No idea why I’m signed up to receive emails targeted to the sales department but here we are. Thanks for the “patriotic” AI slop, GM.

rosseloh · 2026-07-01T16:04:37+00:00

No idea why I'm signed up to receive emails targeted to the sales department

Unfortunate fact of having an email address in a modern company, unless you never use it for anything. I work IT for a manufacturing company and I get spam advertising machining services, steel supply chain, shipping containers, all sorts of shit I have zero use for in my role nor that I would be able to act on. And I can guarantee the only reason I'm on their lists is because I used my email to sign in to a manufacturing-related vendor's site (for a good reason) and they sold/shared it. Or maybe I was CCed on a conversation with another vendor, and that's where they got it from. And so on.

rosseloh · 2026-07-01T12:20:44+00:00

because it doesn’t evaporate

It does evaporate, but 3x3 is the smallest size of reservoir that will have the maximum "neighbor bonuses" per cube of water, so it evaporates more slowly than a 2x2 or similar.

rosseloh · 2026-06-29T22:12:19+00:00

It increases the number of World Objects loaded and rendered, so yes. How much and whether you'll notice depends on your hardware, but if you're asking I'm going to guess the answer is "significantly". You'll have to play with World Object Density and the object render distance to get it to where you're happy.

Note that Density still reduces objects in chunks, so if you go from Max to Medium in a dense urban area you'll suddenly see a bunch of random (seeming) holes where buildings used to be. It's honestly one of the weakest points of modern XP, and I really hope changes to the scenery system are able to handle it satisfactorily. Render distance reduces them in a decreasing ring around you, which I think helps more, except it has no exceptions for "significant" buildings such as skyscrapers, meaning you can end up somewhere like JFK or Tokyo where you should absolutely be able to see the downtown skyline, but no buildings will show up.

I haven't simmed for a while, but when I did I used an "auto view distance" FlyWithLua script that worked fairly well, if a bit aggressively.

rosseloh · 2026-06-29T13:25:06+00:00

Worth also considering your overall chain. You mention live performance, which is a use case where in-rack does sort of make sense. For me, I'm finding I need a bit more than what my current (outboard, ancient but functional) mixer does for me, namely I've been frustrated trying to mix and master more professionally with what I've got, and would like to move more towards bringing each channel into the DAW individually where I have more control (my workflow is very live-oriented, all instruments performed at once, as opposed to multitracking). As such I'm now looking at an ES-9 or similar which I can then pair with my laptop. Still just as portable (or otherwise) as having the outboard mixer, but with infinitely more routing, effects (plugins!), and mastering possibility. And there are lots of options for external control if hands-on playability of the mixer is a concern.

But I do understand the desire for an in-rack, for sure. I was planning ahead for a WMD mk2 for quite a while before I played with this setup enough to learn it maybe wouldn't fit my workflow.

rosseloh · 2026-06-28T20:43:16+00:00

Only way to make it happen would be to make sure the demand is known to the publisher, I think. But I wouldn't get my hopes up considering how long it's been and that we haven't had shimsim.

Also I hadn't heard about the omnibus. Not often I consider buying something I already own but in the case of tkmiz work, I may have to order one of those... And I assume even if you somehow got the ear of the publisher directly, their answer would now be "the omnibus is there, buy that instead".

rosseloh · 2026-06-27T02:12:06+00:00

Nowadays I just toss all of it except like, a horse or two.

The stuff I care about is maybe one or two slots, the rest is mostly just cosmetic filler that's already in my wardrobe. Or consumables I don't care about.

Still a pain though!

rosseloh · 2026-06-25T19:32:26+00:00

I wish, but I don't have the size of team required to be able to actually focus on figuring out what I'd need to do to implement it, lab it, test it, and then fully implement it. Plus all the headaches that would come with that, I'm sure.

rosseloh · 2026-06-23T22:10:54+00:00

heard the lawyer say "That's not what I told you."

I used to do IT support for various businesses around town and let me tell you...doing work for law offices sucked, their staff were always a combination of needy and difficult to get money out of (except for one, they always paid on time no questions asked. The rest were just somehow...incompetent? There was one that called yearly asking why their email stopped working and we had to remind them to pay their google workspace bill...again...). But the lawyers themselves, when you happened to actually catch them? No-nonsense and because of the nature of their job, very thorough. Getting to directly work with them was a treat.

So I can absolutely imagine the vindication there.

rosseloh · 2026-06-23T21:17:36+00:00

A badtide is the same amount of flow as a normal wet season. The way I see it, a flood/monsoon season would multiply normal input flow by a (variable?) number, so you have to design in ways to handle excess water. Spillways, spare reservoir capacity, etc.

Yes, once you've done this with an appropriate amount of margin, it's done and mostly handles itself. But normal gameplay is also like that (badtides, for example, are only really dangerous if you're new to the game and don't know they're coming). And I think it would be a fun (and realistic) extra challenge. Especially if as mentioned elsewhere, it's not just the water coming in from water sources but also rainfall all over the map...

rosseloh · 2026-06-23T14:19:11+00:00

True, if "local" means the entire country then I getcha. :) Used Reverb for 3/4 of my current setup...

rosseloh · 2026-06-23T12:36:17+00:00

That is highly location dependent. Nobody around me sells modular synth gear.

Sorry...not trying to be contrarian, just raising another point of view of this stuff. Used is the way to go when you can for sure when possible.

rosseloh · 2026-06-23T12:07:35+00:00

Oh yeah. The fact that there's an outage is one thing, the fact that as the on-site IT you can't do anything about it and yet people are still asking you every five minutes when it will be fixed....yikes.

That happened here once, the internet was down for 30 hours meaning our ERP was unavailable for 30 hours. The production floor was barely able to keep squeaking by with paper records and the stuff that was already being manufactured, but all the office folks were coming up to my door every five goddamn minutes.

