captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 18 hours ago:
I guess I’m too…born and raised in a forest?..to be the same species as those people.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 day ago:
That’s what a lot of the upgrades boil down to, yeah. Air tanks increase endurance, fins and seaglide increase movement speed, rebreather eliminates an endurance draining effect at depth, seabases and submarines allow you to start your dive from greater than zero depth. Pretty much all of that boils down to “dives to this depth are now practicable.”
Other than that, the knife allows you to harvest plate coral for making computer chips, kelp for making fabric, and seeds for plants. The scanner is required to obtain the blueprints for several other required buildables. The mobile vehicle bay is required to build the Cyclops. The Cyclops is required to make the shield module. A radiation suit…I think speedrunners don’t use it and just tank the damage with medkits, but I consider it a requirement.
There is one straight-up key you have to craft; there are several others for required or optional doors but you only have to craft one to complete the game and two to unlock all doors.
There’s a tool that is like Half-Life 2’s gravity gun, which can be used to move heavy obstacles out of paths, but it’s never outright required for anything. I usually don’t bother with it.
The laser cutter is required, You have to cut through one of two doors in the Aurora to gain access to the Captain’s Cabin.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 days ago:
opposite idea from mixing powdered milknin fresh milk for “more milk per milk.”
- Comment on Still haven't adapted 3 days ago:
leaving the clocks alone all year > fucking with them.
- Comment on After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game 5 days ago:
Do you mean Stardew Valley or Haunted Chocolatier?
Stardew Valley is a combination of a creativity toy, a dating simulator, a soap opera and a security blanket. You’re actually able to return to a humble artisanal life, make absolute bank doing it, and beat the giant megacorp should you choose do to so. A decreasing number of places offer that kind of hopeful feeling in reality.
Haunted Chocolatier? I don’t know, didn’t really see the appeal when it was explained to me.
- Comment on Squint your eyes 👀 5 days ago:
DO YOD WANNA IUCX?
- Comment on Pelicans will literally try to eat anything 6 days ago:
Meanwhile the cat is fully prepared to be eaten, and has plans to scratch everything in there.
- Comment on Pelicans will literally try to eat anything 6 days ago:
Reactor: online. Sensors: online. Weapon systems: online.
All systems nominal.
- Comment on Relatable 1 week ago:
You ever have a sneeze you feel in your arms for about an hour? Like you sneeze, your blood pressure hits 9000 PSI for 8.2 milliseconds and your ghost aches for awhile?
- Comment on Winning 1 week ago:
My therapist called me the most cynical 24 year old she’d ever seen. I’m 37 now.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
Soak wood ash in water.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
I’m on the Gregorian calendar, 650 years ago is the year 1375. I’m in North Carolina, so if I were to snap back in time at my present location I would be a blue eyed white guy in pre-contact North America. And while I think I’m an above average candidate for the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court scenario I’m not realistically able to start “from scratch.” I’d probably make it the summer on forage and my own body fat. I don’t picture encountering the natives going particularly well, for me or them. I’m not sick and I’m vaccinated against a lot of shit but watch I’ll give them 6 centuries worth of influenza updates.
I don’t think it would help that much being plunked down in 14th century England; we’re talking Geoffrey Chaucer’s lifetime here, to them I’d sound insane. Modern English is a few hundred years off. If they didn’t trepan me to let the demons out of my skull and I didn’t die of smallpox, I’d try to invent the electric motor 500 years early and be burned for heresy or some shit.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
How to make soap: Mix a fat or oil with a strong base like potassium hydroxide, resulting in an exothermic reaction called saponification.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 1 week ago:
You know, pigeons probably do have relatively high latency but I bet a carrier pigeon could carry at least three SD cards, meaning a pigeon has hella bandwidth.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Record it and play it back at dinner.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 week ago:
I’ve never really had a “desk job” where my job was to sit at a desk 9 to 5. But a few of my past occupations included at least some desk time, such as:
- Flight instructor. Most of my day was spent either in the classroom briefing/instructing, or in the plane instructing/overseeing. I spent a significant portion at a desk creating lesson plans, updating logbooks, communicating with students, grading assignments, communicating with other instructors, communicating with our Designated Pilot Examiner, filling out FAA paperwork, that sort of thing.
