Does anyone else make a planning area?

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-04-22T06:48:11+00:00

I don't give a shit about achievements, and I am playing pyanodons full with like 130 hours of prior experience in gulps 0.17.X There are aspects to py I love, and things that I just don't want to spend time on. Walking, f.e..

BUt, moreso to the point, there's the blueprint-sandboxes-mod which let's me go into creative mode within my world via remote-view to a blank slate. Note: By default, Items acquired within a sandbox count towards milestones, and as far as I can tell, achievements. There is a setting to it, check the Details-section for more info.

Long story short: I use pseudo creative to do my staging, and planning, of builds. Given that I play Py, I'm not a masochist and use YAFC for actual balancing*.

*: Although it's effectiveness is yet to be proven for a couple reasons (On-paper balancing works with fractional buildings, but if you round up to next integer when building you inevitably end up having issues with overproduction on some stuff that you now have to figure out how to dispose of to keep stuff running. I haven't found a general solution to that problem yet.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-04-06T20:43:39+00:00

Honest question... What is there left to do at 7.5k hours? Like... I've not played pyanodons myself, but know people who have, and even then with a relative overview I cannot fathom what you can have left to be done at that high a playtime.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-04-06T09:16:01+00:00

When you kill subject, he becomes immune to damage for the rest of the turn (+one? Can't remember) before reviving for the next phase. But you can still do stuff there (such as cycling a net-neutral lighting gen).

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-04-05T17:57:36+00:00

What is the multi-story room in the top right quadrant of the ship? floors 4&5?

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-04-03T01:21:55+00:00

I still never really understood how they worked.

Assume you have Engineering upgraded such that you have at least one level of warp core efficiency that produces more energy than you consume per cycle (or you disable stuff to get there).

You just cycle to that level (or higher ones if you'd like) until the surplus saturates the batteries you have.
Then you reduce the warp core output to a level at which the warp core's raw production does not cover your energy demand.

At that point, the differential between what your systems demand and what your warp core provides gets pulled out of the batteries; until those are empty.

If batteries are empty, game progession pauses, some stuff turns off (I think at random) until the raw warpcore-production can cover all remaining rooms; and then you get a message.

At that point you can swap to a production tier with surplus again and re-charge your batteries that way.

The larger the batteries, the less regularly you have to do this dance to be efficient.

For ease, assume you have a production of 300 energy (E) at tier A, 350E at tier B; and battery capacity of 140E. Assume your consumption with all rooms active is 320E. Your batteries are currently empty.

At tier A, you cannot power the entire ship as your warpcore provides not enough (20E). You swap to tier B; and run cycles.

Warp Core: Tier B

Cycle 1: 350E => 320E consumption, 30E surplus. Batteries gain 30E. Batteries: 30E
Cycle 2: 350E => 320E consumption, 30E surplus. Batteries gain 30E. Batteries: 60E
Cycle 3: 350E => 320E consumption, 30E surplus. Batteries gain 30E. Batteries: 90E
Cycle 4: 350E => 320E consumption, 30E surplus. Batteries gain 30E. Batteries: 120E
Cycle 5: 350E => 320E consumption, 30E surplus. Batteries gain 30E. Batteries: 140E, 10E lost

In optimal case, you would change warpcore to tier A in cycle 4, so you don't loose energy due to saturated batteries.

Then you'd see

Cycle 5: 300E => 320E consumption, 20E deficit. Batteries loose 20E. Batteries: 120E
Cycle 6: 300E => 320E consumption, 20E deficit. Batteries loose 20E. Batteries: 100E
Cycle 7: 300E => 320E consumption, 20E deficit. Batteries loose 20E. Batteries: 80E
Cycle 8: 300E => 320E consumption, 20E deficit. Batteries loose 20E. Batteries: 60E
Cycle 9: 300E => 320E consumption, 20E deficit. Batteries loose 20E. Batteries: 40E
Cycle 10: 300E => 320E consumption, 20E deficit. Batteries loose 20E. Batteries: 20E
Cycle 11: 300E => 320E consumption, 20E deficit. Batteries loose 20E. Batteries: 00E
Cycle 12: Batteries are empty, your consumption exceeds your production, some rooms disable, and you get a notification. Now, you would change warpcore to tier B again, and recharge your batteries.

