▲ 42 r/lego
Is it just me or does it feel weirdly good to collect and sort LEGO pieces?
u/Zaorish9 — 6 days ago
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▲ 0 r/Soulseek
Is there any feature, mod or plugin you can click to STOP SEARCHING?
Is there any feature, mod or plugin you can click to STOP SEARCHING?
I have this problem a lot when searching for any file that has a 1-word title. I see the thing i want appear quickly then WHOOSH , dozens and hundreds of things I don't want spam-fill the screen and push it way down.
alternatively, any better way to search for things with 1-word titles?
u/Zaorish9 — 6 days ago
▲ 12 r/palmtalk
Rage bait: Search palm tree trimming on YT and the first page of results all shows people cutting green leaves
u/Zaorish9 — 13 days ago
Ice Planet - Seabed Mining Mech
The surface of the frigid planet Krysto is 85% sea ice, and so the hardy human colonists of the Ice Planet must make use of mechanized underwater mining to acquire the minerals they need to expand. Standard "King Crab"-model mechs are equipped with a claw arm, 4-bladed laser drill, storage units in the rear, jump jets, and interior and exterior stowage space for O2 tanks, swim fins, and tools. The planet was at first thought to be devoid of native sophonts, however, in this scene a brave miner discovers the ruins of a prior civilization buried beneath the rough seas and icebergs.
Since I'm recently returned to LEGO, this is basically my first attempt at using some of the newer joint and hinge type pieces. As you can see I'm very bad at it. If you have any tips for the best hinges to use on posable mechs/large animals I would love to hear them!
u/AdSavings9276 — 16 days ago
After 24 years in darkness, today they fly again!
Found a huge box of my old sets in my family's attic after thinking they'd been given away. Turned out my family had just been lending them to any grandkids/nieces/nephews that visited. A lot of pieces from sets were missing, but three of my favorites were still all complete and buildable: 6886 Galactic Peace Keeper, 6850 Auxiliary Patroller, and 6973 Deep Freeze Defender. The whale and larger Space Police ship are MOCs, and a modified set 10355 is also shown.
Probably the most fun thing about this is that the trans neon pieces still glow brightly in the light!
u/Zaorish9 — 18 days ago
▲ 26 r/LegoStorage
Not sure how to organize the big windscreens/windows/trans domes/doors with windows
My main issue is first, these pieces are big so you don't want to put them in a small drawer where they will get stuck. But also they are supposed to be transparent so you don't want a lot of them scratching each other in one big bin and getting damaged that way. Then the other organization problem is that many times, like the 1x4 inset wall elements shown here, the pieces have opaque counterparts that logically should be with them but are very different in function.
So, what's the best way to sort these? Just get a ton of bins for each type separately?
u/Zaorish9 — 23 days ago
▲ 34 r/lego
CMF Series 29: Elf & Unicorn wandering the desert
The last elf and the last unicorn wander the desert after the wars and pollution by humans has more or less ruined the earth. Is the elf crying? Meditating? Casting a spell? They do not think as we do. Cat unrelated.
u/Zaorish9 — 27 days ago
▲ 6 r/Soulseek
People who get videos via P2P: do you prefer to use torrent, soulseek or another source?
People who get videos via P2P: do you prefer to use torrent, soulseek or another source?
While torrents offer better download speeds, and often better fidelity, I find I actually much prefer using soulseek because you don't have to worry about upload credits and can easily try out different versions to find the one you prefer.
Soulseek also has some very rare indie horror videos that I haven't seen on torrent sites.
I have not tried pirate streamers or "pass the popcorn" , mostly because I assume they have some malware associated with them and because j prefer collecting rather than streaming.
How about you?
u/Zaorish9 — 28 days ago
▲ 35 r/lego
Found 9 big boxes of 1980s-1990s sets in family's old house attic. I thought they were lost away long ago!
The intense aura of fun radiating off this haul is incredible. The neon windscreens still glow in the light! It has basically all the parts I'd been wanting to order from PAB for my project, and now I'm getting an idea for an ultimate aquasharks MOC. Just feels like a huge treasure trove. Check your attics and basements, people!
u/Zaorish9 — 29 days ago
MOC: Blacktron Renegade MK-II and Auto-Loading Station
u/Zaorish9 — 1 month ago
u/Zaorish9 — 2 months ago
▲ 48 r/Stellaris
Finally won a vanilla 4.3 game on:
- Medium starburst galaxy
- non-scaling Admiral
- basic bio FP empire
- endgame year: 2500.
- 3 FE's , 2 Marauders
- Normal gateways/wormholes
- Rare habitables
empire:
- Fanatic Xenophobe and Militarist.
- Civics: Fanatic Purifiers and Hyperspace Specialty, mostly just for the sublight speed boost! There are much stronger civics that I could have chosen.
- Species I think was: Intelligent, fast breeders, deviant, solitary, humanoid elves.
- Origin: Remnants
Some thoughts on balance:
I found the game to be now hard and challenging all the way up to the endgame, which I really appreciate. I couldn't put on a movie on 2nd screen, you have to optimize each planet and plan for which resources you'll need. In my game the enemy factions all built Furnaces nonstop and no energy generation swarms, so I was hugely negative on energy the whole game, and had to adapt and plan for that.
Frigates are god. All praise to Frigates. I'm not saying you can handle every threat just with frigates, but Frigates are great throughout the game. The enemy starbases in early game have a big power spike, what's the answer? Frigates. Some merchant station randomly decides they hate you because FP? Frigates. Behind on tech but need to blow up a dragon that's blocking your path? Frigates. Cetana? Frigates until FPS Death.
By far the toughest enemy was...Fallen Empire Deep Space Citadels. These things are weird. When I started fighting FE's, I had a fleet of battleships about 550-600k fleet power, 3000 naval cap units. My fleets easily blew up every FE fleet and station UNTIL the Fe's "250k" DSCs. The DSC blew up my "double power" fleets instantly. Ok. I built 5 years worth of frigates, same amount of naval cap, sent them in, the DSC blew up instantly. Very binary.
I found myself actually working hard to get my espionage operations completed as soon as possible to find out the best time and place to attack each enemy. It wasn't super interesting in terms of story, but it was a very important part of optimizing the game to win. "Equivalent military power" = Weak and ready to be attacked.
Among all enemy factions, the Devouring Swarm was by far the most powerful. They rivaled my elf FP in size , and it was really tough rooting them out since they seem to settle planets really fast as well. Good challenge and story as I got the galactic federation on my side temporarily during this big war.
For whatever reason, I would consistently find citizens of my own species sprinkled among the other factions' planets. I found this really cool and great for story, thinking about what had led them to live there and how their life would change as each enemy planet was conquered or bombed.
As FP I found I really had no use for unity except for just 1 Admin building at the very beginning. I also didn't need more than a couple dedicated tech worlds, because I could just put tech districts on top of a food or energy world and benefit from those.
I tried out a lot of different starts since I lost the game a lot initially. At first I thought I needed to have a ton of comfy habitables right around my start location, but I actually feel now that those actually caused me to be defeated, maybe because of too much money spent on investment early on? I won the game when I got a shitty start with just 1 small crappy arctic world 5 jumps away.
What do you think of the balance in 4.3?
u/Zaorish9 — 2 months ago