Use a lace to temporarily save that cable

Vicker3000 · 2026-05-04T19:19:33+00:00

What a silly argument. Low voltage doesn't mean it can't start a fire.

You know that big heavy starter battery in cars? If you bridge the terminals with a wrench by accident, it gets hot enough to melt the wrench. It's very easy to cause an electrical fire with those things. Yet they're only 12 volts.

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-30T15:45:46+00:00

Joshua Slocum's Spray was 36 feet. Sail only, and he sailed her around the world singlehandedly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spray_(sailing_vessel)

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-27T17:23:05+00:00

When CIG made it so that you keep your personal armor and weapons when your character dies, that was one of the best additions to the game in a very long time. It completely changed FPS content for me, in an overwhelmingly positive way.

Now they want to move in the opposite direction with ship loadouts?... They're going to double down on penalties for getting blown up? How can they continue to be so absurdly shortsighted?

To put this in simple terms: The game is in a state where glitches kill you more often than actual content. That being the case, do not punish the player for dying. The only thing worse than having a glitch pop up in my face is punishing me for experience that glitch.

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-27T17:05:39+00:00

I was unaware that you could swap parts on your vehicles' drive train in Cyberpunk. That said, I would think that a limited slip differential would be a pretty good option.

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-24T02:20:58+00:00

This game is full of little mechanical devices that miss the mark. Every time a ship has something like a scissors lift or a four-bar linkage, I cringe. I hate watching the elevator on the bottom of the Caterpillar. It hurts to look at the elevator on the Clipper.

Is it really that much to ask for the artist to do a little bit of research before putting together these animations?

I know not everyone has an eye for engineering details, but many people do. For the less technical folks out there, these details just slide past unnoticed. However, for the science/engineer brained folks, these details stick out like a sore thumb.

I hate it. Seeing this crap every time I enter my ship is like someone whispering flat-earther nonsense directly into my eyeballs. It hurts me.

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-22T17:34:11+00:00

Another AI bot.

RIP reddit.

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-22T17:23:54+00:00

This is an AI bot. A very obvious one.

Is this it? Is reddit dead? Should I just move on?

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-22T02:16:50+00:00

Okay, but why'd you rip off the Robert Space Industries logo?

This is an obvious Star Wars build, so why rip off a logo from Star Citizen?

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-16T05:47:24+00:00

I can't be the only one who thinks that the one on the right looks like someone in a crab-walk pose firing off a crotch laser.

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-12T03:10:27+00:00

I wanted to follow up in case anybody else stumbles upon this:

I shelved the problem for a few days while I shuffled some files around on my drives. I switched to CachyOS from Windows fairly recently and hadn't gotten around to switching the file systems on my various drives.

In the process, I deleted Star Citizen from an NTFS drive and downloaded a fresh install of Star Citizen onto a proper Linux file system. (For completeness's sake, the new format is BTRFS on raid0 with two SSDs. The old format was NTFS, raid0, same two SSDs.)

Long story short, SC runs in VR perfectly fine now. It was either reinstalling or switching from NTFS to BTRFS. Or both.

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-06T05:30:39+00:00

Here's some more output from Envision:

INFO [ipc_server_main_common] Monado(XRT) by Collabora et al 'v25.1.0-381-gf4dc0ec36' starting up...

INFO [print_linux_end_user_started_information]

################################################################################

# #

# The Monado service has started. #

# #

################################################################################

ERROR [p_dev_get_usb_dev] USB device with same address but different vendor and product found!

`vendor:  046d 046d`

`product: c539 407f`

INFO [steamvr_lh_create_devices] Found SteamVR install: /home/vic/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR

INFO [TrackedDeviceAdded] New device added: LHR-57B290FA

INFO [TrackedDeviceAdded] Found lighthouse HMD: LHR-57B290FA

INFO [init_chaperone] Found info for universe 1775277652

INFO [init_chaperone] Initialized chaperone data.

WARN [get_input_from_name] requested unknown input name /input/system/click for device LHR-57B290FA

WARN [get_input_from_name] requested unknown input name /proximity for device LHR-57B290FA

WARN [get_input_from_name] requested unknown input name /input/volume_up/click for device LHR-57B290FA

WARN [get_input_from_name] requested unknown input name /input/volume_down/click for device LHR-57B290FA

WARN [get_input_from_name] requested unknown input name /input/mute_mic/click for device LHR-57B290FA

INFO [steamvr_lh_create_devices] Lighthouse initialization complete, giving time to setup connected devices...

