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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: January 01, 2022, 10:29:44 am »
Happy New Year. Fireworks > too little sleep (and the dog won't go outside today) + allergies = sleep time again.


Quote from: Uthimienure on January 01, 2022, 09:45:13 am
My good news is that last night's 12-hour shift was my last one on that job, I quit. Working in a house full of the mentally-ill was more than I could take after 8 months, especially because of the hatred and violence some of them exhibited. At first it was a genuine, noble effort to help them and I enjoyed it. Then the good boss who understood the residents' needs got fired and the new boss began moving things in a stupid direction. Examples:  a.) How can telling adults with the mentality of spoiled children that they can "do anything they want" and that the staff can't tell them "no" or have good house rules that teach them self-discipline ever turn out good?  or  b.) Treating the staff like children by taking away the key to the thermostat because one of them turned the heat up 2-degrees in a house that has been cold year-round to 75% of the staff and all of the residents.

Wow, that's off my chest now.  I've literally been singing at random in joy at the relief of leaving that place forever.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ME !!!

Dang yes. Bad management can ruin things faster than anything, and there's been a growing push to have managers who don't know the job. Congrats on leaving.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: January 01, 2022, 09:25:47 am »
Quote from: methylatedspirit on December 31, 2021, 05:41:13 am
Quote from: Iduno on December 30, 2021, 05:04:30 pm
Crypto's value comes from it acting like a pyramid scheme, so that makes sense. The weird part is that people know that, but think they can get in, sucker other people, and get out with a profit.

Have you seen crypto pump-and-dump schemes? The premise is that people deliberately enter into a (literal, uncensored) pump-and-dump at scheduled times by being sold a certain amount of a random crypto, then once you do so, you have to sell it as fast as possible to gain a profit. It's purported that you're part of the in-group who's getting profits, and they make wild claims of promoting said random cryptos to "outsiders".

Of course, joining such a scheme, you're actually the outsider who's getting shafted. The real insiders are those running the scheme­— they know which crypto is being pumped ahead of time, you don't.

That sounds hilarious. Less so knowing people are actually falling for it, but...

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you laugh today: 1223237 views lol
« on: December 31, 2021, 09:43:18 pm »
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« on: December 31, 2021, 06:27:06 pm »
Hell yes. Sometimes you need to see where the game is going and just lean into it.

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread:COVID-19:How COVID Stole Christmas Edition
« on: December 30, 2021, 08:24:46 pm »
https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1475728235539443714

That would make sense. I can't imagine any other reason they'd lower scientifically-proven quarantine times.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: December 30, 2021, 05:04:30 pm »
Quote from: delphonso on December 29, 2021, 01:16:55 am
Most of those are likely just MLM advertisements. NFTs and cryptocoins have picked up that model a lot lately. Not surprising that they're targeting the elderly, because that is who most MLMs target already (such as Amway).

Crypto's value comes from it acting like a pyramid scheme, so that makes sense. The weird part is that people know that, but think they can get in, sucker other people, and get out with a profit.

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Other Games / Re: Idle games (2)
« on: December 30, 2021, 08:39:41 am »
Quote from: IronyOwl on December 29, 2021, 11:53:43 pm
Being (partially) an idle game, a major gimmick is that the real advancements are massive unrelated jumps. It's certainly intended that you grind some things, but generally there are ways around your problems that don't involve straight addition.

A corollary of this is that if you don't know what that way is, the game is completely obnoxious.

In my case, for instance, I found that using 100 T3 Blue Producers (and massive trading post bonuses) to upgrade my relevant modules (I think to level 26?) allowed me to damage Era cubes. Asteroid Mining then gave me a T5 Producer out of nowhere which has put my best modules at 29, and it's still such a slog that I haven't bothered. I'm currently chaining ore lumps to upgrade my vast quantities of low-tier ore into T5 so I can feed things to the factory for no reasons beyond completionism and hating having to throw stuff out instead.

I'd love higher-level producers, but I just started getting the ores required to produce them recently. A few days after I asked here, I did accidentally learn how to combine ores into higher-tier ones. That got me a higher-tier belt, better ores, and a better belt. With a boost from the power plant, I'm getting 2 black ore per day, and like 16 green. But until today the production has been held up by saving up for the belt.

Also, needing to click thousands of times to produce anything in the factory. The factory ai scripts don't seem to produce anything but error logs.

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Other Games / Re: Idle games (2)
« on: December 29, 2021, 08:56:05 pm »
Quote from: martinuzz on December 29, 2021, 02:42:07 pm
If you made it to Era once, you don't need to do another 100 billion run on that map/difficulty, you can start in Era 1 right away with the correct software turned on.
Also, use x1 speed instead of x2 if you aren't already

Right, but it's somewhat difficult to get 100,000 xp when you can't manage to kill more than a few era critters at once, so I can't manage to make them easy enough to kill regularly. I know those are lower-level era critters, but I had to let it rerun that way all night to get enough kills to start researching green and red enemies (I was getting like 100 kills on green, 12 on red, and 5 on brown each run, then dying, but the mission was set to respawn after 1 second, so I eventually got there). I assume someone has, at some point, managed to use the benefits of the second floor of the workshop. But it isn't me.


