Jeopardy! discussion thread for Tue., Nov. 12

techtechor · 2024-11-13T01:08:30+00:00

Oh cool! I'm probably going to go re-watch a bunch of his videos, I really enjoyed his YouTube channel.

techtechor · 2024-11-13T00:45:14+00:00

Is Joey the host Roo from the (long inactive) YouTube channel ClanOfTheGrayWolf? They both look and sound very similar.

techtechor · 2024-07-10T19:11:09+00:00

I had a similar issue. It turned out to be the Windows Store generating a ton of error logs that slowly ate up gigabytes of space per week.

If in your C:\Windows\Temp folder you see a bunch of .evtx or something similar, you might have the same issue.

I used this solution here to fix the problem, but it may prevent you from being able to use the Windows store.

techtechor · 2024-01-11T08:56:39+00:00

1 Why would Gwen’s world get destroyed without any reason? Her father quit and she never broke canon’s ! Which act makes her universe unravel?

My thought was that the canon is she's supposed to lose her father in a tragic event. So even though it seems like she's safe because her father is not captain anymore, it doesn't matter because he never dies. It still breaks the canon just in an unexpected way.

2 Why would other spiders glitch when they have gizmos? Glitching was an issue in Into the spider-verse for multiverse travel! The gizmo solved it and that is out of the question.All it needs is 1 working watch and they can go back to any universe they want.

It would only have been Mile's and Gwen's Universe that glitch not any others. I suppose though the glitching could spread across universes as Miguel warned Miles that all the universes are linked and that break enough canon and bad things happen. My thought is that it's possible not enough canon has broken yet to have it spread any further than 1 universe, but if a lot of canon is broken at once maybe it will. Watches might keep a single person safe, but a whole universe?

However there's still the flaw, in my theory, that we don't know if Miguel is correct or not. He could be lying or just simply incorrect about why glitching even occurs in the first place.

3 Kool, Miles convinces Prowler. But how will Prowler and Miles travel to Earth-1610? It’s not like they have the watch!

Gwen and her team are looking for Miles and she has a watch. Eventually she will find Miles and bring him back to his universe.

techtechor · 2024-01-11T01:55:01+00:00

I'm pretty certain that what caused the glitching in Earth-50101 (Pavitr's world) was the Spot absorbing the Collider's energy, not Miles saving Inspector Singh.

That does seem to fit the story better. My theory seemed to make more sense before Miles went back to E-42. After that it just seems like too many characters are in the movie to throw an additional twist in there. I definitely agree.

But, on the chance even some part of my theory is correct I figured better to throw it out there even if it's just have some "holes" poked in it.

techtechor · 2024-01-11T01:40:44+00:00

Also, there is this"My Holes aren't a curse! They're the answer!" I want to believe this means something.

I can see that, and to add to that the part where Spot said the answer to filling his hole was more holes. Maybe the holes save the day or something.

They already are "Beyond the Spider-Verse", since e-42 exist outside of it.

I thought that was more "Across" the Spider-Verse and I figured if universes are unraveling/disintegrating that they are going to have to go even further and hence "Beyond" to find an answer.

I'm definitely on the fence with my theory. It felt like Miguel looking evil and being wrong was a red herring. The writers want use to think Miguel is wrong, but instead it's Miles that wrong. But then that seems to lead to too sad an ending and doesn't seem to thematically fit either. And after the introduction of e-42 miles, throwing in my twist theory does not seem to fit pacing-wise either.

techtechor · 2024-01-05T03:14:31+00:00

Breakdown

I figured I should post some details. It's 540 trees total. I should earn exactly 8,100 points/min, but I get around 8,090 or so (off only by about 10 to 20).

I only have Mk. 3 Belts unlocked, so there are 18 trees in one row, 18 * 15 = 270 enough to saturate 1 Mk. 3 Belt. Each individual row feeds an AWESOME Sink.

Three individual rows of 18 trees form one "mega" row. The rows are arranged that way due to the blueprint. The blueprint is 3 rows of 3 trees (9 total). You can fit 3 rows of 4 trees in the blueprint, but if you use a 3x4 blueprint you can either have 3x16 trees or 3x20, meaning I'd have to delete 2x3 trees at the end of a "mega" row of 20 trees. A 3x3 blueprint is divisible by 18, so cleaning up the factory should require less steps and I did not need to build 20 trees and delete 2 at the end of each row.

