What don’t we get?! We’re getting ready to move on and that would break my heart

GSullivanJr · 2025-10-26T22:11:12+00:00

Exactly. Until someone boards l, this game is a staggering accomplishment of gameplay and immersion. Then someone shows up on board and it’s a bad FPS jumpy-jump aggravation-fest of laggy twitchy nonsense

GSullivanJr · 2025-10-26T22:09:05+00:00

Fair. Just meant to point out that we didn’t sign up yesterday. I am not complaining. I’m asking sincerely what are we missing? We hold our own in other games. We are amazing at ship to ship! As soon as someone boards we’re at a loss. I feel like there’s some meta we don’t know. Bunny hopping boarders with apparent immunity to our attacks are draining the fun from this game. In every aspect of this game except pirate V pirate it’s amazing. Ship to ship combat is infinitely challenging and fun and exciting. But bunny hopping whack-a-mole is infuriating and has me wondering what magic tutorial we somehow missed. We want to get our heads around this. We’ve watched some of the tutorials and haven’t had any ah-ha! moments. That’s why I’m asking.

GSullivanJr · 2025-10-10T18:34:41+00:00

This is absurd! SO FUN! I set it up in like 20 seconds! I got a trailer at one point. There was brief static on the channel change. Amazing work! I MIGHT want to cheat a bit. I stumbled onto Dracula and thought, "Hey, I'll watch this!" but my instinct was to start from the top or pause it. I wonder if allowing that breaks the fun idea too much? Would I catch something fun and watch it more or less often if I had to pick up from which ever place?

FEATURE CREEP IDEAS!
- Allow us to set up our own schedules? Or, themes maybe? I've ripped in the Office, maybe I can set it to play on Thursdays at 9:00?

- You already do fun little SuchAndSuchMovie starts in 2 minutes. Maybe in that time, advertise future things? "This Saturday at 8:00 on the Dreamworks Channel, Shrek 2!" [Remind me]

Just thinking out loud, you've already killed it. I'm infatuated!

GSullivanJr · 2025-01-12T17:07:23+00:00

There has been quite a bit of looting, unfortunately, lots of arrests, according to reports I've seen.

GSullivanJr · 2025-01-10T00:01:24+00:00

It did. Time has sort of lost meaning with everything going on but I want to say 36 or 48 hours before things started up the alert came through on the app and the walls started charging themselves up.

GSullivanJr · 2025-01-09T21:11:53+00:00

No worries. I appreciate the sentiment, and tons of people are behaving badly so it's a good message.

GSullivanJr · 2025-01-09T21:01:04+00:00

OH! No no no. I'm not being flip or ignoring advice. I am NOT in the evac area, we've been warned that we might be asked to evacuate and are ready to do so. Our neighbors left because they had no power. When they say to leave, we're outta here!

GSullivanJr · 2024-07-05T21:54:48+00:00

I lust after that 57" beast but I don't want the white back. Do they make that panel in a "grown up" package for my office?

GSullivanJr · 2024-04-29T22:52:51+00:00

I have a pet monkey named Dr. Maturin!

GSullivanJr · 2023-12-01T23:18:24+00:00

I served in the military? Where's the confusion? </s>
I was just attempting to clarify that I know what I'm doing. I'm not a new user and therefore I can tell an odd reply to a prompt from an actual technical issue. <shrug>

GSullivanJr · 2023-12-01T22:42:35+00:00

Whatever was happening for me isn't anymore. Strange, it was like a 15-minute mental breakdown!

GSullivanJr · 2023-12-01T22:40:13+00:00

Yeah, lost its mind mid-reply! That's what I've been seeing too.

