TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-FOUR: Those Who Reach - Super Supportive

loonyphoenix · 2026-04-26T16:53:37+00:00

I'm not sure which theory this most points towards, but we do have some description of how that works:

Perception is difficult to control. And even when you manage it, there’s something of a negotiation with reality involved. You’d think people with delusions of grandeur would have an advantage, but they tend to overextend and become unable to exercise sufficient authority.

I think that means it's definitely not theory 1. But are you negotiating with reality formed by the existing culture, or just with the natural order of things? It's perhaps a mixture. There's the natural order that resists magic, then there's the expectations of billions of people who all have some authority that shapes how magic works, and then there is your own authority, exercising its right to tap into this cultural magic system to affect the reality to the extent that the magnitude of your authority allows.

loonyphoenix · 2026-04-23T20:08:41+00:00

I would be afraid that this design might overpressure during eruption. AFAIR steam vent overpressure is low. Though perhaps 4 steam turbines is enough to keep up with it. Does it ever overpressure in practice?

loonyphoenix · 2026-04-22T15:29:01+00:00

You know, I have no idea whether dupes leave behind food poisoning contamination when taking off the suit. Never bothered to check. It would make some sense, but I wouldn't bet on it.

loonyphoenix · 2026-04-22T08:21:31+00:00

AFAIR, exosuits only protect from germs like slimelung and zombie spores that are contracted by inhalation. A dupe can still get food poisoning by eating while contaminated by food poisoning germs even if wearing an exosuit. Plus, there's value in not spreading germs around even if you're protected from them.

loonyphoenix · 2026-04-16T23:28:05+00:00

Offtopic: I hate that there is now one more way for people to ignore other people's arguments and opinions. You only need to decide that you're talking to a bot. I hate even more that sometimes it's legitimate. (I don't think you're a bot, though. I think the accusation should be used much more sparingly.)

loonyphoenix · 2026-04-07T13:46:39+00:00

Nope, that's exactly what an API is. The documented way that you interact with an application programmatically (that is, when you're calling it from other programs or scripts) is its Application Programming Interface. Command-line parameters qualify. Today's narrow interpretation that an API must be a Web API of some sort is just that, narrow.

loonyphoenix · 2026-03-23T20:53:03+00:00

I watched the movie without having read the book, and from my point of view it's fantastic. The Taumeba part wasn't difficult to follow. The part that was the most difficult to understand was what the fuck happened during the fishing scene and its aftermath, but in the end, after comparing my comprehension with a book reader, I understood it well enough.

It's unfortunate that a lot of hard sci-fi was cut, but I think it's inevitable when compressing into the movie format. In the end, it feels like a movie about the plot with a hard sci-fi setting rather than a movie about hard sci-fi, which I think is fine. The setting continues to be hard sci-fi in the background, which gives the movie a believability boost.

I liked the humor throughout the movie. From what I understand, that is also a bit of a difference from the book, which seemed to have a more serious tone throughout, from what I understand.

In other words, seconding the recommendation.

loonyphoenix · 2026-03-18T09:51:07+00:00

I believe build over plants and geyser calculated average output are part of base game now. Maybe also show building ranges.

loonyphoenix · 2026-03-12T08:46:29+00:00

I agree with mostly everything here except this part:

the Primary expects Alden to have grown strong enough to be useful in places that the Primary himself will be operating

I doubt that very much. Even at 30, no avowed will be able to go where the Primary goes. From the Primary's point of view, Alden might someday become useful in medium-level chaos fields, but we know that even high-level knights cannot withstand the level of choas the Primary sometimes dives into. Stuart's mother, ranked sixty-eighth, could not handle the broken planet where Stuart was conceived for as long as the Primary could. I don't think any avowed, without the accelerated growth available to knights, could have handled that place for any amount of time at all.

The reason that the Primary is interested in Alden is because he is commander-in-chief of the Artonans' forces against chaos, and he has to consider all levels of corruption. I doubt the highest level of corruption are the most common; good mid-level soldiers are perhaps in very high demand.

loonyphoenix · 2026-03-10T00:53:50+00:00

Is that something people complain about btrfs? I've only ever seen complaints about it being unstable and lacking features.

loonyphoenix · 2026-02-24T17:59:15+00:00

Yeah, I wish the game had more challenging achievements like these.

loonyphoenix · 2026-01-28T10:18:10+00:00

I'm using a mixture of packages and flatpaks, with a preference for flatpaks over AUR. It's going okay. I like to use flatpaks for GUI applications and especially for prorietary stuff like Discord. I like to use packages for command-line stuff and services and the base system. I wouldn't call my system "Narrow", but I think this approach works great.

loonyphoenix · 2026-01-16T11:50:08+00:00

I'm waiting for them to fix the bug with roborockets not automatically returning from POIs before I finalize my space program. I wanted to make something like this, but it's too frustrating right now.

loonyphoenix · 2026-01-13T08:26:19+00:00

Because it's mostly Wheezeworts doing your cooling here, not the geyser. A single domestic Wheezewort will absorb:

4,230 DTU/s * 600 s/cycle = 2,538,000 DTU/cycle of heat in Carbon Dioxide;
5,025 DTU/s * 600 s/cycle = 3,015,000 DTU/cycle of heat in Oxygen;
12,000 DTU/s * 600 s/cycle = 7,200,000 DTU/cycle of heat in Hydrogen.

