The Official Status Thread
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Pretty fun and well worth it, except I ragequit when Windows 10's update system rebooted without asking right in the middle of a mission.
It gives you 72 hours' notice. Jesus.
How the fuck do you people manage to be surprised by this? YOU HAD THREE FULL DAYS TO REBOOT!
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GET SCOURGE OF ARMAGON!!!
It's so cool!
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@mott555 said:
Pretty fun and well worth it, except I ragequit when Windows 10's update system rebooted without asking right in the middle of a mission.
It gives you 72 hours' notice. Jesus.
How the fuck do you people manage to be surprised by this? YOU HAD THREE FULL DAYS TO REBOOT!
I never got any kind of notification prior. Just a sudden reboot and then "Windows is configuring updates..."
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I don't even care about multiplayer, it just bugs me that it takes too fucking much work to build ANYTHING, and 99% of the game is about building.
Also spaceships seem to be slow as fuck no matter what you do. So it's not very fun as a flight sim either.
Were you using one of the planet starts? Planets have been out for only a few weeks and the game isn't very well-balanced for that yet.
Survival mode is pretty broken right now. I mess around in Creative but Survival takes way too long and just isn't stable enough for me to bother yet. Spend a few hours trying to build a new mining ship, get it all done, then once the drills touch rock the whole thing explodes and you die and have nothing. Not very fun.
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This is why we need Windows Update Goggles. So we can't approve a future reboot on accident while we're drunk.
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Were you using one of the planet starts?
Yeah, isn't that the point of the game?
In addition to my other complaints: nowhere is the actual point of the game explained.
Survival mode is pretty broken right now.
Now you tell me. Creative mode lets you build slightly faster, but the ships you build are still boring as fuck to pilot. So...
Spend a few hours trying to build a new mining ship, get it all done, then once the drills touch rock the whole thing explodes and you die and have nothing. Not very fun.
Or you press T to walk around the dropship, and it suddenly lurches or something and you get splattered against the wall and die. That happened to me once. Die in the first 45 seconds due to something I can only assume is a bug.
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I never got any kind of notification prior. Just a sudden reboot and then "Windows is configuring updates..."
Well sorry? I don't know how you broke your computer.
Here's a solution: reboot once in every 72 hour period. Boom. Problem over. Just stop whining about it, is really my major concern.
I have literally, in my entire time of using Windows, NEVER had it reboot a computer in the middle of me doing something for updates. I have seen the little gear icon say "updates are ready" about 42743247234627 times. So. You'll excuse me if I do not believe you.
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I literally reboot my computer every single day (that I'm home). It stays shut down when I'm not using it. It had been online for maybe a few hours when this happened...
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I do not believe you.
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Or you press T to walk around the dropship, and it suddenly lurches or something and you get splattered against the wall and die. That happened to me once. Die in the first 45 seconds due to something I can only assume is a bug.
Their physics is terrible. Trying to move around inside a moving ship is guaranteed to kill you every time. They claim the new physics and netcode they're working on will fix it, but we've been hearing about that for months with nothing to show for it yet.
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Oh well it's a good thing they put the "instructions" for survival mode on POSTERS in the dropship that you can't see unless you leave the pilot chair.
Now I'm just starting to think the game was written by morons.
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Oh well it's a good thing they put the "instructions" for survival mode on POSTERS in the dropship that you can't see unless you leave the pilot chair.
Now I'm just starting to think the game was written by morons.
No, it's in Alpha. They're spending time developing basic features and have hardly touched tutorials or making the game have any kind of point or goals. It even warns you when you buy it! (Tutorials would actually be pretty useless since it's almost a totally different game about every 2 - 3 months.)
It's still a better Alpha than Discourse though.
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Watching the first snow of the season. It's warm enough to melt the moment it hits the ground
We did get a little accumulation — not much, just a light dusting — but it turned to rain later in the night, and most of it's gone now.
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You can come take all our snow, we don't want any of it! 8 inches or so last week, supposed to get another 5 today.
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No thanks; I don't want that much. Just enough, if any at all, to give the dogs something to play in, and to freeze the poop solid and make it easy to find for easy clean-up. And just in my back yard, not on the streets, TYVM.
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Normally we would be in the same boat by this time of year, but we are lucky enough to be in the unseasonably warm part of the map. On Xmas Eve, I went out and got something from outside in shorts and a t-shirt and it was not even chilly.
