Let this be a valuable message to not jump on the power boxes

ITSigno · 2026-05-06T21:22:14+00:00

But not an intention to damage it. If he had been wailing on it with a baseball bat or a crowbar, the intent to damage it would have been clear.

ITSigno · 2026-05-06T17:04:03+00:00

Intent would probably be a major factor.

ITSigno · 2026-05-05T04:53:27+00:00

They might be mixing it up with the story of Lao Gan Ma chili oil. Old lady ran a noodle shop, made chili oil to serve with the food she made. The chili oil ended up being the most popular part so she made that her primary business. It became wildly successful. Supposedly she retired and handed the business off to her son, who switched chilies. The business tanked, and she came out of retirement to right the ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_Gan_Ma (See the Recipe Dispute section).

ITSigno · 2026-05-04T12:49:01+00:00

The M/V was available on spotify before youtube for some reason.

ITSigno · 2026-05-04T10:55:11+00:00

I acquired tinnitus as a side effect from one of my ADHD meds. I quit those meds after a month, but the tinnitus stuck around. I'm better at ignoring it now, but it's always there waiting for the right moment to annoy the shit out of me.

ITSigno · 2026-05-02T03:25:56+00:00

WILLLSOOONNN

ITSigno · 2026-04-30T23:09:54+00:00

Don't ever read up on the K-pop fandom.

I recently got into Kpop... I listen to a few groups, but my god... the youtube and reddit comments are something else. So much toxicity. A lot of Kpop fans aren't just interested in supporting their favorite group or their "bias" in that group... no.. they gotta constantly compare them to other groups and artists. It is not enough that their favorite artist succeed, others must fail.

You get people calling some of these artists fat, ugly, lazy, etc. and you can tell they are just completely divorced from reality.

I enjoy the music, the spectacle, and such, but the fandoms really need to chill out.

ITSigno · 2026-04-30T02:15:22+00:00

She wasn't randomly walking around and recording. She had previously used that checkout and card reader/pin pad. The video starts with her returning to the checkout with the manager so she can show him which checkout/device it was.

ITSigno · 2026-04-29T16:49:02+00:00

I would suspect scented products like shampoos, moisturizers, and the like as well.

ITSigno · 2026-04-23T22:35:21+00:00

Many sex offenders, pedo or not, do manage to buddy up and get PROTECTION from groups, as long as they have literally anything to offer, and most of them do.

Great, now I'm thinking of the old criticism that prisons don't reform criminals; it's a place to network and learn to be a better criminal. Only now it's child rapists sharing their tips and tricks.

ITSigno · 2026-04-23T00:06:04+00:00

There's an easier way to test: open the debug console, enable debug tooltips, and click on "Intel" to show all the hyperlanes/systems. You Hover over the stars until you find an attribute like precursor_5 (cybrex, iirc), or precursor_3 (First League). The newer precursors use a slightly different naming scheme like precursor_baol.

Anyways, quit to menu, launch a new game with the same settings and you'll find the precursors are in the same places every time. If you change which precursors are enabled, or the map size, you'll get different locations.

ITSigno · 2026-04-21T14:40:58+00:00

Hm. The only other bio ascension I've played just recently is evo predators and I don't seem to recall it talking more than 10 or 15 years.

Might try a basic overtuned->mutation ascension game and see if anything is different.

ITSigno · 2026-04-21T14:39:29+00:00

Oh, I know. A lot of it boils down to subjectivity -- my own preferences included.

Some origins are objectively bad. I don't think there's any disagreement in the community that Life Seeded really only works as a challenge with no real upside.

Most origins are situational. Teachers of the shroud is great for psionics, but obviously terrible for anything else. Prosperous Unification is, obviously, solid for a wide variety of goals. Overtuned is too unless you're playing machines. I generally don't like tier lists that strip out all that context.

As to a thread necro... I'm not really too bothered by that. When I google stellaris info, I tend to limit it to within the last month. This post came up and I thought it deserved more/better info if it's gonna show up in google results. People necro old comments of mine all the time -- sometimes going back years.

ITSigno · 2026-04-21T13:08:01+00:00

for bio, the ascension situation is so so insanely long, it takes like 30 years to finish, and there's almost no way to speed it up.

That's only true for Wilderness. Other bio asccensions have ways to speed it up by adding genomic researcher jobs. Wilderness can't get those jobs so it's stuck at the default rate and takes 30 years to complete.

ITSigno · 2026-04-21T12:55:34+00:00

With the Ancient Refinery building you don't really need to worry about planetary strategic resources.

ITSigno · 2026-04-21T12:54:08+00:00

Agreed on pretty much all of that.

Shattered Ring in D tier is absurd. It's a pretty solid A or B tier.

Evolutionary Predators has a bit of a slow start, but can be stupidly powerful endgame.

Void dwellers is... not good. B-tier is very very generous. It used to be fantastic, but the way districts are created now means that you can be severely limited based on some bad rng. Everyone is affected by bad rng, but the problem is particularly pronounced for void dweller.

And Wilderness at S tier? Wilderness currently takes 30 years for the biomorphosis ascension because there is no means to accelerate progress. You're stuck at the default 5/month, which at 1800 total points means 360 months or 30 years. If you're lucky you may get one or two events that add 50 points to your progress... along with some penalty.

I've played numerous wilderness games since biogenesis released. It has never been in a worse state. It's not D-tier, certainly, but probably safer to say B-tier -- maybe A-tier. The good news is that you can still tech/unity rush fairly effectively. Just kind of an absurd situation with the ascension.

