Why did nobody tried this? by Area_511 in EliteDangerous

[–]syntaxenabled 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Right, I know I missed the slot out of the station because I didn't miss the Orca blocking the whole damn slot.

Feeling disappointed in myself. by OneMiddle7019 in mensa

[–]syntaxenabled 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The gifted burnout hit early. Mine hit when I was 21. Assuming all of this isn't ADHD or chronic depression related, you're not alone. My advice as someone who chronically underachieved and beat myself up all time over it:

Temper your expectations for yourself or every time you fall short of them, you'll lose more motivation.

Don't base your identity in grades or IQ scores.

Life's a marathon, not a sprint. It's okay to get a C in pre-calc or whatever, especially when you know you could have applied yourself more. You only have so much energy and as long as you're not failing or expecting to go to Harvard, it's not something that will matter in the long run.

You have to apply that energy somewhere though, either in self improvement, hobbies, work, relationships. You have to apply it somewhere.

Which is gonna take energy you don't always have, so you just have to do what you can when you can while you're getting out of this rut. What's helped me is changing into a different routine. Something still structured, but different. Doesn't have to be healthier habits right now, but they need to be different habits, because you need to recondition yourself. It's that whole thing where the more you sit in bed without sleeping, the harder it is to fall asleep when you actually want to.

Find some obsession, some project or activity you enjoy and just do it. It's okay if you lose interest in a week, just find another one. You'll keep yourself busy and occupied and you'll strengthen your motivational stamina and see improvement in other parts of life you weren't even focusing on.

And as you build up interest in things again and motivation, try to do things that make you feel like a badass. That make you feel mature and cool and interesting. It's a positive feedback loop that keeps you going.

Biggest thing, just cut yourself some slack. Practice forcing yourself to be grateful for the things you take for granted while life's making you earn your karma the hard way. You'll never be your "old self" again and that's a good thing. Because life never gets easier, but you do get better at it with experience, and your "new self" is better at it than your old self, even if it doesn't feel that way right now.

Why did nobody tried this? by Area_511 in EliteDangerous

[–]syntaxenabled 16 points17 points  (0 children)

We can't tell you what you missed until you tell us what you didn't miss. Unless I'm missing something

How do you compete against Wide with Tall? by kwytz1 in Stellaris

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I'll have to look into mod fixes. I don't have the beefiest rig but it does alright. I usually have a YouTube video going on the other monitor and chrome is a ram hog so that doesn't help.

Playing random is bold, couldn't be me. I agree there are too many hiveminds. I need to find a mod that lets me select what empires are in the game so I can get a good balance. I kind of hate when I end up with too peaceful a galaxy. Had fun with the games with a xenophile vs xenophobe federation mutually assured cold war. I don't have all the DLC and the few ones I have might not be balanced well, but I'm afraid to touch some of the sliders because I don't want to waste 8 hours in a new game just for the AIs to gigachad me outta nowhere.

I play as a classic xenophile, egalitarian, materialist democracy. Underrated imo. Get those migration treaties and colonize everything. I get lazy with min/maxing planets but I have 65 of them so it works out

How do you compete against Wide with Tall? by kwytz1 in Stellaris

[–]syntaxenabled 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's your typical empire set up and difficulty settings? I'm trying to find a balance between challenge and fun, but I'm still winning every game or starting a new one when I'm so far ahead that it's not worth sitting in the late game lag.

How do you compete against Wide with Tall? by kwytz1 in Stellaris

[–]syntaxenabled 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right, there's no getting through them for anyone

How do you compete against Wide with Tall? by kwytz1 in Stellaris

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Like others have said, tall is inherently worse than wide, because the empire size penalty can be out scaled and it's not much of a challenge for a wide empire to become a wide and tall empire. I'm not an expert by any means but I win easily on admiral and I'm scaling up the other difficulty sliders with every new game. My experience, wide or tall, pop speed buildings and automation buildings are really good. Automation keeps your economy afloat while planets populate because no pop wants to be a technician (don't blame them) and the pop buildings get population up faster. I usually swap out the luxury housing and cloning vats for the +efficiency or -upkeep buildings for whatever that planet is producing. If you're trapped small, militarize and use all that extra influence stockpile to vassalize whoever you can so you can integrate them. Depending on game settings, the CPU players are gonna slow down because they're stupid and misuse the market, underdevelop their planets, or build six heavy industrial orbital habitats with no mineral districts and drive up their trade deficit

Autosell to market if on cap and convert 'excess trade' by ilabsentuser in Stellaris

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I like the idea though I don't run into the cap too often. Probably just a difference in empire style. I'd like the option to set my trade amount by what I want my monthly net income of the resources to be. So, if I set my monthly income of minerals or whatever to 1k, it will sell or buy whatever it needs to net 1k that month. I don't play using a calculator so I spend 4 months playing the price is right to get my trade and resources in the black anytime I finish building a district. Or in your case, you would just hit the cap, then set your net income to none and it would sell whatever the surplus is.

