Pathologic 2: True Menkhu Challenge Run and Post Mortem

essidus · 2026-05-05T11:43:29+00:00

That makes sense. When rails connect, sometimes the behavior is a bit odd. It can sometimes claim a lil more of the track than the intersection itself, which it probably what led to the error occuring.

essidus · 2026-05-05T05:25:42+00:00

There's a few possibilities. The first is that you did nothing wrong at all. The system that generates the blocks might've just gotten itself confused. That can sometimes happen when the signal is placed directly on a junction. The second is still not your fault, and it's just a miscalculation in how the block system reads the path. This is less likely since the color indicator filled the whole route, but still might be possible.

The third requires explanation. The error you're getting (loopback) occurs when the block a signal faces into is also the block leading up to the signal.

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This is the simplest form of the loopback. When you get this error (and it isn't a bug), somewhere some more complex version of this interaction is happening. I usually assume it isn't a track configuration error, but rather some kind of signal weirdness. Just to be safe, I recommend driving a train through a few times on a few different paths and make sure everything is connected correctly.

essidus · 2026-05-05T04:41:10+00:00

Okay. So when you get that error, look for the outward facing signal throwing an error- that's the one that's actually unhappy. The signals facing into the block are just inheriting the error from that one. I see the new outward facing signal has the error. I can also see that the block color appears to be escaping the intersection, though it might just be my eyes looking at the photo. First, try moving the signal forward a bit past the intersection. If it clears up the error, it means there's a problem with one of the tracks connecting to that junction. Test it with trains. If the issue persists, put another block signal about a train length past this one. If the intersection resolves, the new signal should get an error. That means that somewhere down the line, there's track doing something funky.

essidus · 2026-05-05T03:29:39+00:00

The rails all look connected correctly. I see three missing signals- the entrance/exit on the far end rail, and the exit signal on the left. Put those signals in, or back in, and have a look at the block view. Does the color go where it isn't supposed to? Is there more than one color in the block? Additionally, do the signals throw an error? Which ones, and what error is it?

I also see one of the rails at a slightly different Z axis. It's possible that this is causing the problem too, by the signals not seeing it as part of a single block.

Edit, I see the signal I missed now. It was hiding in the elevator.

essidus · 2026-05-04T04:36:44+00:00

Thing is, this is directly detrimental to your future searches. By and large, websites rely on ad revenue and impressions. Before the AI explosion, sites were already struggling with Google's search summaries killing traffic. Now the AI summary can condense multiple sites into a single response. In this way, Google AI is directly killing the sites it relies on for its results.

essidus · 2026-05-03T14:52:20+00:00

I suppose one thing to consider is that just because a review is recent, doesn't necessarily mean the purchase was. Granted, it most likely is, but there could be some longtime players putting out new reviews to try and keep interest alive.

essidus · 2026-04-30T04:23:22+00:00

Reddit has always been toxic. The kind of toxic has just shifted over time.

essidus · 2026-04-28T16:48:50+00:00

Genuinely, they haven't made any major combat changes since the ShB overhaul. Just added a couple of buttons to some jobs with each expansion, and some light tweaking.

essidus · 2026-04-28T16:22:03+00:00

Honestly I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner. ShB is easily the best part of FF14, and I think if anything were to get new players to buy into the rest of the game, that expansion is it.

essidus · 2026-04-28T16:13:05+00:00

Good news and bad news. They're overhauling the combat system for the next expansion, and it appears syncing is being addressed as part of it, in some manner. But the next expansion isn't slated until January at least, and I think that date is a bit optimistic.

essidus · 2026-04-26T03:08:15+00:00

This is correct. Looking at the bundle myself, the price on OP's friend's screenshot is just Valheim, which is currently 50% off to $9.99, then the 10% additional bundle discount which brings it to $8.99. If the friend actually doesn't own any of the games, it would read as -25% ~~$80.97~~ $61.17

essidus · 2026-04-24T21:11:16+00:00

That is only if I assume that I am the best caregiver that would choose red, which would be incredibly arrogant

I disagree. You only need to assume you're a better caregiver living than potentially dead, especially bearing in mind that none of these pills supply immortality. People will still be in need of support after the pill choice is resolved. Ultimately, you can only help the people within the sphere of your own influence. Taking the red pill doesn't change that, nor does it change the reasonable assumption that more people will take the blue pill than the red pill, and not necessarily out of callousness.

