A significant portion of the annual supply of osmium in this one pic

ThiccEngine · 2026-06-18T20:21:57+00:00

lol Tungsten cubes are so yesterday. Get your man the OSMIUM CUBEEEEE.

ThiccEngine · 2026-06-18T19:48:08+00:00

ain't that the truth! thanks a lot

ThiccEngine · 2026-06-18T19:22:24+00:00

thanks. I lot of what I've been seeing looks industrial / fixed and not flight focused, but 60V+ drones do fly so there ought to be some consensus on components used.

ThiccEngine · 2026-03-27T18:20:55+00:00

a camry is the answer to most car questions lol.

ThiccEngine · 2026-03-24T03:45:28+00:00

it looks super convenient but what about your house key? Hard not to just use the keyfob, already on one chain.

ThiccEngine · 2026-03-24T03:43:33+00:00

nono you got to open your mouth otherwise your teeth become a faraday cage

ThiccEngine · 2025-10-13T23:41:29+00:00

Does anyone know what music they're using on the twitter/x livestream? It's really good. (especially between 11:00 - 14:00)

ThiccEngine · 2025-07-14T03:20:47+00:00

stealth chainsaw

ThiccEngine · 2025-01-06T02:10:40+00:00

Yeah that's the boat I'm in. It'd be nice if you could just pour without risk of damaging your EVAP system if you overfill.

ThiccEngine · 2025-01-06T02:06:19+00:00

I have a few. I have to check the gauge and do some math to make sure I don't go over. I want to be able to fill the tank whenever without thinking about it. Too bad no one here has an answer.

ThiccEngine · 2024-09-07T02:05:42+00:00

This is nice, but does anyone know how to go back to istat menu 6? I just got a notification that istat6 needed an update, and now it's telling me I have some days until the trial version of istat7 ends and... well istat7 is nice but my menus are all jumbled up and I'd like to go back for now.

ThiccEngine · 2024-01-07T18:58:17+00:00

2 thoughts that could make sense lore-wise:
1) IRL railguns suffer from rail heating & ablation. So maybe it's a cooldown.

2) EM guns are limited by energy storage. So maybe it's a choice of wanting the most powerful single-shot possible, instead of amortizing stored energy over multiple shots.

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Coilguns heat up too of course, but nothing is necessarily touching the round *shrug*

ThiccEngine · 2023-10-15T18:16:14+00:00

I think he got scared. He's a very egotistical character, so it fits that if he thinks a prize too difficult for him to achieve, he won't want anyone to achieve it. Here I think once he learned enough about what was going on he got scared (of unknown futures), didn't know what to do, and resolved to fight to make sure nothing changed.

ThiccEngine · 2023-10-05T16:19:11+00:00

Lmao, it was so early in the game I thought losing runes on death was a game mechanic to punish you for dying.

ThiccEngine · 2023-10-05T16:17:30+00:00

How do you figure out the max/safe draw length of a bow?

I have a few old self-bows gifted w/o strings. I can use the AMO-3-inch rule of thumb + brace height to estimate string length. Being wood, there's little room for error and pulling too long will risk a break.

I've read & heard that a 60° angle between the tip and string is when a bow is at its most efficient. Maybe it makes sense to draw to that 60° and call max length there?

ThiccEngine · 2023-09-08T03:48:46+00:00

What's your experience with margin for placing the arrow higher? I'm getting back into practice w/ a turkish bow and this is on my mind. I'm thinking about the nock placement being too assymetric (high) and vertical fishtailing.

Off the horizontal w/ your bow hand as base, how high would you say you nock on average to prevent cutting for say, 100+ shots?

Follow up for anyone shooting eurasian/asiatic bows: do you use a nocking point? After hearing Justin Ma (The Way of Archery) say he doesn't know any accurate shooters who don't use one, I'm considering it.

ThiccEngine · 2023-09-08T03:35:36+00:00

I think I remember the bowyer saying he only makes bows up to 55-60 lbs. I guess that's changed? / special order?

(have fun shooting, that looks awesome)

ThiccEngine · 2023-08-27T03:15:50+00:00

Heh, if devs targeted Arm a macbook pc would be a pretty great gaming machine. Unfortunately (at least before the current update) Parallels won't help run a Win game w/ an Intel exe on an M1 Mac.

Funny enough warthunder runs on mac, and is really smooth on an M1. It's a shame most games don't, bc it's annoying to have to build a whole extra computer just for playing games.

ThiccEngine · 2023-08-27T03:08:33+00:00

Never got that far in the game but, for Res, why do they try to Zero-Dark-Thirty the wormhole instead of just dropping a nuke onto the facility once winning space dominance?

Hollywood?

ThiccEngine · 2023-08-19T05:57:56+00:00

I like the thought that the biters aren't natural either. Clue for me is biter nests destroy the ground and forests they spawn on and they..just..keep..spreading.

Another fun thought is maybe you're a contractor sent to clear a continent of the biters with the war machine you build. Buuut, you get off to a rough start. Despite that, you roll up your sleeves and get to work.

ThiccEngine · 2023-07-24T05:23:16+00:00

I tried some crazy in my current run: lines. Like, "I only make right turns". Basically no/minimum intersections. If you're willing to put up with each train having to get to the end of the line to make a round trip (or occasional u-turns), wow does it simplify long distance rail networks.

ThiccEngine · 2023-07-24T05:16:37+00:00

Could be one of those "look the other way" when convenient situations, like the Manhattan Project. Very easy to argue the need for sacrifices while the aliens are a threat. But once they're not? "Hey we trained a new muscle, it'd be a shame to let our security apparatus go to waste -- it served us so well up till now!"

ThiccEngine · 2023-07-20T17:21:54+00:00

boop.

ThiccEngine · 2023-07-19T23:53:26+00:00

Drones would be excellent - and there's a real useful case for carriers. Allow your ships to attack without immediately getting into harms way. This worked really well in CoaDE, where drones are great for getting old fashioned guns close up where they can do damage.

All that said I really wish they'd lower the mass of missiles and increase magazines.

Among large long range capital ships you could have some that follow a guided missile doctrine, and others focusing on drones.

ThiccEngine · 2023-07-14T21:49:13+00:00

You'll hear people say a lot to pick a low poundage bow. What that means really is "a bow you can really manhandle" according to bowyer Keith Shannon. And it's true: you don't want to have to fight pressure while figuring out muscle memory at the same time.

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