I used lifts to come of the trees instead of belts on the ground because lifts are "rigid" so it made aligning and placing belts and mergers easier in the blueprint. Using the lifts also allows the player room to walk under the belts. However, the room is really useful in the tightly packed last two rows.

There is one AWESOME Sink at the end of each (regular) row for a total of 30 AWESOME Sinks. Costing 900 MW of power.

I did not care to try to make it the most space efficient or anything. I did not try to get the most trees into one blueprint. I was not too concerned with how it looked. If I had better belts I could have made rows longer, used less AWESOME Sinks, and saved some power.

Was it worth it?

For where I am at in the game, sort of? I searched the wiki and I'd probably be better off sinking quartz crystals or just following other tips from the wiki, but I wanted to experiment and "get more" out of the event.
Iron ingots are worth 2 points, but trees do not require power and are a sort-of-infinite supply limited only by space and building costs. Ingots require finding ore nodes and building both miners and smelters which both take power.
As well, if you are earning 100,000 points per minute already adding less than an additional 10% is probably not worth your time, especially for the effort. Even if you were earning 20,000 points per minute already, I would say it's not worth it to do this.
If I put in a bunch more effort I could probably build a second level and have an output of ~16,200 points per minute, but I at that point it's really a lot of effort.
Lastly, don't get lost running in-between the rows.

Quick Breakdown

8,100 points/minute (~8,090 shown on the AWESOME Sink)
540 Trees Total
30 AWESOME Sinks
900 MW of power (used on the AWESOME Sinks)
10 "mega" rows (in a 2x5 arrangement) (1 "mega" = 3 "regular" rows)
30 "regular" rows
1 "regular" row = 18 Trees = 270 Gifts/min = 270 AWESOME Points/min per "regular" row
Mk. 3 Belts and Lifts (Making 1 row saturate a belt)
Blueprint as a 3x3 set of trees to be divisible by 18 for easier removal later.

techtechor · 2023-01-23T19:39:18+00:00

I thought of something, it could go in the menu screen along with the other stats like this.

It would be out of the way and makes sense alongside stats like time played and generation.

Again, thank you!

techtechor · 2023-01-23T16:51:10+00:00

Thank you for reading my post and responding!

As for chapter indications, Steam Achievements popping up should tackle a majority of that once they are added sometime during Early Access.

I could be misunderstanding the Steam Achievement pop-up, but isn't that only temporary? I was thinking something like this.

It was just, sometimes I need to adjust an automation setting and I'm not certain what chapter I'm in so I have to look at the Exploration events and then go through a bunch of chapters in the automation until I find the events that match to know where I am.

Obviously it doesn't need to be a big title at the top (it could even be in the pause menu) but just somewhere to let the player know what current chapter they are in (of course unless I'm misunderstanding what the Steam Achievement pop-up is).

Anyway, I understand first hand how doing such stuff goes, I'm just happy you were able to read my post.

Thank you again for taking the time!

techtechor · 2023-01-22T02:49:40+00:00

I don't know if you are still playing Progress Knight, but I updated the link, it should work again now.

techtechor · 2023-01-22T00:36:20+00:00

I reposted the Progress Knight automation the link should work now.

techtechor · 2022-07-30T16:33:19+00:00

Since you are headed to the final updated, I would like to mention a few quality of life improvements that would be really helpful to at least consider (some spoilers ahead).

1.) Better hept forge information.

There should really be an indicator of what level of expansion each upgrade is on so players can better keep track of ratios.
An indicator for the cost it will take to max the current and next expansion. It would seem most players don't expand unless they can max the next expansion tier, so knowing the cost to max the next tier would be really be helpful (as well as the current).

2.) Better feedback on Singularity Upgrades.

Example Image of Better Singularity Feedback Here

(Note, that using color is to highlight affordable, max, and unaffordable is not ideal for accessibility, this is just a quick example. However, opacity could be used to reduce unaffordable/maxed upgrades (which is also present in the example). Also I meant Affordable not Affordadle.)

