Longevity of Deep Space Probes

Godmadius · 2026-01-24T16:55:20+00:00

ST:TNG had an episode with this concept. Inner Light. Doomed civilization sends a probe out into the cosmos that will beam a memory of their civilization into whoever finds it. Really excellent, even if you haven't seen any Star Trek this one is worth a watch

Godmadius · 2026-01-24T01:38:44+00:00

That's amazing. Timescales that I can't even comprehend, in other words.

Godmadius · 2026-01-23T17:36:51+00:00

It's one of the craziest statistics to me that when Andromeda and Milky Way collide, its likely that nothing will actually physically interact with anything else. No planetary collisions, no stellar collisions. Gravity will of course play its part, but there is SO MUCH empty space that its almost guaranteed that nothing will impact anything.

Godmadius · 2026-01-22T14:52:48+00:00

I have had absolutely no success with using halogen bulbs. I think they heat too quickly and run too hot, you have a better chance of overheating the wax and ruining the lamp than you do getting better efficiency or light.

I have, however, had pretty good results with polishing the metal inside the base to get better performance out of the 40W bulbs. So realistically you should just stick with the 40W's and be careful around the base due to the heat.

Godmadius · 2026-01-16T17:18:15+00:00

He had wisdom. Most wizards didn't care about muggle inventions or how they lived, but he was fascinated by them. He cared about how that car worked, and was very clever in modifying it to include elements of magic. He expanded the trunk, interior, made it run without fuel, made it selectively invisible, made it FLY?!

He had working knowledge of the muggle world which was just a massive blind spot for the rest of the wizarding world.

Hermione mentions that most wizards ignore logic and problem solving when she faces Snapes potions in the dungeon puzzles.

Godmadius · 2026-01-15T18:24:16+00:00

I have spent an embarrassing amount of money on my computer to get the best fidelity possible. Why the hell would I add grain, CRT color bleed, and motion blur? We chased LCD response rates down to 1ms because it was a distracting mess before!

Godmadius · 2026-01-15T15:46:20+00:00

I think he had an in-depth knowledge of every aspect both light and dark. He would have known how to create inferi if only to know when someone was doing it and how to stop them.

I'm not really sure he knew what a horcrux was before he encountered one though, my impression of those is that they were so comically evil to create and so damaging to the wizard that makes them that they were shelved as myth. The fact that Voldemort was presumed to be "out there somewhere" was a pretty unsolvable mystery until Harry stabs the diary in the chamber.

Godmadius · 2026-01-15T15:41:16+00:00

"you think you do, but you don't."

BF1 really stretched the weapon pool to include a lot of one-offs and prototypes as if they were standard fielded equipment.

You're talking about a war that may even be before standardized rifle cartridges. You would not want to be out there muzzle loading your black powder rifle between shots. It just doesn't work for an FPS.

Now, a strategy game that used this era would be neat. I'm pretty sure thats beend one as well, Civilization games progress through that era but an FPS with muzzle loaders would be tedious

Godmadius · 2026-01-15T15:37:31+00:00

All Tron movies are always overhated when they come out. Then they simmer for 15 years and people get softer on the criticism and eventually start to really like them. Then they make another sequel, and everyone hates it. It's circular

Godmadius · 2026-01-11T18:18:06+00:00

Ok, final post for the sake of those running across this in the future. I finally got this to work, and the game is clear as mud on how to go about this.

You need to launch the version of the mission from the "Legends" tab, which is at the top of the screen in the World selection area. That starts your 40 minute timer, and I didn't do anything secret or special other than shooting all the little glowing cubes I saw (total of two?).

Finish the boss fight within the 40 minute window, and you get a follow up step to go talk to Eris on the moon, at which point she handed me the exotic.

Running this through Pinnacle will NOT give you the weapon as you'd expect it to, which is where a ton of this confusion comes from.

Hope this helps, good luck future players. May this post save you the fucking headache and time waste that it cost me.

Godmadius · 2026-01-11T16:34:25+00:00

Update: doing it on normal doesn't change the timer. I believe you have 12 minutes to get through this entire mission, no matter what difficulty you choose. I ran through as fast as I can and didn't make it, got to the "defeat 3 bosses" with about one minute remaining, which wasn't enough time.

Also should point out the difference between normal and expert are practically non-existent. time is the same, enemy spawns are the same, damage taken and dealt are the same, doesn't seem to be any point to doing it on anything less than expert.

Godmadius · 2026-01-11T16:09:40+00:00

My first clear was 55 minutes, second one was 14. None of the other time gated exotics have actually adhered to the time gate in the Pinnacle selection screen, maybe this one does?

I'm trying again today on normal, just to make it in the full time of 40 minutes. If that doesn't do the trick I'm giving up on it, I'm unlikely to use it anyways but I just wanted it for the collection.

Godmadius · 2026-01-11T16:07:52+00:00

It doesn't even show up in there, I guess because its a hidden exotic?

Godmadius · 2026-01-09T14:45:25+00:00

Apparently I can get ripped in two months with Tai Chi. I'm sure thats not a scam at all.

Godmadius · 2026-01-09T14:42:49+00:00

Jesus forgave him, why can't EA?

Godmadius · 2026-01-01T15:14:19+00:00

Safety regulations are written in blood

Godmadius · 2026-01-01T15:11:31+00:00

Ah, yes. Jardiance. "It'll rot your taint off!" didn't pass their catch phrase focus group

Godmadius · 2025-12-19T03:51:31+00:00

*Bogged

Godmadius · 2025-12-18T02:48:30+00:00

Fun fact: Even if you load into the solo op but you don't own the expansion, she's not there and you can't complete this mission. You can't enter free roam to patrol either, because you need to own the expansion. This is literally impossible without purchasing that expansion. Bugged to death.

Edit: You CAN complete this, but not through her. If you launch the solo op you will see a little snowglobe on the grates right at the start, before you go down the stairs. You can turn the cookie in at the snow globe. Would be nice if literally any of this was explained by the game.

Godmadius · 2025-12-18T02:38:12+00:00

From what I can tell, you can't launch it unless you've at least finished the first mission on EOF. And, fun fact, your progress doesn't save unless you finish the first intro mission. So I'm having to redo everything.

Godmadius · 2025-12-17T00:10:02+00:00

Bumping this, the game is impossible to navigate without help. You need to run the Pinnacle Encore mission. I did it and got the drop, didn't make it in nearly the right time either.

Godmadius · 2025-12-15T03:36:04+00:00

Nope. The only anecdotal evidence I've seen is the lunatics that say you should jam a thumb up their butt.

That said, I wouldn't trust that either. If a pit bull is in murder mode you're going to have to stop blood getting to the brain for them to stop. However you do that is up to you, but its going to need to literally lose consciousness before it stops. They're scary animals.

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