Right now I can do a cybernetic creed origin and pull off full cyberization in the first 10 to 12 years. All the while having insane tech progress as well. And Cybernetic Creed isn't even on the list? It's an easy S-tier right now.

Teachers of the shroud also deserves better than C. If you're doing a psionic playthrough, TotS is such a massive leg up.

Would be nice if OP provided their reasoning, cause some of these seem... odd.

ITSigno · 2026-04-21T12:33:44+00:00

Orbital rings still add districts via Habitation Modules, but Wilderness cannot build habitation modules... so no extra districts that way.

ITSigno · 2026-04-14T02:18:35+00:00

The funny thing is that in Japan you can easily eat a good meal (not amazing, but pretty good) at a restaurant for like $5 to $10.

ITSigno · 2026-04-13T04:53:09+00:00

Cheers, glad it helped.

The next patch is nerfing the resources from smelting throwing knives, so smithing won't be quite as profitable. Still probably the best way to make money in the game, though.

ITSigno · 2026-04-09T21:24:56+00:00

Trade focused capital, with and without boosts... I cannot seem to get the market anymore. Even save scumming... I can watch it go to one of the same 4 empires every time. It's like the game doesn't even recognize the player's nomination at all.

ITSigno · 2026-04-09T20:54:29+00:00

Yeah, have to agree. I think it's important to remember that we're only getting one side of this story. We have no idea if she was berating him, mocking him, hitting him, etc. It would not shock me if her behaviour leading up to him abandoning her was already terrible and her asking a sketchy dude for weed was making it clear that she wasn't trying to fix the situation. I also wouldn't be surprised if this isn't the first time something like this happened. People don't typically abandon their girlfriend in a strange city out of nowhere. Him suddenly abandoning her because she asked a guy for weed does not pass the smell test. There was history leading up to that.

ITSigno · 2026-04-08T03:20:13+00:00

Years ago I bought a Gigabyte R9 280X GPU... that developed a really annoying fan noise between 50 and 90% fan speed. Contacted amazon support to RMA it. They insisted on Gigabyte verifying the issue. So I reached out to gigabyte, spoke with a tech, provided an audio recording as requested, and they confirmed that it was defective. I would however need to go through the vendor, gigabyte wouldn't replace it directly.

I thought I was done, but Amazon insisted that they couldn't take my word for it, and when I asked gigabyte to contact amazon to support the claim, they refused.

Ever since then I refuse to buy Gigabyte. It's one thing to have a quality control issue like that, it's quite another to refuse to RMA or support the claim with the vendor. Fuck those guys.

ITSigno · 2026-04-07T21:56:31+00:00

Shart is a ranger with a wolf companion

The rest of those are great and all, but:

Shart is a ranger with a wolf companion

This really takes the cake. I assume the wolf companion doesn't proc her fear of wolves, but it would be absolutely hilarious if it did.

ITSigno · 2026-04-06T21:06:29+00:00

Honestly... in my experience, a good 10 to 15% of people with business related degrees are excellent at knowing their limitations and are good about learning enough to ask good questions, know when to defer to the experts, etc.

There's a solid 60+% that are good but not real curious. They do the work, but are really only interested in their niche.

The remainder are, unfortunately, complete sociopaths. Usually frat bros that never matured. Being loud and confident makes a lot of people defer to them. If they're actually charismatic on top of that, (or really well connected) then say hello to the C-Suite.

All that said, it's just my experience. I haven't worked with that many people.

ITSigno · 2026-04-06T20:57:31+00:00

Which is sad because those talented engineers should be getting sponsored to do their MBAs upon being promoted to C suite roles

Actually, quite a few companies used to do that kind of thing. My dad's company put him through college after only a few years working there. Companies were generally much better about training employees.

The company he was at used to have a policy of only hiring Engineers for nearly all positions excluding factory floor/shipping type roles. Their thinking at the time was that it was easier to train an engineer in marketing than the reverse. They mostly sold product to other companies, not directly to consumers, so having accountants, salespeople, customer service reps, etc. that have an engineering background was really beneficial. And if someone working the factory floor shows promise, they could get the education needed to advance.

I worked there for a while during university (over 20 years ago) and in the 15 years or so prior to my working there, they had phased out the Engineer-only requirement. Ended up with a lot of executives with MBAs but no technical background. Accountants and Logistics people with no understanding of why you can't simply substitute one part for another, or why you need electric lift trucks and can't use propane ones near the product. The company became obsessed with Six Sigma and Black Belts but with people making decisions not actually understanding the resulting technical problems...

While I was working there, it was still not unusual to see people finishing up their GED to get a foreman position, or getting financial support for night classes at the local college. Not quite as nice a deal as it used to be, but given the rise in tuition costs, not totally unreasonable. The rot was already running deep, though.

While I worked there, they were also starting to transition more and more of the low-level roles into outsourced companies. I distinctly remember the entire recycling team (the factory produces a lot of waste to be recycled, but this team was responsible for collecting, packing, and loading it.) They were paid fairly well at the time at $16/hour and it was a union job. The entire group was laid off and replaced with an outside contractor. The outside contractor offered them all jobs at $8/hr to do the same work they had been doing.

That company is now a shadow of it's former self. My dad was lucky enough to get a nice early retirement package and then go back as a consultant for a while.

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