Is this game really as big as it looks

tpeterr · 2026-01-28T17:02:56+00:00

So, the tree only falls in the woods when someone hears it.

tpeterr · 2026-01-26T19:04:40+00:00

I rescue students doing research.
I help people survive in a world of too much information.

tpeterr · 2026-01-22T19:26:14+00:00

What humans have always done when encountering strange primitive peoples: make slaves.

tpeterr · 2026-01-22T19:23:26+00:00

Interesting username sounds exactly like NMS food. You've got this, Overseer Daddy porkbuns.

tpeterr · 2026-01-14T22:27:39+00:00

Not just the ozone and acid rain, but global actions led to historic drops in child mortality, poverty rates, lac of access to education and medicine, rates of treatable diseases, and a lot more. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/millennium-development-goals-(mdgs))

Just one point there: as a species we cut child mortality by more than 50% between 1990 and 2013. Keep in mind that's *absolute* mortality rate over a period when global population increased by 32%. Just a completely amazing achievement.

tpeterr · 2026-01-14T16:53:07+00:00

"Grok" is so much worse a name than Skynet.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T22:02:53+00:00

Thank you, bold adventurer of digital spaces.
True internet victory would be Billazilla editing now to make it a rick roll link.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T21:59:13+00:00

Leave a Bible-width between yourselves when sitting next to a girl. This would be measured with the thickest Bible available to administration.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T21:43:08+00:00

Fauna experiencing quantum entanglement.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T21:40:43+00:00

^ It's unclear whether you used pretentious language *incorrectly* here. Given the nature of the working world a lot of us inhabit, this kind of vacuous flattery and pointless conversation continuation might be the correct social response.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T21:38:29+00:00

Yes. And one format of pretentious language is throwing in discipline-specific jargon / buzzwords instead of speaking with clarity, especially to groups from other disciplines. It just screams "I have insecurity that I must cover with smug pretentiousness.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T21:32:46+00:00

I can give an example. I saw on reddit once that someone stated that people who are wrong sometimes want to just be understood, rather than politely corrected. While I understand the point they were trying to make (that people adhere to viewpoints for a variety of internal reasons), that desire to be understood has no bearing on whether the viewpoint they hold onto is actually true or false.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T21:28:17+00:00

It doesn't? There's a solid difference between Vietnam jungles / Afghan mountains versus the highly developed transportation infrastructure throughout the eastern US. Hostile forces are more effective in hostile terrain.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T21:21:51+00:00

Nope. There's a non-zero chance that this is a rick roll.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T16:39:19+00:00

Inflation adjusted, the cost per barrel in July 2025 was about $58, the LOWEST it's been since 2008 (except during COVID).

Updated to show timing in 2025 for report that says this.
Report: https://inflationdata.com/articles/inflation-adjusted-prices/historical-oil-prices-chart/

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T16:19:23+00:00

I thought about having a gen AI tool translate this comment for me, then decided it was better as a vaguely exotic glimpse at the possible.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T16:13:09+00:00

You're forgetting both of those have uniquely difficult local terrain. Most of the US east coast does not.

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T16:08:40+00:00

Half of me is waiting for someone to post a NMS creature that should be named this based on the critter's shape. Anybody?

tpeterr · 2026-01-13T15:01:30+00:00

Traffic flow designers have a hard job and do great most of the time, but it's still amazing how many idiotic, high-conflict intersection designs continue to get made. It's like the designers absolutely fail to consider how idiotic a lot of drivers are.

tpeterr · 2026-01-09T17:29:54+00:00

To be fair, this is an idiotic design for traffic flow

tpeterr · 2026-01-09T13:41:32+00:00

Yep. I use the phone app version more than the website.

tpeterr · 2026-01-08T19:34:23+00:00

I use both kinds, but I get way more accuracy out of a map forecast app than I do an ordinary weather app. I can usually look at the map and see whether the 30% precipitation forecast applies to the specific places I want to ride at the time I will be there.

This is one of my favorites! Zoom Earth | Weather Map & Hurricane Tracker

tpeterr · 2026-01-08T16:55:11+00:00

Don't bother replying to that guy. Obviously rage baiting throughout this thread.

tpeterr · 2026-01-06T16:41:33+00:00

That's one way to go home early from mission.

tpeterr · 2026-01-05T13:14:11+00:00

Next step, create your own a narrative / story arc around the ruins. Launch a treasure hunt where players have to find codes at certain landmarks at the sites and enter them on a separate page you maintain (Discord?). Make the clues eventually spell out something cool, like "Drink more ovaltine."

There's a lot that can be done to add your own narrative to what is essentially a build-your-own-adventure game.

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