large_goblin [he/him, comrade/them]

By this point in the story I thought Dutch was all dried out with no sauce, but the oil baron and Angelo Bronte made me think he just might pull it back.

What mine (m1 pro, 16gb ram, has fans) is good at:

• Very low power usage and exceptionally long battery life
• Screen is above and beyond what a laptop needs
• generally fast and can manage cpu-heavy games and video transcoding

What it’s bad at

• ever being able to upgrade
• some functionality requires third-party apps or terminal knowledge
• not all programs have an Apple silicon version and need the translation layer
• virtualization is inconsistent and unpredictable

They’re cool devices. I’ve been a longtime laptop hater but I’m happy with mine. Yes you do need the 16gb ram upgrade that they will rip you off for. Get a pro model if you think you’ll need active cooling, but my fans rarely turn on.

To be clear - I’d be willing to contribute to this. Cash is a no go but I’ve made purchases from Amazon and other US retailers online before so it should be OK.

I have to jump through so many hoops to send cash to US comrades so I can’t help with day to day stuff.

However - and you can tell me if I’m out of line here - have you considered creating an amazon wishlist on a burner account and sharing it here? That way you definitely get the specific goods you need without worrying about money management. Stuff like the sleeping bag and clothes you mentioned.

The ingame currency only tractor beams also got nerfed, this is now a required item for moving cargo above a certain size.

Seems like they realised cargo players buy a starter ship and nothing else and that’s simply not an acceptable contribution.

They should be more like the boomers who buy every new fomo pvp fighter but seemingly only sit in stations and complain about pronouns and millenials instead of every actually flying their $800 collection.

I just remembered Shadows of Doubt, I think that’s the most recent game with this system that I’ve played. It has proc gen cities where every citizen has a job and a sometimes spontaneous daily routine. Every few days a citizen will murder another one and leave behind a trail of evidence. It’s supposed to hit 1.0 this month as well.

Very raw and buggy in places but in ways that leads to more hilarious outcomes. You hide in a freezing vent waiting for someone to head out to the club for them to apparently decide nah not tonight 2 seconds after leaving the building and catch you in the middle of reading their emails.

I think about Oblivion and it’s NPC scheduling far too often. It feels like the missing piece in otherwise amazing games like Deus Ex MD or Pathologic 2.

I remember MGS V had elements of this. Guards would patrol, be relieved at certain times, there was scheduled transports of prisoners and resources. If you knocked out an entire base of guards at night eventually the morning shift would turn up and start waking them up, putting the base on alert.

Geopolitics is just a map painting game to these people. When your borders are bigger thats good. Why would you not want your borders to be bigger? Graduated from Total War university with a PhD in Medieval 2 crusade strategies.

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I did the opposite and made a well spaced out organised city where noone could get to work on time, so it’s time for me to learn the ins and outs of transit and travel time or embrace the shitbox I guess.

I can’t give advice without specifics of where you are but please feel free to post in !mutual_aid@hexbear.net if you are struggling to pay for essentials.

Squadron 42 is the singleplayer main development focus which we are told contains all the features and functionality that will make star citizen great and which are then slowly drip-fed into the actually playable game. I have seen nothing besides the “wow cool features” that would put it on a level above 2016’s Call of Duty Infinite Warfare.

I don’t do combat so I have zero interest in it, I play SC because I like doing salvage and cargo trading. It’s also the only game I’ve found where you play as a person on a ship and not the ship itself, free to leave your seat and walk around mid-flight even going on to form part of the gameplay loops.

I feel some dissonance with the rest of the community when a lot of the game’s FOMO sales drives revolve around cockpit only PvP orientated ships where this one will be the NEW META on sale for LIMITED TIME ONLY tied directly into the SQUADRON 42 LORE. Like I just want to salvage wrecks, drag boxes around my cargo hold and do contraband runs on the dark side of moons but there’s like 8 ships in the game that allow for this.

So Japan is expected to keep it’s interest rates at or below zero to allow the yen to be used for speculation.

But during economic crises where other major economies raise interest rates it’s also expected to do the same or face devaluation of the yen?

I’m more interested in the yen finally starting to recover from it’s steep decline than I am in the value of the stock market.

“Diverging monetary policies in Japan versus the U.S. and Europe are behind speculators’ moves, he said. The yen’s appreciation is contributing to the sell-off, he said.”

I don’t understand this area of economics and everytime I think I learn something it seems be proven incorrect shortly after.

I believed Japan was facing pressure to raise interest rates in line with other nations. Now it’s done that and the yen is starting to recover it’s monetary policy is divergent again causing a stock sell-off?

I’m tired of my income turning into monopoly money whenever I think about going abroad.

I just use Mac OS.

I have a macbook and two raspberry pis

“I have black friends” but with so many additional layers of creepiness

From what I understand I think they’re trained to ask these types of questions in their rent-a-cop class and look for inconsistencies in your body language or whatever.

The neurotypicals are at it again

No interest in experiencing this so will probably never visit the US. My friends who were born there have very weird stories about the TSA questioning why they live abroad whenever they visit. It’s as if they pick people who believe the US is the only country worth living in to work at an airport of all places.

You won’t just get a butter knife in business class either, you’ll get ones suitable for steak and thick braised meat dishes, which is even more hilarious.