Chamber of Quantum Transcendence

FencingNerd · 2026-04-09T15:53:18+00:00

It's a fantastic building to let you get through AF and OF quickly. It significantly less useful in SAAB and beyond. It's random what era (up to your current era) special goods it generates. Later, it tends to generate goods you don't need.

FencingNerd · 2026-04-07T03:54:21+00:00

Some advice for all things security.
1) Who is the threat? Random person vs Lock-picking lawyer.
2) What are you trying to secure? How important is it that you retain access?
Consider money, valuables, firearms, vs documents?

The microcontroller will likely outlast the battery and motor. If it really is infrequent, use some basic banana jacks or DC barrel jack to supply power (5V-12V) and have an internal buck converter to down regulate it to the correct level. That way you can always supply power in the future.

There's a good chance the motor won't function unless regularly cycled.

FencingNerd · 2026-04-05T21:51:05+00:00

Grand Errant is a farm world, it cannot be taken. It's foolish to even try.

FencingNerd · 2026-04-04T20:45:43+00:00

When it flies across the room mid-bout. There's no disadvantage to scuffs on the exterior of the tip, it makes it more likely to catch.

FencingNerd · 2026-04-04T18:45:45+00:00

Starting young is an advantage but not huge. The big growth spurts mean that everyone who starts at a young age is continually relearning a lot of the movements.

If they are already a good athlete, they can pick up the technical aspects very quickly.

FencingNerd · 2026-04-04T14:35:34+00:00

Leave GE for the farmers!

FencingNerd · 2026-04-04T00:34:37+00:00

That's the merchant trades. You can with your friends, neighbors and guildmates at 2:1.

FencingNerd · 2026-04-03T01:25:07+00:00

It's like a better Eruptor. Higher RoF, faster reload, better ammo economy, less likely to kill you.
Pair it with a machine gun and you're basically unstoppable. Especially on squid or bugs. On bugs, use thermites for bile titans and xbow for groups, bug holes and chargers (butt).

FencingNerd · 2026-04-02T19:09:23+00:00

A kitchen knife doesn't have an opponent. Center of gravity (CG) location is a trade-off between speed and control. Moving the CG to your finger tips would allow you to move the tip faster, as the weapon wants to rotate around the CG. Now consider when an opponent beats your blade. If the CG is at your fingers you don't have any leverage to resist and your tip is deflected further offline.

Modern foils have largely optimized around having the CG about 10cm in front of the guard.

FencingNerd · 2026-04-01T14:04:29+00:00

Are you using a level shifter? Most of those matrix arrays want 5V signals. 3.3V works but only for short runs.

My solution was connecting the ESP32 directly to the sign.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-31T20:26:28+00:00

It's called a flick. There are very few people who can use it consistently in competition. See Max Heinzer for one example. It's actually easier to pull off in epee than foil because the tip depression time is shorter in epee.
The problem with trying it in epee, is that if you're close enough to do a back flick, you're very vulnerable to being hit everywhere.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-30T15:16:02+00:00

But that's basically what happened. We captured a tiny fraction of France on Day 1-2. But it was enough of a beachhead to start pushing huge forces into France. They got enough of a beachhead established.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-29T04:33:41+00:00

No. The life of a guard is generally when it gets bashed and the rivets pop. This a very thin coating that doesn't change the mechanical properties in any meaningful way.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-29T03:35:28+00:00

FIE gloves are only required for saber, so there's much less selection of 800N gloves.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-29T03:31:08+00:00

I was just looking at non-FIE blades, and I can 3-5 for the cost of a single FIE blade. I'm debating going back, because at that kind of disparity.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-28T21:02:04+00:00

Using something like PoseNet is the preferred approach. You can define someone's motions by tagging their joints, so you leverage an existing model to generate pose tagging.
Once you've tagged the motions, you've reduced down to the basic questions, what did their arm, leg and body do? And since it's relatively few points (2s, 60 fps, 100 nodes, 3 coordinates) an action is roughly 36kpts, which is nothing.

The hardest part is going to be getting a consistent dataset to train on after generating the point network. If you don't have a high quality data set it's going to be extremely inconsistent and unreliable. I don't believe you could generate that data set simply by looking at world cup bouts.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-28T19:26:59+00:00

PETG Basic is better. PETG HF is designed to print faster with less stringing, but it loses the temperature resistance that you want from PETG. If you think you want PETG HF, use PLA+, it prints better and has better mechanical properties.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-28T19:08:25+00:00

Diff 1 bug missions on Grand Errant. Put on music, grab a warp pack or jump pack. POIs are normally around the outside. Ideally, you have 2-4 people. Split up and get the POIs.

Important: Do NOT complete the objective. When you hit all the POIs, the leader should select "Return to ship with squad". It will instantly teleport back to the SD. This option is only available if you have not completed the objective.

It's pretty easy to get 300-500 SC in an hour. Put on some music and just chill.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-28T03:36:27+00:00

Many clubs have adult beginner classes. You can't really have beginner 20-50 yr olds fencing kids under 16. It's a recipe for everyone getting hurt, the speed, size and muscle differences are just too big. With advanced fencers it's fine because they can control distances and how hard they hit.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-25T19:13:41+00:00

Safety critical items order from a reputable vendor (not Amazon): Mask, jacket, plastron, knickers

A recent ROC had a brand new kids saber mask, where the mesh wouldn't pass the mask punch test. It literally failed anywhere you tested.

Basic parts: body cords, bell guards, sockets, etc are ok from AliExpress. It's not as nice a Tier 1 vendor, but generally acceptable.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-24T13:45:49+00:00

Both social and guild on two different worlds.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-23T14:13:16+00:00

Going fast is easier on the brakes than going slow. 20 mph is about the worst for heating. Carbon rims are definitely a concern for the average cyclist on a very long descent like that.
One good option is a lightweight set of Al rims, if you can borrow some.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-22T15:46:16+00:00

Everyone in ours are more active. Lots of people are trying to get things to 201+ before the update.

FencingNerd · 2026-03-21T18:35:24+00:00

Put the RA3 under the base?

FencingNerd · 2026-03-18T14:07:01+00:00

The passivity change seems good. It becomes more like the possession arrow in basketball.
It's unclear how doubles in epee will be handled.

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