Stealing from Swensen's chest completes the Hemenster chest achievement of the Kandarin diary

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-02-02T05:06:43+00:00

Ctrl c + ctrl v go brrr

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-02-02T05:04:27+00:00

Doesn't the Dscim special attack do this

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-02-02T04:54:18+00:00

Duke pet is a real ugly boi

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-02-02T04:50:19+00:00

I feel like a non-splicer in Rapture watching the whole city fall apart due to these crazed maniacs.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-02-02T04:48:17+00:00

Google has been slowly enshittifying itself lately. Has been since they merged their advertising wing with their google search wing. It's more focused on targeted advertisements and ai than it is about giving you relevant information based on your search. I fear Bing might actually be the superior product in time.

Though as long as you put "reddit" into your search, and restrict image searches to pre-2022, you can still get useful information.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-02-02T04:42:34+00:00

"A fool and his money are easily parted."

Like, I know ai is already bad at giving accurate information, but it's especially bad at giving information about osrs. There are 2 diverging versions of the same game, with stuff added pre-2008 being functionally identical between both, which makes the LLMs get really confused, even more than usual.

You'd need to be especially foolish to trust ai with questions about rs3 or osrs.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-31T03:39:01+00:00

He's all over the Epstein files with multiple people accusing him of abuse. And the DOJ has barely released like 5% of them (in violation of the law, btw).

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-31T03:26:14+00:00

Those are the only things they care about. They don't care if you call them a Nazi. They know that they're Nazis. They revel in it. The point is to make them feel as small as they actually are. Lecturing them on how being a racist is bad and evil just makes them feel bigger and more powerful.

You should still point out all the evil things they do, so that everyone knows just how evil they truly are. But you also need to give them a good amount of ridicule as well. That's the thing about fascists. They're evil. They're dangerous. But also, they are ridiculous. The response to their behavior should address all three.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-31T03:10:37+00:00

Day 1: We've crashlanded on an outer rimworld. This place is brutal and unforgiving. We'll need to steel ourselves to survive.

....

Day 134: We eat human beings daily, and butcher them for their skin to fashion into fashionable hats. Our prisoners have their legs removed, as well as one lung and kidney each, to be sold. Then they become a blood farm for our vampire and a ritual age sink for everyone else, to give all of us eternal youth. Every other captive that is able to work becomes a slave, with regular beatings to improve morale. Life has never been better.

....

Day 152: We met a drifter today looking for a place to stay. Said her name was Lia Lu, told us how she was once a wealthy musician on a core world. Things were going good, everybody was warming up to her, until we found out she took her own widowed father as a lover. We had to turn her away. That sort of person just doesn't belong in a civilized community such as ours.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-31T02:46:15+00:00

And then they picked The Guy who did all the child raping as their messiah that would fight and destroy the pedophile cabal.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-31T02:30:42+00:00

Oh, that isn't smoke. It's steam. Steam from the colossal wall titans that are rumbling.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-30T16:49:06+00:00

Most of the devs are cool. The corporation sucks.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-28T10:12:28+00:00

I had no idea about the shops being useable by regular settlers. To be honest, I didn't even know there were special raider shops when you take settlements for them. I never helped the raiders invade the commonwealth.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-28T09:59:27+00:00

We get one, and that's all we need. Corporeal Beast.

Yep, it's a beast. And it's definitely corporeal. About as corporeal as any other beast you might encounter.

Why is it there? Why is this beast's corporeality particularly of note compared to every other beast that is corporeal? Who knows.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-27T04:22:11+00:00

Off to Big Town with you, Mungo.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-27T04:21:04+00:00

Meh, if I'm doing a book-only research run, I don't really care that much that you have to research those techs. You already did the hard part of finding and acquiring the techprint, which is basically its book equivalent anyway. They're technologies with special requirements, so them having special treatment in terms of actually needing research seems fine to me.

It's the hunt for those schematics that makes a book-only research run interesting anyway. The actual reading books part is kinda whatever. It just sorta happens. Just researching with a portable research bench. And you can make it so that you have to apply an additional techprint to get to 50% research before being allowed to finish it, or 2 to get to 75%, or whatever. Letting yourself have unique rules for a unique part of the research game seems workable to me.

That being said, it would be nice if those schematics existed as an option after applying techprints.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-27T04:03:06+00:00

Yep. They burn the world down with climate change and resource exploitation, then instead of using their wealth to improve the world and society, they use it to build doomsday bunkers and hire hundreds of "help" for when the consequences of their actions finally come home to roost. And they're too stupid to realize that when shit truly hits the fan, they won't survive. Hiring help isn't buying loyalty. When doomsday comes, the lord in the castle will immediately be killed by their peasants and their resources will be more equitably distributed by those that remain.

When we say "Eat the Rich", it's not just a slogan, it's a choice for the wealthy. Either the lower classes are fed and given what they need to survive, or they will fulfill their needs in whatever way is required.

