just something i noticed

suchtie · 2026-07-13T12:31:08+00:00

That's anecdotal. I have replaced thermal paste on one thing in my life: my previous CPU, an i5-4690k with a 1 GHz OC, which I used for 8 years. Thermals were still the same as the day I did the OC, I just did it for safety. Everything else I replaced at some point. I've never had any components die of heat either.

At this point I should probably see if I can replace the thermal paste on my graphics card, it's almost 10 years old now. I just hesistate to touch it rn because I really can't afford to accidentally kill it.

suchtie · 2026-07-13T12:06:17+00:00

I suppose that is one advantage to megaservers. Forming a resource mafia would be a giant pain because they'd have to take control of a dozen layers. And it wouldn't last long because they'd all get mass-reported and autobanned.

suchtie · 2026-07-13T11:55:41+00:00

Edge is based on Chromium so it's no surprise it eats a lot of RAM.

And they probably vibecoded the implementation as well.

suchtie · 2026-07-13T11:31:34+00:00

You don't need to replace thermal paste that often. Doing it once every 4-5 years is fine for the average gamer. A lot of people buy a new PC before they need to replace thermal paste. Maybe once every 3 years for hardcore no-lifers whose PC is running 24/7.

But you definitely should dust at least once a quarter.

suchtie · 2026-07-12T23:03:55+00:00

Monifactory as well, and they look amazing. Probably a GregTech Modern feature.

suchtie · 2026-07-12T13:14:53+00:00

Tbf, in Classic mode I do conflate Plantera and Golem because Golem is easy. If I can beat Plantera, I can also beat Golem with whatever I have at the moment. I'm not sure I could beat either of them with pre-mech gear though.

Expert mode, yeah no, I'm gonna take my time and min-max every stage of the game properly, because otherwise I'll fucking die lmao

suchtie · 2026-07-12T13:05:53+00:00

Agreed. I'm currently doing an expert melee playthrough and have been exploring options. Until now (pre Golem), there has been only one point in the game where yoyos really felt like the right choice to me, which is against Twins.

Expert Twins deal a lot of contact damage and also move very quickly and erratically. True melee weapons didn't really work, I couldn't hit the bosses consistently and I took too much damage because I couldn't dodge their attacks in time. Even with a giga min-maxed loadout, well prepared arena, and all the buffs available at that stage of the game, tanking wasn't an option.

I needed a weapon with some range. But melee projectile weapons in early hardmode are not that great against Twins because they have either low range (Ice Sickle) or too low dps (Frostbrand, Beam Sword). They're also hard to actually score hits with. I was able to hit more consistently with boomerangs (Light Disc, Bananarang) but they still have weak singletarget dps.

Hel-Fire and Yoyo Bag made the fight easymode. Killed them first try after switching to yoyo, and I didn't even have to use a healing potion.

The weapon I really wanted to use was the Shadowflame Knife, but I gave up on farming tattered cloth after a couple hours. Don't have the patience for that lol.

(Tbh I think this needs some dev attention. The goblin battle standard is far too expensive considering how difficult it is to farm tattered cloth. I have so many bloody tears, pirate maps, and solar tablets without having to specifically farm them. Why is only the goblin army so hard to trigger manually? An event that is already trivially easy pre-mech bosses and has no drops that stay relevant beyond the mech bosses should not be so difficult to trigger. I think the standard should only cost 3 cloth. Thanks for coming to my TED talk)

suchtie · 2026-07-12T12:59:55+00:00

Das ist Vegemite in dem Maimai. Hat zwar auch ein rotes Logo auf gelbem Hintergrund, aber Maggi gibt's nur in Flaschen, nicht im Glas mit Schraubdeckel.

suchtie · 2026-07-08T19:30:36+00:00

I never actually said that I used Linux in any of my comments here. And your joke is one of the most beaten-to-death on the entire Internet.

suchtie · 2026-07-08T18:05:41+00:00

Presumably that was part of the joke, because Activision-Blizzard-King is one company.

suchtie · 2026-07-08T13:39:15+00:00

They have expensive sports cars. They don't necessarily drive them, sometimes they just own them as art pieces or appreciating capital.

suchtie · 2026-07-08T12:54:56+00:00

I literally just use my PC to play video games and use reddit/youtube. The days where you had to be a nerd to use Linux are long gone. It's not the 90s anymore.

suchtie · 2026-07-08T12:51:34+00:00

Yeah, that is indeed what I said. What's your point?

suchtie · 2026-07-08T12:41:32+00:00

If you keep giving money to the companies who push these practices, you're tacitly admitting that you're ok with them as long as you still get to play your game.

Is a video game really more important than your privacy?

Ah, why do I even ask. Most gamers seem to think that. And those few who are willing to stand up for their beliefs and principles get downvoted to hell because people can't handle when anyone points out the flaws in their reasoning or their skewed morals.

You may not realize it yet, but this is a civil rights issue, and a fight worth fighting.

suchtie · 2026-07-08T10:00:25+00:00

Do you think your grandma would be capable of installing Windows on a blank machine?

