Transcendant

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I hear you. This latest expedition is the first one I've ever skipped, I find sport fishing IRL very boring (and a bit cruel) so the idea of adding a boring activity to a game I'm already quite bored with really missed me.

I hope they do something truly momentous down the line with this game, the bones have SO much potential! Imo adding some sort of way for players to make their own quests & activities would be a huge boost and could be done without too much reworking of the code.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I could be wrong, but I'm not sure what you want is possible.

As I understand it, planet generation all comes from a singular initial seed. So it's probably much more complex than editing your save file, which will contain info about your specific save like inventory contents, ships owned, words learned etc.

I hope they do add terraforming, it would be really cool, but if I've correctly understood the way the proc gen works... Difficult to implement. This is why an update to the proc gen changes all the planets (initial seed).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

For years I was adamant that I didn't like ambient, I think because I'd only been exposed to very boring drone stuff. Then I discovered Solar Fields / Carbon Based Lifeforms and it changed my musical world.

I'm quite horrible at self-promo so sadly it's just gathering digital dust, but after 20+ years of writing dance music for myself and others, I decided to get heavily into writing ambient / chill. Made a load of trippy animation videos and setup a youtube... if you love Solar Fields, without meaning to sound bigheaded I think you'd enjoy them.

Ambient / Chill by Ain

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love anything by Solar Fields for tasks requiring concentrating, it's especially good for reading scifi.

Whenever he releases a new album though I have to listen to it a few times, before I can have it on in the background... It's very beautiful and intricate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yep has to have no lyrics or I get pulled into the song!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hey look! Smoky's over here takin' A shit!

... Well, I ain't gonna tell nobody else

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

Steam doesn't kick me out of my single player games when my internet connection drops for a split second. I quite like that

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"Don't say things about someone behind their back, if you wouldn't be prepared to say it to their face"

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's fairly simple... Gender-affirming care is ok if THEY do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I learned not to say things about people behind their back, that you'd not be prepared to say to their face, aged 14.

Cost me a black eye & split lip, also some pride. Valuable lesson though that stuck with me to this day over 2 decades later.

Knoble, sorry for calling you Knobless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

And if you ever get close to him? ...... he'll betray you, too.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (8 children)

My initial response is prob as sarcastic as the others but a thought just occurred to me.

Skyrim, v1. The og release, before all the mods and bug fixes.

Undoubtedly still a better game than Star field. But was it the Skyrim we revere today? Will Starfield be transformed into something fun over the next decade?

What am I on about. Almost certainly not lol.

 

Hey all.

Finally in my 40s I'm fortunate enough (with a lot of family help & a mortgage) to be buying a home. It's end-of-terrace; just spoke to the surveyor today after he's done most of the inspection and he's found a lot of structural problems.

Feeling a bit defeated, it's taken so long to get to this stage of having an offer accepted, and being close to exchanging contracts. It's an old house so while I wasn't expecting it to be fault-free, I'm quite disappointed and I guess looking for some advice / reassurance.

Not got the report in text yet but he mentioned potential subsidence; rising damp; cracked walls; problem with the chimney stack; window frames; and others. Said it's all stuff that can be fixed, but potentially expensive. My plan is to wait for the text report next week, then contact the estate agent and attempt to negotiate a price reduction in line with the cost of the repairs, which imo will run into at least £15k. Considering it's on the market for £85k, and the owner wouldn't even put the electric on for viewing because she didn't want to pay £1 a day standing charge, I'm anticipating some pushback.

But, should I even bother? Is this 'sunk cost fallacy' at play? I certainly feel like if they're not prepared to negotiate re repairs then I have to walk away as I could buy a well-maintained property round here for the total cost of around £100k!

Any advice much appreciated.

 
 

10 years ago, I'd have put my ability to visualise at 0 out of 10. Practice and occasional halucinogen use has got me to 2 out of 10. It causes no end of problems in day to day life, so I'm interested to hear if anyone has tips or just experiences to share so it doesn't feel such a lonely frustrating issue.

edit informative comment from @[email protected] about image streaming, I did a bit of digging on the broken links, the Dr isn't giving the info away for free anymore without buying their (expensive) book, but I found some further info on additional techniques here, pages 2/3: https://nlpcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Image-Streaming-Mode-of-Thinking.pdf

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