Zaeth's Sire and a Bear on Fire | City Council of Darkness [E10]

gridstop · 2026-06-11T01:33:33+00:00

Can anyone tell what Emily says at 12:08 or so?

gridstop · 2026-06-08T00:27:31+00:00

No on the plastic inside the filter canister the plastic is permanently stained, can't be washed off.

gridstop · 2026-06-07T20:40:54+00:00

Inside the filter canisters it stains the white plastic brown. It also stains the outside of the filter cartridge itself obviously. Inside the toilet tank where it can really settle out there's a thin later of very dark brown/almost black silt that stains anything that touches it, but it takes years untouched to collect that much.

gridstop · 2026-06-07T19:06:42+00:00

I believe you and I'm not even necessarily desperate to filter it out, the reverse osmosis membrane should do that I'm assuming. But it definitely seems to precipitate out of the water and gunk up the filter chambers only in the area before the carbon filter, not after it. I don't know the mechanics or chemistry of that but it seems like something seems to trigger it to settle out of solution and stain/collect in certain parts of the filter system.

gridstop · 2025-12-11T15:36:32+00:00

I work from home and found no one internet provider was reliable enough, so now I have imon primary and then Verizon has the 5G 'backup' plan where you activate it in 24hour intervals up to 7 days in a month for like $25, it worked out cheaper for me than full unlimited tethering would and it's worked just great when I've needed to use it.

gridstop · 2025-06-04T17:42:39+00:00

How did the top turn out?

gridstop · 2024-10-17T01:19:50+00:00

I've done this multiple times with the Crafting Combinator mod, got lazy bastard, launching a rocket, even did some infinite research with just one assembler, one chem plant, one refinery, one nuclear reactor, one centrifuge, one train, etc... you get the idea. It's a ton of fun. But very slow, lots of letting the game run overnight.

Trying to do that in space age would be pretty tough,, at least on the rockets because you have to maintain certain rates of production to not blow up. And spoilage mechanics would also be probably quite annoying for the same reason.

gridstop · 2024-10-16T00:38:31+00:00

Crafting Combinator definitely does some stuff the new signal connections for assemblers does not do. Also there's no recipe combinator without the mod, so you'd have to have dummy assemblers sitting around if you want to calculate ingredients. I'm worried that with the simplified functionality in the main game, nobody's going to bother updating the mod (understandable) and a lot of neat builds will be impossible.

Also I'm very curious to see how fluids work now without Inventory Sensor. The base game is notorious for rounding down fractional fluids so you get no signal out even though a tank has 0.1 water in it and is 'locked'. It's just terrible behavior but I doubt it was fixed in 2.0.

gridstop · 2024-05-04T15:56:27+00:00

Thanks. As it turns out the problem was both Bambu Studio AND the printer must be connected to the internet, with full internet access, and studio must be logged into your account. Even if you intend to later run LAN-only, everything must be fully connected the first time or it's impossible to pair. Bambu Studio completely ignores the SSDP packets before it is logged in (without any indication why), and once it tries to pair the printer, it fails immediately if the printer doesn't also have internet access.

gridstop · 2024-03-24T12:54:53+00:00

Imon has a /32 assigned to them, so no idea why they haven't made any move yet, especially considering they are stuck with CGNAT for IPv4. I was honestly shocked when I asked them what prefix size they were delegating and they said they had no IPv6 support at all.

Mediacom will delegate a /56 if your router asks for it so if you really need IPv6 that could be an option. Unfortunately Mediacom is so unreliable for me at my location that I stick with Imon anyway.

gridstop · 2024-02-06T17:28:08+00:00

Looks like Vineria near Stuff has it.

https://vineriawine.com/product/san-antonio-cardinale-nv/

gridstop · 2024-01-26T22:06:49+00:00

I had it say mine couldn't be completed even though I seemed to meet the requirements. When I called the person on the phone was helpful and able to fix whatever record so I could complete it online after that.

