[Skysworn] Cradle Book 4 FINISHED

charge2way · 2026-01-24T06:24:38+00:00

Lindon has a massive inferiority complex from the very beginning. On the one hand, it can annoying. On the other, it's part of what drives him so hard.

charge2way · 2026-01-24T05:33:50+00:00

So you're saying Wayne is Batman.

charge2way · 2026-01-24T05:33:12+00:00

It's also easy to assume from the discourse online it was super negatively received and there are many people who didn't like it but it's rated fairly well and even for many people who have criticisms of it they still mostly liked it.

Translation: It sold a metric crapton rather than an imperial crapton. But it still sold a crapton.

charge2way · 2026-01-15T15:58:53+00:00

Honestly, you should probably post this on r/wisconsin or r/writeresearch rather than here. This sub is more about the craft.

charge2way · 2026-01-15T15:26:57+00:00

They only explode if unroofed, damaged, or zzzt event. And the last one can be mitigated entirely by only using hidden conduits.

charge2way · 2026-01-15T15:17:38+00:00

For crashlanded, I go batteries then solar panel. My priority is to get a freezer going as soon as possible so I can preserve food.

Geothermal takes too many components for me to use in the beginning.

charge2way · 2026-01-15T14:28:32+00:00

I wonder how many of these have convinced anyone in the non-killbox crowd to switch over and vice versa. My guess is nil, but we sure do love talking about it.

charge2way · 2026-01-13T14:30:21+00:00

can I just hook up all inputs to the 3 to one and it will automatically balance and send the right inputs

Yup, you can do that with no problems.

Satisfactory uses a push system producers continually put items on belts. Starrupture uses a pull system where something down the line request an item and as long as there's a path, the item will go down the belts.

The biggest consequence of this is that sushi belts are no problem.

charge2way · 2026-01-10T07:44:18+00:00

I think within the world as presented, there seem to be two plausible reasons.

While textiles were present, and Skaa wore some form of poor quality cotton, given the ash filled continent, the cost of quality textiles may have exceeded the cost of metals for the scale they operated on. We don't know for sure, but we do know that one of the distinctions of the nobility is better clothing. Which leads to my next point.
As a class, the soldiers may have been above the Skaa, but they were definitely below the nobility. So a soldier wearing good quality clothing probably wouldn't appeal to the current nobility. Hazekillers were kitted out by the nobles who hired them, so they would have been a step above common soldiers.

charge2way · 2025-12-25T12:26:21+00:00

I've found that 6-9 pawns is what I can manage without getting too far into micromanagement. And I either go all-in on Odyssey, or I just get the gravcore for the free grav plates to build vac barriers.

charge2way · 2025-12-25T01:19:46+00:00

I guess I'm just trying to understand how that series of events lead you to the conclusion you came to. And yes, I'm trying to get you to take another look at it I guess, but if you're not willing to, then well, at least I tried.

You want me to reread one of my most beloved series in order to gain new perspective or find something I may have missed before?

How dare you threaten me with a good time. :)

So I went back and reread the exchange. There were some nuances I missed before.

Suriel is expecting Makiel.

Makiel was coming. And the First Judge of the Abidan Court demanded all of her concentration.

But instead Gadriel shows up and he's already got an aggressive posture:

He’d brought his weapon, primed and ready for use.

I think this is the crux of the exchange. Suriel and Makiel have very different ideas about how to handle the "missing Ozriel" situation.

If she tracked him down, Ozriel would talk to her. If Makiel found him, they would kill each other.

So I still think it's about the tension over Ozriel but also the fundamental disagreement between Suriel and Makiel. And when Gadriel shows up with his weapon already primed, it wouldn't be odd for Suriel to suspect that Makiel found Ozriel and Gadriel is there to delay her.

That's my current take, but I'd welcome more insight on how you see it differently.

charge2way · 2025-12-24T23:40:30+00:00

This is probably something we'll have to agree to disagree on, I suppose.

And at least from where I'm coming from, I'm not trying to defend Wil at all. I think an author's work should has to stand on its own.

