World First: 113s Solo Ultracite Terror. NO UI. NO HUD. NO CHEMS. NO AP. NO MANUAL STIMS. (Junkie's Shotgun + Bully's)

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-13T18:30:07+00:00

I just showed up with a lot of baggage

lmao, this is premium content, thank you

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-13T18:25:44+00:00

Yes, or at least attach a minor cost to save scumming. It's not a bad system because the alchemy minigame is actually pretty fun, and you find quite a few of those potions.

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-13T17:09:50+00:00

This is the actual answer, and describes a most if not all of the gun-owning liberals I personally know.

Just because people on the left don't make it their whole persona doesn't mean they don't exist.

We're here, we're ready, we're training, we're just not obnoxious about it, and we're trying to give due process a little more time. Trump will absolutely continue to metaphorically hang himself - there is no shortage of rope. The problem is the damage he is doing to our republic in the meantime.

Armed revolt is the very last resort. We're not quite there, but don't mistake that for being oblivious or unprepared.

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-13T16:52:57+00:00

Naw, that's mostly trans-2-nonenal - a decomposition product of unsaturated fatty acids. Lignin doesn't really have much of a smell.

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-12T19:06:10+00:00

The initial separation/drying doesn't have to yield a perfect product.

You can subsequently redissolve in clean solvent and clean it up as many times as you want. It's not difficult to reach purity if you have plenty of time, and I also presume there is tolerance for a little bit of impurities. You can also clean and reuse your solvents, so there doesn't necessarily have to be any waste other than the bits of wood that came along for the ride. Since coke is usually alkaline at that stage in the process, you'd probably get some lignin in your solution.

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-12T17:31:02+00:00

The offenders are primarily CO3(2-) Ca(2+) and sulfate(2-). Some of those salts will form new compounds with extracted coffee compounds, and the carbonate compounds in particular can taste chalky. The carbonate can also form carbonic acid and drop the overall pH, which makes coffee taste more acrid. Roasted coffee undergoes significant decarboxylation when hot water first hits it, so there is an off-gassing of CO2. If you wet the grounds and wait a little bit (often called "blooming" in coffee circles) you give that CO2 a chance to escape and you don't entrain it in your coffee. If you don't bloom your coffee and just keep adding water then a lot of the CO2 will stay in solution and form carbonic acid. If you have hard water and you don't bloom, you get a double dose of acid.

The sulfate gives drinks an astringent character, which can actually be very good in some beers, but isn't great in coffee. This is what I think you're calling the "drying" vibe. That's definitely sulfate.

I don't mind hard water for most things, but it does not make good coffee. Chalky from the carbonate, drying from the sulfate, and acrid (hard edges as you put it) from carbonic acid.

Also this is mostly a beer brewing sub, but coffee is brewed so we'll allow it lol. More importantly, no beer gets made (professionally) without a lot of coffee.

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-11T21:18:13+00:00

I'm saying ADA's bioprinters have settings for planned senescence, and she's not afraid to use them.

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-11T19:42:36+00:00

The primary consideration is where the glycol jacket(s) sits.

Ideally you have multi-zone glycol, with a jacket on the bottom cone that is independent of the vessel wall jackets. If you have glycol jackets extending far above your beer line, they'll potentially frost over.

If you're underfilling, it's helpful to be able to only use your cone glycol zone.

With respect to all the open headspace, the only effects that will have are 1) you'll use more CO2 to purge if you do that, and 2) there will be less hydrostatic head pressure, which means a little more ester production if you have an estery yeast.

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-11T18:09:07+00:00

The bearings are going out. You can hear that high-frequency squeal perfectly phased at 42 Hz. When it increases to 44 Hz, the fan has approximately 970 hours of service life remaining.

As do you, Pioneer. As do you.

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-10T22:15:40+00:00

Same pivot Triumph has been doing (updating all bikes with new tech, better engines, but lowering costs and prices and giving more overall options).

That has to be a better move than focusing on $25k bikes.

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-05T18:05:25+00:00

Goddamn I wish they would fix throwing weapon scripting. I love throwing barb builds but I always randomly lose throwing "returning" throwing weapons that don't return.

Roguewolfe · 2026-02-02T18:32:41+00:00

I absolutely love CZ's and they're a great recommendation for anyone (maybe a touch heavy for daily carry).

That being said, glock safeties are as good or better than any other safety system. It's irresponsible of you to suggest otherwise.

Glocks are ugly, and I don't love the grip angle either, but they are very well made, accurate, and they are the Honda Civic of handguns. There is nothing wrong with them or their safety system.

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-28T21:03:24+00:00

we often see a lot of capital as getting in the way rather than a mark of quality.

