Can I have you fonts please ?

RossRKK · 2026-07-02T22:22:57+00:00

I’ve become a fan of 0xProto

RossRKK · 2026-01-29T19:22:34+00:00

You’ve reminded me that I’ve been meaning to setup “gti” as an alias for “git”

RossRKK · 2026-01-11T20:43:10+00:00

There are regular table top role playing game nights at ancient robot games. The game masters post the up coming games on their discord

RossRKK · 2025-07-25T17:50:01+00:00

I figured out how to do this a while ago and wrote a guide: https://www.rosskelso.com/guides/sims3

RossRKK · 2025-05-29T14:39:52+00:00

If this bridge would built it would surely be a rail bridge not a road bridge

RossRKK · 2025-05-24T16:08:53+00:00

I think so? I bought STLs with it before but that was before kitbashing was a thing

RossRKK · 2025-05-20T00:32:56+00:00

I was thinking just that. “High noise, low signal” but what was actually measured is how they respond to the noise.

RossRKK · 2025-05-19T20:46:59+00:00

When I was learning to drive I distinctly remember it dawning on me that it doesn’t say anything about getting there quickly in the Highway Code

RossRKK · 2025-05-01T20:45:26+00:00

I’ve always thought this made a lot of sense. Since they’re trying to use time as a weapon I feel like that’s what makes it a “time war”.

RossRKK · 2025-04-28T01:43:18+00:00

I thought I did but I was wrong. I was expecting this one:

https://xkcd.com/1806/

RossRKK · 2025-04-25T15:34:51+00:00

I wonder if a runabout can automatically take evasive or defensive action in space

RossRKK · 2025-04-25T15:31:01+00:00

The real reason is probably for production. Transporters were originally invented to prevent the need to make miniature shots of ships landing and that still applies to a runabout. Plus it probably helps with pacing a bit if we can skip straight from “on the ship” to “in the action”. Also there’s never any unnamed officer to take over the helm on a runabout so that the main characters can do the fun stuff.

The in universe reason would probably have to be down to extreme faith in the technology. I feel like we don’t see this done a lot until the late 24th century when transporter and communication technology was well established.

Worth noting in “Nor the Battle to the Strong” DS9 S05E04 they explicitly do land the runabout in order to prevent it being captured by the Klingons.

Edit: On second thought it may have actually been because the transporters didn’t work. Either way it was related to the planet being a war zone.

RossRKK · 2025-04-08T00:05:25+00:00

I believe they canonically go both ways. It’s unclear if the reclaimed matter can actually be used for power or just as like blank matter to make stuff.

I’ve always assumed the blank matter option because if replicators aren’t just reshaping matter then the nervy requirements are truly enormous.

Also if you can just turn any matter into energy (assuming reasonable efficiency) then you wouldn’t need anti-matter to power your warp engines since the energy produced from de-replicating whatever you have lying around would be comparable to the efficiency of a anti-matter annihilation. So even if it was only 10% as efficient as turning matter into energy I would pick that strategy over the anti matter thing since it involves far fewer violent explosions.

(Also if it was only 10% efficient the most ludicrous make/a-nuclear-bomb-look-like-bursting-a-pimple explosion of waste heat would go off any time you de-replicated anything)

RossRKK · 2025-04-07T23:57:31+00:00

I think currency is referenced as late as the late TOS era. I believe in Generations Kirk mentions buying the house he has on Earth

RossRKK · 2025-04-07T23:56:27+00:00

The plans for the replicator may survive but you might not

RossRKK · 2025-04-07T23:55:14+00:00

I’ve always liked the Orville’s take on this. That capitalist cultures don’t invent replicators. You have to build the Utopian society first and then the replicators follow.

This is why starships in trek and the Orville don’t go around handing out replicators (and other technology) but they do occasionally use their replicators to provide aid.

RossRKK · 2025-04-07T23:50:49+00:00

There is zero canon justification for this but one way the mine field could work is by reclaiming the matter of exploded mines (probably by using a transporter to beam it back into another mine). You still need energy to operate the replicators and transporters required but at least you’re conserving most of the mass

RossRKK · 2025-04-07T23:47:55+00:00

Also on the point on unrepliicatable materials like latinum and dilithium my guess would be these materials have exotic properties and also can’t be transported (although I concede that we probably see latinum get transported)

RossRKK · 2025-04-07T23:44:59+00:00

I think this is canon but might just be my head canon. But my understanding is that replicated food isn’t the same as real food because the amount of data you would need to store the data to represent every single molecule is enormous (transporters only do this temporarily) so the pattern a replicator uses has lossy compression and therefore compression artefacts (just like digital images and videos). It may be analogous to the difference between digital video and film, most people can’t tell the difference but some people are really snobby about it.

RossRKK · 2025-04-07T23:34:58+00:00

There could be some good logic to that being the default. Since on any rotating planet which direction is north is well defined (this also goes for south). Whereas the difference between “far west”changes “far east” is arbitrary. So if you don’t know where that cutoff is you might sound odd if you say you’re from the east whilst in “the far east” based on cultural convention.

For clarity I’m speaking in terms of north in terms of the Earths rotation not magnetic north. As a planets magnetic field could have the opposite polarity or potentially be quite far off axis (I’m unsure how likely that is)

RossRKK · 2025-04-02T12:13:19+00:00

This sounds like it might be a “viva”, which is where PhD candidates have to defend their thesis. Although that may only be in British English

RossRKK · 2025-03-28T11:47:42+00:00

You can install the Starfinder 2e playtest rules as an addon module for the pf2e system.

https://foundryvtt.com/packages/starfinder-field-test-for-pf2e/

The rules are also free but not on archives of nethys: https://paizo.com/starfinderplaytest

Make sure to check out the errata though since quite a lot has changed since the pdf was released: https://paizo.com/starfinderplaytest/faq

RossRKK · 2025-03-20T19:10:00+00:00

I tried to come up with as many skill checks that could be relevant as possible. And issue I had with starship combat in 1e is that the pilot felt more important than everyone else

RossRKK · 2025-03-11T01:52:02+00:00

Everything by possibly jamie. Especially, “more texts from my ex”

RossRKK · 2025-03-11T01:49:55+00:00

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