> You are allowed to be tired. You are allowed to be out of spoons. You are allowed to finally be fed up and say "nope" https://twitter.com/MsTwstd/status/1184365421388058624
I found a much more productive way to spend the rest of the evening than arguing with trolls on the internet. I took some homemade chili, heated it up, baked some fries, dumped the chili, some american cheese, onto the fries; fried up a veggie burger, and now that's my dinner.
I'm gonna walk to the gas station for lunch siopao, bang out a new file configuration for a client, study a couple chapters of Breezes of Confirmation with a friend, poke some marketing design work, and maybe try to write a bit for the Safety Jam.
@Xirema Also: a bit of dark chocolate does wonderful things for chili.
I've been wondering what a chili made entirely using spices, vegetables, (and meats, if you roll that way) from the Western Hemisphere would be like...
@Xirema Two to four tablespoons, depending on how much meat-like flavours you've got going? The goal is to not taste the actual chocolate, but to have it give depth to everything else.
@Derpy Was it crop out original text. Add your own. Rasterize the text layer. Select by color to get the text. Grow selection by some pixels to make the selection bigger, then Selection>border with 1 or 2 pixel wide. Fill in the resulting selection to get that nice line around the text. ?
@NautArch I've been using the stock chili powder they sell at Aldi, but I'm not especially in love with any specific brand, so I'm perfectly willing to try a few variants.
There's basically just two lessons you have to take on board to make sure you don't lose your colony.
1. Don't print every duplicant you're offered. You don't need more than 4-8 for like the first couple hundred cycles, and until you're in the late game, 12-16 will handle things just fine.
2. Get to work building "rooms" (dedicated single-occupant bedrooms, washrooms, mess halls, etc.) because that will dramatically boost morale, and you need that boost to keep your duplicants happy and productive.
@Xirema I probably need to get some more. I'm on cycle 300 or something with 6 dupes.
@Xirema Don't bother with single-occupant bedrooms until you have a good source of plastic though, since you need Comfy Beds to qualify for the bedroom.
And if you build 4x4 rooms (6x6 including walls + door) you'll have room for the comfy bed + picture (decor item).
I've also been Drywalling the bedrooms, although I don't think that provides any kind of tangible benefit underground. Is just a good way to use up excess rock, and I like the aesthetic.
If you're not careful about how you run your pipes, your already cold water might release some of their heat into their colder environment and dip below freezing point in your pipes.
My Terra world spawned a leaky Oil reservoir less than a screen away from my starting position, though mercifully it was blocked until I had a chance to properly insulate it.
And it spawned a Copper Volcano not-that-far-away under it.
So the fact that my average base temperature hovers around 32C is kind of a small miracle.
Yeah. I need to do a better job clearing the path to the volcano because it takes like a whole minute for a single duplicant to run down there, and while I did force Atmo suits down that path, it still means it takes a lot of time to set up even modest infrastructure down there
@Gwideon That's good.
A lot of it is I just kept avoiding pockets of Chlorine/Hydrogen, because (LOL) I was worried about heat getting back to my base.
Fire poles are really what I need. I wasted a lot of my copper + iron, and while I have a lot of gold, I want to save it for high-temp projects that actually need it.
So I've been putting off installing fire poles in my base.
Whether or not they overheat will determine my tentative design for a copper tamer + steam power generator.
So this is a rudimentary design in case mechanized airlocks overheat:
Run the output of the steam turbine over to the liquid vent.
Open up the airlocks to dump water into the pool of liquid copper. This will cool the copper and flash-boil the water into steam, which will be consumed by the steam turbine to generate power and less-hot water.
You can add sweepers on the outside of the room to clear away solid copper and maybe add ice if you want.
(disclaimer: never been an MSE mod but I am and have been talking with them for a while now) So discussions on MSE especially recently have gotten extremely heated. One problem is that pruning the bad comments but leaving the others likely just results in more bad comments later in response to the same triggers.
@goodguy5 I honestly don't know whether to take the post positively or negatively. ON one hand It addresses some of what I'm feeling on the other I feel it's to harsh.
Yet another is that the MSE mods (or really the CMs) are putting out so many fires right now. They don't have time to carefully sort through hundred-long comment chains and think about each one. If the comments are being a problem it is easier to nuke them all. And at least nobody can accuse you of bias.
Also, as always, comments are intended to be temporary. Important points should be going in answers. If you made a key point in a comment, you should know that there's a chance that the comment will get deleted and should consider putting it in an answer.
@Rubiksmoose I can see that in those cases, there just weren't hundreds of comments here, but the other points you've brought up definitely make sense, thank you
SE got themselves into a situation they do not understand (or at least didn't understand before they posted that FAQ post...) and were not prepared to deal with.
Namely: what do you do if you try to roll out changes to try to improve the site's climate for LGBT people, and a bulk of people (probably not a majority, maybe not even a plurality) are just straight-up opposed to those changes, and are good at making dogwhistle arguments that sound like legitimate critiques?
