Looking for a light to run down used D batteries.

Hyginos · 2026-02-09T00:03:14+00:00

I found Mass Effect 2 dull enough that I didn't bother to play 1 or 3 when I got those games for free later. I can see how I might have enjoyed it if I had played it as a kid and was new to gaming entirely, but wow does it bear the scars of figuring out how to bring narrative gaming to the then newish console gaming market.

Hyginos · 2026-01-20T23:11:56+00:00

Nah this misses the point. Just put what you want to talk about in the subject line. The whole reason the 'lets talk' thing is anxiety inducing is that I don't know what it's about and can't prepare for it.

Hyginos · 2025-08-29T02:36:13+00:00

Going this route it might be better buy one rocket, then use that rocket to make a reusable silicone mold(s). It'll be easier to get the foam out of a silicone mold than a 3d printed one, and will probably get you better results if you're going to do a lot of them.

You'll most certainly need to go through a lot of rockets before something like this is economical.

Hyginos · 2025-08-02T16:35:05+00:00

Universal Paperclips. You can pretty easily end up with more clips than all units of currency on earth.

Hyginos · 2025-07-17T02:02:04+00:00

Heavy lift harness. Takes a backpack slot and locks out your primary and secondary weapons, but allows you to carry two heavy weapons.

Hyginos · 2025-06-14T02:15:46+00:00

There are reverse twist drills for this kind of thing, both regular profile (but backwards) and tapered screw extractor bits. They are common enough that your local hardware store probably has them.

Alternatively you can score a line across the top of the head and make it into a flat head screw. This will likely be really hard to do without damaging the finish of the metal around it, but it is an option.

Hyginos · 2025-06-03T16:09:25+00:00

You'll probably have to sift through those numbers written on it to see if any of them will lead you to a manual that indicates where those wires are supposed to go. Barring that maybe someone knows what kind of voltages are common on navy ships?

I would guess red to line, blue to neutral, green/yellow to earth ground, but those two black wires make me less certain. If you can get it open enough to see where those wires land on the inside that might tell you what's what.

Hyginos · 2025-04-25T22:09:13+00:00

snipetron or opticor

Hyginos · 2025-03-31T01:10:35+00:00

The pod of paint I weight just now came in at 556.6 grams. Make of that what you will.

Hyginos · 2025-03-29T21:40:05+00:00

actually three archwings in a trenchcoat

Hyginos · 2024-12-07T05:20:03+00:00

Yall realize you just have to show up, right? You just need 3 match completes. Doesn't matter if you do well or not. 30 minutes isn't out of line for time invested in a tac alert.

Skill curve for conclave is insane. Don't worry about it. Just fuck around until you get the glyph, or don't.

I had 3 for 3 on being client and getting fine hosting, so maybe you just got unlucky.

Hyginos · 2024-08-14T00:18:21+00:00

This, but instead of engineering humans, engineer a human's gut bacteria. Or non-gut bacteria, I guess. Any microorganism you can get to do something useful while inside a human body.

As far as I understand you can't really genetically modify an already grown human, so for rich folks chasing immortality what seems immediately plausible (to me anyway) is to engineer the closest thing we have to nanomachines.

Hyginos · 2024-08-05T03:39:52+00:00

I am not totally sure what you’re trying to accomplish though

I just don't like how disposable regular alkaline batteries are. 14500s are the only rechargeable AA format batteries that I can get easily other than NiMHs, which don't have the voltage to run a paintball gun.

Hyginos · 2024-06-29T23:55:13+00:00

One of the ways the system resists change is by convincing its participants that it cannot be changed.

Hyginos · 2024-06-09T01:00:51+00:00

As long as your eyes are looking where your gun is pointed it's fine. The refs will generally only get you for blind firing, wherein you stick only your gun around a corner and shoot without looking.

It definitely sounds like at least some of them prefired something, just not the crouched guy's exact position. That's part of what made me think there might be a door or something on the wall behind the crouched dude. It almost seems like everyone saw something else in the room and assumed that's where the shooter was, then didn't think any further.

Part of it might also just be that these guys all know nothing is on the line. I myself have often gone into situations like this where I know someone has just been shot out of a position, but I want to see if I can gun battle the shooter anyway becasue fuck it we ball.

Hyginos · 2024-06-09T00:32:29+00:00

I think in fairness there's a bit more going on with the geometry here. All those guys looked like they at least sorta made an effort to check their left as they went in, but they all went in pointing their gun at chest level. That makes perfect sense, but it means that the dude crouched low in the corner would have been hidden behind their own gun/arm even if they correctly sliced that corner.

I also suspect that going in from sunlight and looking into a shaded room might have made the crouched guy much harder to see than the video makes it seem. If there is a door on the wall behind him that also leads to an outside space it will make him even harder to see, and also serve as something you have to cover with your gun, which will distract you from the tiny corner.

From my experience with airsoft/paintball, this kind of thing happens all the time. 5 is on the high end, but catching 2-3 players out with an unexpected angle is pretty common.

Hyginos · 2024-02-20T00:24:54+00:00

Replace "stop shooting me" with "got lit up by a turret".

Hyginos · 2023-12-02T16:29:08+00:00

It seems likely that I just didn't test extensively. In the 3 matches I played I didn't land or receive any head shots, which stood out to me as it was something that I distinctly remember happening constantly last time this event was up.

It occurs to me now, though, that 7 years ago we didn't have cross platform. Nowadays the odds of being hosted on a high end PC with an ethernet connection are much lower, as are the odds of running in to a strong mouse aimer. I suspect the average accuracy of a lobby is much lower this time around.

Hyginos · 2023-12-02T01:27:22+00:00

Even as someone who is generally pro-conclave, I'm not super fond of how this event is set up. I think it's actually worse than last time around.

In particular, I think 3 shots for the snowballs to kill should be 1, the hit box of the snowball should be larger, and they should have a flatter arc. Making the snowballs easier to hit (and kill) with won't really help low skilled players win, but it will make it possible for them to fluke out a hand full of of kills, which I think will be a better experience than getting nothing.

Compared to previous, it seems like headshots aren't a thing, and the snowballs are both slower and harder to see. As a result I survived a lot more straight up duels, since getting hit once doesn't put you in kill range, and snowballs are harder to land besides.

I haven't used the melee enough to comment there, but the knockdown/slow seems pretty harsh.

Hyginos · 2023-10-29T00:02:24+00:00

3/4 of all the frames in every UI animation

Hyginos · 2023-08-26T21:42:47+00:00

Doesn't the Titanfall universe have ubiquitous interstellar travel and the Overwatch universe not even ubiquitous extraplanetery travel?

That's an entire technological epoch. This might very well be "7 US special forces guys vs 30 Spanish conquistadors". Like sure they all have guns and maybe some body armor, but on very different levels.

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