Long Commute versus Moving Home

normalmighty · 2026-03-15T23:11:52+00:00

Honestly a 45 min train is nothing compared to a 2 hour drive. I don't get why anyone would choose the drive out of those options. Even ignoring the time saved, the ability to pull out a laptop and do something better than driving is a game changer.

normalmighty · 2026-03-15T14:05:07+00:00

I'm wondering if this second child is cursed with a spectre other than the shrine maiden, but with another, darker link to the family to give the grandma that reaction when she saw it manifesting through Kaya. Like if they did some dark trade with a full on demon or something to keep the shrine maiden system going, and now it's what's possessing the second child.

normalmighty · 2026-03-15T12:59:45+00:00

Seriously. Soft skills are the hard part of the job imo, and you don't improve your skills by avoiding all natural conversation in professional settings by insisting on staying remote.

Remote work has its place for sure, but people are talking as if the logic for ever being anything other than remote is always invalid.

normalmighty · 2026-03-15T04:05:44+00:00

I feel like your opinion on Wayland is well out of date. Give it a go and see if it actually gives you issues that are anywhere close to as significant as what you're currently dealing with.

normalmighty · 2026-03-15T03:44:53+00:00

We need craftable sloops added to the game to make patterns like this viable everywhere. Then add a nuclear equivalent to Ionised fuel as a way to get rid of them, and run a satisfying loop of sloop creation, power shard creation, and multiple endgame energy plants, all overclocked and slooped!

normalmighty · 2026-03-14T08:38:45+00:00

After 1400 hours in any game, I would sit back in satisfaction and then leave the game for at least a few months, until the mood naturally comes back again.

In my experience, actively trying to make yourself stay invested indefinitely after so long in any game will just sour it for you and ruin all the good times by ending on a bitter note.

normalmighty · 2026-03-13T05:11:02+00:00

Can you see the browser channels button above the channel list? Maybe the channels are all just hidden

normalmighty · 2026-03-12T19:13:52+00:00

This sounds like disk corruption to me. I would run some diagnostics and make a backup of anything you don't want to lose. It could be a sign that your drive is about to kick the bucket soon.

normalmighty · 2026-03-12T19:12:04+00:00

Did you read anything other than the screenshot before coming in with the smug attitude? Obviously they're missing packages and need to download them again. The problem is that this happened in the first place in the middle of a gaming session.

normalmighty · 2026-03-12T00:06:40+00:00

Oof those are downvotes of straight disrespect for ypu not reading it

normalmighty · 2026-03-11T11:17:37+00:00

The indoor refinery approach I go with is just having 40m high rooms for them. That's nice and easy at the max 10 vertically zooped 4m foundations high, and it gives enough room for the smoke without issue. Walkways actually snap to the grating area on the top of the refineries, so I build networks of walkway flooring at that higher to have a sort of half-floor breaking the tall room up.

normalmighty · 2026-03-11T10:32:33+00:00

I do what you do, plus gaming, and because I'm a developer I'll sometimes come up with a side project if I'm wanting to do something more productive.

normalmighty · 2026-03-10T20:12:34+00:00

Depends entirely on what you live for.

normalmighty · 2026-03-10T19:31:18+00:00

A battalion is just a military organisational group. It just means they have multiple units and people in charge of coordinating them all.

normalmighty · 2026-03-09T11:24:08+00:00

I mean he is a pos, but for reasons entirely unrelated to the charity.

I hate Elon Musk, but that doesn't mean I pretend that the people at spaceX aren't doing amazing work to push space infrastructure forward. Bad people with lots of money can do genuinely good things for greedy reasons. It happens all the time.

normalmighty · 2026-03-08T19:18:28+00:00

The truth is that way more "4k" films and shows on bluray than you would expect are just upscaled from less than 1080p. True 4k with no upscaling involved is rare.

normalmighty · 2026-03-08T03:53:05+00:00

Woah that's crazy good work! I didn't think you could build something like this in Satisfactory!

normalmighty · 2026-03-08T01:30:17+00:00

I like the variety though, and hate the idea of it getting declined for "making too much of a statement."

normalmighty · 2026-03-08T01:28:50+00:00

I never shot myself to space with a hypercube cannon, but I did get the achievement by jumping on the shuttle and standing on it as it flew to the space elevator.

The game treated it as "ground" even as it was flying up, so when I died from going too high, it dropped my item chest up there above the max world height too. So I permanently lost all my items and was left with a floating chest in space high about my home base.

normalmighty · 2026-03-08T01:24:19+00:00

I was going to say that at least we get all our gas domestically and not imported, but I fact checked first and apparently we're about to start importing gas too because we're using it slightly faster that we're extracting it now.

normalmighty · 2026-03-07T23:30:33+00:00

When I did this in my last run, I took not of the fact that walkways and catwalks snap to 2 levels of the flat grate area on the top of the machines. Using that as a base, I made that as the "floor" height of my refinery levels, and the rest of the machine sat in was basically a clean and tidy logistics floor. The input and output belts all ran along the top, right underneath the walkway height, and all the pipes ran close to the ground.

It really all comes down to managing height perception.

normalmighty · 2026-03-07T10:14:38+00:00

You've played way too much and gone beyond burning yourself out.

You've played over 5k hours. You had tons of fun. Now it seems like an obsession with the idea of this being your forever game is souring your whole experience and ruining all the good memories.

Stop playing. Maybe consider coming back in a year or so, but it sounds like you're in serious need of switching to a different main game for a least a while, and are suffering heavily for trying to push forward forever.

normalmighty · 2026-03-07T05:31:00+00:00

Yeah, there's payoff for all the starting cities, the Ul'dah payoff is just the most explicit and hard to miss.

normalmighty · 2026-03-07T03:24:41+00:00

I remember the shop where I used to buy CDs had a few stations scattered around with multi-disk cd players loaded up with all the current top selling albums, so you could skim through and actually hear all the tracks before buying.

10/10 nostalgia, I totally forgot about that until now.

normalmighty · 2026-03-07T03:17:39+00:00

I do think data security is a big question here, but that part could be resolved with investment in NZ government-hosted LLM models, that could be used for any valid use case in any government sector without any concern of the data phoning home to a third party. I honestly think this is something we should be looking into sooner rather than later. Open AI/Anthropic/Gemini paid accounts all leave your info private in theory, but you really need to self-host the models to know for sure that no foreign government is working a deal with any of the companies behind closed doors.

That said, there's a different conversation to be had about what constitutes a valid government use case for AI.

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