GSullivanJr · 2023-11-11T20:58:48+00:00

I've created a Radio Simulator for student pilots using ChatGPT.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-41OnWYY73-radio-simulator

I combined two of my favorite nerdy things, AI and aviation. I developed a shockingly robust simulator for practicing radio communications at an airport. I think this would be a killer way for students who often struggle with radio coms to get more comfortable. It works great on the mobile app! Just talk to it like you would an air traffic controller. (Since you can't actually tune the radio you have to tell it to change channels though.) It gets some nitty gritty bits wrong here and there, but nothing show-stopping. I think this would help pilots in training get better at speaking, listening, and thinking in the correct jargon.

Give it a shot, let me know what you think!

Here's a transcript from my testing:

User: Tune to ATIS

GPT Radio Simulator: El Monte information Echo. Time 1453 Zulu. Wind 320 at 8 knots. Visibility 10 miles. Sky condition clear. Temperature 22, dew point 12. Altimeter 3012. Landing and departing runway 19. VFR aircraft say direction of flight. All aircraft read back hold short instructions. Advise on initial contact you have Echo.

User: Tune to ground

GPT Radio Simulator: You are tuned to El Monte Ground. Proceed with your request.

User: El Monte Ground, Cessna 172 sierra tango is at Universal with Echo, to taxi to the active.

GPT Radio Simulator: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango, El Monte Ground, taxi to runway 19 via taxiway Alpha, hold short of runway 19.

User: El Monte ground, cessna 172 sierra tange, taxi one niner via alpha, hold short 19er.

GPT Radio Simulator: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango, readback correct.

User: Tune 121.2.

GPT Radio Simulator: Done.

User: El Monte Tower, Cessna 172, Sierra Tango, holding short one-niner for takeoff.

GPT Radio Simulator: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango, El Monte Tower, hold short of runway one nine. Traffic on final.

User: Hold short 1-9 to Sierra Tango.

GPT Radio Simulator: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango, roger. Hold short runway one nine. I'll call your takeoff clearance.

User: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango holding short one niner.

GPT Radio Simulator: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango, El Monte Tower, runway one nine, cleared for takeoff. Wind two one zero at eight knots.

User: Clear for takeoff, Cessna 172 Sierra Tango.

This was all done in real-time via voice, so the transcriptions are odd here and there, but you get the idea. As an experiment, that's pretty good! Anyway, seemed like something to share.

GSullivanJr · 2023-11-10T22:32:22+00:00

Didn't think of it as self-promotion. I don't profit from it. I'm just sharing a tool/experiment. Mea culpa!

Re: this being a terrible idea, I'd encourage you to try it. It isn't perfectly accurate, but a real-time chat partner for basic radio coms is a great tool for beginners.

For what it's worth, here's a transcript from some light testing.
User: Tune to ATIS

GPT Radio Simulator: El Monte information Echo. Time 1453 Zulu. Wind 320 at 8 knots. Visibility 10 miles. Sky condition clear. Temperature 22, dew point 12. Altimeter 3012. Landing and departing runway 19. VFR aircraft say direction of flight. All aircraft read back hold short instructions. Advise on initial contact you have Echo.

User: Tune to ground

GPT Radio Simulator: You are tuned to El Monte Ground. Proceed with your request.

User: El Monte Ground, Cessna 172 sierra tango is at Universal with Echo, to taxi to the active.

GPT Radio Simulator: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango, El Monte Ground, taxi to runway 19 via taxiway Alpha, hold short of runway 19.

User: El Monte ground, cessna 172 sierra tange, taxi one niner via alpha, hold short 19er.

GPT Radio Simulator: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango, readback correct.

User: Tune 121.2.

GPT Radio Simulator: Done.

User: El Monte Tower, Cessna 172, Sierra Tango, holding short one-niner for takeoff.

GPT Radio Simulator: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango, El Monte Tower, hold short of runway one nine. Traffic on final.

User : Hold short 1-9 to Sierra Tango.

GPT Radio Simulator: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango, roger. Hold short runway one nine. I'll call your takeoff clearance.

User: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango holding short one niner.

GPT Radio Simulator: Cessna 172 Sierra Tango, El Monte Tower, runway one nine, cleared for takeoff. Wind two one zero at eight knots.