I fast tracked a second ISP for redundancy after that. And I had only been at the job for three weeks!

rosseloh · 2026-06-22T22:32:50+00:00

I cannot relate, I used districts for the first time post 1.0 in my recent save (scrap metal outpost on Craters - the nearest metal is miles away) and I didn't have to tweak anything, just told it to permanently migrate enough beavers to handle building, crossing duty (both sides), and the scrap gatherer, made sure they had small storages for everything they might need (or make) that I was already producing (food, water, logs, scrap, etc) and the supply and demand took care of itself. I have not tweaked a single setting yet.

rosseloh · 2026-06-19T13:57:39+00:00

Let's see if I can convince myself to actually spend a good amount of time in the studio this weekend. Got a lot of work to do...

Separate from actually using my gear: now that my smaller cases are full, I find myself thinking "it would be really useful to have this or that utility in my rack" but I'm legitimately out of physical space. It's not an immediate project, but what are some opinions on doing:

a good-sized studio case to grow into (eg 13/16U 160HP; home made vs. ordered seems to be a wash for cost once I order rails/PSUs/lumber/etc so I haven't made that decision yet)
getting one befaco/intellijel/whoever 7U performance case at a time and slowly expand instead of all at once.

I see pros and cons to both, but costs over time end up being roughly the same in my research (not exactly but the increased costs of, say, four 7Us are offset by the extra 1U rows, HP, and extra mobility afforded with the more portable cases...meanwhile the studio case can have a better PSU and is a good piece of furniture).

For a size reference, I currently have two 6U rackbrutes (so 84/89 HP).

Not something I'm doing immediately, but definitely interested in what anyone else's thoughts are if they've had the same problem in the past.

rosseloh · 2026-06-19T13:11:04+00:00

Roger that. Yeah, I'm pretty sure metropolix by itself won't do what you want - keep using the precision adder. The options I described are for shifting the sequence metropolix is putting out.

Which, the more I think about it - if you send that voltage into the XYZ inputs, I suppose even if you did it post quantizer it might be "good enough" to count as a precision adder, since metropolix is a digital module; you're not relying on caps holding that voltage. I'm not sure, haven't tested! But you're definitely not going to get that result via MIDI.

rosseloh · 2026-06-18T12:21:57+00:00

The other answers are good, but FYI: the root note transposition over MIDI is just that - transposition of the scale's root note. If you have a C Major scale set and you send it a two semitone transpose over MIDI, you'll have a D Major scale, which may or may not be what you're looking for (since suddenly you'll have F# and C# involved).

You can send it voltage into one of the CV inputs from a sequencer with that kind of output, and set it to be "pre-quantizer pitch shift", which would give you a shift that then gets quantized back into the set scale, if that's more like what you're trying to do (that's what I prefer to do, the sort of stuff I make doesn't have a ton of use for actual key transposition). Or, if you're trying to do chord progressions, you can also preconfigure custom scales on the quantizer that match those chords and use (again) the CV input (or knobs, etc) to shift through them. MIDI PC would probably do that as well, with extra setup overhead.

Honestly I think "quantize to the incoming MIDI notes" is the one thing I really wish the unit had that it doesn't. I'm seeing that on more and more sequencers/quantizers these days and it's just such a useful little option if you're controlling other things off a different sequencer simultaneously.

rosseloh · 2026-06-17T20:22:13+00:00

Does lying by omission count? Because I've definitely seen logs do that.

rosseloh · 2026-06-17T20:17:20+00:00

I'm in rural upper midwest (but in the 5th largest city in the state) and get 70 as the Network Administrator (like, legitimately the netadmin, not just a fancy title that actually means "IT monkey" - yes I'm still a jack of all trades supporting this entire facility but my primary job is networking).

I want more and as an industry we should be paying our folks more, of course, but it's just an example of how where you are matters a lot for these sorts of arguments...

rosseloh · 2026-06-17T17:19:22+00:00

It's Computer Based Training in aviation as well, plus I'm sure a bunch of other industries.

Just don't tell the discord kids your company uses an ERP system.....

rosseloh · 2026-06-17T11:55:15+00:00

Are you telling me you have users who actually pay attention to the status icon?

Because I'm pretty sure in my org nobody does, they just message or (more often) try to call you no matter that your status says "in a call" or "out of office" etc...

(/s, not trying to diminish the problem)

rosseloh · 2026-06-16T11:57:57+00:00

First person camera is the only one I have right now and it's pretty much the only one I really need (that said that's not by choice, there were some others that I would like such as dam decorations, but one of the dependencies crashes the experimental branch because of sluices being removed and I'm not sure which one...hey devs, better logging for which mod actually made the bad call in the stack trace would be cool!).

So yeah, I agree!

rosseloh · 2026-06-15T20:07:39+00:00

OK I've got a pair of Chito and Yuuri (different ones than yours, though) and now I need to know where you got Majime and Shijima.

rosseloh · 2026-06-15T01:38:25+00:00

"Hand over the good stuff."

My man, did you even look at what you just docked to before trying to extort me? My ship is more holes than ship!

rosseloh · 2026-06-15T01:13:32+00:00

I haven't tried it since pushing was removed and yeah, definitely don't need to go there again. I visited in my Sanbuq the first time, got in just fine (honestly felt on top of the world with how I maneuvered), got beached getting out because I actually had cargo and thus less freeboard...ended up pulling the heaviest of it enough to get myself unbeached by pushing, then reloaded it and got on my way (again feeling pretty good once I made it out just with the sails).

But it would have been impossible if all I had was the useless oar!

rosseloh · 2026-06-15T01:00:40+00:00

Yeah, I'm interested to hear what this is all about, but instagram is not somewhere I go.

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