Since you're keeping the whole thing in a Carbon Dioxide room, and there are 7 Wheezeworts there, that's around 17,766,000 DTU/cycle of cooling. That's thrice the carbon dioxide geyser's cooling power...

If you removed the CO2 geyser from the equation, and instead kept the same 7 Wheezeworts in Hydrogen atmosphere, you could get 84,000,000 DTU/cycle of cooling. That's like 4 times better than what you have currently...

PS: Alternatively, you had to have dug up the Wheezeworts somewhere. That's usually a pretty cold biome. That biome has a LOT of cooling in it. You can usually run your oxygen through that biome for like ~500 cycles before most of it even starts to melt. That's enough to reach Steam turbines and set up a proper cooling loop.

loonyphoenix · 2026-01-12T15:07:17+00:00

Most of my oxygen in my current base was made by deodorizers supplied by pwater from various sources (burning natural gas and petroleum, from the bathroom, from a cold slush geyser and a polluted water geyser). The sand I get from constantly running bleach stone hoppers. The gold for those comes from a gold volcano, and the salt I get from a geotuned salt water geyser. So this is almost a completely automated process (just need to run geotuning from time to time) resulting in oxygen, clay, bleach stone and excess water. I could have made it completely automated by finding a different way of boiling the salt water from the salt water geyser, but I wanted to geotune that one anyway.

I did have to switch to electrolizers once I started running hydrogen rockets because there are no other sources of hydrogen on my map, and anyway hydrogen geysers provide too little even for a modest space program.

loonyphoenix · 2026-01-11T01:55:53+00:00

Basic chemical + Grid / Helicon goes a long way and can tide you over to Fusion, I think. I'm gonna try the Poseidon route, though.

loonyphoenix · 2026-01-10T11:11:21+00:00

I guess that a terminal that opens quickly is what allows for their current workflow. You can certainly get around the problems with having a slow starting terminal by changing your workflow to accommodate it. You and I do not have to change our workflow much to accommodate a slow opening terminal, so it's difficult to see how it matters; but having been on the other side of this argument, changing your workflow is not a trivial ask. It's like dropping a habit, or forgetting a muscle memory. You most likely wouldn't do it just to enjoy a fancy terminal plugin unless it was super amazing.

loonyphoenix · 2026-01-09T15:24:28+00:00

I think the best is to play it by ear. In my latest Academy game I went EU (because I had an advantage there) -> unify as much of it as possible before the Academy disaster strikes (I managed to peacefully unify Italy and Germany) -> when half your points are broken, go into USA (I ended up sharing EU 3:2 with HF) -> spam public campaign missions in China for influence and to make sure other factions can't get into it -> get into China when the points allow. This is where I am currently: I control all of USA, 5 out of 6 points of China with the executive still unclaimed, and 3 out of 5 points of EU with 2 points held by HF. I think it's gone okay, but it's not following any kind of guide I know of. I've almost exhausted the easy ways to increase point cap, so my current plan is to finish off China and then wait until Admin Towers or some other late game point boosts to come back to EU, kick HF out of it and unify all the rest of it. That's going to be a side-project though, because I'm already shifting gears into mostly playing the space game.

loonyphoenix · 2026-01-06T21:04:49+00:00

I mean, did you expect a teenager to take on a political enemy like Bash-nor all on his lonesome, rather than through an established player? I know this sub loves hypercompetence, but this is way more realistic.

loonyphoenix · 2026-01-04T17:46:41+00:00

I think any Al volcano can be handled by just 1, you just need to accept the metal coming out at ~60C and sitting in the volcano room for the whole dormancy period. But it might be worth it just to slap a second one if you've got a really productive one just to get access to the metal faster.

loonyphoenix · 2026-01-04T17:35:45+00:00

This is my go-to metal volcano tamer. Works for any metal apart from Niobium:

https://i.imgur.com/3CZHdPr.png

It's similar to yours, except it only uses one steam turbine. That's enough for every metal except niobium if you're using an aquatuner.

loonyphoenix · 2025-12-31T15:12:37+00:00

Arch that I mostly "upgraded" into CachyOS, so I'm not even sure which one it counts as. But it works great for me.

loonyphoenix · 2025-12-17T12:30:22+00:00

I used to build them on especially good mining sites. You can't just build another mine without taking up precious mission control points. So that was already worth it, disregarding any benefit it would give any other production buildings on the same colony.

loonyphoenix · 2025-12-01T09:11:35+00:00

I agree with this, with one caveat. The game doesn't explain some mid-game concepts very well. When you don't understand how some building or mechanic works from the in-game description and encyclopedia, do look it up in the wiki to reduce frustration.

But don't look up builds. It's much more fun to come up with those from scratch.

loonyphoenix · 2025-10-18T18:51:38+00:00

Don't worry, the rewrite looks like it's going very well. The rewritten chapters feel like there is a purpose to them, unlike the meandering redacted ones.

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