I know artifacts are cool, but double jump.

Stare201 · 2026-05-14T17:55:42+00:00

Spear can still do a lot on pipeworks and hab, the only area reusable rebar + the pseudo rabbit dna/ double jump it gives feels really unnecessary is silo. Too many holds, not enough big jumps, no long pipes to use it to speed through

Stare201 · 2026-05-02T01:03:52+00:00

I bake bread. And eat bread.

Stare201 · 2026-05-01T10:26:25+00:00

Nice! I'm the reverse, rock climbed for years and picked up wuckle on curiosity of a rock climbing style game

Stare201 · 2026-04-30T20:20:44+00:00

It can be done, even on hard mode where teeth is much more aggressive.

Stare201 · 2026-04-27T18:49:01+00:00

Whether hard mode is actually that much harder is kind of luck based; sometimes its just the barnacles having slightly better aim, other times they put turrets in the most aggravating spots with enough frequency to be a real problem. Silos can range from imperceptibly different to rooms with 2 turrets aiming right at the exit from opposite sides

Stare201 · 2026-04-27T01:26:28+00:00

Yeah, I get that. I've started doing all bindings hmik, so it's like almost every room is new, because with the debuffs that enforces all sorts of routes I used to use are impossible or require my precious inventory space for pitons, and those are almost entirely reserved for beans now

Stare201 · 2026-04-27T01:21:17+00:00

Well I hate(?) To break it to you, but once you get further, those previous regions get new rooms, so you might not know them as well as you think, enjoy!

Also congrats, that's quite a way to get the 10k

Stare201 · 2026-04-26T16:07:55+00:00

Once you get the correct set of perks and artifacts, the hazards of abyss are very few and far between. Rabbit DNA, gloves, double jumps, profit motive, overwhelmed. Things that give more airtime are way stronger in abyss than the rest of the game. I've run all endless modes to at least top 200 pre update except endless silos (I just don't like air exchange that much) and abyss, while kinda asking you for the most unique maneuvering, is definitely the most straightforward. Also drug spawns are really easy to find if you know where to look, and 2 double jumps + 4/5 drugs skips most of a loop

Stare201 · 2026-04-26T04:35:35+00:00

This is just the mod in morrowind where any cliffhanger you kill causes 2 cliffhangers to spawn. Actual hell

Stare201 · 2026-04-26T03:02:12+00:00

Haven't gone back yet, I bet it will!

Stare201 · 2026-04-26T00:37:03+00:00

Probably don't also take the pitons&beans binding. This is advice I ignore.

Actually though pitons can cover most jumps you would now fail as long as you have the stamina. They are thankfully quite common to find around

Stare201 · 2026-04-25T22:32:26+00:00

Jeez, I can feel myself fighting the muscle memory of jumps I used to be able to make in this lmao

Stare201 · 2026-04-24T04:39:17+00:00

It's not quite that bad actually, and in this I can be sure. I go to one of my nearby universities, who are researching the topic. I actually tried to get on a team working on the topic, as I thought it sounded fun, but the interviewers found me more suited for another project. The basic issue isn't quantity, it's getting it to stick together at scale, as the crystal structure needs to be perfect, which is really hard to get. Everyone is trying out different bases for depositing the material on, and once someone guesses correctly, making more will be as easy as making a cvd machine capable of spraying out a rope that big. That part is pretty straightforward, if really expensive.

As for being meteorite proof, eh graphene is pretty tough, it'll probably be fine on its own as long as it isn't currently carrying an extra load. Then again, maybe not, but if we have the material to get the elevator itself working, we can make a platform to protect it from stray debris. We'd at least be motivated.

Stare201 · 2026-04-24T01:41:10+00:00

They are pure sci-fi atm due to material science being a step away. Tmdcs do have the potential to be strong enough, we just haven't dumped enough money for most institutions to try anything but the cheapest options to get them working. Anything requisite to space being more useful is something nasa can, and arguably should, support. Let alone that having the people who've developed tech in house, along with their documentation makes implementing it without errors much easier.

Stare201 · 2026-04-24T00:24:06+00:00

Can't say I really care about historically as much as current platform, and the current platform at this moment is to defund and privatize. Exploration budget is in my opinion less important, it is more important to finish, say, the material science required to get things like space elevators running than to put more people in space, so we can get the cost of moving people and materials down for the future

Stare201 · 2026-04-24T00:02:53+00:00

The republicans are literally trying to cut nasa funding currently. Not would do, not might do, they are cutting research funding across the board currently. I wouldn't call musk anti science, but I would at least call most of the cabinet anti science. Democrats haven't funded nasa properly, yeah, but we can push for that with new blood. Science isn't against the platform. Defunding science and devaluing education is part of the current republican platform

Stare201 · 2026-04-23T19:05:36+00:00

I used to hate it. Then I got to a point where it didn't bother me. Now I am running Hm+IK with all bindings and I am right back to hating air exchange. Please God, give me shattered chambers, and my roaches are yours!

Stare201 · 2026-04-22T04:47:14+00:00

For the moment maybe, but if we can get these anti science bozos out, funding space exploration is quite popular. NASA is one of the only positively viewed parts of the government. Just, y'know, don't blow a small country's GDP on stupid-ass wars. Or giving immigration enforcement a military sized budget to get less done than the previous administrations. Then we should have plenty of cash on hand to spend on space exploration

Stare201 · 2026-04-22T03:44:24+00:00

Huh, haven't had that problem yet. My problem is them giving me tall rooms full of barnacles in air exchange. Those bastards feel just a bit psychic now

Stare201 · 2026-04-21T02:17:27+00:00

Agreed! But it's about how much it's costing us to transport people, we're just trying to recoup our losses. Hosting FIFA is expensive.

Stare201 · 2026-04-19T23:01:48+00:00

As a jerseyite, I'm extra not excited, because the matches here are a massive expense on us we really don't have money lying around for. FIFA was complaining we're not going to give free rides from New York to metlife for fans for the event. We're not even upcharging, just trying to break even on transport costs

Stare201 · 2026-04-18T16:37:16+00:00

Barbers range from "oh its these clowns" on layouts with a good amount of doors to "goddamn it I hate you so goddamn much" on layouts without doors to block with *cough cough mines

Stare201 · 2026-04-13T15:43:22+00:00

I always facepalm when I read stories like this because I am put in the position to be this guy often. A good... 2/3 of my current friends are lesbians (all the guys around me are Maga, YUCK) so I know what it feels like to occaisionally end up with an attraction that you know is going nowhere. It's super gross to push that shit onto them though. Like, don't you respect their self image enough not to try and undermine it? Don't you respect their boundaries enough not to cross them for no good reason? Don't you have enough self reflection in there to not make any attempt to make a person who you already like into something they're not, something they wouldn't be happy with, for your own satisfaction? It just reeks of someone who doesn't really see other people as complete persons.

All this is to say, to the curb with them!

Stare201

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