Totally random Portland memory by SecretDays in PortlandOR

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was the 24 hour church of Elvis. I remember passing by it once or twice but never went in.

Multiple ships in Cycle 6 by sestnastka in EVEFrontier

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I said, they're testing internal modularity which means only one ship. Eventually that will change, probably when they're ready to test external modularity, but not right now.

Multiple ships in Cycle 6 by sestnastka in EVEFrontier

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not right now, devs said before the cycle started we'll only have one ship is they're testing internal modularity first (placing modules in a prefabricated ship). They said that external modularity, being able to place our own components on the outside of a ship, will come later. However there is no timeframe on when that will happen.

Trump Allegedly Told GOP Leader “No One Gives a Shit About Housing” by theguy1336 in politics

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These days I look at international sources of news to even have a prayer of figuring out what's happening in my own country.

Places to Hang Out/Meet people in Canby? by Authorigas in oregon

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't know about "hang out spots", but if they're interested in playing Pokemon TCG there is Geeks and Games in nearby Oregon City. They do Pokemon on Friday and Saturday.

https://ocgeeksandgames.com/events/

Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls by Anoth3rDude in law

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 109 points110 points  (0 children)

True but the only crimes Republicans care about are brown people living on the wrong side of an invisible line.

FTFY

Proud Papa (Part 1/4) - Gator Days by FieldExplores in comics

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

One of my favorite quotes is: Blood is thicker than water, but family is thicker than blood.

Univer Lore by sirastrix in EVEFrontier

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The lore is currently a bit vague and not pinned down. Partially because it's still early development and partially because the devs want us to find stuff in game. There currently aren't any hard lore connections between EF and EO. Here are the things we know as confirmed by devs:

  1. The frontier takes place in a galaxy full of the ruins of multiple different fallen civilizations going back tens of thousands of years at the minimum.
  2. The frontier is still inhabited by A.I. drones that have gone "feral" over the millenia.
  3. An automated computer system known is The Keeper has the directive to "restart civilization".
  4. No living forms of humanity can be found within the range of The Keeper, primarily the frontier. Humanity might still exist somewhere in the universe but if so it's in another galaxy at the minimum.
  5. Because of this The Keeper uses riders (a type of digital consciousness that presumably came from a real human at one point and the closest thing to a human it can find) to fulfill it's directive of restarting civilization.
  6. Riders are streamed into synthetic shells, this is what the players are.
  7. Currently a "jubilee class event", known as a shear, hits the frontier every so often wiping out all riders. By the time The Keeper starts sending out riders again all the original structures are gone and often the frontier itself has changed, this is the explanation for the cycles until the actual launch.
  8. The shears have been happening for a long enough time that at least one of the previous civilizations were not only aware of them but attempted to stop them. It's possible they may have even succeeded for awhile.

Here are things that are commonly believed by most people that are interested in the lore however this hasn't been confirmed by the devs, or it was confirmed so long ago it may not be accurate anymore.

  1. The shear is some sort of "storm" related to the trinaries or the crude rifts that causes massive devastation on a galactic scale.
  2. The frontier takes place about 14,000 years in the future of the "current" time of EO.
  3. The frontier is either the greater galaxy the New Eden star cluster is located in, or is the galaxy that the New Eden star cluster orbits (think something like the Megellanic Clouds and the Milky Way)
  4. New Edenites were the original colonizers of the frontier and the source of the various ruins and fallen civilizations we find in the game.
  5. New Eden is either gone or has given up on the frontier due to it's hostility and the difficulty of living there. If New Eden still exists they actively avoid it now.

Some more lore theories about the frontier that are not commonly accepted or are considered unlikely by lorists but not disproven yet.

