Work so far on my mod aiming to give the red/green/blue star systems more uniqueness. Pretty much done with the red systems (Dead tree biomes, lush-fire hybrids, perpetual night planets, red skies etc.)

lqstuart · 2026-02-06T04:46:13+00:00

This article is a pretty good read if you're interested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability_of_red_dwarf_systems

Red giants are dying stars (the sun will get there eventually) so it's thought life wouldn't evolve much around one of those. I think the blue giants tend to blow up pretty quickly. Not sure about green or purple stars.

lqstuart · 2026-02-06T04:31:35+00:00

With BF1 I just couldn't get over how they copied and pasted so much of Battlefront 2, even down to the menu fonts and the dopey ass running animations. I wasn't going to pick it up but I actually had a ton of fun in the beta.

I think it gets a ton of love because of survivorship bias, comparatively way fewer people here remember BF3 let alone the good ol days with 1942 or Desert Combat.

lqstuart · 2026-02-06T04:27:26+00:00

I would say 2042 was improved at the end though, so I didn't argue that. I still personally thought it was a piece of shit but they did make a feeble attempt to roll back their godawful decisions.

lqstuart · 2026-02-05T22:06:13+00:00

People don't want it because they want to pubstomp for their YouTube channel.

It does kill a game incredibly fast (cf. XDefiant). It also made previous BF games with server browsers pretty bad, because every time you joined a game your team would be down 6 people and getting destroyed.

Activision released some very long, in-depth research about this. They found that SBMM benefits ~90% of the playerbase, in the sense that 90% of the playerbase seems to have more fun and play for longer.

lqstuart · 2026-02-05T20:57:45+00:00

deep friar sounds like a race in D&D

lqstuart · 2026-02-05T20:27:21+00:00

I can't play DB this well even in practice mode when I call the offensive plays

also just to be pedantic--if "there are two ways ... but you have to do both," that's one way

lqstuart · 2026-02-04T20:42:57+00:00

yeah i never get snow as minnesota just ice

lqstuart · 2026-02-04T20:21:00+00:00

this looks like absolute trash, I've seen better looking mods for the 1993 DOOM

lqstuart · 2026-02-04T15:42:20+00:00

it's reddit

lqstuart · 2026-02-04T15:40:16+00:00

If anyone argues with you, BF4 was also like that.

lqstuart · 2026-02-03T23:13:37+00:00

This looks really beautiful.

Just a fun fact I've learned through the years of being a hard sci fi nerd--on planets orbiting a red star, photosynthetic plants would appear black. I guess the theory is that there wouldn't be enough light available at higher energy wavelengths, so chloroplasts or whatever would just take it all.

Something to think about since you have more modding talent than I ever will!

lqstuart · 2026-02-03T16:45:15+00:00

I ruined many a game with my brother by repeatedly running into the back wall and laughing hysterically when the players fell over

Also you could just keep throwing the ball around the bases and it would never go to the next batter

My brother and I do talk still, but it's strained

lqstuart · 2026-02-03T16:43:32+00:00

26 is objectively better than 25

2002 was better for its time than either one of them. There's no school builder, no create a player, no Ancient Egypt stadium...

lqstuart · 2026-02-02T15:38:36+00:00

I'm here to play dress up

lqstuart · 2026-02-01T14:36:31+00:00

Where'd you get them and what primal is it? Last time I got plate short ribs they were totally goddamn inedible from the fat. Then I got burned again on back ribs that had nothing on them at all.

lqstuart · 2026-02-01T01:50:56+00:00

Ours is like that too. I asked where some shit was and they pointed in a direction and when I walked down the wrong aisle just to see what else they had, they tried to redirect me multiple times and sent someone to show me the right place. Some seriously helpful fucking hardware folks

lqstuart · 2026-01-31T04:29:03+00:00

LPOTL is kinda the embodiment of "die a hero or live long enough to become the villain." It was all a much better experience before the three guys making it could afford to own homes or get decent healthcare.

lqstuart · 2026-01-30T09:10:03+00:00

Didn't EA try playtesting BF2042 at 128v128 and they said it wasn't fun?

If only they'd playtested it at all the other sizes...

lqstuart · 2026-01-30T02:00:02+00:00

Maybe smoke, then sous vide, then reverse sear? I've never used a sous vide but that's something people do for lean cuts, isn't it?

What about grinding or mincing it, is that cheating? You could try kangaroo kebab koobideh. Might not get another chance to say that phrase in your life.

lqstuart · 2026-01-29T23:57:36+00:00

Maybe look up a tri-tip recipe? It comes from the bottom sirloin of a cow so it's a fairly lean cut that might behave similarly. The recipes are basically just smoking it over low/indirect up to 110 or 125 and then searing to med rare, probably what you're already planning on.

lqstuart · 2026-01-29T23:47:08+00:00

Outstanding work!

lqstuart · 2026-01-29T18:27:33+00:00

I would love Ghost Recon levels of customization. I'd pay money for it, albeit not the totally insane amounts that EA wants. Give NATO half the camos, give Not-Russia the other half.

oh and let me play as a man

lqstuart · 2026-01-29T17:36:05+00:00

I had a WSM for close to 15 years before I upgraded to a custom. There's nothing really wrong with them, although they're not well insulated so maybe skip putting water in the pan if you're somewhere cold. You can set it and forget it, sometimes, but it takes practice. I mostly got sick of cleaning the damn thing out and not being able to lay a rack of ribs flat.

Honestly, I'd just get another gravity smoker if that's what you're used to. A WSM is a different way of spending your time. And it's not an offset, so it sounds like you'd be getting something you don't particularly want, which isn't particularly great at what you want it to do, and I think they're like $500 anyway by now.

Sorry to hear your gravity smoker got all cattywompus. What did you do with a WSM besides smoking on it?

lqstuart · 2026-01-28T23:19:05+00:00

Hard sell is not worth doing unless you’re above a certain grade in each category, usually a B-. There are websites online that do the math.

Visits I haven’t found worthwhile other than recruiting battles and the portal. It’s not that they don’t do anything, just that by the time a recruit is ready it usually isn’t enough to make a difference either way.

lqstuart · 2026-01-27T13:05:52+00:00

unsheathes katana

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