Random Dent

I really liked the first game, hoping this one doesn’t take forever to come to Steam.

Satisfactory has me fully in it’s grasp right now lol. Current project is a giant vacuum tube to take me back and forth to where the coal miners are, because the steel ingot supply has become erratic.

My cat will lock in on that stuff if you do it just once! I have to be really careful not to feed her early even if she’s being a pain about it, because if she gets fed ten minutes early once, that’s the new time forever lol.

One time she was being bonkers at 5am so I gave her some treats to keep the peace, it took about 2 weeks to get her out of the “I get treats at 5am every day now” mode.

My most hated thing is when I have a computer problem, I search for it, I find a thread from someone with the exact same problem as me, and it ends with them saying “nm I fixed it.”

TELL ME WHAT YOU DID

As a Gen X person, this is kind of my response to any sort of right-wing nonsense now. Especially that thing where you say something that’s obviously true and they ask what your source is for that so they can nit-pick it and exhaust you with irrelevant bickering until you give up.

“Society seems to be degenerating into fascism again”

“oH yEaH wHaT iS uR sOuRcE”

“Outside.”

Or I’ll just be like “no” if I even bother responding at all. You’re probably just arguing with a bot to drive up engagement that benefits some rich dickhead somehow anyway. 100% not worth it IMO.

Not American, but I totally didn’t see someone shoplifting a couple of weeks ago and I just carried on with my business, but on the way out I heard another customer grassing them out. What is the world coming to?

You know what you hardly ever see - billionaires telling on each other for their crimes for no reason. Solidarity, people!

Yeah you don’t have to go full prepper but some of it just comes under common sense emergency stuff I think. Like where we live we have a reasonably sized garden so we grow stuff to eat, and have a big rain barrel to collect water. Normally that’s just used to water the plants but you could presumably boil it up and make it potable if you really needed to. Between that and just having a reasonable amount of dry food in the pantry it’s probably enough to see us through for at least a week or two if anything serious happened.

Yeah we’re kind of remote and we once went for I think 9 days without power after a big weather event. Having a radio and a little gas camping stove were lifesavers. Also get lots of candles and books, one of my main memories of that time is how boring it was lol.

Next thing I want to do is get solar-ed up so we can just flip that on for an hour or two if needed. The previous power cut was years ago when a solar setup wasn’t really feasible.

I like filen too. I don’t know if they still do it but you used to be able to buy lifetime plans and stack them, so I picked up 300Gb of storage without a recurring subscription by just buying a plan every time there was a sale/Black Friday thing.

You can also offline the whole of Project Gutenberg with Kiwix, it’s about 70GB IIRC.

I just don’t see the point of them when there are flatpaks. I’m not super knowledgeable on Snaps so maybe there’s some huge benefit I don’t know about, but they always just seemed like a worse version of flatpak to me.

As an old-timey Linux user, I eventually stopped using Ubuntu because they have a habit of kind of fixating on whatever they think is the new cool thing, and going all-in on it while other important things stagnate, then they get it to the point where it’s almost really good, then ditch it and go chasing after the next shiny thing.

Off the top of my head there was the Unity desktop, Mir, This thing where they wanted an OS that would run on both desktops and phones interchangeably, and now it’s Snaps. I don’t think Ubuntu is a bad distro, but I also don’t think it’s the best distro for newcomers necessarily because of it’s habit of suddenly lurching off in a new direction every few years. But that’s just me of course, if it works for you then go for it!

Yeah I’m doing a playthrough on that right now. Only got as far as coal power but I’m really enjoying it.

I clicked on it out of curiosity and it just went to a page saying it was invite only and then asked for my email so I just closed the tab lol.

I need to use it to look stuff up once in a while, but I try to avoid it whenever possible because of the ridiculous amount of fucking about it takes just to make that site usable. It used to need reddit enhancement suite, then they brought in the new reddit so then it was RES and a thing to force it to use old reddit, now they’re blocking VPNs and most of the old apps so now if I have to go there I try to just use a random Redlib instance.

I would also assume that over time, a lot of the idiotic day-to-day shit probably gets forgotten about and as successive historians retell the events they naturally focus on the bigger, more important sounding stuff because it makes for a better read, so things probably get puffed up to sound loftier than they actually were.

It’s such a genius idea because it’s not only a super original way to do FTL, but it also gives you a perfect way out for any plot holes lol

Not an American but… if you’re a soldier who is part of invading American cities, shame on you. Just following orders wasn’t an excuse then and it isn’t one now. But if you’re doing it and they’re not even paying you… I don’t even know. You might want to have a think about what it is you actually stand for.

I sometimes wonder about that with doing a sort of Ship of Theseus thing with the human brain. By that I mean, say you could just replace the part of the brain that does something minor like processes taste or controls balance with a chip, you’d presumably still be the same person at the core, just with a chip doing some parts for you. But then if you kept going, at what point would it stop being the original person? Are we the sort of lizard-core part of the brain? What if you replaced that but kept the original part that governs intellect? Are we our intellect? Or some combination of the two? Which parts would end the ‘original’ person’s existence if removed? Could we even tell?

Put them all in a mansion with 1 chair, 1 bed, no doors to the outside, no windows, no entertainment

This is why I think these apocalypse bunkers for rich people are so funny. I saw some designs for one, and it was like 10 floors of luxury apartments with a giant armory underneath for protection.

Sure, let’s take a couple of hundred sociopaths, narcissists and entitled dickheads and seal them in a bunker with limited food and entertainment options, on top of a huge pile of weapons. I genuinely think you’d last longer on the outside with whatever’s happening lol.