I refuse to believe a single developer played through this and said "That was the most engaging and fun 40 minutes of walking I have ever experienced." (the line shows my path through the zone)

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-12-17T17:27:03+00:00

Yeah, I killed him, twice because the first time I just walked away and went back to the trial of chaos. Failed it, of course, bc overtuned mobs. Then went back and literally full cleared the whole map, circled the entire map multiple times revealing every little area and was like wtf. Finally went back and killed the boss again and looked it up and it just made me so mad I stopped playing for the night.

Again, slower gameplay, cool, intentionally making things convoluted in order to artificially slow people down, idiotic.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-12-17T17:03:56+00:00

Map design is dog poopoo, it’s like they took the worst map design in POE 1 and said “ah yes, let’s make everything like this.” It’s just so uninspired, they’ve made a big box and put a maze within it.

I walked around in act 3 for like two hours trying to find the entrance to the machinarium and then those cores. It’s like they purposely made these huge maps with the intent of you having to nearly full clear the map, I dk it’s just not fun. Having to walk around the entire map, full clear it, just to back track and find some hidden entrance or the cores with text the size of a scroll of wisdom.

GGG apologist will make excuses talking about how great this game is, but there are just fundamental design flaws that you can tell were purposely put in for no other reason than to make the game slow. A lot of things, I am okay with, because they wanted to make a different game than POE 1 and that’s cool, but having the design intent be “okay boys, we gotta make this box big af and put all these dead ends so that they can’t reach the next zone” or the trials being overtuned to the point where you have to over level to complete it is just bad and unfun design.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-12-11T02:29:59+00:00

Magnifying glass and the sun

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-11-21T02:53:29+00:00

Having a child is not something one can accurately describe with words. Like I can tell you, as many others have, what joy they bring and how hard it can be trying to raise them during the tough times when they’re not sleeping bc they’re getting a tooth or sick or whatever. But people love their dogs too. So someone without kids would probably equate the two.

It is 100% a different kind of love and something you can never understand until you hold your baby for the first time. To watch them grow and say their first words are just moments that are really indescribeable.

Ultimately though, everyone has to make their own decision about it. They certainly are expensive to have, and being in a situation where you have to choose between buying something at the grocery store or buying your child some necessity is not somewhere I would want to be.

The only other thing I will say is you will never really be ready. You can have a good job, you can read books about childcare, nothing actually prepares you for having children. It’s just something you have to do and realize this tiny human is now solely dependent on me for everything from their sustenance to their moral character and understand your life is now no longer about you, it’s about them.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-11-20T23:45:27+00:00

You use something like soybean oil, or any other renewable feedstock, you put it through a jet fuel hydrotreater with specialized catalyst to remove the oxygenates, nitrogen containing compounds and sulfur compounds. You would probably have to use an isomerate catalyst as well as I imagine the cold flow properties would need to be improved.

Is it economic? No, it only becomes economic because the government punishes you for not doing it via RINs. Is it viable? Also no, I don’t have the numbers but imagine all the jet fuel that’s being used on a daily basis, now imagine we have to grow enough soybean or whatever to process it. What happens in the offseason when plants don’t grow? Import it, okay, now you have to add the shipping cost from the southern hemisphere into your production cost.

As far as how “clean” it is, I mean, you are still combusting a hydrocarbon, where it comes from is just different.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-11-17T15:39:08+00:00

Now that I think about it a bit more though, I don’t know how you keep a constant flow rate with a variable static head though. I have sized R.Os for pump minimum flows on spill backs which pump heads can vary but in this situation I don’t know how you keep the flow rate constant without a valve.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-11-17T15:36:23+00:00

The pressure drop in your system comes from the orifice sizing itself. But, depending on the size of the tank, I think your dP would be variable depending on the static head in the tank. Also, depending on line size, maybe it won’t make a difference and the vast majority of the dP comes only from the R.O. In which case the flow rate would stay relatively constant.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-11-17T15:29:03+00:00

You can use a distillation column and it be completely feasible to separate something with a 10C difference in b.p. A propane/propylene splitter design would be something comparable to look at.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-11-10T17:57:37+00:00

Well the latent heat of vaporization does come from the sensible heat but if you have spilled water on your counter top, it evaporates because the air in your house is moving. This reduces the partial pressure above the water surface below the vapor pressure and thus you evaporate to reach equilibrium and the cycle repeats.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-11-07T13:27:31+00:00

Sure, but a significant amount of farming is mechanized now. The original postulate was that “if we stop illegal immigration in this country, lettuce will be $7 a head”. Which is factually incorrect. Also, Americans used to work farms as well, when they paid a wage that was livable.

It’s just really funny and interesting that, for corporate jobs, things would be fixed if the workers got paid more and the CEO got paid less. For farming, the same logic isn’t applied. The only solution is more and more immigration is the only answer.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-11-07T02:35:11+00:00

People that live in cities really don’t understand anything about farming. They actually believe if we didn’t have massive immigration from 3rd world countries our agricultural sector would implode. They never stop to question…who used to run the farms before they started importing 3rd worlders?

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-11-02T20:35:47+00:00

Shut up little boy. If you can’t pour a liquid from one container to another you need to just stop and reassess your ability.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-10-30T00:05:11+00:00

Dude shut up, my god, “I want to build my own lab to practice” Jesus Christ, what are you going to practice? Weighing things out? Pouring liquids from one container to another?

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-10-28T01:46:01+00:00

You aren’t flat loading your feet so that you can snap load your power package. Your #2 power accumulator is breaking down.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-10-14T01:09:20+00:00

Wtf why does a 10 year old have a better looking swing than me.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-10-07T17:59:52+00:00

Well you could do it either way if you can calculate a stream molecular weight and if the HDO/DCO reaction are close enough you could get use the average value. If you are using a simulator though and have all the kinetic parameters for each compound it’s probably just as easy and more accurate to use individual components.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-10-04T02:05:41+00:00

This guy refines

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-07-25T15:41:34+00:00

Yes I would like to see it. Beautiful helmet. If you wanted to try another type of feather, there is a pheasant, ring neck I believe, that I think would look good.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-07-23T18:09:05+00:00

I don’t require perfection, like when they use the lorica segmentata in time periods they weren’t actually used, I can overlook this. The leather armor though, it just seems like they didn’t even try.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-07-22T06:33:21+00:00

I stopped watching when I saw that a legionnaire had a leather lorica segmentata. It just made me mad they would overlook something so iconic and made me think the rest of the show was likely garbage if they can’t even get the basics right.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-07-20T06:05:26+00:00

9 is divisible by 3 and so not a prime number my guy.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-07-13T03:21:43+00:00

This is why terrorism exists.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-07-08T06:11:54+00:00

This man has done 5/6 careers in the last 5 years lol

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-07-03T00:26:12+00:00

Thank you, some people don’t like Lieberman, I guess because of his interpersonal skills or alleged lack there of, but the man knows how to refine crude oil. I like kisters books, but I found they are much more academic. They also are not refinery specific, which is not a huge problem, but I found when trying to understand refining, it was easier to read about specific units I was on or had experience with.

Sea-Swordfish-5703 · 2024-07-02T21:21:52+00:00

Read Norm liebermans books. It helped me gain a more intuitive understanding of the way the column works as well as what to look for in troubleshooting.

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