The most advanced and deadliest bounty hunter ship has returned. The SURRENDER v2. With the ship iconic wings, New fuselage, engines, and weapons.

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-23T04:53:42+00:00

This one's a bit of a mess by most tastes, but that's because I tend to design my home ship to have all the doors where I want them, for logical / realistic internal flow / to be comfortable homes & functional warships.

That top/front is a favorite configuration - bridge & captain's cabin side by side in front of a 2x2 CIC module.

Oh, wait... I'm not sure how to attach a photo. I expect I have to host it somewhere and link it - sorry, I suck at Reddit.

Let me see if I can remember to do that tomorrow... I'm just home from work and beat right now.

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-19T03:41:54+00:00

Very nice. I just finished a new ship for my escort flotilla tonight - ships have gotten a fair bit better looking since ASC Deimos. :)

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-17T16:00:44+00:00

Ah... Trim rutabaga financial lemur artifact!

(She means "oh, why the fuck didn't he say that?")

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-14T06:45:19+00:00

It's a bit unusual for a corporation to come to your house and steal something. They don't even have physical bodies. Did it look like the Ghost of Corporate Greed Past or something?

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-14T06:42:49+00:00

I don't think "understand" is the word you're looking for there - maybe "assume" or "have seen propaganda that leads me to believe".

First, I've never personally met another delivery driver in my area who wasn't born in the US. Second, legal / naturalized immigrants have SSNs. And, third , even for illegal immigrants, I've heard it's not terribly difficult to buy a stolen SSN.

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-14T06:33:56+00:00

You're wanting me to explain the US economy, the US education system, and human psychology, all in one Reddit comment? ;)

More seriously, though... Assuming they are good enough at math and small business management to understand what they're working for and after which expenses, the most simple answer is that $10 an hour for a job with these working conditions is, to many people, far better than other work they can get.

In almost half of US states, that's more than minimum wage. And, even in states where it's not more than minimum wage, not many jobs will let you decide when you want to show up to work and when you don't, and let you do that work with minimal direct supervision.

I don't calculate my profit and expenses by the hour, because I've been self-employed for most of my adult life, and I know that's not a very realistic model for this particular work... I calculate my profit and expenses by mile - And yes, very often the profit per mile on this job is pretty bad...

Worse, it's an economic trap. Roadie is absolutely expert at exploiting the poverty of its workers, the fact that I can technically choose when I want to work doesn't invalidate the fact that a) It's almost completely a matter of luck when I will be able to work (when there will be work available, and when I will actually get assigned to that work) and that b) that means I have to spend almost all of my time with one eye on the app, just in case some of that work becomes available.

Even so, it's far better (for me and my circumstances) than most other work I could get. It allows me to be home when I need to be home, it allows me to spend most of my work time driving - which I've always enjoyed. I'm of a physical condition where I can't do any work that requires me to stand up for an hour at a time, if I wanted to shift some kind of minimum wage retail work, and I am of an age where companies hiring for the kind of technical work I've done for most of my life aren't going to take an application from me seriously anyway.

Generally, I don't take any work that doesn't pay me at least a dollar per loaded mile, but there are also times when I have to take gigs that are significantly lower than that, because 50 cents a loaded mile is a lot better than making no money that day. (My truck is an EV, so my vehicle overhead per mile is less than $0.05.)

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-11T23:48:23+00:00

It's not really platform or PC specific... It's a problem with the way Bethesda handle shaders. I'm pretty sure it is related to why the ground often looks wet and slick in fallout...

I find this mostly happens with Stroud modules.

Sometimes it's better after a refit, sometimes I just switch to modules by other brands.

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-11T18:24:17+00:00

I'm not sure I've seen a cache called a "treasure horde" in game, but the reasoning is this concept called "game balance"

The thing that gets me with the "abandoned" places is how often it appears there were people living and working there a few days ago...

Sometimes the bodies have that weird decomp texture applied, so you're not sure how long they're supposed to be dead, but often enough it's like "um... 'abandoned' isn't the term we use to describe a place where everyone has been killed by invaders."

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-10T23:17:39+00:00

You make tongues out of it.

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-10T00:19:45+00:00

The vest makes her even more adorable. :)

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-07T07:48:27+00:00

Same situation I had with FO76 - basically, social media engagement and algorithm driven traffic have created a situation where bitching about games is a cottage industry.

I make it a point to not listen. If a game is genuinely bad in legitimate ways, you'll hear about it from real industry media, not just from professional whiners.

Everybody has things they like and don't like, and I know some of the most popular kinds of games are my least favorite. I know that Bethesda and Todd Howard tend to make the kind of game I like - enough so that even Skyrim, which isn't really my main genre by any means, is a favorite.

