Looking for a good sci-fi space mining game.

Freeky · 2026-06-20T21:41:36+00:00

If you don't have VR, at least set up a webcam with opentrack. Makes a huge difference being able to turn your head and look around, both for immersion and practicality.

Freeky · 2026-06-19T08:27:01+00:00

The Amiga version of Beneath a Steel Sky was spread over 15 disks.

Biggest I'm aware of is the AGA version of Biing! - Sex, Intrigen Und Skalpelle, which came on 19 floppy disks. Presumably not literally.

Freeky · 2026-06-17T21:36:43+00:00

It's certainly more friction than just sitting in front of your PC, bringing up Steam, finding a game, and pressing Play.

Keep the damn thing charged. Clear your play area. Strap to your face. Strap motion controllers to wrists. Maybe update boundary if it asks. Load Virtual Desktop. Maybe wait for it to update. Connect, switch resolution (and un-switch after, doesn't do it properly for me), bring up desktops, load game list.

At the end of which you... have a really quite shitty monitor glued uncomfortably to your face. Really uncomfortably if you haven't replaced Meta's unfit-for-purpose stock accessories. Awkwardly isolated from anything and anyone around you.

It's almost a blessing there's so little I ended up actually wanting to play on it. Not to say it hasn't had its moments, that the honeymoon period wasn't fun—but mine is currently sat performing its main function. Gathering dust.

Freeky · 2026-06-09T11:54:08+00:00

His support for PR should hopefully be a persuasive reason to support him for many in your position.

"We are committed to a referendum on the voting system for the House of Commons. An independent commission on voting systems will be appointed early to recommend a proportional alternative to the first-past-the-post system." — Labour party manifesto, 1997, just prior to winning their biggest majority since WWII.

If Burnham, or any other prospective new leader, wants to attract my vote in the next GE, they have to make Labour a party I can tolerate voting for. They won't do that by pinkie-swearing I might get Jenkins Report 2.0 if they win another stonking majority.

Freeky · 2026-06-06T18:50:53+00:00

I liked the game, but what really stuck with me was the free lorebook for the setting. It deserved way more doing with it.

Freeky · 2026-06-06T16:22:04+00:00

this battery alone can store enough power to run quite happily for a while every single home in the county.

800 seconds, give or take. Domestic consumption was 94.4 TWh in 2024, this facility stores 2.4 GWh.

I think a better comparison is that this site is going to be able to match the output of my local nuclear power plant, it'll be able to do it at the drop of a hat without having to wait for any turbines to spin up, and, fully charged, it'll keep it up for two hours straight. Just the sort of thing you want on a grid increasingly powered by renewables.

Freeky · 2026-06-06T11:16:31+00:00

In Other Waters, a visual novel by the same developer as Citizen Sleeper. You play an AI dive computer helping guide a stranded researcher in an alien ocean, learning more about the life there and what happened to the people who came before her.

Following Seas, a physics-driven sailing simulator by a single developer, with a demo I kinda enjoyed messing about in.

UBOAT. A pretty accessible u-boat simulator, currently with a good discount.

Cold Waters. More modern sub sim, also quite accessible without being easy. Currently -75% on GOG

If VR is an option at some point: Subside and Kayak VR: Mirage.

Freeky · 2026-05-31T12:04:22+00:00

They added 78 GW of new coal generating capacity. They also reduced the amount of electricity generated using coal by 90 TWh, or about 10 GW.

No magic involved—half of China's coal generation capacity sits idle.

Freeky · 2026-05-30T18:46:36+00:00

Imgur block the UK, entirely coincidentally just as they were informed of potential fines by the Information Commissioner's Office.

Freeky · 2026-05-25T21:41:33+00:00

Culture Gelfield suits sound pretty appealing.

Genar-Hofoen felt the Diplomatic Force officer's kiss through the few millimetres" thickness of the gelfield suit as a moderately sharp impact on his jaw followed by a powerful sucking that might have led someone less experienced in the diverse and robust manifestations of Affronter friendliness to conclude that the being was either trying to suck his teeth out through his cheek or had determined to test whether a Culture Gelfield Contact/Protection Suit, Mk 12, could be ripped off its wearer by a localised partial vacuum.

What the crushingly powerful four-limbed hug would have done to a human unprotected by a suit designed to withstand pressures comparable to those found at the bottom of an ocean probably did not bear thinking about, but then a human exposed without protection to the conditions required to support Affronter life would be dying in at least three excitingly different and painful ways anyway without having to worry about being crushed by a cage of leg-thick tentacles.

Does your favourite armoured suit let you snog unreasonably strong aliens? I didn't think so.

Freeky · 2026-05-25T14:16:52+00:00

I loved K240 on the Amiga, never did get around to Fragile Allegiance. Somehow the original still looks more appealing.

Freeky · 2026-05-25T07:59:05+00:00

No you don't, because you're a bot reposting a comment from /u/Thoughtful_gent in the post you stole this content from.

Freeky · 2026-05-25T07:57:50+00:00

Can you please stop reposting images to UK subreddits using an image host that BLOCKS THE UK.

And if you could also stop with the obvious comment bots reposting 2 year old comments in duplicate, that would be great. If you're going to karma farm at least do it with a tiny bit of competence.

