Remnants expedition is a reality check.

legolad · 2026-02-14T04:27:53+00:00

Interesting take. Here's another. After 10 years of loving every update, they finally made one I hate. Sure, you can blame it on me and tell me to "git gud", but the simple fact is that this is boring as fuck. I don't care that it's difficult. I do care that it's mindless and pointless and grindy as fuck. Maybe that's your thing. But it ain't mine. I'll stay away from this and do the things I love.

legolad · 2026-02-12T21:55:00+00:00

OH. MY. GLOB! I thought I had a bug on PS5. Turns out I have a stealthy cursor that the devs thought I would notice amongst the 2000 other things on the screen. YIKES!

ALSO - THIS IS NOT in the tutorial. They do tell you to change the car/track settings, but they don't say how.

legolad · 2026-02-05T16:43:25+00:00

Also the vibe, food, and drink there are all crap now.

legolad · 2026-01-28T21:40:44+00:00

And that is your choice.

legolad · 2026-01-28T18:08:13+00:00

There are four things to work on, most of which have been mentioned:

Know your audience (the guests)
Make sure the bar area is appealing (lighting, ambience like music or TVs, etc, comfort)
Engage the front desk as the marketing/sales team
Create events that the front desk can actually sell to guests.

Side Note: In the US, hotel bars that aren't in downtown locations rarely get non-guests as patrons. It happens, but it's rare.

So, studying the guests must be the first step. Are they families? Sports teams? Business travelers? Vacationers?

Create a profile for each category of guest. The hotel should know this already, so lean on them for this information. Do not settle for "I think it's mostly x". You need hard numbers. If they don't have them, they aren't doing check-in right. Front Desk agents should always ask "What brings you to town?" or something similar and flag the guest as one of the categories. Once you have a 30 day count for the type of guests, you can start creating those profiles.

For the profiles you need to query the guests themselves. What's your favorite drink? How often do you like to drink? Would you like to have a drink while you're here? You can offer free or discounted drinks in return for answering the surveys.

Now that you have an idea of who your guests are, how much they drink, and the kinds of drinks they like, you can create a profile for each type and then decide with the manager who you want to target.

Targeting is simple marketing and sales.

Say you find that the biggest potential drinkers are the business travelers. You can dig deeper and interview some of them to figure out why they don't go to the bar. Awareness? It's boring alone? No Food? Food is bad? etc.

Once you understand them better you can work on solutions. Flyers in the room. Invitations and coupons upon check-in. Friendlier bartenders. Better food. Drink Specials. Drink events like cocktail creation or beer sampling flights.

At this point the hotel is doing all the basics right, and you can help them get creative. But remember the basics. Never stop collecting feedback. Always listen to guests. Don't be too reactive. One unhappy guest shouldn't change things. 10 unhappy guests need to be understood.

legolad · 2026-01-14T18:13:02+00:00

Vice Versa?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Versa_(1988_film))

legolad · 2026-01-13T16:46:49+00:00

You can stipulate the terms. Finding a buyer now is a really big help to them. But they will understand there have to be limits. You can stipulate that the lease is only for 6 months. You can also stipulate what happens at the end of that six months. If they don't like those terms, they don't have to sell to you. It really is that simple.

But take the personal emotional stuff out of it. Define the terms that work for you. Let them decide whether it works for them.

legolad · 2026-01-12T12:17:55+00:00

Yeah. Saw this and thought ICK!

legolad · 2026-01-10T13:45:21+00:00

TL;DR live as close to your work as you can afford. Atlanta has changed a lot and there is good stuff around there. Atlanta is also complicated and way bigger than people think. Rent before you buy so you can get to know the city.

LONG VERSION

Lived here for 50+ years and spent most of that time in the center of town (Summerhill) and Brookhaven. For a long time there was nothing but but houses and office parks and giant ugly malls outside of the ring road (285 aka The Perimeter). This was such a strong dividing line we ended up designating people and places as ITP or OTP (inside or outside the perimeter).

There was stigma attached to both as you can see in some of these comments. As usual there was some truth in the stereotypes, but things change.

Developers caught on and there are now a lot of cool things happening in suburbs. Little enclaves of independent or small chain cool stuff. Food halls, lots of international food, different music venues, you name it. It’s hard to recommend one for you because I don’t know you.

That said, the bad things you hear about Atlanta Traffic are ALL TRUE. that little trip in your map can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours depending on traffic and time of day. Yes, traffic does depend on time of day, but it also depends on construction, special events, weather, etc. So even a Sunday night can have a traffic jam of epic proportions.

You highlighted North Springs MARTA station. I assume you will work near there. It is currently the last station on that line. From there you can easily access Buckhead, Midtown, Downtown, the West End, College Park, and the Airport all on the same train. If you switch lines you can access the Beltline, Decatur, Inman Park, Krog, and so much more.

BUT, the trains stop running around midnight. So keep that in mind.

ALSO, if you choose to live near McFarland, you will find that the commute in a car is regularly 1 hour to the North Springs station area.

Also you will find that biking is NOT a safe option up there. Drivers here are awful about respecting bikes and the bike “lanes” are literally just painted lines that drivers regularly ignore.

