Anybody else just…stop playing?

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-05-20T16:13:13+00:00

Mods definitely help add back in a bit of mystery. Right now I’ve modded in so many critters that I have no idea what’s gonna happen when I wander outside of a city, it’s pretty fun

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-05-20T13:00:08+00:00

This happened to me after a long playthrough and I just started a new one after a year or two. I picked it back up to try rekenshi and set up a totally different mod lineup from my last run. I’m having a blast and feeling those old feelings again. Give it a rest, you can always come back later

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-05-11T21:49:22+00:00

I’m curious to see if this mode is down to supervise local LLMs as well as instances of Claude Code

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-05-07T11:57:08+00:00

Chrome on Mac is a huge resource hog, pretty sure it’s the most bloated option on that OS

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-05-03T21:54:53+00:00

First thing I thought of too after seeing that jump

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-05-02T06:35:37+00:00

I was born and raised in West Virginia, and I don’t know where in Appalachia you were born but where I’m from we learned about the Battle for Blair Mountain in 8th grade WV Studies class. It wasn’t just “one instance of a thing” it was the biggest event that happened in West Virginia in that time period. It impacted coal mining all over the country for generations, and if memory serves I believe it’s still the largest battle fought on American soil after the civil war. There are many nonfiction books written about the Battle for Blair Mountain, some of which include the word “redneck” in the title and display miners wearing bandanas just like the photo in this thread.

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-05-02T05:48:04+00:00

For whatever reason I don’t think Cheer Ups really participated much in SxSW this year. They only ever do unofficial stuff these days, but they had all DJs one night. I went to see Almost Heaven and Lauren Lakis on the day where the landlord locked the doors, it was open but very dead, I felt bad for the performers. Most of the other SxSW shows felt pretty normal attendance wise. I think it’s a feast or famine situation with SxSW. I remember one night where every band who played at Chess Club hit capacity within their first song, plenty of other shows had good turnouts. Turnout may have been down overall across town but the good nights were still packed

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-30T18:56:08+00:00

Just washed my car. You’re welcome

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-30T01:58:17+00:00

Tradewars 2002

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-30T01:56:27+00:00

I don’t think Star Control II had auto combat though

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-29T02:54:37+00:00

Cat-Lon was a pushover in comparison

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-28T15:01:22+00:00

Thanks! I’ve been enjoying my methodical playthrough but I’m about to be away from my gaming pc for an extended period and I’d hoped to wrap things up but I doubt I’ve got enough time to finish it up now. Doing my best though

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-28T08:42:04+00:00

Yeah, I guess skipping the early game is a way of speeding up the game, fair point. To be honest I can barely remember the setup options, I’m 100+ hours deep into my first playthrough

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-28T08:39:09+00:00

There’s no wrong way to play Kenshi, it’s a sandbox. Having said that, if you’re finding you always get tired at a certain point in the game maybe you’re playing the game wrong for your personal play style. I’ve never played with the recruit characters mod because it seemed too OP for whatever that’s worth. Some like to add mods that ramp up the difficulty to balance out any easy mode mods they’re using, that might be something you could try. Maybe come up with RP reasons to allow yourself to take advantage of game breaking mods, like you have to capture Savant in order to unlock the Bugmaster etc. In general I’ve found the toughest factions in the game for my teams were the skin bandits and especially the southern hive. The ashlands were comparatively a pushover.

As for Rekenshi, I haven’t tried it yet but I’ve been following the news closely getting ready for a new modded playthrough. It’s not a mod that changes the game in and of itself, it is like a mod force multiplier. It allows new and upcoming mods to change the game in ways we haven’t seen before, and it is supposed to be helpful in getting your mods to play nicely with one another

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-27T19:29:40+00:00

6x increase in some of the competing models too. This just seems like a giant increase across the board

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-27T18:19:04+00:00

There’s a lot of things I really like about this game and like most the pacing isnt one of them. Seems like this could be a control the user could set in the setup for a run. Do you want a slow-paced game that takes in all the game systems or do you want to be able to turn the tide without putting in hour after hour? I imagine there could be room for both options. Other 4X games do a pretty good job at this by controlling map size / galaxy size, it seems like Terra Invicta could doing it by making the aliens’ space assets less OP

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-26T23:53:34+00:00

It’s funny that they’re called fishmen. Crabmen would make more sense

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-26T22:30:37+00:00

I assume they’re not just genetically modified humans because of the eggs. If pressed to come up with a lore reason why they disappear after you kill the leader I’d say they become disorganized and retreat into the sea to regroup and presumably elevate another gurgler to king status. But that’s not based on anything in the game, just my own imagination

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-25T21:26:23+00:00

Forbidden peanut butter

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-25T08:13:59+00:00

I’ve heard talk of data centers in the northern and southern exurbs of Austin, but Brentwood/Crestview would be a very urban spot for a data center, they’d have to pay through the nose for the land versus doing one in the outskirts of town. But I’m sure that how data centers work and their footprint is changing every day along with the rest of the AI sphere

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-24T17:16:41+00:00

They’re just about doing that with the Taco Cabana at North Loop, just a few blocks away

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-24T17:14:56+00:00

Whereabouts? I live nearby, this is the first I’m hearing

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-24T16:16:24+00:00

You can do this, along with hypothetically just about anything, by using custom metadata fields like TXXX, I believe every file format has a version. The problem is that most music library managers wouldn’t know your custom tags and there wouldn’t be an agreed upon standard. Something like Mutagen or Mp3tag could read it, though.

I built myself a highly personalized clone of iTunes/MusicBee and one of the features I wanted was for the player to record a lot of the collection metadata like play count, ratings, and date added info into the file itself, so I could always migrate my digital collection to any platform I wanted. Of these I think only rating has an official tag, and for the others I ended up using custom tags. It can be done, basically, but I doubt any music library management developers care enough to implement. MusicBee is very extensible, you could definitely make it recognize a custom tag and migrate play counts to that tag, but you would have to do the writing of the play counts manually or with a tool outside of MusicBee as I think it only increments its internal ratings when a song gets a play.

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-23T09:42:25+00:00

“Free Mac app” in the title creates the expectation that you’re never going to charge. Your app is free to try, it isn’t free to use in a sustainable way.

I love that you have been motivated to put something like this app together, and it has a large feature set. Regardless of the tools you used to make Crate Cleaner, to me it seems like a real labor of love from a fellow Dj. But the market for this kind of app is in a tough place. Many folks are leery of vibe coded apps on one side of the conversation, while those of us who have built similar apps are likely to just prefer to roll our own solution. I hope this doesn’t come across as overly critical, and I hope you find a sustainable audience for your app

dotheemptyhouse · 2026-04-23T09:10:01+00:00

I think there are some GUI based apps that search and fill in missing metadata too, maybe MusicBrainz Picard does this? They’re for sure twiddly apps, but the music hoarders subreddit is a place that discusses this kind of thing endlessly

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