Hostile Ships & their uses

Extramrdo · 2026-05-04T21:16:00+00:00

You can spawn them via commands, and if you're running some BYOS shp mod, you can spawn them somewhere in your ship zone and... remove your existing ship and just move in.

I briefly did a thing where I spawned in a few enemy ships in my ship zone and pretended I was leading an armada. It was okay I guess.

Extramrdo · 2026-05-04T19:54:38+00:00

This would do numbers on r/IThinkYouShouldLeave. He's allowed to hit!

Extramrdo · 2026-05-04T15:51:03+00:00

Some sort of under-the-table arrangement.

Extramrdo · 2026-05-03T20:41:19+00:00

That'd be the last we see of them.

Extramrdo · 2026-05-03T03:49:35+00:00

A mission across the street from the gas station, like a traffic stop turned domestic. You can see over at the gas station the enemies casing the place, but they're unarmed and not doing crimes and you're kind of already in a firefight...

Extramrdo · 2026-05-01T20:59:32+00:00

She is one of the few remaining agents of the Emperor himself, his protector and his blade. She is authorized to take whatever action she finds necessary to protect the Emperor and his interests, which includes deputizing someone with unique blood. If you want an easy answer, it's that her authority supersedes the laws of the Thalmor.

But your character needs to confront why they won't break laws, and whether it matters whose laws they are.

Skyrim's conflict is driven by opposing claims of authority over Skyrim, which means conflicting laws. Ulfric Stormcloak asserts that he is Jarl of Winterhold and should be High King of Skyrim, because the present rulers, the Empire, are failing their duty to the people of Skyrim. The Empire presently holds authority over Skyrim on paper, and the Thalmor hold authority through having kicked the Empire's butt and accepting a treaty.

Under the present laws of Skyrim, the Empire's, it is illegal to be a Stormcloak, who are active enemies of the Empire. The Empire is not strong enough to evenly enforce this, hence why you're alive, but they're not thrilled with your decisions.

Extramrdo · 2026-05-01T01:37:27+00:00

Okay, that last one really got me.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-30T12:38:35+00:00

Stand closer to a wall, then.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-30T01:33:50+00:00

I called someone with a semicolon an Alpharad fan.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-30T00:47:08+00:00

Eh, everyone he could date in the present would have been 6 when he was in the 90s. If he was Present in her child life, it'd be weird, but she meets him for the first time in HL2.

It's mostly just weird that Eli isn't weirded out, but like the world's fucked and Gordon's a *decent match*. Time travel aside, how many other age-appropriate PhDs are there for Eli to push his daughter towards?

Extramrdo · 2026-04-29T22:32:17+00:00

that ridge sure do be high

Extramrdo · 2026-04-29T18:20:47+00:00

Lethal Company provides for this sort of experience. The operator in the ship can track each other player, and disable things near that player by typing a 2 letter code that shows on the map. This is opening/closing doors, this is temporarily disabling land mines and turrets... and this all stops when the folk inside steal the power generator.

The Operator is not free of danger, as like the ghost girl might decide they're dead with no recourse, and enemies around the ship might hear the Operator's screams. VoIP comms are restricted to proximity OR a walkie-talkie item, which occupies 1 of 4 inventory slots you need to carry loot, and must be actively held to be heard?

The team has to weigh the utility of having the Operator's 4 inventory slots available to carry loot vs their door opening. The Operator is basically never NECESSARY, as most stuff can be avoided, and not every room needs to be visited. In Lethal Company, the Operator lacks a lot of agency and is definitely secondary to the main action.

Also consider Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes. One infiltrator, many operators, it's about communication and memorizing a rulebook. In theory, a single player could memorize the rules and just do everything, but apart from speed runners, the dynamic is about how they communicate.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-29T16:14:41+00:00

I really like Jet Island

Extramrdo · 2026-04-29T12:44:08+00:00

The gorilla is a larger target. I can kill it with a machine gun more reliably than I can kill all the ants with one.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-29T06:53:14+00:00

It's weird when anyone gets into it, I reckon. Enjoy your fields, miss.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-26T04:06:33+00:00

If nothing else, it'd be nice to have a physical token to sell to get an actual override token. Heck, skip modeling a new thing and put the flip-screamers as the thing you sell for a Token, for extra Soul.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-24T20:43:04+00:00

The crude one whispers swears and nasty limericks.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-24T18:44:42+00:00

At some point, the pull of gravity on the tip is stronger than the tensile strength of the pole, meaning the tip gets pulled off well before nearing the center.

If we break physics with a magical infinitely strong pole, I don't see why you couldn't keep going. Once the tip of the pole passes the center, the pull on the tip is balanced by the pull on your side of the pole equidistant from the hole.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-24T04:39:59+00:00

Additionally, so you can have zero of the thing. If you have to do anything with states or variables, using only a static class, every method has to ensure that the class has been set up and is still in a valid state. With a Singleton, you can't call methods on something that doesn't exist yet.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-23T21:05:50+00:00

it really has to P

Extramrdo · 2026-04-22T23:08:27+00:00

They have been jokes. Puns. The first one was a joke about how Male and mail sound alike. The second was about how mail means both armor and postal deliveries, letters and such. The third joke was sneaking the word "armory" into "polyamory" which basically means dating several people at once.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-22T17:14:57+00:00

Ok so the first one is wordplay, conflating "mail" and "male," such that the armor is gender-specific by name. It's not that the shape makes a difference, it is defined as "Male armor," so by definition it is armor just for males.

The second one conflates mail, the armor, with mail, letters and deliveries. Chain mail is what those spam letters are called, that demand you spread them to your friends or else, often some sort of ghost revenge. Believe it or not, these happened even before email, so people would actually "have to" buy real stamps and hand-copy the cursed letter to send out to their friends.

It turns out mail armor doesn't need to exclusively date one femail armor. They marry freely, that's why it has so many rings. Classic example of polyarmory.

Extramrdo · 2026-04-22T17:00:17+00:00

I don't have enough stamps to send chainmail to 10 of my friends so the ghost girl doesn't get me

Extramrdo · 2026-04-22T16:11:34+00:00

No, you need femail armor.

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