Same, was rather upset when I had to roll with the shitty starting ship for longer because of the nanite charge on the other expedition ships.

Okay, so you’ve got one criteria: Socialized Medicine, care to list out the rest of them for how you determine if something is socialism?

Oct 1, 1949. Communist Party of China establishes the People’s Republic of China.

Then there’s the question of ‘Is China still socialist?’ which depends on what qualifies as socialist.

Magic doesn’t work… and people flip out when someone tries to use things that would.

Yeah, I’ve got a cockpit. The glass is tinted so I can’t see in from outside but it’s pretty plain to see that it’s tinted glass, not an absence of texture.

I bought maps, worked like a charm. Got the UFO now.

I bought maps, worked like a charm. Got the UFO now.

But I found a second animal on the Planet of Light… I feel the game is trolling me. Not just this time but also now with the Alien Ruins. 100.00 (repeating)% of the time it’s not ruins.

Sure, it may be thematic but it’s very annoying to me.

I’ve been told this twice now. I’m more than three hours into the expedition between two sessions. So far that’s not happening. If anything I’m hating them more now then two hours of gametime ago.

Thanks, I mostly just use the energy shotgun for damage and paralysis mortar as my secondary. Then I have the mining & terrain tools and invisibility as a utility tool.

Killing Sentinel Walkers is what I do when I’m board so I like to have a lot of damage output.

Thanks! I’ll see about making something once I’ve got some time.

It’d be rather amusing if NMS lasts for exactly 16 of some obscure unit of a large amount of time.

Alright, thanks. At least now I’ve got confirmation rather than potentially missing something.

Here you go. Looking at it the Atlas one is a good deal more definite than I remember it being prior to my hiatus…

I could use those tips on resolving the big quests. I thought they didn’t end for years.

Thanks, I’ll keep these in mind as I’m searching.

My take on AI use is that because it’s being used to try and replace skilled labor using it, and therefore helping to train it, is bad in most cases. If it were the case that it was not being used that way than I’d have no issues with it.

I know at least two who’d even take tRump losing in a landslide not as them actually being a minority. Mango Mussolini has put a lot of work into corroding faith in the electoral system such that they can believe that he won just like they can believe that Christ is coming back some day.

The God of the Christians?

Time’s killing it just as it does everyone. Not only is the vile religion diminishing currently but the claimed miracles of the fabled monster are also diminishing with time.

• In true Last Thursdayism fashion they claim the universe was created by the beast six millennia ago.
• 2 millennia later he demonstrably lost, if he ever had to begin with, the traits of omniscience and omnipotence. As demonstrated by taking a rash action, regretting it, and not undoing it.
• At some point he’s developed a weakness to iron as stated by spaceghoti.
• Nowadays his grand “miracles” are causing light breezes, or small amounts of rain, or stopping either… things Humans are entirely capable of doing.

As for how to accelerate the death of this monster? Take a page from the countries that have done the best at wounding it so far: Raise general quality of life, not just education, for all the people of your society. It feeds on suffering, so we should starve it out.

I see faith and religion confused a lot.

Fair enough, I have been using them interchangeably. I suppose given your position that’s inaccurate. Our positions differ quite a bit, I’m an antitheist and materialist/physicalist.

which - fair, you can make inferences and guesses, but we’re still not able to know for certain what someone else is thinking.

My point here is just the opposite. It isn’t inferences or guesses, we can tell from brain activity that what’s going on falls within a certain range. We have yet to refine this ability to tell detailed specifics but we’re not guessing A * B = G, we can use our modern tools and understanding to determine that G is within the range of D through J. Prior to the development of the current tools and methods we had a wider range and prior to the development of any such tools we were guessing and making inferences.

Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle would be an example I’d agree to of something unknownable: the set of both the precise location and momentum of a particle. However as of yet I am unaware of any reason or mechanism by which this unknowable is impactful to any sapient entity… except those specifically studying it.

As-is I find the unknowables that I am aware of, the Uncertainty Principle, whether or not we’re in a simulation, and so on so be inconsequential on the scale we operate on. We have a perceived reality that behaves according to rules that are determinable and practical utility can be derived from determining them.

my view is that we all act on some degree of faith

I don’t think I can contest this. At least not at the moment after having had a long day. In any case I think this point is where we likely differ quite a lot; I strive to take nothing on faith. To whichever extent that I do I want it to be less or at least driven past the point of functional irrelevance to the operation of my life.

Nothing to do with the faith/spirituality of the individual, a LOT to do with the biases of whatever leadership your in group has.

I suppose the authors of their scripture would count even though they have limited relation to living leaders of their religion.