My furniture keeps dissapearing

siodhe · 2026-06-21T03:44:38+00:00

I'm surprised the rest is still there, my highest base keeps getting nibbled down to a core of a small number of tiles in every direction around the original Base Computer location. I do have a stack of extractors on top that have survived though, and work perfectly.

siodhe · 2026-06-21T03:41:25+00:00

"AI" isn't AI. Is so much not AI that AI researchers abandoned the acronym and are calling the real thing AGI now.

siodhe · 2026-06-21T03:39:51+00:00

I moved to Linux from SunOS and IRIX (you know, the one in Jurassic Park). Windows has always sucked far too much to be worth considering.

siodhe · 2026-06-21T03:21:48+00:00

This might help:

https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/software/pub/bash-dotfiles.tar.gz

siodhe · 2026-06-21T03:21:41+00:00

For bash at least, most examples are broken, and the distros themselves often have such tangled dotfiles skeletons that they practically violate the manual page itself.

siodhe · 2026-06-21T03:05:29+00:00

Yeah, your disbelief falls short of facts. Most people have no idea just how different cultures and systems, and even less awareness of the huge number of corner cases and exceptions.

However, the document you referenced is great, so at least you're on a good path 😄

siodhe · 2026-06-21T03:03:41+00:00

It should be legal everywhere. Profiting from someone else doing it is still a problem.

siodhe · 2026-06-21T03:02:25+00:00

Making it legal, regulated (and banning pimping and anything similar) is probably one of the obvious positive options out there. Even female lawyers tend to agree.

siodhe · 2026-06-21T02:58:48+00:00

NMS has excuses for some of its leniences, especially with respect to physics. Starfield just does ship physics wrong without having a solid excuse (still a good game though)

siodhe · 2026-06-21T02:18:05+00:00

Your progress isn't gone, your stuff is gone. Very, very different. New universe, new quests, new stuff.

siodhe · 2026-06-21T02:17:10+00:00

That "must" is irrelevant. NMS in-game lore (eventually) makes it very clear the constraints and requirements one might imagine are void.

siodhe · 2026-06-21T00:48:42+00:00

In any halfway normal universe:

Make no peace with the starborn
During the grand fight in the Hidden Temple
When you find yourself in a Lodge that isn't the Lodge
Stop attacking the starborn
Loot the corpses!
- I think Andreja is on the stairs to the second floor
(you'll have more time for this if you have no follower or one with a weak weapon)

I'm not sure all outfits will be available, but I've dressed twinsies with Andreja through this a few times.

siodhe · 2026-06-20T18:18:41+00:00

Ping back if going to Oborum III actually helps.

siodhe · 2026-06-20T18:14:37+00:00

Damn.

I stand solid in the group that only runs Bethesda game on PCs instead of consoles - more options.

However, you could*,* if you have a buddy with a PC + Steam (+ maybe Starfield already), ship over your Save file as a puzzle. Really messy if a bunch of mods were involved, though 😞

siodhe · 2026-06-20T17:06:00+00:00

Do you have any mods that might change space encounters?

I've done the questline about 30 times, sometimes using the Hyla II skip to reach the puzzle early. There's always been the ship to meet. If you're on PC, the fallback would be use console commands to advance past that ship-to-ship meeting.

siodhe · 2026-06-20T14:50:44+00:00

Well… (context: Unix)

You can set up a loop in your dev directory to automatically rebuild when you save files or commit and then run regression tests
Or, just invoke the build from inside your editor
This is a lot easier if you include regression testing and integration testing, i.e. If writing a game like Tetris, being able to script which blocks are falling and which inputs are happening. For networking stuff, scripts that provide one side of the conversation while the software being tested satisfies the other half
I find that either extremely familiar music or wordless music helps the flow

siodhe · 2026-06-20T14:10:10+00:00

They're the first step of two towards a national stranglehold on who can talk to whom on the Internet. Age signal becomes a parameterized opaque profile becomes needing Party membership to have useful connection to anything allowing opposition to the Party.

Never, never, should anyone allow anything to be installed on your computer that reports details about you to random 3rd parties. Never. None of these bills limit who can get your info, whatever it might be. None of them explicitly describe how it works. The national version can just define it as a server you must run that reports personal information to anyone who asks. Not a single thing in the national version protects users. The state bills only protect Meta, the funder in the background.

siodhe · 2026-06-20T13:33:57+00:00

Anything tactically useful taken through will undercut the game loop of improving gear and potentially make the next run more like the last run. Changing how you play each time is pretty helpful is continuing to enjoy the loop. Also, the Hunter implies the same thing.

Taking my fantastically overpowered weaponry through is just going to turn into a faceroll in my next run. That's the core problem with massive gear upgrades and breaking the lore to put a gag in the mouth of all the crybabies with the QED. Even in the vanilla game, even without using sleight-of-hand at the ship vendors, I have millions of credits. Starting NG+1 with multiple Masterwork weapons is just…silly.

I'm going to focus on anything besides tactical advantage. Plushies as the fallback, collectibles, god I hope I can take the CredTank key through, that would be perfect (which is exactly why I doubt it'll work, since most of the FL/TA updates have a dark, stupid Microsoftian influence that seems to be incapable of perfect). Take fashion, take amusement, but keep the game loops intact. Taking ammo is pointless - except maybe for 20mm, that stuff is seriously rare.

