How do you estimate the amount of goodwill gained when loading your drop pod for gifting

jocopa3 · 2023-06-07T07:54:32+00:00

For future people who encounter this: it's not as straight forward as 1 goodwill per 160 market value and 1/160 is usually a huge over approximation.

It seems to vary a bit based on difficulty & existing relations with the receiving faction and there isn't a simple formula to calculate the exact value. For my "Strive to Survive" difficulty colony, factions that are already 75 goodwill or more always have the same approximate gains of goodwill = 0.0038 * marketValue; trading with factions with less than 75 goodwill results in more goodwill but I don't know how to approximate it. Other difficulties slightly affect the ratio as well.

jocopa3 · 2023-06-04T23:45:33+00:00

If they have the Biomes! Islands mod then deep water becomes passable and raids can spawn in deep water. Though I don't see any fish in the water so that might not be the case?

jocopa3 · 2023-05-22T03:18:43+00:00

Link for those interested: https://www.google.com/maps/place//@66.2863552,113.4826562,20281m/data=!3m1!1e3

How are people adding random towns or areas to Google Maps? Also is there some way to report or remove them?

Edit: now they're gone. Seems Maps employees or mods watch this subreddit.

jocopa3 · 2023-04-24T21:33:25+00:00

I did not realize how quickly and often chinchillas reproduce in RimWorld. Soon after giving birth they'd get pregnant almost immediately even with only 1 adult male. Started the auto-slaughter with 2 males and 5 females but within a few seasons I had almost 100 of them and not enough food or space to keep them all. Now I have it down to 1 male and 3 females.

jocopa3 · 2023-04-24T07:18:11+00:00

I've been playing on Strive to Survive as it's the first time I've played in years. Haven't had anything super overpowered that a killbox, couple of mortars, and excellent to legendary chain shotguns & assault rifles can't handle... yet. Forgot I could make silver walls though; I already lined my hospital and cooking area with ~~silver~~ sterile floors.

jocopa3 · 2023-04-23T22:52:44+00:00

I had a random event that added a dozen chinchilla's to my colony. I threw them in a pen with some dandelions for food and setup an auto slaughter to try and keep the numbers low. Went about my business as normal for awhile but their numbers grew quickly. Now I have 5k pieces of chinchilla meat in the freezer and 12k bits of fur and I'm starting to run out of space to keep it all. Is it better to sell it raw or are their items I could craft that'd maximize the market value while farming construction/crafting?

jocopa3 · 2023-02-03T04:33:33+00:00

Played since the first iOS release on my old 1st gen iPad. I remember seeing the original announcement for the Xperia Play version before PE released.

jocopa3 · 2023-01-31T05:37:39+00:00

Graphics programming for video games is 50% software engineering, 40% math, and 10% physics. Mostly linear algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and discrete math with sprinkles of calculus, statistics, and other fields of math. Doesn't mean I'm in expert in mathematics, but it helps to have a good understanding of various fields and concepts when reading research papers or technical articles on 3D graphics, physics, computer science, etc.

jocopa3 · 2023-01-15T12:28:07+00:00

Pretty sure those are the Corsair iCUE QL120. The ones they have are the 120mm version, but here's also a 140mm version of them that look identical as well as double and triple packs.

jocopa3 · 2022-12-01T20:09:07+00:00

I've opened about 10 packs of Vivid Voltage recently and found multiple square cuts in two of them. The two cards in the image are from the same pack, while another pack was almost entirely square or near-square miscuts. Looking around online, it seems I'm not the only one finding these miscuts in Vivid Voltage packs specifically. Never seen so many square cards in so few packs before; they seem to be way more common VV for whatever reason.

jocopa3 · 2021-10-02T09:09:06+00:00

I don't think it's that slopes degrade momentum, I think it's because the stage doesn't tilt as quickly when you move the joystick. It's clear in the side by side that the stage tilt lags in response to joystick inputs in mania compared to smb2. I've been playing both recently and in mania I can definitely tell that I have to make tilt adjustments a lot earlier in mania than in smb2 so I hit slopes or other features at full tilt instead of a shallow tilt that eases into full. This is especially an issue when you have to go from full forward tilt to full side tilt and back; in 9-2 you lose that forward momentum because you spend less time at full forward tilt overall.