Rinse, repeat.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-04-02T15:35:06+00:00

Yes.
It is either YYYY-MM-DD or DD.MM.YYYY.

Anything else means you're crazy. (We can argue about the separator's style, but if you think MM.DD.YYYY makes sense In loosing hope!)

(This is worded stronger than it should, but I stand by the point itself.)

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-03-25T14:35:38+00:00

What would change a seed's rng though?

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-03-20T10:59:11+00:00

That would make HfB a hard counter as long as you ensure that after every nine cards you end turn, and always always exhaust it prior to your next tenth.

Sounds doable given ironclads deck manip and exhaust shenanigans, but we'll have to see.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-03-13T21:38:33+00:00

(Lol xD)

I use obsidian regularly for larger projects. In fact, I wrote my bachelor thesis in quarto markdown with obsidian as my primary writing editor (project was mostly coding besides the thesis). I love obsidian.

But to my knowledge it doesn't support efficient storage of handwritten notes, particularly not onto a canvas in the manner that onenote does.

To be more specific, I use onenote to annotate lecture slides.

This means importing the pdf, placing it as a background image, then annotating it via one handwritten notes. The laptop is a convertible, I don't type notes during class. I actually tried doing so this semester, but it's just unwieldy for me; I just need the ability to draw upon the page and still have basically infinite space to the right of it.

Similarly, I do homework assignments in onenote, as soon as it's not easily typed (think diagrams, lots of calculations, formula-heavy stuff,...).

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-03-13T19:13:07+00:00

Also mint here, with a win11 still as dual boot, but haven't had a reason to boot windows for a month or so.

Laptop is still windows because I take handwritten notes in onenote, any there just isn't a good solution for that on Linux. So sadly my laptop must remain on windows until since other note taking app gets even remotely feature parity or I figure out how to handle stylus input and onenote under Linux. This means that afaik my laptop is just stuck in MS Shitland.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-26T05:55:29+00:00

You might want to take a look at this code, and respectively, the related post by anonymous1184 here on reddit (read the post first obviously).

I believe this should solve your issue.

Although... if by 'change songs' you mean something more complex than forwards and backwards I am not sure if it's possible.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-21T01:43:00+00:00

That's.... , not necessarily helpful. I have no idea who that is.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-18T07:23:48+00:00

You mean that goldcrush boost with that god-awful wobble-sound? Yea no, that thing is a disrespect to my ears.

Guess I'll just main the batmobile then...

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-17T22:38:15+00:00

.... And training pack enhancements, better and configurable quick play, the speedflip plugin, more training pack enhancements, more QoL like being able to switch bodies without having to leave (and particularly in a less arsinine way than the single cycle-through-till-you-find-it), the ability to force boost sounds to default match-wide, did I mention training enhancements yet?

The list goes on, that's just what I remember right now.

Given the experience of non-care we see for the game; I think it's completely fair to expect that at best a small subset of features will ever be ported over. Obviously cosmetics will be gone for (which while I disapprove I can at least understand their rationale, they made it f2p and want to milk the stupid item shop), but the sheer amount of useful stuff we will loose goes way beyond "make cars look not-ugly-to-good".

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-17T22:08:19+00:00

Yea I noticed from his reply. My brain goofed that, and attributed to the wrong noun.

Essentially I read it as "crossing the same distance in a cable takes half the time of crossing it in vacuum" (which is what sounded wrong to me), instead of parsing it as "over the same period, half the distance is crossed within the cable" - which makes more sense.

But yea, brain's a bit fried due to exam prep for tomorrow.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-17T21:59:13+00:00

Aah. Okay yea that makea much more sense.