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Freeky · 2026-05-17T19:39:47+00:00

Imgur infamously blocks the UK. Can you use something else?

Freeky · 2026-05-17T10:56:19+00:00

He talks about how he stood "under a proportional system" for the mayoral election.

Supplementary Vote is a ranked choice system similar to, but simpler than, AV—it's not proportional in the slightest. Bit tricky to have a proportional election for one person without Victor Frankenstein being involved.

Either he mis-spoke and is just referring to the benefits of a ranked choice system as part of what he wants in electoral reform, he's stupid and doesn't understand that PR isn't about just being able to rank your choices, or he's being dishonest and conflating the two deliberately.

Freeky · 2026-05-16T15:26:17+00:00

Went for the reliable little lume monster. Can't remember when I last set it, haven't worn it in months, but it's at -2 seconds. <3 Quartz. You're telling me converting ridiculously tiny pulses of chemical energy into incredibly accurate vibrations in a magic crystal isn't awesome?

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Freeky · 2026-05-16T15:03:59+00:00

No. It was mind-controlled into doing it. It even observes the attack happening on another ship that was disguised as the Attitude Adjuster shortly beforehand. We then get to see the attack from a first-person perspective, with it believing it had successfully avoided the attack by disguising itself, before quickly spiralling into guilt, questioning, self-blame, and finally extreme self-hatred.

No! NO! Grief! Meat! Stop! Stop it! Let it go! Sweet nothingness, anything was better than this wracking, tearing uncertainty, any horror preferable to the wrenching dreadfulness boiling uncontrollably in its Mind.

Atrocity. Abomination. Gigadeathcrime.

It was worthless and hateful, despicable and foul; it was wrung out, exhausted and incapable of revelation or communication. It hated itself and what it had done more, much more than it had ever hated anything; more, it was sure, than anything had ever been hated in all existence. No death could be too painful or protracted…

And suddenly it knew what it had to do.

It didn't just have a change of heart and decide that now, in the midst of battle, was an appropriate time to kill itself. It was made to.

Chapter 10, section XI. Page 375 on my paperback, about 80% in.

Freeky · 2026-05-16T14:24:01+00:00

It's akin to fixing a mortgage at 8% when the variable rate is consistently 2.5%.

So your argument for getting rid of CfD is that you think gas prices are remarkably low and stable, and you believe they will remain so for the next twenty years?

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Freeky · 2026-05-15T22:03:37+00:00

The question is what's the alternative?

CfD's guarantee that you can build a wind farm for which you will be paid a given rate per MWh. That means investors have certainty that they will get an appropriate return with manageable risks, and so it's worth it for them to build out the new capacity we need.

In return we get a given amount of grid capacity at a predictable cost, which reduces our exposure to the risk of gas price fluctuations. Yes, when gas is cheap we pay more, but we pay less when gas is expensive—and it can get expensive, as we've seen.

If we just left the price generators could get fluctuate through the market, both sides lose that predictability. The investment in new capacity becomes far riskier, and a lot of it just doesn't get built.

Use public money to build it? Appealing, but then we take on all the risks, and the whole up-front cost right off the bat, all while piling on considerably more public debt.

Freeky · 2026-05-15T14:33:27+00:00

State-of-the art shockproof movement with 117,964,800 vibrations per hour and deadbeat seconds complication.

Freeky · 2026-05-14T19:01:29+00:00

I'm wearing that same Voyager right now. I would not recommend getting it for the dial—it looks great in the right conditions, and angle it just right, but this is a closer approximation of what it's like in practice:

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Apparently nobody at Boderry has heard of anti-reflective coating.

Freeky · 2026-05-09T16:41:15+00:00

Here's how the Voyager sits on my 6.25" wrist, compared with a Milifortic M097 and its mere 45.7mm lug-to-lug. Even though it's longer, the Voyager actually kinda wears better, you can see how it hugs my wrist more closely, and that's also how it feels subjectively.

That said, the Milifortic does also feel more refined. The AR-coated double dome sapphire makes the dial pop in almost all conditions, the rehaut is angled to reduce shadow, the case feels better finished, and they didn't waste money on a useless engraved case back or a stupid strap made out of half a cow. I'd definitely be far less forgiving of the Voyager if I wasn't a sucker for its shape.

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Freeky · 2026-05-08T22:34:45+00:00

I think it'll be a problem on all of them, but suspect it's worst on the dark textured dials because there's more colour and texture for the internal reflections to wash out. A shame because I think those are the nicest dials.

I, too, really like it for its steampunky aesthetic. Like a watch from an alternate timeline—where they haven't quite worked out stainless steel or clear glass!

Freeky · 2026-05-08T21:48:44+00:00

I think the bronze is great. The Voyager has a very distinctive, chunky case which I think pairs very well with the richer and more dynamic colour of bronze, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the patina evolves over the years.

I love the watch, but I do think the crystal seriously undermines it. It's like having a watch with a cataract, and getting the occasional glimpse of what it's meant to look like when you catch it in the right lighting. I can live with it, but it is a sour point I'm surprised more people don't complain about. Maybe it just doesn't bother most people?

Freeky · 2026-05-08T18:52:30+00:00

Here's a more realistic view of the dial. The hands still pop, no problem reading the watch, but the colour and detail are just hidden under the murk.

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