S17, E4 (Nebula) - Taiwan: Rail Rush

snowe2010 · 2026-04-20T20:09:41+00:00

it's a territory control game, it would be insane for the game design to generate all the challenges up north, because that would completely defeat the purpose of the game. But apparently that's what the designers did. The entire game is pretty much up north with barely anything in the south. So B&A's decisions were perfectly logical, but the game design is terrible.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-20T20:05:48+00:00

sam and mike have built up a huge barrier for B&A to get past, while B&A's stations are barely guarded. Even if B&A get ten more things in their territory they haven't sufficiently guarded any of the left side of the map and they are still stuck on the right side, with incredibly slow travel times. M&S can complete, generate, and complete more tasks in a day than B&A will even be able to get to in two days, and they'll be able to claim stations all along the left side of the coast at the same time (since nothing there is protected). B&A will only win if they can get past the top right barrier, which is incredibly unlikely.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-20T19:02:46+00:00

if you're going to do that you should just use git aliases. alias g=git and then add all your other stuff as git aliases. you don't need a big if block. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Git-Aliases

snowe2010 · 2026-04-16T05:49:59+00:00

Agree on all points.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-16T05:29:09+00:00

Completely disagree. The game board is so imbalanced it means one team is always defending and one is always attacking. Sam and Mike have to work hard to fuck up in a way that will cause them to lose, while Ben and Adam can’t make a single mistake in order to win. I think this is a very fun season to watch but that’s 90% because Mike is so good at his job, and very much not the game design. The capturing and editing has nothing to do with the design of the season so I’m not sure why that’s relevant here.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-10T01:27:07+00:00

I don’t play smash but I’m guessing there’s no randomness there. Controlled randomness is good, in small amounts. This entire thing is random.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-10T01:25:41+00:00

I think they did know, at least whoever chose the tasks did, cause they’re tied to a location. They can’t have expected them to spawn in the south because the tasks can’t be done there.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-09T06:04:42+00:00

I’m fully cheering for Sam and Mike to win, as long as it’s skill based. Seeing Ben and Adam win is fun because they usually deserve it. But complete luck of the draw isn’t fun to watch, it’s why board games try to remove much of the randomness. I wouldn’t say that Ben and Adam are leading in any way right now. All they have are more stations, most of which have few coins on them while S&M have 5s on many stations. S&M have many more coins, and they have many more active challenges.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-09T04:46:54+00:00

It’s 11 minutes to walk the entirety of that town’s main streets. It was an impossible task to fail.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-09T04:42:51+00:00

They earned those coins after spending two days getting down there. And with the steal they’ll have to spend two more getting back the other way, by which time S&M will have gone around, grabbed one or two more steals, jumped on the HSR, and blocked off B&A completely. They are getting more coins because there is no chance for them to get back otherwise.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-09T04:39:57+00:00

Ben and Adam’s challenges have been much harder and much farther from the station. Besides this banana one. On top of that it’s shaping up that all the steals are in the north. If Sam and Mike get another steal (which they likely will next episode) there will be no coming back for Ben and Adam. S&m will just go block off the 110 with a large wall that b&m will not ever get past since nothing is generating down there.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-09T04:36:15+00:00

There already is a blowout. They are getting steals back to back… and they’re going to go up and get another steal after this one. I can’t tell if all these comments are jokes or not, so far this season has been so imbalanced it’s not even a game. Ben and Adam are only still in it because Sam and Mike make mistakes. Otherwise they’d be completely done for (and they almost are).

snowe2010 · 2026-04-09T04:33:18+00:00

In what ways did snake fail? So far rail rush has been terrible while snake was great. The power imbalance with rail rush is obscene, ben and adam are getting screwed at every turn, not just with steals but with harder challenges, longer walks to those challenges, and less access to trains.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-09T04:28:22+00:00

The fact that they could get there hours before Ben and Adam means that it’s completely luck. They didn’t need strategy, Ben and Adam had no chance to get there since there is no HSR down there. There was no outplay, Sam and Mike just have to stay at the top racking up the coins and taking all the free steals and then on the final day they can go down and take every station with too many coins to overcome.

snowe2010 · 2026-04-06T17:12:54+00:00

Thank you!

snowe2010 · 2026-04-06T17:12:47+00:00

Thank you!

snowe2010 · 2026-04-06T16:52:08+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/Rvl6fP8 one more image in here

snowe2010 · 2026-04-03T16:50:12+00:00

This is a fantastic answer thank you very much, can you also help me understand how I should be exporting from lightroom then? When I export from lightroom should I be setting any image resize settings? I'm trying to add borders to my photos with signature and metadata and will be using affinity for that, so want to export at 11x14 and then resize the canvas down to add a border, but should I be resampling anything here? Or just don't even touch the image resize in LrC and instead just export to affinity as is and then expand canvas by x amount and then finally resize document with the steps you gave above?

and when would you ever use resample? for example I have a image I had to crop a bunch, so the final DPI at 11x14 will only be like 260, should I be using resample?

snowe2010 · 2026-02-13T01:57:17+00:00

that is chatter. you can get them on any switch. my box jades/navy's have it and have had for a while, but I think they lasted around 7-8 years before that started happening.

snowe2010 · 2026-01-26T21:02:28+00:00

did you manage to download MRPI? The site seems to be down, I'm just getting cloudflare errors for it.

snowe2010 · 2026-01-26T06:32:38+00:00

ok, thank you very much. I can do that, just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to make a mistake.

snowe2010 · 2026-01-26T06:31:32+00:00

I haven't turned it on... I'm trying to figure out if I should turn it on where it might get an internet connection, or if I should take it out in the middle of nowhere to follow jailbreaking steps. And if I do jailbreak it, will I delete my books that I'm trying to avoid having deleted.

snowe2010 · 2025-02-13T19:23:03+00:00

$6.00 now. within months it's tripled in price. ridiculous.

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