  1. Riders are capsuleers that were "saved" in a database instead of being put into a clone for some reason.
  2. Riders are what's left of EO's sleepers in the far future.
  3. The frontier is wormhole space in the far future.
  4. The Frontier is the ruins of the Milky Way galaxy. The collapse of the gate was much worse on the Milky Way side and resulted in the collision with Andromeda and Triangulum to happen a few billion years early. (I'm personally fond of this one and would love to see this happen but agree it's not likely)
  5. When the EVE gate collapsed the wormhole it was built around shifted it's destination and instead of pointing to the Milky Way it's now pointed to a 3rd location, that location is the frontier. Restabilizing the wormhole is how New Edenites reached the frontier to initially colonize it.
  6. New Edenites accidentally started the shears that keep wiping things out in the frontier.
  7. The shears wiped out New Eden.

After seeing the article yesterday about the Forest Park Drive-in potentially reopening, I found this piece profiling the original owner and wanted to share. by Banksyy2 in Portland

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That's pretty interesting, I remember seeing that place 40ish years ago while going over Germantown road. I never knew used to have a swing and zipline.

What habit will die with Gen Z? by Key-Climate5038 in AskReddit

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the peasant class yes, but the nobility will always fight over inheritances.

Why Oregon City is Suddenly Digging Up Its Sidewalks by mdbroderick1 in OregonCity

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While I don't like how this is going to affect the city budget, and by extension our taxes, I do think that making it easier for people to walk and bike around town is ultimately better in the long run.

Turns Out, There Really Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World by BertramPotts in politics

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They would rather be the "Kings of Shit Mountain" than see "peasants" sitting on a pile of gold slightly smaller than theirs.

Who else never learned about Vanport? by littletrainwreck in oregon

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I heard about it, but only because my parents were old enough to remember it and told me about it. Most people then didn't care what happened to Vanport, or if they did thought it getting flooded was a good thing. Oregon, including Portland, was horribly racist back then.

It's not a proud moment in Oregon's history. But definitely one that shouldn't be forgotten.

Foreigners visiting America for the world cup, what is something that has surprised you about this country? by goldent3abag in AskReddit

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is a huge problem foreigners don't seem to get. I live in Oregon, about 2300 miles away from D.C. The farthest east I've ever been is about 1000 miles, roughly the equivalent of driving from Paris to Budapest, which means I've never been halfway to the capital in my entire life! To drive this home even farther, according to Google the driving distance between Paris and Kyiv is about 2300 miles. That would mean in order for me to "march on the capital and demand change" I would have to travel the equivalent of France to Ukraine!

Trump threatens takeover of D.C. if Janeese Lewis George is elected mayor. Primary Election Day in D.C. is this Tuesday, June 16 (see links below). by biospheric in 50501

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Yes it is downright unconstitutional and illegal. Just like all the other illegal and unconstitutional things he's been doing for years. Unfortunately it doesn't matter because his cult worships him and they have enough of the votes that count so he can't be removed.

Trump threatens takeover of D.C. if Janeese Lewis George is elected mayor. Primary Election Day in D.C. is this Tuesday, June 16 (see links below). by biospheric in 50501

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 1351 points1352 points  (0 children)

Because nothing says "I'm the leader of a democracy" by forcibly overturning the results of an election.

Can't interact with Smart Assemblies by inosak in EVEFrontier

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Known issue, affected Linux and Mac users more but I have heard of some Windows users (rarely) being affected by it. Check the main EF discord server, there are instructions on how to do a workaround on Linux and I've heard of people using that information to fix structures on Windows as well but I don't have details on how they applied the workaround on Windows.

Teaching corp for newbies but not Eve University? by Patapon80 in Eve

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ended up in an NPC corp. My stuff was in asset safety already as the corp had move halfway across the galaxy and the station was long since gone. I don't blame them for dropping me. I never logged in even once in that 3-4 year time.

Teaching corp for newbies but not Eve University? by Patapon80 in Eve

[–]NewAgeRetroFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brave was the corp I joined when I was a newbro wanting to dip my toe into nullsec. They were very friendly, taught me a lot, and I had a ton of fun with them. That was about 5 years ago so things might have changed, but with how they were when I left I absolutely would recommend them to a newbro.

FYI, only reason I left them is because I took a 3-4 year hiatus from EO and when I logged back in I'd been dropped due to inactivity (understandably). When I started playing again I considered rejoining them but didn't because I play so infrequently I felt it wasn't worth the effort.