I should know how this effects me, but I really don’t…

It’s an interesting technology, a solution in search of a problem.

Great! It’s a big change of pace from the previous “Aquarius” expedition. The initial scramble for survival at the beginning was a rush.

There are criticisms of bad starts on islands, and some people really don’t like the “ghostly” messages that keep popping up. It’s moderately combat heavy, although not quite like Liquidators.

I remember reading the insert for this back in the day included in my Civilization box or something. Was interested in getting it, but I think I picked up Betrayal at Krondor or Ultima Underworld instead.

I guess now it’s time to revisit it.

Have a Lemmy gold: 🥇 !

This, to my mind, is the one biggest benefit of GoG. No separate launcher/front-end/DRM needed.

On the topic of launchers though, I’m a big fan of Heroic Launcher (for Linux at least). Can hook it into GoG, Epic, and Amazon.

I used that initial batch of nanites for my multitool. I also was in the middle of clearing out old ships in my primary before starting the expedition, so it was some random salvaged ship. Then I found this guy.

Hm, I just checked it out, and a lot of stuff showed “previously claimed”. I’ll double check.

Doesn’t pay the mortgage, my man.

Although I would pay a single cent, but I also grew up on a farm, and know hunters… so I’m not exactly PETA material. I do hate wasting meat, a creature died so that I may eat, and one day we all shall be food for others (classic worm meat). Still, the sheer scale of industrial agriculture when it comes to the meat industry is staggering.

Overall though, we are all cogs in this machine, and we need to recognize the levers and control inputs of this machine and use them. Just like “carbon footprint”, good feelings for consumers is something that can be sold at a premium. This is why I reject the premise of your question. I shouldn’t have to pay an extra cent to reduce suffering, We should structure our markets so that there is less suffering.

This concept is one of the reason why meat substitutes probably aren’t widespread, because by using it as some virtue signal it is able to be sold at a premium. Beyond Meat and Impossible burgers should be cheaper because the fundamental inputs are cheaper and we haven’t skewed the market to make them more expensive.

Yes, but if you are using a save that has already claimed the reward, it won’t be available in the Anomaly even when in “expedition mode”. At least I couldn’t reclaim the Utopia Speeder.

This is the one drawback of the new ability to start an expedition from an existing Save. I used to do exactly this on a new expedition, as soon as I could access the Anomaly I’d claim the Utopia Speeder.

I have unclaimed rewards I could access, such as the Iron Vulture, but I don’t want to “consume” them on an expedition. You can also “copy” your ship or multitool from your Primary save, but that requires nanites. I did clone my multitool though (S class staff with a massively upgraded everything). I’m going to try cloning my cloned multitool when I’m done with the expedition, to have even more ultimate upgrades.

Overall, I find taking advantage of the ability to load up supplies in the Anomaly for an expedition is well worth the loss of ability to claim expedition rewards. In either case, a nice ship near-ish the start of an expedition is pretty damn useful. And I’ll probably clone this one back into my Primary save or just grab it again.

I don’t disagree. If there were agricultural subsidies that let me eat more delicious hamburgers for less money, and those delicious burgers just happened to be plant based, I’d be happy eating more burgers for less bucks.

The specifics are beyond me though, and there are already so many agricultural subsidies targeting so many different products.

Colloquially referred to as “Tankies”. America = Bad, therefore Not America = Good mostly sums up Tankie takes, but more properly Tankies is a pejorative for authoritarian communists, usually apologists for China and the CCP nowadays. IIRC originally it referred to communist parties in Western countries that excused Soviet actions during the Prague Spring and such, although I’d say that is an obsolete term.

Glad to hear Gog is partnering with Heroic. Heroic is pretty slick, and only getting slicker. Shame to waste effort, and much better than forking and not contributing to upstream.

Perun does do great videos. The Canada one he just did stings a bit though. All truth though.

Glad it was useful! I just replaced this guy with an A-class interceptor though. I’m addicted to the ability to hover, which is so useful with these monsters haunting us in this expedition. So useful for ship based movement.

Plus the interceptor is bigger, so more storage.

Still might flip back to this ship at the end so I can copy it back into my primary save. It’s a beauty.

TIL that in Lemmy and Reddit, the “Image” are for “Image” posts, not “Text” posts.

You’re absolutely right. Next time someone says DST exists “because farmers”, point out that they don’t milk cows and hour earlier or later based on the clock on the wall.

Also, in seasonal “touristy” towns, lots of shops have seasonal hours. We don’t need to muck around with the clocks on the walls (and all the devices with internal clocks) for everyone because we want to start school or office hours earlier or later. Just have seasonal hours for businesses that care.

They also have a delicious Masala burger they introduced for a limited time.

I am not vegetarian or vegan, but will happily sub a Beyond/Impossible patty for a meat patty, I just resent it when that’s an upcharge (I have a whole rant on that).

The Masala burger is not a meat substitute patty, it’s a vegetable patty that doesn’t pretend to be anything else. I think it also has paneer and other toppings. It’s delicious, it’s a decent size, and it’s $6.

As someone who will happily eat a meat burger. The Masala burger is just a plain good burger that happens to be vegetarian (maybe Vegan).

I would happily eat an Impossible Burger or Beyond Burger, they’re pretty decent burgers! I’m also a cheapskate, and don’t like paying extra for essentially the same thing.

Considering that the inherent resources it takes to make a meat patty are in theory greater than resources it takes to make a vegetable based patty, why am I expected to pay a premium for the vegetable based patty?

There are some factors such as scaling and capital costs, but fundamentally, I think they charge more the vegetable based patties because it’s some sort of “virtue”. Be that as it may, virtue doesn’t pay my mortgage.

If vegetable based patties were even 10¢ cheaper than an equivalent meat patty, I’m thinking they’d be much much more popular. Times are tough, people got to pay rent, these Impossible Meat/Beyond Meat burgers are delicious, and less resource intensive. Let’s get this sorted! Do we really need some government interference in the market?

That was exactly what I thought it was. Classic! And an official RFC (although introduced on April 1).

Right there with you!

My first experience with the internet was Gopher.