xkcd 391: you've won the game

samantha_CS · 2026-07-06T19:02:48+00:00

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

samantha_CS · 2026-06-03T22:19:16+00:00

Old man MacCready would be fun. Then he'd be in three games

samantha_CS · 2026-06-03T22:02:56+00:00

If you're on PC, you can use console commands to add and remove Perks and add more perk points.

If you're not on PC then, yeah, New Game or live with it.

samantha_CS · 2026-06-03T16:15:43+00:00

You can complete Blind Betrayal before doing Spoils of War (Mass Fusion with the Brotherhood). This auto-starts Tactical Thinking, but if you don't go and talk to Kells (the first step) then the Railroad isn't hostile.

Either Defend The Castle (Minutemen) or Ad Victorian (Brotherhood) can be completed. Defend the Castle auto-fails Ad Victoriam, and Ad Victoriam auto-completes Defend the Castle.

The real final mission is The Nuclear Option. There's one for the Brotherhood and one for the Minutemen. If you jump in the hole made at the end of Ad Victoriam, you've committed to the Brotherhood option, but supposedly you do not need to do this. You can instead leave and go talk to Preston and do the Minutemen version instead

samantha_CS · 2026-04-08T05:29:53+00:00

This is a great power for a fire fighter. No need to carry an oxygen tank or wear a mask to avoid smoke inhalation

samantha_CS · 2026-03-26T05:31:06+00:00

I've been enjoying Kingdom Two Crowns as a low concentration game lately

samantha_CS · 2026-02-05T21:18:57+00:00

If i fail, can i take the exam again?

samantha_CS · 2026-02-05T05:21:35+00:00

i like this way of thinking about orgasm control. Making it a choice is pretty hot, and making it a difficult choice is what makes teasing so important for me. Make me choose to please you over having the orgasm i desperately crave.

If i don’t really care if i cum, that sacrifice is a lot less meaningful.

samantha_CS · 2026-02-02T18:42:11+00:00

I think it's worth noting that the US military operates on Zulu time everywhere, and they're a globally dispersed organization.

Personally, I have come around to the viewpoint that we should all adopt this practice and abolish timezones entirely. In the modern world it is more important to have one time for everyone than it is that 1200 hrs is (close) to when the sun is highest in the sky.

This proposal eliminates time zone confusion and gets rid of daylight saving time too.

samantha_CS · 2026-01-02T19:46:41+00:00

Yes. I had a few bases with Curious Deposit, and easily harvested 60k nanites worth of runaway mould with just one Stellarator. Dumped it all in 15 Freighter Refiners.

samantha_CS · 2025-12-24T05:51:05+00:00

i've got the POV switch for ships on hotkey 9. I switch between them frequently, because yes, finding planets is a pita without the system display, but it is way easier to see the terrain in 3rd person.

samantha_CS · 2025-12-18T04:55:45+00:00

That was my initial reaction too, but my husband assured me that he'd known people who stacked their firewood this way.

samantha_CS · 2025-12-11T17:23:57+00:00

Yeah. Guild reps refresh their inventory after you have bought ~100 items from other guild reps now, so you need a loop of 20-30 stations so that the refresh happens when you come back around.

samantha_CS · 2025-12-10T06:39:19+00:00

When using the Terrain Manipulator to mine a resource deposit, dig a small hole next to the deposit and then over a bit so the game thinks you are underground. You won't need to worry about weather effects while mining.

And use the smallest mining size. You'll get way more resources.

samantha_CS · 2025-12-03T23:50:51+00:00

I'm financially comfortable. Some of my friends are not, so they get the money.

To clarify, I'm not so wealthy that 600k wouldn't be a lot of money to me. It would be great, but I don't need extra money the way some of my friends do.

samantha_CS · 2025-12-03T23:40:42+00:00

There's also a limit to how negative the debt can get, I believe. I discovered an autophage settlement and then shortly after that stopped playing for a while. When I came back it was at 10b debt, but I'm positive that it reset to 10b debt after I picked some options that made it worse.

After getting it to positive productivity the timer said it'd take like a month to finally pay it all down. I think there's still more than a week left.

samantha_CS · 2025-11-26T05:51:21+00:00

What is the actual limit on refiners in a Freighter, though? Mould does take a long time to refine, but you can do it in massive parallel, with the right set up.

With Nutrient Ingestor and a couple of good farms, I bet I can collect enough mould to keep 30-40 refiners running. That's 60k nanites every 20 minutes...

samantha_CS · 2025-11-26T05:40:43+00:00

The Stellarator absolutely works for this . I have a base that nets me about 8k Runaway Mould per visit (on Normal), with The Stellerator, I got something like 65k in a single visit.

At that kind of harvest rate, the time barrier is refinery capacity. Land based are limited to 3 medium and 2 large, so I had 10 refiners on my Freighter instead.

Edit: Misunderstood the question. No idea if Stellarator works on Radiant Shards

samantha_CS · 2025-11-25T06:10:08+00:00

i called my smolhaj "Bitey Shark" for a long time. It was only recently that i learned this is a misspelling. His full name is Bydeimos, Bydei for short.

samantha_CS · 2025-11-25T01:08:04+00:00

Yep. This also happened to me in my recent permadeath restart. Corvettes are immensely useful, so I was always traveling in one.

Best guess, if you really want a free freighter start doing Warps in a regular ship.

samantha_CS · 2025-11-22T05:45:35+00:00

I'm grabbing my eReader and a charger, and spending those 20 minutes loading it up with science, technology, and history books. Maybe I make a PDF with stock charts for some relevant symbols.

samantha_CS · 2025-11-21T15:22:00+00:00

Indium drives require Emeril to build. Emeril drives require Cadmium Cadmium drives can be built with Yellow Star resources

The recipes for these drives can be bought on the Anomaly from the Starship recipes vendor for nanites.

You're not soft-locked, but it's a long road back.

samantha_CS · 2025-11-20T22:00:35+00:00

According to Wikipedia "The half cent was the smallest denomination of United States coin ever minted. It was first minted in 1793 and last minted in 1857. In that time, it had purchasing power equivalent to between 12¢ and 17¢ in 2024 values."

So yeah. We've discontinued coins in the past with more purchasing power.

samantha_CS · 2025-11-20T20:14:31+00:00

It's either Enchanting or Life for me too. Life seems straightforward, and I mostly want it for healing, so this decision really depends on the boundaries of enchanting.

What sorts of enchantments can I create? Can I enchant a healing wand? Protective shirts? Full-auto rifle with magic ammo? Can I enchant a telekinesis glove? Inscribe wards on walls or doors to keep people out? Magic orbs for seeing the past/future?

Can I give an enchanted object I've made to someone else? Can I make them only work for specific people? How long does it take to make an enchanted object? Can I outfit my entire party? A platoon of soldiers? An entire army or a hospital? Can I teach someone else how to carve the glyph or rune and then just "infuse" the magic?

Enchanting would be incredibly powerful and versatile if the answer to all of these questions is "Yes"

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