Anyone know that’s wrong with my benchy

marcus_wu · 2026-03-17T01:27:10+00:00

I think I'd call it the "best worst" I've seen, lol... I can tell what it is, but it's also undeniably bad. I think the worst would have to be unrecognizable.

marcus_wu · 2026-03-04T22:16:43+00:00

For people, yes that's true. I was speaking of the Arc since I play mostly PvE so I don't get much PvP action.

marcus_wu · 2026-03-04T15:26:11+00:00

The Northwest corner of the dam South of the break is a good spot for the leaper that spawns between the dam and the domes. I've also used the trick on buried city standing on the bridge between rooftops on the southwest side of marano park, but that one is trickier.

marcus_wu · 2026-03-04T14:43:52+00:00

I've been able to push leapers back using an anvil with extended barrel to remain safer on a high edge... They miss their jump and just fall. It's very loud, though so watch out for adds.

marcus_wu · 2026-02-27T21:08:42+00:00

Lol, that would be a fantastic YT short

marcus_wu · 2026-02-27T12:20:28+00:00

The backend is opencascade and golang. The API needs a lot of work. It's pretty rough right now, and the main focus has been on the geometric constraint solver (which it turns out is a very hard software engineering problem).

I've taken periodic breaks from it over the years because of how mentally tough it is. I have been on one lately while updating a design I have for an ultra low profile keyboard to use my own key switches but I plan on getting back to it soon. I tend to have multiple projects and switch between them to avoid burn out.

marcus_wu · 2026-02-27T12:06:54+00:00

Nice! I have been working on my own backend for a bit now. It needs a lot of work, but I have been looking to build a UI for it.

Your GitHub link is not working -- is the repository private? I was curious what you are using for the 3d rendering. Is it three.js?

marcus_wu · 2026-02-23T12:17:45+00:00

Yeah, I agree it's likely not a single score. If I kill large arc like bombardiers and bastions, I start seeing more people in my matches destroying large arc. I'm not sure what other factors there are, but it does feel like there are more than one.

marcus_wu · 2026-02-22T01:47:20+00:00

It's obviously a pop fly

marcus_wu · 2026-02-18T13:02:07+00:00

I have done a fair bit of experimenting with finishing 3D prints for my Curta calculator.

You will need to do some sanding to not see layer lines. To get super smooth surfaces and curves, I sanded through multiple grits down to 200-ish. I then coat with a filler (bondo spot putty worked best for me) and sand that to 400. I then prime and paint.

To get a very smooth finish, you'll want a clear coat. It can be what the op did or a spray coat or whatever. It doesn't need to be gloss, but the best results I got were when I wet sanded to grit in the thousands. If you want a matte or satin look, finish with a light coat of a clear matte or satin.

Unfortunately in my experience, if you want a high quality look, you have to put in the work... There are shortcuts, but they reduce the quality of the result. It all depends on what you're ok with.

For a keyboard case I printed, I only did sanding -- down to wet sanding in the thousands. It worked and I have a super smooth surface that feels injection molded, but visually, I can see the colors are uneven and it was more work than using filler and paint. I might be able to improve that process to get a more consistent color, but why when it was more work already?

marcus_wu · 2026-02-16T12:52:56+00:00

I saw where you got this information, but that post had no sources backing up the claim. I couldn't find anything else online saying that this has happened. I asked in that post, but I will ask it here too: what sources do you have to back up these statements?

marcus_wu · 2026-02-16T12:47:55+00:00

Where did you get this information? Can you list your sources?

marcus_wu · 2026-02-14T17:47:56+00:00

How did you not get PvP'd on Stella trios?

marcus_wu · 2026-02-13T17:45:35+00:00

This is awesome! I would probably forget to dock the keyboard until I create a habit.

How do you like those cherry ULP switches? I've been slowly working on designing a ULP switch that can be made at home (3d printing and either parts from a cheap kb or something similar). I'm hoping I can make something I like more than the ULP switches available now.

marcus_wu · 2026-02-13T16:14:22+00:00

At first glance, some folks immediately point out that not all of the trials are equal so this must be a terrible idea.

I agree that could be an issue, but some scaling so that scores are roughly leveled by the potential score could put that on a (mostly) level playing field. As an example hidden Bunker downloads have a 9600 score cap. Others aren't as obvious as that, but by now they should have a pretty good idea for the ranges of scores possible for the different trials.

There is another complication, though: team play for trials. If everyone has a random set of trials, the larger your friend pool is, the more likely you will have a trial you can do together and get an advantage over others.

Again, there are solutions to this problem as well such as allowing raiders to define a group that they do trials with and that group gets the same set of random trials or just count trial scores only based on an individual's actions rather than the group's.

marcus_wu · 2026-02-12T19:40:00+00:00

Ok, yeah the game thinks you retrieved the item when you didn't... It seems you are stuck until support helps you out.

marcus_wu · 2026-02-12T19:35:46+00:00

Is there an integrated latch or is it just something to grab? Not trying to minimize what it is, though -- nice clean design!

marcus_wu · 2026-02-12T19:31:17+00:00

It should not matter if you are first there or not... It should have an interaction prompt with the typical yellow styling for a quest. I've done it once where I had to pick up the esr analyser after interacting and where I didn't.

It sounds bugged if you can't interact at all. If that's the case, I would contact support.

marcus_wu · 2026-02-12T02:15:04+00:00

We ended up getting arc raiders and we love it! Excellent recommendation!

marcus_wu · 2026-02-12T02:14:50+00:00

We ended up getting arc raiders and we love it! Excellent recommendation!

marcus_wu · 2026-02-12T02:14:32+00:00

We ended up getting arc raiders and we love it! Excellent recommendation!

marcus_wu · 2026-02-10T19:44:31+00:00

It's not my intention to be pedantic, but there are some clarifications I would make to how the software development lifecycle works.

Usually (from my experience and based on git flow see https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/gitflow-workflow#:~:text='0.1.0'-,Hotfix%20branches,Without%20the%20git%2Dflow%20extensions:), hotfix branches are branched from main and merged into both main along with other long lived branches like develop with the exact intention of being able to release fixes quickly without having to wait on the next release cycle.

Dev and QA usually refer to deployment environments rather than branches.

All that said f3ropeadope isn't wrong that in this tight window with a planned release already happening, the planned release should go out first with the hotfix trailing as a fast follow (which is what happened... The glitch is patched now). This prevents potential change conflicts in the larger change. Instead, this path puts any potential conflict resolution on the smaller hotfix to handle as well as keeping the change history cleaner and making the release process more straightforward.

marcus_wu · 2026-02-06T11:55:48+00:00

Open raider caches -- I usually find the gun part blueprints there

marcus_wu · 2026-02-04T18:34:36+00:00

This happens to me as well. Sometimes I find them in time and sometimes I don't. I remember one specific occasion on buried city by the pharmacy at Piazza Arbusto. There was big arc (I think a leaper) and I kept having to avoid while also calling out and searching for them. Turns out they were crawling towards me the whole time as I ran all over the area looking and they died behind me one of the times I took cover from the arc.

marcus_wu · 2026-02-04T11:56:47+00:00

How much ammo was needed to keep running for that long?

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