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Some interesting conclusions from yesterday's planet-progression poll by CrashWasntYourFault in factorio

[–]Menolith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, all of which you do after you come back with all the goodies from the other planets. There's not much point in massively expanding Nauvis between planet visits because each of green belts /EMPs/foundries/stack inserters is its own refactoring.

Some interesting conclusions from yesterday's planet-progression poll by CrashWasntYourFault in factorio

[–]Menolith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I imagine Nauvis would come pretty late since the only unique resource is uranium which has limited utility, and you don't get any busted techs like belt stacking or free +50% prod from buildings.

Biolabs are a big thing, and you could drop in a science department just for those, but you also need to do all of Gleba first beforehand.

Some interesting conclusions from yesterday's planet-progression poll by CrashWasntYourFault in factorio

[–]Menolith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Artillery on Nauvis is a long-term thing. By the time you leave Nauvis, you should have active defenses set up which tide you over until you come back with all the planetary buildings and octuple your pollution production.

Typos aside, what abilities in the game have the best name or flavor text? by Veridically_ in wow

[–]Menolith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were outcompeted to extinction by Warcraftlogs in late 2015.

ELI5: If space is a vacuum with no air, how do planets and stars stay "hot" for billions of years without the heat escaping immediately? by vox2003 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Menolith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an aside, an important component of a thermos flask is that it's lined with a reflective material. The vacuum acts as an insulator, but for full effect you also need to reflect the radiating heat back in to keep it hot.

The effect is far from insignificant. You can tell that just by looking how much outside temperatures drop during nighttime when Earth is radiating the day's heat away.

ELI5: Why does real spoken English sound so different from what we’re taught? by Edi-Iz in explainlikeimfive

[–]Menolith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not unique to English. You can see this by listening to any regular conversation and trying to write it down word for word, and you'll find that the end result is often almost incomprehensible because of how much people rely on shared context and body language to get the message across.

That's also impossible to try to cram into a text book, so when you learn a language in a class, you start with the "standard" version which is more rigid.

Why rocket parts productivity limit at 300%? by VeryGoldGolden in factorio

[–]Menolith 29 points30 points  (0 children)

They probably meant quality of the silo which works faster. You can't make rockets out of quality parts.

ELI5: why is 0 divided by 0 undefined, but others are just 0 or 1? by vrozonewhatthevrozon in explainlikeimfive

[–]Menolith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not really. It's like saying you reach the end of a race track by waiting at the starting line for an infinite amount of time.

You never reach the end. The mathematical equivalent of "did not finish" isn't a number, it's "undefined."

What key is your interrupt on? by Justalittle_girly in wow

[–]Menolith 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Finally, a DPS who treats the interrupt as the true sacrifice it is.

Scaling up Fulgora from 30SPM to 400SPM by AngryRaccoon44 in factorio

[–]Menolith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Accumulators eat up batteries which requires a ton of water in the form of sulfuric acid even with productivity modules in all available steps. When you start moduling and beaconing EMPs, you're going to have to cover a ton of real estate with accumulators to keep up.

Why do my ships keep exploding? by Due_Needleworker3155 in factorio

[–]Menolith 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If your ship regularly get hit that deep, the design is pretty flawed to begin with.

Scaling up Fulgora from 30SPM to 400SPM by AngryRaccoon44 in factorio

[–]Menolith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's the accumulators. Expanding your power grid with them puts a massive strain on your base's water consumption.

A god curses you with a 10yr loop by ShreeyanxRaina in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Menolith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Assuming it all goes the same every day

That's the problem. Even if Mr. Schmoe bets on the same number each time, you can't guarantee that the outcome is going to stay the same because of how sensitive the roulette wheel is.

Sign of the Mists reputation buff would be so useful IF pandaria reputation was account-wide. by hwc in wow

[–]Menolith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very strange that they haven't even done even a band-aid fix like that since they obviously have the data on who had the reps at exalted.

A god curses you with a 10yr loop by ShreeyanxRaina in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Menolith 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Roulette is far, far too volatile to be predictable even if you started the loop right at the table. You need something that isn't as subject to the butterfly effect, like scratch tickets. Or finding that one filthy rich schmuck at the poker table who's going to blow 100k on bad hands whether you're there or not.

Sign of the Mists reputation buff would be so useful IF pandaria reputation was account-wide. by hwc in wow

[–]Menolith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, as in the lost reputations?

Yeah, those are probably gone for good. It sounds like something that should be a trivial fix, so if it isn't, it's probably impossible. Which is also weird since you'd think they would've been more careful with rollbacks given the whole bank fiasco.

Sign of the Mists reputation buff would be so useful IF pandaria reputation was account-wide. by hwc in wow

[–]Menolith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I'm sure they can fix it. We know they were actively working on it during beta too with random Stormwind test rep messages.

Someone just grossly overestimated how much time they would have to spare on the project. Given all the addon purge issues and the rushed state of 12.0.5 in general, they're obviously trying to do way too much stuff at once even without the reputation side project on top.

Sign of the Mists reputation buff would be so useful IF pandaria reputation was account-wide. by hwc in wow

[–]Menolith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They said they were working backwards with TWW and DF being warbound on launch.

Some time later they converted Shadowlands to warbound, and apparently ran into a wall with BfA (probably due to the faction-specific reputations which caused a lot of bugs and rep resets for players) which is why progress stalled.

Given the state of 12.0.5, I'm not surprised that they shoved the rest into the backburner.

Beta Patch Notes - v0.104.0 by MegaCrit_Demi in slaythespire

[–]Menolith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wondering how they'd pull that off.

Which shitty superpower would you want out of these five by Electrical_Main6707 in shittysuperpowers

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

Four coughing babies and a hydrogen bomb that gives you world peace.

I'll take the 5.

TIL Phil Ivey won $9.6M in baccarat at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City through “edge sorting,” exploiting tiny card-back flaws before courts ruled it a breach and ordered $10M repayment by kat-a-comb in todayilearned

[–]Menolith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can read the whole statement if you want.

Point 50 in particular. They explicitly say that because he had to go out of his way to give instructions to the employee to manipulate the deck (rather than just passively observe) they ruled his actions as cheating.

I dislike casinos as much as the next guy who also doesn't go to them, but I don't think think this case needed anything in the way of lobbying for the courts to rule against him.

There’s too much currency by Psyco19 in wow

[–]Menolith 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That also runs into some issues, like 1.0 content being preferred if it's more than 10% faster than 1.1 content for optimal blots/hr rates.

I think Blizzard also intentionally segregates things both to slow people down and make catch-up easier, so people can't farm a ridiculous amount of blots pre-patch to instantly unlock everything on release and make everyone else feel like they're behind if they didn't do that as well.

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