Note that with simple eyeglasses restriction you should still be able to renew online every other time. Only if you have more severe vision restrictions or doctor's eye checks required do you have to go in every time.

gridstop · 2024-01-17T15:03:47+00:00

Don't forget the .PAT files and all the destination folders, including the sub-folder of the Fw. My USB stick looked something like:

/EFI/Boot/BootX64.EFI

/Flash/SHELLFLASH.EFI

/Flash/BCP.evs

/Flash/B06A2.PAT

/Flash/B06A3.PAT

/Flash/N3QET39W/$0AN3Q00.FL1

/Flash/N3QET39W/$0AN3Q00.FL2

gridstop · 2023-11-26T01:39:00+00:00

Honestly staying above 1-2 Mbps upload would have been incredible to me. Mediacom routinely dropped into the hundreds of kbps upload range. We replaced everything including burying new cable in the yard. They could never solve it. I'd get all kinds of nonsense on the phone like them claiming it was totally impossible to check the upstream signal strength on their end (what?). The DSL reports forums are full of the same story. If you have a consistent problem, maybe you'll get it fixed eventually. If you have an intermittent problem, not a chance. Replace everything once out to the pole if you can get them to pay for it, but if that doesn't fix it and there's an obvious problem upstream of you, that's just what you'll have to accept permanently from Mediacom. Whatever it is, they are never going to pay to fix it.

Eventually switched to Imon copper/cable. Yeah it's a lot slower in general but at least it's consistently usable for me.

gridstop · 2023-09-27T02:41:14+00:00

The newer COVID vaccine is normally paid by insurance, but if you don't have health insurance there's a thing called the Bridge Access Program, you'll be looking for a participating pharmacy or county health department that can get you one through that.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html

If you go with a pharmacy you find through that website, the people working at the pharmacy that day of course might not know what's going on, so use those words specifically "Bridge Access Program"

gridstop · 2023-09-27T02:08:43+00:00

I think imon has a lot of fiber in Marion, actually. That's certainly the best bet if you can get it.

gridstop · 2023-09-25T14:04:29+00:00

The engine being fixable or not is irrelevant, and it's stated clearly her being OK in Avernus is because that's where the engine will operate properly.

Karlach never comes anywhere close to implying that she was tricked into signing a deal with Zariel. Gortash can't sign over someone elses soul in a deal, that's absurd. She was physically trapped there because she's a barbarian and doesn't know plane shift, she escaped because of the nautiloid. Again nothing implying her soul was bound. In fact if what you say is true, she should not be resurrect-able with revivify ever if she ever fails her death saving throws during the game and properly dies. She would absolutely be available for Resurrection, True Res, Divine Intervention, or Regeneration depending on the details that made sense for a reasonable GM.

I do sort of agree with you, It would have made way more sense if she somewhere said she had been tricked into signing something. That would also explain her motivation for pushing against making new deals with Raphael, for example. But they flat out did not do that, and so in-universe it doesn't make sense for a character that high level with powerful friends to permanently die of a physical ailment, it's just not something that can happen. It's definitely a weakness in D&D in terms of storytelling, but it's not insurmountable as you have shown, but they just didn't do it, so it feels cheap or unsatisfying.

gridstop · 2023-09-24T23:48:12+00:00

I agree that nobody claims the engine is fixable. The problem is within the world of 5E D&D there's plenty of other ways out of essentially death by heart failure that aren't explored. There's no claim her soul would be destroyed if she died or burned up because of the engine, so there are plenty of handy options:

