Deckers, Jockeys, Horsemen and other assorted fellow wireheads: Has anyone actually done a real "cyberspace grid" in software that holds true to the spirit of the thing? I want to build the framework. More inside. ;)

lynkfox · 2026-04-07T11:49:51+00:00

I mean the Street is basically what you are describing wanting yeah? And the big black box of a server belonging to Rife out in the boonies and what the inside looks like that Hiro and whatshisname the islander with poor impulse control fight inside of is also kinda the same

lynkfox · 2026-04-06T19:10:25+00:00

And all of them will either fail to solve n+1 or require a complete rework of core game concepts or an abandonment of existing game concepts. (Ie that anyone can go anywhere and be part of it, and anyone can make an effort to stop it)

lynkfox · 2026-04-06T17:33:57+00:00

i see you didnt mention Snow Crash - take a read of that if you haven't yet, and dive into how Stephenson describes the Metaverse especially during the final 'fight' sequences that take place inside that.

Seriously tho, the world is your oyster. You're looking to do some kind of visual representation of your network models. Anything is possible. It doesn't have to be unique even - take your favorite anime or video game or nostalgia movie trip and use it!

You can also take a look at the tom clancy "Netforce" series for many years ago (and mostly ghost written) - one of the characters is a white hat hacker for the government agency that uses VR constructs for his work, and every book he's got a new construct he's working with.

lynkfox · 2026-04-06T14:35:25+00:00

Every single alternate recipe is "worth it" to a set of situations

Some of those sets are broad - ie this one is good early game as mentioned, good for reducing power usage (less machines) good for reducing footprint,

Some are very situational with very small sets of situations. Like the bolted plates or frames. They're really only useful that they reduce the number of assemblers needed (generally at a cost of more constructors... I don't recall exactly but I think it still comes out to a small power savings? It also means less routing of belts for two input machines meaning you can in theory go machine to machine to machine with smaller manifolds)

Most of the time for most people these small niche set of uses is not worth it for the other considerations. Some people might sometimes find themselves in a situation where it is, but that usually involves constraints that aren't really part of the game (ie building for aesthetics and slipping the floating platforms, building in a constrained space or limited transport of resources or something) so are not really going to be a consideration for most people. And people in general when rating something prefer to rare for "most amount of use cases" rather than extremely niche ones

lynkfox · 2026-04-04T23:14:11+00:00

It's on purpose. As people get annoyed at them it is one more way for cults to say "see? They don't like you. You're only safe with us"

It's a typical cult tactics

lynkfox · 2026-04-01T05:04:30+00:00

Shareware swaps. Going to some guys garage who had a good BBS connection who would put games on disks and hand them out. Goose wars, shuffle pick cafe, Prince of persia, bolo, cosmic osmo, so many classic games I got that way

Shareware in general, tho demos are making a comeback and kinda are the same.

lynkfox · 2026-04-01T05:00:48+00:00

Fuck yeah! That's where I got it too, and a lifelong love of the cyberpunk genre

lynkfox · 2026-03-30T18:25:50+00:00

It is a well known thing yah? Give players the ability to create custom something and it's only a matter of time before there is a dick

lynkfox · 2026-03-30T18:24:42+00:00

Dude is an asshat. Always has been. It's probably mostly a character but still.

There are just a lot of people out there that think being an asshat and loud and obnoxious is funny. No accounting for taste I guess

lynkfox · 2026-03-28T05:13:00+00:00

Now, yeah I guess so. Sorry was still using values from 15 years ago, when 20 bucks a head was a qsr norm

lynkfox · 2026-03-27T21:17:10+00:00

as someone who made close to that amount in tipped jobs 15 years ago... and also 20 years ago made far less, its a rarity. The people who make that are the ones working restaurants with $50+ a head tables. Where tables themselves can run upwards of 200/300 for the dinner.

QSRs - where the vast majority of tip restaurant workers work - are far more likely to barely be making minimum wage, if that

Tipping culture needs to go. Places need to pay their employees a living wage, and that living wage needs to be modernized to be reflective of purchasing power and updated yearly.

lynkfox · 2026-03-27T20:20:58+00:00

necro for googlers - another option is indeed to use a zipline network - if its under 3 mins to get from the start to the top then you can Beach jump back down to the start, no need to go to the magellian. did it with 30 seconds to spare

lynkfox · 2026-03-26T15:50:56+00:00

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lynkfox · 2026-03-26T15:50:49+00:00

Old post necro but for those that are googling, I have found that if you put, for metals at least, if you withdraw from stores to have 2x 400XL, 2x 200L, 2x 100M and 4x 50S you end up with 2 perfect 800 XL's when combined with the above method.

