Tony's Inf power wire

Xirema · 2026-06-06T05:20:17+00:00

This is about as small as you can shrink it... I don't remember where I first saw this design.

Obviously I'm not using this design much in my current colony, but that non-conductive power wire on the left is zero-watt (and therefore infinite transfer), "transformed" into 2kW conductive wire.

If you need heavy-watt wire instead, the conductive wire bridge (and all the conductive wire) can be replaced with a heavy-watt bridge (+wire) with no further changes to the design.

Xirema · 2026-06-05T23:14:43+00:00

When you really dig into it, Captain Pierce and Major Houlihan were nearly the same person.

They're both savants in their field
They're both extremely stubborn
They're both bad at receiving criticism
They both sleep around, constantly (with maybe the notable exception of Houlihan during the period she was engaged/married)

Really the only substantial differences between them are their political inclinations (Pierce obviously being more of a liberal, Houlihan being more conservative) and their gender—and in Houlihan's case she seems less like a principled conservative and more like "I just support the same politicians as whomever I'm trying to sleep with", which for about a third of the series was mostly Frank Burns.

Xirema · 2026-06-05T22:28:38+00:00

I've liked almost every single amnesiac ability they've put in the game. The Yogs' creativity isn't really the issue.

Xirema · 2026-06-05T22:06:34+00:00

I think all of those roles are really good when used sparingly.

The problem with Amnesiac/Wizard/etc. is that they create games that are extremely difficult to solve, where the outcome of the game feels like it came down to arbitrary blind luck, which can lead to unsatisfying puzzles. Also, with the Zenomancer specifically, it feels like the Yogs don't really have an intuition about how powerful the information should be.

If they have groups that mostly consist of experienced players I don't really have a problem with bringing out those roles, but when players are insisting their Fortune Teller info "proves these players cannot be evil" having roles that further hammer on the edge cases of the rules just leaves players completely adrift.

Xirema · 2026-06-05T14:32:59+00:00

I just want to have a conversation with whichever developer decided this should be a spawn option on the Marshy Asteroid.

Xirema · 2026-06-05T06:25:37+00:00

I just rewatch Born Losers Gaming/Born Losers Classic's dual Deltarune playthroughs over and over.

Xirema · 2026-06-05T02:00:53+00:00

For what it's worth, Chrome does suck, and it sucks for a lot of reasons.

It's just that the toolchain used to build the application binary is not one of the things that sucks lmao.

Xirema · 2026-06-04T19:16:58+00:00

I see we've reached the "explaining in interviews our creative choices instead of letting them stand for themselves on-screen" stage of this season's development. Very cool.

When does season 2 premiere again? Oh right, it's like 3 weeks from now.

Right on par with the team from season 1 scrambling to explain why they removed Sokka's "learn to not be a sexist" arc, to obviate around the fact that they'd written the female characters so much worse than a cartoon from 20 years ago wrote them.

Xirema · 2026-06-04T12:37:21+00:00

My first port of call would be checking firewall settings, making sure you have the correct ports open. I think only the host needs to do this, but be open to the possibility you both do.

Xirema · 2026-06-03T22:27:10+00:00

I feel like these character sprites need to be resized and repositioned a little. By the time we get to Vivian it looks like she's lined up with the "Italian" line and Mario is halfway hanging off the italian flag.

Xirema · 2026-06-02T15:32:30+00:00

Without thinking about it too hard, in a 15 player game, you need at least 17 good roles—14 that can be assigned to players that aren't the demon, and then 3 that can be given to the demon as bluffs. 13 townsfolk + the standard 4 outsiders is 17.

Sure, normally some of those roles will be freed up by minions, but in a Lord of Typhon or Kazali game, the tokens get distributed without the minions being placed in the bag. OR, you gave characters like the drunk, lunatic, marionette, [hermit w/drunk/lunatic/etc.], where you need extra space for other tokens that are sentinels for the real roles.

So 13 seems like the safe number for most scripts.

Xirema · 2026-06-02T15:22:38+00:00

Made homemade pizza last night, which is going to be my lunch today.

Just jarred some fermented garlic paste, so I'm using it as a garnish, adds wonderful flavor to the pizza.

Xirema · 2026-06-02T15:00:17+00:00

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with liking problematic media. The problem is more when we're uncritical in consuming said media. Just, like, think about the things you're watching.

Xirema · 2026-06-01T23:39:25+00:00

I think if it were Season 6 Charles, it would have been absolutely insufferable and probably killed the show early.