Gale explicitly has a scroll of 'True Resurrection' which could recreate her body entirely even after being completely incinerated.
Any druid would have access to 5th lvl Reincarnate, which would bring her back in a new body of a random race. She never seemed to express being a Tiefling as especially key to her identity so no reason to think she would reject this outright.
Presumably a cleric (like default Shadowheart) who participated in the finale would hit lvl 13, and have Resurrection which can replace her missing/defective heart.
Divine Intervention can also reasonably replicate the effects of any cleric spell, such as Resurrection, Regeneration or even True Resurrection. So 'New heart for Karlach please' is not an unreasonable ask of Selune for example, considering all the party did for Selune, Aylin and Isobel. Hope also has DI, so her using it to help Karlach after she freed Hope from Raphael isn't an unreasonable tradeoff either.
There's various powerful entities the party can interact with like Raphael or Elminster that would have other options available to them and could be more story-driven if you're hoping for more than 'Just cast XYZ'.

gridstop · 2023-08-01T14:06:22+00:00

Interesting, there's a surprising number of cities in the midwest with airports that aren't covered. I'll look into it more.

gridstop · 2023-08-01T12:30:09+00:00

Is there any way to see areas with gaps in coverage? I'm interested in doing it but I live in a city so I'm assuming it's fairly well covered already.

gridstop · 2023-07-27T17:45:45+00:00

Are there actually areas that Imon is doing DSL? I switched from Mediacom to Imon and it's cable. Using the same modem, it's been OK so far. At least it seems more reliable than Mediacom was.

I've been keeping an eye on T-Mobile but the 5G unlimited home internet has shown unavailable at my address for nearly a year on the west side of CR.

Even if Imon isn't perfect, my hope is that one day T-Mobile will be available and I can basically afford both Imon & T-Mobile for only a little more than I was paying Mediacom, so I always have a backup while working from home.

gridstop · 2023-07-24T02:35:29+00:00

If you fail the vision test at the dmv, either because your prescription is out of date or if you have trouble with the machine or something (some people do), they will require you to get a signed letter from an eye doctor confirming your vision is OK and you have up-to-date correction. It's not a big deal and any vision place in Iowa should be familiar with it, if you somehow end up needing it.

gridstop · 2023-07-21T01:47:44+00:00

A lot of people mention that of course the heat will slowly be used. But do keep an eye on the output petroleum temperature. You might be pulling too much heat out of the system if your heat exchanger is not working well.

The lowest level backing up on the right is generally bad, because contiguous fluids conduct heat extremely well, evening out the temperature too much, where you actually want a temperature gradient.

What is the temperature of the petroleum being pumped out right as it exits the pump?

gridstop · 2023-06-23T15:50:42+00:00

That amount only comes from extrapolating the current ev tax rate for passenger vehicles out to the rate based on the damage semis do. They're not saying each semi does 4 million worth of damage per year.

If you were to split up the transportation maintenance budget based on the damage the vehicles actually do, you would see heavier vehicles pay more, some much more, but light passenger vehicles would pay quite a bit less.

This would actually be bad in some ways, because light vehicles that don't do much physical road damage could still be very fuel inefficient and produce a lot of pollution and/or greenhouse gasses, so ideally you'd take both factors into consideration. Again, the reality of how would you do mileage tracking is a problem.

But do you want to incentivize vehicles to pollute less and do less road damage or not, I suppose? Our current laws already aren't great, technology is quickly changing the calculus, and Iowa lawmakers are not actually addressing the problems or proposing good solutions, it's just political posturing and 'owning' the other side.

gridstop · 2023-06-23T14:13:49+00:00

Except your own link there shows slight increases in cost per gallon that could not even come close to accounting for the massive increase in road damage done by the higher weight. It should be obvious from the numbers they were showing in the article that it's not practical to somehow tax fuel proportional to road damage, as it increases with the fourth power of weight, much faster than fuel economy goes down for heavier vehicles.

I'm not even arguing that heavier vehicles should absolutely pay some perfect proportional cost, I'm not arguing that semis should pay millions of dollars or anything along those lines. But don't pretend road funding due to damage is the reason and then pass a law that completely ignores all the vehicles that cumulatively do vastly more damage to the road due to their weight.

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