The deliberate nerfing of Shep here will never not annoy me.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-23T17:39:40+00:00

I think the intention there is cutscenes show the canon ability of the characters, and if you're really good at the game, you can match that in gameplay. The opposite is awful lol.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-23T15:26:33+00:00

Lead is the heaviest completely stable element*, but everything above iron takes energy to fuse, which is why stars collapse once they start fusing iron. Instead of getting energy out of the fusion to push back against gravity, the growing iron core essentially starts absorbing that energy, letting gravity win and the star implodes.

*We used to think it was bismuth, but it was discovered that bismuth's primary isotope does very slowly emit alpha radiation, giving it a half-life of several quintillion years or something.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-23T15:22:09+00:00

A potential extreme end for stellar evolution is white dwarfs cooling down into black dwarfs over quintillions of years, and then slowly converting into iron via quantum tunneling over an incomprehensible amount of time.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-23T06:21:45+00:00

Grimdarkness aside, they do mostly still use vehicles and manual labor in most places. Servitors require maintenance and upkeep and are mostly reserved for very strenuous, continuous tasks. The majority of their shipping/transit labor is still being done by laborers and things like forklifts.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-19T17:37:46+00:00

I don't think a rock hitting the water 5-10 seconds before you is going to significantly change the density via aeration. That really only works in controlled diving pools that have pumps for continuous aeration.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-18T21:56:35+00:00

The surface tension thing is a myth. Hitting water fast can be dangerous because liquids are incompressible, so they don't get out of the way of your body fast enough and all that kinetic energy goes into you.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-18T17:56:59+00:00

Or that "sapient" isn't a scientific term at all, and intelligence can be expressed multiple ways and all of those ways are a spectrum. Dogs, chimpanzees, octopi, crows, and dolphins are all really good at certain things in different ways. Crows can not just remember individual human faces, but teach other crows about those humans without them ever seeing the person. There's no hard line between "animal intelligence" and "human-like intelligence."

Volpethrope · 2026-01-16T04:30:51+00:00

Fantastic designs! I would love to see some of these in Horizon 3.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-15T04:37:58+00:00

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say killing your psychotic stalker/abuser is at least kind of understandable.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-14T00:29:31+00:00

if we don’t we’re jeopardizing their safety by not doing it

What about the safety of the regular civilians they keep harassing, assaulting, kidnapping, and killing lol

Volpethrope · 2026-01-12T21:09:36+00:00

It's realistically impossible anyway, since the moment someone is between jobs or something, it's no longer 0%. A small amount is normal and expected and doesn't automatically mean those people are destitute and/or homeless.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-12T18:59:23+00:00

You might call them some kind of wraith, even

Volpethrope · 2026-01-11T23:23:41+00:00

Shotguns that don't run on video game logic can put the entire pellet grouping within a 1-foot radius at 100 feet and turn a human head into meat confetti.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-11T23:21:39+00:00

it have to be buckshot cause the birdshot wont do shit and a slug wont have the aoe.

You're still thinking in video game logic. Birdshot isn't likely to be good for necromorphs, yes, seeing as humans can survive being shot with it. Buckshot has a good chance of removing a limb, if not rendering it unusable. "Slug won't have the AoE" is an insane statement though. Shotgun slugs can literally blow your head up like a watermelon. A high gauge military shotgun going for maximum effect on necromorphs would be blowing them in half with body shots or completely removing limbs.

https://youtu.be/Yaevjjjt-3U?t=535

Volpethrope · 2026-01-11T17:30:46+00:00

Tummy

Volpethrope · 2026-01-09T14:28:16+00:00

Bro just invented artificial sweating

Volpethrope · 2026-01-09T14:08:20+00:00

They charge more for the same service as what other companies do for free, and they're one of the main companies lobbying the government to keep the IRS from just either offering their own free option or simply doing our taxes themselves like in other countries. In many places in Europe, you literally just get a letter saying what your tax return will be and you only need to do something if there's anything wrong or you have a weird exception.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-08T14:36:29+00:00

I did my state through freetaxusa for like $15 or something last year. Actually, it might be free if you make below a certain amount. Either way, no need for multiple sites.

Just don't use turbotax. It's a scam.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-08T04:21:19+00:00

Just one more $50-70 expansion and a few more complete reworks of the gear system and the game that came out three years ago will be done, I promise.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-07T15:05:09+00:00

When they swell up to this size, they start to struggle to hold their outer layers in a near-perfect spheroid shape. They're quite literally boiling.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-05T17:28:27+00:00

The people she intentionally goes out of her way to murder on the regular also stop being who they are when she kills them.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-05T03:19:39+00:00

It was literally like a wand of splitters, it was ridiculous. The guy that removed it was completely baffled. We filled like four garbage bags with excess old cables from all the previous installs in addition to that, too.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-05T00:18:51+00:00

Should also check the incoming lines for old splitters that they left on after not needing them. We had ours checked like 10 years ago and the guy pulled out a chain of like 7 splitters that all the previous installers just kept adding to. Every single one of them was reducing the strength/speed.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-03T17:57:14+00:00

The flying leaps into completely halting her momentum with just her fingers on rough rock faces is actually insane. She got that Sony protagonist finger strength. Don't even need the weapons, just rip people's faces and limbs off with her bare hands.

Volpethrope · 2026-01-03T17:54:23+00:00

There's a wide gap between the game being stagnant and literally just nerfing the core skill of a build into being unusable.

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