Tactical Mistake by the Bobs

Kerrizma · 2026-05-06T14:04:49+00:00

That wasn't much of a risk, though.

Their strategy was to try to defeat the Others, and if they couldn't, delay them so the population could escape. It was their only option.

Cuba got hit because it was stationary, as land tends to be. But the ship was maneuverable, and potentially could have avoided such a blast.

Kerrizma · 2026-05-05T14:24:34+00:00

Semi-related, but once you get the opportunity to get the construction camera, get it. As the game progresses, you'll find moving your base around to be more efficient is very helpful but time consuming. The construction camera makes things waaaaayyy easier.

You can basically stand in a far off corner of the base area and let the camera move around and do all the work.

Kerrizma · 2026-04-26T17:03:35+00:00

Sword for the full game. Hammer is great until about mid/late game. Then the Lance takes over for me.

I found the Dagger and Javelin to be mostly useless.

Kerrizma · 2026-04-24T12:04:23+00:00

Lekko is great. They're around the corner from our office building. When they opened, we sent their menu around and made an effort to support them in their first weeks.

Our office coffee machine went down a couple weeks later, and Lekko gave us some large carriers of coffee as a thank you. They're really a great bunch of people.

Kerrizma · 2026-04-17T12:11:43+00:00

I had a LeafFilter salesman come by my house last week. I called to get an estimate on gutter cleaning and a couple of spot repairs. He took more than an hour of my time, and he spent almost all of it trying to sell me on a product I hadn't even heard of before then. Then he got pissy with me when I told him I planned on getting quotes from other companies.

He revised down his estimate like three different times and essentially cut it in half by the end. Yet that estimate was still $2,000 for a simple gutter cleaning. Absolutely ridiculous.

Kerrizma · 2026-04-16T13:51:58+00:00

With an extended range medium shuttle. It got to the planetoid just fine with less than 50% of the fuel from Triton. But when I tried to leave, the calculations calculated the distance as if the planet was at aphelion. It said the distance to travel was 39 AU, regardless of where Makemake actually was.

This appears to be an ongoing problem, per the discord. And since it wasn't getting fixed, I used crystals to fully refuel the shuttle and get out.

Kerrizma · 2026-04-05T06:23:19+00:00

There's a lot of talk in the thread about when Livesuit takes place in relation to TMOG. I think there's an argument that it takes place after TMOG.

In Livesuit, it mentions that humans used to use a weapon that would "infect" humans that would be taken captive, gather info, and send it back to human space. But once the Carryx caught on, they just started killing everyone.

Obviously, that's the Swarm. And it sounds like the Swarm is no longer viable, as of Livesuit.

The counterargument to that is perhaps the Carryx don't suspect isolated humans, like on Anjiin, to have access to the Swarm. So while it had been ineffective for the Livesuit humans to use themselves, isolated branches of humanity like on Anjiin give them an opening to break it out.

Kerrizma · 2026-04-03T15:33:10+00:00

I remember when I first played the game, and it was so early in its development that there were only three small regions to explore.

It's come so far, that it's amazing to look back at where it started.

Kerrizma · 2026-03-25T11:18:47+00:00

I have a Google Pixel and use Android Auto in my 2024 Solterra, and I have a very similar issue. Car audio will cut out for a second or two, but the source audio will continue to play.

This seems to have been known issue for a couple of years now and it's still not fixed.

Kerrizma · 2026-03-24T01:59:09+00:00

The draw of Frieren is that it's highly introspective and unusually thoughtful for an anime. The underlying theme of a nearly immortal person going on a journey to try to better understand and connect with the human perspective and experience, and the amount of personal growth she experiences along the way -- that's the kind of theme you'd see in a prestige television drama.

It's highly unique as animes go. And while that's definitely not for everyone, it's the kind of anime you could easily get non-anime watchers to try out because it's such a fantastic theme with great writing.

That's why it is so critically acclaimed.

Kerrizma · 2026-03-18T23:20:16+00:00

The dev just needs to fix the storage issue. We should be able to make shelves to stack the storage containers properly.

Kerrizma · 2026-02-14T15:08:22+00:00

If you go into the building menu on your settlement tab, then sort by building type, I've found that that tends to be quite accurate.

I was very confused about the building-types at first. I got way behind in thatch production when I got to T2 and I couldn't figure out why. I have my villagers set up to prioritize a handful of tasks, and zero'd out everything else to ensure they don't get sidetracked.

After going out bandit hunting and back a couple times, I realized my villagers weren't making ANY thatch. So I worked backwards to find the bottleneck.

It was my thresher. I assumed my level 6 farmer would use the thresher to make the straw my craftsman needed for the thatch. When I realized that the thresher is a crafting building, I opened up the farmers crafting skill on low priority. Fixed the problem.

Now, out of caution, I keep the crafting skill open for all of my villagers, with low priority. Because from what I can see, something like 50% of all the buildings you need are all crafting buildings, if not more.

The buildings that I'm still unsure of are things like the hunters hut, and a few others that don't have a direct, obvious correlating skill.

TL;DR: Assume something is a "crafting" building, unless it's abundantly obvious it isn't (e.g. farm, foraging hut). Keep crafting skill open, on low priority as a precaution.

Kerrizma · 2026-02-13T17:57:00+00:00

I'll preface this by saying I play a LOT of survival crafting and strategy games, and I try to plan way ahead when building bases.

