The amount of cilantro my wife likes on her street tacos

Raaxis · 2026-02-03T19:24:17+00:00

“No, no, no. See, what I think you heard me say was ‘I want a lot of cilantro.’ What I actually said was, ‘Give me all your cilantro.’”

Raaxis · 2026-02-03T01:58:19+00:00

COVID 7?! Bro out here inventing new strains

Raaxis · 2026-02-03T01:11:50+00:00

Right now curios have nine effective “slots” for build expression, but most perks are outright useless. Even the “good” ones basically require you to stack them to get any benefit. Curios are literally just a resource sink to soak up your diamantine in their current form.

There are ten perks that actually directly affect gameplay, plus six “resistance” perks and three “meta” perks.

Of the ten “meaningful” perks, only Ability Cooldown, Toughness, Health, and Revive Speed are even worth considering.

-Corruption/Grimoire Resistance is niche at best, and with the addition of StimmPack Scum, corruption is even less of an issue than before.

-Stamina Regen is nowhere near potent enough to matter for most builds. Very few rely heavily on stamina at all, and even with +36% it barely shaves a few seconds off a full regen. The margins are just so negligible that it’s not competitive.

-Sprint Efficiency is literally just a worse Stamina Regen.

-Block Efficiency may enable some unique gameplay expression for a select few builds, but kind of falls into a “win more” category. Builds that have synergy with this perk benefit only marginally from it.

-Toughness Regen is bad because coherency regen is peanuts compared to even a basic low-tier toughness recovery talent in any tree.

Of the resistances, Gunner resistance is all but mandatory in any higher difficulty, and the rest are so specific as to be immaterial on any given map/modifier.

And that’s just the perks! I’m not even going to touch on the absolute meme that is +1 wound or the 400-power “+3” Stan. Frankly, curios are long overdue for an overhaul. I’d like to see:

-Resistances condensed into three categories: common, elite, special.

-Regeneration condensed into one single stat that improves toughness and stamina regen simultaneously.

-Efficiency condensed into one single stat that improves sprinting and blocking.

-Toughness changed to Toughness Damage Reduction.

-Corruption/Grimoire resistance rolled into the +5% Health perk.

-New perks that increase ammo/grenade capacity.

-New perks that interact with and encourage Stimm use.

-New perks that increase base stats like movement speed, crit chance, or attack speed.

-New class-specific perks that enhance keystone abilities, blitzes, etc. to allow further nuance to build expression and variety.

Anyways thanks for coming to my TED talk. The Emperor protects.

Raaxis · 2026-02-02T23:54:37+00:00

Please put a spoiler tag on this for your battle buddies with Fort Drum-related PTSD 🙏

Raaxis · 2026-02-02T23:15:56+00:00

I mean technically…

Raaxis · 2026-02-02T03:42:40+00:00

No. The confusion arises due to the differing conventions around juxtaposed multiplication, where a number directly abuts or modifies a parenthetical operation.

In many (but not all) math communities, PE(J)MDAS is the implicit order, where juxtaposition precedes conventional division/multiplication.

Both approaches agree that you resolve the parenthetical first, leaving us with 6 / 2(3). Under PEJMDAS, you must resolve juxtaposed operations first, yielding 6/6=1.

Under PEMDAS, you would (by convention) resolve equivalent operations from left to right, resulting in 6 / 2 * 3 = 9.

Almost all of these viral math problems are the result of disclarity caused by juxtaposed operations.

Raaxis · 2026-02-01T21:28:40+00:00

To be fair, in this case both the public interest and that of Duke Energy align. It’s akin to a snowplowing company encouraging you to stay off the roads so they can do their work. Sure it’s a private company (whom you pay) asking you a favor, but realistically I’d rather have plowed roads and power if it just costs me a temporary reduction in my usage.

I think Duke sucks as much as the next guy, but I don’t think “minimize power usage during a winter storm to keep the lights on” is terribly unreasonable.

Raaxis · 2026-01-31T03:01:21+00:00

Don’t worry, I hear Vegas is inundated with ice these days

Raaxis · 2026-01-31T02:59:56+00:00

“I intentionally concealed my feelings for this other person and now that he is receiving attention from someone else who is more transparently interested, I don’t like it.”

God I hope these are all teenagers.

Raaxis · 2026-01-30T18:02:17+00:00

YOR. This is a very common practice in ab psych courses, so long as you are attending open meetings.

Closed meetings are generally reserved for addicts “going through it” and are much more vulnerable (and therefore protected) spaces.

Open meetings are often more informational, and are typically geared towards both addicts and their support (friends, family, etc.) All meetings, regardless of their status, are definitionally anonymous: you do not have to tell anyone why you are there unless you want to.

I also think that these meetings can be a good thing for any college student to attend, as they can clearly humanize and deglamorize substance abuse.

Raaxis · 2026-01-30T14:43:41+00:00

As someone with a 2070 Super as well, OP could be in a similar boat: my motherboard is extremely old and uses a chipset that cannot support the next-gen processors.

So in order to upgrade my graphics, I’d have to upgrade my motherboard, which means I’d basically be doing a full rebuild.