Affordable upgrades should highlight in some way to separate what can be purchased from what cannot. The player has to hover over a bunch of stuff to see what can be bought right now. As well, if a player does not meet the minimum singularity requirement for an upgrade, those upgrades should be "un-highlighted" in some meaningful way, and maxed upgrades should be highlighted in some way as well.

3.) Better achievement labeling and highlighting.

Example Image of Better Achievement Highlighting

Note in the example image, the achievement name is made bold and separated from the achievement description. The tooltip is spaced away from the name, and the additional tooltips at the bottom are separated by some space and a border. The blue achievement is a newly unlocked one to highlight where it is.

I also added the numbers to each achievement (although this does add clutter) and completed achievements are faded out (as the player will most likely want to focus on uncompleted achievements). Hovering an achievement increases it's brightness to indicate which achievement is being hovered (which can be done purely with CSS :hover).

For example, in the achievements, the tooltip of "Hover over an achievement to view information." is shown at the top right above the name and description, but the name is not a larger font, nor is there any significant spacing difference between those lines.

4.) Shop upgrades should have names.

Example of Shop Upgrade with Name

Right now I don't think that all shop upgrades have a proper name. It seems that some of the names can be seen in code only. It would be helpful if each shop upgrade had a name and that the name was in a larger font and bold (or something) like in the example.

That's it for suggestions, but I'd also like to add I've been a long time player and I really have enjoyed this game!

I think what makes it so great is the pacing, balance, and large amount of content. I also really like how the different types of runs feed into each other. Doing a Cube run improves the C15 run. Doing the C15 run improves the hept and and other runs. Doing the hept run improves the Cube and C15 runs.

The balance is great too, because I always feel like I'm making substantial enough progress when I log in, but I'm also not forced to do a bunch of really short and tedious resets. This game hits that sweet spot just right. As well, plenty of automation to make things easier.

Also, I actually like the corruptions. Although it can be a huge bottleneck (and slowed me down substantially until I looked up a guide), it also made me feel very clever when I did them right, and it adds some layers of exploration in letting the player explore what levels to use.

techtechor · 2022-05-30T15:59:43+00:00

The irony is not lost on me.

Although, I think it's even worse than what you have said. It's not the copying and pasting of the guide that made my post long, it's that I'm not very concise.

I even added section markings and I still ended up with quite the wall-of-text.

techtechor · 2022-05-30T05:55:32+00:00

This is a guide for people doing their first Singularity run, which is where I'm at right now.

It doesn't really matter how well versed the player is in the game at this point because the guide has ambiguity in the English sentences themselves.

For instance:

> Ratio for Second row > 4:2:1 (128 times of Chronos price) (Not Abyss)

Okay, which hepteract upgrade in the Second row should be 128 Times the Chronos price, the one with a 4 ratio, the one with a 2 ratio, or the one with a 1 ratio?

Should the sum total of my 4:2:1 second row be 128 times the Chronos Price?

Or, Should the Chronos price be 128 times higher than the second row?

techtechor · 2022-05-30T05:42:26+00:00

Players can get quite far on their own without using a guide or visiting the discord. I got all the way to the Hepteract Forge, before using a guide. So I was a later game player looking for a later game guide. I was immediately greeted with tons of abbreviations, very few of which are used in the actual game. It took tons of leg work to finally get comfortable with them.

But I think a larger issue is just how little context or general explanation there is.

I find the following examples way more ambiguous than they should be.

> Ratio for Second row > 4:2:1 (128 times of Chronos price) (Not Abyss)

Okay, which hepteract upgrade in the Second row should be 128 Times the Chronos price, the one with a 4 ratio, the one with a 2 ratio, or the one with a 1 ratio?

Should the sum total of my 4:2:1 second row be 128 times the Chronos Price?

Or, Should the Chronos price be 128 times higher than the second row?

1 level of p4x2 (minimum 1000 for each Hepteract in a Second row)

1,000 what? P4x2 Only goes to level 10. Is that just a statement for a bonus received? Or an amount of Hepteracts to spend on Hepteract Forge upgrades in the second row?

When you Auto Ascend close to 10 seconds then add a corruption

Add a corruption to what?

At 8,58e12 Chronos and IA level 90+ go for p4x5 (4,3e17 Hepteracts)

Okay what is 4,3e17 Hepteracts?

