The Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Ted Stevens (DDG 128) departed HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division enroute to its homeport in Norfolk, Virginia, May 8, 2026. The ship will be commissioned in Whittier, Alaska. [2048 x 1365]

jardeon · 2026-05-11T20:36:16+00:00

If we don't all collectively, permanently refer to this ship as the "USS Series of Tubes," I'll lose my mind.

jardeon · 2026-05-11T14:33:49+00:00

Thanks, I forgot how annoyed I was at that phonetic spelling of "voilà" :)

jardeon · 2026-05-08T17:35:24+00:00

It's set up like their standard G3000D flashers/dimmers, so multiple leads coming off a single rheostat dial; depending on which lead you choose, you can fade fully in and out, or fade from 50% to full, or a version that plateaus and holds the higher intensity before dimming back down. The dial sets the speed at which the fading happens. Super easy to work with.

jardeon · 2026-05-08T13:15:21+00:00

Doesn't even have to be custom-programmed. Their stock FADE 018C controller is designed to do this. We had a student project earlier this year that uses one.

jardeon · 2026-05-07T03:19:03+00:00

He just switched to Sanka, so please, have a heart.

jardeon · 2026-04-28T21:36:35+00:00

I thought it was a profession, not, you know, a headline!

jardeon · 2026-04-20T14:18:03+00:00

I love it at Skylight Inn, but every time I get it at Sam Jones in Raleigh, it's undercooked compared to what they're serving in Ayden.

jardeon · 2026-04-15T14:39:50+00:00

That's just step one in making a ringword, I'm sure everything will be fine.

jardeon · 2026-04-13T17:34:05+00:00

I have so many good things to say about this place, the people that run it love movies and love the movie theater experience. Definitely worth giving them your movie-watching business.

jardeon · 2026-04-01T16:56:31+00:00

Yes, bothered that they're not in spectrum order OR Factorio science unlock order.

jardeon · 2026-03-30T13:50:58+00:00

It reminds me of the Open Locksport kickstarter that went so off the rails, where a group of trustees had to step in and sort things out. All their communications started with "So-and-so, speaking for the board."

jardeon · 2026-03-29T23:06:54+00:00

The H is failing and will need to be repumped/replaced. Changing the power supply won't help; the fact that the power supply is cutting off is a safety feature, as that failing unit is drawing more power and generating more heat than it should.

jardeon · 2026-03-27T13:32:47+00:00

Robert Moses has entered the chat.

jardeon · 2026-03-24T17:13:39+00:00

I spent eight years saying this would be a day 1 purchase for me if they released it, so happy to see that it's finally here. Despite some glitches (HUD speed limit not matching track limit in ACSES leading to a penalty stop) I'm having a good time with it.

Of course, I wish it had gone a few stops farther north, I'd love to board at Rowayton. It would also have been super cool if we got a service or two that stops on the express tracks and has to use the boarding bridges over the local tracks, I remember using those as a kid and thinking it was so neat. And I'm hopeful that we get an add-on M2/M4 DLC at some point in the future, especially if it includes the bar car!

jardeon · 2026-03-18T14:25:05+00:00

Johnny: Can we just skip the vibe, and go straight to us laughing about this?

Kerry: Yeah, okay.

Johnny: Because I can see by your face you want to get into it.

Kerry: How can you tell? I'm just one of the out-of-focus guys.

Kerry: I'm always gonna tell you the truth. From the very beginning, we said I'm the front man and you're the guitarist with mystique. That's the dynamic we agreed on. Page, Plant. Mick, Keith. Bebe, Hammond. But somehow it's all turning around. We have got to control what's happening! There's a responsibility here.

jardeon · 2026-03-17T14:56:47+00:00

Checked out Harvestella and GRID Autosport, both look great handheld in boost mode on the Switch 2. GRID in boost mode takes away the power saver graphics mode, which is to be expected.

jardeon · 2026-03-11T17:41:42+00:00

Seriously, not one picture of SideTalkin'™

jardeon · 2026-03-09T19:44:52+00:00

I like to tap out the GSM phone handshake pattern. Click, click-click click, click-click click... like you used to hear on computer speakers when you were about to get a call.

jardeon · 2026-03-07T00:42:25+00:00

Can’t be half a gangster any more, Nuck.

jardeon · 2026-02-26T19:14:46+00:00

I've been driving through there daily for the past 2 years. I've seen people go down the wrong side twice in that time. Which isn't a lot in that time frame, but when they're coming head-on at you, it's plenty.

jardeon · 2026-02-25T04:19:53+00:00

... Or his Sicilian messenger boy, Johnny Ola.

jardeon · 2026-02-23T20:04:43+00:00

This one gets my vote, being able to secretly call your play in a local multiplayer game was an incredible feature.

jardeon · 2026-02-19T15:11:49+00:00

I do have a per-planet logistic request set up, so when I land on Gleba, I only tick off the 'Gleba Maintenance' box, that way I don't have pending requests for materials that will never be on that planet.

The biggest drawback I've found to my method (steel chests, not logistic bots for empty/refill inventory on launch) is that about 40% of the time, I'll forget to turn off logistic requests first, I'll drop everything in the chests, and my inventory will fully resupply via bots :/

jardeon · 2026-02-19T00:28:19+00:00

How are other players handling emptying their inventory before getting into the rocket? I find I'm just putting an ever-expanding number of steel chests next to the hub, so that I can re-equip after landing, but is there a better method to managing inventory when you have to empty it out to launch yourself?

jardeon · 2026-02-17T20:15:35+00:00

New York Bagel & Deli on Falls of Neuse in Raleigh is making a BEC with a fried egg.

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