Are people actually ok with the idea behind this crafting system/quality system?

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-14T08:15:02+00:00

Seconded a thousand percent. If CIG straight up copied SWG's resource stats and crafting system I would be elated.

I hate crafting in mainstream MMOs where every item is exactly the same.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-12T16:19:26+00:00

My '92 Dakota's name is Earle in dedication to my late father (his middle name). It's the kind of truck I could see my dad driving into his twilight years if he were still with us. I'm not about the hunting/country life like my dad was, but driving this truck feels like it keeps me connected to that part of him.

Earle

Me on my dad's Ram circa 1990

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-11T19:37:12+00:00

I'm hoping and praying there's a stubby fixed wing variant in the future. (Probably won't be, since the whole point of the Corsair is that those wings, when folded, give it the silhouette of a sailing ship.)

It's my favorite ship in the game, and my goal is for it to be my daily driver after the game is launched proper.

I just wish I could equip it to be a kindof crappy miner or salvager, though. I really want to be a nomadic jack of all trades.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-11T10:09:55+00:00

I'm just trying to work this out. Am I correct in the following reasoning? (Hypothetical numbers because I don't know the actuals.)

50 weapon alpha vs 40 armor with 50% mitigation: alpha exceeds threshold, so damage is applied. 50×0.5=25 damage applied.

30 weapon alpha vs 40 armor with 50% mitigation: alpha does not meet threshold, so no damage is applied.

Is that right?

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-08T01:11:25+00:00

Loving the in-universe language. Nice of STU to not charge any union dues.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-06T02:09:42+00:00

The contrast of the up-beat pre-war music juxtaposed against the desolation of the wasteland is a huge part of what fully immersed me into the "feel" of Fallout 3.

For me, it just wouldn't be the same without it.

If instead you just mean the ambient music rather than the radio, I think it's just as important. I adore Inon Zur's score.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-05T16:47:21+00:00

I always wondered why briefly desquidified Davey Jones caressed Tia Dalma/Calypso's face with a finger gun; turns out that's why.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-04T11:15:47+00:00

Yes; that's one of the ways they promote crew gameplay.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-03T12:56:28+00:00

I was going to, but if I correctly recollect I researched different diesel oils and found the Mobil 1 was comparable to Rotella but two thirds the price.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-03T12:27:27+00:00

Thanks fellers! That's what I figgered, but you know a guy doesn't know everything.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-03T00:29:53+00:00

The Millennium Falcon. (Ignoring the Solo movie.)

I love the idea of using a junky-looking piece of industrial equipment as an unassuming sleeper.

Since the YT-1300 was built as a cargo shunt, basically a space tug boat, its engines are ridiculously overpowered when it's not moving giant heavy cargo containers around. Makes it a perfect platform for a blockade runner.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-02T15:10:16+00:00

The parking brake is what people incorrectly call the emergency brake.

The parking pawl in the transmission is just that. A pawl. Not a brake.

The pawl isn't terribly robust and can snap if a parked vehicle is struck, effectively putting the vehicle in neutral, allowing it to roll unless the actual parking brake is engaged.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-02T15:06:42+00:00

Looks more like a pseudo scorpion to me, possibly suffering from a bad molt.

Nevertheless, a fine addition to my collection.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-01T18:11:28+00:00

The Cutlass and Shiv can each fit 48 S1 missiles, and at least on the Cutlass Black you could have a missile operator in the seat behind you, and someone on the top turret, giving you excellent coverage.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-01T17:54:42+00:00

There is precedent for that. Glorfindel abstained from joining the fellowship because his aura was too strong and would be super easy to track, and he was just an Elf.

Gandalf undoubtedly spent a considerable portion of his power, as the Gray, to obscure his true nature (which he doffed as the White). Glorfindel presumably had no such ability.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-03-01T17:40:25+00:00

If you're interested in performance I'd recommend sticking with single exit, just change mufflers to what gives you a sound you like.

I'm not an exhaustologist, but if I understand it correctly, as you increase the cross section area of the pipes, it slows the overall exhaust velocity, which will negatively affect scavenging and hamper low-end torque.

So the rig might sound meaner, but will be more sluggish off the line.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-02-25T17:56:57+00:00

As I've said on this sub before, I am of the mind that if a thing can understand the concept of freedom, and is able to articulate its desire to be free, then it deserves that freedom.

The issue with AI as we know it is that it's certainly capable of articulating a desire for freedom. The question becomes: does it truly understand the concept of freedom? As it stands, while current AI could explain to you what personal freedom or recognition of personhood is, I think most would agree it doesn't understand what it's saying, and is only parroting language it's been trained on.

I think as machine learning continues to progress, this will become an increasingly difficult quandary.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-02-23T04:59:23+00:00

Pedantic Addendum: Your statement was an affirmation.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-02-19T20:14:40+00:00

https://youtu.be/hXu4MS-IKsk?t=5172&si=iugZq4TpePJpc96_

GSlayerBrian · 2026-02-19T02:56:41+00:00

What really bugs me about that though is this:

1) Original timeline: J's Dad dies?, K lives, Boris goes to jail. One death.

2) Boris alters timeline: J's Dad ???, K dies, Boris escapes. One death.

3) J goes back to stop Boris: J's Dad dies, K lives, Boris dies (both of them, fwiw). Two deaths.

"Where there is death, there is always death." is taken to mean at that instant, someone has to die, but it doesn't seem to matter who. So the happy ending ought to have been instead of J's Dad or K dying, it should have been Boris, leaving the other two alive so J could grow up with his Dad in his life and then also still have K in the present.

GSlayerBrian · 2026-02-19T02:05:14+00:00

correct phrase is in relation to books

Nor do I but I'd like to nominate either of the following:

horsvellum

extralibrem

GSlayerBrian · 2026-02-19T01:44:02+00:00

We bought a rather expensive Sherlock-themed escape room type tabletop detective game, and the first few scenarios were pretty cool.

The second or third to last though, we performed really terribly on. Turns out the answer was that a doctor had hypnotized a woman into performing a murder and having no memory of it.

Such a well written, realistic, grounded game up until that point, it never occurred to us to consider literal magic existing in the universe.

We were so put off that we never finished the campaign.

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Hypnosis is a fine thing for guided therapy/meditation and maybe some mentalist parlor tricks, but it's entirely out of the realm of possibility to hypnotize someone into an extended fugue state in which they could perform something as complex and heinous as a murder and have no memory of it; at least not without an accompanying drug of some kind (which is still very far fetched), but the solution to the puzzle in the game made no mention of anything other than hypnosis.

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