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High velo's definitely seemed to do full damage, for me... it just tends to put all the little popup texts in the same place

As for biome importation, it'll definitely be a valid biome (there's a crimson patch off to the west on forsaken's server I may or may not have been the cause of) but I've no clue if it'll spread.

In other news, nearing 60 sensor range on the turret bot of doom. Between that and a concentrated effort to boost phantom torpedo ammo (up to 16, so far!), I can now open up and taunt the entirety of most areas without really needing to move much. Combined with the ridicuturrets, it's doin' some work

E: Broke 100 trap skill. In the 110s, now. Turret range 45, damage >3k, 70 ammo. Roughly 7.5 freaking thousand shield points. Why do these guys need exobots again?

E2: Bloody hell, overdrive missions. The turrets are doing 37.2 thousand damage per shot. Also the railgun I just shoved some parts in to is doing >100k. Over. One. Hundred. Thousand. The toughest thing on the map is my turrets at 7-something k hp ;_;

Yeah... I'm still relatively sure the tac shotgun has the best ammo efficiency of the guns. Clockwork has a guaranteed 1:3 and megashark has that 50%, but a tac shotgun puts out six bullets per trigger pull. That's double the clockwork, and roughly equivalent to, what 600% ammo recoup? Pretty sure I'm failing the math there, but it's early and headcold so yeah. Somewhat harder to land all the shots, but eh.

Still not entirely sure which has the best damage/shot of them. It really is a tossup between the sniper and the t.shotgun, though. Easier to get a high damage crit on the former, but if you get full crit on the latter... not sure about actual raw DPS, though. I'd suspect the megashark to outperform the sniper rifle, but m'not sure on where the t.shotty'd stand. I kinda' suspect it outdoes both, though. From what I remember, when I was doing 500+ damage crits with the sniper, the shotgun was doing 150+ crits per bullet, which would have come up to a solid 900+ potential damage per shot. With shots coming out a lot faster, heh. It really is kinda' insane.

Ignoring the non-bullet/non-arrow ranged weapons, of course. Piranha gun's damage per shot is theoretically infinite, I think (though it's actual DPS is kinda' low, really...), and iirc the star cannon outperformed the megashark at one point (maybe not now with the new ammo types, but yeah.).

Ultimately, though, it's mostly just amusement that would lead someone to number crunch or whatever with these things. Any one of the higher tier weapons can pretty much wreck anything in the game, generally.

Hnn... life is beautiful, anyway. Beauty doesn't necessarily coincide with good, or pleasant, or enjoyable (or at least one's own bit of any of those). Or... much of anything, necessarily, beyond beauty.

It is a good thing that beauty can be found in anything, though. Contributes towards understanding/reacting to things around us, which almost always contributes to one's good.

... one of these days I'll actually dive hard into aesthetics. It really is the most fundamental of things. Even before metaphysics or epistemology or logic. Which is part of what makes actually getting into it so bloody daunting. Very little (if any) underlying structure to it, since it is the underlying structure. Makes it a royal pain to actually discuss or analyze. Mumblemumble midnight need sleep, etc.

Well, it... it's not exactly tedium. It's... kinda' like watching or playing with a falling sand simulator? Or, again, like playing tetris. S'playing with an action-reaction event and seeing what happens. Stuff like that. Honestly not too terribly far, sensation wise, from playing DF. It's a mathematical slinky and the information you're feeding into what you're doing is the stairs. Everyone loves slinkies... right? When you're actually playing with them, the time passes quick and after a bit it starts taking less and less time 'cause you're more comfortable having it skip stair steps or bounce off people's heads or whatever.

At least, so long as you don't come into it thinking it's tedium. Readjust how you look at it, would be my suggestion. It's something to play with, y'know?

As to that pic, well... some of the stuff's been slightly different for me (Drawing was generally just withdrawls for the earlier stuff, and has transitioned into dividends as we're working more on corporate stuff, and owner's capital has largely transitioned over to stockholder's equity.), but really... I, uh. I don't think I ever actually memorized all of those. You only need (if that) to know half of them (maybe less!), really So long as you know the normal balance of one of the accounts you're dealing with, the rest tend to fall into place due to obvious reasons, heh. Though there are plenty of little... wuzzat things, acronyms or whatever (like, ferex, one of my current class largely deals with LACERD -- Liabilities, assets, common stock/stockholder's equity, expenses, revenue, dividends, and they alternate normal balances: CDCDCD.). There's a fair amount of those that can help out if you're actually trying to full stop memorize things.

Contra and adjunct accounts make things more fun, too~

E: Also, yanking out a spreadsheet program and using it helps ridiculous loads when it comes to keeping track of things

Why do we not have a Salty Bet thread yet?

Probably because there's not really enough to it to constitute a thread, t'be honest. For all its glory and splendiferous awe, it's fairly shallow and there's not terribly much to talk about regarding it. Just enough passing emotion to occasionally coagulate E: crystallize* into an emotion thread post.

*Fixed for salt.

Well... okay, I guess? I mean, I know why the statues were there

You don't need the water at all, was what I was saying. Fairly sure lava won't uproot the statues regardless (I don't recall, but whatev'), and if it's not deep enough it won't torch the gel, either. Just drop a single bucket in there and click the timer on.

There may have been extended negotiations involved.

Nah, nah. If what was in the glass in the end was sentient, it wasn't capable of communicating in a way I could comprehend. There was certainly more than just liquid at that point, though