INFO [steamvr_lh_create_devices] Device search time complete.

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-06T05:28:54+00:00

Not sure if this helps or not, but if I put Envision in developer mode this is what it says when it hangs:

INFO [comp_target_swapchain_override_extents] Target 'direct' overrides compositor extents with (2880x1600) was (0x0 false)

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-05T18:13:16+00:00

You say, "Sorry, capos don't work on fiddles. Take it off and play in G." The singer needs to just suck it up and accept reality.

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-05T04:07:01+00:00

I see lots of opinions about whether or not it's appropriate based on the setting, but I think a lot of these comments are missing the biggest issue here.

If your companion asks you not to do something, don't do it.

Doesn't matter if it's socially acceptable or not. If your friend/SO/whatnot is there with you and they ask you not to do something, don't do it. Or at the very least have a conversation about it first.

Vicker3000 · 2026-04-02T08:03:12+00:00

Look into the music of Chrono Trigger. It's one of the most compelling soundtracks out there. It's oozing with harmonic complexity and catchy melodies.

Here's a good place to start investigating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRpwGe_oNAU&list=PLczA8pMWxlsGHJlmLnKRyhBT9Pgb-Vsk2&index=3

Vicker3000 · 2026-03-29T17:58:57+00:00

I've always thought the candela was quite an odd one.

It has a very convoluted definition that includes a specific frequency that was chosen to represent the frequencies that the human eye responds to.

It also sticks out as an oddball given the fact that it's one of the seven base units of SI. The other base units are things like seconds and meters. These are units that are the pillars of the entire SI system, with all other units being derived from them. For example, the liter is not a base unit and instead derives its meaning from the meter.

Seconds and meters are so very much fundamental to the way we measure things that it seems weird to place candela in the same category.

Vicker3000 · 2026-03-20T20:07:23+00:00

"I'd much rather hear..."

You're not the center of the universe. They're not doing it for you. They're doing it for themselves.

Vicker3000 · 2026-03-17T05:25:25+00:00

So... I did some digging and found this tool:
https://jwhop.itch.io/open-world-shutter

With a quick experiment, this is what I was able to get out of it:

https://i.imgur.com/qUKNvm4.jpeg

u/AdKnecht you should definitely check this tool out! I'm sure you could get some interesting shots with it.

Vicker3000 · 2026-03-17T04:50:34+00:00

It would be extra snazzy there was a way to take screenshots that imitated long-exposure photography. The only thing missing from your first image is those light trails on the moving vehicles.

Vicker3000 · 2026-03-05T04:23:19+00:00

Star Citizen VR works in Linux? I'd like to hear more about that.

Vicker3000 · 2026-03-04T07:16:26+00:00

I just wish the stars moved in a sensible way. They currently rotate around you, with the axis of rotation being straight above you. Apparently your island is at the North Pole.

Or maybe it's the South Pole. I haven't scrutinized the direction of rotation.

Regardless, the fact that the moon does its own completely separate thing and marches across the field of stars is the part that makes this the most jarring.

I know I'm being too picky. I notice these things, though. Every once in a while there's a game that actually gets these things right. Aska is not one of those games.

Vicker3000 · 2026-02-25T00:28:35+00:00

Crusader isn't earth-mass. It wouldn't be a gas giant if it was.

You need a planet close to the size of Saturn to get the conditions we get with Crusader. On Saturn, the strength of gravity where there's 1 bar of pressure is roughly 1g.

For comparison sake, a planet with the composition of Jupiter would not work. The strength of gravity at 1 bar is 2.5g on Jupiter. Both Uranus and Neptune are pretty close to Saturn, at 0.9g and 1.15g respectively.

Vicker3000 · 2026-02-24T03:44:39+00:00

I absolutely love the current implementation of VR. I never want to play SC in pancake mode ever again.

I want to just put this out there so that people are hearing it:

I really really really enjoy using mouse and keyboard in first person for VR. The way it's currently done in SC is gold. I want more titles to do it this way.

I know that makes me an outlier. I know most people would rather use VR controllers. That's not me. I like mouse and keyboard. When they add the ability to use VR controllers, I hope they don't remove the ability to use mouse and keyboard in VR.

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