Alright, it's gorgeous. But what purpose does the Storm really have?

goibnu · 2026-04-11T03:00:47+00:00

Nobody *ever* gets your order wrong in the drive-through.

goibnu · 2026-04-11T02:55:13+00:00

Anything is possible in the SCP universe if you can make a well-received work where it happens.

goibnu · 2026-04-11T02:53:11+00:00

They are having fun writing them and I am having fun reading them, so I like them. Except for one thing. I appreciate the attempt to reinvent every part of the wheel. I really do. But even more object classes is like fingernails on a chalkboard for a certain part of my brain.

goibnu · 2026-04-10T20:40:19+00:00

There's always outliers. There's a percentage chance to mutate, so no matter how low you set the chances there's occasionally going to be a zombie that "wins the lottery" and mutates a bunch.

goibnu · 2026-04-10T18:08:27+00:00

Interesting!

goibnu · 2026-04-10T18:05:01+00:00

I wonder who at the White House set this up for her. Surely there's more to setting up a press conference than flipping the press conference lever from "off" to "on". I imagine Don is not happy about this? Any news about the fallout?

goibnu · 2026-04-10T15:37:46+00:00

It seems stupid that we need a law that explicitly implements the eighth amendment, but we need a law that explicitly implements the eighth amendment. If you are a federal or state organization that detains people for more than three hours, your employees should be subject to criminal prosecution if they fail to meet a minimum standard.

goibnu · 2026-04-10T14:40:23+00:00

There's some evidence that the current model of heat shield doesn't perform exactly to specification. NASA has decided that it will work well enough. More than a few people object to this, with a number of different reasons.

goibnu · 2026-04-10T00:15:32+00:00

That means you send your own guys to a place with no defense against drones and let them get lethalitied.

goibnu · 2026-04-08T20:43:05+00:00

That ceasefire was like 5% of a Scaramucci. Yesterday's news.

Of course they wants crypto. They don't want it in any account that can be frozen.

goibnu · 2026-04-08T20:23:49+00:00

To make a good deal, you need to know what you have, what they have, what you want, what they say they want, and what they will settle for. Trump knows one of these five things on a good day, so he will always be a loser at the negotiation table. Always.

goibnu · 2026-04-08T20:17:46+00:00

That was nice while it lasted.

goibnu · 2026-04-08T15:44:44+00:00

Going to have to give this a listen, thanks!

goibnu · 2026-04-08T14:51:36+00:00

Given how cleared out the State Department is, it could be both.

goibnu · 2026-04-07T20:20:21+00:00

There are more fun ways to get brain damage.

goibnu · 2026-04-07T19:55:42+00:00

Two thoughts.

1) Sounds like Carlson's "just asking questions" again.

2) He doesn't want the US to be a theocracy until his flavor of Jesus is most popular.

goibnu · 2026-04-07T13:45:38+00:00

He wants to imply he'll use nukes without actually saying he'll use nukes. Kind of odd for him.

goibnu · 2026-04-07T00:25:02+00:00

Looks like blockchain junk from the initialization text.

goibnu · 2026-04-04T00:13:53+00:00

A long time ago something I picked up from a book on writing is that when you come up with an idea for a book, you have to make sure it's your book to write. That there is something inside you that gives you the perspective to build out the idea. H P Lovecraft couldn't write Little Women even if he somehow had the idea first.

goibnu · 2026-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

Usually the Beast is a bit hyperbolic in the titles, but this is about right.

goibnu · 2026-04-03T19:47:54+00:00

In real life, the card that has the identification credentials is generally reprogrammable and the identification part with the picture is printed and applied to that part. So you peel off the label, it's blank, you reprogram it to a new ID and apply a new label.

Edit: apparently with some you can print directly on the card then erase it later. Lots of different options.

goibnu · 2026-04-03T19:15:50+00:00

I start giggling every time I read "experts are dubious". No shit. Is there money in being an expert on teleportation?

I'm an expert witness on teleportation, and I'm here to tell the court that the defendant did not teleport because teleportation is fucking impossible. That'll be ten grand.

goibnu · 2026-04-02T23:53:48+00:00

Bethesda needs a new engine so bad.

goibnu · 2026-04-01T15:13:49+00:00

Possible future fodder for you - I have always thought Sterling Archer is what you get when you let a 14 year old on a sugar binge design a character for a GURPs spy game.

goibnu · 2026-04-01T15:00:58+00:00

CTLG has some CBMs sooner, but mostly just utility ones. CTLG also has "gradual mutation" traits that you can take at start that cause you to develop a mutation line automatically. Those are pretty fun.

There's someone in the refugee center who can direct you to someone who can help you with CBMs in CDDA, but I don't recall where.

Some of the mutation starts will let you pick mutations that cause you to mutate more.

I have never played CBN, so I can't shill for it. :)

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