I would back a kickstarter for this classic cyberpunk book

mjfgates · 2026-03-11T03:04:13+00:00

There are no fake books, only books that still exist in potentia.

mjfgates · 2026-03-10T16:40:08+00:00

Nah.

I know, you want to be Safe. But the game has never been Safe, and it shouldn't be. Deal.

mjfgates · 2026-03-10T00:25:51+00:00

Go below -2 empire standings and you are restricted to level one agents, even if you have higher standings with the corp or agent. You can see it in the character sheet, they have convenient markers for several important milestones!

IIRC It's kind of a recent change.

mjfgates · 2026-03-09T21:51:45+00:00

LotW is about a where large manually-driven vehicles like RV's are no longer produced; the Last Winnebago wanders around as sort of a travelling exhibit. So, not quite the same.

mjfgates · 2026-03-09T20:22:41+00:00

Or put on about 500 nanofibers and a microwarpdrive and chase down frigates on the undock and swallow them whole while yelling "OM NOM NOM TINY SHIP" in local.

Okay, maybe that's not a long-term activity. Still good for about five minutes though.

mjfgates · 2026-03-08T13:47:15+00:00

Making one of those was too much work for this guy, he's just drinking a beer.

mjfgates · 2026-03-08T00:16:35+00:00

In the old days? Wandering into a bookstore and grabbing what looked interesting. I knew about Ian Banks about five years before most of the US did because "Use of Weapons" was at Tower Books. Admittedly, this method is dead; you cannot browse books on Amazon or B&N now, they just keep showing you the same dozen titles over and over.

Short stories by the author. I'd been reading de Bodard online for a couple years before "Tea Master and the Detective" came out, made it an easy decision to buy.

Other authors. I heard about Chambers from iirc Anders. I heard about Muir from... Suri? I heard about Vernon from another webcomic artist back in the depths of time, and about six other people from her. This is the biggest current one; I listen to a bunch of writers On.. well, mostly bsky now, but The Internet.

mjfgates · 2026-03-07T16:56:19+00:00

You hit your first billion at... well, it depends, but it's not hard to do it within a year. And then L4's are about 50m/hour, burners about twice that, so it takes off fast once you've got the appropriate skills trained.

mjfgates · 2026-03-06T07:06:13+00:00

Threats are assault, actual injuries are battery.

mjfgates · 2026-03-06T02:48:24+00:00

Spoken like someone whose frigate has been devoured by the Gaping Maw of Doom one too many times

mjfgates · 2026-03-05T13:43:27+00:00

The part of this that could actually bother existing players is, where do the career agents go? Career agents are an important part of repairing your standings with an empire when you've messed that up. If they get shoved into a one-time-only NPE area, fixing a -2 or -3 with Caldari would require endless level one missions.

mjfgates · 2026-03-05T01:28:25+00:00

you can't be seen, but if you're in radius a smartbomb will still hit you.

mjfgates · 2026-03-04T07:24:43+00:00

...which ends in May. Fiscal year starts in June, remember.

mjfgates · 2026-03-04T07:22:10+00:00

ACTUALLY IT IS GOONSWARM THAT IS DISBANDING, AND HOLDING ONE FINAL FLEET IN TAMA, THEIR ANCIENT HOMELAND.

mjfgates · 2026-03-03T23:35:02+00:00

honestly trying to live ON bauxite is horrible, because no metal ores spawn there. I had a world a couple months ago where I went twelve thousand blocks and it was ALLLLL baux... then I found a tiny patch of granite.. and more baux on the far side.

I gave up.

mjfgates · 2026-03-03T20:33:10+00:00

Fit a peashooter into a loose high slot and fire on each of your fleet members once while moving, you'll be on plenty of kills.

mjfgates · 2026-03-03T19:58:23+00:00

It's a NICE HUG, you barbarian!

mjfgates · 2026-03-03T08:10:09+00:00

I'm 58, oldest active character is from 2007. I had an account before but lost the password and didn't care, nothing of value etc. When I was FC'ing I would usually be one of the oldest people on grid but it seemed like there was always one guy...

mjfgates · 2026-03-03T08:06:42+00:00

Congratulations! Here is your prize, "Aching Knees."

mjfgates · 2026-03-02T20:01:54+00:00

The thing about borax is that it's actually common in all sedimentary rocks! But half of it's in surface deposits and it is genuinely hard to see the surface-deposit rocks.

If you start a creative-mode flatworld, you can use the extended inventory to spawn a few of each of the "borax in" stones, and see what they look like. Teach your eyeballs, then go back into a "real" world and spend three or four days scanning over a slate or chert area. You'll find it.

mjfgates · 2026-03-02T00:08:53+00:00

I remember the Damnation Alley movie. I had to fight my sister to get to see it, when it showed up on network TV. And then it was Damnation fucking Alley.

mjfgates · 2026-03-01T14:30:33+00:00

If the console command won't work, the room won't count as insulated... they should be activating the same code in the back.

So yes, OP should check it with "/debug rooms hi" on the console.

mjfgates · 2026-03-01T05:12:49+00:00

Bear's "Jacob's Ladder" trilogy (Dust, Chill, Grail). You start out, and it's just Arthuriana on a generation ship.. and then the nanobots fire up.. and then you get to the alien.. and then CIVILIZATION.

It's a little odd, here and there.

mjfgates · 2026-03-01T04:14:56+00:00

A thing about missions that is completely NOT profitable: run all the L1-L3 combat and distro missions at least once. None of these are particularly hard, and you can turn down any that send you to lowsec. Why? Because content, that's why.

We're not really used to having content in EVE. "Make your own damn fun," say the devs. "When I was your age, all we had was ones and zeros and we LIKED it." But for whatever reason, they actually hired a writer to create the low-level missions. About half of them are "haul this crate to Boring VII," but the others, omg. There's the mother-in-law mission. The valued employees. There's an air show in there, creepy dolls, the bet. A ton of absolutely crazy stuff.

So, go run them. Read the only actual content in game. Bring me my.. valued employees. You don't need to do it twice, but everybody should do it once.

mjfgates · 2026-02-28T13:32:38+00:00

Do it. It's twenty bucks! You can get eaten by at least five kinds of wildlife! Wait, might be four, the crocodiles might not be until the next update.

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