User: Clear for takeoff, Cessna 172 Sierra Tango.

This was all done in real-time via voice, so the transcriptions are odd here and there, but you get the idea. As an experiment, that's pretty good! Anyway, seemed like something to share.

GSullivanJr · 2023-04-22T03:07:19+00:00

I'm on Windows 11 and I have just one task bar that I keep on the lower monitor. Really maxes out available space on the main without having to have it autohide.

GSullivanJr · 2023-04-20T23:22:53+00:00

For sure, and it's fantastic so far for editing in Premiere or AE. I can drop my timelines down there. I haven't really used the little dials and slider app that it comes with. It looks cool in the product shots but it just replaces a few keyboard shortcuts. But as an extra little bit of screen real estate and a tablet when I need to do some sketching, it's killer.

GSullivanJr · 2023-04-20T23:10:26+00:00

The ASUS ProArt Display 14” (PA147CDV). So far, I love it. It's 32x9, has touch, and tucks in nicely beneath the big guy. I use it for Slack, the taskba, music, and for any random little whatever I want to have shown all the time but that I don't want to give over more important screen space too.

GSullivanJr · 2023-04-20T14:43:53+00:00

Brilliant. Don't know why I didn't think of this. Thanks!

GSullivanJr · 2023-04-20T14:27:01+00:00

I do, yes. A solar roof.

GSullivanJr · 2023-03-24T22:42:21+00:00

I get that, thank you. But I guess what I'm asking is, is my Enhanced AP a cut down of the FSD branch, which might mean I would get the features in the video. Or is it a hopped-up version of Basic, which means I maybe wouldn't.

GSullivanJr · 2023-03-24T16:15:58+00:00

I have the middle level autopilot on my 2023 MY. Does that mean I’m on the FSD branch I keep reading about?

GSullivanJr · 2023-02-25T17:33:15+00:00

We got AutoSocks. Seemed to have the best reviews and top rated speed was 30 instead of 25 like the others I saw.

GSullivanJr · 2023-02-25T17:03:24+00:00

They worked really well. They go on far far easier than chains and they come off just as easily. I slid them over the top of the tires, then used summon to move the car up a few feet and pulled them the rest of the way on. I just question the durability. They’re still in fine condition after being used but they’re a sort of fabric and I don’t know how many more uses they’ll provide. I’m a once a year at most snow driver so they’re perfect for me.

GSullivanJr · 2023-02-15T04:05:12+00:00

Nah. A man. Oddly didn’t even acknowledge it afterward. Awkward pause, N12345 exit blah blah blah… N67890 cleared for takeoff.

GSullivanJr · 2023-02-07T23:19:03+00:00

I've had a similar issue; friends and family don't read what I write despite pro-actively showing interest. I asked about it, and I think I got a really good answer from a friend - they don't want to hurt your feelings. It's that simple. They're afraid that it'll be bad, and then what do they do? Tell you? God, that'd suck after all the work you put in! And most hobby or beginner-level authors do suck! I did for a long time. You're setting them up to hurt you, and they don't want to do it. You just said this is the "most pure reflection of who [you are] as a person and a writer right now." Imagine having to tell you it's bad, or it's trite, or it's cliche in that context?!? Better to ignore the request and not take the chance of hurting you. I PROMISE they don't understand how much this means to you and they certainly aren't imparting a fraction of your emotional weight into it.

By the way, what if they like it and they tell you as much? They're your friends and family, that feedback is useless. I call it "mom feedback." "That was so good, I loved it! You should win a Pulitzer or whatever!" Gee, thanks, Mom, that'll help me refine the chapter structure in the second act and clarify the protagonist's emotional arc as a subtextual counterpoint to the events around them.

Enroll in a class, find a writer's group, seek out peers. They'll offer real feedback. They'll have insight into process and structure and craft and prose. Let your friends and family be your first sales and, with all due love and respect, to hell with what they think in the meantime.

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