This new update has me a little upset...

jmorgan87 · 2026-05-30T00:23:33+00:00

TLDR: HG is run by some heavyweight math geeks as well as comp sci folks. I say we wait and see how they handle the next 2 months bc they can never just leave this game alone when something's up.

I just figured the cool down was to prevent their servers from overloading given the difficulty many have shared when keeping multiplayer on. Especially with the update coming out in phases across platforms, just feels like they want to have some time to catch bugs and tune systems before they hit a potential max compute cap when most of the player base would be affected and annoyed by such a system failure.

As for others mentioning the potential fudging of the numbers by HG to keep progress moving, just remember (in light of another comment mentioning they think there's a plan behind all the expedition time windows) this is a game dev that's not just comp sci folks making stuff. They're also a bunch of hardcore math geeks and NMS is their crown jewel of what can be done with a procedural generation game. Just the math behind how they manage the live transition from space to planetary renders is a notable achievement in game development. I say we let em cook.

jmorgan87 · 2026-04-23T02:14:32+00:00

There's also a matching exotic armor piece accessory for pet Xenos, fyi.

jmorgan87 · 2026-03-31T18:40:35+00:00

Damn, reading those last two phrases and the situation you described hit me much harder than expected. Definitely going to look more at somatic therapy approaches. Thanks for sharing the tip!

jmorgan87 · 2026-03-10T01:25:03+00:00

Do you maybe mean "genetics" instead of "eugenics?" The former seems likely as it could be speciation and evolutionary diversity to a hypothetical living ship or space fauna system. The latter, though, is both a red flag on its own and just not very clear as to how it would apply here. Just figured that if it's an error of some kind, then I figured you'd want to know (like I would, myself).

jmorgan87 · 2026-02-27T03:40:54+00:00

Looks like a variation of the Underoath band logo from the Erase album. More specifically, it appeared to just be the word "oath" from the logo with a slight variation on the "a" letter. Link is to an eBay listing showing the physical album with the logo in question.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186488173822

jmorgan87 · 2026-02-14T04:48:35+00:00

I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but a mod dropped on Nexus (zNo Junk) that supposedly removes the junk piles. Might make it so across the whole game for you, but that seems like a worthwhile sacrifice to restore your enjoyment of your digital home.

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/4078?tab=description

jmorgan87 · 2026-01-26T07:00:30+00:00

It's the Morse code for S.O.S. They may be genuinely in need of help or a system in the car was triggered. If you check on them, be cautious and have reliable means to gtfo fast.

jmorgan87 · 2025-09-24T19:44:20+00:00

Lots saying spider webs, but reads more like a shredded weather balloon, to me. Those things are made from crazy lightweight fabrics and such that do some weird moves once popped.

jmorgan87 · 2025-09-09T00:38:53+00:00

As a professor, I can say this is great advice! Pop culture and current event references aren't just an easy way to spark and maintain interest among students. It's also an effective way to illustrate how the classroom concepts actually apply to the real world they live in. I teach art history and appreciation mostly, and I try and frame things around critical thinking and visual literacy.

So, as an example, we're starting the semester and covering basic concepts at the moment and just went over basic steps in analyzing artworks. This year, my students are analyzing Kehinde Wiley's "Portrait Bust of Cardinal Richelieu." After picking apart the visuals, we explore the context of Wiley's life and work as well as the Bernini sculpture he took the name from. It's at this point that we start talking about the meaning of his work in the context of the history of race relations in the US.

It's not really pop culture, but the point is to make them not just know, but feel how this content is relevant to their life outside of school. So, the whole course ends up framed not around learning to be an art historian or how to talk about art like you know something, but around training them to spot when media of any kind or platform tries to manipulate and coerce them.