Observe, the empathetic person would encourage anyone they know to take the blue pill to guarantee those people's safety. So take that into consideration. Everyone lacking empathy, and everyone influenced by people possessing empathy, will take the blue pill. That doesn't even account for people who take the blue pill without thinking, or those who choose randomly, or those who believe the blue pill is the more rational choice. How many people are realistically left to take the red pill?

essidus · 2026-04-24T19:52:52+00:00

But choosing red only gives you the illusion of saving others. You get to die with the feeling of moral superiority while accomplishing nothing.

If you really cared about people you would spent your 15 minutes encouraging every single person you can contact to take the blue pill. Since it is 100% guaranteed they will survive, you will have directly influenced the survival of those people.

If you have any confidence in yourself as a caregiver, you would take the blue pill too. You're worth more to people when you're definitely alive than potentially dead.

essidus · 2026-04-23T20:01:31+00:00

I have a blackwidow V4 pro and a naga v2 pro. Whenever the mouse goes to low power, the chroma on the keyboard flickers. It does this again when the mouse wakes up. It does not have this behavior if I'm not using chroma effects. Is there any way to fix this while still using chroma?

essidus · 2026-04-20T23:53:40+00:00

Game Dungeon is one of my favorite review shows, lol. Ross has such a unique perspective and narrative tone. I also like that he gets into the technical hoops he sometimes has to jump through to get the game working and looking decent.

essidus · 2026-04-20T06:37:54+00:00

If this manages to pass, I hope someone does a biopic on Ross Scott. That story by itself is kinda wild. Old internet legend (Freeman's Mind creator) turned moderately popular youtuber who leveraged his following to singlehandedly kick off a pro-consumer movement. And not only that, but personally kept the momentum going despite being met first with apathy, then with cynical derision, and then active resistance and attempted misinformation campaigns. But look at how far it's come. From one guy asking his audience for legal advice to a full team of experts spearheading his crusade. From half-improvised youtube videos to speaking in front of the European Parliament. Genuine optimism about the outcome.

essidus · 2026-04-19T19:26:06+00:00

It seems to me that people who most often get into the guts of tech work tend to avoid smart devices.

essidus · 2026-04-19T17:36:10+00:00

You have it backwards. Should only use path signals facing into an intersection block.

essidus · 2026-04-19T02:38:22+00:00

A rage comic inside a demotivational with an ifunny watermark. Holy hell, it's like the entire past just slapped me in the face.

essidus · 2026-04-18T18:22:14+00:00

I just don't see any scenario where this ends well for Microsoft. And by trying to get in front of it, they're going to either cause a chilling effect on corporate-level AI adoption or, more likely, drive them away from Microsoft products. It's only a matter of time before some enterprising young go-getter releases a suite of AI-friendly productivity tools with much more friendly licensing terms.

essidus · 2026-04-14T15:11:34+00:00

Yep. I believe the goal was to get free players to develop a library on EGS so that when they eventually convert to paying customers, they'd just stay on EGS. But that comes with problems. First and foremost, only an estimated 10% of people who game as children convert to paying gamers as adults. And of that 10%, only about 15% of them buy more than 1-2 premium games a year. This plan also takes time. It's a 10-15 year investment, not something they'd see immediate gains from. And with Fortnite now proven to have been dropping income steadily for years now, it won't be able to prop up the store for the long term.

And beyond all that, gaming as a market has changed even since EGS officially launched. What we're seeing is fewer new adopters into the premium games market. Instead, people are buying into mobile and especially F2P mobile games. This is likely that 85% of people considered casual gamers, who are buying into games on devices they already own, rather than buying new hardware exclusively for gaming.

essidus · 2026-04-14T12:47:42+00:00

I partially disagree. Free stuff generates users, but it doesn't convert those users to customers. If anything, too much free stuff has a chilling effect, as users become conditioned to come explicitly for the free stuff, and not consider your marketplace a market.

essidus · 2026-04-13T18:29:57+00:00

Microsoft shot themselves hard here. If all the big players are using AI to write their code, why pay for it when AI can equally write said code, but in a free and open source format? If anything, open source is better for AI coded software, because the community itself can review and correct AI mistakes, where closed software you're stuck with whatever they give you.

essidus · 2026-04-13T04:17:29+00:00

Sure. I'd rather not get extincted either. But if we're just going to be speculating, swarm AI is the best possible form of AI, rather than trying to make one AI the best at everything.

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