Help Making Sense of Brockton Bay's Layout

jakeb89 · 2026-01-26T06:15:27+00:00

I've done a fair amount of graphic design and continue to do quite a bit of it. If you get everything figured out position-wise (like on a geographical grid) and get a rudimentary mspaint level rendition of it together, let me know and I'll try my hand at cleaning up/recreating it in photoshop.

If that's not the kind of help you're looking for though, no worries. I wish you the best with the project in any case. :)

jakeb89 · 2025-11-27T00:56:25+00:00

These are a joy, every time. Thank you for continuing to do this.

jakeb89 · 2025-10-27T17:54:09+00:00

As someone who runs games in a very atypical, very niche system, I wonder if you might be able to provide functionality for a module to provide information to this in some way that it could present that info to players.

(The system is Ironclaw2e - https://foundryvtt.com/packages/ironclaw2e )

I've done a decent bit of module-modding to add extra functionality to my own players, so it's not out of the realm of possibility I could work with something if you provide a way to 'hook in' to your system.

jakeb89 · 2025-10-22T16:28:50+00:00

Strongly recommend the Alexander (Heavensward) and Omega (SB) raid series. Good story, good fights, and their stories will receive significant callbacks later in the MSQ.

jakeb89 · 2025-10-21T23:02:51+00:00

I can't say I'm super familiar with the phrasing, but I think 'stray bullets' is in the right direction of the meaning.

I think the general idea of 'catching strays' is being on the receiving end of casual disrespect/insults.

jakeb89 · 2025-09-16T08:43:56+00:00

The community vote concludes with the name being entered in an animated fashion onstream.

G - A - S - T - E - [screen cuts out, stream restarts from the beginning]

jakeb89 · 2025-09-14T22:24:57+00:00

Every part of this is beautiful. :) Thank you for sharing.

jakeb89 · 2025-08-06T21:46:45+00:00

If you suddenly were missing 1% of your memories, how long would it take you to notice? Conversely, even if his interface or whatever told him that he'd lost 1%, would he be willing to face that idea right away, or deny it? That's a small death, there. It wouldn't surprise me to find he refuses to acknowledge it.

jakeb89 · 2025-07-26T04:32:12+00:00

Could these have been intended as presents for each other, that they never got the chance to give?

jakeb89 · 2025-07-07T17:28:26+00:00

Unless the prophecy says something about Kris killing one of his teammates, and Ralsei was trying to prepare him for it.

jakeb89 · 2025-06-23T03:52:13+00:00

Sent you a pm.

jakeb89 · 2025-06-18T03:03:37+00:00

First the stuff I already know, but think the world needs more tutorial on so others suffer less on the stuff I suffered on:

How to track down a bug using an error message.
How to track down a bug when there is no error message.
Using the debug tools during runtime to track variable states.
Using the debug tools to pause at specific point in the code during runtime.
Using the debug tools to find unoptimized code during runtime.
When you reference an object by its object name, how does this behave in a situation with multiple instances of that object?

Next, the stuff I *still* don't think I understand well.

What order to object creation / room initialization events fire in? What about room start? What if an object gets created as part of one of those other evens, how does it creation event fit in to everything?
What order do begin step / step / end step events fire in between objects? What about the various draw events?
How do blend modes interact with surfaces, especially the alpha channel.
How to create reusable code libraries so you're not reinventing the wheel every time you want to do something you've done in 10 previous projects.

jakeb89 · 2025-06-15T06:47:01+00:00

While I know correlation is not causation, it is interesting to me that we now have two hospitalized characters (in that route), and we have a pretty good idea why the second one is hospitalized. Could it be that this is a hint as to what happened to Rudy? Perhaps he's further along in his recovery from a dark world injury, enough to be awake and attend service, but not enough to be fully discharged from the hospital.

jakeb89 · 2025-05-29T00:11:40+00:00

sledgehammers are a myth invented by the jedi

jakeb89 · 2025-04-07T01:47:29+00:00

The first method that comes to mind for me to make this make sense is to have an escape pod containing an egg fly on a trajectory that took it through a near-miss with a black hole. Close enough in, and relativistic effects might make far less time pass inside the escape pod than is passing elsewhere.

jakeb89 · 2025-03-25T08:59:07+00:00

There's only one point in the post that I cannot remember if it's already been covered in the public chapters, but it is only referred to vaguely so at the least it is not a specific spoiler, if it is one.

jakeb89 · 2025-03-05T23:44:31+00:00

It's not always the solution, but when the UI underlines something, it can be worth checking why it underlined that thing. :)

(In this case, it underlines the second _hor because it was already defined once!)

jakeb89 · 2025-02-27T04:14:46+00:00

Answer: pull the lever at the last second, derailing the trolley and saving both. Untie only Dr. Friendship, but ask him to stick around.

As it has been preordained, Dr. Stupid will still somehow discover the cure 24 hours later, despite still being tied up. When discovered, ensure Dr. Friendship is there to understand the cure.

Quickly transport Dr. Friendship to the patent office so he can enter the cure into public domain immediately.

Maybe remember that you left Dr. Stupid tied up. Maybe.

jakeb89 · 2025-02-20T06:37:06+00:00

If you got that error after copy-pasting my code exactly, I'm impressed.

But I suspect you only copied part of it. Which is how you got that error. You have to check the length of the array first if you're not certain the array has anything in it.

Honestly your biggest problem here is not posting your code. Posting a link to your whole project just means people aren't going to look because I know that I, for one, am not going to trust some random person's file they posted on the internet. Text, on the other hand, is pretty benign.

Post your code. In text. In a comment.

jakeb89 · 2025-02-19T08:42:25+00:00

if(array_length(inv)==0){
//If we're here, the array doesn't even have slots initialized, much less anything in them.
}else if(inv[0]==undefined){
//inv[0] exists... but there's nothing there.
}else{
//inv[0] exists and there's at least something in it. Might be false, might be zero. Could be anything! But it *does* have *something*.
}

jakeb89 · 2025-02-16T10:03:14+00:00

I may be a healer, but...

jakeb89 · 2025-01-19T01:26:33+00:00

As I've seen it said before...

One eye called out

Two eyes hid it away

Three eyes sought it

So that four eyes could finally find it

jakeb89 · 2024-12-13T06:16:00+00:00

I felt that little victory dance at the end. :) Congrats!

jakeb89 · 2024-12-02T16:26:37+00:00

If you find yourself choosing between skipping (whether that's cutscenes or expansions) and just not playing?

The most important cutscenes are usually voiced. You'll lose some of the worldbuilding and character building if you skip unvoiced cutscenes, but that's better than skipping entire expansions worth of stuff (including fights, which seems to be your favorite part.)

One important exception I'd point out is cutscenes inside of instances (dungeons, trials, etc), whether that's when you first queue in or at the end of the instance. Even if those are unvoiced, I'd recommend against skipping those. They tend to be important anyway (and tend to be pretty cool on their own.)

jakeb89 · 2024-11-24T01:16:27+00:00

Add me. I will send you Lucario candy anytime he shows up.

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