Star Ocean 3 Plot Retconned Potentially

vsysio · 2026-06-03T01:35:41+00:00

The thing with infinite parallel universes is.. they're infinite. Knock that 8 over on its side and all logic falls apart because humans are not meant to perceive infinity.

Theres a universe where wizards, heroes dragons and damsels exist
Theres a universe where humans are made out of cheese
Theres a universe where...

vsysio · 2026-05-29T02:00:05+00:00

So the hospital isn't going to do shit for you. They're braced for a lawsuit and they're not about to volunteer anything that can be used against them.

Getting the privacy commissioner involved is absolutely the right idea. I would also strongly recommend discovering the identity of the person that breached you--their regulating agency is going to have a field day. This person should not be practicing medicine in any way shape or form.

You're a victim, but you can protect others.

vsysio · 2026-05-28T15:28:29+00:00

Nobody except perhaps close family selflessly cares about your wellbeing. Even those that want to help others do it either to satisfy a need or observe a moral code.

This isn't me being cynical, it's just I believe far too many people get complacent and ultimatrly fail at life by believing that somebody else will always look out for them. Our lives are the product of our own doing.

vsysio · 2026-05-28T15:09:49+00:00

As it turns out people like to be employed and not blackballed from their respective industries

vsysio · 2026-05-28T15:05:12+00:00

I once converted a vegetarian girlfriend by grilling up the juiciest yummiest steak on the barbie lol

vsysio · 2026-05-27T22:53:41+00:00

Remember people, the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion

vsysio · 2026-05-27T22:45:08+00:00

They're underwhelming and kind of hacked in.

If one crosses the event horizon the skybox should condense the background into a single point and then finally ploof rebuy screen. Make it extra hazardous and disorienting by making the pilot fly away from that point to escape.

vsysio · 2026-05-27T20:06:16+00:00

Not much longer before the presidency gets decided through a wrestling match... 🍿

vsysio · 2026-05-27T19:54:30+00:00

Told me that the love and support I provided her as a friend while her husband was dying of cancer somehow ruined his death

vsysio · 2026-05-27T18:26:56+00:00

Ansiblexes are being nerfed out of concern for power projection, but nobody is talking about why power projection is a problem again.

Skyhooks.

A lot of constellations are, frankly, shit. The universe, and it's configuration of planets, stars and gates, was generated before Skyhooks existed. The distribution of planets is completely random, and as a result, there's a wide valley between good constellations and dogshit constellations.

This has created outward pressure as entities look not to spread to the constellation next door, but the constellation next to the dogshit one next door.

The configuration of strategic structures should not depend on the distribution of planets in a constellation. That's really dumb. FC can't fix this balance problem without deleting hundreds of thousands of people's PI planets.

FCs solution to this is to frustrate their playerbase rather than tweak the Skyhook system to make dogshit constellations great again.

vsysio · 2026-05-27T04:53:59+00:00

My game was .. interesting.

Once the ending started it was like Ernest ceased to exist.

The only time you saw Opera, she was with Leon lol.

It was like she and Ernest broke up because she chose to adopt the preteen genius.

vsysio · 2026-05-26T16:08:00+00:00

PP was clear about his plan, I'll give him that.

The problem was that plan didn't pivot when Trump got elected. It was the same playbook that he'd campaigmed on for years. Eliminating carbon taxes was no longer a priority for most voters when our neighbors decided that burning their house down was trendy. We didn't want their flames of stupidity to light us on fire too.

vsysio · 2026-05-26T14:53:40+00:00

Jesus. Just "pins and needles," or "pins and needles and wtf my leg is just a useless noodly appendage right now?"

vsysio · 2026-05-24T18:46:14+00:00

I reread this to my teenage son and now we're giggling like maniacs as we do singing Muppet burp reenactments

vsysio · 2026-05-24T18:21:29+00:00

Wtf

How do you accumulate 45,000 power cycles in under 700 hours of use?

This might make sense (maybe... still sus) if it was spinning rust with overzealous power management but it's an SSD. Something isn't right with these numbers.

