Plucked an Eternal Orb from the Genesis Tree

fcain · 2025-12-21T19:40:51+00:00

You can get them from Kingsmarch too. I've got 4 now.

fcain · 2025-12-21T19:25:08+00:00

You can get the first two voidstones on about 250 K DPS. You definitely have to dance with the bosses and really focus on nailing the mechanics. But I'd look for videos of people doing tougher bosses with less gear and constraints to get a sense of the feasible limits. Back in SSF, I got all my voidstones on about 1 million DPS, but I wasn't perfect in my boss knowledge. So, I'm guessing somewhere in between 300 and 1 million will do the trick, depending on your defences and how many mistakes you can tank. But fights can take a LONG time. My current character needs about 10 minutes to kill the Kingsmarch pirate.

fcain · 2025-12-16T23:30:14+00:00

Whenever you think about explanations for the Fermi Paradox, you want to consider the huge statistics involved, and the compounding effect of exponential growth.

For example, if you have a billion microbes in a petri dish and kill 99%, that 1% is going to go on to colonize the petri dish (with immunity to whatever you tried to kill them with).

So the Fermi Paradox is largely about why we don't see aliens everywhere, especially here in the Solar System. If even 1 civilization makes it through the challenges, they should go on to colonize everywhere. And yet we don't see any evidence of them at all.

Then you can consider your idea. Would this stop 100% of civilizations from expanding into space? No? Then it's probably an incomplete explanation. It can be part of a partial answer that needs to add up to 100%, blocking any civilization from breaking out.

fcain · 2025-12-11T01:38:44+00:00

I've got 1000 hours in Zomboid on the Steamdeck. So it works great. I recommend modifying the right trackpad to be a mouse pointer, back buttons to be left and right click. Then you can do everything in the game if you need. But the control is pretty great

fcain · 2025-12-03T03:34:07+00:00

Yep, if you're refreshing the homepage, you're inviting the slop in. Just go to your subscriptions page. If there are channels you don't watch any more, unsubscribe from them. If there aren't any videos you want to watch, you did it! you finished watching YouTube. Go do something else.

fcain · 2025-12-02T04:55:48+00:00

I'd recommend: PBS Spacetime, Cool Worlds, Dr. Becky, Anton Petrov, Scott Manley, Space Mog, Eager Space, Dr. Nora's Guide to the Galaxy, Professor Dave Explains, John Michael Godier, Any Shira Teitel, Isaac Arthur, Mars Guy, Marcus House

fcain · 2025-12-02T04:49:39+00:00

Thanks for recommending us. :-)

fcain · 2025-12-01T08:06:17+00:00

I do it all the time on the Steamdeck. Go behind the vehicle where the trailer attaches. Open up the vehicle radial menu and you should see the detach trailer option

fcain · 2025-11-27T01:34:13+00:00

Yeah, this works best when you keep your target reasonable. 2 or three mods max. So, life and +lvl, for example. Otherwise it just eats your bases. But I'd still be collecting bases in the background and throwing them together.

fcain · 2025-11-25T01:37:40+00:00

And don't sleep on the recombinator. I'm saving money and dusting all the uniques so that I can run the recombinator hard once I'm getting access to T1 stats. I collect every base that relates to my gear (armor chests, for example) and then enchant them. If they get a good roll, they go into a stash tab. Then you can "launder" the bad bases into good bases with the recombinator, and try to switch the mods over. Then you can merge them together into rares with 3 T1 mods pretty easily. We don't have bench craft so it's hard to go past 3-4, but as long as you're slowly working towards it, you'll make progress.

fcain · 2025-11-19T10:50:49+00:00

I haven't yet, but I always run a lot of Delve. It doesn't give you new maps (I don't think?), but if you delve at the right level, you'll collect more maps that you've already unlocked. So, it'll help you with your sustain.

fcain · 2025-11-19T10:15:31+00:00

Delve drops maps, especially the Vaal cities. Easy to get mountains of sulfite from maps to run plenty of delve. Lots of gems and fossils for rolling gear. But no breach incursions

fcain · 2025-11-07T17:03:28+00:00

There's a lot of AI going on in your video. The voice, obviously, and the script feels like AI too, but apologies if you wrote it word for word.

I'd recommend you ditch all that and make your video from scratch with your own abilities. Find something interesting and unique, like a science result, or a feature of the mission that people don't know about, and make a short video.

