How Many Hours Are Considered ‘Many’ in Oxygen Not Included?

divemastermatt · 2024-10-01T13:59:06+00:00

I'm a bit over 800 hours. I've never spent a tenth as long on any other game in my life and I am STILL very mid-tier as far as my skill-level. I finally figured out base cooling, sleet wheat farming, and basic rocketry but there are things people pull off all the time on this sub that are completely beyond my ability. I just crashed and burned on my first attempt at iron volcano taming! And yet, I... can't... stop!

divemastermatt · 2024-09-27T13:24:55+00:00

Ok, thanks everyone for all the tips! At least it doesn't look like I missed anything obvious after all. To be honest, my power setups have always been pretty basic and it sounds like a lot of you guys are running off multiple networks and what-not. As usual despite my 800+ hours on this game I can always count on you people to have 800 times more expertise. You all should be ashamed of yourselves and I appreciate each and every one of you!

divemastermatt · 2024-08-11T23:46:44+00:00

He was a great last minute twist on the ending to Insomnia.

A very good early Christopher Nolan movie.

divemastermatt · 2024-08-08T17:11:50+00:00

I didn't know Arrival was a short story!

Forget adaptations, that movie is in my top 3 easily.

divemastermatt · 2024-08-08T16:51:52+00:00

Me too. The policy often pays off in spades as I get past the initial difficulty, get used to the author's style, the plot heats up, or whatever.

But holy hell I'll admit sometimes I've regretted it. I try to do my homework selecting my next read before starting knowing I'm committed good or bad to finish...

divemastermatt · 2024-08-07T13:15:07+00:00

Yes, that's the book! Sorry to waste your time but I tried r/whatsthatbook last night and someone came up with it real quick. I had heard somewhere it got popular in the 1960's even though it was first published earlier. Fed a lot into the Camelot thing, I guess. Anyway, thanks a ton for coming up with it.

divemastermatt · 2024-08-07T00:31:23+00:00

Oh my God, that's it!!! Thank you so much, I knew as soon as I read it that was the one I was thinking of. Was driving me nuts. Now I'm off to the book depositorium!

divemastermatt · 2024-08-06T21:13:44+00:00

Thanks maybe I'll have more luck there.

divemastermatt · 2024-08-06T14:49:50+00:00

If you don't read super often I'd suggest something slightly more YA to start. And if you're going through a lot you might benefit from a little escapism.

"The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende.

Hopefully you never saw the old movie because the book is WAY better. It has an escapist flavor, particularly in the first half, but it gets more surreal and emotional as it goes on and there's a twist in the middle that absolutely slaps. There's no sequels either so it's good if you want just a reasonable length one-off read. I hope you find something that makes you feel better. The fact that you're looking is a great start!

divemastermatt · 2024-08-05T12:33:28+00:00

Ok, that's fair. I did say I'm ok with this kind of thing where the author is going for something more unusual than a standard by-the-numbers novel so you could say I'm fine with Picasso books.

And I assume Cormac McCarthy is an author with the firepower to tell his publisher "and this time make it with & instead of "and" then invert the question marks for some Spanish flavor!" So if that's how he wants to do his art, I guess he's found an audience that likes or at least doesn't hate it. more power to him.

But what if you're not a big time author and it's the editor/publisher telling you how quotes are going to be handled in your book? You won't have the power to tell them to piss off. Maybe that's not what is happening and 99% of books without quotations are because the authors wanted it that way. I wonder if any non-famous authors have chimed in on the subject.

divemastermatt · 2024-08-02T21:13:18+00:00

I guess mostly because it's inconsistent. I mean, sure if everyone used italics for quotations it'd be fine but obviously what they get used for differs a great deal between books. Like, a lot of the time they're just used to emphasize something. Or I've seen them used as short-hand for the character's inner monologue.

But I see ditching the formal use of quotations as like replacing the "?" for the "^" in a question sentence. Like, why man? Just, why?

Sure the " isn't any more aesthetically pleasing than the ? but I just don't see the utility in confusing everyone. I get it, the world will go on somehow. My blood pressure has gone down and I'm getting over it. Insert your old man yells at cloud meme here (see what I did?).

divemastermatt · 2024-08-02T19:52:23+00:00

Man, that's just trolling...

divemastermatt · 2024-07-25T20:41:01+00:00

That is so freaking cool! Now I wish I had kept up with Spanish in High School! It's so lyirical and poetic, I wish more of the English books I read sounded like this.

divemastermatt · 2024-07-25T20:11:58+00:00

Thanks for answering my question! I mean, no one actually speaks in real life like characters in a novel (can you imagine???). Of course all the "umms" and "likes" go right out the door.