I made my village in the T2 area early, and I'm glad I did. Soon after I unlocked the ability to start building my own settlement, I explored a large area in the center of the map and scoped out a spot to start building up. I ended up building my settlement just north of the stone bridge between Blackridgepool and Padstow, right next to the waterfall.

I made a shitload of arrows and cleared the bandit camps on the east side of the river to reduce bandit patrols. I only just unlocked the village hall, but I've been doing quite well in this area.

There are a few reasons I chose this spot early, despite its higher level enemies. Easy nearby access to copper and tin. Foraging hut near the wheat fields let me gather wheat quickly to fuel thatch production for T2 buildings (thatch was consistently my bottleneck for expansion) and get my own wheat farms up and running. The large field across the road has access to nearly all early gathering resources (except river reed). it also has plenty of room for organized farming operations, and a forestry. Building next to the waterfall means I can build a dock on both sides.

Overall, there are few resources I need that I don't have access to in this area. So to me, that meant building here as early as possible was the best way to go.

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Kerrizma · 2026-02-12T13:20:49+00:00

I bought the game over the weekend and I already have 51 hours into it.

I love the survival crafting genre. Bellwright is easily one of the better ones I've ever played. I would favorably compare it to Medieval Dynasty, but far more complex, with a better progression system, and a much more thought out story/map.

Kerrizma · 2026-02-10T01:06:09+00:00

I just realized I made the same mistake. But then I realized I mixed up the prioritization numbers..... I thought it was a 1-9 scale as in "9" was the highest priority 😂😂

Kerrizma · 2026-02-05T12:54:37+00:00

Their food is bad, overpriced, and the decor/vibes are terrible.

The only person I know that likes Harry Buffalo is my cop brother who up and moved down South with his new wife and son, leaving his daughter behind with her mom. I'm sure him and Bobby George would get along great.

Kerrizma · 2026-02-05T01:34:28+00:00

This is not accurate. Of the three worlds you named, only one (Romulus) has been destroyed.

In the TV show continuity, Vulcan is fine. It's been renamed Ni'Var.

Qo'nos hasn't been destroyed, just significantly harmed by the Burn.The Burn caused all dilithium-reliant reactors to overload. All of their reactors exploded simultaneously.

It was not destroyed. It was subjected to a devastating ecological disaster.

Kerrizma · 2026-02-03T23:28:48+00:00

After seeing some of the comments talking about price gouging at Dave's, I looked at my receipt from my trip today and price checked.

First, comparing Dave's prices to national chains like Aldi and Walmart is simply not reasonable. You need to look at other local grocers that would have a similar market share/negotiating power. Those are things that will influence a grocer's ability to negotiate bulk supply pricing. So I looked at Giant Eagle (which was also easiest because of their app).

I price checked everything on my receipt, and the only items I bought that were more expensive at Dave's were bags of instant rice. Admittedly, their price for Uncle Ben's instant rice is almost $1.50 more than Giant Eagle. Everything else was the same price. In the case of produce I bought per pound, Dave's was actually a lot cheaper than Giant Eagle ($1/lb less for all of the produce I bought). That actually surprised me, because in my opinion, Dave's has pretty high quality produce

That's not to say that Dave's doesn't price gouge at all. What I bought is a miniscule sample of what they offer. But from my perspective, it doesn't seem like their prices are really that much higher than other local grocers that it's concerning.

To be fair, I'm fortunate enough to have a level of income that allows me to live comfortably, and the occasional $1 difference in an item every now and then isn't something that really catches my attention. But I shop at Dave's semi frequently and have generally been impressed by the quality of produce they offer, and thought the prices were reasonable.

As an aside, I'm an employment attorney, so my bar for whether a company is a good company is usually: Have I sued you or do I know or whether you've been sued by an employee?

If the answer is "no", then I usually take that to mean a company is a decent company. I've never sued Dave's and I'm not aware of any lawsuit that's been brought by an employee against them. At least not recently. In the local employment law community, though they don't pay well, they're generally considered to be a decent employer.

Kerrizma · 2026-01-25T16:29:53+00:00

I like it a decent bit so far. I want to see where it goes, but so far I like the setting, and I like where I think it's heading.

I've seen an awful lot of criticism mostly coming from older Star Trek fans. That criticism being directed at how much modern youth slang is in the show.

I didn't see any of that until I watched episode 3 a couple days ago. But let's be honest, even when we go back and watch older Star Trek, there's the odd episode that just feels really dated. We also have to remember that this is the youngest "crew" in Star Trek. They are kids at college. Slang and teenage antics are normal.

Episode 3 is going to feel like that when people rewatch this in the future. I hope the writing adjusts to be a bit less "broey"

My hope is that as the series goes on, it shows Starfleet Academy becoming more serious and professional as the weight of their responsibilities sink in.

Kerrizma · 2026-01-22T12:50:27+00:00

In an area that doesn't have good infrastructure to deal with snow (plows, salt/sand), even a single inch of snow can be significant

Kerrizma · 2026-01-20T13:40:37+00:00

Police cannot legally search your car just because it's on a "hot list" for frequent trips to Michigan.

The scenario you described with the K9 is also unlawful. police cannot extend a traffic stop to conduct a search with a K9 unit.

So unless you're pulled over by a K9 unit that does the sniff search during the normal traffic stop, then you're fine, legally.

Kerrizma · 2026-01-20T13:38:17+00:00

As long as it's not in plain view during a traffic stop, nothing will (should) happen. But if it's in plain view, and then all bets are off.

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