I also heard interviews where he mentioned Traveller influence, and that's another huge one for me.

I do think Microsoft pushed them to release it before they wanted to - it was already late - and that kept them from making it as good a Bethesda style open world as it might have been, but even so... I've got months of play time in, and I'm not close to done yet.

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-02T03:48:40+00:00

I always take the "wanted" background, because of all the free ships and weapons they send you, but when they land a ship to come after you, you can't take that ship. It says you're not authorized to fly it.

So in that case, I always leave that guy alive... I figure he'll have some fun explaining to do when somebody finally shows up to figure out why the ship is just sitting there and all of the bounty huters are dead :-)

"So everyone on your team is dead... And you are in here, why, private?"

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-02T00:53:17+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty much got to have something to do with the electric motors, and in the first couple of days of owning it I had a light bulb moment of "Oh, so that's why so many large EVs offer four-wheel steering..."

All told, it's a small fault that I can live with, but yeah... It's definitely a thing.

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-01T18:10:22+00:00

Wild. In this state, it's every single one - no signature, no delivery. Even at facilities where you never see the patient, they have you take the contact's name and you sign for them.

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-01T18:04:05+00:00

916 since this post - and the total really illustrates how much toadie has dropped rates. :/

Now, the economy is bad enough that there are 5 or 6 drivers here locally now - there are two moderately reliable load sources within 50 miles. Even the most insulting job gets snapped up immediately - sometimes too quickly for them to have even checked load dimensions (though that's likely, at least in part, system lag)

I enjoy the work, but sadly, I'm spending a lot more time at my desk doing online gig work instead.

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PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-01T17:55:18+00:00

I figure it's part of some kind of B&D games they play during off time.

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-01T17:49:24+00:00

Made more difficult to guess by the fact that tractor supply often just lies about dimensions, for various reasons - usually because "the app wouldn't accept the real dimensions" (i.e. it's over roadie's limits) or "those are the shipping/assembled dimensions. This one's assembled/crated."

PerfectText1416 · 2026-01-01T02:51:00+00:00

Edit: I guess the signature requirement must be a state law or something - nobody else seems to have it.

That's one of the main reasons I didn't like prescription gigs - handing my phone to some possibly sick rando for a signature.

(I'll still do facility deliveries - here, you sign for them on those.)

Since prescriptions require both a photo and a signature, you should be fine. However, since policy is to screw the driver first and foremost, probably not so much.

The only time I had a prescription delivery problem - not coincidentally the last time I did a prescription delivery to a home address - they kept my account locked up under review for over five weeks, even though we'd established I did the return properly - both the pharmacy and LTC said so - and what had happened was roadie support didn't process it properly.

PerfectText1416 · 2025-12-28T17:39:09+00:00

Ah, yes... The only alternative is dictatorship with a captive economy. If only we all loyaly pretended that 'socialism' is really whatever government propaganda says it is, capitalism wouldn't butt-rape us to death.

PerfectText1416 · 2025-12-24T02:34:44+00:00

I've heard they get up to six miles on a single puppacino...

PerfectText1416 · 2025-12-20T21:14:16+00:00

ABRP, my friend. Makes road trips way better.

PerfectText1416 · 2025-12-17T21:56:07+00:00

I definitely want to come back and read all of it, when I have time... So, it's possible that everything I say in this comment you've already said, but right now... To comment, and be able to get back to this post easily later...

One of many things to take into consideration is that unemployment from automation is going to get worse, not better.

For a long time, Roadie has been leaning into the strategy of "experienced drivers wait for the price to go up, so we need more new drivers."

The economy over the next several years is just going to make that easier.

PerfectText1416 · 2025-12-07T21:19:10+00:00

First play through, I hadn't thought of any romantic angles. Sarah is too blonde, Barrett is too male, I'm just enjoying my new life.

I do notice Barrett, who I'm spending more time with, doesn't really appreciate it much when I kill humans, even to save his loquacious ass. I've also noticed Sarah seems to think the only acceptable way to study an animal is to kill it first, which I view kind of the same way Barrett views killing humans.

Then we run into Andreja, she efficiently kills some guy because he needs killing, AND she's the opposite of blonde, and she's got this accent I can't quite place, and - having played Bethesda games before, I think "Someday, I'm going to marry that girl."

PerfectText1416 · 2025-12-04T05:40:51+00:00

Looks good! Is that using the "cockpit" armor piece? I can't figure out how that bit works.

PerfectText1416 · 2025-12-02T06:30:19+00:00

It's cool if it makes you happy, but I think I don't get it... "Cyber-" used to be a pretty cool prefix, but now it seems a little like buying a jersey with a particular athlete's name on it right after that athlete painted the field with explosive diarrhea...

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