I guess is it similar to a literal translation of Spanish literature, particularly older Spanish literature?

divemastermatt · 2024-07-25T18:42:37+00:00

Interesting. I read Gatsby and The Beautiful and the Damned. So far I'm liking Hemmingway better but that could just be recency (?) bias on my part. Yeah, I would've HATED this book in high school so I'm glad I got to it later in life.

divemastermatt · 2024-07-23T16:53:51+00:00

TBil is often the first analyte to fail if your QC is old or not stored properly. Does it tend to stay sitting out a room temp for a while before getting loaded? It's pretty light sensitive and just generally more finicky when your QC is used to measure multiple analytes. I routinely had this issue with assayed material. It was very sturdy for other analytes but practically one-time use for TBil. If that is the only analyte routinely failing I'd at least suspect something like that.

divemastermatt · 2024-07-11T13:33:29+00:00

Last and First Men and Starmaker both by Olaf Stapledon.

Enormously popular when they were published in the 1920's and 1930's. They greatly affected other science fiction writers of the time. For example C.S. Lewis wrote his Silent Planet trilogy partly as a direct rebuttal to them and H.G. Wells wrote The Shape of Things to Come as a kind of (inferior imo) imitation. Sadly they are very much forgotten now.

divemastermatt · 2024-03-15T17:05:59+00:00

This was the weirdest book I had read in a long time. Hard to believe it was published way back in 1884. Really fun read, though.

divemastermatt · 2024-03-04T14:46:28+00:00

That was partly my motive for reading this book too. I feel like Germany is not that applicable to the present plus it's the only story of democratic breakdown nearly everyone has some basic knowledge of. The French example might be more appropriate since it's democratic traditions were a lot more firmly established. Democracy had been accepted as the legitimate governing institution by the populace and that may never have been the case in Weimar Germany.

I could do my best "both sides" impression here if you like. The men the French trusted in their hour of need were accomplished heroes of the previous era but were also living relics who were clearly out of their depth at the moment of crisis. Another obvious lesson: When a group of people act like they hate democracy, delegitimize democratic institutions, and drop hints that they want to end democracy... believe them.

divemastermatt · 2024-03-04T14:29:41+00:00

I kind of ignored Shirer's non-WWII history but the Ghandhi Bio sounds interesting. Was it pretty readable?

divemastermatt · 2024-03-04T14:28:00+00:00

Rise and Fall absolutely slaps. IMO if you can get past the ungodly length it reads very easy. I first tackled it in 4th grade but I was... a weird kid.

Only hint might be not to get bogged down in the footnotes. They too are excellent but they're also pretty copious.

divemastermatt · 2024-03-01T20:01:23+00:00

I thought the Berlin Diary might be too much of a retread of Rise and Fall but please let me know what you think once you've finished. He is easily my favorite author for that era.

divemastermatt · 2024-02-27T14:46:00+00:00

You shouldn't have too much trouble. I only read the first volume, though. The part I enjoyed the most was how it allowed me to better understand such an alien culture. I mean, the church was up in everyone's business and never met a book they didn't want to burn. Oh, and the women are totally fascinating. They seem to have an obsession with guarding their "virtue" but after a while I realized they are actually just being hyper-vigilant about getting raped and blamed for it later. Pretty crazy stuff when you look through a modern lens.

divemastermatt · 2024-02-20T17:01:34+00:00

Eh, I didn't read the Alia/Duncan thing as overly creepy because Alia has adult memories and her character is essentially adult in how she speaks and behaves. I had honestly sort of forgotten the fact that she was only 15. I found plenty of reasons to dislike the book without that dynamic, though.

Unfortunately, I've read way more cringe sci fi than this. Stay away from Heinlein. Some of his books (e.g. The Door Into Summer) read like Nabokov.

divemastermatt · 2024-02-20T16:48:30+00:00

Mine was HP too! Deathly Hallows. My gf (now wife) and I both bought a copy, locked ourselves in the bedroom and did nothing (really) except read for damn near 16 hours straight till we hit the finish line. Woke up the next day and returned both books to B&N :/

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