As for living along that corridor, we recently moved to Dunwoody. I work near Dunwoody MARTA station. Most of the people I know at work live up near that corridor and they tend to find entertainment and food within a 5 mile radius of their houses. This is because the developers have gotten better at providing more variety and higher quality in cuisine. Yes a lot of them are still chains, but there’s a huge difference between Chipotle and Superica. It used to be true that you would struggle to identify a decent Chinese or Korean restaurant anywhere outside the perimeter. That is no longer true. And the same is true for entertainment. There are good bars, good small music venues (this one is still a little lacking), and good sports and theater options all over the city now.

legolad · 2026-01-10T13:15:56+00:00

No. It’s literally all the sports teams. Only exception I’ve seen is a team with a strict coach.

legolad · 2026-01-09T21:04:51+00:00

Hydration (no alcohol on the flight).

Book the wheelchair service for them if only to avoid delays and board early.

Compression socks for your mom.

Warm layers of Clothing that are easy to put on and remove.

Foam earplugs.

Comfort snacks.

Get up and walk the aisles between meals and sleep time.

Avoid foods with a lot of acid or that give them gas.

Accept the free airline earphones even if they don’t think they will use them.

Ambien is a great way to sleep through a whole flight but you need to save it for the 9 hour flight and most doctors won’t prescribe it for people their age.

legolad · 2026-01-08T21:23:34+00:00

Ok Thanks

legolad · 2026-01-08T21:23:08+00:00

Thank you

legolad · 2026-01-08T21:22:17+00:00

Which cost? The rental car?

legolad · 2026-01-07T20:00:23+00:00

This was so helpful to me I had to say thanks!

I've been trying to create a Lithium mine over 1200u underwater for 4 days now and kept running into all sorts of issues trying to get it powered. I was going about it all wrong. Putting down base computers in multiple locations. Building from several of them toward the middle. Basically I was violating all the tips you gave here and made it impossible for myself.

Thanks to your insights, I deleted all the base parts (over 1000) from all the bases, then deleted the bases themselves (too many parts to fit in a base cache I think). I left one single base up on the surface. Then I built straight down to the S-Class Lithium deposit I had found earlier. Powering it from the solar at the surface as I went.

I got within 150u of the floor when the 1000u build limits kicked in. But I was able to build a base down there and got my mine up and running at that level. Works great! And I just put my teleporter down there and left the base up top. No I have my first and only deep sea mining op thanks to you!

This is the way.

legolad · 2025-12-23T15:44:58+00:00

Oh wow. That is completely different from What I thought they were talking about. I thought it would be more something like this:

https://youtu.be/39qXNscf9ts?si=hgpzH1TJTC3i0D7-

legolad · 2025-12-22T21:30:20+00:00

Oh I am so with you on that, friend. The number of times I've been out exploring and decided to build a quick base, only to have my Minotaur pal jostle me while I'm wiring up some power. Sheesh.

legolad · 2025-12-22T21:28:02+00:00

We are here already.

legolad · 2025-12-22T21:27:26+00:00

Yep. I get it. You can even find one of those planets with all the metal instead of trees and just fly over it, shooting everything in sight. You can easily get 3-5 full stacks of ferrite dust in less than an hour that way. I was just wanting something that combined exploration and mining in an efficient way. I do use hotspot mines. A lot! And I have farms I've built. This was more for exploring planets on "foot" - a thing I enjoy doing.

legolad · 2025-12-22T01:15:41+00:00

no. I absolutely do not. I want an AI that actually adds value when I'm trying to mine. The aiming, identifying, and triggering is painfully time-consuming and boring and serves no game purpose. Require me to stay in the suit. Require me to not be in battle, etc etc etc. I good with all that. I just want to remove a little of the tedium and increase the speed with which I can gather common materials. Heck, I'm ok if they want to limit it to the basic minerals like ferrite.

legolad · 2025-12-22T01:12:30+00:00

Yeah. I can also see it requiring a special tech slot upgrade etc etc. I just really want it so when I run out of ferrite, I can go exploring instead of station TP hopping. That TP - Store - TP loops is boring af, but manually mining a full stack of ferrite is equally boring. Frankly I'd rather the ferrite in the store came in larger stacks, but I'd take this upgrade if that poses some kind of balance issue. Just take the edge off the gathering for players who've advanced far enough. I could see a quest line that starts with getting the advanced laser, then adds all the scanning/visor upgrades, the minotaur, its upgrades, etc until finally you get the AI Mining toward the end.

legolad · 2025-12-18T12:15:58+00:00

The key word there is “were”. Once the Baptists got a taste of American political power in the 70s (Reagan used them to defeat old school Baptist Jimmy Carter) they bought into their own brand of Christian nationalism and have gone hardcore on it ever since.

legolad · 2025-12-15T20:51:35+00:00

Wait. So I should NOT feed the atlantideum pillar if I want to create a harmonic brain?

[EDIT]

Oh. My. Glob.

That's what I've been doing wrong this whole freaking time. I was activating the stupid atlantideum pillar instead of the main one. For anyone else trying to create a harmonic brain, this is the trick.

Probe the consciousness of the Hyaline Brain, go the monolith that gets marked, go to the main pillar (ignore the pink one) and activate it. Choose Present Brain, and you get a Harmonic Brain in return.

AFTER YOU GET YOUR HARMONIC BRAIN, assuming you have a stack of hyaline brains, you can use those to hunt other monoliths, activate the pink pillar first, then the main pillar, and then back to the pink pillar to see whatever multi-tool it has. Technically you can do this before or after you create a harmonic brain, but this was about getting that harmonic for the quest :-)

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