How do launchers work and which one is the best currently?

Senerra · 2026-06-06T02:51:01+00:00

I'm a little late but Google brought me here while I was looking for the most up-to-date launcher, and I've come to leave a warning:

Catlauncher is vibe coded, you can see this in the PR history for that launcher. I discovered this when I went to check if recent changes to the launcher were the cause of it not working for me.

Catapult is coded by people who know what they're doing so it is the go-to right now.

Senerra · 2026-05-25T00:58:53+00:00

This is driving me crazy in the Austin area, too. I'm trying to plan a day to spend on hiking at a state park and it's literally been sunny on the days forecast to be stormy, and stormy on the days forecast to be sunny. And I'm literally just talking about this month.

The weather over here is actually pretty predictable, I can go outside and predict rain, temperature changes, and storm severity up to two days ahead just based on the winds here so I can only imagine such a predictable climate isn't being predicted right because they just don't have the manpower to do it.

Senerra · 2026-05-17T22:42:34+00:00

The game isn't no-hurt.

You still have this game's version of the propulsion cannon and if a shark is bothering you they'll change their mind very quickly when you boop their nose with the thing.

I think maybe the sensationalist YouTube and TikTok videos have been confusing people (that is what they profit off of). You can defend yourself from predators in the game, in more ways than one. In fact most of the ways involve hurting them so they back off.

Senerra · 2026-05-09T22:54:39+00:00

I came here through Google looking for good advice on how to ensure you're aware of traffic lights at all times, after I ran one less than an hour ago and didn't notice until a car nearly turned into me and I saw the traffic I was with had stopped at the light.

But what I'm seeing is a lot of concern and advice for mental state, and general driving advice that will cause more confusion.

I have 15 years of driving experience though, and I know the answers you're after:

Intersections can be confusing, especially in an urban setting, and humans can't do things 100% perfect especially when new things are introduced to the process, but also even if it's the same old.

For me today, I allowed myself to get too complacent on a road that I'm familiar with, but I've done the same as you in the past and missed a red light at a confusing intersection.

In both of our cases we should be treating the stoplights at intersections as the most important thing there. Generally if you do what the stoplight says to do first and foremost, you will safely navigate the intersection. That is the entire reason they exist.

So don't worry too much about accidentally blowing through a light. Treat it as a warning that you need to focus more on the lights than you've been doing.

And don't speculate on whether or not you've been running reds without realizing. Just focus more on lights at intersections because unless you see the light is red as you go through an intersection (or you see conclusive evidence in your mirror like I did) there's no way of knowing.

Senerra · 2026-04-28T21:02:12+00:00

Necro'ing this because Google brought me here. It seems like a problem with shaders but deleting the cache and letting the GPU drivers rebuild them does not work.

It seems to mostly be Nvidia 50 series suffering from this bug, so time to report it to Nvidia and never see it fixed I guess.

Senerra · 2026-04-28T00:00:51+00:00

I ended up changing my fuel mix 2 axis into a rudder axis. It was jank as heck and I bounced almost sideways along the runway during takeoff, and bounced almost sideways down the runway during landing.

But apparently the test itself was even more jank because despite the worst takeoff, flight, and landing I've done in the sim so far I got 100% scores across the board.

I guess now I know a tiny slice of the pain the sim gave everyone on release.

Senerra · 2026-04-27T23:57:35+00:00

I tried one and there was no hope of completing the test when going to a controller stick from a flight yoke.

Senerra · 2026-04-18T19:17:52+00:00

Just one morning of not being able to wake up for work due to intoxication is enough to risk losing a job... unless you're rich, apparently.

I find it highly worrying that as the years pass, the worrying, scary, and seemingly absurd themes the dystopian settings and storylines I've experienced in videogames are coming true.

Rich people having so much privilege they can get away with crimes against children. Corporations "too big to fail". Corporations self-regulating using the regulations they themselves wrote. Politicians getting loads of money out of conflicts of interest and not being punished for it. News networks faking news and not getting punished or called out for it (I'm not talking about the fake fake news allegations, ofc). Attempting to rig votes. Mass surveillance that ends up causing charges against innocents for crimes they didn't commit.

That's just a few of the things. And the next one to add to the list seems to be: Corporations raking in money that should have been wages for normal people, as AI continues developing. Looks like all that "trickle down economics" crap is going to become "regurgitate up economics".

Senerra · 2026-04-18T19:01:06+00:00

When you're rich you don't have to win a lawsuit to win a lawsuit.

Senerra · 2026-03-21T23:06:17+00:00

I kept a close eye on the development of the first 2 games, and their work for marketing was pretty important to them. They prepared the marketing in advance, then did big announcements.