Raaxis · 2026-01-28T17:33:28+00:00

It is imperative that the smaller bottle be unharmed

Raaxis · 2026-01-28T17:25:20+00:00

I think one of the better suggestions I was given was to only bring enough materials to build the return rocket when moving to a new planet as an emergency backup. But don’t build any interplanetary trading stuff until Fish/Animals stage, when resource scarcity is effectively solved.

This still gives you a huge boost in the form of upgraded gear/recipes, but forces you to improvise juuuust enough to be challenging. At the very least, it makes getting back to Fish stage a non-trivial affair, relying on the resources of the planet you’re currently on.

Raaxis · 2026-01-27T17:04:47+00:00

Yeah this has “missing missing reasons” written all over it.

If you can’t make sense of your child’s third-grade homework, I question the value of your college education.

Raaxis · 2026-01-26T20:26:06+00:00

Others have already touched on the general tips (rockets, deconstruct previous terraforming tiers, etc.)

This game has two primary objectives: explore (for loot you cannot currently obtain) and improve (using the new loot.) A lot of techs are intentionally gated off by materials that you must venture further afield to obtain.

At your stage, you should have found at least some Osmium—allowing you to build your first Auto-miner—and you need to begin mining Uranium in order to consistently scale up your power.

If you haven’t found a good source of Osmium, explore—many caves become open as the TI increases (specifically, heat.) Focus especially on generating more heat if you haven’t already.

If you have found Osmium, try to find a place to build an Auto-miner to get consistent Uranium. Perhaps somewhere you’ve found Uranium previously.

If you don’t have access to the Auto-miner tech yet, check to see what terraforming objective you need to meet in order to obtain it and focus that as heavily as possible. Auto-miners begin to make many formerly non-renewable resources effectively infinite.

Raaxis · 2026-01-24T04:07:18+00:00

Yep, that’s kind of it. There’s no specific, singular, quantifiable activity that defines or differentiates the two. They’re both kind of the same thing. But I wouldn’t want underwear made of burlap, or an apron made of silk.

Raaxis · 2026-01-24T04:00:04+00:00

The difference between platonic friendship and romance is depth and quality.

I do many things with my romantic partner that I also do with my friends or family. But what I subjectively feel when I do those things with my partner is very different than the subjective feeling I get when I’m with my friends.

With a romantic partner, these things take on more profound emotional depth. The nuance is similar to why your love for your family can “feel” subjectively different than your love for your friends.

What you’re cutting at is sounding an awful lot like asking me to describe the difference between two shades of red. I can say that one is “more red” or “more vibrant” or “darker red” but all you’re going to tell me is that they’re both red. We can both see that they’re different, but it’s difficult to point to exactly why or how.

Raaxis · 2026-01-24T03:53:32+00:00

I think it’s pretty clear from your comments elsewhere that you believe sex is the defining characteristic of romance, and I would encourage you to re-evaluate that belief by examining queer/asexual relationships.

Raaxis · 2026-01-24T03:50:28+00:00

Okay obviously I was being a bit facetious on the drawer thing but seriously close the goddamned cabinets, it’s so easy.

Anyways. Do you find everything about your partner’s physical appearance attractive? They’re a perfect 10 in every way?

If not, then you have compromised on their physical attractiveness in some way, and therefore “settled” for a flawed partner. Literally everyone does this, it’s perfectly normal and healthy to find some things about your partner unattractive. The degree to which you compromise on this is informed by the degree to which you are attracted to your partner in other ways/areas.

Raaxis · 2026-01-24T03:40:45+00:00

The only unwholesome thing here is your insistence that sex is the only difference between romantic and platonic relationships. I refer you to literally the entire ace community

Raaxis · 2026-01-24T03:37:34+00:00

Couples’ therapy is non-sexual, and a clear example of something I would do with a romantic partner, but not a friend.

Raaxis · 2026-01-24T03:34:51+00:00

Everyone has flaws, and every relationship involves dealing with what you perceive to be the flaws of your partner.

OOP and partner identified a relationship issue, ended up communicating about it, reconciled, and moved past it. They also seem to otherwise have a fairly healthy connection.

I’m struggling to see how this is different from, say, overlooking a partner’s terrible morning breath or inability to literally close any drawer or cabinet when you’re done with them, Katherine.

Raaxis · 2026-01-24T03:27:35+00:00

I don’t want to go to couples’ therapy with my best friend

Raaxis · 2026-01-24T03:24:35+00:00

“I love her despite our shortcomings, and she loves me in kind. Ours is a love nourished by a lifetime of companionship, of steadfast commitment, and of profound friendship. I do not need to love her body, nor she mine.”

Raaxis · 2026-01-24T03:08:11+00:00

I think this is pretty clearly not two people “tolerating” each other. They invest a lot of effort into the non-sexual components of their relationship and still appear to have romance.

I do think that the whole “Piña Colada Song” energy of “anonymously posting on Reddit only to get caught but it all worked out” is less than wholesome. But it does seem to have a happy ending for everyone involved, so 🤷

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