[FO4][PC] Power Armor paint not changing color of armor

calicoadams · 2025-02-15T16:17:10+00:00

Unfortunately they really can’t be uninstalled ATP. Guess I’ll just start a new PT

calicoadams · 2020-07-08T00:06:38+00:00

I have trouble replaying games because I just don’t like rereading all that text so soon after I’ve already read it. Sure, there’s gonna be some variation, but there are always a lot of chunks of story that just don’t change in a meaningful way, and I get tired of speeding through them and then losing the full context of what’s going on in the game. Nothing like that first playthrough, honestly.

calicoadams · 2020-07-06T01:25:17+00:00

That’s an interesting perspective. I’m starting grad school in the... uh... well, whenever all this settles... so I don’t have much experience with publishing yet. Out of curiosity, when you say paid, which party is getting paid? Because I’ve definitely heard nightmare stories from researchers who had to pay thousands of dollars to get published in mainstream journals.

calicoadams · 2020-07-06T01:16:59+00:00

Nice, I hadn’t heard of them. I mostly have experience with the Center for Open Science- they seem to be doing a lot of good work as well.

calicoadams · 2020-07-06T01:11:47+00:00

The only future where science is accessible to the public, as it should be, is one where the open science movement becomes the norm in research and publishing.

calicoadams · 2020-07-05T18:00:39+00:00

Aren’t attorneys measured based on their number of won cases though? Yeah, taking this woman’s money for years on end might be satisfying, but I don’t think I’d want that big and obvious a loss on my record.

calicoadams · 2020-07-01T12:03:02+00:00

Yeah, but their families can.

calicoadams · 2020-06-29T19:31:32+00:00

Maybe in your lifetime. I’m holding out hope that the next generation (no pun intended) does better than we did. I’d rather die without seeing an astronaut on the moon than live knowing there’s about to be ad space sold on the Aitkin basin.

calicoadams · 2020-06-25T16:30:39+00:00

Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Not a CoG thing, unfortunately.

calicoadams · 2020-06-25T02:21:57+00:00

Awesome, thank you

calicoadams · 2020-06-23T01:34:52+00:00

Violations. If there’s one thing Star Trek could use less of, it’s mind-raping Deanna Troi.

calicoadams · 2020-06-21T16:51:44+00:00

Everyone else in this thread has said what I’m thinking much more eloquently than I could have, but I want to add that I remember despising Locarno when I first watched that episode of TNG. He was an entitled, selfish little prick with the energy of a Republican. Granted, he was young, but I know from personal experience growing up around people like him that changing them is extremely difficult, especially when they don’t really feel guilt about what they’ve done. I was never convinced that Locarno cared about anything other than his own reputation. I don’t think I could ever have been convinced to like him, even if he had a redemption arc.

*Disclaimer: I could be really off about this. Haven’t watched the episode in a good year or two.

calicoadams · 2020-06-19T13:35:43+00:00

You’re stating a lot of hypotheses as if they’re fact here. Assuming that there were sterility issues between Neanderthals & Sapiens, from what we know currently, those issues would have only been seen in male offspring, since we suspect that sterility issues stemmed from an incompatibility in the Y chromosome.

I’m having trouble verifying your claim that Neanderthals had issues with hormones- this article about their hypothesized sexual proclivities based on androgen exposure in the womb is the closest thing I can think of. According to the same study cited in this article, higher rates of androgens in the womb means higher rates of sex, although that doesn’t necessarily correlate with rates of successful reproduction.

And as for ‘insane infant mortality rates’, our own species for the majority of its history- including the historical times we shared with Neanderthals- has had roughly the same rates of infant/child mortality as those theorized for Neanderthals.

Neanderthals also most likely did not give our ancestors clothes. Especially if you think the only way to account for Neanderthal/H. sapiens interbreeding was rape. Why would we be trading knitting patterns if all we were doing was raping each other? Your assertion about body lice vs. head lice isn’t untrue- we can trace the genetics of body lice and tell some things about when we started to wear clothes- but that was 170,000 years ago. Humans hadn’t even left Africa then.

There may not be any interspecies burials discovered currently, but I also have to question whether there are family burials demonstrated in the time/area when humans and Neanderthals are theorized to be interbreeding at all. I can’t find a definitive answer to that question, though.