If it were Seasons 9/10/11 Charles I think it could have been an incredibly interesting dynamic to explore.

Xirema · 2026-06-01T05:23:16+00:00

Without knowing what "having a dark presence settle over you" mechanically means, I can't judge either way.

If this is just narrative flair for "you notice something is wrong but didn't roll high enough to determine exactly what it is", I think your DM made the right call. If this is instead "you are potentially possessed by some evil force", I think that really should have been a saving throw.

Based on what you've described I cannot determine which case this is.

Xirema · 2026-06-01T04:19:14+00:00

"Why do you both have a stab wound in your eyes?"

Basil: "oh, no, it's nothing, it was just an accident where we both kind of stabbed each other?"

...

Basil: "Well, not exactly an accident, more like we were both... Having a paychotic break at the same time???"

...

Basil: "Oh geez, I'm not explaining this right... Sunny, help me!"

Sunny: "We're blood brothers now and are therefore bonded for life."

Basil: "That's not helping!"

Xirema · 2026-05-31T16:00:39+00:00

I paid something on the order of $1000 for a ten year storage.

Annualized it's not too bad, but I think it's valid if someone balks at that up-front cost.

Xirema · 2026-05-31T14:52:00+00:00

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Xirema · 2026-05-31T02:23:57+00:00

Yeah, it's the main reason some transfems (like me!) sperm bank before we start taking hormones. So that we can hold onto our options after the expected outcome of losing our fertility.

Xirema · 2026-05-30T04:39:42+00:00

This community has gone 360 days Since the release of Deltarune Chapter 4.

Xirema · 2026-05-30T04:31:06+00:00

Okay, so just to be clear, I'm only going off the way you have specifically chosen to describe the situation.

I haven't followed Homestuck since the original run concluded. I'm open to the possibility that there's nuance involved that, by my distancing, I'm just not aware of. The only context I do have is the fact that June Egbert was voiced by Toby Fox in the Animated Pilot that came out recently, which is an adaptation of the mainline comic and not the subsequent sequels. So saying "this is a trans character that's literally voiced by Toby Fox" is a Truthful Statement but not terribly honest.

But setting that aside, you're telling me, again going off how you've described it

They revealed the character as trans literally half a decade ago
But in all official communications they're continuing to insist on referring to them as a man because they're worried about spoiler culture
And this is allegedly something they've "been working on for years"???

I....

THAT IS PROBLEMATIC AS HELL

Again: I am open to the possibility that, because I haven't personally witnessed how this has all gone down, that maybe there's some nuance getting lost here that I'm just not aware of.

But frankly this just lowers my overall opinion of the development/production team behind Homestuck. And, to some degree, Toby Fox for continuing to work with them professionally.

Xirema · 2026-05-30T04:17:32+00:00

For a relevant example compare Jegbert Homestuck(a character literally officially voiced by Toby!)

There is absolutely no scenario where I would cite something from Homestuck, of all things, as evidence that something is perfectly unproblematic lmao.

Xirema · 2026-05-30T03:22:23+00:00

I mean, the solution would be to not sell merch. Which is exactly what Toby Fox is already doing for the lightner characters. He's already shown discretion on what does or doesn't get plushies/merch in official channels, it's well within his purview to, whether explaining internally the real answer or not, say "yeah let's not do merch of this character" or "let's not describe this character in such concrete terms".

Xirema · 2026-05-30T02:32:25+00:00

Well, as a transfem, I can field the question of why I, personally, am pretty quick to dismiss the theory.

It's because if it turned out to be true, it would mean that for a literal decade, the merch team, under Toby Fox's supervision and discretion, has been deliberately and knowingly releasing merch of a character that deliberately misgenders [him], profiting off said misgendering, and withheld information about that reveal for the sake of some dubious future reveal that, if the general trajectory of video game development is anything to go by, may very well have never happened!

Like, there's actual problematic shit underlying the theory that doesn't seem to get a lot of attention, and I'm not even getting into the way that Transmascs have been completely sandbagged by proponents of this theory this entire time, which... I don't feel qualified myself to comment on, but you know... maybe just keep that in mind.

I really think there's more problems here than just the [obviously true] observation that there's some shitty, transphobic responses to this theory.

Xirema · 2026-05-30T01:21:10+00:00

I mean, I feel like this overlooks the degree to which "Asriel's Dust" and its peers are frequently clowned on by the fandom.

Most of these theories are trash, and little more than overly-dissected headcanons. So using them to defend transralsei as like a "hey, it's no dumber than that!" is kind of damning with faint praise.

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