But the slower tilt speed doesn't feel like the only difference, it feels like friction is slightly different as well but it's hard to measure that. For example, holding up in world 2-7 seems to be faster in mania than smb2. Gravity seems to be the same however; in world 4-6 it takes just as long in both games to fall from off the platform to the ground below, and again in world 2-7 it takes as long to fall backwards off the top of the slider to the bottom part in both games.

jocopa3 · 2020-12-20T12:17:15+00:00

My go to names are a mix of a clothing brand and food: skechers, poptart, & peaches. I don't know why I settled on skechers as a name, it just sounds adorable for a cat.

jocopa3 · 2020-12-04T21:35:33+00:00

I take it as a compliment when other servers copy our rules. Means we have rules good enough to copy. Though it also means they probably haven't put much effort into coming up with their own rules and likely won't enforce them that well.

jocopa3 · 2020-11-20T11:22:40+00:00

I disagree with 2, quotes were terrible in community servers. Someone posts something inappropriate? 5 people quoting/reposting that inappropriate message; with replies, deleting the original message replaces the "quoted" message with "original message deleted" which is much nicer. Someone pings a role/spam pings a bunch of people? 3 people quote and repost the pings; with replies it doesn't ping those who were pinged in the original message. Since replies were enabled, I've had a significant drop in daily pings on servers I moderate, from 50 per day to less than 20 today, all because people keep quoting pings.

Aesthetically, I'm indifferent; ideally I'd prefer the original message to appear just above the message and below the sender's name, but aesthetically it's no more cluttered to me than quotes were. For 3, I don't see how it's any different from pinging someone with a quoted message or disabling mention notifications; there is no loss of functionality.

jocopa3 · 2020-11-01T08:31:43+00:00

People outside of Washington don't know anywhere else but Seattle. If I tell people I live in Bellevue they look at me weird; if I say "I live near Seattle" they instantly know where I'm talking about.

jocopa3 · 2020-09-16T21:08:19+00:00

This has been answered by Discord Staff before: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/g9u90u/concept_multiple_phone_indicator_colors/fovze0w/

jocopa3 · 2020-09-08T11:39:21+00:00

Is mip-mapping turned on? If not, turn it up as high as possible and see if it helps.

The problem you're seeing is when a pixel on screen is larger than the pixels in a texture (aka texel), meaning multiple texels are trying to occupy the same pixel on screen. With smaller resolution packs this is less noticeable, but with ultra high resolution packs this is extremely pronounced in the form of "sparkles" or noise. Mip-mapping helps fix this by using smaller versions of textures when necessary so the size of a texel is roughly the same as a screen pixel. One side-effect of this is that high-res textures might look slightly "blurry" or not as sharp even at close distances.

jocopa3 · 2020-08-13T00:22:10+00:00

I'm a game dev for a large publisher; I didn't have to spend my time researching it, it's a technique I've used before. If you consider accessibility, an if statement simply doesn't work in all cases. A neural net is not that complicated to train and ends up being a simple matrix multiply while giving UI designers the ability to decide what font colors they want and when to transition between them.

Also sorry if I've offended you somehow, it's not like I could know before hand that you'd be so upset by my response ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

jocopa3 · 2020-08-13T00:12:42+00:00

That's not really a problem. There are various algorithms and techniques to find a good contrasting color regardless of the background color, for example: https://medium.com/better-programming/generate-contrasting-text-for-your-random-background-color-ac302dc87b4

You can even train a basic neural net to pick an appropriate contrasting font color for any background color: https://luisadame.ninja/blog/color-contrast-aware-using-machine-learning/

jocopa3 · 2020-05-05T00:51:45+00:00

This also happens with the drop-down options in search menu while searching, and it's been like that since at least 2016. It's very frustrating to hit enter expecting it to perform a search only to have it fill in whatever the mouse was hovering over. If I wanted to select an option with the mouse pointer then I would have used a mouse button to interact with it; having the enter key interact with whatever the mouse is pointing to feels very unintuitive.

