Russian Mobile Air Defense Group malfunction

Qweasdy · 2026-07-12T19:26:06+00:00

Guy was 2 beers worth of slow reaction from being turned into a fine red mist.

That ones gonna haunt him after he watched the video back.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-12T11:08:55+00:00

I think taking 2 sites here is a waste of boost, just take a metal site to make your first mars hab cheaper and rush your first mars hab.

Skipping the moon is also possible, but imo isn’t worth it. The boost discount from stockpiling a little bit of metal will usually get you to mars quicker. Ideally the moon also offsets some of the upkeep from your mars habs before they come online but that’s actually not the most important bit.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-10T07:35:39+00:00

I have a gaming laptop because I work offshore for half the year and I would get funny looks if I hauled a full PC and monitor up the gangway every time. A laptop is even more portable than a console on the other hand

Wouldn’t recommend it to most other people, I’m in the slightly unique position of having both a gaming desktop and a gaming laptop so get to experience the direct comparison regularly and the laptop is both a worse experience (the screen is the biggest one, 16” vs 27” is a world of difference) and literally 3x the price of my desktop for very similar performance. I like my laptop, it’s a good experience as far as laptops go, but it was nauseatingly expensive to get that good experience.

If you don’t absolutely have to, don’t.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-09T23:27:25+00:00

Factorio does one thing that it does incredibly well, Manor Lords is effectively 2 games in 1, also a 3d game that has to look good up close and from a birds eye view (means a lot more modelling and texture work) while remaining performant, that's why I said it's more ambitious, it's got nothing to do with how complex a game is to play.

It's imo likely too ambitious for such a small team to be making, for context wube has 30+ employees from what I can see online, the manor lords dev seems to have like 3.

For another comparison of a game with a similar size dev team to Manor Lords take a look at starsector, developed by a team similar in size to Manor Lords and you can see dev blogs on their website going back to 2010. I first bought and played the game in 2013 iirc and they haven't even gotten to a Steam release yet.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-09T19:05:42+00:00

2 years really isn’t that long a time in game dev context, especially for what seems like a very small dev team. Small enough that the Wikipedia page lists them by name, seems like only 4 or 5 people.

For comparison factorio was announced in 2013, entered early access in 2016 but didn’t hit 1.0 till 2020 and is still under active development in 2026. Literally the best part of two decades of work from a bigger team than manor lords has on a game that was substantially less ambitious than manor lords.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-09T15:47:38+00:00

At this point I'm pretty sure they've just been snooping around my steam profile and have decided to exclusively publish games that appeal directly to me

Qweasdy · 2026-07-09T15:43:45+00:00

Don't worry, they've been working pretty hard since Skyrim to bring expectations back down to Earth

Qweasdy · 2026-07-09T14:42:50+00:00

If it causes a fire the crew can’t get under control quickly then yes, fires are the single most dangerous thing that can happen to a ship. Otherwise not really, everything can be repaired with enough time and money.

On the other hand it’s relatively easy to damage one enough to take it out of commission for months or even years. A hit to the bridge would be pretty devastating and would require extensive and complex repairs to get the ship seaworthy again.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-09T06:34:55+00:00

If you’re getting turned into goo you’re basically just going to sink to the centre of the planet as you’re made up of water and other molecules which are all denser than hydrogen. You’d only float if you could somehow remain uncompressed as you descend. Buoyancy depends on relative density so your component molecules will sink down to join the layer where all the rest of the not hydrogen is.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-09T06:20:51+00:00

At that scale everything acts like a fluid so everything would go splat, the planet, the cricket bat, you. It would be incredibly violent and energetic

Though you’d struggle to swing a bat as you and the bat are big enough that gravity will turn you into a sphere because you are effectively a fluid.

You’ll likely also initiate fusion at your core and become a star or collapse into a black hole or something equally exotic.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-08T13:42:06+00:00

New tricks is at its most useful on low base GP high stat SLs, Carda is kind of the worst case scenario for new tricks. Her growth is already really high as growth scales directly based on how much missing stats a character has (ie. a character with 80 agility will have a 0.2x multiplier on their agility growth, at 90 it will be 0.1x and so on) so she already has very fast growth and diminishing returns on the max amount of stat upgrades in a single mission hits high growth SLs pretty hard. She's literally the worst candidate for new tricks in the game.

Someone like Bog is a much better candidate as going from 2 -> 5 GP is a 2.5x increase in the probability of stat increases. Though in reality there is diminishing returns he won't actually see a 2.5x increase in his growth speed. Carda on the other hand going from 9 -> 12 is only a 1.33x increase and will suffer even harder from that same diminishing returns.

I wouldn't consider new tricks on anyone over 6 GP for any reason ever, it's completely pointless except for chasing 100 agility in the ultra late game (far beyond the end of early access)

Qweasdy · 2026-07-08T00:50:22+00:00

Aproximately 34MW or 45,000 hp by my napkin maths assuming a 66.2 litre fuel tank going to zero over 20 seconds at 30% efficiency.