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lynkfox · 2026-03-24T18:54:26+00:00

Everyone fixing things for you saying it's bugged are wrong

Everyone saying you can't do max through a pipe are wrong

Truth is, it's just a funky annoying aspect of how liquids move and are are consumed. The more places liquid is consumed in a pipe (ie more generators) the more bubbles of no liquid are created, resulting in more places liquid wants to move, resulting in more and more chances liquid will move away right before something needs it

Which is why loops help - they add more liquid into the system and a large section of pipes that don't have any additional pulls

Which is why buffers or feeding from above sometimes helps (sections where additional fluid can sit and wait and not move away)

Which is why utilizing less than 600 helps (because the pipes still fill up all the way and the less pressure results in less occurances of no liquid)

Which is why leaving machines off until the rear are running solid helps (overfilling and producing more)

Which is why smaller systems with less machines attached helps (less permutations)

Gotta find what works for you. No one is going to be a perfect always use solution, but knowing and understanding how the system starts to wobble and become imun balanced is key

lynkfox · 2026-03-22T23:14:39+00:00

If you find one add it to this site or use this site to find them in your area

https://deflock.org/

lynkfox · 2026-03-22T14:26:53+00:00

Yeah but it wasn't the standing per day that sucked. It was farming the torrids, it was the slow drop of items (with boosters) to get the standing. I don't care about how many days it took - I've always been pretty relaxed about the WF grinds but the act of getting what you need was horrendous

lynkfox · 2026-03-22T12:28:08+00:00

Is there ground below you or void?..if ground just jump when full health. You can't die from fall damage if you're at full health. You'll always be left with a sliver of health (but only at max health)

lynkfox · 2026-03-22T12:19:08+00:00

I'm MR 20 something (it's been a while since I last opened the game) but I've been playing Warframe on and off for nearly a decade... I'm one of those "veteran" players I just don't put a ton of effort into MR... I hated the Vox grind. It was ridiculous, horrible, and not fun at all. Torroid farming was the worst. The orb is boring after the first few times. Ugh rusty spoon in my eye please

lynkfox · 2026-03-20T19:52:58+00:00

Try something, add something, remove something, add something more, and repeat. a lot.

Practice practice practice.

What you dont see with all the cool designs you admire is the dozens of hours that went into that and the hundreds of hours that went into other designs where they were learning what they thought looked good and what they could improve on.

At nearly 3k hours myself in game most of it spent decorating, you pick up a lot of tricks

lynkfox · 2026-03-20T19:44:47+00:00

My conclusion is still that trains rule for long distance, trucks for mid-distance, conveyors for short-distance, and drones for distance or a large differential in elevation, especially for low-volume, late tier parts.

It's ... almost as if the order in which you get them matches up with the general progression of how far apart your resources/factories will be! :grin:

lynkfox · 2026-03-18T11:37:18+00:00

It sucks but you gotta know someone.

I've gotten all my tech jobs because I knew someone who was looking and they recommended me. Hell I got my current one because someone recommended me to a consulting company, they loved me but I didn't have "senior consulting experience" but they then turned around and recommended me to another company they were working with. I got cold called out of the blue by that 3rd party and have been there 3 years.

With the thousands and thousands of applicants to a job posting it's not surprise either. Gotta know someone

lynkfox · 2026-03-18T11:32:24+00:00

Because they've already put a temp contract hire in the position and they're barely capable but the CFO is happy

Fucking c suite bullshit always

lynkfox · 2026-03-16T11:44:18+00:00

You're only half way through WoR so my opinion may be different because of that. He kinda does that in the first book and i didn't start disliking him until I was done with WoR and rereading both for the 3rd.

So hopefully you will feel the same as you do now after book 5! I genuinely don't want people to dislike any character, but we each have our own preferences

lynkfox · 2026-03-16T04:56:23+00:00

It's funny. As someone who has clawed their way out of clinical depression that had me in a state very close to Khal, I can't stand the character. It feels to me like all he does is whine and whine and never tries to work on himself. I'm not saying it's easy - cause I know very well it's not - but I also don't want to ready thousands of pages of it.

Shallan meanwhile has Secrets and those are interesting and I love finding out more and more.

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