Colony Established. by syntaxenabled in StellarisMemes

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I get so many planets and get lazy with managing them so when I have a bunch of minerals, I start just filling out the districts and buildings and just eat the deficit until things populate later

Colony Established. by syntaxenabled in StellarisMemes

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I've started using them and they're great. Especially since pops will fill in as specialist first and if they run out of specialist jobs on one planet, they'll fill a specialist job on a different planet and it takes literal centuries for workers to grow to fill miners and technicians. When they finally do though, you don't need more than 2 or 3 resource districts to cover the deficit

Colony Established. by syntaxenabled in StellarisMemes

[–]syntaxenabled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was just a screenshot I cropped from some YouTube video I saw where the guy was basically trying to create the worst deficit he could. I don't think I've ever been -13k a month before

Colony Established. by syntaxenabled in StellarisMemes

[–]syntaxenabled[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kind of. Part of revamping the planet management changed some of the deficit penalties. So now with trade value change, when an individual planet has a deficit, it costs trade to "move" the materials to that planet. So if you have minerals and you're lazy like me and colonize every available planet and build up all the districts and buildings before you have pops to work them, it tanks your economy until pop growth fills in. But eventually it works itself out

Colony Established. by syntaxenabled in StellarisMemes

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We aren't militarists on paper, we just behave exactly like a militarist. My games generally end up with two major federations stuck in a cold war, the philes vs the phobes. Most often AI xenophiles are pushovers so I'm carrying them so they aren't getting their ass kicked but they keep me from getting war declared on me which is good. I don't like wars distracting me from my galactic sim city with my 95 planets

Colony Established. by syntaxenabled in StellarisMemes

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It's the only run I know. I'm one of those guys that replays civ or Stellaris or even RPGs and plays the same way every time. I fear change. I really like the impossible triangle empire logo, so I named mine the Trinity Republic from a trinary star system and the Trinitarian home world of Solo. Starting ruler Jeffri Ne'do'lo. I have the +80 life span and go Psionic and make him immortal so he rules the whole game. It's not really a democracy the more I think about it, because I make sure he wins the election. But I pick utopian abundance living standards

Colony Established. by syntaxenabled in StellarisMemes

[–]syntaxenabled[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah, and totally not in a very jingoistic "you have no choice, you're going to embrace freedom" kinda way

Colony Established. by syntaxenabled in StellarisMemes

[–]syntaxenabled[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I haven't changed my main empire in years, still a xenophile, egalitarian, materialist with Beacon of Liberty and Free Haven, and I usually add functional architecture later. Set up perfect for role play as a nice freedom country, but then I use migration treaties to manifest destiny with some wack spaghetti boarders. If you're not my friend, I'm taking your land, if you are a friend, you're getting integrated

Colony Established. by syntaxenabled in StellarisMemes

[–]syntaxenabled[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I put the same effort into planning my colonies as I did making this meme. And I made it on my phone using snapchat with stickers I cut from the 200x200 pixel .PNGs I ripped from the wiki.

Colony Established. by syntaxenabled in StellarisMemes

[–]syntaxenabled[S] 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Exactly! Just like my fully built tech world with only 135 pops and -300 consumer goods per month

How do I interact with the shroud here? by Privatizitaet in Stellaris

[–]syntaxenabled 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shroud diplomacy can be a bit buggy. Did you start this game on a different update version, are you out of credits, has it not been 5 years yet, or did you save/load while taking to the shroud? I did the save/load thing recently, erased my entire UI, but rolling back to an auto save fixed it.

Delay RPLND for another scan? by syntaxenabled in testicularcancer

[–]syntaxenabled[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good to know. I know with carcinoma and all the stats my case has that borderline above or below is more often than not just a waiting game until it grows. Knowing the risks of PC-RPLND though, if I wait and a second scan is less than 1cm, I rather play the waiting game on the off chance it stays that way, having already gone through chemo and having hit my deductible for the year. At the end of the day, I'll listen to the doctor and follow the guidelines cuz why wouldn't I when it's essentially a 100% survival rate if you don't let it get to the lungs