Edit: It's taken all day, but I've saved up enough resources that I'm upgrading modules all to level 19 to see if I can kill enough to make it closer to era 2 without having to guess how the workshop works. I'm also almost halfway to getting something other than "water taste" from the water experiment. I may get all of the modules sometime before the heat death of the universe. I'm beginning to think this is a joke game like So You Want to Be The Guy, where the game being impossible to figure out is the point.

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Other Games / Re: Idle games (2)
« on: December 29, 2021, 01:13:27 pm »
Quote from: martinuzz on December 29, 2021, 12:52:45 am
You'll have to disable some (most) software at the beginning of Era but don't worry, it will ramp up fast and you'll be speeding through it full speed soon enough again.

Remembering that you can right-click the Wave Streaming button in the upper right to turn software off and on during a run helps. Critical Wavestreaming (and the software that powers it up) is the worst offender, and needs to be turned off once you get into the 90 billions, unless you want to really try your luck. Looks like I'll be making it to era after 20 minutes, with ~2e5 xp to spend, thanks to Awareness.

Edit: Closer to 25 minutes, then as soon as it hit era it jumped to round 6 trillion and I died before I could react. Fuck. I managed to get the era tab open but not click anything before dying.

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Other Games / Re: Idle games (2)
« on: December 28, 2021, 06:11:30 pm »
I finally got to era, took enough hits and got enough kills to unlock the second tab in the era workshop, and have finished the first level of researching removing powers. Any suggestions on saving up 990 xp and then incredibly quickly disabling powers before I die to fully-powered era enemies?

I can either skip to era 1 and get taken out by the wave 1 boss with like 300 xp saved up, or gain xp from regular mode by running the software to get back to era and be unable to kill era enemies before I die even with the turn off powers button clicked.

Edit: Wait, am I supposed to get 1E5 (100,000) xp to disable the era bonuses? That's the same problem, but amplified. Even with xp bonuses, I'd have to turn off a lot of software to manage that, which is going to make for long fights.


Quote from: beorn080 on December 24, 2021, 04:44:06 pm
Quote from: Iduno on December 24, 2021, 12:48:11 pm
Quote from: None on December 24, 2021, 12:35:36 pm
Y'can upgrade the CPUs on those servers to make software research quicker, by the way, and if you can afford the 15 servers, I reckon you can probably afford increase your research speed by a magnitude of, I dunno, a few thousand or so.

Huh. Well, that's good to know. That'll improve things by a few orders of magnitude.

Edit: Well, now that install times went from years to minutes, anyone have recommended ai scripts?
Theres a whole bunch of scripts in the discord, but also a ton on the wiki.

https://www.perfecttower2.com/wiki/AI_Scripts_Guide

Ooh, thank you. Sadly, the factory ones are all currently broken.

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Other Games / Re: SALES Thread
« on: December 28, 2021, 08:33:14 am »
Online person has recommendations for weird games that are currently on sale:
https://twitter.com/spacetwinks/status/1474194773250617348

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Other Games / Re: Blurb on Games that probably don't deserve their own threads.
« on: December 27, 2021, 02:49:43 pm »
I've also read professional devs (decades of experience) say that it's very difficult to do a lot of the optimizing, and moving to a better engine has real benefits.

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread:COVID-19:How COVID Stole Christmas Edition
« on: December 27, 2021, 02:44:25 pm »
Edit: I just learned there are actually 2 places here to get tested for COVID. One is only about 30-45 minutes away, but it's in the Hispanic part of my very segregated city, so the city refuses to give equal services. The other is about an hour to 1.5 hours away depending on traffic, but it's in the white part of town, so I can probably get in and out pretty quickly.


Quote from: TamerVirus on December 27, 2021, 10:40:58 am
Quote from: delphonso on December 27, 2021, 07:41:29 am
I got banned from the haunted house because when an animatronic skeleton jumped out at me, I tried to kiss it.
Sounds like you had a boner

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: December 27, 2021, 12:49:19 pm »
So, what happens if Novel Scoops learns this thread exists?


Quote from: dragdeler on December 27, 2021, 11:22:55 am
I remember that it's been a while, my bet is on a spiteful obscure key combination, like ctrl+shift can switch between keyboard region and that's why I never save more than 1 keyboard region.

çhêck thïß öüt jælôûß yét?  :P

Impressive.

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread:COVID-19:How COVID Stole Christmas Edition
« on: December 24, 2021, 10:17:05 pm »
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I'm sure that peak off to the right isn't anything to worry about.

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