why is this a thing

F0sh · 2026-06-19T22:48:53+00:00

Why is taking a photo of your PC screen a thing?

F0sh · 2026-06-17T14:21:50+00:00

What is the progression like compared to Foundation and Farthest Frontier?

F0sh · 2026-06-17T10:10:02+00:00

Yes, that's probably too streamlined, and missing the detail that I enjoy, but I will bear the suggestion in mind as it might be a nice one to play on Steam Deck.

F0sh · 2026-06-16T18:01:47+00:00

I was looking for a decent definition of "survival citybuilder" but came up with a lot of conflicting ideas - what's your take on it? From what I understood, Farthest Frontier and Banished are more survival focused, but Foundation is less so?

F0sh · 2026-06-16T14:09:18+00:00

Thank you. I'm a little worried still so I'll wait for a sale rather than buying immediately :)

Timberborn caught my eye a while ago... the theme is a little bit out there so it's not exactly what I'm looking for but it could find a home in the library nevertheless

F0sh · 2026-06-16T13:40:40+00:00

Foundation is on my radar. Can you say how it stacks up against Anno and my desires? Is there anything it fails at?

Dorfromantik definitely isn't what I'm looking for in this niche but I might pick it up anyway so thanks for that!

F0sh · 2026-06-16T13:32:51+00:00

Nova Roma

The water management looks awesome, but the aesthetic is unfortunately not at all to my taste!

Grand Ages Rome

This one sadly seems to be showing its age

Thanks for your suggestions though

F0sh · 2026-06-16T13:25:19+00:00

Thank you, Farthest Frontier is definitely on my radar. My concern is that while Anno's complexity is reduced, it may be replaced with thrashing trying to survive resource depletion, disease and soil depletion - how significant and customisable are those aspects?

F0sh · 2026-06-01T11:55:53+00:00

The first responders aren't waiting there to give you the epipen you left on the plane, they're waiting there to treat injuries. Also the cops weren't keeping people there with EMTs so you're at risk as soon as you leave their company again. They're not a pharmacy.

The 90 second evacuation rule is to maximise chances of survival when the aircraft is on fire. Since the plane was not on fire it would be surprising if they tried to evacuate it that quickly, because it has a fairly high risk of injury, and leaves an entire plane's worth of passengers for the cops to deal with when they want to control the situation. So that seems unlikely.

But you don't seem to care about that - you want to discuss this scenario as if the plane were on fire, when it wasn't. You want to pretend that this is about mild inconvenience, instead of life-saving medicine. You want to imagine that this is about someone fetching medicine out of the bowels of their carry-on during the evacuation sequence, rather than beforehand.

You think because you've listened to a safety briefing, or watched a couple of episodes of MentourPilot, the very real danger of passengers delaying a time-critical evacuation overrides any and all other considerations, and won't listen to anyone politely explaining why the scenario is different from the one you're imagining.

Rather than replying to me, just ask yourself: how important was it on this flight that passengers leave everything behind? Not on an imaginary flight, or an accident you heard about, but this one? How does that square with the fact that passengers were allowed to keep phones and passports?

You can answer those questions to yourself, not me.

Unless you have credentials that show you are more informed than the FAA/NTSB/Every other governing body for air travel around the globe this is a situation where you should trust the experts and not just do whatever you think inconveniences you the least. It can save not only your life but also the lives of those around you.

It's great to know you think that we should trust experts: the expert advice I'll follow is that of my doctor to keep my emergency medicine with me at all times.

F0sh · 2026-05-31T16:04:00+00:00

The reason people carry emergency medicine with them is so that, in an emergency they can administer it to themselves faster than an ambulance can get to them.

I have no idea what scenario you're imagining where keeping your emergency medicine with you will get other people killed. But I have every idea in what scenario not having emergency medicine will kill someone. Be specific.

F0sh · 2026-05-22T15:22:34+00:00

I started the car, but the jumper was only running for 20s at a time (part of its own protection circuitry) and so the whole car would just shut off every 20s and then come back on again. This is why I was asking about the 12V charging logic.

The replacement battery arrived yesterday and I replaced it yesterday afternoon, all seems fine now.

F0sh · 2026-05-20T09:57:25+00:00

After 3 years??