- Aviation mechanic. This is more of an administrative job than the posters at your local trade school would lead you to believe. An owner/operator/pilot/plane haver guy brings you a plane for an annual inspection, now you have a research project. What exact make and model is this thing? What modifications has it had during the 50 years it’s existed? Under what authority were those modifications made? Is it still in original or correctly modified condition? Are there any manufacturer service bulletins or FAA airworthiness directives issued for this aircraft, and I mean THIS aircraft, or its components? Like, they’ll call out ranges of hull numbers in these things. Then there’s recording all the shit YOU did to the plane while it’s here.
- Project manager of a short-run job shop. First up: Meet with the customer and massage the idea they have out of their brain. 3 times out of 10 tell them which aisle in Wal-Mart they can find what they want, 1 time out of 10 explain why what they want isn’t physically or technologically possible. Once I’ve got a good idea of what the customer wants, it’s time to do some preliminary design work, research materials and prepare an estimate, deliver this to the customer. 7 in 10 times we hear back from that, get the okay to build, now it’s time to order materials, do any of the design work which may include CAD design, electrical design, computer programming, whatever. Scheduling and directing my team, contracting with any talent I don’t have in-house, the all important staring at a wall visualizing fourteen different variations on some little yet pivotal detail, and then I’d end up in the shop running laser cutters or lathes or table saws or whatever to get it built. Then the most important part: Invoicing the customer.
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 1 week ago:
I’m guessing the college of cardinals makes that decision on a case by case basis.
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 1 week ago:
Shouldn’t the pope be strong against holy damage? Unless…Holy shit someone call Dan Brown!
- Comment on In light of the pope passing away 1 week ago:
I’m still processing Michelle Trachtenberg.
- Comment on Super accurate 1 week ago:
If Nickelback is butt rock, is this taint rock?
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- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 2 weeks ago:
Some, like sulfur, have an aura of stink.
- Comment on Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 2 weeks ago:
So…the one that ran for those 90 days is the original?
- Comment on Can you believe it? 2 weeks ago:
You want another try?
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 2 weeks ago:
What have you got against the IT staff?
- Comment on Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene? 2 weeks ago:
Method and apparatus for rattling a hoohaa.
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 3 weeks ago:
Does the phrase “vote with your wallet” mean anything to you?
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 3 weeks ago:
I also haven’t bought a game made by EA since 1992. I don’t like their behavior as a company so I have completely stopped buying anything from them. This you label “insane.”
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 3 weeks ago:
Movie trailers playing before a movie made sense to me. You like movies? Here’s some that are coming up, in case you’re interested.
It was a movie trailer that made me go all-in on adblockers. One of the Mission Impossible movies, I forget which one, I lost count after the third. This trailer had that annoying “Ready or not, here I come” “song” in the background. And it played ahead of every single Youtube video I watched for a week.
I will never watch a Mission Impossible movie ever again, old or new. I will never watch another Tom Cruise movie ever again. Old or new. I might avoid the spy/action/thriller genre entirely for the rest of my life. I won’t go see James Bond ever again because of Mission Impossible’s marketing. There’s a strong and growing possibility I’ll never walk into a movie theater ever again. And I aggressively block ads now.
They went from letting me know what movies were going to be released soon to trying to beat my personality out.
I used to be a movie buff. I grew up in a house with a lot of VHS tapes, movies were important to my social life in my teens and early twenties, I went to work for a couple years basically living at the airport and sleeping at home, and when I came up for air it was all a cancerous mass, a tumor of its former self.
I would rather watch RedLetterMedia make fun of 40 year old movies than go watch a new one.
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 3 weeks ago:
If all is being done on the up and up, nobody’s got an agenda to push, they’re actually doing science: no. Doing an experiment, publishing results, and then having your peers replicate your experiment and be unable to reproduce your results is not failure. In the words of Adam Savage, “It’s not ‘my experiment failed,’ it’s ‘my experiment yielded data.’” But also, if one scientist gets a result and no one else does, the real thing we learn might be in finding out why.
REPEAT is a part of the scientific process.