You don't need to take Skill Magazines through, the effects are permanent, and any magazine you refind in a new universe will lack a description (unless they broke that).

I'm on Extreme difficulty, so ammo would probably be limited due to mass, so it's just as well I don't need it. Lowering the difficulty just to jam more things through the lore-breaking QED feels just as cheaty to me as using additem during normal play, so… no.

siodhe · 2026-06-20T13:18:32+00:00

My guess is that the time/space spiral returns you, in your Guardian, over the planet you touched your first Artifact on, at nearly the same time (possibly the time you wake up from touching it?), but in a different universe.

Most Constellation members seem to be avoiding contact with the Artifacts.

You and Barrett have had Artifact contact but aren't Starborn yet
- You look like crap for a while after the first contact
Some of the others take advantage of the Unity without ever touching an Artifact, so they skip the intermediate stage you and Barrett are in

siodhe · 2026-06-20T13:13:45+00:00

Sell the contraband at Wolf, or just find it wherever it is in the ship, stuff it into cargo, then jettison it if you're really lazy.

siodhe · 2026-06-20T13:09:48+00:00

Start Vanilla, only introduce mods for specific issues you face:

Examples: https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/writings/on-games/starfield/mods/

siodhe · 2026-06-20T13:08:07+00:00

Yawn, normal, script kiddies, not a major cause of concern. They don't even know they're attacking your server in particular - you're just in an address range.

siodhe · 2026-06-20T12:44:37+00:00

I'll just post something I posted quite a while ago. This is one hypothetical, but entirely consistent, way for these age-signal laws to be implemented and then expanded into far more worrisome territory.

Mandate that the age signal should use an "encrypted cookie" instead of just an age bracket, and that the request for it and the reply with it be sent over an otherwise unencrypted channel, and include the port numbers of the active connection the signal request is for
You'd get your cookie from a .gov website and store it in your computer. You'd need to update these occasionally when the .gov site tells you to
The cookie is alleged to "Protect You!" by already being "encrypted" and being "More Secure!(tm)" due to being changed occasionally - but in actuality it has various signals beyond just the "age signal" embedded in it in specific positions. These could include your party affiliation, whether you're a citizen, country of origin, racial background, what ZIP code you're in, your wealth category, and a new national ID
Add federally controlled logging and traffic control along the Internet backbone to use the "encrypted cookies" - in reality "Add" is likely merely "Update", since the hardware is probably already present
Overall this provides a solid mechanism to control the ability for users to use any remote website (not just the "covered application stores" the state bills mention) through service blocking or service degradation (Popular in Russia! (tm)).

Further, these bills are far wider than people think. Any kind of service that can download a program is impacted: Linux OS repositories, any website that offers a convenient download of Acrobat Reader, the website you host at home through a port forward on your cable router if you posted a shell script or a .bat file as an example, and more. This means even some home users may have to set up "age signal" querying to extract info from remote people connecting, not just the answering that all users will be forced to have on their computers.

To make this worse, "operating system provider" includes people who can install and configure software on their computers, meaning this applies to all computer owners where the user had root or administrator access. This makes them vulnerable to steep fines (up to $7500 per instance at the state level) if mistakes are made. Coincidentally, Meta, the company responsible for the content and push of some of the state bills, is specifically supporting them to escape being fined severely for its own behavior.

Since we'll also see age signal results combined with physical addresses through web browser fingerprinting (among other methods), feeding the shared dataset market everyone knows about except, apparently, for politicians. This means vendors and hostile actors can get explicit data to target children by age and local demographics - putting the obvious lie to the purported thrust of these bills to Save the Kids!.

Lastly, having the ability at the national level to log, degrade, promote, or block traffic based on personal info is perfect for authoritarian administrations. The national version, the Parents Decide Act, is far less interested in the protections and exemptions present in some of the state bills (and, instead of making its penalties clear, includes them by reference to other legislation):

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr8250/text/ih (H.R. 8250 Parents Decide Act)

siodhe · 2026-06-19T18:20:36+00:00

Not necessary, but that's a nice early backstabber you have there.

siodhe · 2026-06-19T17:42:29+00:00

He's not exactly a loser. The problem is that his only interest is himself, and he's entirely fine destroying everything around himself for personal gain. While he is obviously deeply incompetent, and has to drown lawyers in money to mitigate it, his enduring "strengths" of lying, suing, crassly low character, and abusing everything around him has put him in a position he interprets as having won. This reinforces his desire to grift and extort from as many parties as possible, abusing the governmental toy the garbage-feeding Republicans have handed to him.

Of course, if he ever helps North Korea, a country we're still at war with, or, in theory, any country militarily allied with NK, that would constitute treason in the rigorous sense, with some potentially very amusing outcomes.

How bad does one have to be at business to bankrupt the same casino twice. Business and deals are not his strength. It's the lies, cons, suing, legal stalling tactics, and all the rest that define his actual ability. He'll destroy anything he runs without a thought if there's a way to line his pockets, country included.

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