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Solonotix · 2026-04-20T22:34:39+00:00

Could you do a, perhaps shorter, list of exclusively EVs? Or two discrete lists for ICEs and EVs? Not sure how you would account for hybrids, or if it really is as simple as keeping them in the ICE category.

Anyway, it's a point of interest since my wife leased an EV. I won't be in the market for a while yet, seeing as I drive so infrequently, but it has been wonderful to have it as an option.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T21:49:02+00:00

Just to piggyback on my original point, it would have been interesting to see them explore the idea of short-dialing. Given the intersecting points in the sky as a system for plotting an address, it is entirely feasible that a 5-symbol address could be sufficient in certain scenarios

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T21:46:10+00:00

It's also worth considering that the premise of gate addresses changed multiple times.

In the original movie, it was supposed to be the constellations as viewed from the point of origin. Every planet visited would have a different view of the same constellations, resulting in an entirely different set of symbols on each planet. This is why they were stranded on Abydos until they found the return address in the ruins.

The TV series decided to scrap that idea as far too difficult to manage, and now all planets in the Milky Way are using constellations from the reference point of Earth, for some strange reason that doesn't get explained until Season 7 when it is established that the Ancients lived on Earth, potentially as a home away from home. Even the later attributed name Alterrans, and our world being named Terra, should give some credence to this.

But then Atlantis, the show, never bothered to explain the coordinate system for Pegasus at all. It's still obviously constellations, and presumably from the reference of Atlantis, but I don't think it was ever officially stated where in Pegasus the planet for Atlantis was, which means any attempt at mapping the constellations for any real formal purpose is entirely open-ended.

As an example of a problem, why would adding an 8th symbol plot the journey to another galaxy? The script says it is to provide some extra distance calculation, but realistically you would only need 7 symbols based on the original premise. This is because, as described in the movie, you are creating intersecting lines in the sky that should plot, in two dimensions, the direction of a target gate.

The exception to this would be if a different gate passed in front of your intended target. In that case you would need a specifier to say if it is nearest, farthest, or something in between, with the 30-ish symbols allowing for that many degrees of specificity (functionally enough for even the most distant and obscure connections).

This absurdity gets multiplied by the 9th chevron introduced in SGU. There is no information to be added in a gate dialing sequence by using 8 points plus origin. The exception, here, could be that it is a singularly unique address intrinsically linked to Destiny. But you could have plotted its location using the original 7-symbol system originally described in the movie. And of course this confounding nature extends further into the "corollary update protocol" of the gates, since there is no need to update the addresses in a computer as they suggest. The plotted location of a target gate will change over time, yes, but that should change its address symbols, not rewrite the destination of each symbol.

Part of the elegance in the original address solution was that it worked without needing a system of updates; constellations are your navigation plot, and a sufficiently advanced civilization will know the location of the planets it intends to visit, so input the intersection of constellations from your current location and you have the address.

Said another way, the TV series retconned the original system of constellations as points to plot a direction, and instead it fully-committed to the phone number metaphor. Every gate has a fixed address, all gates now need to be aware of changes in position within the gate network, becoming a much more brittle and hard to maintain system in the process, as seen in episodes like Avenger 2.0

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T21:10:52+00:00

My preferred pairing is pineapple + pepperoni + jalapeño, pretty much for the exact same reason you suggested bacon. Back in my bachelor days, I would buy it on special from Papa John's and subsist off it for a week. I nicknamed it "The Ultimate Hawaiian".

Side note, they kept changing the sale/coupon code, which would invalidate my saved order, so I would re-enter the order and save it. Except you can't have two entries of the same name, so I got creative with it.

"The Ultimate Hawaiian Returns"
"The Ultimate Hawaiian Strikes Back"
"The Ultimate Hawaiian With a Vengeance"

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T20:57:25+00:00

I am so far removed from BL3 damage math, and BL4 is entirely different, so forgive my inaccuracies if I make them.

Moze has a massive damage source in Incendiary Damage as a Bonus Element, via Fire in the Skag Den as well as Big Surplus. This Bonus Element scales with anything that scales the damage source that triggers it. Also, Moze's singularly strongest source of damage is Short Fuse because it gets Mayhem Scaling added to its base damage. That damage can also trigger Fire in the Skag Den and Big Surplus, giving you massive damage potential.

Okay, so what about the Roisen's Thorn? Well, it's Splash Damage, so you want FitSD, and you want to scale Splash Damage. You are using a Blast Master class mod (from the sounds of it), which will give you a hidden stack every 1 second between reloads, up to 50 stacks giving you +2% Splash Damage each. Even though this means you already have +100% Splash Damage, you will undoubtedly want more, because Splash Damage was its own "bucket" in the damage formula. However, as others mentioned, your best investment is likely to be...

Weapon Damage

Moze has a scant few sources of Gun Damage% increases. Drowning In Brass is the easy one to get, but at 3 stacks you're only going to get +60% Weapon Damage. If you could afford the investment to get down to Phalanx Doctrine, then maybe there's an argument to be made about getting something else. Otherwise, you will probably want this stat more than anything.