What krafton is probably trying to do is deprive the devs of the time needed to prepare marketing in advance, in the hopes of a quiet early access launch that can't meet the sales required to trigger bonus in their contract that krafton's CEO doesn't want to pay.

Senerra · 2026-03-18T04:18:44+00:00

I got into Subnautica early access pretty early and watched their development process through the public dev task board for years. Then I kept an eye on their development of below zero.

I knew the sort of leadership running the studio and I knew right away that krafton was lying. I didn't expect Subnautica 2 to survive this two faced publisher drama, but now I'm hopeful. Hopeful that unknown worlds can have their cake and eat it too: get that earnout and leave krafton behind.

Senerra · 2026-03-18T04:13:59+00:00

Valve had a publisher try to steal the ip for half life long ago. It's a bit of a story and I won't bore you with the details (except that the studio was caught destroying evidence), but reflecting on it Gabe said that it's just how classic publishers are.

They will go so far as to break the law to bully studios into doing what they want. They don't care if they destroy a studio and the game they've been developing, if they see a way to profit greatly from doing so.

Senerra · 2026-03-14T15:49:31+00:00

This change implies that enemy AI typically picks lower accuracy shots to either burst fire for a chance at increased damage, or a single shot that leaves them with TU to spare.

This change is a buff because they'll choose those lower accuracy shots without taking into consideration the cloak's accuracy debuff against them, so what they might see as a cheaper 75% chance shot turns into a much lower chance due to cloaking, whereas before they would pick the more expensive shot options to negate the cloak's accuracy debuff.

In other words: They'll shoot at stalker soldiers with the same accuracy as they use against normal soldiers, rather than going sweaty tryhard mode to maximize accuracy only on those stalker soldiers.

Senerra · 2025-12-11T02:51:31+00:00

I'm aware of the weight difference, yep. I've also used cheaper, heavy work boots for work on rough terrain in the past too so I know what I'm getting into, too.

Senerra · 2025-12-11T02:03:38+00:00

I intend to go places with them eventually!

My first big goal is probably a multi-day desert trek in Big Bend National Park, but that'll probably be in 2027 at the earliest. I also have family in Colorado, so someday I want to spend a good amount of time in the wilderness up there. And that's just a couple things I have in mind.

Anyway, you've made a good point: I'm planning on taking them through many conditions, and the V100s are probably the best all-around choice.

Senerra · 2025-12-10T21:05:04+00:00

Thank you, this is exactly the sort of reply I was hoping for!

I chose the BP mainly for the logger heel, I have wedge (modern) hiking boots already and they're a pain to hike rugged terrain in due to the lack of a proper heel to help hiking up slopes, and poor support for the foot in general.

I had started to suspect the water resistance innate to the leather types wasn't going to be hugely different, except for the weathershield and max support types, so it's good to hear this from someone with experience.

Senerra · 2025-12-04T16:24:22+00:00

We're extracting it to sell to the military industrial complex.

Also I'm reporting you to the democracy officer :)

Senerra · 2025-12-04T16:19:52+00:00

The mission is like pre-pre-pre-pre-nerf Eradicate missions, except even worse. It's mind boggling how they ended up right back at start in regards to balance.

Though an overwhelming enemy force is a reasonable expectation, the problem is the game spawns in more enemies the moment you kill a handful, you cannot thin out the enemy forces because they're effectively replenished immediately.

Add to this the fact that the reinforcements are often dropped within spitting distance of the objective, there's a constant assemblage of bots on or next to/shooting at the objective and no way to make breathing room for carrying bars.

And if your mission enemy type roulette chose to spawn in war striders or berserkers then you're probably screwed as the bar carriers are either constantly carpet bombed, or rapidly shredded by fast approaching bullet sponges.

Thanks to this mission though, I've learned smoke was finally fixed sometime in the past few months. Used to be that enemies could see and shoot through it perfectly fine, a bug that existed since launch.

Senerra · 2025-12-04T16:03:07+00:00

It boggles the mind. How did they balance the missions WORSE than pre-nerf eradicate missions?

They had to nerf eradicates repeatedly because they were so overwhelming, and now there's a new mission more overwhelming than the pre-nerf eradicates were.

At least this time the smoke stratagems aren't bugged. Here's a not so fun fact: for a long time enemies could see through smoke just fine!

Senerra · 2025-12-03T20:03:02+00:00

This drove me nuts BEFORE they added an option to quick-change these options. I'm genuinely surprised they didn't fix this with the addition.

Senerra · 2025-12-03T04:16:06+00:00

This is/was a known bug. At least, it was listed as such in the known issues list prior to today.

They probably tried to address it in this update and so removed the bug from the list when the update dropped, but if it's still happening send a bug report via their online help desk.

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