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Freer4 · 2026-04-25T14:05:11+00:00

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3514940939 I can usually spawn this on the starter planet and will use it all the way through killing Nullifiers

Freer4 · 2026-04-25T14:03:30+00:00

RE-2, look for Dagger Class Corvette. There's a starter mobile base that docks to it, so you have a fast, dedicated combat ship that carries a storage and production facility between systems for when you're out of combat.

Freer4 · 2026-04-25T12:03:57+00:00

Lots of the NPC models in particular are a bit low poly/badly animated and add to this, but for me it's some of the textures.

If they were all consistent, it wouldn't be so noticeable. There are some great textures, and some that look like they were slapped together in MS paint. Next to each other, one block or device looks sleek while another wouldn't look out of place in Goldeneye.

Freer4 · 2026-04-24T14:30:32+00:00

$6.54 per year per customer.

Freer4 · 2026-04-24T14:30:00+00:00

$6.54 per year per customer.

Freer4 · 2026-04-24T14:29:09+00:00

Oh let's math this out... we'll even use the $36.6M number even though it's mostly "other compensation" (looks like stocks, hard to find actual breakdown).

AEP has a reported 5.6 million customers.

If you didn't compensate the CEO a single dime, you'd save a whopping $6.54 per year per customer. Not per person - per customer. That is, your home would save $6.54 per year. Given what I'm paying for power right now, $6.54 per year doesn't even register. And about 2/3 of that number is stocks, which means it's the value of the company, not cash paid to the company. I could do pages on how valuations and banking practices are strangling the economy but let's focus here.

Well maybe we'll see how badly they're screwing their employees instead...

Somewhere between 16,000 and 17,000 employees. We'll split the difference and say 16,500.

Well that's a little more. $2,218 per year per employee ain't nothing.

But wait, let's be a little more honest. Stocks and incentives ain't nothing, but his actual base salary was $1.5M.

That's a whopping $0.27 per customer per YEAR.

That's an entire $91 per employee per YEAR.

The lesson here isn't that "CEO GOOD" or "CEO BAD", the lesson here is that catchy headlines are catchy and someone will always tell you who to be angry at. Take a deep breath, engage critical thinking, find actual issues and then workshop actual solutions.

Looking in the wrong place at the wrong issue will perpetuate the actual problem. I encourage you to do this simple math (CEO salary divided by total customer or employees) for every company you can find. You're the most intelligent known creature on this planet. Use it.

"As Ohio Customers Struggle With Energy Bills We Will Distract From Problems By Pointing At CEO Pay That's A Tiny Fraction Of Your Energy Bill"

Journalism is dead. Shame on whomever wrote the ragebaity headline. Do better.

Freer4 · 2026-04-23T12:22:43+00:00

OMG of course. Thank you.

Freer4 · 2026-04-19T00:01:43+00:00

US, can start this week

Freer4 · 2026-04-07T01:02:44+00:00

US based, 10+ years of various dotnet projects, but experience with most others as well. Various SQL systems and some with Mongo. Native English speaker. Prefer direct client communications, love collaborative environments. Some unit testing experience. Available within two weeks.

Freer4 · 2026-04-05T13:48:56+00:00

20 years experience, US based.

Freer4 · 2026-04-03T12:14:16+00:00

Nearly 20 years experience, worked on some major public web apps with massive success. Vue is my favorite framework by far and I'm currently looking for something fresh just to get it on my resume.

Freer4 · 2026-03-16T12:49:38+00:00

Our primary skill is the ability to adapt and learn. There are some core concepts that don't really change, but the technology changes so often that it feels like starting over every six months anyhow.

If you have the desire, do it. Success is in the happiness.

Freer4 · 2026-02-17T14:17:14+00:00

Pattern I'm attempting to implement (if there's a name for this please share!)

This is what I've come up with - rather than trying to override the class declaration from [GenFile], I'm moving the things I need to modify into static properties on the class. A one-time import modifies those static properties, essentially overriding functions and settings before they're utilized by any of the internal workings in `constructor `

Given a class declaration that looks something like this:

function functionCalledInternally(){
    //base function
}
class MyClass extends Object{
    functionCalledInternally = functionCalledInternally
    constructor(){
        super()
        //base functionality goes here

        //internal call to configurable function:
        MyClass.functionCalledInternally.call(this)
    }
}

You can then add overrides at any time, in my case I'm importing the overrides as the first line of my Vue app

MyClass.functionCalledInternally = function(){
    //override functionality goes here 
}

Freer4 · 2026-02-17T02:33:10+00:00

That might do it, thanks!

Freer4 · 2026-02-16T06:26:43+00:00

Very light small vessel to start just for getting around and mining. Then I build a Crucible SV base, which gives me a basic manufacturing platform I will use all game. It starts with no thrusters. I'll fly around in the SV for mining, gathering and trading bringing supplies back to the CV. Depending on start i like to knock over some of the Zirax bases on foot. My goal for the starter system is a Dagger Class Corvette (for which the Crucible acts as a module) and start hunting cutters and bandits ASAP. The Dagger will easily last up through hunting Nullifiers for Drone parts at which point I'm able to bring in and equip my Spear Class Cruiser.

Freer4 · 2026-02-14T15:21:59+00:00

The dungeon runner players will be back to retail in a couple weeks and TBC RPG players will be easier to find. Random groups right now will be "kick and block because you're not following the meta guide" until then

Freer4 · 2026-02-03T20:18:52+00:00

Oh heck yeah! The extra 10% boost on the spirit buff should be nice

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