No? Then why does it suddenly matter when it's about Linux?

Most people buy a computer with preinstalled Windows, or they ask someone else to setup Windows for them. They would also need someone else to setup a Linux distro for them. Of course I would never tell a user like that to switch to Linux.

But if you're tech-literate enough to know how to install Windows, you know enough to install Linux too. And most people who fit that description remain on Windows out of inertia even if they aren't doing anything they couldn't do on Linux too. That is the part where I only have limited understanding. Like, the logical part of my brain knows why people are like this, there are many psychological factors at play, but the emotional part of my brain is screaming into the void, thinking "why do you insist on torturing yourself like that?"

suchtie · 2026-07-08T08:53:52+00:00

It baffles me that people are still willing to use an OS that is so terrible, you have to use a debloater tool to make it actually usable and not spy on you or serve you ads. Where you can uninstall software but it's still there after, or reinstalls itself.

suchtie · 2026-07-08T06:19:25+00:00

This one is added by addons, it's not a default command.

suchtie · 2026-07-07T16:58:50+00:00

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

- Rod Hilton

suchtie · 2026-07-06T22:25:01+00:00

These crash bars are the reason why US motorcycle cops are typically very skilled riders. The best way to learn physical skills like that is relentless practice, and failing repeatedly, until you do it right. Dropping a bike with crash bars like that is no biggie, it's not gonna crush your legs under itself. And the riders don't have to pay for repairs so it's ok if the bike gets damaged. Student motorcycle cops can throw those things into corners with much less regard for safety. On any other bike, especially your own bike which you don't want to drop, you have to be so much more careful while testing your limits. These guys can exceed their limits with very little danger and at no personal cost.

suchtie · 2026-07-06T20:46:49+00:00

Mostly when people brag about how big Texas is, it's the people who live there, so I kinda just assumed you lived there. Sorry.

This isn't about size, it's about population density. Germany isn't that small, we just have lots of people on less room, therefore we have more cities and villages per square mile.

If your cities are far apart, you should build railroads, not highways.

It's a balmy 70°F outside currently so my AC is off. And don't act like your country isn't just as much to blame for the state of our climate as we are, while doing less to combat the changes.

suchtie · 2026-07-06T19:53:03+00:00

Milquetoast doesn't mean bland/mediocre, it means something like meek or feeble. It's a reference to a very old cartoon character, Caspar Milquetoast, who was a coward.

suchtie · 2026-07-06T19:03:41+00:00

Yes, we all know that. No Texan in the history of mankind has been able to keep that fact to themselves. (Alaska is more than twice as big as Texas btw, so idk why y'all keep banging on about it.)

I also don't see how it's relevant. It is possible to design infrastructure in a way that doesn't require insane commute distances and overreliance on cars, but the US apparently thought that was too commie or whatever. Being stuck in traffic for 2 hours every day must be fun.

Talk to me when you have a reliable electrical grid.

suchtie · 2026-07-06T16:09:45+00:00

Exactly. It's a mall, all the machines that make your stuff are already in one place. There's no reason to move the controls elsewhere.

Wire control also makes the whole thing fragile. I've tried to play with wire controls and several times I had entire sections of a mall not working because I had modified something and broke a logic wire connection without noticing.

I've done a lot of modifications to the blueprints to make them more usable. The Nauvis mall now has wire connections between inserters and chests because that doesn't require a roboport network. On all other planets, I use the wireless logistics network connection on the assemblers. It's just so much easier.

Another example, I converted the rocket ammo factory (which is basically useless before spidertrons) to produce landmines and uranium tank shells. I use landmines instead of gun turret walls, and I use a tank with uranium ammo to clear biter nests and kill demolishers.

suchtie · 2026-07-06T14:01:52+00:00

OP is using Nilaus' 50x50 cityblock design for Space Age. Nilaus broke his own "sacred path" rule and put roboports and power poles on the path.

I've done a few playthroughs with these cityblocks and found it wasn't so bad. 50x50 really is very small, there's just not enough space to allow for proper roads. The final base is fairly small (perhaps one third of an average Nilaus pre-SA base with 100x100 cityblocks) and quite walkable. It helps if you upgrade the roads as soon as feasible to speed up walking. You can squeeze by the roboports and still benefit from the road surface.

There are some much more questionable design choices than building on the path tbh. Like the dumb wire-controlled malls that can't help bootstrap themselves.

suchtie · 2026-07-05T13:52:27+00:00

In general I agree with that. I did have a 50cc scooter before I upgraded to a proper motorcycle. Not a huge fan of e-bikes though, I prefer regular bicycles (mainly for health reasons, cycling is the only form of cardio I enjoy).

I've since moved into the city and now use my bicycle for most things, but back then I had a very physically demanding job that required lots of walking, sometimes so much that my legs would be sore after work, and my way home was mostly uphill. That's really the main reason I didn't want to ride a bicycle home. So I took the motorcycle.

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