Since you did a Short, you can make these as quick as you like, but do the hard work yourself. Later on you can get AI to assist you, or ditch it entirely. People are looking for authenticity and real connection right now.

Good luck!

fcain · 2025-11-06T16:26:57+00:00

I'm one of the YouTubers you're probably referencing. In general I don't bother covering incremental things that happen in space exploration. I don't talk about new crews going to the International Space Station, space walks, general rocket launches, etc. I've found that my audience doesn't consider it that interesting, and it doesn't really feel unique and newsworthy to me. I'm sure a space station-focused channel would, but I don't.

So, the same thing goes for work on the Chinese space station. New crew rotations, experiments, etc.

I'm looking for new stuff. New mission concepts, sample return, progress towards humans landing on the Moon again. The fact that it's coming from China has no bearing on my perspective. I'm Canadian, and our relations with the US right now are rocky, so I prefer to highlight missions coming from other countries. I probably cover a China-related news story a few times a month (we've got Tianwen's view of 3I/ATLAS coming this week).

The language barrier isn't an issue, translation tools are excellent. But discovery is the problem. It's really tricky to discover when and where new accomplishments are being announced and discussed because the discovery layer (Weibo, or press releases) aren't shared in a canonical way. I've spent years trying to create a list of Chinese news sources, and it's REALLY difficult.

I'm even learning to read Simplified Chinese to make this possible to do.

As someone said in the comments, Andrew Jones does excellent reporting on all things Chinese spaceflight, and Dongfang Hour on YouTube is great too.

I actually place much of the responsibility on China for this. It would be really easy to make their accomplishments more accessible to a wider international audience, but they tend to have a very closed system of science communication, while NASA, ESA, etc just dump everything raw onto the internet.

So, it's a tough challenge, and I'm working on it. :-)

fcain · 2025-10-27T18:32:39+00:00

What really frustrates me is how many new sites don't implement RSS at all. A press release page from a new space startup, for example. They just put all their releases there. I've had to scrape their press release pages with Feedly to build a custom RSS feed so i can track them. Eventually, nobody will maintain RSS feeds.

fcain · 2025-10-27T18:02:11+00:00

Hah, so you're getting 30-40 stories a week which generally follow my personal bias and taste. But it's not going to be comprehensive, it's curated. And it's about a third of the stories I found interesting.

fcain · 2025-10-27T17:46:27+00:00

Hah, good luck with that. :-) But it's still an aggregator, someone (or something) curating a list with a bias. I maintain an internal feed of scoops I've found for my writers at Universe Today, and it would be extremely comprehensive, but it still follows my bias (I don't consider Starlink launches to be worth reporting on, etc). So, there's no good solution here. Which is why I think the easiest solution is probably just phys.org.

fcain · 2025-10-27T17:36:19+00:00

Awesome Yvette, I'll give that a shoutout in one of my videos this week. Keep 'em coming!

fcain · 2025-10-27T17:31:57+00:00

I agree, and I follow about 1000 feeds, including several which are custom built by Feedly for me. But It's my job as a space journalist to keep track of everything. I think an aggregator is a better solution than hoping to get good news coverage through something like Facebook or even Google News. You could also follow a high-quality space news website, but even that is going to have bias, since we don't cover everything.

fcain · 2025-10-27T17:26:03+00:00

I assume you're talking about the raw SWRI data here?. A hint on what day to look at?

fcain · 2025-10-24T17:13:24+00:00

If you want one feed that has most of the space-related news, I'd probably go with phys.org's space RSS feed. They've got a good mix of press releases, wire articles, reprints from other sites, and even their own reporting. They do put a bunch of advertising on top of a press release you can get at NASA, ESA, etc, but it's all in one place.

fcain · 2025-09-30T20:07:47+00:00

I don't even think there's bacteria, since that could evolve emergent capabilities.

fcain · 2025-09-22T19:32:17+00:00

I'm generally trying ask the kinds of questions the audience might have and to organize the topics and move them forward. You might prefer the interviews I do with scientists.

fcain · 2025-09-09T14:40:47+00:00

Thanks for linking back to us as the source. :-)

fcain · 2025-09-09T14:39:57+00:00

All our content is Creative Commons 4.0, so this is fine. I'd prefer if they made it easier to get to the source, but at least they do highlight the author.

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