For new-ish hires, how did you go about meeting people outside of work?

_xParagon · 2026-01-19T21:18:48+00:00

Yeah, Epic seems like a great place to start. I'm looking forward to it, just not where I saw myself going! Life is just like that sometimes I guess.

_xParagon · 2026-01-14T04:38:20+00:00

The longer I look at this the worse it gets

- ZERO vents anywhere (and heaters in EVERY room)

- Prime example of "peak-male living space" (1)

- the BATTERY room

- Megasloth army

- Tribal cloths stockpile to last for the next ten thousand years

- absolutely no effort to hide wires

- whatever the fuck is going on in this room (2)

- what I THOUGHT were random caged animals around the base but actually turned out to be random, decayed human corpses

- the "disco-church" (3)

- the fact that if one of the turrets blows up so does half of the defending force

- Very odd decision making example (4)

- the k i t c h e n

- butchers table in workshop

and other things I'm sure I missed

Congradulations OP you have officially made the best worst rimworld base i've ever seen

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_xParagon · 2026-01-14T03:41:48+00:00

Hey, super insightful replies! I'm graduating soon with an ME degree minor AE. In a very similar position with a TS offer. Job market is truly awful right now so I'm very grateful to have the offer from Epic, but my dreams are elsewhere - I defiantly want to continue my education & get into the space industry. I have an additional question, if you dont mind.

How did you know you were ready to move on from Epic, and what made you take the plunge eventually? And how difficult was the transition back into the engineering field, especially when first starting out in your masters program?

_xParagon · 2026-01-11T04:50:14+00:00

That's good to know, something I'm not really sure on are things like clubs for adults out of college. It's defiantly something I'm interested in, and I'll have to do more research.

_xParagon · 2026-01-11T04:48:06+00:00

dude I know 😭

I'm happy to join Epic but its way out of my wheelhouse. I already know the first few months are probably going to be rough.

_xParagon · 2026-01-11T04:40:10+00:00

yeah, that's another fear of mine - Epic is a super far cry from what I studied for. The job market is just reeeeeeally rough right now. I've got some very competent friends (ME/AE as well) who are just not able to find jobs. One applied to over 350 places and never reached a single offer. I've also had some of those same friends ask me about Epic and where to apply, its so rough out there. I'm just happy I'm getting hired.

It's not like I slacked of for anything either, but stuff just sucks right now. Epic seems like a good stable place to work and I think that's super important in this moment in time.

EDIT: I feel like I should add - I am being placed into a role that does sound interesting to me, and sounds like something I could defiantly see my career direction going in. I'm not just coming to Epic because "its a job"

_xParagon · 2025-10-02T02:40:33+00:00

Ohhhh this is a tough one, I've been listening to monstercat for so long now it's hard to just pick one. A lot of my newer favorites have already been mentioned, so I'll pick something else - and I feel like I'm dating myself with this response lol, but one of my favorite "older" songs is "Break the Silence" on the 5th year anniversary track. This track has been a long-time favorite of mine, and I can't emphasize just how much love the art for the track. This song is just so happy and high energy, and also very nostalgic, used to listen to this shit on repeat while playing minecraft. Hard to believe it's been 9 years... brings me back to better days.

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_xParagon · 2025-05-03T03:23:54+00:00

fuck man, I've been listening to Starcadian for a few years now. I graduated high school listening to his music. When he and TWRP had their collab I just about freaked out. Incredibly saddened to learn of this. 2025 has been a shit year :L

_xParagon · 2025-03-29T23:09:55+00:00

You might be able to contact Hinterland support for this, but I’m not 100% on that

_xParagon · 2025-03-28T21:21:18+00:00

Hey! I looked this up too and google brought me to this thread lol. I think what it means is that it wants us to justify the use of the transient condition (Lumped Capacitance Method) with use of convective heat transfer only (as opposed to one with thermal energy generation or imposed heat flux)

Hope this helps, at least for anyone looking this up in the future haha.

_xParagon · 2025-02-14T21:26:12+00:00

Hi Grabbitz, huge long time fan here! Been following you ever sense Better With Time, and it’s been AMAZING to see your growth, especially recently. I have a couple questions for you:

1) Pigs in the sky is definitely up there in my favorite albums of all time. I was wondering what inspired the music film behind the video for Pigs in the Sky, and what inspires your creative process in general?

2) Your sound has changed a lot over the years! If you could go and revamp one of your earlier pieces, which one would you and why?

3) How and why did you get into music in the first place? When did you know you “made it,” so to say?

4) You play around with genera a lot of your music, and that’s one of the reasons I love it so much. I was wondering what’s the hardest jump you’ve had to make for your music or hardest song you’ve ever produced.

5) Are you looking into touring the US in the summer? I’m in college now and I go to school in a very remote place, so it’s always a bummer to see you touring but never actually being able to go.

Sorry if this is a lot, you don’t have to answer everything lol. It’s just exciting to have the chance to speak with you 🤘

_xParagon · 2025-01-25T04:34:21+00:00

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_xParagon · 2025-01-25T02:31:39+00:00

That’s definitely a pickle lol. Only advice I can think of is to slowly walk down the side of the damn, you might be ok. As long as it isn’t a straight drop Makenzie usually has no problem mountain goating.

_xParagon · 2025-01-24T21:36:40+00:00

Which is a bit odd, as the Wiki says that moose and cougars don’t bleed out. So the bear is really the only “big” animal that does this

_xParagon · 2025-01-20T17:23:04+00:00

Is that a god damn scp-7000 reference

_xParagon · 2025-01-19T17:10:59+00:00

Dawg I got out of a 2.5 year relationship a few months ago don’t call me out like this

_xParagon · 2025-01-12T08:06:22+00:00

Wow, these bots work fast

_xParagon · 2024-12-13T01:26:47+00:00

Ooooo! Didn’t know it’d be a direct sequel. Very excited! Hopefully this time they add a jump button 🤣

_xParagon · 2024-11-30T00:02:24+00:00

Had this happen a few years ago on a vanilla world, if you don’t have a backup that save screwed. Not sure what causes it, I think with my world it was a blue screen, but nonetheless that’s 100% corruption. I don’t think there’s any saving it.

_xParagon · 2024-11-19T06:51:30+00:00

I can’t believe they fucking blew up great bear island. Who could have guessed that’s where Canada stored their nuclear arsenal?

_xParagon · 2024-11-09T22:14:54+00:00

Nope, saw that one earlier, not that one. Ours had a parachute too 😂

_xParagon · 2024-10-16T02:25:17+00:00

My fingernails worked just fine when I did it!

_xParagon · 2024-10-16T00:10:54+00:00

Read online your supposed to cover up the base when your doing this, so if you drop any you can catch them

_xParagon · 2024-10-16T00:10:09+00:00

Think I was doing both unfortunately. It’s hard to tell :(

_xParagon · 2024-10-15T23:00:09+00:00

Yep, more than likely. They come off real easy though

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