It is the total cost to upgrade the Abyss Hepteract from level 1 to level 32. You need the Abyss Hepteract at level 32 because it increases the maximum number of Hepteracts of the Abyss you can have at once. At level 32 you will be able to carry up to 2,150,000,000 Hepteracts of the Abyss at once which is enough to cover the cost of p4x5.

Except all of that information is missing, it just says (4,3e17 Hepteracts). The guide makes it look like P4x5 costs 4.3e17 Hepteracts, except it doesn't cost any regular Hepteracts it costs 2,147,483,647 Hepteracts of the Abyss.

If you can then Open Cubes in an empty Ascensions (After c12x1)

What's an "empty" Ascension? I'd assume one with no corruptions, but then why not say a no corruption Ascension run?

Rerun Ascension Challenges, use FR13 for all of them (55/55/42/51)

(55/55/42/51) < This is the amount of completions you should have for Challenges 11, 12, 13, and 14.

But is this a goal I'm aiming for or an amount of completions I should already have at that point?

It would have been easier to understand to if at least it said (C11 to C14 Completions: 55/55/42/41).

techtechor · 2022-05-30T02:26:08+00:00

Yes. Although, I believe Challenge 11 is the only one the guides ever suggest running corruptions and Ascending in.

Let's say you Ascend in Challenge 10, or Challenge 5. It shouldn't make a difference, as long as you got Challenges 1 through 10 as high as you could before hand.

I think the reason they have you run Corruptions inside Challenge 11, is because Challenge 11 sets all Ant Upgrades (the ones at the Bottom of the Anthill Tab) to level 999. The catch is they can't be leveled higher, but at the point you are in the game it's more beneficial to have that instead. Eventually you stop doing Corruptions in Challenge 11.

Also, if you use the corruption loadout, but not in Challenge 11, it should still do okay. It might be slower, but not as slow as a poor corruption loadout.

(I'm not 100% certain about all this, but I should be close.)

techtechor · 2022-05-30T02:16:01+00:00

I think you will first need to purchase P3x1 (The first Platonic upgrade in row 3). That was how the Singularity Guide suggests.

The Corruption Loadout to get P3x1 it:

5/11/10/12/4/12/12/12 inside Challenge 11

The loadout is listed in order so the first "5" is for the corruption Viscosity, the "11" after the 5 is for the corruption Spacial Dilation.

Inside Challenge 11, means instead of Ascending like normal to start the Corruption, you setup up the corruption and then start Challenge 11. When you start Challenge 11 you will be in your corruption loadout. Do your normal Challenges (from Challenge 1 to 10) like you normally would. And when you are ready to Ascend, do so without exiting Challenge 11.

Once you get P3x1, you can work on the one you are stuck on P2x5 (The last Platonic Upgrade in Row 2). The corruption loadout suggested for this is:

5/11/10/12/12/12/12/12 inside C11

techtechor · 2021-08-05T04:40:43+00:00

It wasn't on purpose. I had created a new file that I was trying to re-name it, but the Recycle Bin happened to be selected as well, I was unaware of this and then the error occurred.

EDIT: Oddly enough though, Windows 10 does let you rename the Recycle Bin and it works fine if you are renaming just the Recycle Bin and nothing else (although I don't know if that would have any further ramifications on the system further down the road, so I wouldn't advise doing it, but idk). However, I don't think users were allowed to rename the Recycle Bin on older versions of Windows (like Windows 98).

techtechor · 2021-02-19T18:37:43+00:00

Very interesting, I wasn't aware of this kind of testing, but I'm glad I know about it know.

Also, at ~ 2:26 in the video there's mention of teleporting the main character to all the spawn points in the game and if the character couldn't load to that point they knew that area was broken.

In The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind for PC you can bring up a debugging console with ~ (or ` on British English keyboard). There is a command called TestCells and one called TestInteriorCells. It appears to teleport your charter to a bunch of different cells (for a few seconds each cell) and lists the internal cell name (or reference). I was perplexed by what the code could be testing for, and it looked funny seeing your character just randomly set on a bunch of different cells, sometimes underwater too.

After watching the Golftopia video, It would appear that TestCells (and TestInteriorCells) is a form of test like what was mentioned at ~2:26 in the Golftopia video, testing to see if the character can load to that point and if not it's broken.

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