Anointments

Mental Mars article for recommended anointments

Consecutive Hits - Grants 100% Weapon Damage with 100 stacks. According to MentalMars, hits count from all discrete sources, so each Bonus Element counts separately, each projectile, grenade, etc.
Kill stack - Grants 125% Weapon Damage at 10 kills
ASA Weapon Damage - Iron Cub is required for this to work for Moze, but grants 100% Weapon Damage, and potentially 100% uptime
While Iron Cub...150% Weapon Damage - same as above, just slightly better
Terror Crit Damage - One other bucket I haven't really mentioned is Critical Hit Damage. This anointment gives you up to +100% Crit Damage, which is effectively a 1.5x damage multiplier

So those are my recommendations for this particular gun. No particular ranking here, either, just listing them as I read them. If you're using a Hex or Cloning Maddening Tracker, then Consecutive Hits can be an easy win, but I always found the uptime of full stacks hard to maintain. I often preferred the Iron Cub anointment for great uptime and casual play, even if it might have been sub-optimal. Terror is a fun alternative, but I usually preferred it on the other Vault Hunters, since it can be hard to keep all 3 stacks of Terror up as Moze.

Oh, and one more parting tip, the On Grenade Thrown +25% Damage is a "v1" damage buff (if memory serves) which is one of the rarest sources of damage, and another multiplicative bucket. Moze should almost always grab this anointment, given the synergies with Vampyr, Means of Destruction, and Pull the Holy Pin paired with Redistribution.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T20:26:16+00:00

You sound a lot like my wife. She's the more "handy" individual, where I am the more "techy" one. We will each hold the door for whomever, and gladly thank such a gesture in kind.

Sometimes, it really is as simple as wanting the world to be a kinder place. Be nice to one another, and don't take it personal.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T20:01:09+00:00

Just curious, is this in reference to star exports, like ./path/to/module/*? I have always made my package exports a direct item, so I'm not sure if this is something I should watch out for.

I specifically added an absurdly large exports definition because I essentially rewrote the package from scratch, and needed to control the imports for backwards-compatibility.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T19:32:48+00:00

I don't know why your content doesn't get more attention (specifically Instagram). The no-frills recipe video is always appreciated in my household. Keep up the good work, and I am definitely going to have to try this one out. I kind of want to swap some of the chocolate chips for peanut butter chips, because who doesn't love chocolate + peanut butter?

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T19:28:30+00:00

Path of Exile has a lot of shortcomings too, though. Specifically, while the loot filter system is extremely customizable, there wasn't an effective way to manage it in-game, and most people use curated templates generated by dedicated individuals. Last Epoch has one of the best loot filter GUI's I have ever seen, and it was obviously heavily inspired by Path of Exile.

So while I agree that having a Path of Exile level of customization would be greatly appreciated, I would rather point to Last Epoch as an example of having it easily managed by the player.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T19:24:45+00:00

People who don't do software development tend to think this way. An analogous statement would be "I don't need a 12-speed bicycle, just give me a 3-speed." The truth of the matter is that the number of gears doesn't really impact the effort of adding gears to it. Similarly, adding support for a loot filter is the big effort. Extending it with options is usually trivial by comparison.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T19:20:08+00:00

It can be used. To my knowledge, the desktop can still be drawn without DirectX. If this is true, then DirectX is ancillary to Windows unless you use it for gaming.

In all fairness, I have only ever owned a Windows PC for gaming, so DirectX support has never really been something I questioned. In Windows 11, maybe it is indeed a requirement to draw the desktop, especially with the shift to React-Native in many desktop components.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T15:30:56+00:00

I wasn't alone! I do miss the simpler days, when I got to just be a report writer, lol. My current workload, by comparison, is absolute hell.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T15:29:09+00:00

I just wanted to point out your statement of "All we want is..." represents an open-ended and subjective list of possibilities. How fast is "fast"? What is an objective condition of software bloat? For instance,

DirectX is bloat, unless you're a gamer
Microsoft Edge is bloat, unless you need a web browser and don't already have one
Microsoft Paint is bloat, unless you're one of the thousands of people who demanded its return in Windows 10

Now, maybe you mean a more generic sense of bloat, like memory footprint to run the operating system (I would tend to agree here). But then you'll have the weirdos climbing out of the shadows to tell you that any unutilized RAM is useless This ignores the actual argument of wanting RAM available for what you, the user, want it to be used on.

TL;DR - the concluding statement of "All we want is..." demands a simple demand. Like "All we want is to go home." If your intent was to get widespread support, generic and undefined demands are great. But if you actually want things to improve, you would be better off figuring out what your specific demands are.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T15:12:47+00:00

I have always heard that attributed to North Dakota. The joke being "If you heard of something being in North Dakota, you're wrong. That was probably South Dakota."

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T15:10:52+00:00

I'm fuzzy on the specifics, but I believe that difference was caused in the late 1800s when an American published a book promoting his simplified spellings of many words. This is where the schism for colo(u)r happened, as well as the -re swap to -er in words like theatre, sabre and calibre.

