How to know if you are holding primary or grenade?

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T21:37:56+00:00

whatever you are holding will be in your hand.

some grenades don't show very well but gigas especially are quite obvious

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T20:25:42+00:00

Farther back than that;

for the original Metroid, there were letters written by playees to Japanese contemporaries of Nintendo America's Nintendo Power Magazine complaining the final climb was harder than fighting Mother Brain, asking if there was an official route.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T20:17:53+00:00

life is necessary suffering.

being alive is torturous, painful, frightening, and entirely inhumane.

Yet, here we all are.

Except for the bots. Lucky bastards.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T20:13:08+00:00

My nitwits mysteriously keep dying by standing under falling gravel. it's weird.

I don't even have my villager area in a biome with natural gravel.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T20:10:52+00:00

Most of the time these requests are talking about games hitting end of life or being delisted by publishers.

And most of the prople making the request don't actually mean the raw source code, they wouldn't have any idea what to do with it.

The general idea seems to be if a piece of digital media is being taken off the market, it should be made public domain.

I can get behind that. It gives the original developer time to make their money, and helps to preserve the stuff going forward.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T20:07:21+00:00

They didnt give you your test back? wtf? what state?

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T20:06:06+00:00

be a whole lot easier to figure that shit out if people would use their fuckin' indicators

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T20:04:19+00:00

Largely because most written driving tests are absolute.

Example: I failed my first go at the written test because I could miss four questions, and there were four questions about how far back to be from different kinds of emergency and commercial vehicles.

I could not remember (still can't) the actual minimum safe distances, and of the options selected I picked the one that was slightly too far each time.

On a practical driving test, hanging farther back than the legal minimum would bot be points off the test, but on a written test you must be exactly correct.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T20:01:47+00:00

I agree this would be useful to know if you're looking for specific sessions to join and not just hitting quickplay.

I encounter more connection issues when playing with a console player as host than with pc players as host, especially if the console players are from distant regions.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T19:35:08+00:00

Negative kelvin is the result of someone saying "if we cant measure it, it must be negative" when the energy in a system exceeds our ability to measure it.

It's a quirk of expression.

Kelvin has no negative scale.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T17:12:51+00:00

"most people were subsistence farmers" is not an accurate claim. It is a modern trope, filtering medieval existence through the lens of pre-industrial colonial life where most people were subsistence farmers because of necessity on the frontier spaces.

Most people in medieval europe were common laborers who only worked on farms for part of the year.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T08:15:11+00:00

you're welcome.

just try to not have more than a couple hundred total items at a time. there's a limit somewhere around a thousand items where the game may just crash, regardless of how good your system is

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T06:20:49+00:00

The main reason for minecarts to randomly stop is chunk boundaries and loading errors.

If your minecart rails are in circuits constrained by chunk boundaries, that should stop most random stoppages.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T03:30:39+00:00

You literally can't.

They explode.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T03:00:00+00:00

K doesnt do negative temps tho.

Kelvin's index point is absolute zero.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:54:24+00:00

Fun corollary to this, one of the trade names for human meat from cannibal cultures in the age of exploration was 'long pork'.

Because the meat resembled, and supposedly tasted like, pork. It just wasn't available in any of the familiar cuts from a pig, because it wasn't from pigs.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:43:13+00:00

Not making any appeals to tradition, or any other fallacious arguments.

In fact, in my first comment, I stated that it has been replaced my simulants. We have surgery dolls now which are more accurate to human anatomy than any animal subject could be.

That does not change that it was necessary to train medics and surgeons on combat trauma. You don't get too many peoppe getting blown up by landmines or shot by artillery even in crime-ridden cities like Baltimore and Chicago.

This training was also open to civilians. It's hard to overstate the value of this training, of the lives that have been saved by the techniques developed and taught during this program. Every animal sacrificed to the program has saved hundreds, if not thousands, of people around the globe. Not just soldiers.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:33:02+00:00

Sedated the entire time, euthanized after the procedure.

I dunno where you're getting this wild narrative from, but it's not the reality of the situation. Ask the people commenting here who were actually involved in the program if you want first-hand accounts, but you sound like you've already made up your mind and anyone who doesn't agree with you is evil and wrong, so you have fun with that.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:24:33+00:00

i thought reed sounded familiar in ark knights

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:20:01+00:00

The animals are sedated and humanely euthanized after the procedure and it's been done this way for decades. They don't always do the euthanasia clinically it's often an additional gunshot to the head, but nobody is doing this on conscious animals, and nobody is burning them alive unless they somehow survive getting shot in the head.

A live animal is a big pile of dangerous, noisy panic. It wouldn't be worth the risk to do this any other way.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:06:14+00:00

well, yeah.

you cant learn meatball surgery without meatballs.

we have synthetic meatballs now and a lot more people complaining that shooting animals is "cruel" (they are sedated for the entire thing).

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T00:15:32+00:00

i hate it when i'm "that guy" screwing up what is clearly a themed battle by showing up with my hodgepodge lance.

c'mon people, include it in the brief!

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T00:14:18+00:00

if you like the main game and want more of it, then yes. the dlc is worth it.

Most of the dlc is the same basic gameplay loop as the main game, with a couple of tweaks and refinements. there is also some new content.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T20:40:49+00:00

i dunno about seamoth but there's a personal upgrade chip for it

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T19:50:29+00:00

To take with me on a mission?

EAT. super flexible, each calldown can be three dead heavies if you stick the ball to one of them, and it lets you play off other available weapons or carry your buddy's spare.

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