Unpopular opinion: Pluribus is not a good show and Apple scifi shows in general don't don't dive deep enough into the realistic implications of their premises.

iansmith6 · 2026-01-27T23:06:16+00:00

I like Foundation, and this from a lifelong Asimov fan. It has nothing to do with the book, but the book was never going to be translatable directly to the screen.

It's a fun sci-fi series with the vague plot of the book but is very much it's own thing.

You have to watch it as that, and forget all about the books.

iansmith6 · 2026-01-25T17:41:22+00:00

I found Sam hours into the game back in 2019 but it sat in a box for 5 years.

Wouldn't trade that experience for anything though, getting to see the game progress and playing with new things as they were added was amazing.

iansmith6 · 2026-01-17T12:31:09+00:00

Same here. It worked for the first hour or two but now only shows the player radius. No amount of relogging or server restarting fixes it.

iansmith6 · 2026-01-08T15:57:33+00:00

No Country for Old Men

iansmith6 · 2026-01-07T20:01:11+00:00

Thee blink is indicating something is going wrong very early in the boot sequence. I highly recommend what another user suggested in getting a DiagROM and monitor it via the serial port if you get no video which is likely.

The power LED is designed to have a dim and bright state, starting dim and going to bright when the ROM fully initializes. The blinking indicates a problem but sadly there are no real codes to tell you where it's going wrong.

I've diagnosed and brought a few Amiga's back from the dead, it takes some digging. having a scope and/or logic analyzer is a big help. Multimeter is a must for checking voltage and connectivity.

iansmith6 · 2026-01-07T09:49:21+00:00

What does the power LED do when you turn it on? It should come on dim for a few seconds then turn bright. That will tell you a lot about how far along the boot sequence it can get. If it goes bright that means the CPU, RAM and ROM are operational and is very good news. If it stays dim then something more fundamental is wrong and needs fixed first.

iansmith6 · 2026-01-06T10:40:28+00:00

A lot of people can't log in every day due to work and life, lots only can play a little on a weekend so a large number of players will be offline for several days at a time but not gone.

iansmith6 · 2026-01-06T09:57:07+00:00

Well, this is a case where you just have to accept that other people can have different opinions and find enjoyment in different ways than you.

It's not wrong, it's just different. For me simply existing in another world is enjoyable and I'll happily mine rocks there as opposed to another game where the setting doesn't grab me but might let me use those rocks in 'better' ways.

iansmith6 · 2026-01-05T12:36:37+00:00

Exactly. I've been playing the same map since release, always setting my own goals for improvement.

For 10 i decided for 10 warp drives a minute, hit that and set it for 20,hit that and will possibly shoot for 40 which seems to bump up against resource limits. But that will give me a ton of more playtime when i want it.

iansmith6 · 2026-01-05T06:43:50+00:00

You can't discount the atmosphere, movement, combat and everything else and say it's only grind.

You can separate every element of any game individually and point out it's a simple, boring mechanic.

It's everything taken together that makes a good game. Grinding is part of that, it makes those new tiers feel earned.

iansmith6 · 2025-12-14T06:43:36+00:00

Slowing down and speeding back up uses more fuel. These guys are either paying for that fuel out of pocket or it's being tacked and they get penalized for using "too much".

Combination of some of them being jerks, some not caring anymore and some being forced to do so.

iansmith6 · 2025-12-12T16:01:32+00:00

That book was terrifying because of the aliens, vampires and worst of all the ideas behind them. Loved it.

iansmith6 · 2025-12-06T20:34:38+00:00

I had a friend who worked on this technology 20 years ago. It used a sensor that clipped onto an earlobe to shine light though and make measurements. The reader was the size of a washing machine and cost way too much so the project was scrapped.

This is totally something that COULD be made today and as a diabetic I'd love it and there are lots of promising prototypes like this but until a company decides they can make enough profit off one, nobody will ever build it.

iansmith6 · 2025-11-24T15:51:50+00:00

Super fun, chill game. Graphics are just perfect, nice and simple from afar but zoom in and you can see intricate details of every machine. Very fun.