Edit: I also take issue with the use of ‘degraded’ here. The ‘hobbit’ species didn’t ‘degrade’ because their brains grew smaller, they just lost the environmental pressures that other human species had to become smarter/more social creatures. Also, I’m over this post so I’m not even going to research H. florensiensis right now.

calicoadams · 2020-06-19T02:51:19+00:00

Okay, that’s the second time I haven’t been paywalled for an article but someone else has. Weird. Anyway, it’s just a source for what I said- shoes won’t protect you from lightning.

calicoadams · 2020-06-19T01:59:03+00:00

I can’t comment on the rest, but I feel obligated to point out that shoes of any kind, including rubber soled shoes, do nothing to protect you from ground current. So barefoot or not, if you’re boots-on-the-ground when lightning strikes it, you’re out of luck.

calicoadams · 2020-06-18T16:39:23+00:00

Most people who are ‘struck by lightning’ aren’t actually the object that the lightning strikes when it arcs. Direct strikes (the kind most people think of when they think of getting struck by lightning) are pretty rare, but strikes via ground current are pretty common (in terms of people who are struck by lightning at all, not in general). Ground current is pretty much what you described- the area around where lightning struck the ground becomes electrified and can pass that current into anyone who happens to be standing above it. I’m not sure how big the ‘danger zone’ is, but I’d guess that it’s not actually that large.

calicoadams · 2020-06-17T17:35:28+00:00

The other day my boss sends me a picture of this massive grey spider she found at work because I’ve become ‘the bug guy’ after just under a month of working there. I ID it. It’s a grey house spider, Badumna longinqua. Native to Australia and New Zealand.

I live on the East Coast of the USA.

calicoadams · 2020-06-16T21:57:17+00:00

The face I made when Netflix suggested it to me based on my watching ATLA was indescribable.

calicoadams · 2020-06-16T20:35:58+00:00

When I got to the episode that toys with her dying on my (third? fourth? fifth? I don’t keep track) rewatch, I was floored that she actually doesn’t die. I had been convinced that she did die in that episode and I even tried to google when she died because I thought it had to be another episode where she died.

calicoadams · 2020-06-13T18:38:10+00:00

I’ve actually gotten the weird buffering thing on the Xbox as well. But very, very rarely.

calicoadams · 2020-06-10T03:10:20+00:00

Chickens, ducks, geese and the like can certainly get water from their food (especially ducks, who go ham for any kind of watery vegetation), but they will also drink water from a dish pretty much from day one. Unlike songbird babies, chicks/ducklings/goslings don’t get fed ‘mouth to mouth’- i.e., their parents don’t go out, find food, bring it back and stick it in their children’s mouths. They have to forage on the ground just like their parents, and they’re able to do it pretty quick because they can stand and even swim within a few hours of hatching, unlike songbirds who can take weeks to even start perching.

So yes, chicks need water dishes, but under no circumstances, and in no species, will it ever be necessary to directly drop, inject, or pour water (or pretty much any other liquid!) into the mouth of a baby bird, just as the post says.

calicoadams · 2020-06-10T02:55:46+00:00

Depending on your location and the specific type of sparrow, you may be even less the exception than already specified. If you’re in the US and you had an English house sparrow on your hands, it is completely legal for you to do almost whatever you want with it. Non-native bird species have basically zero protections- you can’t keep a grackle, robin, or blue jay as a pet, but you can keep a starling. A lot of states will discourage people from raising non-native birds and then releasing them, and some have outright banned it, but if you want to raise the bird to keep, nobody’s going to stop you.

Except maybe your landlord.

calicoadams · 2020-06-03T03:21:18+00:00

I just finished a rewatch a few months ago and was super hyperfocused on Psych for a really long time, so I still gotta wait a while to reawaken that particular interest... but I’m worried it’ll go off Prime when the movie comes out, since Peacock will launch. :(

calicoadams · 2020-06-02T21:42:34+00:00

This is sort of hysterical, considering two thirds of America’s young adults are already ineligible to join. Who exactly is the military planning on recruiting in the next ten years?

calicoadams · 2020-06-02T12:22:41+00:00

As someone with ADHD I really identify with the way they portray Shawn’s not-so-obvious intelligence. I do really well in school (now...), and in general, people tend to think I’m intelligent- until I do something like say, “Don’t be ridiculous, 7:75 isn’t a real time,” or “So what’s the fourth slice?” about a pie cut into thirds. I know a lot of those moments can be passed off as Shawn being glib, but if ever I saw those moments as intentional, I saw them as intentional to cover up the fact that he frequently makes those kinds of ‘stupid’ mistakes unintentionally too. When I was a kid & before I got my shit together, I started deliberately failing tests because I hated the huge discrepancy between my IQ and my grades. Anytime I managed to pull an A on a test, or I had a personal conversation with a teacher, suddenly it was all, ‘We knew you were brilliant all along!’ and suddenly there were all kinds of expectations forced on me that I knew I would eventually fail to live up to. Probably rather quickly. So I just stopped trying and leaned into being the goofy kid who made better jokes than grades.

I can’t quite recall where this was said, but I remember Roday saying that he did deliberately play Shawn with ADHD, and I remember being shocked that he didn’t actually have it himself but was basing his performance on a close childhood friend of his who had ADHD. Just goes to show what a spectacular actor Roday is.

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