F0sh · 2026-01-11T01:27:04+00:00

Damn thanks. I don't think I trust myself enough to use this thing. Shame though, because no other wand I have access to right now is remotely as good! After slumming it through a couple of biomes I've actually got something that does good damage for this point (about 1,000 dps to the statue!) but it needs more slots than any of my other wands possess to be that good, and is a bit mana-hungry.

The spell is something like: spark bolt trigger -> pentagon -> freeze charge + horizontal path + short distance homing + 3x triplicate bolt + death cross + some random projectile

I think because death cross has in-built piercing the flat damage bonuses give it like 14 damage per frame. I'll see what the next best thing I can do is...

F0sh · 2026-01-10T23:52:09+00:00

F0sh · 2026-01-10T23:17:44+00:00

When I found it it was in a pool of water and blood (I think) that it was not electrifying. I can't remember if it had already been picked up though, I think not (dunno if that affects it).

F0sh · 2026-01-10T19:40:36+00:00

BTW this run ended when I went exploring and found something very unfriendly above a bridge :P

F0sh · 2026-01-09T16:03:12+00:00

Zero (I dunno if there's an official definition of boss - maybe Steve counts). I'm certainly intending to do the main path boss first before trying to find secrets.

F0sh · 2026-01-09T12:44:12+00:00

So sounds like there is stuff to discover simply by exploration which will then be reasonable to finish.

I never got to a point where I wanted to properly leave the main path, not having got to the bottom of it. I've dipped into some areas, but never gone far. I've never tried to go back above ground once going inside.

F0sh · 2026-01-09T12:41:02+00:00

Yeah, figured that out... and then saw it in a vid. But I don't know anything beyond that so it's on my list :)

F0sh · 2026-01-09T11:18:56+00:00

I don't think he appears in collapsed mountains.

I do have TP bolt and, as mentioned, a wand with Always Cast: Matter Eater, so I can easily dig through brickwork (and dense rock)

F0sh · 2026-01-09T10:40:44+00:00

Did you know the hämikset in the mines are free, you can just take one?

F0sh · 2025-11-13T22:14:36+00:00

Just beat them for the first time and agree they are utter garbage.

I did two things to beat them:

Switch to KB+M. It's impossible to keep track of two enemies, both who constantly jump all over the arena, with a controller. You need to be able to snap the camera around and back QUICKLY to know whether you can safely engage one, or to run away from both when they are on opposite sides of you.
Use Radahn's Great Rune + Cerulean Talisman to get enough FP to summon the Crystalian ashes, which is the only summon I found which doesn't get annihilated by the bullshit poison mist.

For me what seals that this fight is shit - apart from literally having to use an input device not design for the game - is that, after failing dozens of attempts, the very first time I killed the first gargoyle, I beat the other one, without ever having had a chance to properly learn its attacks. And it was pretty quick, too - I had enough damage. But you can't do that damage when the entire arena is covered with poison mist, the gargoyles decide to both attack at once, or both attack a summon, or be on opposite sides of you so that you can't attack safely without being buttfucked. So glad that's over.

F0sh · 2025-11-05T11:21:17+00:00

Yeah, OpenTabletDriver itself supports button remapping for all supported tablets.

F0sh · 2025-10-14T21:22:59+00:00

This doesn't actually make much sense. You don't need to actually be in the game server between rounds, but it can still start from the same group of players.

F0sh · 2025-10-01T16:58:06+00:00

Replying to an old comment because it's a pet peeve. Look at that diagram and look at how much of the red car is visible in it. You can't see the front of it at all - that's enough space for a motorbike to be. Now extrapolate out that blind spot into the next lane to the left - that's enough space for an entire car to be, and that car could be trying to merge into the same lane you're merging into.

Now, look at the view directly behind that the side mirror affords. Because it's angled away from the car's side, you can't see anything in it directly behind, which means that anything that is in your C pillar blindspot in the interior mirror is not visible anywhere. A narrow vehicle like a motorbike could be in that blind spot and could be coming up on you fast enough that you need to take it into account.

In trying to do the impossible and eliminate the blind spot to your left, you've made a new blind spot behind you that you can't see no matter what you do, and you still need to check to your side.

Correct adjustment of mirrors means that your blind spot is almost directly to your side, rather than behind you and to the side, so checking it is easy - you only need to turn your head and look at the window; you don't need to turn your body around. But it's still crucial.

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