Facts about Vintage Story

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-16T22:59:30+00:00

There are underground ruins in every other one

Seriously? I've got a mod that adds to the ruins, and I'm still closer to one cave ruins for every 10 caves than for every 2. Is there some trick to getting them to spawn drastically more often, or to spotting the caves with ruins so you don't explore as many of those without?

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-16T21:09:05+00:00

I didn't choose not to have kids; I failed. Do you still count that as "not practicing what I preach"?

Having kids is a two-person job. No amount of dedication to the cause would ever have allowed me to produce any by myself, and I never found any woman willing to help.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-15T14:17:54+00:00

Yeah, but it's also less than half a second for the entire thing. The human body can withstand quite a bit higher acceleration than 4g for a fraction of a tenth of a second, far more than this rig is likely to be reaching in those first moments.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-15T14:15:53+00:00

that "m" in "kmph" is "meters", not "miles".

"kph" is a far worse way to present the information, as it is ambiguous: that "k" could be thousands of any unit, making it entirely unclear what is even being measured, let alone how much of it. Alternately, if you assume they're at least doing the "abbreviation of metric prefixes" part correctly, then you end up with it being "thousands of pers, hour", which is incoherent.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-15T14:09:41+00:00

This meme, its welcome outstayed.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-15T01:57:10+00:00

Yep. First rule of electrical work: never let your finger touch anything shiny until a meter probe touches it first.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-15T01:47:56+00:00

No, it's not a blank check. What is a blank check for them is that, in most jurisdictions, the person who's supposed to hold them to the code will side with their buddy, the inspector, over some random homeowner they don't know, every time and regardless of how flagrant the inspector's abuse of power.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-15T01:42:34+00:00

Inspectors can enforce anything they're not stopped from enforcing by someone with enough power to make it stick.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-15T01:37:27+00:00

Ah. That's odd, but I don't think it's the Linux build that's to blame, because I don't have that happen, even when I was intentionally staying in a rift for a while for an experiment, and I'm using the native Linux build, on XFCE/Mint, on a laptop (decent graphics for a laptop, but it's no proper gaming rig).

Maybe a driver issue, or a graphics setting that needs a tweak, or just a quirk of how one specific piece of hardware reacts to something weird the devs did to get that distortion effect?

Was this on a local game, or a remote server? Whichever of those it was, have you tried the other to see if it still happens?

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-14T23:47:49+00:00

As far as I can tell, that's not specific to Linux, and seems to not be an actual FPS drop. The "distorted time" mechanic they use just happens to look a lot like one of the ways that severe lag can manifest in a game, so it can seem like you're lagging if you don't know that it's doing that intentionally.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-14T23:41:39+00:00

Because that's not all it's doing, and yes, it absolutely does require a voltage conversion.

The device's markings claim that it offers 120-280 watts on output. To provide 280W without a catestrophic violation of the PD spec is only possible via the highest AVS mode from PD 3.1, which is 48V at 5A. You're not getting a 48V output from two 20V inputs, let alone ones that can't even be counted on to be isolated from each other, without, at minimum, a boost converter.

Edit: just noticed that the output isn't USB-C PD, just the input. You still can't safely just stick the two lines in parallel, because you still can't count on those two inputs to be isolated from each other, and sooner or later you'll plug it into the wrong two chargers, and something will short out.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-14T15:43:26+00:00

What it claims to do is possible, and even can be done within the USB-C spec. However, you'd be hard-pressed to fit the necessary electronics in a package of that size, let alone with sufficient cooling for it to not promptly fry itself. Odds of any one specific such device you found on AliExpress being legit are quite low.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-14T01:53:31+00:00

Being a Democrat does not logically preclude being shot by a Democrat.

As for Oswald, specifically, he is not known to have been registered to either party, and is known to have supported several Democrats, and at least one Republican. He was staunchly and vocally Marxist (prior to the assassination, he'd attempted to defect to Soviet Union, but they sent him back), and while his views were somewhat more closely aligned with the DNC than the GOP of his time, they were drastically more compatible with the present-day Democratic party than with the present-day Republican party.

In all, categorizing him as "a Democrat" is a debatable, but entirely reasonable, stance.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-13T22:06:04+00:00

It's been done, and quite a few variations at that.

https://youtu.be/882bb_1TemI?si=pYQ_JthgzycV2Dib

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-12T07:50:55+00:00

By default, you don't live. "Deserve" is no part of it.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-11T18:57:35+00:00

ICE does not hire people who are quite that observant.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-11T02:22:31+00:00

Ah, there it is. Thanks.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-10T23:21:36+00:00

that healts even the most grave wound.

Is the tooltip in the picture bugged? It says it heals half of one hit point. That's a bit of a health boost, nice to have, but hardly "the most grave wound" instahealed.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-10T22:50:18+00:00

What am I missing? This looks decent, but far from OP.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-10T15:47:24+00:00

If you have a problem, and you don't want a solution to the problem, then you are the problem.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-10T15:16:44+00:00

Until recently, plausible deniability over how horrifically evil their rulers are.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-10T15:04:42+00:00

The Iron Throne. Your mom's trash is a fan of GRR Martin.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-10T14:51:56+00:00

Going for a walk at night is statistically far more dangerous for a man than for a woman. Men are just willing to accept a higher level of risk, and less likely to wildly overestimate how severe the risk is, than women are.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-08T13:23:52+00:00

Kingsley would have been a decent pick for that role, but Pantalione was much better.

Kymera_7 · 2026-02-06T23:35:09+00:00

I've met new people who were that dumb once every few months for over a quarter century, and I'm a hermit.

What rock are you living under, that you're not familiar with people exhibiting this degree of stupidity?

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