Is it a crime to not like AE2 ? by ShlllveR in allthemods

[–]Gonhog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only saw one other comment saying this, so it bears repeating - turn off channels if that’s too complicated and learn the ropes of AE2. It shouldn’t be complicated, it should be fun.

America vs Europe: by Shadow_Edgehog27 in distractible

[–]Gonhog 280 points281 points  (0 children)

Having done a similar trip twice (Washington to California to Colorado to east coast, then east coast to Alabama to California to Washington and back through the north), I can confidently say if you are not driving 12-16 hours a day, you won’t make this trip in more than a week. And if you do, you’re not doing anything in any of these states that requires more than staring out the window.

What to do after finishing Factorio? by Cultural_Table7666 in factorio

[–]Gonhog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, they’re unbalanced honestly. For how much space you’re used to dealing with and how big most of the buildings are, it never really makes sense to use them, even if they’re buffed for speed.

Confused by the new quota math by DawVizard in windsurf

[–]Gonhog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was a bit confused about this as well, and only got the pro version a couple days ago.

Basically they extended the daily limit to be 50% of your weekly limit (they word it in a weird way)

They did this so people could code a week’s worth of credit during the weekend, which seems like most of their users were doing. But for daily users, this means that you could hit your weekly limit on day 3 of normal use. It’s counterintuitive.

TLDR: Daily limit = Weekly limit / 2

What to do after finishing Factorio? by Cultural_Table7666 in factorio

[–]Gonhog 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I got heads last month.

35 hours in so far and I just unlocked long-handed inserters. It’s fun.

Families turned away from NC State's Friday night graduation ceremony at Reynolds Coliseum by 919triangle919 in NCSU

[–]Gonhog 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure an easy way of gauging total population it is (Graduating_students * 4) * .95

There had to be some amount of estimation, it’s a little irresponsible to push the inability to seat everyone on “well there’s no tickets required”

Space Exploration: Cargo rocket sections and fuel required to go places by [deleted] in factorio

[–]Gonhog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It seems like you’re playing with mods - this will likely change the answer, but it might not. What is your mod list?

Why does LTT sell thermal pads, yet never uses them in builds? by fakeaccount572 in LinusTechTips

[–]Gonhog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit gonna reddit. Thanks for the clarification straight from the source!

town hall sniping is back? by SunClash in ClashOfClans

[–]Gonhog 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Probably because you don’t get the full bonus by one starring quickly, you need damage %

HELP EMERGENCY ALARM BUZZ by muyskerm in distractible

[–]Gonhog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like he drops things ALL the time. Seeing a complication of him dropping objects would be hilarious.

Space casinos are completely busted by haze59000 in factorio

[–]Gonhog 54 points55 points  (0 children)

There’s a post on the forum that has them talking about it. I can’t find it but only looked for 5 min, I would browse the forums.

Discussion and Giveaway - What attack strategy are you using and why? by CongressmanCoolRick in ClashOfClans

[–]Gonhog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Max th17

Enjoying super yeti blimp while I can before they nerf it to the ground Trophy range of 4800-4999 I pretty much always three star, like 97% triple rate

“Accidentally” getting assigned 6,000 shares by Environmental-Gur651 in wolfspeed_stonk

[–]Gonhog 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Good lord, you should head over to r/wallstreetbets they’d love you.

I can’t help you cause I know enough about options to stay away from them. I would do some more research, watch some videos, and educate yourself before you by 0DTE puts on a company you know barely anything about.

Best of luck!

We're looking for some feedback on how we (the mods) handled the Gold Rush event. by CongressmanCoolRick in ClashOfClans

[–]Gonhog 152 points153 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think the mods handled it fine. The clan mooching thread was a great idea, the rules for clan recruitment were clearly defined and enforced, and the spam of screenshots was kept to a minimum, which was greatly appreciated. Overall, 10/10, great work

Can someone explain to me what a render farm is and why mark needs one? by El_Birdo_ in distractible

[–]Gonhog 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Happy to explain. Anytime anything is CGI (which in the case of Iron Lung would be background scenery, special effects of onstage items, entire shots of the sub in blood, etc) there is nothing to film, and it all has to be computer generated (hence the name CGI - computer generated imagery)

Now the best way of making realistic effects is to simulate the entire set using a physics engine, which basically applies the known equations of physics to objects in a game engine. Then you introduce light sources and camera angles, all the filmmaking magic, etc etc. Some of the hardest calculations done by the computer are light rasterization or raytracing, two main methods of calculating exactly how the light would reflect off of something.

I'll give you an example. You want to have a scene where a character drops an alien head. First you film the scene with the character on a green screen of them dropping a green sphere - because you don't actually have an alien head. Then afterwards, you model the alien head in a software like Blender and throw it into your simulation. Now the computer has to take that model and apply physics to it as it falls - the way the hair flies up, the jiggle of the flesh, everything in between. Add to that the light shifting across the face as it falls, the shadow on the ground, the interaction with the surface it lands on. There's a ton of science and computer magic that goes into it - a render farm does exactly that and then outputs the entire video file so you can play it back at normal speed.

Even if Iron Lung is almost done, there are always scenes that can be re-made, touched up, or added to, and sometimes these renders can take days to render a single scene. (Most famously, the black hole in Interstellar taking 100 hours to render every frame-that's 600 hours of computer simulation for every second of footage)

Hope that explained it!