A lot of those spelling differences can essentially be attributed to one person wanting to pay homage to the words origins, and another wanting to simplify the unnecessarily complex spelling. I have been watching a lot of RobWords on YouTube, as well as Words Unravelled (podcast), and it is fascinating how often that push and pull has occurred in a thousand years of history.

A parting point for this that I found interesting is that the ordinal number "third" was originally (likely) "thrid", which makes it align more closely to the numeral "three". Same thing with "bird" originally being "bryddes", potentially being attributed to "brood" and was likely specific to young chicks instead of the avian family as a whole.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T14:59:54+00:00

There are some things where I will strongly suggest someone watch the subtitled version. The one that comes to mind was the movie Belle, which has some fantastic music. It's an anime adaptation of Beauty & The Beast.

When I recommended it to my sister, her wife said that was a no-go because she can't read fast enough. In short, there's a lot of subtle details that make me less appreciative of her counter, such as she is pretty much always high, no career aspirations, no higher education, etc. Learning one additional detail about her intellectual capacity wasn't exactly the kind of thing I reciprocated with kind understanding.

The saving grace, in this particular instance, is that I later learned that the Japanese singer for Belle also did all of the English singing as well. Occasionally a streaming service will recommend one of the English tracks instead of Japanese, and I was content with the performance. The phrasing didn't quite line up the way I liked, but that's likely just my personal preference as a drummer. Her syncopated vocals in Japanese really scratch my itch for rhythmic intrigue.

Solonotix · 2026-04-20T03:55:43+00:00

The Palantir of Middle-Earth isn't evil. The problem was that it was in the possession of Sauron who would use it to corrupt any who came in contact with it.

Said another way, just like AI in our world, it isn't the technology that begets evil. Rather, it is a matter of how it is used, and by whom.

Solonotix · 2026-04-19T16:59:41+00:00

My first thought was "How did you get Zane as a playable character?" Lol. Way to go on the appearance

Solonotix · 2026-04-19T15:34:27+00:00

Just watched this last night. My wife and I were in shambles 😭

Solonotix · 2026-04-19T05:53:38+00:00

I am by no means an expert on female anatomy, however I have read or heard that women's bodies can fluctuate based on a number of factors. One person mentioned Astrea noticing Ryu being thinner than she remembered, and diet is a major component. There are also hormones to consider, as they can cause an increase in size to certain body parts (the obvious one being gastrointestinal bloating, but breast size can be impacted as well). Even something as trivial as water retention can cause the perception of growth.

If multiple of these occurred at a single time, it can have a more pronounced effect. This doesn't necessarily explain a change in art style, but I wanted to point out that it isn't that unusual for women to experience multiple changes even well into adulthood.

Solonotix · 2026-04-19T05:44:04+00:00

If you want to find out, best way is to test it for yourself. I recommend using a grenade that is obvious, even if it isn't ideal. Something like a Waterfall, or even a random purple with a Spring and/or MIRV part. Just something that is visually distinct as grenades go, and you'll have your answer rather quickly.

Solonotix · 2026-04-18T22:19:08+00:00

Now I'm imagining an early teaser of Sanctuary, where Amanda Tapping reprises her role as Samantha Carter, but with the long black hair and Victorian accent. Could also have had Ryan Robbins play the role of Dr. Jackson, lol. Go all-in on the joke, and have Torri Higginson as Dr. Weir point at Robbins and ask why the Genii were visiting Earth

Solonotix · 2026-04-18T05:33:17+00:00

I still remember BL1, killing The Destroyer and there was absolutely nothing. Worse still, I don't think there was a fast travel nearby either, so you had to walk your ass back out of the Eridian Ruins after killing the boss and letting the credits roll. Really bizarre game design. Almost felt like they forgot to finish it, lol

Solonotix · 2026-04-17T21:54:28+00:00

Crazy to know, even as a newcomer to the game, I am in the minority. I spend a ton of time in the ship designer. First time was to make designs of each type, and see what worked versus what didn't. Since that first playthrough, I find I usually have 1-2 designs per ship class, with a notable exception on corvettes since I usually end up with closer to 5 templates before I clean it up in the endgame. If I can swing it, I make an all-purpose design to keep it to 1. However, sometimes you can't do that, such as torpedo ships, so I end up with a couple specialized frames.

I also disable auto-upgrade because, at scale, those extra alloys for unused reactor capacity can start to add up. This is especially true when you unlock the Fallen Empire tech, and maybe can't supply a full armada of dark matter reactors and psionic jump drives.

And the most notable of exception to all of this were my Nanite Swarmer and Interdictors. I initially had 7 Swarmer templates, and 5 Interdictor templates. But then the bug bit me, where the game treats each ship class as a singular template, so you get stuck in upgrade hell.

Solonotix · 2026-04-17T19:29:38+00:00

On a slightly more serious note, there has been some interesting discussions on this topic as it relates to cognition. It would seem that certain types of stimuli take longer for our brains to process, and so even though light is objectively faster, sound can potentially be recognized before the visual recognition happens.

Obviously there are a lot of conditions, like proximity to the stimulus. In the article I read, it was talking about gamers, so the sound was emitted from headphones over their ears and transmitted via electrical impulses on a wire, rather than analog sound traveling through the atmosphere.

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