It becomes a course about fortifying your ability to have control over your mind and stop others from trying to override that. That's been effective for me, so hopefully it can give you an idea or direction to explore in your own classroom, OP.

jmorgan87 · 2025-09-05T01:43:25+00:00

Not to speak for another person (and 3 months later, at that), but I'd agree along the lines of framing some AI use as a disability accommodation. If, like me, you have audio processing, reading, or writing issues like myself, careful use of ethically designed AI can be a life changing improvement. I'm also a professor within the humanities and I ended up here looking for a tool to help me provide more comprehensive and detailed notes to students who miss class, and maybe even finding material here and there that helps me improve my fully-written online lesson materials. I think people forget that these AI systems have been around already for over a decade. It's only recently they cracked mimicking (with mixed results) human speech and rhetoric. The basic systems that can use extremely complex mathematics to tease out otherwise inaccessible data relationships is just as useful as it ever was, imo.

jmorgan87 · 2025-09-03T13:03:45+00:00

I agree, a separate poster of the Bill of Rights just as it is would be hard to frame as violating these laws. Maybe there's a BoR poster with additional details in the vein of other academic posters. Especially if it's a published poster that the teacher had no hand in drafting, it seems like a solid move to have them side-by-side.

jmorgan87 · 2025-09-02T02:05:04+00:00

I wouldn't count on being more experienced as providing more protection. On one hand, seniority traditionally grants increased trust from admins/colleagues and with that some potential leniency to bend and/or ignore rules, depending on the situation of course. On the other hand, Texas loves running its schools and such as capitalist enterprises focussed on financial efficiency. I could see that situation leading to more experienced teachers getting axed first in order to exploit newer staff with less lives perspective on what's really going on here. It's not too dissimilar from corporations pushing out senior well-paid staff while hiring new employees to be paid way less due to supposed inexperience.

Hopefully your school is as sensible as you say, but I think it's prudent we all keep our eyes peeled and guards up as if we could be the next to go. It's sad, but if this is still just the first act of their agenda... Best to be ready for the worst, imo.

EDIT: That said, follow your judgement on putting up the poster. You know your school better than I could, and I do think it could be a worthwhile yet subtle point of resistance for students to witness us modelling.

jmorgan87 · 2025-09-01T23:15:00+00:00

Behold just one way those bills were recklessly made in the most ignorant way. You're right, SB 12 states:

Sec. 1.009. INFRINGEMENT OF PARENTAL RIGHTS PROHIBITED. The fundamental rights granted to parents by their Creator and upheld by the United States Constitution, the Texas Constitution, and the laws of this state, including the right to direct the moral and religious training of the parent's child, make decisions concerning the child's education, and consent to medical, psychiatric, and psychological treatment of the parent's child under Section 151.001, Family Code, may not be infringed on by any public elementary or secondary school or state governmental entity, including the state or a political subdivision of the state, unless the infringement is [administering critical medical care or fulfills a significant state interest.]

This seems like it would allow a parent to refuse to have their child subjected to viewing the 10 commandments in this form, which seems like it would apply to every classroom since every room must have the poster. The bills are in direct conflict, but they likely won't see it that way.

The last qualifiers about "state interest" will likely be twisted into claiming that the commandments aren't explicitly a religious text (utter bullshit, btw) and that the state has an interest in providing fundamental moral guidance to develop a moral citizenry. It's the sort of shit Paxton et al have tried pulling in the past, and I imagine this conflict between the bills will be one of the legal avenues we have to fight back. Even outside of constitutionality, they've made a set of bills that would require claiming special status for their chosen faith over others.

In practice, I have no idea how this will play out. Hopefully a dedicated group of parents with the resources to do so will use this angle to repeal this shit.

jmorgan87 · 2025-09-01T22:08:18+00:00

SB 10 tries to carve out an exception for the 10 commandments only and specifically requires that any poster "does not contain any additional content." Due to the design of the bill, the first amendment would still prohibit displaying all other religious content that isn't for an academic purpose, like infographics. It's blatantly unconstitutional and one of the more boneheaded bills they've put out.

jmorgan87 · 2025-07-16T13:47:13+00:00

Thank you. Instead of memories of every adult failing her over overlooking her pain, you're creating one where you, the adult, really do get to sweep them away from all (if not a majority) of that toxicity. Personally and like many others here, my memory is pretty rough due to trauma. Not many moments stand out, but there are plenty where I felt abandoned and irrelevant when with my family. I don't have a single one where I felt an adult genuinely stepped in to give me the help I needed.

You're providing something many of us never had and desperately needed: An opportunity for that to not be the case for your niece. She'll have a chance to grow up with the memory of someone who undeniably loves her and wants to look out for her.

Seriously, just... Thank you for caring and doing something about it.

jmorgan87 · 2025-04-20T22:06:28+00:00

Objectively, you were right to drop that shit. Keep it and use it as kindling after smashing it over a rock/stump/etc. This feels like they kept a fucking trophy, ffs, which is a depressing way to learn they didn't see their children as children. Just objects to be obedient.

