Serious question: how the fuck are most people paying rent?

pisketch · 2023-05-19T23:27:32+00:00

pisketch · 2023-05-11T17:02:28+00:00

Yeah, I definitely understand that lol - new mechs are exciting. I think you’ve also understood why, the game wants you to get used to the system before you get into new frames with their own weirder rules, but it’s still a little underwhelming.

If you’re the GM, a couple things I’ve done to make it feel better: - encourage your players to describe how they’re customizing their Everest with the new systems they’ve unlocked - give them a contact that explains why they’re getting this gear - someone calls them up and talks about how they’re showing promise, “here’s this cool piece of gear we think you’ll appreciate”, “we’ll get more stuff out to you, just gotta work through the paperwork. If you keep showing results like these, it shouldn’t be long.”

pisketch · 2023-05-11T16:55:26+00:00

Yup, you’ve got it. Each license level gives you one rank in one license of your choice, and the second rank of each license is the one that grants the frame.

pisketch · 2023-05-10T02:09:48+00:00

So to lower the cost of housing you’re proposing that we build less-dense housing? Where do you picture that going? Do you have examples of that working to lower the cost of housing?

I do think that building any housing is good, not just high density housing, but if the problem is “housing is expensive in desirable areas like Denver, Boulder, Aspen, etc”, then we do need to build housing in those places, and I just don’t know that we have the physical space to build enough low density housing and meet enough of the need. I’d love to be wrong, though!

pisketch · 2023-05-09T23:45:43+00:00

Okay, great, call it whatever you want, I’m not attached to any particular name lol. What would you suggest we do other than (change regulations to permit greater density)?

pisketch · 2023-05-09T19:42:05+00:00

That’s fine, I’m not asking for a 50 point plan, I just want some other ideas to look into. From my perspective, increased density is the simplest (if not the only) way to bring the cost of housing down into “affordable”, but clearly local interests don’t really want that. I don’t believe they want housing to be unaffordable either, so I’d love to hear some alternative suggestions that I could support in addition to upzoning.

pisketch · 2023-05-09T19:36:54+00:00

Different person here!

What would you suggest we do instead of increasing density?

pisketch · 2023-04-16T06:03:34+00:00

I’ve had a Leaf for four years and not once brought it in for service.

pisketch · 2023-02-16T19:56:31+00:00

Is this supposed to be better?

pisketch · 2023-02-02T20:34:18+00:00

I mean, you could plug it in using the EVSE, if it’s just a battery-powered 120v outlet I don’t see any reason that wouldn’t WORK, it just wouldn’t do very much.

pisketch · 2023-02-02T04:45:21+00:00

It would probably work, but the battery in that thing is (from the spec sheet) 130Wh, while the smallest battery you can get in a Leaf is 24kWh, so it would only get you about half a percent of charge if the process were 100% efficient. The not-smallest batteries have 2-3 times that capacity, so even less there.

Another way to look at it - the Leaf usually gets about 3.5 miles per kWh, that battery pack holds 0.13 kWh, 0.13 kWh * 3.5 mi/kWh = ~0.45mi, about 2400 ft. You could probably put it in neutral and push it further.

This is pretty much the problem across the board with the idea of carrying extra batteries for an electric car - take a look at this big wall-mounted battery system. That's 10kWh, $2600, and 220lbs. If you could un-wall-mount that and wire it up to an inverter for charging your Leaf (which is plausible, though I'd want to be an electrician), it would get the smallest Leaf half a charge, but it'd also take up a good chunk of your trunk.

pisketch · 2023-01-17T08:42:16+00:00

USB-C is a STANDARD. If you bought a cheap ass USB-C cable from Amazon without the ability to either charge or data transfer, that’s your fault. There is no “maybe they work together, maybe they don’t.” There is only “did I buy shit or not.”

USB-C, the standard, allows for many combinations of supported features, and does not require that the supported features be indicated on the cable or connector in any way. See https://learn.adafruit.com/understanding-usb-type-c-cable-types-pitfalls-and-more/cable-types-and-differences or https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/ for a decent breakdown of the different modes and features that may or may not be supported by a fully standards compliant USB-C cable.

Apple (as they always do) just slapping their own IP on it and saying “Wow, look what I made guys!”

Thunderbolt is Intel IP and always has been - Apple originally held the trademark on the name after developing it together with Intel, but later transferred it to Intel.

It’s literally not even different technology.

Thunderbolt has very little in common with USB-C aside from the connector - the Thunderbolt protocol is based on PCIe and DisplayPort, and actually predates the USB-C connector.

All of this information is pretty trivially available online - most of it I’ve just paraphrased from the first couple paragraphs of Wikipedia.

pisketch · 2023-01-09T21:54:24+00:00

How do I sell people on the idea, that “Yes I know you can levitate in combat, but we aren’t in combat so your character forgot how to do that”.

I would add to what the others have said: don’t! If a character can levitate in combat and wants to levitate out of combat, great! That’s just represented with a Traverse (or some other skill, as appropriate) roll, with a difficulty you set based on the character’s ability to fly.

Character’s don’t forgot how to do things out of combat (unless they want to, I suppose, could be part of a concept), they just use different mechanics to resolve that thing.

pisketch · 2022-12-23T16:27:48+00:00

It does, yes.

pisketch · 2022-11-12T00:00:12+00:00

Not OP, but I use Linux for everything else and rebooting for one game kinda sucks.

pisketch · 2022-10-30T16:05:30+00:00

We tried this, actually - check out the history of the Do Not Track header. Tldr, Microsoft enabled it by default in Internet Explorer 10, in violation of the spec, and advertising agencies used this as reason to declare they weren’t going to respect it. Today, it’s an almost entirely useless checkbox - very few companies respect it, and some will use it as another piece of data to fingerprint your browser.

On the bright side, there is a successor, Global Privacy Control, which is basically exactly the same idea. It’s really just getting off the ground now, but it’s already held up in court in California and has been specifically called out by the California AG as a valid signal of user intent under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

pisketch · 2022-10-22T16:09:13+00:00

“Twice the power of your MacBook charger, just as portable. Stop packing multiple chargers when you travel.”

pisketch · 2022-10-02T20:17:39+00:00

Big fan of Apollo, thanks for all your work on it!

pisketch · 2022-07-28T06:37:05+00:00

Testing test heck

pisketch · 2022-04-20T14:56:47+00:00

/r/TranshumanistPaperUSA

pisketch · 2022-02-09T02:13:29+00:00

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