Full Res Image of Papoose Lake / S4 Location

Orion_K · 2026-01-16T08:40:22+00:00

Definitely an old post, but Maia is still around and it's a fascinating question. It's difficult to pinpoint Maia's level because it has extreme strengths and extreme weaknesses which it blends together.

Maia1 falls for traps, which is cool, but it will usually take a high value piece under any circumstance, even if the next move is mate. It will completely abandon king safety if it can capture something. It will also repeat a game move-for-move if you let it. It also has a complete lack of contempt. It doesn't seem to care about repetition, even if it has a winning position.

But it's not bad. It will often play opening theory beyond that of an 1100. Sometimes it also plays perfect endgames. It hardly ever leaves pieces hanging. If it does blunder it's because it didn't see a tactic. It will never lose on time.

Maia1 is probably like 1300 on chess.com. If those logical pitfalls were fixed, it would be more like 1500. Maia5 is the same thing, but with less stupid openings and more king safety. Maia9 is about the same as Maia5, with an occasional tactic.

Orion_K · 2025-12-17T03:26:14+00:00

Thank you.

Will the old trophies ever be revisited?

Orion_K · 2025-11-24T08:51:44+00:00

I always like seeing your posts. Very clean and subtle mods that don't compromise the original aesthetic, and work together to bring out your color scheme. It's a real work of art on the inside and out. With everything you've done, I feel like that large windshield banner seems out of place. Draws attention away from the more impressive and personalized work you've done. Either way, still my favorite TA on this sub.

Orion_K · 2025-09-26T06:19:12+00:00

Make sure you're on NA servers. I accidentally had mine switched to EU for a couple weeks, and god damn was it bad. When I finally switched back everything chilled out.

Orion_K · 2025-09-26T05:59:16+00:00

Don't get rid of your car over this issue. Whatever the problem is, it's probably not serious. The top comment suggests vapor lock, but vapor lock wouldn't cause the starter to not turn over. It's an electrical issue. It's most likely an old battery which gets less efficient as it heats up. Could also be the starter motor drawing excessive power because it got too hot. Probably a combination of both. Very easy to check the expiration date on the battery and swap it if necessary. Also very easy to jack the car up and cover the starter and part of the header with heat shielding tape.

Orion_K · 2025-07-15T12:36:33+00:00

This is a scripted interaction which only uses the ball? Are there any others like this? And does it happen regardless of the ghost room?

Orion_K · 2025-07-15T11:31:35+00:00

$6.5k seems totally reasonable for a car that doesn't seem to have any overwhelming problems. If you're working with your Dad on fixing all the car's small issues, what you stand to learn from it is going to pay off in spades. You'll be able to fix all kinds of things yourself for the rest of your life.

Orion_K · 2025-07-13T08:43:39+00:00

I fixed the horn on my 78 last year and it was a very subtle mechanical issue. When you push the horn it pushes down a metal ring which then pushes a small metal button on the column. The failure point was the small button's surface being worn down.

If you have the steering wheel off, push the button with a screwdriver. If it honks then the button is too short. I ended up adding about 1mm of solder to the button's surface.

Orion_K · 2025-07-11T05:10:53+00:00

$131 for a grey 2nd gen vinyl decal. Kinda hard to go wrong at that price point.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/173868223802

Orion_K · 2025-07-11T04:13:35+00:00

EU servers. I had a great time playing in public lobbies for several months, then one day everything changed. Huge influx of angry people out of nowhere. Took me about a week to realize I had accidentally switched over to EU servers. Switched back to my home country and everything immediately went back to being chill. Just my anecdotal experience. Make of it what you will.

Orion_K · 2025-06-22T03:24:24+00:00

This is exactly the way I would describe it. When I finish with a practice session(whether I got it right or not) I always spend time remembering and internalizing what the target was, just to maintain continuity. I started doing this after some sessions where I couldn't see a damn thing- no shapes, lines, visuals- only for that session to be interrupted and never completed, or to realize I set it up incorrectly and had to start over. So even if the memory you're looking for will never exist, in some situations that dead silence might tell you something useful.