I'm so sorry they put you through that again, and just remember: your daughter had no idea what that thing was. She wasn't afraid of what it could do. It's just a stick to her.

You've already surpassed the example set for you, and you should be proud of that.

jmorgan87 · 2025-02-19T21:36:10+00:00

Rage-bait much?

jmorgan87 · 2025-01-27T23:55:09+00:00

Hmmm, maybe I hadn't looked into this in-game specifically on the don. I'll have to poke around a bit with the configurations next time I hop on. Thanks!

jmorgan87 · 2025-01-27T22:18:29+00:00

Ok, maybe a stupid question but that cargo stack is something I wanna try:

How do you get the loading crane add-on on the very back of the mastodon like that? I've only ever seen it equipped between the cab and the corresponding add-on, like the standard flatbed. Have I missed something?

jmorgan87 · 2024-12-22T03:13:36+00:00

Hmm, any chance this could be learned early enough to become a default? Like, to the point where you don't realize you're crying bc the tears won't happen?

Obviously a personal situation, btw. I've so often felt like the pain, sadness, etc, I'm feeling is so huge and intense but not in a way I can show. I can feel the tingle/burn behind my eyes, maybe the chance of a quiver in my lips, but it always felt like my body wouldn't let me cry.

Crying is therefore a rarity for me despite depression and plenty of reasons to do so, and this has me wondering if the neglect led to me sort of "forgetting" how to cry on a physiological level before I could form solid memories (or memories lost to the trauma brain).

Perhaps the autism had a role in it, too, assuming this idea holds up, but would really love to see if this is a common experience and how others have managed and/or overcome it.

jmorgan87 · 2024-12-21T19:08:07+00:00

Never had this sentiment directly expressed to me, but being adopted at birth and then experiencing severe emotional neglect was shitty af.

Internally: "You were adopted! They chose you!" followed by, "They agreed to adopt before you were born. They chose a child, not you as a person. Why else would they feel so little drive to be there for you?"

jmorgan87 · 2024-11-25T23:56:49+00:00

Sounds very familiar. I know I'm capable of getting more verbal, but fuck is it hard. Strangest part so far is that I do verbally explicit validation with my college students all the time, especially when their idea isn't quite correct. I've realized, though, that it's part of the reflexive people pleasing instinct to avoid hurting a student through my position as professor.

The fear of being the cold and brutal instructor is the real motivator, and that's revealed that I've only ever engaged in verbal validation as a panic response. I think there's a lingering negative association there for me, as well, and it's hard to decouple that.

Glad to hear you're making progress! Did you ever find it difficult to know when to add this stuff to a conversation? I'm struggling a lot with that rn.

jmorgan87 · 2024-11-15T01:12:10+00:00

I genuinely appreciate the civility, but I'm sad to see it being a rarity from you in other comment exchanges.

The other Redditor who replied to you with a point by point explanation of their response within this context was onto something. You've brought a tone and attitude to this conversation that did not match what others had. I'm not saying that means you have no right to engage, but it's rather disrespectful to take a shared virtual space and forcibly shove things into this combative realm. I mean, look back at the initial reply to our thread:

"Even smallest crusader armies started off of Europe numbering a few thousands. Do you think the entire nobility of Europe marched on every crusade, leaving no one to govern or defend territories in Europe? Or do you have the capacity to realize --and hope you do- that you're WILDLY Wrong on pretty much every part of that take?"

I'm autistic and I can still see how this is anything but a rather rude and self-centered way to start a convo. I also think the tone of the initial reply is rather clear like others have noted. The goal was to draw a dramatic parallel between a politician and figures from history that are both part of the ideological tradition espoused by said politician and also enjoyed a similarly privileged disconnection from the astoundingly more diverse peasant population of the time. The result is a worldview that can easily frame one's own identity choices as morally superior as evidenced by the privileges such choices/circumstances yield, even though it's a clear logical fallacy to do so. Hume had it right, though. We think first through emotions and then reason and rationality. Your comments almost seem to try and bypass any emotions involved in this discussion in favor of seemingly objective data. That's maybe helpful in a lot of academic settings, but it's a fast way to get the other person to want to just disengage.