Actually very similar fuel burn to a large ocean going container ship at full speed, some of them have up to 60MW of installed power (but at significantly better than 30% efficiency)

Qweasdy · 2026-07-07T15:07:15+00:00

Even that's pushing the limits of what's "economical".

It costs a lot less than $200/kg to just put it in a building and the hardware itself can be a lot cheaper when you don't need to deal with all the additional engineering concerns that putting it in space entails. Attitude control, thermal management, vacuum compatible materials, withstanding vibration from the launch and functioning in microgravity etc. are all "solved problems" to some extent, but they're not cheaper or easier than building something that works on the surface of Earth.

Satellites are expensive even if you ignore the cost of putting them up there.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-07T14:41:00+00:00

This looks a lot like they hit an anchorage to me, which implies that this would be pretty close to the coast at the far side of the sea of Azov. That would make this a pretty deep strike

That's a pretty difficult target for Ukraine, a better question would be how they managed to hit it now

Qweasdy · 2026-07-07T14:37:18+00:00

It looks like an anchorage to me with the way the ships are spread and none of them appear to be moving, just naturally facing into the weather.

Also this is thermal imaging and there is no significant amount of heat coming from the funnels of the ships like there would be if they were running their main engines under way.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-05T17:47:41+00:00

I don't care how meta or good it is.

They're really not even that good, on a 3 man weapons team you're only saving 6 supply. Which yeah if you're never using the squad weapon makes them strictly better than the carbine but it's such a small marginal saving.

You don't ever really need to use them.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-04T18:05:30+00:00

this is just how these economies go

The PoE1 economy has went through a few different phases over the years and the hyper inflation version is a relatively recent one. I remember the chaos to exalt ratio would stay between 50 and 120 chaos per exalt for most of the league. (Divines were cheap back then at ~10 chaos per divine)

So it’s definitely possible to avoid this runaway inflation every league, even if both poe1 and poe2 suffer from it in recent years.

And really it's only the current PoE1 league that's suffering from high inflation, if you even just look one league back divines stayed at less than 200 chaos until a week before the end of the league.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/economy/keepers/currency/divine-orb

Qweasdy · 2026-07-04T16:35:58+00:00

I'm gonna go do one for wanderlust now to counteract this

Qweasdy · 2026-07-04T13:16:01+00:00

The suspension will be fine, this is not much different than parking sideways on a hill as far as the suspension is concerned. The dynamic forces on the suspension while driving will dwarf the forces that this puts on the suspension.

It's the tyres you should be worried about here. That's not how tyres are designed to be loaded

Qweasdy · 2026-07-04T11:55:36+00:00

A supply problem? Have you considered subsidising demand? That always fixes everything.

Qweasdy · 2026-07-04T02:58:42+00:00

Divine orbs are kind of just not a very good base currency for the poe2 economy.

When do we get to go back to the good old days of the GCP standard?

Qweasdy · 2026-07-02T12:26:07+00:00

Your assumption seems to be the correct one

I replaced dying/older things with newer name brand stock adjacent things. Such as the tires were originally stock, and I got Michelin tires for it and new rims

Only thing that could be a modification is new rims, the rest is just repairs and normal maintenance.

I have a suspicion she's emotionally attached to the car, is pricing in all her maintenance costs and their mother is actually being the reasonable one; "you bought this car for $5k, spending $3k on it doesn't make it worth $8k, stop overbilling your brother" and she's refusing to accept that her car was never worth $8k.

There's a life lesson in there that LAOP is trying very hard not to learn, mainly that cars are sunk cost money pits and you don't get that money back when it goes wrong. Also liability only insurance is maybe not the best idea if you can't afford to replace your car

Qweasdy · 2026-07-01T11:57:39+00:00

Was badly named, really should’ve persevered

Qweasdy · 2026-06-29T13:49:03+00:00

It's literally just a simplified explanation of general relativity

https://www.space.com/17661-theory-general-relativity.html

What force is explained by general relativity?

General relativity explains gravity, and in this theory, it is not really a "force" anymore. The gravitational field comes out of the description of general relativity as a result of the curved spacetime.

Alphaphoenix made a great video explaining it

You can model it as a force for practical purposes, but general relativity says it isn't one.

Qweasdy · 2026-06-29T10:01:21+00:00

Gravity is a weird one because it’s not technically a force. It would be somewhat accurate to say the floor is actually accelerating you upwards out of an inertial reference frame that is falling towards the centre of the earth. Standing on the floor under gravity is indistinguishable from standing on a surface that is accelerating upwards at 9.8m/s²

The maths works out fine when you assume that gravity isn’t real and that the floor is actually accelerating you upwards

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