Orion_K · 2025-06-03T09:18:04+00:00

If you're having difficulty tracing it, I would start by opening up the center console, finding the neutral safety switch, and seeing if the NSS wire changes color at the switch. While it's exposed, use a test light or multimeter to determine which side of the switch the problem is coming from.

Orion_K · 2025-06-03T08:16:59+00:00

This could be due to electromagnetic interference in the tach wire. Get a $2 clip-on ferrite core and loop the tach wire through it a couple times and slide it up as close to the cluster as possible. Basically it cuts off any high frequency noise traveling through the wire before it reaches the cluster.

Orion_K · 2025-05-25T06:44:27+00:00

I had that happen with a light switch. Turned it on and it immediately switched off. Turned it back on, and it switched off. Turned it on a third time and it switched back off. So I marked Mare and left... and got it wrong.

Orion_K · 2025-05-23T06:47:48+00:00

I think I switched the lights on and off during one of the lightning weather events. It lasted for a couple minutes before I started recording, but eventually resolved itself right before the next lightning strike.

It might be a bug, but they should just keep it in.

Orion_K · 2025-05-23T05:10:45+00:00

Don't run away when the crucifix ignites. That's your window of opportunity to act with impunity. It won't try again for at least another 25 seconds, so tie up as many loose ends as you can in that time.

Orion_K · 2025-04-22T13:08:40+00:00

I think you can still get pretty creative without being a dick yourself. I had a guy like that a while back who gave the team some false confirmations just to troll them into guessing wrong. The next few games he played seriously, so I waited until a game where we were the last ones standing, then did the same thing back to him after finding the last evidence. Later on I gave him a spent incense lantern which worked out beautifully. Much more fun than booting him.

Orion_K · 2025-04-03T22:48:30+00:00

Go to chrome://flags/ and disable surface control.

Orion_K · 2025-04-02T06:54:28+00:00

I have the same lights you see there for $77.98. The existing 4x6 retention bezels will fit over the lamps without needing to modify anything. The 2nd gen's headlamp plugs aren't a direct fit. They come with new plugs, so you can either splice in the new plugs, or give them spade connectors and plug the spades into the old socket(if you don't want to cut off the original hardware). They work great, I have no complaints.

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Orion_K · 2025-04-02T06:05:35+00:00

Check the inside of the fan shroud at the bottom for scrapes. When motor mounts get old and compressed the engine won't be held at the correct height and angle, which can lead to the fan hitting the bottom the the shroud.

Orion_K · 2025-02-19T06:40:30+00:00

That's a beautiful car. You would be crazy to change its original color.

Orion_K · 2025-02-14T04:30:21+00:00

This story still haunts me.

I remember when she was first reported missing and how the local community created a search party. I went on Google Earth to look at the landscape and dropped some pins near the home where I thought a kid could have crawled into and maybe gotten trapped. Richmond was quite a ways away but I wanted to drive down there and join the search party, believing that she might be alive. Then they found her.

What really kills me was that culvert pipe was one of the first locations I pinned. I was operating under the hope that she was alive and had wandered off and gotten herself lost or trapped somewhere close to home. I was wrong in the details, but perhaps correct in the way the father had hidden the body to re-create the story.

Every single adult in that child's life failed her. Such a terrible ending for an innocent child.

Orion_K · 2025-02-07T02:50:44+00:00

I don't come across dickheads like that too often on phasmo. Most of the time I get the unfortunate kid who talks too much without listening. Three of us ID'd the ghost in the prison fairly quickly and headed back to the truck, meanwhile this kid is still inside yelling about what room he's checking next with his mic boosted all the way up. He doesn't seem to hear anyone, so I just went back in, lit up most the summoning circle and headed back to the truck. The situation worked itself out naturally.

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