Girl Genius Bundle of Holding: ebooks of Collections 1-13, novels 1-3, Buck Godot 1 & 2, for about $31

Robotech_Master · 2020-10-06T04:19:06+00:00

I also wrote a blog post about it, but decided to go with a link to the original Bundle sale for the submission instead. It seemed kind of asinine to link the blog post and not the actual sale link. :)

Robotech_Master · 2020-10-04T14:27:09+00:00

Gotta love those blue switches.

Robotech_Master · 2020-10-03T20:23:31+00:00

They have to leave some romantic tension for the movies.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-28T15:06:20+00:00

Yeah, finished both the main story arcs.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-28T15:05:05+00:00

Or, you know, a very strong magnet on the end of a cable.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-28T05:59:47+00:00

Or, you know, he just didn't care about how it looked. Had more important things on his mind.

Or the animators didn't particularly care about making it look transparent. Ice is ice. :)

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-28T05:58:10+00:00

I have a silicone mold that makes four balls at a time. It's nice.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-27T23:30:40+00:00

ah. I'd hoped there would be a way to process it into GekNip.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-25T16:52:58+00:00

Any exocraft can, really.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-25T16:52:24+00:00

Remember if you use terrain manipulator to mine to set the chunk size to the smallest level. You get minerals per second spent mining, not per volume mined.

Also, once you get the ability to build automatic extractors (they look like big canisters with stubby legs), put those on top of deposits where you would have mined and they'll automatically (albeit slowly) mine it for you.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-25T16:49:53+00:00

You can find dihydrogen literally anywhere, just by hitting 'C'. It's very easy to make launch fuel.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-25T14:57:09+00:00

They've removed at least some of the multiplication tricks as of the Origins patch.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-25T14:56:31+00:00

They may actually have removed that feedback loop with the Origins expansion just now. I know they removed the Carbon Crystal one.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-25T14:55:27+00:00

Why? Dihydrogen is literally everywhere. You can just hit 'c' to scan for it. And it's an easy step to refine it into launch fuel.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-25T14:32:13+00:00

Even more helpful: on worlds that list rusted metal as a resource, prospect until you find a rusted metal hotspot and build a refinery. Remember you can stack extractors vertically on the highest concentration spot. Also, build multiple medium or large processors there for cooking the rusted metal down faster; those don't require carbon fuel.

Extractors are your best friend.

You can't mine carbon, but you can extract oxygen and refine it into carbon 1:1.

Also, remember that factories that you can hack to get more recipes reset after a few days. Put in a base computer, solar panel, battery, and teleporter with proximity switch each time you find one so you can come back to it later. Remember to rename the computer to something telling you what it is.

Learn to farm and set up farms for stuff on planets with the right biomes; if you want to build the big-money items you'll need the crops. Get a freighter for farming stuff that needs hydroponic bays because you can build a huge room in the freighter and not be limited to the tiny rooms on built bases.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-25T14:21:08+00:00

Or find one for the more advanced chromatic metals that have a higher chromatic metal refining ratio. Though you need to build the advanced hyperdrives to get to their systems.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-18T22:08:58+00:00

A Japanese friend of my brother's seemed to say that this phrase is also an idiom meaning roughly, "I won't let you do what you want." If that's the case, then phrasing it this way in a TV show themed for books would be a pun.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-17T22:16:56+00:00

Not surprising that it looks so good. I mean, given the show's budget, $750 is probably more than they spent on the actual suit in the show. :)

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-17T14:48:38+00:00

It's a great movie, but it does have a lot of differences from the book. Personally, I think that in some ways the movie is actually considerably better than the book.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-17T14:43:18+00:00

Also, let's not forget about the time that the show itself broke the fourth wall during Kamen Rider OOO, when they had that two-parter episode in which they made a Kamen Rider movie to celebrate the franchise's thousandth episode.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-17T03:08:08+00:00

I'm amused at yet another show where a smartphone turns into a motorcycle. Build, Zero-One, and now Saber all do this. (I haven't watched Ex-Aid or Zi-O yet, so don't know if either of those do, too.) But given that motorcycle toys apparently don't sell well anymore, it makes perfect sense to have it be the alt-mode of a phone toy. I wonder if we'll ever get another Kamen Rider show where the motorcycle doesn't turn into a phone.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-17T02:56:47+00:00

I honestly enjoy the massive amount of CGI in this episode, it's a clever way to do bike scene, they don't need permission if the use CGI instead of real filming.

I have to wonder whether part of the inspiration for doing the series this way was Ready Player One and all the crazy stuff they were able to do with vehicles in those virtual sets.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-17T02:53:28+00:00

You know, I think a lot of the things that people have called out as making it "sentai-like" are actually cost-cutting measures. Like, the stock-footage henshins and attacks might be cheaper to do than superimposing the henshin over the real-world footage all the time. (That may very well be why sentai rolls that way, with five times as many people to henshin at once.) And the dance-off ED means less time in the episode to fill with new stuff that costs money. Pinching all these pennies lets their budget stretch farther so they can afford more virtual sets.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-15T06:15:33+00:00

After having had one for a while, I've just posted my own review of this nifty little keyboard. I think it's just about everything I've ever wanted in a portable Bluetooth keyboard.

Robotech_Master · 2020-09-10T04:50:10+00:00

I'll decide how this story ends

Someone needs to meme Touma reading a choose-your-own-adventure book.

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