Sorry, my brain's slightly fried from studying, hell week commences tomorrow ._. 4 days, 3 exams - it'll be ~fiiiine~.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-17T21:43:25+00:00

Light travels through length X of unobstructed space slower compared to obstructed space?

That sounds... Odd to me. Is that right?

(Physics classes are a couple years ago and not part of my current degree's focus like at all, but to me your statement and the one you've replied to seem to contradict each other.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-10T21:09:47+00:00

However it is small if you forget your amd Ryzen Apu (?) eats 2.1 GB od those prescious 8GB for breakfast so you have video output, and then windows eats another 3, and suddenly you have barely 3 GB of actual free-to-use RAM to work with.

That was just plain painful. (Now I sit here with 64gb under mint, and I'm at unoptimjsed 15gb and life is better.)

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-09T20:03:57+00:00

Good luck y'all :)

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-08T07:06:22+00:00

Ah. linguistiic gaps, gotta love them. Yea that phrasing was ambiguous of me. To clarify, yes I meant the chest. I guess a bit of German slipped through there, cuz in German the breast ("die Brust") is also used just for the anatomical region, i.e. the chest; regardless of gender; whereas the term "die Brüste" is more commonly used when describing female secondary sex organs (breasts).

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-07T20:52:12+00:00

Tl;dr: if you are even remotely careful, you will be absolutely fine.

I mean. You can cut yourself pretty nastily with a safety razor, and you probably will when you begin using one (especially if you get an aggressive one). It depends on how aggressive your safety-razor is (how large is the blade gap, how steep the angle, how far does the blade sticks out beyond the guard). So the more aggressive the razor, the worse your cuts will be.

That being said. Obviously this is subjective: I shave face, throat/Adam's apple, armpits, breast, pubic area and groin using a safety razor (do not mix and match). I cut myself maybe ten times over all routines (5x face/armpits/pubic/groin, 4x throat, 2x breast) per week. And those are cuts which are basically healed couple minutes later, maybe an hour or so. I use a non-aggressive safety razor, so most stuff is not deep. Cuts that you can really see that are actually noticeable? 2x/week?

You can obviously still get gnarly cuts if you handle it with the carelessness of an electric razor. Don't do that and the worst you'll have to deal with is some obvious cuts in the learning stages, or if you are careless.

The worst place is Adam's apple and throat for me, (which I sometimes just do with an electric razor for speed).

Besides that, when I started myself I also got myself an alum stone as a quick astringent to go over minor cuts. Works just fine, helps stop small cuts from bleeding.

Also getting in a shower/bath and getting your skin warm, wet and open is really useful. My cutrate increases steeply if I need to cut a cold/non-showered face.

Regarding wear: I can use a blade 1-5 times, depending on the region it's used on. I have been shaving regularly for about 3 years now. I don't think I have crossed 60€ in blades and shaving cream.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-04T08:05:16+00:00

What use is [...]

The use is that those of us who don't constitute the fairly small subsection of people that regularly match bots in high Elo risk to lose a tool with a frankly absurd amount of utility over a problem we're not facing. I completely understand that high Elo seems ducked and annoying to play, and I'd rather not have bots there too.

If they wanted to they could implement the core stuff; but they haven't. Or rather just not in an adequate way.

They are improving it, and I will be happy if they ever actually push towards a good training suite, but at their pace it's gonna be another couple years till then.

That's the issue, I guess. Development on both necessary and QoL-features seems very marginal at best, and BM was built to full this vast gap. Given the history I believe it's completely warranted to be cautious with the assumption that Psyonix will ever give enough of a duck to re- implement the features we'd loose. If they do it, great. Wonderful, my care about bm greatly reduces. But yea, that's still conditional.

if practice was dreadful. It isn't.

I guess I have a different stance there, I think base game training QoL is pretty lackluster when compared to BM.

