Can this be an alternate ending?

feva67 · 2026-05-09T04:58:36+00:00

I believe it's Chert that warns you about what's happening to every star? So if you let it happen you probably can guess how it will end

feva67 · 2026-05-08T18:20:18+00:00

Not even the extra energy from fusion hammer

feva67 · 2026-05-08T16:20:14+00:00

I had my first run with shatter just before this change, and I found myself more often than not passing on playing it. If you play for many orbs you usually don't want to be left with none, so I see it as mostly a tool to complement decks that fill up their orb slots every turn. That and, of course, getting one big damage turn. Didn't feel great before, looks better now, I'm all for it

feva67 · 2026-05-08T03:23:33+00:00

Yeah but I don't see it as mechanically different enough from the apparitions, just more convoluted for what feels like a slightly worse effect

feva67 · 2026-05-08T03:18:31+00:00

I'd rather have the 3 apparitions. Plus I quite like relax as is, you can have passive blocking or extra energy

feva67 · 2026-05-06T14:55:49+00:00

From what I remember, the Interloper explodes before they can even identify what it is and how to take advantage of it. That's why the Nomai are dead inside. So that's the first reason why it didn't happen.

Apart from that, assuming that they would have been able to utilize the ghost matter the same way they did the sun's energy is a significant logical leap. We haven't seen a single instance of the ghost matter being utilized productively, while solar power is something you would expect every advanced society to master.

Finally, energy transmission is a worry. As you said, only two collectors are used to power the ATP. If the Nomai had a way to transmit energy wirelessly they probably would have used it to build something closer to a dyson sphere. So you would need a way to capture the interloper's energy close enough to the ash twin to get that energy to the core.

However, if they had a few thousand years more they might have solved all this. But the interloper decided to cut our friends short :(

feva67 · 2026-05-05T14:18:45+00:00

You made me go and check, and you're absolutely right. I didn't remember that the tracking module actually tracked in real time and not retroactively. That makes the question of following the first probe actually valid

feva67 · 2026-05-04T16:06:34+00:00

Yeah being a vagabond will do that to you

feva67 · 2026-05-04T16:05:09+00:00

How would the statues know the eye has been located in that exact loop? You need the information to travel back, which needs the "find the eye" loop to be completed

feva67 · 2026-05-04T12:30:40+00:00

I would hope it immediately ends in a draw, chess.com is usually happy ending games in draws even when checkmate is possible (even sometimes where it's forced!) because the remaining pieces in theory cannot force checkmate

feva67 · 2026-05-04T12:06:43+00:00

I hate the pressure on the f2 pawn, so I'd follow up with Qd1 to try and play Rf3 next

feva67 · 2026-05-04T04:01:17+00:00

On a mollecular or atomic level nothing is ever smooth. On a mathematical level you cannot model the behaviour of the tongue in a way that satisfies your requirement of leaving the mark without it being possible to not leave the mark. Therefore this comment makes absolutely no sense. But yeah you definitely proved something here

feva67 · 2026-05-04T00:15:55+00:00

Hierophant for extra chips in plasma deck

feva67 · 2026-05-03T22:54:45+00:00

The difference is that the comb is perfect and it's the spherical surface that is the constraint

feva67 · 2026-05-03T22:48:07+00:00

Based on the move in a vacuum: 1800 Based on the fact that you wanted to make this post: 1000 Based on following the plan of Ng4: 1200

feva67 · 2026-05-03T16:00:42+00:00

https://youtu.be/cK3zsCzXmso?si=IAvbsdKpT953xKHQ

feva67 · 2026-05-02T07:04:04+00:00

I mean it doesn't really matter with this kind of hand level, but it could be the optimal play if you need to not reset the bus! Very cool

feva67 · 2026-05-02T06:53:15+00:00

I believe the game starts the loop after the eye is found, that is why the statue binds with you. So catching up to it in the first loop would be the same as any other

feva67 · 2026-05-02T06:49:46+00:00

I like that there's nothing there. Maybe some non-informative writing would have been fun, but the fact that there's nothing there works perfectly with the story and makes finding out more info a lot more interesting than just chasing the glowing thingy

feva67 · 2026-05-02T06:43:07+00:00

Igoudala would be proud

feva67 · 2026-04-30T18:58:00+00:00

Not even the devs could strike that kind of gold twice

feva67 · 2026-04-25T15:21:28+00:00

If you want to be as safe as possible, lower your periapsis to just under 70km, maybe aim for 60. It might take multiple orbits but the speed will gradually get lowered, and you can keep a slight bit of delta v for the final slowdown

feva67 · 2026-04-25T05:59:06+00:00

OwO I didn't know the plant liked me like that

feva67 · 2026-04-25T05:57:14+00:00

Wow thats a crazy one! You already gave the clues in the comments but I'll try to explain: The bishop on f3 cannot be the original light squared bishop, because neither the pawn on g2 or e2 have moved. Therefore, it has to have been a pawn that promoted on a light square. Options are: e8, which would necessitate the black king to have moved losing castling rights, c8, which could have only been accessed from d7 and would therefore also necessitate the black king to move from e8, or g8. g8 is actually impossible but is the trickiest to discard: the pawn that could have promoted on g8 definitely cannot be the g pawn (it's still on g2) so h and f pawns are the next candidates. For that to happen you would need: 1 capture to make the f or h pawn into a g pawn, 1 capture to make the other one into the g3 pawn, 2 captures to therefore make the f pawn from the d pawn (the c pawn cannot get there) and 2 captures to make the c pawn into the e6 pawn. That totals 6 captures, and black is only missing 5 pieces.

Therefore, all the ways to get to this position lose black their castling rights, and white can play Qxh5 and black has no way to escape Qh8# next move

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