And what do you do if those same people have an effigy they can burn whenever they want so that people who have legitimate criticisms of SE's behavior are pulled into the mix?
Because like, I mentioned a while back that Monica was being swamped with Alt-Right types that were trying to hugbox her. Well, that may or may not still be going on, but they're also doing that to a lot of the rest of the people here as well.
@Xirema Yeah that I don't know. What I do know is that historically, groups that are so heavily marginalized, as trans people are, that they are practically hidden due to fear, will have to face a tremendous amount of backlash before they can create the visibility that is needed to normalize them.
It is only in the normalization that well-meaning but uninformed people slowly discover how to treat them with humanity.
@Gwideon I mean that person is a well-established member of the community.
@goodguy5 Unfortunately mundane things can become offensive, and there's no real counter to it, even if one isn't aware of when or why the thing would cause offense
i assume this in the context of social interaction. You have to be reasonable (and most people are) but yeah I shouldn't really have to defend myself if I feel like something (such as the attack helicopter meme) is offensive
Like, if I'm sitting here inside my own head, I can imagine a Climate Change activist getting "offended" by the sky because it's polluted and they're frustrated that action isn't being taken to deal with it, but I cannot extend that scenario to imagine how they get mad at someone else for... I dunno. Drawing the sky? Taking a picture of it? Describing it in a book? Talking about it?
@goodguy5 At the very least I can't control the sky so if somebody took offense at it, it's not something I did. If somebody were truly upset with the style I tie my shoes in and they asked me to do something I could tie them differently and in the case that I can't do that, I would explain that fact
Mundane things becoming offensive have been the buddhist symbol of peace, the Betsy Ross flag, and the "OK" symbol. Two of those have much current debate, the first though does not and has evolved very much into the reality that you simply do not use the symbol
@goodguy5 Maybe; but you have to bear in mind that a lot of the mainstream media that picked up on that topic didn't really understand what they were seeing.
@goodguy5 I mean, fair, but the broader point is that a lot of people blame the media for turning Alt-Right trolling into Legitimate White Supremacist dogwhistling, and fail to realize that that was the whole point of the trolling.
As much as it looks like an ad-hoc thing, it was a coordinated, engineered effort.
Ultimately though, the answer is "it depends". It's also possible that if someone is too easily offended by what you do, then maybe the best option is to not engage with them.
For example, if someone is offended by the sky, then I imagine they'd avoid outside, or weather-related forums, or contexts in which the sky is discussed
@Medix2 In the meta sense, decisions like that are often made to preserve the favorable signal to noise ration of an SE site. A lot of comment threads (not just on meta) add undesirable noise, and low noise is a stated SO/SE goal. But, in this case, I am not sure why, and am not privy to the decisions of the meta mods and Powers that Be
@KorvinStarmast Thank you for further clarification, Rubiksmoose also went over some really good points I simply hadn't considered. I now see the value and reasons behind decisions there
@Medix2 One of the thingks that seven and mxy and doppel and a few others taught me as I first began SE stuff a few years ago is that comments need to be policed up and cleaned out once a comment has served its purpose. It is otherwise noise. I really like how on RPGSE we clean comments up and out a lot. Most other SE's a I participate in have appalling signal to noise rations due to comment stacks being pages long.
I almost wish I could have preserved the comments, since ironically, it was probably the best example I could have used of exactly what I was trying to describe.
@Medix2 If you've ever seen me get into arguments with people here, you know that my Ego/Stubbornness is too much to be broken by a bunch of angry transphobes on the internet. =P
@Xirema Thank you for taking the time to write your answer there, I have felt a lot of what you've laid out there and appreciate the effort you put in towards speaking your mind
@Medix2 I thought it was extremely important to focus only on posts from that most recent FAQ because there's a tendency for people to dismiss it as "well it happened awhile ago" or "well it's just a small group of agitated users; they don't reflect the community as a whole".
And the fact that so many of those posts, whether intentionally or by ignorance, implicitly supported the rhetoric being made by those users, pretty strongly tells us that the toxicity isn't just a tiny minority. I don't think it's a Majority or even necessarily a plurality, but it's a lot of people.
@Rubiksmoose To maintain balance in the upvotes, there must be light upvotes and dark upvotes. If they are out of balance, then something something it's bad I guess
I always find it so wonderfully helpful to just divorce movies from their source material. Judge the movie as a work of film, judge its adherence to source material completely separate to that
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@AndrasDeak I mean, the FAQ the company gave us wasn't terrible, it just didn't recognize that the people who need an FAQ are people who don't already understand Queer Justice issues.
Like, an FAQ for "we're making changes to the CoC to better support Trans People" needs to be targeted for an intended audience of Cisgendered people. Because Cisgendered people are the people who are going to have 99% of the questions.