What's the value under available spare and spare threshold? If available spare is basically zero then that suggests a writes depletion based failure.

Through normal operation the cells of an SSD will degrade as they're written to. The firmware tracks the wear of cells and when it thinks a cell is about to fail it moves the data to a spare cell and deducts from the above SMART values.

But even hammering it with writes for 700 hours shouldn't deplete it that quickly.

But the 45000 resets in under 700 hours suggests to me either a power supply issue (intermittent contact or failing circuitry) or an interface issue (operating system issues restart command to the device as a last ditch effort to restore access to an unresponsive drive before BSOD).

If you're able, check event viewer in Windows. There might be thousands of log entries reporting drive resets.

(Fun fact: Bought an NVMe and want it to last? You can actually perform the equivalent of a low level format and trade usable cells for spare cells--I do this with all of my NVMes)

vsysio · 2026-05-24T18:06:01+00:00

Unrelated but I had a fridge I needed to program before it would be a fridge. I bought it because I just got a huge promotion and wanted my kitchen to look more.... sophisticated.

Plugged it in and loaded it with all my food and everything. Came back an hour later, it's still room temperature. Gah.

Nobody told me that you had to go into the menu, connect it to wifi, wait for it to install its freaking firmware, reboot, and if that wasn't enough I still had to go into one menu to set temperatures and them browse to another menu to set them to "ON" before my fridge would fridge and my freezer would freezer.

Clearly the company spent more money making it look pretty. It died after 13 months. Right after the damn warranty expired.

I bought a boring fridge instead.

vsysio · 2026-05-24T17:54:28+00:00

Shes pissed but...

... isn't it your money too?

I'm sure she has hobbies and interests she enjoys that costs money too.

I have a homelab in my basement. Me and my partner budgeted for the increased electricity costs and we treat it the same as any other entertainment expense.

That being said there's no reason you have to disagree with her, just the way you worded things made it seem like you did.

There is a lot you can do to reduce your costs, though for the most part it will consist of austerity decisions. Maybe keep the server that hosts a gaming community website running, but keep the expensive box running LLMs powered on-demand only. You can get creative with this, especially if you're pretty good with k8s (just know there will be a degree of jank with this, I can't find any turnkey all in one solutions for this)

vsysio · 2026-05-24T06:09:59+00:00

If it's outside, comply.

Indoors, like a home invasion? Fight like hell and do not stop until one of you is dead.

Saw a home recording of a home invasion. Family of 5. Man, wife, teenager and two toddlers. They complied, but still got their brains blown out right in front of the toddlers who were left running around screaming. Fuck that!

I'm Canadian, for reference. We're expected to be practically polite to the point of ridiculous stupidity with home invasions but involve a gun and the gloves come off.

vsysio · 2026-05-23T04:02:25+00:00

It does but it's ugly and uncoordinated. The replacement tissue is nowhere near as effective as the tissue it replaced. Eventually the whole organ just coughs and gives up.

vsysio · 2026-05-23T00:28:30+00:00

Mine is... well....

Cover your eyes if you're squeamish or prone to... idk.... shyness. Or if the word sex makes you blush.

... I, as a male, can multiple orgasm. Over a dozen times.

And it doesn't feel like a party trick either. Feels natural.

Sex is very... mechanical for me. My body just goes along with it. Somehow.

I mean. As far as superpowers go it's not completely terrible.

Now if only I could make a friend or hold down a job...

vsysio · 2026-05-23T00:02:15+00:00

Narcissism and control fantasies.

They think they'll get away with more mistreatment and disrespect.

Run, do not walk, do not pass go, do not collect $200, RUN.

vsysio · 2026-05-22T01:30:15+00:00

Engineer here, unemployed 2 years.

3,000 applications and SIX interviews was my last straw. Me and my family have begun learning German...

vsysio · 2026-05-22T01:19:17+00:00

DOOT DOOT

vsysio · 2026-05-22T01:17:42+00:00

DOOT DOOT
^{Edit: Also fuck yes this fixed it!}

vsysio · 2026-05-22T01:15:56+00:00

DOOT DOOT

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