I may be converting over to @boomzilla's and @PJH's opinion on climate change if it stays like this.
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On Xmas Eve, I went out and got something from outside in shorts and a t-shirt and it was not even chilly.
Australia?
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There is one bonus I've discovered: The roads are safer because the snow and ice keeps all the moron BMW and Prius drivers off the road! The BMW owners are smart enough to stay home and the Prius drivers all end up in the ditch. If I didn't have to work today I could make a killing driving around with my truck and tow strap and un-ditching tiny two-wheel-drive hatchbacks for $20 each.
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Status: derailing Status Thread into Australia.
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There is one bonus I've discovered: The roads are safer because the snow and ice keeps all the moron BMW and Prius drivers off the road!
Not in Poland. Here, it gets even worse - they don't just drive recklessly, they also drift at corners!
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Honestly, I actually enjoy the snow. I even like driving around in it when it gets deep enough to keep the other drivers off of the roads. There are a few roads around here that are covered over with trees and through wooded areas that are very pretty and peaceful when the snow sticks to the limbs.
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I loved it before I moved to the city. It takes a lot of bad weather to make roads impassable to me, so I loved to cruise around on empty roads during snowstorms and just watch the weather.
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My little RWD sports car with less than 5 inches of ground clearance did fine for the past 2 years so long as I kept moving in everything deeper than 6 inches. And that was on mediocre snow tires.
This year I put on Nokians. I'm ready for a Russian winter.
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Status: Found this amusing chart/calendar on Wikipedia while trying to find out why we have a random day off. It includes January 0, February 30, and March 0.
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Subaru BRZ (no, laypeople, despite being a Subaru it is not all wheel drive)
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Status: I just spoke to a customer service rep that sounded like a phone sex operator. Her voice was...sultry.
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Did you ninjatag or am I ?
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Well, I mean, they're pretty similar disciplines. Either way, you're getting screwed but without the actual benefit of having someone else in the room...
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You sir, are a wordsmith.
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Status: Well, there goes my morning sugar rush. Must be getting close to lunch time...
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Status: The nanny wanted the end of the year off. Today I am at home with our nearly 5 month old. He is currently irrationally upset at a toy giraffe, which is very amusing for me.
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Status: Found this amusing chart/calendar on Wikipedia while trying to find out why we have a random day off. It includes January 0, February 30, and March 0.
my favorite day of the year is March 31a`
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Don't you agree, @abarker?
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Status: Episode 46
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@izzion said:
@aliceif said:
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Don't you agree,
@abarker@undefined?no longer welcome here
FTFY
Paging @cipher1 ...
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Status: You know this big hubbub about the drone pilot who nearly crashed his drone into a skier?
My brother told me a related story - background: He's someone who organizes props for advertisement and music video shootings (for instance, he once worked with Rammstein). You need a laboratory filled with bright, colourful "chemicals"? He's your man.
So, he was at a shooting for a new AMG which involved an actual AMG racing around in a huge hall they rented for this occasion. The actual shooting was done by a pickup truck which had a huge-ass gyrostabilized servo arm on its back with eight(8) quite expensive cameras attached to said arm.
After the (planned) last take the two cars ended up on opposite sides of the hall, facing each other. That's when the director spontaneously had this bright idea: "Why don't they race towards each other, the arm positioned at floor level and at the last instant, the arm goes up to create this idea of a fly-over?"
My brother was at the monitor station, watching the feeds from the cameras.
"Okay, he should begin to move the arm up now. Any second now. Cutting it mighty close..."
Next thing he knew, pieces of the arm and cameras were flying around the hall. The poor AMG was opened up like a fish can. Driver survived, though, literally by an inch.
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Please let that video footage be on YouTube somewhere?
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I pray that footage is socked away somewhere because it sounds legendary.
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I pray that footage is socked away somewhere because it sounds legendary.
Please let that video footage be on YouTube somewhere?
Will ask him the next time I see him. Though I fear it'll be locked away somewhere.
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No doubt. But Mercedes is German and therefore very thorough and loves doing cool heritage stuff. If it wasn't summarily deleted it'll likely emerge in 50 years or so.
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Will ask him the next time I see him. Though I fear it'll be locked away somewhere.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
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Just make sure that the guy holding the wires isn't allergic to the blakeyrats running around in the
air ventsIntertubez. Otherwise you might wind up in real trouble.
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If you can find a spot on your timesheet's calendar for that day, sure.