u/portlandobserver

I'll be visiting next week for my father's funeral (he was in Hospice, it wasn't expected). I'm coming from the dreaded liberal enclave of Portland, OR (more or less)

I've been down to Springfield a few times before to visit my family but that was mostly with kids. This time it's solo and I might be looking to get out more.

I'd like to find some record stores or flea markets with $1 vinyl bins. Cheap pulp paperbacks. A trivia night? (Geeks Who Drink?)

I've got two co-dependent dupes on my new-found asteroid. I think it's a Verdante type? Little water, lots of trees and rocks, 2 (!) gold volacnoes one aluminum one.

My co-dependent dupes, one has high stress levels and breaks buildings, the other can't build (he's a farmer/rancher) and just goes around repairing stuff. I really need to switch them out my next rocket trip.

To do list:

1. Send more dupes, or rotate them from main planet. Don't have a way to recharge the atmo suits on the new planet yet

2. Can't build a spacefarer module because I can't build the simple nosecone. Need more refined carbon. Need wood to make refined carbon, but that's at the new colony. (Land with an empty cargo module and transport some back? New colony doesn't have that much.

3. Researching the interplanetary launcher is slow going.

4. Figure out something to do with those volcanoes. Find more water to set up lavatories and food for new dupes. (I sent over seeds and some food/materials with a cargo module. Not realizing I needed to build a cargo unloader first)

It was working just fine yesterday, My MaxOne USB portable HDD that is. Today when I go to file explorer and click on it, it pauses and then asks if I want to format it.

I've had it probably at least 6 months with no issues. It's not making any sounds when shaken and the light is still blinking. Do I just format it and re-download everything?

(steam games, gog stuff, various other media)

I've been enjoying playing Mary Skelter 2 (despite all the weirdness) but this game just goes on WAY too long. 46 hours played and I'm at chapter 6.

This is after 5 large dungeons each with 4 to 5 levels each. I like the layout, the puzzles but the game really could be done by this point and I wouldn't complain. The combat is okay but the boss fights really come down to luck and RNG.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3722787465

As far as I can tell my rocket is built correctly. It flies to the planet just fine. I have one pilot and two dupes in there. For whatever reason I can't deploy my trailblazer module.

If I set the rocket to return, the dupes suffocate before they make it back. (I'm okay with sacrificing one or two of them, but I really want to explore the new planetoid) I can auto destruct it and get all three down to the surface okay. I like the scenario of them struggling to survive and the dupes on the main asteroid building a rescue party ala The Martian.

Although this game is eating up -way- too much of my time and I do need to give it a break.

I finally got a rocket to launch. My eyes almost swelled with tears. 280 cycles, 120 hours playtime. (Lots of reloads) That's really all I care about, the rest of you dupes can starve. (Which they might do since one dupe with the binge eating stress reaction ate all of our food)

I orbit the planet, a beautiful lush green one. And my trailblazer module won't deploy. Thankfully a quick search shows that you have to unassign one of the dupes from being pilot before it will deploy. I guess next I have to figure out how to make him survive on his own.

Counting this administration and his previous one. Or at least the most turnover within a time frame. Why does this go un-noticed? Unremarked on?

I'd have to say I'm not too good or perhaps I just don't understand the priority system.

I have docks of oxygen masks and exosuits. I tell them to deliver the suit to the dock. They never do and just drop it on the ground. They wear the mask or suit to bed.

I want to refill the suits with bottled oxygen (by passing a filter and avoiding wrong element damage). I have them drain oxygen from the pipes, then they just leave it on the floor. Telling them to sweep it (setting priority at 7) leaves it sitting there for many other cycles. I want you to do it now!

Yes I have auto-bottler on, but I assume telling them to sweep gets it done faster?

Why won't you put on your mask before you go into the chlorine areas? Why won't you put on your exosuit before messing with the scalding water or outer space?

Why do you keep dropping food on the floor!