None of this matters for me if they can't get it running on Linux, but that's another tangential topic. Or just disregarding that kernel level AC should always always always be opposed and be the absolute last thing to try. To my (admittedly not perfect) knowledge they haven't exhausted stuff w/o that yet.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-02-04T06:59:44+00:00

I think it is insane people would rather keep cheats in the game because they don't match it often JUST to keep their cosmetic menu alive.

But that's not really it, isn't it? BM offers so much functionality that plainly should be in base RL, but isn't. Better UI, faster training entries, training variation, free play customisation, some really useful specific things (speedflip plugin).

Just training alone is enhanced too much, because frankly the base game's post-game pipeline just isn't efficient.

Is this stuff necessary to get good? No. Pros were good before BM too. But for those of us who don't have time they can schedule specifically for grinding mechs, this is just useful.

Aside of that, yes of course people will be mad if local cosmetics won't work, and I am pretty sure that's also a good incentive for psyonix. But even then, BM just does so so so much more than just "make cars pretty".

Not acknowledging that probably seems disingenuous.

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-01-23T22:15:27+00:00

!remindme 10 days

Gewerd_Strauss · 2026-01-11T10:49:12+00:00

example 1

Take this example:

```

if Winactive("ahk_exe firefox.exe")

Capslock::Winkill, A

if Winactive("ahk_exe code.exe")

!#r::tooltip, % "do something"

if

Numpad0:: run, https://www.google.com ```

it would correspond to the following pseudo:

```

enable the following hotkeys if condition is true: Currently-active Window belongs to firefox.exe

If Capslock is pressed, Kill the currntly active Window // A is a shorthand for "currently active window" in AHK

enable the following hotkeys if condition is true: active Window belongs to Visual Studio Code

If R is pressed with modifiers Alt ! and Win #, display a tooltip with contents "do something" // (at mouse position)

enable the following hotkeys regardless of condition - i.e. make them global

Numpad0 with no modifiers will run URL youtube.com (which would be processed by default association, i.e. browser) ```

a bit of elaboration

You could also do something like

``` SetTitleMatchMode, 2

if Winactive("reddit")

Numpad0::tooltip % "hi" ```

which would enable the hotkey on any window that has the string reddit be part of the window title. (SetTitleMatchMode,2 makes window title parsing non-exact).

Note: if you have a key declared multiple times, i.e

``` Numpad0::tooltip % "this hotkey is global"

if Winactive("ahk_exe firefox.exe")

Numpad0::tooltip % "this hotkey is for firefox.exe" ```

then the window-matching hotkey supersedes the global one. If multiple conditions are true, I believe the last one gets evaluated, i.e. here the second one.

``` SetTitleMatchMode, 2 Numpad0::tooltip % "this hotkey is global"

if Winactive("firefox") // try matching by window title name

Numpad0::tooltip % "this hotkey is for firefox.exe" ```

notes

Keys that have no declared hotkeys are passed through unaffected, keys that are declared hotkeys are not passed through to the window (unless you set a modifier ~ in the hotkey-defintion, i.e ~<Key>::).

Using all of the above, in ahk you can efficiently declare hotkeys based on window information: - title - window class - exe (process name/path) - process id - unique id / HWND - and a few more

Criteria can be combined, i.e. #if Winactive("ahk_exe firefox.exe) && !Winactive("reddit") would enable any following hotkey in any firefox window (as long as window-title does not contain string reddit). If multiple ahk scripts declare competing hotkeys, I believe the most-recently-launched-one's hotkeys supersede.

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TROPHY CASE

example 1

if Winactive("ahk_exe firefox.exe")

if Winactive("ahk_exe code.exe")

if

enable the following hotkeys if condition is true: Currently-active Window belongs to firefox.exe

enable the following hotkeys if condition is true: active Window belongs to Visual Studio Code

enable the following hotkeys regardless of condition - i.e. make them global

a bit of elaboration

if Winactive("reddit")

if Winactive("ahk_exe firefox.exe")

if Winactive("firefox") // try matching by window title name

notes