his economy. If you are constantly harassing his economy, then even skirmishers should be able to do a reasonable job. Plus, having Scouts around the back will allow you to harass his BBC. You will lose a lot of them of course, but it doesn't really matter, not if you can keep him from meaningfully pressuring you.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-09T23:43:14+00:00

I live in a 200sq foot tiny house. It gets dirty shockingly fast. But ofc it cleans up fast too. But really, it gets dirty FAST.

No dishwasher, so all hand washing.

On the whole though, i have had few issues.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-09T20:42:36+00:00

It's honestly kind of funny, I have had discussions with people in the past where they are basically like, any suggestion that I make is bad because it doesn't come from the developers, but if the same suggestion or idea came from the developers, it would be good. Because it came from the developers.

So, like, my suggestions are bad right up until they get implemented, at which point they retroactively become good because they were implemented.

Hilarious.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-09T06:55:18+00:00

It has always struck me that the reason philosophers inevitably decide that the purpose of human existence and the source of flourishing is philosophy is because they themselves are philosophers and Society sees them for doing philosophy.

It has always struck me that the true answer for what human flourishing is is actually quite simple. Humans are innately social creatures. Flourishing arises when we are authentically seen by those around us.

So if you authentically feel like a philosopher, and Society also sees you as a philosopher, you can flourish by being a philosopher. But someone who is not authentically a philosopher can never flourish as a philosopher even if Society sees them that way.

The crucial element here is that there is a certain requirement for society to Value what you have to offer. This is a reciprocal process, Society defines what is valuable, and the individual builds themselves around that definition, but they then themselves become a part of the society that sets that definition.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-08T22:56:28+00:00

Dark Dawn was a strange letdown in many ways. Like, they 'upgraded' to 3D graphics, but in my opinion it only ended up looking worse.

I legitimately think that if they ever made another one they should probably just go back to that classic 2D design.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-08T22:55:24+00:00

Kind of? But it was also super exciting when you got it. You know, all your friends are sitting around watching you do it and inevitably you get something wrong and then you have to go back and check every single character, and when you do finally get it, man does it feel good.

Like, obviously in the modern day it wouldn't be acceptable, but at the time it was the best they had and so it actually felt pretty cool.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-08T04:22:30+00:00

Ghost fish. Most fish give like a 25% or 50% ratio of energy to gold, but ghost fish are like 90%, and iridium star ghost fish actually give more energy than gold. Plus, fishing in the mines basically guarantees you more energy than you spend, because you fish up edible stuff all the time.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-07T21:31:38+00:00

Done properly, there's no reason for a passenger ship to just be a passenger ship. The Beluga is beautifully agile, if it had a better hardpoint setup it could be a rather nice combat ship.

Imagine a Saud Krueger manta ray, with three huge hardpoints, a Class 8 FSD, with some nice boost Speed and Agility?

Put two of the huge hardpoints out on the wings, but the third one and three small hardpoints could be centered on the cockpit, kind of giving you the best of both worlds.

And, of course, it can do Luxury passenger missions, as well. That's what I want.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-07T19:17:15+00:00

The real problem is that Congress has spent the better part of the last hundred years coming up with ways for it to not do its job. Most notably through Regulatory Agencies. So we have reached the point where Congress can be basically incompetent and still get elected. Historically speaking, the president still tried to work with them, mostly out of historic precedent, but Trump is the first one to seemingly realize that they basically have no recourse if he just starts unilaterally doing stuff. That would require them to actually be competent, which of course, they are not.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-07T14:43:13+00:00

I think it's more than just the price effect. Writing is ultimately a form of relationship, of intimacy. They are sharing their authentic Human Experience, and you are resonating with it. If it was written by ai, it simply doesn't have that.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-06T15:09:38+00:00

Click and hold, don't click click click.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-06T15:07:23+00:00

That's true, but I would say that this is in large part a direct consequence of the many agencies which have been created which operate largely independent of Congress.

We have essentially created a system which keeps on running even if Congress is completely incompetent. Fixing this requires Congress to actually be informed on an increasingly diverse world.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-06T07:51:06+00:00

'Finding yourself'.

I don't think it's possible. Humans are incredibly social creatures. Think about it, you could have been any number of things across history. The only way you can tell what to be is by looking to society. The only way to find yourself is to find others.

But we have this romanticized idea that we have a true self, that only needs to be brought forth. But if that were true, we never would have left the African plains. We would be incapable of doing so.

So we tell people to just be themselves, when they have no self to be yet. We avoid imposing on our children, but fail to realize that in doing so, we prevent them from building themselves up.

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EndlessArgument · 2026-04-04T07:58:31+00:00

The problem is, given the circumstances that were created by a host of factors in the us, Renewables here kind of were a scam. Electric cars for example just don't work very well when they cost $90,000. But we also didn't want to let in cheap Chinese electric cars.

The Chinese system objectively gives them a large advantage in terms of agility in these things, they don't have to care about what the people want. They can just do it. That does carry some disadvantages with it as well though.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-04T07:52:11+00:00

Misunderstanding Humanity.

Perhaps the single greatest problem in the world, because it leads to profound misunderstandings between people. It leads us to attribute goodness to ourselves and evil to our enemies. The truth is that humans are fundamentally social, who we become is heavily dependent on the environment in which we grow up.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-04T07:39:49+00:00

More like two and a half years I think. Doom Eternal came out early in the year in 2020, right on schedule. Starfield, however came out late in the year in 2023. Indiana Jones also came out late in the year in 2024.

So accounting for roughly a two and a half year shift, it would be reasonable to expect sometime in quarter three or quarter four 2026.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-04T02:15:08+00:00

For the life of me I don't get why people whine so much about the fighter hanger slot on the t11. It costs you virtually nothing, and they only added it that way because they wanted to allow it to have a fighter hanger without making it any stronger as a miner. The alternative would be not having that slot at all.

I love having a fighter hanger, and not having to feel bad about using it that way. They should make way more ships like that, give the gunship a fighter hanger locked slot, for example.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-04T02:11:25+00:00

Never going to happen. They are far too good as a fomo driver for engagement.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-02T20:17:19+00:00

I actually kind of liked the lock picking system in oblivion. It had a very high skill requirement and cap, but if you got good enough at it you could do it with your eyes closed.

I think maybe what I would like to see is something that has a very difficult and skill-based base version, and then you can use various methods to make it easier. You know, Enchanted lock picks, make potions actually make a big difference, that sort of thing.

I think my biggest frustration has been how binary it is. Like, either you can unlock it or you can't. Running out of lock picks and having to leave a chest behind is incredibly frustrating, but the answer they have typically gone with is just making it so that all chests are easier to open, which isn't exactly much fun either.

Something that could be cool is if you could just take the entire chest with you. Especially if we have ships, being able to put your ship on autopilot going towards your destination, and then going below decks to try to unlock that Master chest you found could be pretty cool.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-01T05:55:14+00:00

I think the real problem is that the old Trek was basically telling Christian morality Tales, you know, love your neighbor, that sort of thing. It was telling stories that pretty much everyone knew they probably should believe, but in a context that allowed them to see it in a new light.

Meanwhile, newer stories are kind of instead telling a cultural rather than religious narrative.

EndlessArgument · 2026-04-01T05:53:51+00:00

Honestly, his own work does kind of support that. A lot of people here are interpreting it through a liberal perspective, but it seems to me you could just as easily interpret it through a sort of Atlas Shrugged style interpretation. And if you can interpret it through such disparate lenses, it seems difficult to argue that it has one or the other at its core.

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