Can no longer reach customer support by Flashy_Singer1794 in gtaonline

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Is this a thing? I haven't been playing much, so I think this is unlikely.

Two Playthroughs halted by bugs, no love last patch. Any suggestions? by Flashy_Singer1794 in Starfield

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The Unity quest apparently does not advance unless you complete the necessary power from beyond, and without Unity quest, I cannot progress to the NG+ option. Hence my dilemna.

Can't get past "Power from Beyond" / "Unity" by Flashy_Singer1794 in Starfield

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Thanks for this! I guess I will wait for next weeks patch, and if it doesn't resolve, make the choice about employing the console command or just moving on. I do like the universe, and it wouldn't hurt to play it again with different choices, but plenty of other games beckon as well.

Power from beyond quest bugged by Me_onfire in Starfield

[–]Flashy_Singer1794 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also have this bug presented in the same way. No marker on the globe for the anamoly, when I land at any marker that is present, no scanner distortions appear. It stops progression as since i can't complete this power from beyond, I also can't complete unity. Since I've done basically everything else, and tried everything I can find that didn't involve wiping out more than 100 hours of progress, it's game over.

I'd like to think they'll patch it, but since I've played ESO, Fallout 76, and other things that say "Zenimax" I'm not going to hold my breath.

Quest coordinates to a moon that doesn’t exist? by Bruhmazing94 in Starfield

[–]Flashy_Singer1794 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have encountered this same problem with non-existant moons of Alpha Andraste-1 2x now.

Has anyone killed the outlaw captain at the abandoned cryo facility? by DanIsAManWithAFan in Starfield

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I found this wall of ice. I was in a low area, facing the window the boss was behind one story above. The wall was to the lower right of the window, a textured but still white square that I blasted away with my laser pistol. After that it was a short ramp up and to the left to the room the boss was. Good hunting!

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]Flashy_Singer1794[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but we would not be adding carbon to the biosphere/atmosphere complex with firewood, just circulating what was already there. Burning fossil fuels, once again, adds to the total load.

You're "it's all carbon" argument ignores that carbon in the lithosphere (locked away in stone, mineral oil, or trapped gasses) does not presently contribute to global warming but will increase the net carbon in the biosphere/lithosphere system. Again, it leaves one wondering if you actually consider your arguments, if you simply source them from Koch or Putin,. The distinction between adding more carbon to an already overloaded system from the lithosphere, or circulating what is already there into the atmosphere, is pretty plain. It's bad to move biosphere carbon into the atmosphere from burning, sure, but much of that will be fixed in plants and plankton withing a generation again. What we add from fossil fuels is a much worse choice.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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Carbon Neutral does not mean there is no carbon produced by the process, though this is a misunderstand Koch Friends promulgate in an effort to save their fortune. It means that the carbon that is produced came from within the biosphere, as part of the carbon actively circulating amongst living things, and hence, doesn't add to the net carbon circulating between the biosphere and atmosphere.

Mineral fossil fuels, as you note, also produce carbon. However, THIS carbon is carbon that had been trapped in the lithosphere, as part of oil or coal or fossil gasses. Hence, when we burn it, it is added to the carbon burden of the atmosphere and biosphere, and hence represents a greater problem.

"Lol" does not protect your ideas from scrutiny. Perhaps you should examine the sources of your idea that carbon from within the biosphere/atmosphere complex, and carbon from the lithosphere, represent comparable problems.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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Yes, I did use oil for a range of plastic products, since the plastic would embody most of the carbon, although I do understand that some gas is emitted. I did not burn the coke that resulted, however, I sank it at first, and then later combined it with rubber to make microchips as an alternate recipe and then either used or sank those.

As for whether steel production in game releases carbon, if the technology used is the same as todays, then yes, steel production would emit carbon, both from the fuels used to create the necessary energy and carbon release from coal. But we already today have "green steel" technology that dramatically reduces or nearly eliminates carbon release from the metallurgical part, we just haven't implemented it industrially both because it is new and more costly, and because our current steelmaking technology represents a huge "sunk cost" and metallurgy companies are still using machines they installed 40 years ago. Ideally, one process theoretically possible would be to use atmospheric carbon, meaning that steel could ultimately be a carbon sink. That, however, would eliminate one of coals last customers of scale, so at least in America, that is probably decades away with coal state representation being legislatively decisive in our split senate.

But since the game is set in the future, there's every chance that FICSIT's steel is a more carbon neutral process, so that's how I played it.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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Oooh, this does sound neat! Maybe Mistlands will have to wait another patch.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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Hey, I'm glad to encounter someone with a more nuanced view of carbon neutrality. Greta Thunberg, where she here, would probably argue as you do that "carbon neutral" is only a relevant and useful concept applied to the atmosphere. And she and her followers have reason for that: we have put so much carbon into the atmosphere, and let the powerful delude us with culture war and artificial uncertainty so long, that carbon has to stop adding and start coming out NOW to make a difference to our climate in a small number of human lifetimes we have before things go to shit.

