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Meowers
11 Jun 2024, 5:17am
Yeah, it's starting to become a surprise even for myself. Thankfully, I've lost my sanity a long ago already, so it means I can keep going longer than any other random person... Perhaps. Lol.

If I'm a simulation inside a simulation inside... whatever, then I have some serious questions to people who coded the damn thing. Perhaps they should occupy themselves with something else instead, something less demanding, like... those funny things where you have to put a cube into a rectangular slot, a pyramid into a triangular one, and try not to mess everything up... Something like that, but not making simulations.

Last edit: 11 Jun 2024, 5:23am
Kasumi Goto
11 Jun 2024, 10:36pm
It's all just a Thargoid simulation to remind us of how terrible we are after we thought we won the war, and they brought a toy without heat vents to clog out to play.
Meowers
12 Jun 2024, 12:33am
If they do that, we'll find something else on it to clog! And, believe me, this thing is going to face some ultimate misery. :p
Kasumi Goto
12 Jun 2024, 12:41am
You could probably just throw a few dense humans in escape pods out at it. It'd bog their hivemind right down with all the stupidity in their brains.

Not that I technically advocate for such acts... but... some people.
Meowers
12 Jun 2024, 12:48am
Why not? Some individuals may even like it. And, humans are idiots. But being conquered by murderbugs... Nah. Let's give that funny dimwit species a chance to redeem themselves. :p
Kasumi Goto
12 Jun 2024, 1:03am
Which species, the not-so-intelligent humans or the Thargoids? I have a feeling even their basic drones that don't know how to turn off the heat tracking on their Interceptors (and not to bring a glorified transport truck with weapons that might discourage an explorer - aka Cyclops - as their mainline fighting ship) would have a better chance at solving the "Don't shove square peg into round hole" puzzle.

Assuming they have the necessary appendages to manipulate objects which a human could/would. If I had that kind of knowledge, I would probably also be dead the next moment.
Meowers
12 Jun 2024, 1:09am
Humans, mostly. There's nothing wrong with the Thargoids, they're just being murderbugs they are, and, I guess, were, for hundreds of thousands of years. But humans... They should have a chance. Assuming they don't exterminate themselves in what's going to happen after the war, with so much weapons, angry people, upset people and just sick and/or dumb people around and no common enemy for them to fight.
Kasumi Goto
12 Jun 2024, 1:16am
I'm sure some idiot will find an excuse to send some of them off to Thargoid space, because their feathers haven't been ruffled badly enough yet. Or, at least, the bunch that doesn't seem to have an issue shooting at humans they don't like without much of another reason. (Other than the Proteus Wave and mycoid, but we all know not every human is responsible for that.)

... I'd be more looking at the idiots that have continued to fight each other even when there was eight Titans at the edges of the Bubble. And those who only cared so much to get involved in Titan turkey shoots to 'defend their interests'... and dipped right out as soon as they were no longer "threatened". Those are more likely to stir up trouble on the inside rather than those who look to shoot Thargoids for no reason.

Maybe I should stay outside of it (the Bubble) and wait the shitstorm out. Especially if the Thargoid one actually turns into it, instead of just simmering away not really threatening anything important besides human lives, and then the horde of power lusting grabbers gets unleashed on the aftermath.
Meowers
12 Jun 2024, 1:25am
Like a 'power vacuum', there will certainly be some kind of... 'target vacuum' after the war. Totally expect hoomans to start blasting each other for any reason, from 'improper' strategy and behaviour during the Titan Clogging Railway, up to stolen sweetrolls and stray middle fingers in cheap bars. And, whatever happened to Salivation... Definitely doesn't seem like a 'The End' on a black screen.

I should start packing rifle ammo... There's no such thing as too much rifle ammo... :p
Kasumi Goto
12 Jun 2024, 1:41am
Salvation is more like “The End” on a black screen but for those that stay past the credits you get to see the little bonus teaser of a Guardian machine making funny noises. Before it starts cursing at being stuck in a box that can’t move until somebody finds it.

Nutjob called it Nemesis too so I’m sure it’s put all kinds of ridiculous ideas into his head. Maybe he’ll end up putting the blame on humans and extending his idea of “rulership” over them as well as the Thargoids. But that would imply Frontier putting in the effort to set stage for the return of the Guardian Constructs. (And unless those were gimped beyond belief because they don’t dare upset players, they would absolutely wipe the floor with humans.)
Vasil Vasilescu
19 Jun 2024, 10:23pm
Having become one of those IT Paperwork nerds continues to erode my technical skills to the point that I forget the mantra of, "try the simple fixes first."

Windows magically stopped seeing my second hard drive, the one that has everything except the OS on it. The drive showed in BIOS but not in windows, device manager, disk manager, diskpart, etc. Pulled the drive out, attached it to an external usb adapter and it was seen when plugged into several other computers.

Spent another hour trying to figure out what was wrong with the laptop, or if something had jacked up windows, before it occurred to me to check recent changes and updates. There were a few minor updates yesterday, the last time I could access the drive. Optional updates listed a Western Digital driver that was not yet installed. And yes, the "bad" drive is a WD. Installed optional driver, rebooted, drive appears once more.

Weird thing is that external WD drives were unaffected. Maybe because they are external USB and not an internal drive. Oh, and that optional driver is 4 years old, which is older than the laptop. So, yeah, I'll chalk this up to the usual windows wonkiness.

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