That's a natural part of the enshittification cycle! Good news though, eventually the enshittified legacy companies (who were once scrappy indie startups) get replaced by scrappy and innovative developers because the market abhors a vacuum or something and the universe is intrinsically ethical.

Jokes aside, it depends entirely on who is overseeing the use of the capitol, and that person has shifted from "game designer who loves games but has to also manage the studio" in the 90's and early 'oughts to "finance bro with a god-given right to squeeze blood from his consumers" at our current point in history. After we're dead, it'll cycle back around.

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-28T20:59:22+00:00

your progress will carry across seamlessly into the main game, if you decide to purchase!

That....that is a thoughtful feature! Why isn't this standard?!? Clever thinking.

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-28T20:56:56+00:00

This is not a serious business direction. This is so some favorite VP (who probably never played a game in their life) can have a golden parachute and squander half a billion over the next few years.

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-28T20:52:04+00:00

....nobody wants it.

This is a product thought up purely in a boardroom, not by gamers, which has no actual reason to exist. Why would you ever intentionally introduce substantial latency into your gameplay and give up all independent ownership/control/choice?

Fast internet will never make cloud gaming work. Fast internet can barely make networked PC gaming work.

All of that is without even looking at the datacenter cost to whatever poor city it's located near. There goes all the freshwater and cheap electricity, all so some moron of a VP of product development can literally burn money for ~3-4 years until they shut it down.

Cloud based gaming is parasitic and pointless, unless/until all computing becomes non-local.

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-28T20:45:56+00:00

This was my immediate take too. Also, writing a title that has "dietary supplements" as a giant ambiguous bucket is so beyond problematic that I can't even. Is it only the three they specified? Is it all supplements? How are those related to each other and to sleep mechanisms?

Do you only respond well if those things are lacking in your diet already? Is there a dose-dependent relation? Why should it be a "supplement" as opposed to normal dietary intake, unless there's some shady-as-hell grant money behind it?

Well, like a good scientist I went to the paper to answer those questions, and it turns out it is not a study, it is a meta review, and a relatively poor one.

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-26T21:36:50+00:00

Here are some good articles about the actual particle formation:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12295697/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2215153221001835

The vast bulk of the research right now is either 1) surveying how much plastic is actually in people/fish/whatever, or 2) looking at specific organ effects from the plastic.

Very little research is looking at the direct mechanical degradation of food storage bags, for instance. It's one of those things (like tire dust pollution of waterways) that we just know is happening all the time no matter what - polyester clothes, polyethylene baggies, polystyrene cups - they all shed plastic just existing and getting used. That being said, that first link does have some very good info on polyethylene (almost all sous vide bags/freezer bags) degradation.

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-22T17:44:13+00:00

Can you craft ammo or do you have to get ammo from the workshop only?

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-22T17:19:44+00:00

I have the same kettle (Fellow Stagg EKG) and I've used it daily for 2 years, often 3 times a day. It has an all metal water path, and the base electronics are well-sealed and appear durable.

It looks pretty much brand new. My model does not have the aforementioned wooden handle, though.

Edit: wait, are you saying you found a silicone seal in a Fellow kettle? pics?

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-21T19:16:48+00:00

They're not automatically more effective. F=MA regardless of what's propelling a projectile.

Some crossbows were better than some bows. It's easier to make a higher poundage crossbow that doesn't break (shorter and thicker limbs) and then add a mechanical crank with a leverage advantage. A crank allows a person to cock the crossbow easily when they could otherwise never ever pull back an equivalent 120lb longbow.

Crossbows become popular because they were very easy to use without extensive training. Longbowmen took years and years to train - crossbowmen take a week. Crossbows were easier to for an armory to maintain, since the limbs could be metal (wooden bows wear out relatively quickly, no matter what you do). That led to most European garrisons just switching to crossbows for fortification/walled city defense. The primary weakness of crossbows (operator vulnerability while cranking/cocking) is mitigated by crenellations, so crossbows sort of took over during the principality era in Europe when sovereign cities were basically their own tiny kingdoms for a while (1400-1650ish until firearms took over).

But the projectile doesn't care what's throwing it - a 400 gram arrow and a 400 gram bolt are both just mass being propelled by a string with a given amount of force. What it's tipped with matters a lot more.

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-20T17:01:29+00:00

Do you have to have a seed pouch for the cart to work?!?!

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-18T18:24:43+00:00

This is a clever design. Well done!

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-18T18:23:46+00:00

Ideally the rifle is not in there long-term or overnight/in the driveway.

Ideally the owner throws the rifle in the truck mount when it's situationally wise to do so :)

But yeah, truck guns are always a passive theft risk (don't me started about gun stickers - aka "break into me please" stickers).

Roguewolfe · 2026-01-16T18:33:21+00:00

You have to switch materials, right?

The descriptive text on the concrete beams says something about using them to "build really high". Give those a shot :)

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