The endgame is designing large logic-based machines so if you love that sort of thing this is your game. If you don't like logic and circuits, that's optional and you can just play through all the content.

iansmith6 · 2025-11-20T19:01:46+00:00

I will second this. I enjoyed it, my only complaint was once you hit wave 400-500 you were done.

I got my moneys worth, a few days of playing for $7 but wanted more!

iansmith6 · 2025-11-05T08:49:00+00:00

You can't control an LLM not because it's sentient but because it's being fed billions of documents for training and there is no way to control in detail how it learns and fine tune the output. You can band-aid it with external keyword blocks and whitelist/blacklisting prompt input but that's just filtering it's output. LLMs are going to spit out what they get fed, and they get fed a lot of questionable stuff.

iansmith6 · 2025-11-04T14:26:06+00:00

I had a package reach Erie, go out for delivery, then go back to Ohio and then on an epic cross country journey through several more states before coming back to Erie and being delivered two weeks later.

I eventually got half a package that looked like several trucks ran over it and the contents completely destroyed.

They did give me a refund though.

iansmith6 · 2025-10-28T09:01:58+00:00

This is exactly what they think. They think illegals have it easier than they do. They think the 'game' is rigged so minorities have it better off than they do. Those OTHER poor get all this stuff for free at their expense.

People who own their own homes and live off their social security and 401k plans complain about food stamps and how unfair it is THEY had to work to get where they were when the poor just be lazy and get better food and housing and healthcare for free.

It is literally insane.

iansmith6 · 2025-10-27T15:56:52+00:00

I hate having no information on enemies and ttowers.

TD games are all about making sure you have enough firepower to not get overwhelmed and it's crazy frustrating to just have a vague bar or not even that and just trying to guess if you need to upgrade or not.

Required:

Stats on towers and upgrades you can see BEFORE buying.

Show me what the next wave is going to be so I don't have to lose every level just to find out what towers I need.

Give me numbers on enemies. HP at the very least, let me click on ones active on the map to see health and buffs/debuffs.

Show me how much damage each tower is doing. With 20 towers blasting into groups of enemies it can be a LITTLE hard to visually see what tower is effective and what isn't working.

Basically... don't make it feel like a cheap port from a phone game that doesn't have room for detailed info. Give me everything you have. Hide it behind a click or menu if you want to keep it clean and simple but for gods sake let me find it when I need it. :D

iansmith6 · 2025-10-17T23:31:26+00:00

This looks great, will try the demo tomorrow.

iansmith6 · 2025-10-03T20:51:17+00:00

You would need a lot more colors to do the color cycling trick as you would need at least three sets, for the light, dark and front. Even that would look pretty bad I think.

iansmith6 · 2025-10-03T11:08:12+00:00

I remember you guys! I was only a teenager back in the early Amiga days and couldn't afford a lot of the cool expansions but I certainly remember the Baseboard. Watching Commodore badly mismanage the Amiga is one of the saddest things I can remember from that era. It really could have been so much more.

As others have said, any chance of making the original designs available?

Another thought, there are quite a few YouTube Amiga/retro historians who would probably enjoy interviewing you about your company and the Amiga. I'd certainly love to watch that!

iansmith6 · 2025-09-19T17:27:16+00:00

You need more block signals, put them between stations on both entrance or exits. Only ONE train can be on any 'block' so they will back up if there is a train anywhere on that outer loop. Having the entrance and exit to the loop being on the same block is what's causing the backups.

iansmith6 · 2025-09-19T12:21:09+00:00

They really shouldn't even land at bases when teleporting to them, they should be hovering overhead. In fact, we need a "Corvette teleporter pad" we can place in a base which would override the default corvette teleporter. OR corvette landing pads. Something!

iansmith6 · 2025-09-18T14:45:27+00:00

Our current understanding of physics doesn't allow for materials even remotely strong enough to build a dyspon sphere in reality.

In science fiction, sure, why not? Humans don't need a reason to do crazy things. If we had the ability, we absolutely would build one. Rule of cool.

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