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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Now after almost 3 years, Russia not only hasn’t managed to take Ukraine, but has lost territory to them too. For months now Russia has still not been able to take it back!

    That was a battle cry for a tankie to show up and produce a different statistic. FYI, it’s usually a time capped chart that limits data in Russia’s favor.

    War is a dynamic phenomenon, after all. (You can usually take a specific block of time from any point and produce a favorable result by limiting which variables are used. This is why internet charts and graphs must always be verified, actually.)











  • Religion is seriously fucked up, actually.

    If you can get people to believe in magic they have never seen because of stories that never happened to explain an afterlife that nobody knows about, you can easily get them to also fork over a considerable amount of their income to avoid a fate that will never happen.

    Nevermind that you can also produce some fearless soldiers who will gladly hand over their life for no real reason.

    Eesh. Humans are weird.


  • My guess is that you are visualizing the event horizon as a gradient when it should be viewed as a hard-line barrier.

    As anything approaches the event horizon, it still has a chance to escape. Once an object crosses that line, it’s game over: All arrows point in.

    Now, I have also heard that of you wait long enough for the black hole to completely evaporate and are able to collect every bit of the black hole as it does, you should be able to reassemble the data you desire. It would probably take a supercomputer more massive than the original black hole, but it’s worth a shot. As a bonus, I believe you have to solve for an information duplication paradox that is tucked in there somewhere as well.


  • It’s great for what it is. For me, it’s intended as my portable synth and it fills that role quite well. While the minifreak is great, it’s is coupled too tightly with its software for it to leave my desk. The microfreak is more standalone and only functions as a more traditional synth, which is perfect for me.

    It’s not an absolutely stellar device, but I don’t need it to be. It’s a good mix of analog and digital functionality, which is also my preference.

    TBH, it’s just a way for me to offload a couple more oscillators from my PC/DAW. Some of my more recent music is extremely synth-heavy so the fewer instances of software synths I have running, the better.





  • My experience is practically a carbon copy of yours, so I’ll just tack my reply here.

    I just started using robots a few days ago after numerous game restarts since the DLC was released, so I am still a hair behind. Rocket launchers vs. biter nests are starting to get a hair difficult now, so tanks are on the menu for tomorrow.

    The biggest issue I had was planning around the sheer scale of the base we need to build and how to design and manage busses for them.

    Once I figured out how to plan the layouts for entire stacks of furnaces or assemblers, my base got sooo much more efficient. The exact opposite, but just as satisfying, is when I leaned to quickly automate random odds and ends with temporary assembler puzzles. (Early game red science is a perfect example of that.)

    I guess the biggest lesson is attach a massive multiplier to everything. ie: Will 2 turrets fend off attacks from one direction? Cool, but put 6 turrets there instead instead of the 2 it takes now. 10 absolutely wouldn’t hurt either.





  • And the capability to create as many copies of that ring as you want, actually.

    Just one copy of “the one ring” would cause chaos. Now, imagine a hundred million of those fuckers on the open market! While some of the immediate side effects might be a bit weird, but it seems like the entire system of control might collapse fairly quick.

    Leak a copy of the transport buffer to China, while we are at it, and we should be seeing those show up on EBay for $1.99 in about a week or so.

    It’s no so precious any more, is it??