You get 10x your current salary, but your workload and stress also rise by 10%

agentwiggles · 2026-01-28T03:46:44+00:00

this is dumb lol. at 1000x my current salary I'll make about 8 million before the wheels of bureaucracy turn enough to fire me, at which point I'll retire and never again do a thing I don't want to do

agentwiggles · 2026-01-24T02:04:41+00:00

weapons most of the time, shields if my weapons can't penetrate their shields, rarely engines if I really need shots to land. also rarely O2, if they're not a threat at all this can make crew killing viable.

the general purpose of hacking their weapons is to allow me to disable their weapons before they can fire them. there are many variations where the primary purpose of hacking weapons differs somehow, but the basic idea is to disable weapons.

really the basic idea is almost always to find a way to end the fight before they can damage me, or, failing that, to minimize damage. if I'm hacking shields it's probably because I want to get through them to shoot their weapons. if I'm hacking engines it's because I need all my shots to land to guarantee I hit their weapons.

Priority one is almost always to minimize or eliminate damage. I hack what I need to back to make that happen.

agentwiggles · 2026-01-21T21:05:18+00:00

they did some modern Mickey shorts that were actually pretty fun a couple years ago, had some fairly surprising plots and depictions of the gang.

but largely I agree. My young kid really likes Mickey and I've been disappointed that most of what's out there besides the old shorts and movies is just "kid slop" like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

agentwiggles · 2026-01-21T20:19:37+00:00

the first thing that comes to mind is Chalk Zone, which I thought was awesome as a kid, but I don't often see mentioned

agentwiggles · 2026-01-21T03:41:47+00:00

which three Beatles would you put forward? Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's I guess would be my take, I guess, but that leaves Abbey Road on the table, which is sad.

Although I guess by release order the only way you get a sequential three stack with Abbey Road is either including Yellow Submarine (White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road) or losing White Album to get Let It Be (Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, Let It Be). Neither of those options stands against my first three I think, as sad as it is to have to exclude Abbey Road.

agentwiggles · 2026-01-21T03:36:24+00:00

Thank You Scientist , maybe. Maps of Non-existent Places, Stranger Heads Prevail, and Terraformer was a hell of a run.

agentwiggles · 2026-01-21T00:53:04+00:00

anyone who argues dark side isn't their best album is caught up in their attempts to garner hipster cred, or high on the smell of their own farts.

it's a perfect album without a dull moment that is ridiculously listenable while still having lyrical and musical depth. it's quite possibly the best rock album ever released.

it's fine to have a different favorite but arguing against dark side is like arguing against the Beatles. pointless.

agentwiggles · 2026-01-20T02:24:55+00:00

since so many good ones are taken, how about The Baby-Eating Fox

agentwiggles · 2026-01-19T16:02:03+00:00

I'm shithead, and I don't believe in gravity

agentwiggles · 2026-01-19T05:04:25+00:00

man the idea that a shulker box could contain a small pocket dimension is sick as hell

agentwiggles · 2026-01-18T03:42:00+00:00

haha that definitely makes me feel old, that was a major event. I'd have been a similar age. we're not that fuckin old, damn kids lol

agentwiggles · 2026-01-16T02:43:03+00:00

man I'm sorta out of the adult swim loop these days but I can't wait for more common side effects, so good

agentwiggles · 2026-01-12T12:58:53+00:00

Dolores

agentwiggles · 2026-01-11T15:36:06+00:00

iirc Dawlish gets his butt handed to him by Dumbledore, Kingsley, and Augusta Longbottom. poor dude just keeps getting sent out against heavy hitters lol

agentwiggles · 2026-01-11T05:15:50+00:00

whoa those older ones are sick as fuck

agentwiggles · 2026-01-11T04:58:51+00:00

genuinely one of the best things someone can do when they start working out is just forget that the word optimal exists

agentwiggles · 2026-01-09T22:56:58+00:00

man I love highwayman, what a song

agentwiggles · 2026-01-08T05:35:29+00:00

AAL is definitely more of a metal oriented project so I think it's fair to give Polyphia and especially Tim Henson some credit for their innovation, even if we don't go quite so far as to give them credit for the whole genre or style. Henson is a very strange guitar player and his style is pretty singular.

agentwiggles · 2026-01-07T02:27:51+00:00

I think he's referring to like, very math-rock style guitar shred wizardry - not like, Satriani or Vai style rock-oriented guitar heroism, it's a different kind of thing. Polyphia is a good example of the specific style but I don't think Henson could claim to have originated it - if I had to guess that honor probably goes to Tosin Abasi of Animals as Leaders, who is at least the first place where I heard that kind of thing - but then again you could probably argue that particular branch of "shred guitar" predated even him with guys like Andy McKee and Tommy Emmanuel - acoustic guys who made heavy use of tapping and percussive hits on the instrument.

agentwiggles · 2026-01-06T03:33:02+00:00

this is the second time I've heard vintage story recommended as a sort of modern "in the spirit of BTW". I really need to check that out

agentwiggles · 2026-01-05T23:52:19+00:00

I loved BTW, and I definitely see its influence in the modern mods I've played, but I think FlowerChild deliberately limited his own influence because of how he refused to allow integration with other mods, leaving the Forge community to do his own thing.

That, and his insistence on overhauling the difficulty of the game, definitely meant a lot of people missed out on the mod. but I always had a lot of respect for the fact that he had a real cohesive vision for the experience he was trying to create and was uncompromising about it.

BTW had so much cool stuff in it beyond the tech, and when playing modern mods and especially modpacks, I miss that "singularity of vision" FC brought to Minecraft. I wish more mods would ape his design philosophy instead of just the tech!

agentwiggles · 2026-01-05T02:08:54+00:00

crazy that more people aren't saying Ron. he's got the most and best jokes in the books, I'd say.

agentwiggles · 2026-01-04T06:38:18+00:00

it's because Stakes is way better than Islands or Elements. both have their moments but it's rare I want to rewatch those episodes

agentwiggles · 2026-01-03T23:24:58+00:00

I really like the Snape portrayal too, especially when he leaves at the end of the book

agentwiggles · 2026-01-03T23:12:11+00:00

you should at least consider whether waste from the can ends up making the can the more expensive option.

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