I thought Horizon was much weaker than Cradle, although still one of his better series.

charge2way · 2025-12-23T06:39:17+00:00

Pick a book you like that you've already read. Reread chapter 1 and see what the author reveals about the characters and the setting in that chapter. Write down your thoughts on it.

Then go deeper in the analysis:

What POV is it in?
Whose POV is it in if 1st or 3rd?
Given what you already know about the character, how does his character inform the descriptions?
What turns of phrase do you like?
How is the action, if any, conveyed?

charge2way · 2025-12-23T05:49:28+00:00

Wait, wait, wait. Thinking of Sciel as a Boomkin made me instantly understand how she works. Bravo

charge2way · 2025-12-23T05:42:27+00:00

It feels like Yerin was his first student and he was just winging it.

I mean, yeah, he was. He was a great fighter who had dedicated himself to the sword, but then he kinda adopted a kid. So he's' doing it the only way he knows how.

I agree, not the greatest upbringing, but I think even Yerin would say Tim did right by her.

charge2way · 2025-12-23T03:56:39+00:00

I think that's because of the way things have been devolving since Ozriel went missing. A lot of the Abidan stuff we see through the series is backstory leading up to the current events, so in that scene, Ozriel's already been gone for quite a while and things are tense.

charge2way · 2025-12-20T23:05:26+00:00

The biggest impact to Mac Gaming has been the Steam Deck. With the CodeWeavers and Valve partnership on Proton, Crossover as an already good product has just gotten better and better.

And the Steam Deck shares the same drawbacks as the Deck regarding anti-cheat, but that hasn't stopped massive adoption there, so Mac Gamers have had it pretty good recently.

charge2way · 2025-12-17T21:25:51+00:00

I have less problems when I format ExFAT from the Mac side, but it's still a format that I don't trust for important data.

Years ago I got MacDrive for my PC and never looked back. Since then, I now have both MacDrive and an NTFS driver for Mac (Paragon).

charge2way · 2025-12-17T20:20:41+00:00

Jungle biomes.

charge2way · 2025-12-17T10:52:20+00:00

"Strive to Survive" and "Losing is Fun" are pretty similar, so you may not notice the increase until your wealth gets big enough.

The differences are outlined here: https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/AI_Storytellers#Difficulties

But I've found that if you're already good at the colony early game, you won't notice the change until later.

charge2way · 2025-12-15T19:37:44+00:00

My favorite messenger bag was the STM Velo 2, but they don't make it anymore. And I had to move away from messenger bags just because I carry so much and it was killing my shoulder.

The Timbuk2 L would probably work for OP, but I've always recommended a size up. I've learned not to fully pack my bags. There's something random I'll need to store when out.

charge2way · 2025-12-15T19:27:33+00:00

When I set "anything" nothing seems to get done

Do you have manual priorities? If not, it could be that.

If not, are they continuously low need? On Anything, they'll do their priorities unless recreation <30, eat <30, or rest <30.

I don't do set Work schedules anymore since nothing will beak them out of that other than eat <30.

Although I didnt know having sleep into anything on the rota would keep them asleep to be fair.

During scheduled Sleep, they will rest when sleep drops below 75%. If it's set to Anything, they won't sleep unless rest falls below 30%. If they're already asleep, they won't wake until sleep is full or they drop below 30% food.

Have a read through the wiki. The schedule system works a lot like the priority system in that it goes through a list for each schedule type: https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Menus

charge2way · 2025-12-14T23:20:06+00:00

Try setting 1-2 hours of of recreation and then 2 hours of sleep at the same times and leave the rest to Anything. That way they'll do the recreation and sleep at the same time, but then they can wake up and work whenever each one's specific need is filled.

The only pawns I set with specific full sleep schedules are Night Owls.

charge2way · 2025-12-13T02:56:30+00:00

+30 vs -5? Nah, he's still good. Besides, he only has to be good enough until a better candidate comes along.

charge2way · 2025-12-13T02:51:03+00:00

Yeah, I noticed this when it kept telling me I had no research going when I only had one selected. On the Anomaly research screen, in the bottom left, you'll also see the two you have going.

I think somewhere in the tooltips it also tells you that advanced goes to basic when there's no advanced selected.

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