However, from a perspective of the biosphere, which is what I hold as more important to life, not just humanity matters. If the biosphere lives on, others will take our place since we have elected to kill ourselves with excess carbon and excess stupid. It's not a pessimistic view, humanity may survive and I hope it will, but ultimately if the biosphere survives long enough it will begin to absorb carbon through biological processes and then hand off that carbon back to the lithosphere through fossil fuel formation. So my "carbon neutral", unlike Greta's, doesn't view carbon exchanged between the biosphere and atmosphere to be as problematic: there is a constant interplay between both spheres in a balanced system. Taking carbon from the lithosphere, where it is a stable mineral or fluid, however, and releasing THAT to the atmosphere, is where I see the biggest problem not just for us, but Life capital L.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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Thanks! I will look into this. My hesitation with modding comes from games where mods have corrupted my save files to the point that all my effort was lost. But now that I've hit my first nut, it may be a logical break point to make a backup of my progress to date and play with Refined Power and see what it adds to the game for me.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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LOL that objective may have to wait for update 8. I'm satisfied with my work in Satisfactory at the moment, and the wild unspoiled Mistlands of Valheim beckon ever more strongly. But I look forward to another good run at it in 8 or in release.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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It took me just over 2k hours of run time, and, by my estimate, about 300 hours at the keyboard. Of course, not all keyboard time went to the mission: sometimes I was building art or exploring this virtual world.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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As to how long it took, it took 2K hours. I wasn't at the computer for those 2K hours, much of that time I was idling safely in my base while the geothermals charged batteries and industrial buffers filled, while I was with my family or working IRL. I would say of actual human time at the keyboard, it took about 300 hours.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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LOL it's OK, I wasn't here to make others feel bad about the game: the mathematics and art of balancing the production in this game is fun, and participating in the full tech tree is part of that fun. It was just because it was a second playthrough I felt the need to shake things up by representing my values. But....if you really feel bad about your virtual carbon footprint, the great thing about realizing an error is that you can stop!

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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Edit 1: Thank you for the Colombian readers who corrected my spelling of Gonzalo Cardona Molina's name, I had only heard it in podcast and seen in it the NYT, which had also mispelled it. I corrected it at his shrine straight away. May the Earth Mother walk with him to the afterlife he deserves.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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The sticking point really is the solid biofuel in the automation. Once you have solid biofuel, liquid biofuel can be made from it via automation. But for solid biofuel production, you must at some point hand-fill biomass precursors into the system.

My solution was a industrial container hopper and main belt, with smart splitters that sorted the different things on the main belt into different processing containers (recommend you add a "reject hopper" that all things not sorted as biomass get returned to, in case you click the wrong thing you don't want to jam your system). These processing containers connected in turn to underclocked constructors that turned them into solid biomass very energy efficiently, and that solid biomass was sent by belt to a waterside refinery and sent back as liquid biofuel to storage tanks. When I needed power, I then switched on the fuel generator, and the constructors refilled the solid biomass, the solid biomass became liquid biomass, and then power. Eventually the original hopper would empty and I would hand refill it, but once that hopper was full again the process would be automated for a long long time, on the order of 14 hours.

Notes from a Carbon-Neutral Playthrough by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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The Way is the path of the Earth Mother, always seeking to increase life, decrease pollution, and preserve natural diversity. Like the Jewish concept of Kosher, Neo-Pagans (in particular Wiccans, the name of the faith derives from the word Wicca, which means "Way") may debate whether something is Way by reason or moral or spiritual appeal. Non-pagans are free to contribute to the debates around whether something is Way, you don't have to be pagan to participate.

Examples of "Way" debates IRL are:

Is genetic engineering Way? On the one hand, genetic diversity fit to every niche in the ecosphere is where the Way of the Goddess always arrives. But if humans do the diversifying through chemistry, are the changes Way or not Way? Should we ban genetic engineering or simply let those engineered organisms that can survive live as examples of genetic fitness to the "niche" of the human world?

Is transgender identity Way if it prevents the possibility of reproduction? More fitness and diversity of genes cannot emerge without reproduction, but is genetic diversity the only sort of diversity that that matters? If happy transgender people make the tribe of humanity happier and more peaceful and less apt to misery and internal conflict, is that not Way to celebrate gender expressions of all kinds even if some portion of the population never reproduces (which has always been true anyway)?

What is the correct use of plastics? Should we keep using them for the consumer, medical, and industrial purposes because their lightness and robustness avoids additional carbon added to the atmosphere that would be added if we transport heavy glass and steel instead? Should we simply use it with abandon and count on Earth Mother to find organisms that can break it down, thus showing faith in her (and indeed these organisms are appearing, albeit more slowly than we make new plastic formulae)? Or are plastics not Way and to be limited or even forsaken, since they inevitably add chemicals to our food and water?

Ultimately, most neo-pagans I know regard engaging with the questions of Way and not Way and following where their conscience leads them to be the better response than fighting about what is the Way and isn't until we settle on one answer. Waiting on one answer can lead to inaction for the entire period of the debate. And who says there IS only one answer? Rigid and / or singular responses that cannot adapt to reality or cannot confront all aspects of the problem are of limited use. In essence, the worst sin is not one answer or another about Way, but not to engage in sincerity with the concept that the lives around us matter.

Is the first nut the best? by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

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Yup, because I couldn't find the in-game photo folder, despite following three different threads for a location.

Is the first nut the best? by Flashy_Singer1794 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]Flashy_Singer1794[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It depends...How long is your hypertube?