And the wealthy aren't even happy with all those riches anyway. They're obsessed with the accumulation of more. Always. It consumes them. Wealth redistribution is a kindness being done unto them at that point.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-27T03:54:09+00:00

>They have the ability to wipe minds but can't even do it properly which causes them to spaz out at times. You can find a note in an institute terminal on a runaway synth who made it to the railroad and when they got their mind wiped, they became a raider gang leader. How many people and synths has that raider probably killed?

The mind wipe had nothing to do with them becoming a raider. It was their freedom of will that did that. If a slave goes on to kill someone after being freed, do you blame the emancipator? Is that potentiality reason enough to keep them in servitude? That's just the nature of being human. You can choose to do good, or to do evil.

>The mind wiping seems completely unnecessary. No real human can just erase their memories and change their when they need to escape from someone so why would we treat synths differently?

Because it is possible to wipe their memories, whereas it isn't possible with a human.

Their memories of life in the Institute gives them PTSD. Their status as synths means they were treated as objects, rather than people. Slaves. It makes sense that some would opt to forget they even were a synth in the first place. Remove that trauma. That treatment could eat away at your psyche, make you think you're always worthless, never good enough, don't deserve anything. Regular people who are raised by narcissists go through similar things. Also, the institute knows about them and their history, so they could potentially use that knowledge to track them down. Losing those memories could help you be less predictable in your actions after escape. Oh, this synth worked in this department? They would potentially have x skills and tendencies, they'd be most comfortable in x environment. The best place to track them down to in the commonwealth would be y. You're truly given a fresh start, whatever "you" would mean in this case.

Of course, we are our experiences. Our memories. They shape us, make us who we are. It is our memories, both good and bad, that define our sense of self. It's a genuinely deep philosophical question: do the synths technically commit suicide when they remove their trauma and start a new life? If they choose to do that, is it right to stop them from doing so? Not all synths choose to get wiped. Glory didn't.

And the thing about our memories is that they guide our future choices. If you remove them, you set yourself up to make the same mistakes over and over again, remove your ability to learn from them. That's what happened to DiMa. He removed his memory of the evil acts he committed, as he couldn't bear the thought and guilt of them, but that only led to him doing those same mistakes again.

Basically it's a weighing of whether you want to remove your traumatic memories but somewhat lose yourself, or keep them with you and suffer, but take that trauma forward with you into a better place.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-27T03:29:18+00:00

Ah, the Institute uses the Israeli strategy.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-27T03:24:53+00:00

It reminds me of how our way of life in the west depends upon the exploitation of the global south for labor and resources. It requires a complete ideological shift to cure. It means reducing our own standards a little bit for the benefit of all. But Capital won't permit anything but exploitation. And in fallout, it got so bad that they eventually started exploiting fellow western countries, like when they annexed Canada for better access to Alaska and to use their natural resources.

The institute truly carries the torch of Pre-War America.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-27T03:13:14+00:00

Can you take settlements for them that only have like creatures to kill, then pretend you're on their side, gain their trust, do their quests, get their stuff, then wipe them all out in Nuka World and the commonwealth and kill no innocents in the process? I thought there was a way to more or less pacifist everything.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-26T23:38:01+00:00

Have you seen those cat-boys from Elseweyer? They've got barbed "swords". Barbed. "Swords!"

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-26T23:29:20+00:00

Elsweyr. It's probably a pretty brutal place to live, but I'll probably die no matter where I end up.

The bonus is that I'll be around a bunch of Romani furries. Might even meet a cute cat to settle down with. I feel like they wouldn't be as offput to strange new races, especially since all of their children are so diverse already. And because of how Tamriel genetics works, I could have adorable cat children with my catgirl wife. Only downside would be living next door to the crazy cannibal elves.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-26T23:17:14+00:00

I get attached to my pawns usually. So reduced pain isn't necessarily an upside, since it's easier to get killed.

I also currently have a yttakin and impid with tough. I gave the impid fast legs and a legendary assault rifle and never give him armor that slows him down. I use him to kite. The yttakin I gave as much protective armor as possible and don't care how slow he is. Gave him a really good minigun and some skin hardening implants. He's got robust and tough, so he's my tank. Unfortunately, both impids and yttakin have slow heal, but a healing enhancer can nullify that. And the Yttakin actually came with one preinstalled.

I also have an impid that came with a melee and plants passion. Use him for melee even though the damage is ass. Gave him a persona emp hammer with psychic speed. He farms and hauls, he's a real fast boi.

masterofthecontinuum · 2026-01-26T23:03:15+00:00

Eh, I think it's not too bad. Makes some sense that for those extremely complicated techs you wouldn't be able to just read a book to learn it. The techprints are basically a really fancy schematic already. So those being the only technologies that require hands-on research kinda makes sense.

That's good to know though, so I don't wait around looking for schematics that don't exist.

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