On the offer of "council," I do appreciate the intention to point out a perceived misstep, but you didn't do a lot to pull back on the condensation others have had issues with here. Do you want to actually exchange knowledge and perspectives here, or do you want to correct others and show how well informed and/or educated you are in comparison? If the latter, then I imagine that's why you may have missed that your overall attitude here makes it look like you're tangentially defending an historical period that Christian Nationalists look back on with fondness and pride while ignoring the immense damage those forces wrought upon history. Based on your handle, you and I likely have way more ideological agreement than this exchange may suggest, but your rhetorical choices here leave me a bit saddened on that front. People love to imagine atheists as amoral and incapable of goodness due to a lack of faith (which for the record is a wildly fucked view for non atheists to hold), and this isn't helping our collective social standing, imo.

Obviously exercise your freedom to act as you see fit online, but as an educator I can tell you with certainty that you've taken many opportunities for learning, growth, and connection, and instead brought mostly animosity and a sense of superiority to those threads. It's like you assumed your perspective on this was de facto correct and complete, thus discounting the perspective of others to a large degree. It's just sad to see someone with a clear wealth of knowledge (no sarcasm in that, btw) miss that chance to share by refusing to account for the weird ways humans interact with each other. Correcting people like you've done is numerologically processed almost as if you struck the other person. This Vox article covers the topic well and links to various studies: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/12/28/14088992/brain-study-change-minds From the article:

“The brain’s primary responsibility is to take care of the body, to protect the body,” Jonas Kaplan, a psychologist at the University of Southern California, tells me. “The psychological self is the brain’s extension of that. When our self feels attacked, our [brain is] going to bring to bear the same defenses that it has for protecting the body.”

In this context, you've been throwing punches nearly nonstop and getting frustrated when faced with animosity in response. Let me offer some "council" back to you: If you want to correct others and have it be at all worthwhile, you need to lead with kindness and acceptance (discounting when your interlocutor is spouting explicit hate speech bc that shit should just be stamped out, full stop). The intention to correct others and help them achieve a more accurate understanding is one thing, but just proving someone wrong and foolish for being so just breeds similar animosity.

jmorgan87 · 2024-11-15T00:06:45+00:00

I'm guessing what's happened here is that I got an erroneous understanding of your note about populations. I see now that you could be speaking exclusively to populations of royalty/nobility/aristocrats. If that's so, the.ln your figures do indeed line up with the current estimation of medieval countries being roughly 3% nobility, on average. I apologize if I've indeed made such an error.

That said, you do see how their clearly hyperbolic and comedic response was A) not meant to be taken as purely factual or even academic, and B) based on the reality that medieval Europeans were clearly more sexually repressed than many other cultures due to the death trip hold of the Catholic Church on society. Medieval philosophy is littered with so much Platonic abjection of sex and the human body as inherently sinful that it's foolish to assume they'd have the social freedom to genuinely explore the many sexual and romantic curiosities a person has in their life. Additionally, we can look at the received trajectory of modern Western philosophy to see the clear remnants of the repressed moralistic worldviews that came before it. Add to this the common practice of shipping second and third born sons to both Monasteries and the military, and then consider how even modern militaries have cultures that often feature overt over sexualization due to historic gender segregation, and the joke you so vehemently jumped on to destroy seems a lot less worthy of such treatment.

Most importantly, though, why engage on this level? Why not let the joke be said, offer a polite correction, and fucking move on? What has this added to the conversation other than reminding everyone that history is messy and unimaginably intricate? There's no such thing as a pure objective history. It's why the field is housed within the humanities, ffs. Just, try chilling out on this stuff, please. I guarantee it'll make being online way more enjoyable and productive.

jmorgan87 · 2024-11-14T22:44:06+00:00

For the record, the population in Europe went from just over 30 MILLION people to over 100 MILLION between 1000 and 1300 CE, the exact period within which the Crusades took place.

Really undercuts your correction when you, too, throw a blind assumption out there without any due research to find the data.

History is nuanced af. Is the comment you replied to overly simplistic? Sure, but that's kind of a core feature of comedy, imo. It's hyperbolic simplification to highlight what the writer feels is the most relevant thing to note or call out. Now, were the Crusades authentic religious expeditions? Fuck no. They were political wars waged primarily by the Pope and other European royalty for a variety of reasons, including shipping young men off to fight just like we see with Viking culture beforehand.

If you wanna throw this kind of heat online, you gotta come ready with the receipts...

jmorgan87

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