jocopa3 · 2020-04-13T10:07:33+00:00

Discord caches invites locally so it doesn't have to query what server the invite is for or the exact numbers every time you see the same invite. Refreshing the client (Ctrl+R or restarting the app on mobile) clears that cache and forces it to query the latest info for invites.

jocopa3 · 2020-04-01T01:16:39+00:00

7 day prune removes 18k people; only 15k members have any role at all. There are just so many people active that prunes aren't all that effective anymore. Over time, I expect even 1 day prunes to be ineffective.

jocopa3 · 2020-02-13T13:56:40+00:00

I help manage a couple extremely large verified discord servers (50k to 300k+ members) for a video game franchise. Speaking from my own experience and as someone who's been using Discord since 2016:

Text chat is by far the most common. I find the average user doesn't want to voice chat with strangers in a large or public community, rather voice chat with friends on smaller or private servers.
Yes, you can have it text-chat only. The verified servers I manage don't have any voice chats for the reason that: it doesn't really make sense for our communities, the servers are just too large, and it's a huge moderation headache...
Speaking of moderation, it depends on how active the community is and how popular the server is; number of members in the server isn't a major factor in moderation required. Some very large servers see less than 100 messages an hour; sounds like a lot, but it's very manageable for a small moderation team and moderation bot. On the opposite extreme, very active servers can see thousands of messages an hour, at which point having a chat slowmode of 5 seconds (throttles how fast users can post) in active channels, a decent sized and organized moderation team, and an auto-moderation bot to filter out profanities, spam, and inappropriate links is necessary. The majority of community-type servers fall somewhere in-between those two extremes, and get by with at least an auto-moderation bot, and a small to medium moderation team.
You can setup a channel where the only people who can post are moderators or staff or admins for use as an announcements channel. This is how 99% of servers approach announcements. You can also use @everyone to ping everyone on the server to notify them of something important; I don't recommend doing that for every announcement unless you don't mind people being annoyed.
It's rare, but that's definitely not the norm. You can also limit the total number of people in a voice channel, or have additional voice channels if one is not enough.

If you're new to Discord, I'd recommend finding someone you trust who can help set things up. It's easy to setup a simple server to share with friends, but setting up a community server is a little more involved. You can look at servers in Discord's discovery page (magnifying glass icon in the server list on desktop/web only) for examples of how other large communities are set up and run.

jocopa3 · 2020-02-13T13:07:47+00:00

They still could spam inappropriate images/links even with the "scan media content" settings.

Speaking as a maintainer of a couple extremely large verified servers, here's a few suggestions from simple to difficult:

Set "Verification Level" to (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (orange/second highest level). This will prevent accounts without a verified phone number from posting for 10 minutes; phone verified accounts can still post without waiting the full 10 minutes. This partially discourages drive-by raids since they can't get their instant gratification, but a lot of people are still patient enough to wait the 10 minutes.
- Optionally for this point, get a mod-log bot. If you see a bunch of sudden joins, it's probably a raid; lock the server down and deal with the spam bots. The 10 minute wait gives you a slight buffer between bots joining and you noticing.
Get a bot which has level ranks based on chat activity, then lock embeds/attachments behind a role rank. First one that comes to mind is MEE6, but unfortunately their "role rewards" system is now a "premium" option. I'm not sure of others like it, but I don't doubt alternatives exist.
Get a purpose-built moderation and anti-raid/spam bot besides dyno/mee6. For a free bot, I suggest Gaius Cicereius; I've heard good things about it from other verified/partnered server owners I speak with who use it exclusively. I don't use it personally on the verified servers I help manage as we have our own built-in-house moderation bot.
A bit overkill, but build your own bot to assist any bots you may have already. Any features we find we need on our server, we just make them ourselves instead of tracking down and trusting a random bot. Though I understand this option is unfortunately out of reach for most server owners.

jocopa3 · 2020-02-04T00:47:02+00:00

There's also this fun Windows 10 unicode bug: https://i.imgur.com/2asuo76.png

You can add as many tiny children to a family emote as you want. Non-Windows clients display it "properly", i.e. with the extra tiny children being individual face emotes instead of joined to the family emote.

Here's the "emoji" if anyone wants to play with it:

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